Red Cards and Red Cards

For the rest of the first half, Fiorentina were completely pinned back.

But Carlisle was, after all, the King of the Violets.

The super striker known as the God of War had always been one of the world's top center forwards.

In the forty-fourth minute, he relied on his individual ability to score a spectacular long-range effort while on the run, displaying the aesthetics of violence.

But then the assistant referee raised his flag.

Carlisle was offside!

The goal was disallowed!

That also became the Violets' only truly threatening attack of the first half.

When the second half resumed.

The Violets adjusted their tactics.

If they couldn't win, then they simply wouldn't attack.

They would protect their goal and concede fewer goals.

In the Champions League group stage, goal difference might come into play in the end. Conceding fewer was a victory in itself.

Sure enough, this created difficulties for Real Madrid's attack.

In the sixty-sixth minute.

Zizo used a Marseille Turn to get past Versace, who thought he had a chance to make the tackle.

Then, while dribbling, Zizo suddenly stopped and pulled the ball back, sending the retreating Versace flying with the feint.

Versace crashed headlong into Cortino, who was defending Zizo from the front.

Cortino roughly shoved Versace aside, then charged at Zizo, trying to continue his defensive duty.

This kind of defending that involved laying hands on a teammate was quite unexpected.

Basically, apart from Maguire, no one else was so fond of wrestling down his own teammates.

If Cortino had tried that against anyone other than Zizo, someone planning to take their time with the ball, he would definitely have disrupted them.

But unfortunately for him, it was Zizo.

Zizo had no intention of taking his time.

After pulling the ball back with that sudden