For example, in this semifinal of the Champions League, the overall defense that Chelsea relied on is a good example. If we take out the player lists of both sides and compare them one by one, Florence will obviously dominate, but the result is that Chelsea defeated the dominant Viola by tenacious overall defense and standard Italian quick counterattack. Although there are luck factors, we can see that team football has played a huge role in this game.
Let’s talk about this for the time being. After the sudden defeat of Chelsea in the Champions League, Heinz and Ancelotti were strongly criticized and accused by the Italian media and fans. In the eyes of these people, they were eliminated by their opponents in an absolutely superior situation. This is absolutely unbearable!
So for a while, the criticism against these two coaches can be said to be endless. At this time, the media all shouted the slogan of twoperson class, as if only in this way could Florence and AC Milan be saved from fire and water.
In the face of this situation, Florence and AC Milan responded in different ways. Florence expressed its support for Heinks at the first time and resolutely refuted those voices that questioned the coaching ability of the German coach
coach Heinx’s ability has been fully proved. It is very unfair to deny all the honors that Florence has won in the past few years just because of a defeat! At the press conference, antonioni said categorically, What’s more, the football field has never won the general. No matter how strong the team is, it will lose one day, but this time we were unlucky enough to catch a more important Champions League semifinal.
At the same time, Zhuang Ge also comforted Heinks in private and told him that the club would never be dissatisfied with him because of this defeat, nor would it limit his strength. After all, the Germans have successfully fulfilled Zhuang Ge’s requirements, and Zhuang Ge will naturally abide by their previous agreement and will not blame Heinks for the team’s unexpected exit in the Champions League.
What’s more, Zhuang Ge’s heart is also white. This season, European football is very strange. Those teams who usually play the role of accompanying Taidu are as upset as drugs this time. This situation really can’t blame Heinx for not giving strength.
Chapter 1256 The aftermath after the game ()
Seeing that the club and the boss have supported themselves with fresh flags, Heynckes can’t help but feel a little moved and knowledgeable. The German coach knows that most teams will often be the one who will take the blame after losing this key battle. Therefore, it is obviously impossible for Heynckes not to be moved at all when he sees that the club is on his side without hesitation and has not blamed himself for losing to Chelsea in the Champions League semifinal.
In order to repay the club’s letter to himself, Heinks worked overtime in his office for the next few days, studying the difficult problem of making the team vieri’s ability to overcome difficulties when he was old. After a failed Champions League semifinal, the German coach clearly realized that if he could not come up with a solution as soon as possible, more and more teams would deal with Florence in the same way in the future.
In Florence, the club took a firm stance and realized that there was nothing new to explore. The paparazzi gave up the plan to hunt down Heinz and turned to look for other news that was more eyecatching. Without the help of these reporters, people would naturally not continue to focus on Heinz. In this way, the shock and dissatisfaction caused by Florence’s unexpected defeat against Chelsea were finally calmed down, and everything returned to the right track after a short period of chaos.
Compared with Galliani’s interest in an interview, it is worth pondering. The general manager of AC Milan did not express his support for the head coach at the first time like Florence, but vaguely stated in the interview that they still need to discuss with coach Carlo Ancelotti about the team’s season performance and future development direction before they can determine his future at the club.
Although Galliani didn’t say it, the implied meaning of these words is enough to make these reporters excited. After all, Galliani’s words are almost telling everyone that Milan executives are very dissatisfied with the result of the team’s elimination from Monaco in the Champions League and have plans to fire Ancelotti!
Otherwise, what do you mean they have to discuss with Ancelotti about his future at the club? You know, Anpang signed a contract with AC Milan for more than a year, even if he wanted to discuss the renewal, he didn’t say so. Therefore, when the media made Galliani’s speech public, almost all people in the industry realized that Ancelotti’s coaching days in AC Milan might be numbered.
After learning from Tassotti that Galliani had made a statement in front of the media, Rao was always goodnatured, and Ancelotti rarely got angry this time. He never thought that Gabald would be so careless that he would throw stones at himself at this time!
After all, even though AC Milan was upset by Monaco in the Champions League last season, it failed to beat its old rival Florence in the league battlefield, but Carlo Ancelotti has ensured the runnerup in Serie A and led the team to the semifinals of the Champions League at this time, which club can be said to be excellent enough. Few clubs will fire the head coach under such circumstances.
Some people may say that even if Carlo Ancelotti leads the team beautifully, it won’t help if there is no heavyweight trophy in the account, but this is a bit overwhelming. You know, in the past ten years, Florence has won seven league titles (counting this season), and six champions league titles have been left for other teams to play, which is pitiful. AC Milan fell into recession in the middle and late 1990 s and didn’t improve until Carlo Ancelotti. It is not easy to achieve such results.
When Carlo Ancelotti learned from Tassotti that AC Milan was going to lead the team with poor performance, it was untenable to dismiss him as an excuse. The manager’s mood was naturally predictable.
Desperate, Ancelotti naturally has nothing to continue to lead the team to play well in the game. Therefore, due to Ancelotti’s unstable position and turbulent morale, AC Milan directly won a twogame losing streak in the last two rounds of the league, and almost gave away the runnerup position in Serie A.
If AC Milan hadn’t accumulated enough points advantage before, it wouldn’t have let the Rome team behind him finish the overtaking at the last moment, otherwise Galliani would have to review what he had done to the angry Berlusconi. After all, Benitez didn’t want to ruin the whole team because of this incident, although he had the intention to get rid of Ancelotti.
It is because of this realization that Galliani will feel extremely regretful when the team bid farewell to Serie A after two consecutive defeats. He is not worried about Ancelotti’s state, but is afraid that the team will lose confidence and cohesion because of this series of defeats.
If this happens, then a head coach will face the situation of team reconstruction. After all, for a team that has lost confidence and cohesion, no matter how many stars they have, they will not get any decent results.
Therefore, although AC Milan finally retained the runnerup position in the league and won the direct place to participate in the Champions League group stage, Galliani admitted his mistake to Berlusconi at the first time and promised that similar things would not happen again.
Compared with the bad situation that AC Milan suffered a threegame losing streak in the final stage due to Galliani’s careless words, Florence was obviously much better. Although the last two opponents Reggina and Brescia tried to emulate the success of Chelsea and tried to take advantage of Florence’s low morale, Heinks promptly let the team out of the Champions League and ended the Viola season with a wave of twogame winning streak!
AC Milan is caught in a coaching change storm, Juventus is on the verge of rebuilding Florence, successfully defending Lazio’s reemergence, and the superstar Roberto Baggio announced his retirement … After 34 years of fans’ reluctance and nostalgia, Serie A slowly came to an end.
Chapter 1257 Portugal trip
Tony, this time we came to Portugal to observe the players who participated in the European Cup, right? Milla Ma Beach, located seven miles south of Porto, was sunbathing. Karin said something rather disappointing, So is it really appropriate for us to visit here instead of going to the training grounds of various national teams?
Unlike Zhuang Ge, who always poses as a shopkeeper, Karin and Groz both have quite strong enterprising spirit, and they are also templates of standard strong women. Otherwise, Zhuang Ge could not have made such a big fortune in just a few years even if he had a gold finger.
Karin, just relax and enjoy this holiday. Don’t always focus on work. It will be too tiring ~ After all, there are still five days before the curtain ceremony, and the curtain ceremony will be held in Porto. We don’t need to be in such a hurry. Zhuang Ge took a sip of Porto local wine and said comfortably, Besides, even if we go to the training grounds of national teams now, I’m afraid people won’t let us in?
That the boss … This time cristiano ronaldo is also a face of uncomfortable mouth said I appear here is not appropriate? If let the media know, it is estimated that the next day I will be regarded as a negative example to make headlines. After all, now everyone is nervously preparing for the upcoming European Cup, but I am enjoying it here. It is not unreasonable …
After hearing Ronaldo say this, Karin and Groz looked at him admiringly. Obviously, they were quite satisfied with Cristiano Ronaldo’s selfdiscipline and progress.
It’s not like you didn’t get Scolari’s stubborn consent when you came out this time. Even if something goes wrong, what are you afraid of here? Zhuang Ge left the pie mouth and Karin and Groz, on the contrary, he was very dissatisfied with Cristiano Ronaldo’s cautiousness. Besides, you haven’t become the main force in Scolari’s mind, and he still regards that group of golden generation players as treasures. It’s nothing to miss a day of training occasionally. Anyway, you won’t get into the starting lineup. Maybe you will sit on the bench for 90 minutes.
… C Ronaldo was hit hard by Zhuang Ge’s words, and his expression became heavier. Boss, although I know what you said is true, can you consider my feelings? Say so bluntly not some too hurtful …..
Although Cristiano Ronaldo joined Florence, the top club in Europe, and made a name earlier than in his previous life, Luiz Felipe Scolari did not straighten him out after becoming the head coach of the Portuguese national team, but firmly believed that the pair of Figo and Simao, Quaresma and Cristiano Ronaldo, the rising stars of Portuguese football, snatched the main position from them.
In his eyes, after leading Brazil to win the World Cup, Big Phil became conservative and unproductive. He always ate his old place, and then he got worse and worse after leaving the Portuguese national team coach position, and finally got into the Chinese Super League.
It stands to reason that players like Cristiano Ronaldo, who was called into the national team, should not be here at this time to enjoy the holiday with Zhuang Ge and others, but should sweat with the national team’s big brothers in the training ground to prepare for the upcoming European Cup. But who let Zhuang Ge and the Portuguese Football Association take the highlevel route directly to fix Cristiano Ronaldo’s holiday?
Scolari, the boss, said that he was reluctant to give Cristiano Ronaldo a day off from the order. Of course, the Brazilian coach still wrote a plan to settle accounts with Cristiano Ronaldo in his heart.
Now, by the way, a 34season Champions League champion finally belongs to Schalke Stadium on the evening of May 27, and reached the Champions League final for the first time in history. Chelsea and Monaco played a fierce battle in this venue.
Although these two teams are far less famous than Fiorentina and AC Milan, the game is surprisingly exciting and intense, and it is not boring at all. This is because Monaco is full of offensive spirituality in Deschamps’ hands after being trained by Wenger and Spalletti, and the defensive end is naturally not very reliable.
Compared with attacking Monaco, Ranieri coached Chelsea as an outandout defensive team, so it would be quite difficult for the game to be boring when the two teams collided.
In the end, bring up the rear Chelsea, who has many experienced veterans such as Zola, Hasselbaink and desailly, was superior in this Champions League final. In the end, the Blue Army first relied on the Italianstyle reinforced concrete defense to make Monaco proud of its offensive firepower, and then made a big fuss about the speed of Glenshire, where Lizzola and Hasselbaink formed a forward line before the solid defense, thus defeating Deschamps by two to lead Monaco to win the first Champions League in its club history!
In the postmatch evaluation, Zola contributed a goal and an assist in the game, and was rightly named the best player in the game. The Chelsea superstar gave a perfect curtain call performance, and he left Chelsea the best and last gift because Zola has decided to play for his hometown team Cagliari this summer.
Well, now, let’s turn our attention back to the upcoming European Cup. On June 12th, the 12th European Football Championship officially kicked off at the Dragon Stadium in Porto, Portugal. The two sides are the host Portugal with geographical advantages and the Greek team led by Otto the Great Severiano Reija Geer.
Because Portugal has an absolute advantage in book strength and it is a home game, no matter how you look at it, the host didn’t miss the opening game. Perhaps the only question is whether the Portuguese team led by the golden generation will win a few goals in this game …
However, the final score was 12, and the host country Portugal was shocked to lose to the underdog Greece in the opening match, which broke the first big upset of the European Cup!
And with the defeat of Portugal in the first battle, a realistic myth is once again played in Iberian Peninsula.
Chapter 125 Refuse to be upset
The result that host Portugal was unexpectedly defeated by Greece in the opening match of the European Cup really surprised many people. After all, although Portugal is not the top strong team in European football, the chronic disease of lack of center has been puzzling this top midfield team, no one can deny that it has a golden generation and new generation players such as Carvalho and Cristiano Ronaldo, who can still stabilize the Greek team in strength.
However, in this game, although Portugal has an absolute advantage in shooting times and possession of the ball, Leila made a lowlevel mistake in the sixth minute, which made the host have to fight behind the score from the beginning of the game, and Bassenas scored a penalty at half time, which made the situation worse!
I would like to add here that due to Zhuang Ge’s secret dissatisfaction with Cristiano Ronaldo, Scolari did not substitute the promising star in this game, so the person forced to foul in the penalty area became Simao instead of Cristiano Ronaldo in his previous life.
In this way, Greece successfully ended their embarrassing history of never winning in the finals of the competition and successfully scored three points that are very important to them; Portugal, on the other hand, suffered a defeat and became the first host team to lose in the opening match since the introduction of the group stage in the 19 th European Cup!
It’s really unexpected news that Portugal actually lost to Greece in the opening match. Looking at the newspaper report on this game, Zhuang Ge felt that Portugal really lost this game. If Leila didn’t give the opponent the goal gift package at the beginning of the game, it wouldn’t be easy for Greece to win this game. After all, coach Severiano Reija Geer’s certain policy is to fight back defensively. When the score is not ahead, Portugal’s technical ability is dominant, and Greece still has no problem.
Zhuang Ge is still very sorry for Portugal’s defeat to Greece in the opening match. After all, this European Cup can be said to be the first of Figo’s kind. The last chance for Portuguese golden generation players to win the championship will be even smaller if they wait for the World Cup in Germany two years later.
Although Portugal was astonishingly defeated in the opening match, no one took it seriously at this time that Greece had just won the first group match against Greece. In the eyes of most people, Greece’s ability to beat the powerful Portugal was mainly beneficial to the host’s idea of underestimating the enemy. At the same time, with the help of defensive counterattack tactics, iron tactical discipline and Leila’s initiative to send a mistake package, it stole three points from Portugal. When they play Spain in a game, these lucky guys will definitely show their true colors and the situation of qualifying for Group A will return to the right track.
However, four days later, when Spain, another strong team in Group A, was beaten in Greece, people were shocked to find that Greece had quietly taken the initiative to qualify for the group stage in their own hands after two rounds of strikes.
Because at this moment, Spain, the other three teams in the same group as Greece, is also one win and one draw, and Greece is neck and neck in the standings in Group A, but the matador’s opponent in the final battle is their neighbor, Portugal, the host of the European Cup!
Since Portugal scored one win and one loss in the previous match, Greece played against Xishan in the final round of the group stage. In this European Cup, it has been confirmed that the former group was eliminated. Therefore, whether it is Spain or Portugal, they must beat their opponents in the final game to get three points. Otherwise, if the two teams deliberately played the silent ball in the final round and Greece defeated Russia, Portugal would be miserable. Otherwise, if Portugal won, Spain would be the unlucky one.
In the face of such a critical qualifying situation, Spain and Portugal put on a good attitude before the European Cup, and both football associations gave the team an ultimatum demanding that this lifeanddeath battle must be fought!
After that, the qualifying situation is in jeopardy. Now let’s take a look at the defending champion Italy. Unlike the Iberian duo who are unswervingly advancing along the historical rut, trapattoni’s performance in this European Cup can be quite different from that in previous lives.