The Era of Emerald

In the second half of the game, Capello replaced Di Canio and Eranio respectively, replacing the immobile Massaro and Donadoni, trying to find a chance to equalize and overtake the score, but AC Milan was present The passive situation in China still hasn't improved.

Taking advantage of the opportunity of the Milan players to attack, the Fiorentina players calmly organized the defense under the dispatch of the midfielder Effenberg, and at the same time they were looking for opportunities to launch a counterattack.

The Milan players finally made a fatal mistake after being unable to attack for a long time. In the 78th minute of the game, Albertini's pass was interrupted, and Effenberg passed it directly to Djorkaeff to launch a counterattack.

Djorkaeff immediately sprinted on the left side of the field with the ball. When he rushed to the line with the penalty area line, he decisively made a cross, and his cross accurately found Baba, who was following at high speed. Tistuta.Costacurta, who was back on defense, recklessly knocked Batistuta down from behind in the penalty area. The referee decisively awarded a penalty kick and showed a red card to Costacurta for the foul. Unfortunately, Batistuta The penalty kick was too hard, and the ball went directly above the crossbar.

After Costacurta was sent off, AC Milan, who had one less man to fight, became more passive, while Milan coach Fabio Capello replaced the main scorer Marco Simeone with veteran Philippe Galli, announcing his abandonment in disguise. this game.

Ranieri also understood when he saw Capello's substitution, and immediately replaced Batistuta and the other two foreign players who had just returned to the team and had not yet fully recovered. The score remained one to zero until the final whistle.

In the end, Fiorentina successfully took all three points at the San Siro Stadium.

Some people may ask why Capello gave up this game instead of trying to fight for it again. In fact, there is a reason for this:

First of all, at that time, AC Milan had one less player on the field, and it would take more physical energy to equalize the score, and most of the Milan players were international players from various national teams, so their physical reserves were much worse;

Secondly, unlike the knockout rounds, the league schedule is very long. For Capello, who has given up the championship and is wholeheartedly preparing for the team's reconstruction, the gain or loss of a game is not a big deal, not to mention that the Serie A has just started. Halfway through, there are still [-] rounds to end, and the loss of these three points is within the range that Capello can bear.

In another match at the same time, Juventus, which ranked first before the match, was unexpectedly conceded three consecutive goals by the home team Cagliari in Sardinia, and ended in a disastrous defeat.

In fact, it's no wonder Lippi, who made the Juventus team's six main players, including Vialli and Baggio, unable to play for various reasons before this game. At this time, the so-called "rich" team Due to the limitation of foreign aid places, the depth of their first-team bench is far from as strong as that of later generations.

In this way, Fiorentina successfully surpassed the Bianconeri in the standings with the victory of this game, and successfully returned to the top position of the league with a slight advantage of one point!

This result made the Fiorentina fans ecstatic, and now the team they support has finally surpassed Juventus again, and is one step closer to winning the league championship!

And this result also made the older generation of Fiorentina fans recall the 1968-69 season when Fiorentina won the Serie A championship last time. Can't you get another Serie A championship trophy?

At this time, Zhuang Mingge knew that the team must remain calm, because he knew very well that the later the season, the more difficult the game would be, because the team's goals for this season have basically begun to be clarified Yes, it is obviously unnecessary to start to be blindly optimistic at this time.

What's more, the ups and downs of these young players in Fiorentina have not been fundamentally resolved. When Batty was absent, the young forwards of Inzaghi and Montella could not bring stable goals to the team. Seeing who destroys who, if the state is not good, it may be invisible on the court for 90 minutes.

Moreover, although Fiorentina won steadily and steadily in the last game, the mood of the Fiorentina players in the game was obviously not exciting compared with the beginning of the season, and what Fiorentina will encounter next is not a relegation team in the league , the opponent will obviously fight his team desperately in order to successfully avoid relegation, so it is not the time to laugh yet.

In this regard, Zhuang Minge personally talked to the head coach Ranieri, asking him to pay attention to the atmosphere in the team, and not to let excessive optimism spread in the team.

A week later, in the No.18 round of Serie A, Zhuang Mingge began to wonder if he had the "crow's mouth" magic skill like Pele.

Cagliari, who defeated Juventus in the last game, continued to sit in Sardinia. At home, they bit Fiorentina twice in the game. This team, which performed extremely poorly in the first half of the season, began to rebound in the second half of the season. , You must know that they had been unbeaten for six consecutive rounds before defeating Juventus, and were even defeated by Sampdoria, which was in a precarious situation, 2-[-], but they were able to sweep Juventus with three goals in the last round, which proves that in the Under the pressure of relegation, they have already begun to explode-in this game, Cagliari performed quite well. They withstood Fiorentina's offense and relied on local center Muzi's two goals in the second half from Fiorentina snatched three points from their mouths, and it also brought Fiorentina back to the No.[-] position in the league...

After winning this game, although Cagliari is still ranked No. 16 in the standings, it is only two points away from the No. 15 rival ** team.

Having lost the hard-won top spot, the only thing that can reassure Fiorentina fans at this time is that their team no longer needs to worry about relegation as it did two years ago.

Seeing the team lose this game, Zhuang Mingge also had some headaches at this time. Although when he set the season goal last July, he asked the team to strive for a place in the European competition as much as possible, and the main goal was the Cup Winners Cup. But he didn't expect that after half a season, with Batistuta's continuous goals, Fiorentina is only two points behind the top of the list, no matter how you look at it, they have a chance to win the league championship.

"Forget it, one step is one step." Zhuang Mingge could only comfort himself in this way. After all, there are several masters in the physiotherapy center in charge. The chances of large-scale injuries in Florence have been infinitely reduced by him. Can he win the league championship? It's up to God.

Just when Zhuang Mingge was having a headache for the team's entanglement with Juventus in the league, on the training ground of Lazio, another thing that Zhuang Minge talked about finally happened:

"Young Central Defender Assault Training Ground!The Lazio general was seriously injured for half a year! "This is the headline on the front page of the Corriere dello Sport the next day.

The thing is like this: In a Lazio team training, the fledgling young central defender Alessandro Nesta fully demonstrated his newborn calf's fearless side-in a confrontation, the young and vigorous He overturned Gascoigne with a flying tackle, causing the Englishman to fracture both his fibula and tibia.

Although Gascoigne, who was lying on a stretcher, kept emphasizing that "it was just an accident, not Nesta's fault", Gascoigne was the number one star loved by Lazio fans at that time, so the Blue Eagles fans pointed the finger at him. Nesta, who was only 18 years old, the young Italian central defender was under tremendous pressure from public opinion.

Although Gascoigne, who was in the hospital, took the initiative to clarify to the Lazio fans that the foul was not Nesta's fault, and called on the Blue Eagles fans to forgive the child, but with little success, the young Nesta, because of this foul, Excluded from the team.

Nesta being sidelined in Lazio?

It seems that it can be used, and it may bring unexpected surprises to Florence.

Zhuang Mingge put down the newspaper in his hand, pondering...