Chapter 1 The Final

In the end, Fiorentina defeated Juventus 3-1 at home, and their points rose to fourth place, putting them back in the top four.

Zhang Jun's hat-trick in the match against Juventus made him a player watched all over Europe. Many people have noticed Fiorentina's crazy performance this season, and those expert reporters and some prestigious former football giants believe that Fiorentina's sudden rise is inseparable from Zhang Jun's stable performance.

For a team to win, scoring goals is essential, and Zhang Jun's goals account for one-third of Fiorentina's total goals. This number is terrifying. In Serie A, which is known for its defense, Zhang Jun has scored twenty-four goals before the end of the season. Shevchenko only scored this many goals in the entire last season. He truly surpasses his predecessors.

Zhang Jun is unwilling to compare himself with others, but if there is no comparison, how can fans get a direct impression of his ability?

Therefore, many media outlets and experts have compared Zhang Jun with some historical forwards, and they have reached a basically consistent view: Zhang Jun is a very comprehensive forward, with some of Romário and Van Basten's style in the penalty area, and is very talented.

This is already quite a high evaluation of Zhang Jun. Just a hat-trick in one game has made him the focus of everyone's attention. Football is like this: the winner is king. If you win the game and perform well, you will be immediately praised to the skies. But if you don't perform well, you will be immediately thrown down hard. Zhang Jun has seen a lot of this kind of thing, so he doesn't care about the outside world's evaluation of him.

He cooperates with interviews, but he has never taken reporters' words seriously.

Anyone who really takes it seriously must be a fool.

His mother went back to China a few days ago. She said that she was still not used to the Italian lifestyle and pace. She's happier running her small shop back home, even if it's busy. After all, her friends are there. In Italy, Zhang Jun and Sophie have to work all day and have social engagements, so they really don't have much time to spend with her.

In the following games, Zhang Jun stopped his crazy goal-scoring spree that had been going on since the beginning of the season. Fiorentina's performance was very stable, hovering between sixth and fourth place, which was not too bad. But Zhang Jun just stopped scoring.

Sure enough, another voice soon appeared in the media, claiming that Zhang Jun was still not good enough and couldn't guarantee his form. He was still far from forwards like Shevchenko, Ronaldo, Eto'o, and Owen.

Zhang Jun completely ignored these voices. He knew very well that his recent form was indeed not very good, but it was not as bad as they said. After a crazy goal-scoring spree, he needed some time to adjust his form, which is the so-called low tide. This is very normal. If he followed the media's voices and really thought he was terrible, then he would be really finished.

In these few league rounds, he shifted his focus to assists. If he couldn't score goals himself, assisting his teammates to score was also a good job. He already had seven assists this season. Zhang Jun felt that it was not enough. In the past, Pazzini and Toni had always served him, helping him score goals. Now it was his turn to repay them.

Every time he saw Pazzini or Toni's excited expression after scoring a goal, Zhang Jun felt that his sacrifice was worth it.

Yes, as a captain, you can't always think about yourself. You need to constantly consider the feelings of others. Although he is the team's recognized offensive core, if Pazzini and Toni score fewer goals, they will feel somewhat uncomfortable.

Di Livio once told him that being a captain is an art of balance: balancing the relationship between teammates, balancing the relationship between players and coaches, and balancing the relationship between the team and the referee on the field. In short, you need to consider all aspects. Perhaps if one thing is not done well, it will lead to very serious consequences.

What is gratifying is that Zhang Jun has done a good job so far. He is naturally easy-going and has excellent interpersonal relationships. Everyone likes him, so he has no problem coordinating relationships.

Moreover, the team's record is good, and there are no problems within the team. Everyone is very united.

Zhang Jun himself has also learned a lot in the process of being a captain. He no longer demands that everything be centered on himself. The captain needs to sacrifice. Even if some things really belong to him, he must learn to give up. Sometimes, giving up is more admirable than fighting for it.

Sometimes, after being criticized by the media, Zhang Jun would joke with Sophie, pointing to the nonsense in the newspaper and saying to Sophie, "Look, your colleagues..."

Sophie would not be outdone, and immediately pick up a tabloid mainly focused on gossip, point to a certain player's sex scandal on it, and say to Zhang Jun, "Look, your colleagues!"

At this time, Zhang Jun would involuntarily think of An Ke, the kid he had taught a lesson to during the New Year's Day. Since their farewell at Yang Pan's wedding, they had not been in contact. How is he now? Did he go back to chase Lin Jia? Has he found his own spring?

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An Ke looked at the photo of himself holding a beer glass with a contented and intoxicated expression. This was his new advertisement, for a German beer brand. Hua Fang signed him to a small contract, but he liked this contract because he could drink a lot of good beer for free every year.

He now looks very much like a pure German, especially in his love for beer. Kahn told him that although professional players should avoid alcohol, it doesn't matter for goalkeepers to drink a little beer. On the contrary, it can appropriately increase weight and widen the body shape. Goalkeepers rely on their body first, which is their most direct means of deterring forwards. Think about it, when a goalkeeper spreads his arms in front of a forward like a mountain, how can the forward not feel any pressure?

So Kahn is successful, because his appearance is really ferocious, and that murderous aura cannot be learned. Look at him biting opponents' cheeks on the field, pinching opponents' necks with his hands, and scolding his teammates angrily, like a ferocious lion. Any forward will be a little timid when facing him.

Even Ronaldo in the 2002 World Cup final, if Kahn's finger had not been injured, he might have had to work harder to break through Kahn's goal.

Under Kahn's training, An Ke now has a bit of ruthlessness. He is now the main goalkeeper of the Bundesliga champion Bayern Munich. If he doesn't perform ruthlessly, how can he be worthy of the champion's identity?

He is now sitting in the spacious living room of his house.

This is a villa he bought with his salary and advertising endorsement money. It is very, very large, with three garages, a swimming pool, a tennis court... no, he dismantled it to build a basketball court.

This is just his home in Germany. In China, he also spent money to buy a villa for his parents in the new urban area, taking his parents out of the old house of the state-owned enterprise. This makes him quite accomplished, because in front of his parents, his son can also earn money and be filial to his parents.

Putting down the photo, An Ke leaned on the sofa, considering what to eat for supper.

An Ke is not a person who knows how to manage himself. The house is too big and it is troublesome to clean, so he never cleans it. He always hires a special cleaning company to do it - he is not used to hiring a nanny, after all, he is a child from the working class. He almost spends all of his monthly salary. He has added a lot of things to this house, whether they are useful or not, as long as he likes them at the time, he buys them back and puts them there. Thus, there are always empty refrigerators, washing machines that have never washed clothes...

An Ke stood up and looked around his house.

Sometimes he feels that buying a big house is not as comfortable as the apartment he used to live in, especially after winter comes, when he comes back from training at night and faces this empty, dark house, he feels a little cold.

This feeling has become even stronger since he returned from attending Yang Pan's wedding. Watching Zhang Jun and Sophie being lovey-dovey, watching Yang Pan and Yi Lan step into the church with happy faces, even Kaka, that bastard, has a girlfriend. And what about himself? Still alone.

Although he is always not serious, whistles at beautiful women, likes to flip through magazines like Playboy, and watch pornographic films, he still deeply desires a sincere relationship.

He suddenly thought of a line from an old song:

Playing and competing in the playground;
Challenging the future in the examination room;
Hoping to fly out of the sky on the journey of life;
Unexpectedly longing to return on the journey;
Sighing with close friends under the clock tower;
How much I long for love outside the church...

……

He really yearns for love.

Sophie is already a dream that will never be possible, and now he should find his own Sophie.

After returning from Italy, he went to that bar to find Lin Jia, but he was a little disappointed that Lin Jia was no longer working at that bar. He also asked a friend in Dortmund to help him find her at the bar where he and Lin Jia had worked together, but he couldn't find her. He asked at the school, and they told him that she had dropped out.

Nothing was left behind. The girl Lin Jia disappeared from his life. No... some things were still left behind, such as the busy figure sleeping on her stomach in the apartment after a night, the face sleeping soundly in the car after accompanying him back from the training ground, the body temperature when she helped him out of the bar when he was drunk...

An Ke sat down again. He felt that this night was colder than ever before.

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"Jiajia, hurry up, it's a red light!" Her sister called to her from the front, but Lin Jia turned her attention to the newspaper stand at this street corner. On the top of a newspaper, there was a photo of An Ke in the upper right corner of the front page. The photo was not big, but Lin Jia saw it at a glance.

Bayern Munich won five consecutive victories, and An Ke performed well. Beckenbauer praised him as Bayern Munich's most successful acquisition last summer.

It's a pity that she is no longer in Germany.

Yes, she is no longer there. She is now in Sichuan, at her home.

Because of the bar incident, she was exposed in the domestic media. As a result, her family recognized her. Her grandfather was very angry. He is a very traditional person. What would he think when he saw his granddaughter dressed like that and hugging strangers? People in her hometown pointed fingers at their family. How could a grandfather who is a parent stand it? So he called her immediately and asked her to go home, but she clearly objected. As a result, her sister flew to Germany like lightning and went through the formalities for her to drop out of school, and her brother went straight to Munich, caught her at the bar where she worked, and then, regardless of anything, even if she cried or made a fuss, he ignored her and took her directly back to China.

It only took five days from her being exposed to being caught back by her family. It seems that her family was really angry.

After she came back, she was indeed faced with accusations and punishments from her family. She was not allowed to go out on the street alone within three months. Even if she went out of the courtyard gate to buy a newspaper, she had to be accompanied by a nanny. Moreover, the pointing fingers of others made her a little unbearable. In this traditional city, her behavior was considered a prostitute, which embarrassed the Chinese people. The older generation would gossip behind her back when they saw her, and the younger generation would have improper expressions on their faces when they saw her. These made her very uncomfortable, but her family strictly forbade her to go out and argue with others.

Once, her grandfather saw her arguing with a middle-aged woman about this matter outside, rushed out and pulled her back, and then pointed at her, trembling with anger, "Do you think you are not embarrassing enough?" The words roared out by her grandfather at the time made her cry for a long time in grievance.

She doesn't understand what's wrong with pursuing love.

Later, her sister took her hand and told her a lot, such as the family's face, how to behave, reputation, grandfather's health... and so on, a lot of great principles and small principles. She told her for a whole month, what with "There is fragrant grass everywhere in the world, why bother loving one flower," "A professional player's second half of life is unstable"... and also introduced her to boyfriends and arranged blind dates, until they confirmed that Lin Jia had stopped thinking about that professional player, then they gave her some freedom. For example, when going out of the courtyard gate to buy newspapers and magazines, there would no longer be a nanny following her.

However, she didn't like any of the boyfriends her family introduced to her, and always found some reasons to reject them, such as being too short, too ugly, having a bad temperament, being dishonest, being too honest and lacking charm... Anyway, the reasons are found by people, and she can come up with a lot of excuses for any man.

Later, when her family saw that she really didn't like them and didn't think much about the professional player in Germany anymore, they gradually stopped introducing her to boyfriends.

Now she spends her days occasionally going out with her sister, and then watching movies, reading novels, chatting online, and playing games at home, anyway, living a decadent life. Her family is rich and doesn't need her to do anything. They sent her abroad to study in the first place to gild her, so that the family would have more face, at least there was someone who had studied abroad.

As a result, she didn't manage to gild herself, but instead embarrassed her family. These days, she has reflected on herself and does feel that she didn't consider her family's feelings, especially her grandfather, who has loved her very much since she was a child. This time, he was really angry. Her grandfather is old and cannot afford to be angry. During that time, the people in her family were very nervous, fearing that her grandfather...

An Ke doesn't like her, but she is so infatuated, what a fool. What does she like about him? Is it because he is tall and has a sense of security? Is it because he is humorous and has charm? Or something else?

She can't even say what she likes about him, but she is so infatuated that she chased him from Dortmund to Munich. If she is not a fool, who is a fool? If she doesn't deserve it, who does?

The owner of the newspaper stand saw a girl standing in front of his stand all the time, so he stepped forward and asked, "What do you want to buy?"

Lin Jia shook her head, and glanced at An Ke's photo again. He was loudly directing the defense line in front of the goal. She, a girl who doesn't understand football, can now deduce the situation at that time with just a photo. Maybe this is the only gain she has had from chasing An Ke for more than four years.

"No, I'm just looking around..." Lin Jia turned around and walked towards her sister who was waiting for the green light at the intersection. She no longer buys sports newspapers, only occasionally buys some fashion magazines and gossip newspapers.

A very old song suddenly started playing in the audio-visual store on the street, Jin Haixin's "So Proud."

Thinking wildly all night,
The night is so beautiful,
Making me unable to sleep.
Why do you always want to escape?
If lovesickness can't get better,
I can only blame myself for not finding the antidote,
You have never given me a signal of love.
Oops, I fell in love earlier than you,
You love me less than I do,
Destined to suffer torment.
Oh no, my elegance is all gone,
The restless heartbeat is heard all over the world.
Don't be so proud,
I may leave at any time,
You haven't held my hand yet,
The night is too long, the moonlight will surely turn cold,
What should I do?
You owe me a hug,
But I keep smiling at you,
Why haven't you seen my good qualities yet...

Listening to this song, Lin Jia only felt her nose sore.

Why haven't you seen my good qualities?

Her sister turned around and blamed her, "I told you not to come just now, it's a red light, wait."

Lin Jia smiled embarrassedly. She was wearing sunglasses, so she wasn't afraid that her sister would see that her eyes were a little red. "I wanted to see if the new issue of Ruili is here."

"The new issue? Didn't we just buy it?" Her sister felt something was wrong, but Lin Jia pulled her. "Sister, it's a green light, let's go."

The two of them disappeared into the crowd shoulder to shoulder.

The music from the audio-visual store was very loud, and could still be heard from far away. It's already 2008, and they're still playing songs from 2000. How many people have heard it?

This is a busy intersection. On the southeast side of the building, there is a huge Nike advertisement, with Zhang Jun and Yang Pan standing back-to-back, looking very cool, looking down at the bustling crowd below every day, and also accepting others' admiration for them.

Lin Jia sometimes can't understand. Now football has penetrated deep into people's hearts, and many people can see the benefits of professional football. Why doesn't her grandfather support her to pursue a professional player?

They say that a professional player's second half of life is unstable. As long as they earn enough money in the first half of their life and manage their finances reasonably, they shouldn't be very poor, right?

She will never understand the minds of the older generation, just as the older generation doesn't understand why young people like those strange things so much. This is the so-called generation gap.

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"Time flies so fast. In a blink of an eye, it's already April. The league has already progressed to the thirty-fourth round..." Zhang Jun said to Sophie, looking at the calendar. "There are four rounds left, and this season is about to pass."

"Yes, it feels like we were just at Yang Pan's wedding yesterday..." Sophie nodded, "Your season is considered successful. You are currently ranked fifth. Is there any hope for the Champions League next season?"

Zhang Jun looked at the schedule: "I don't know. It depends on our next game against Inter Milan..."

The current situation in Serie A is like this.

The top five teams in the league are AC Milan, Juventus, Inter Milan, Sampdoria, and Fiorentina. The top three teams are very close, and all three teams have hope of competing for the final championship. The fourth and fifth places are also very close, but the distance between the fourth and third places is relatively large. The top two teams in Serie A can directly enter the Champions League, and the fourth and third places need to participate in the Champions League qualifiers. Fiorentina's performance in the second half of the season was not as good as in the first half, and their form fluctuated. This was due to the decline in the team's physical fitness. Since they did not introduce players during the winter break, they have been relying on this main lineup to play, which has made many people unable to bear it. Zhang Jun's continuous failure to score goals is related to this.

The game Zhang Jun mentioned refers to the match between Inter Milan and Fiorentina in the thirty-fourth round of the league. This game is even more crucial for Inter Milan, because compared to Juventus and AC Milan, the defending champion's hope of winning the championship is much smaller. There are still four rounds left in the league, and they are six points behind the top AC Milan and three points behind Juventus. If they cannot win this game, and the top two teams both win, then the points will be widened to nine points. They must win all of the remaining three rounds, and the top two teams must lose, then they have a chance to play a play-off with AC Milan. Therefore, Mancini has given a death order to the players, they must win Fiorentina, no matter what the cost.

Fiorentina's situation is slightly better. Even if they lose this game, they can still fight Sampdoria to the death in the remaining three rounds. Anyway, the two teams are only one point apart.

But Sabato certainly cannot accept the result of failure. In the first half of the season, they lost to Inter Milan at home, ending their fifteen-game unbeaten streak. Now is the opportunity to take revenge. They must not only win, but also rub salt in Inter Milan's wounds, so that they can watch the league championship gradually drift away.

Three rounds ago, Fiorentina just played a game with AC Milan, and the result was a 1-1 draw. They failed to stop AC Milan's momentum to win the championship this season.

It can be said that the entire Italy is now paying attention to Fiorentina's results in each round of the league, because their performance determines the life and death of several teams.

"Fiorentina is a qualified spoiler." This is the evaluation of the *Roma Sports News*, which is very appropriate.

This game was held at Inter Milan's home stadium, the San Siro, attracting nearly 80,000 people to watch. Inter Milan fans still remember the humiliation their team suffered in the Stadio Artemio Franchi, so this time they returned it in an even more intensified manner. The boos never stopped from the moment the Fiorentina team appeared.

"Your fans... aren't very friendly." This was the only sentence Zhang Jun said to Li Yongle.

Li Yongle shrugged.

With the experience of the last match, Mancini arranged for Li Yongle to mark Zhang Jun from the beginning this time. He wanted to limit Zhang Jun's role to the smallest extent.

"Zhang Jun has not scored since his hat-trick against Juventus, and it has been more than a month now. I wonder if he will have a key performance in this crucial game?" the commentator said. "His goal count has been stuck at twenty-four. It seems that he will not be able to score thirty goals this season, and Shevchenko and Adriano are gradually catching up. Although he is still ranked first, Adriano, who is second, is only two goals away from him."

With no hope of winning the championship, Fiorentina now has only two goals: one is to strive to enter the European Champions League next season, and the other is to ensure that Zhang Jun wins the league's top scorer award.

However, Zhang Jun has not been in scoring form recently, which has made many fans who like him very anxious.

However, Zhang Jun gave the fans who liked him a surprise from the beginning this time.

"gooooooooooooooooooAL!! Zhang--Jun--!!! Only three minutes into the game! Fiorentina leads away!" the commentator shouted. "It is estimated that many fans are still looking for their seats, and Fiorentina has scored!"

Zhang Jun spread his arms and ran towards the stands where the Fiorentina fans were, accepting their cheers.

He had just received a cross from Gasparroni on the wing, and then headed the ball into César's goal in the middle. Zhang Jun's header was not tricky, it was just too sudden from Gasparroni's cross to Zhang Jun's middle attack, and Inter Milan's players had not reacted yet, and the ball went in. The game had just started for three minutes, and many players had not had time to get into the game yet.

Because Zhang Jun rushed up from behind at high speed, the speed was fast, so the power of the header was very strong. César did not make any movement and watched the ball enter the goal.

"Zhang Jun is back! This is his twenty-fifth goal! This is Fiorentina's crucial game, and Zhang Jun's crucial goal will appear! This has become Zhang Jun's law! Absolutely no mistake!"

After celebrating, Zhang Jun turned around and saw that Li Yongle still couldn't believe that his team had lost the ball so early. He gave Li Yongle a thumbs up, and then pointed to himself.

"What Zhang Jun's law, this kid is purely excited when facing Li Yongle." Li Yan thought, he knew that Zhang Jun would definitely score in this game, so he specifically wrote a report before the game to explain his point of view. If the opponent in this game was Real Madrid, Zhang Jun might not be able to score, but as long as it is Inter Milan, facing Li Yongle, it is unimaginable for Zhang Jun not to score. He himself would not easily let himself go.

Li Yongle turned to look at the big screen above the San Siro stadium, which was still replaying Zhang Jun's goal. At that time, he had intended to block Zhang Jun outside the penalty area, but... when he turned his head to look at Gasparroni's cross, this person slipped into the penalty area from his side, and then rushed up from behind when everyone was not paying attention, and headed the ball into the goal.

Miscalculation, miscalculation!

Next time when he observes the surrounding situation, he must remember to pull him with his hand.

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"The game between Inter Milan and Fiorentina has been going on for thirty minutes. Except for Zhang Jun's goal at the beginning, neither side has scored any goals. This crucial game is a bit dull, and both sides are a bit conservative. Even when Fiorentina is attacking, you can't see their full-backs assisting. Sabato is pacing around on the field, but you can't see him giving any instructions. As the league continues, he is paying more and more attention to the results."

"This is very normal. No coach can afford not to pay attention to the results. No matter how good the game is, it is useless if you can't win the ball. Especially for a team like Fiorentina with great ambitions, they can't tolerate failure."

In addition to his goal at the beginning, Zhang Jun spent almost all of his energy entangled with Li Yongle for the rest of the time. Li Yongle's defense, trained in Serie A, is even more domineering. Many times, he can't bear the head-to-head physical confrontation, but Li Yongle often uses it. Li Yongle knows that his technique is definitely not as good as Zhang Jun's, but in terms of body, Zhang Jun is definitely not his opponent.

Serie A is not strict in judging physical confrontation. Players like "Wild Boar" Davids, when defending for Juventus, once faced Lazio and directly knocked his opponent four meters away with a collision in the midfield, but the opponent did not fall, and the referee did not blow the foul. They thought it was a reasonable collision.

Zhang Jun has been playing in Italy for several years, and he has seen many such collisions.

If Li Yongle wants to use his body, he uses his technique and speed to get around him, not giving him a chance to bump into him.

However, in this way, he can't concentrate on shooting and scoring.

Li Yongle also can't participate too much in the construction of the offense.

But Mancini doesn't need it. In the game against Fiorentina, Li Yongle has only one task: to freeze Zhang Jun. As for the offensive task, he still has Veron, Cambiasso, and Stankovic. Fiorentina is different from other teams. It is Zhang Jun's team alone. As long as Zhang Jun is frozen, Fiorentina's threat will be at least halved.

Special opponents naturally receive special treatment.

Zhang Jun flicked his hand and passed the ball back helplessly. He looked at Li Yongle beside him: "Why are you always following me? Go to the front to pass the ball, shoot, and score!"

"My task is to watch you. I am here when you are here. If I am out of position... don't even think about running!"

"So I am a position..." Zhang Jun rolled his eyes. "Oh, please help me thank Mancini during the intermission. He thinks too highly of me. I am actually very bad, really, there is no need to bother your core to specifically mark me... Look, I can't even stop the ball..." As Zhang Jun said, Cruz happened to pass a ball to him. Li Yongle naturally ignored the things Zhang Jun was babbling in his mouth and directly pressed up close.

As soon as Zhang Jun finished speaking, he spread his legs, and the ball happened to leak past his crotch. It leaked to Pazzini behind him, and then he turned around and ran forward.

Li Yongle didn't bother with Pazzini, but turned around and chased after Zhang Jun.

The central defender would naturally take care of Pazzini.

Pazzini didn't pass the ball to Zhang Jun either, but instead tapped the ball directly with his heel to the Cruz who came up from behind.

"Wrap him up!" Li Yongle shouted to Cambiasso while pulling Zhang Jun, his behavior just provided a very good demonstration for Cambiasso.

Cambiasso reached out, but Cruz did not dribble the ball, but also passed the ball out. Like Pazzini, he passed the ball to Mascherano who came up from behind with a heel pass.

Seeing that no one was marking him, Mascherano unceremoniously greeted the ball with a direct shot!

The ball flew towards Inter Milan's goal along the grass.

César pounced on the ball and then slapped the ball out of the baseline with both palms.

Toldo is too old and his state is far less stable than before. César from Brazil has taken over him to guard Inter Milan's goal.

"The Brazilian blocked the Argentine's shot!" the commentator deliberately shouted like this.

Zhang Jun watched the ball fly out of the baseline, waved his hand with some regret, and then walked back. When he turned his head, he saw Li Yongle still beside him: "Why are you following me?"

Li Yongle opened his mouth: "I specifically..."

"Damn! The first half is over!" Zhang Jun pointed around, dumbfounded. Only then did Li Yongle realize that his teammates were walking towards the player tunnel. Since the player tunnel of the San Siro was at the corner flag in front of them, he thought they were going to defend a corner kick.

"The first half is over? It's too fast, right?"

"Because it's too dull, there are not many wonderful shots, so you will naturally feel fast."

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During the intermission, Sabato was very satisfied with the team's performance, because leading at Inter Milan's home stadium was indeed a good result, although the scene was a bit dull.

"What I need to tell you now is... the most important thing in professional football is the result, it is victory. So for victory, we can do anything! What is an unsightly scene, what is dull! No matter what the outside world says, it doesn't matter. What we need now is victory!"

"But... you used to say that Fiorentina should attack, attack, and attack..." Xiang Tao muttered.

"That was before! We must change our style with the situation! We must make the opponent unpredictable. When we need to attack, I hope you spare no effort. When we need to be conservative and passive, I hope you are more passive than playing a fixed match!"

Everyone is used to Sabato's shocking rogue remarks. Xiang Tao curled his lips and stopped talking.

What he meant was that Fiorentina should be more changeable at any time, attacking madly when attacking, and madly... passive when passive. But he likes to add some unacceptable things to his words, so some people think he is a madman, and some people think he is a rogue.

"In short, we will defend and counterattack in the second half. Defend first... then counterattack." Sabato made a downward pressing action, telling everyone to be steady.

The media all say that Fiorentina is a team with extremely strong attack, and will attack and attack again. But he wants everyone to know that Fiorentina also has times when they defend. Unpredictable? Can't understand? That's right. If my team is seen through by you, how can I survive? You privately set a style for my team, and I will play according to the dogmatic style you specified?

Bullshit, don't think that Fiorentina can only attack and can't defend.

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Fiorentina's changes in the second half really made many people unable to understand. They put on a defensive stance as soon as they came up. This completely exceeded Inter Milan's expectations. During the intermission, Mancini also asked the team to stabilize the defense first in the face of Fiorentina's mad attack and then wait for the opportunity to counterattack.

Everyone believes that with Sabato's personality, he will definitely not only win the game 1-0 away. He definitely still hopes to score. Then it is Inter Milan's opportunity. But Sabato unexpectedly pursued stability. Even the commentators on Sky TV are suspecting whether Fiorentina has changed their coach.

"This is completely not Fiorentina's style of playing!"

But what is Fiorentina's style of playing?

Looking at the situation on the field, Sabato was very proud. He wanted this effect.

Fiorentina's sudden change disrupted Inter Milan's original plan. Within the first ten minutes of the second half, they did not organize any decent attacks. Fortunately, Mancini adjusted the plan in time. Since Fiorentina wants to defend, then his Inter Milan will press up and attack. Although he doesn't understand why Fiorentina, who has always liked to attack to the end, suddenly changed their attitude, but it is a fact that they are defending, so if he doesn't seize this opportunity, he still wants to defend steadily and counterattack, but he will be scolded to death by the top management and fans.

So with a big wave of his hand, Inter Milan pressed up to attack, and began to bombard Fiorentina's half in the cheering of the home fans.

Sabato shouted for the team to defend and defend during the intermission. Now facing Inter Milan's bombardment, he is pacing around on the field, extremely nervous.

He wants the team to counterattack if they seize the opportunity.

"Long pass to find Zhang Jun in front!"

"Idiot! Don't pass the ball back! I told you to defend steadily and counterattack, not to shrink back and defend!"

Di Livio wanted to roll his eyes beside him. This performance is too different from the crazy words during the intermission.

Sabato yelled and jumped on the sidelines for ten minutes, but Inter Milan still did not open the situation. This made Sabato proud again. Fiorentina's defense is actually not very bad. It's mainly because they have been spending their energy on offense before, and both full-backs are offensive, so it seems that their defense is full of loopholes. Now that they are concentrating their forces on defense, the effect is still very good.

"Who said we can't defend?" Sabato turned his head and smiled at Di Livio.

As soon as he finished speaking, he saw Di Livio stand up in surprise. Then he heard the deafening cheers of the San Siro stadium.

"Damn it! Lost the ball!" Di Livio cursed.

Sabato hurriedly turned around and