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Chapter 410: A Trip to Japan (5)

After the goal, Robert Carlos ran excitedly on the court. No matter what, scoring is always a happy thing, not to mention that this is his first goal in the Toyota Cup.

Thinking of this, Carlos couldn't help but thank his head coach Capello in his heart. If he was not playing under his command, but still stayed under Inter Milan's Hodgson's account, he would definitely not have such a great degree of offensive freedom. He would have burned the incense if he was not tied to his half.

Therefore, Carlos ran from the penalty area of ​​the River Plate team to Capello. Regardless of the more than ten centimeters of height difference between Capello and him (Capello is 1.80 meters tall, while Carlos is only 1.68 meters), he hugged his head coach with one hand, and then used a little force to make the gold medal coach's feet off the ground.

"Hey! Robert! What do you want to do? Why don't you put me down quickly!" He was picked up by a person much shorter than himself. Even Capello, who had always seemed to be cold to outsiders, could not help panic. If this guy accidentally threw himself to the ground, the fun would be great...

"Hahaha, boss, don't be excited, this was just an accident..." Hearing Capello's shout, Carlos remembered that this head coach was not a good man, although he did express his gratitude to Capello just now with a grateful attitude.

So, the Brazilian left-back didn't wait for Capellodo to say anything, and after saying "I was just too excited just now", he ran back to Florence's half. It looked like a poisonous snake was chasing him behind his butt.

"This slut..." Capello, who knew what Carlos meant, shook his head helplessly, then looked at his suit with distress, and wanted to cry without tears. "This is what I specially customized for today's game, and it was wrinkled by this guy..."

The comedy on the sidelines made many fans who supported Fiorentina smile knowingly, and the Fiorentine players on the stadium were even more hilarious about Carlos's expression that seemed to be running for life.

However, this is just a small episode in this game. When the referee put the ball back to the center of the court, the players on both sides had already returned to their respective positions.

After the game started again, Fiorentina continued to stick to its previous fast break tactics, and there was no way to organize an offensive like Zi Lily, and the Riverbed players had to use fouls to interrupt their opponent's offense.

In the 47th minute, Effenberg made a straight pass from the middle. Ronaldo caught the ball at the top of the penalty area and dunked Berizo who was defending him. As a result, he was directly knocked to the ground by the latter. The referee immediately showed a yellow card to the central defender of the Riverbed and awarded Fiorentina a frontcourt free kick, but the alien's personal penalty kick was higher than the crossbar;

In the 53rd minute, Effenberg was knocked down by Astrada's dark elbow during the attack. The angry tiger got up from the turf and was about to take action. Fortunately, Dibiagio and Redondo, who were standing beside him, stopped Effenberg's violent behavior in time, so there was no greater chaos.

However, the referee who had discovered the abnormality still gave Effenberg a warning. In his opinion, the player wearing the No. 10 jersey does have a tendency to hit people, so even though Effenberg is a victim, he still needs to be warned verbally.

As for Astrada, who used small actions to be annoyed, when the referee saw the instant replay on the big screen of the stadium, he gave him a yellow card without hesitation, and warned that if there were any such actions, he would definitely be expelled from the court.

After extinguishing the chaos, the referee strengthened the foul penalty standard, especially the Han Plate player who has been fouling after falling behind in the score, which has become the referee's focus of attention.

In this situation where even fouls with slightly larger movements will be sucked by cards, players on the River Plate have no way to effectively fight against Fiorentina's offense. Compared with the gorgeous attack line in the frontcourt, their defense line is really not powerful enough; while Fiorentina players are getting more and more courageous in the battle, using a large number of unball runs and fast passes to frequently tear open the fragile defense line of the River Plate team.

Once a player starts to run, Capello will immediately choose to substitution. He first replaced Davis, who had run for most of the game in the 68th minute (mainly because Francescoli has already ended early due to lack of physical fitness), replaced Thomassi, who also had excellent running ability, continued the tactics formulated before the game, and then replaced Ronaldo with Inzaghi in the 71st minute, and finally replaced Effenberg, who had also begun to decline in physical fitness in the 82nd minute...

Capello made Fiorentina firmly grasp the rhythm of the entire game in his hands, and did not give the River Plate any chance to launch a counterattack.

Therefore, the morale of the River Plate team, which was suppressed, became increasingly sluggish. With the last few minutes left in the game, they were no longer interested in fighting and ignored the head coach Dias who was anxious on the sidelines, but instead planned to survive until the end of the game with a muddle-by-step mentality.

At this moment, Fiorentina launched another wave of offensives. In the 89th minute, Carlos scored another goal with a powerful free kick 30 meters away from the goal, expanding the score to 2-0 while completely locking in the victory!

Seeing this scene, Diaz, who originally planned to make a last try, lowered his head in frustration, while Capello held up his hands, celebrating his first Toyota Cup championship in his coaching career in advance!

Capello had led AC Milan to compete in the Toyota Cup twice (played for Marseille in 1993 and played as the Champions League champion in 1994). Unfortunately, the invincible army of kings failed twice in this stadium, leaving Capello with great regret.

This time, he can finally make up for his regrets!

After Fiorentina expanded the score, the players in River Plate still had no intention of counterattacking. They seemed to just plan to fool the last few minutes and quickly disband and accompany their family or girlfriend to spend a wonderful Christmas holiday.

The referee was also very interesting. He had long seen that the game had entered garbage time and only gave him a symbolic minute of stoppage time. Just half a minute after stoppage time, he blew the whistle in his mouth!
Chapter completed!
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