Chapter 777
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When the referee blew the whistle at the end of the first half, Bayern Munich players hurried back to the away team's locker room under the leadership of Heathfield. The head coach needs to adjust the player's mentality during this halftime break, and also come up with a way to control the flow of Fiorentina, so that the team can reverse the decline in the second half. Heathfield's task can be said to be quite arduous.
Looking at Florence, although the players' expressions are also very serious, the confidence brought by the 2-0 lead in the first half still makes them feel happy in their eyebrows. After all, if this score advantage can be maintained until the end of the game, then Florence will become the second team to appear in the finals of the Champions League for four consecutive years since the emergence of the Champions League! (Note: The first team is Real Madrid from 1956 to 1960)
However, Capello, as the team's head coach, did not feel careless. After all, Bayern Munich is a German team no matter what. The Germans are most famous in the football world for reversals and turnovers. Capello certainly does not want him and Fiorentina to become another dead soul under the name of the Germans.
Therefore, during the halftime break, Heathfield and Capello became the busiest two people. They not only need to make targeted adjustments to some loopholes that the team had in the first half, but also stabilize the players' mentality and avoid a collapse due to being too optimistic or pessimistic. The most important thing is that these two coaches also have to guess what tactics the opponent's head coach will adopt in the second half, whether the tactical adjustments they made will be restrained by the opponent, etc.
Therefore, although the fifteen-minute halftime break seems a bit long for the fans, it is actually a very short period of time for the head coaches of both sides, especially the two tactical masters Capello and Heathfield, and it is not enough for them to use.
After the start of the second half, the mental state of Bayern players improved significantly. They did not just shy defense like in the first half, but instead made some counterattacks of good quality under Costa's passing and command. Unfortunately, Stam and Nesta's Fiorentina defense line performed quite steadily. The former stared at Yankel, who was also tall and powerful, while the latter did not let Zickle leave his sight at all, and did not leave any opportunity for Bayern players to fight back.
Seeing that Yankeel neither played a tactical fulcrum, his slow movement speed and bulky body made it difficult for him to achieve under Stam's defense, Heathfield replaced Yankeel with Saul in the 68th minute of the game, leaving only the faster Zickler to stand in front to find opportunities - it was not that he didn't want the most reliable Elber to play, but because this Bayern's forward leader was injured in a previous game with Hamburg. He was directly reimbursed this season and had no way to represent Bayern tonight in this key game.
"If Elber was on the court, how could we be so passive? Rui and his pass-through cooperation can be enough for any team to have a drink!" Looking at Zickler, who was a single striker who worked extremely hard but had always performed so much worse than the Brazilian, Heathfield thought indignantly, "However, with Sauer's assistance, with the equal number of midfielders, we should be able to create more opportunities. I hope Alexander (Zickler) and Hassan (Salihamidic) can seize these opportunities. Don't be like that guy Karlsten (Yankel) and can only play positions. Once you run, even Stam can't run!"
It has to be said that although Heathfield's substitution was a bit late, and Sauer was still a completely glass man, the effect of his adjustment was quite obvious. At least, when a healthy Sauer appeared on the court, Bayern's control over the midfield was obviously much stronger than before. Rui Costa is no longer fighting alone, and the midfield is no longer the dominant territory of Fiorentina.
However, despite regaining part of the control of the midfield and having improved a lot of offense, this does not mean that Bayern Munich can win back the score. The initiative in the game is still in Fiorentina. Sauer and Costa are both slightly weaker. When organizing the offense, they will easily be forced or directly knocked down by the Fiorentine players who defend them, thus being forced to interrupt the planned offensive.
Although this can also gain some frontcourt set-pieces, the Fiorentine players are very cautious in the location of fouls, and rarely give their opponents a free kick opportunity with excellent positions. This is the awareness that Fiorentine players only developed after being taught by free kick experts such as Recoba many times. Otherwise, according to the butcher Gattuso's temper, he would not care where you dribble the ball, and he would just step on the ball.
It is precisely because of this that it is difficult for Bayern to use these free kicks to create good scoring opportunities. Heathfield was so angry that he scolded Capello and the Fiorentine players in his heart, and actually used this method to disrupt Bayern's offensive deployment.
However, Heathfield himself has to admit that Fiorentina's move is indeed quite effective. If he is the head coach of Fiorentina, he will definitely use such a move to delay the game time and at the same time it can also disrupt the opponent's offensive rhythm.
In this way, as time passed by, Bayern players began to become increasingly impatient on the court. After all, there was not much time left, so their chances of turning the tables were naturally smaller and smaller.
Just when Fiorentina fans thought that the victory was already in sight, Rui Costa, who was almost suppressed by Effenberg and Redondo, suddenly showed his fangs at this time. In the 92nd minute of the game, after receiving the return pass from Saul in the middle circle, the Portuguese did not wait for Gattuso and Effenberg to step forward and attack, and directly sent a "short pass" on the backcourt with a length of more than 60 meters!
Salihamidic, who cut in from the right, jumped out of the defensive gap between Carlos and Nesta and received Costa's masterpiece, forming a single shot. Finally, he swung over Tordo who was attacking and shot the empty goal!
Two to one, the angel wings from Bosnia and Herzegovina completed their final kill against Florence in the last minute of stoppage time!
When Salihamidic roared and rushed to the corner where Bayern fans were celebrating this final goal, the stands at Frankie Stadium were silent because all Fiorentine supporters knew clearly that the second half was only two minutes in stoppage time!
However, it was this short two-minute stoppage time that caused Fiorentina, which had already reached the threshold of the final, was successfully turned around by her opponent at the last moment of the game, and she lost her upcoming final ticket at the last moment!
Chapter completed!