"Sure enough, Juventus is really a very difficult opponent to deal with." Although George hoped that the team could win a victory against Juventus today to further consolidate their advantage in the group standings, from now on Judging from the steady performance of Juventus players after the start of the game, the possibility of George realizing this wish is really slim.
As a standard Italian team, defense is naturally Juventus's specialty. Not to mention, several coaches of the Bianconeri have very high attainments in defense, and the current coach Capello has built Juventus' defense like an iron wall. This can be seen from the fact that Juventus has still conceded zero goals in the league.
That is to say, Zeman, a head coach who regards offense as his life, has the ability to crack Juventus' turtle shell three times in one game - for this, Ajax also paid the price of being scored four times by Juventus players. A heavy price to pay.
Therefore, with this game focusing on defensive counterattacks and positional offense completely relying on the individual performance of the front three, it is really difficult for Tottenham to break through Juventus' goal!
"How is this possible?!" Seeing that his breakthrough was successfully blocked by Juventus players again, Ronaldo was full of confusion at this time, "How could they guard me so easily? breakthrough!"
Although in terms of personal ability, the Juventus players who faced Ronaldo are not bad at all. Whether it is Emerson, Nedvěd or Zambrotta, they are all on the big list in European football, but they are young and talented. In the eyes of the prosperous Portuguese, relying on his increasingly proficient foot skills, is it not a matter of taking control of these old guys?
As a result, after the game started, reality gave the Portuguese teenager who was full of confidence before the game a hard blow. It also made Cristiano Ronaldo, who was proud of himself in the Premier League, understand what it means to have someone outside the world - Gianluca Zambrotta. Therefore, we deliberately kept a distance from him, not because we were afraid of losing in a head-on confrontation, but to prevent him from directly making a breakthrough from the right. Emerson, who seemed to be moving slowly, was like a moving wall, firmly blocking the block. His cutting route; as for Nedved behind him, almost every time, the Czech would retreat to defend as quickly as possible, taking advantage of the confrontation between him and Zambrotta to get entangled!
Like Ronaldo, Ribery is in the same predicament. However, due to Zebina's limited level, and the defensive skills of De Jong and Camoranesi are not as clean as Nedvěd's, the Frenchman's situation is better than that of Ronaldo - at least, Ribey Li can also use his speed to create several well-positioned frontcourt set pieces for the team, but Ronaldo, who is facing a group of top stars, cannot even do this.
Seeing that the team was in a stalemate on the offensive end, both Cristiano Ronaldo and Ribery were unable to do anything about it. However, George did not show much concern, and instead showed a little joy in his eyes. Because only by allowing these young people to be exposed to more things through actual combat can they thrive and move towards real stars!
And Juventus, which has the strongest defense in Europe, is obviously the best whetstone George uses to hone these players!
The strength of Juventus's defense is that it does not lack the ability to face confrontation, but also has sufficient toughness and elasticity. The players have extremely rich experience in competitions. No matter what type of offensive player you face, you will not be easily beaten, let alone these young people from Tottenham who lack game experience!
This is why players like Terry and Ferdinand are so enthusiastically sought after in English football, because their existence has successfully given the Three Lions, who are more than tough on the defensive end, more flexibility than they lack, making up for the English national team. The team's biggest shortcoming in the defense!
However, what no one expected was that after Uncle Seaman retired, the England national team, which had never worried about the goalkeeper position, would actually fall into a goalkeeper shortage. The successors David James, Paul Robinson, and Scott Scot Carson and Robert Green were each better than the other, and low-level mistakes occurred one after another, which wasted the prime years of Terry, Ferdinand and others. As a result, the Three Lions were never able to make a breakthrough in international competitions. Instead, they failed again and again. A laughing stock in the mouths of the media and fans.
Juventus, with Buffon in front of the goal, obviously does not have such a problem. Cannavaro and Thuram have a clear division of labor. Although the full-back combination of Zebina and Zambrotta is not the best, with the help and protection of their midfield teammates, they are not You will easily end up in a one-on-one duel with your opponent.
Delaying, double-teaming, compressing space, and cutting off passing routes, Juventus' defense is not as visually impactful as the Premier League teams, but in terms of effect, the Bianconeri are obviously better.
However, despite this, Juventus's defense is not impeccable. For example, the height of Cannavaro and Thuram, the mini central defenders, is undoubtedly an opportunity that opponents can take advantage of!
Although Cannavaro's physical confrontation ability and jumping are among the best in the world, his height of 1.75 meters is ultimately a flaw. Especially when encountering a powerful center with superb physical fitness like Drogba, Cannavaro often exposes many problems, thus causing inevitable losses to the team!
In the 25th minute of the game, Drogba, who was blocking Cannavaro behind him, used his head to push Evra's long pass accurately to Xabi Alonso who came in from the midfield. Underfoot!
After receiving Drogba's return pass, Alonso made a slight adjustment, then raised his right foot and kicked the ball directly towards the Juventus gate! Lob shot!
Squirt! Or a lob shot from a full thirty meters away from the goal! Alonso's bold choice made everyone present wide-eyed. After all, none of them could have expected that Alonso would be so bold on such an occasion and shoot a very imaginative lob!
Seeing Alonso's action, many Juventus fans also laughed at the Spaniard for not knowing the heights of the world and actually thinking that he could defeat Buffon in this way. However, when these people saw Buffon running towards the goal in a panic from outside the penalty area, everyone's glasses were shattered - God! How could even Buffon make such a low-level mistake and actually run outside the penalty area during the game!
Although Buffon returned to defense as quickly as possible, he actually knew very well that the possibility of saving Alonso's lob was almost slim - you know, there are basically few goalkeepers in this era. Known for his speed, Buffon is no exception. Therefore, facing Alonso's lob, Buffon could only do his best and obey fate.
However, just when everyone thought Tottenham was about to score a goal and even Buffon gave up resistance, a figure wearing a black and white sword-striped shirt suddenly rushed towards the Juventus gate and turned his back to the ball. He jumped into the air and blocked the ball outside the goal line with an extremely difficult overhead kick!
"Fabio Cannavaro! At the moment when the ball was about to cross the goal line, the captain of the Italian national team appeared in the right place where he should be, helping Juventus escape!"
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