The Era of Emerald

After recruiting Nesta, the future world-class central defender, the complacent Zhuang Mingge returned to Fiorentina.

During Zhuang Minge's stay in Lazio, Fiorentina ushered in another Serie A game.

In the No.19 round of Serie A, Fiorentina played a passionate match with the ** team, which was fighting for relegation, at the Frankie Stadium.

It seems that because he knew that if the team was relegated this season, then he would be followed by tragedy. Czech high center Skuhlavy finally came out of the cigarette box recently and began to show the strength of the 90-year World Cup Silver Boot winner.

In this game, Skuhlavey made full use of his height advantage and put great pressure on Fiorentina's defense. Neither Ferrara nor Filicano was 1.8 meters tall. Mi San's Czech seemed extremely struggling when he was fighting for the header.

Therefore, in the 28th minute of the first half, the ** team got a corner kick. The corner kick taken by the Japanese international Satoshi Miura was accurately smashed into the Fiorentina goal by Skuhlavey. Zero lead.

However, when the game reached the second half, due to long-term addiction to cigarettes, Skuhlavey's physical function declined sharply. As the game progressed, the Czechs showed signs of being unable to run, and Florence, whose defensive pressure dropped sharply, began to Launch a counterattack. The head coach of ** has nothing to do about it. After all, there is only one striker that the team can rely on. If he is replaced, the chance of being reversed by the home team may be greater.

When the game reached the 70th minute, Skuhlavey made a mistake with the ball. Di Biagio passed the ball diagonally to Francini on the left. Passed to Effenberg who responded in the middle.

After the German Tiger got the ball, he took advantage of the situation, passed the top player who was grabbing lightly, and shot his feet 35 meters away from the goal. The ball went straight into the opponent's goal like a fired shell. Fiorentina pulled back a point.

Under the pressure of relegation, **, ranked fourth last in the league, played quite well in the following time. They returned to defense across the board and defended Fiorentina's onslaught with an iron-like defense. Unfortunately, at the last moment, * * Captain Signorini's own goal wiped out the visitors' hopes of a point.

The only thing that makes the best players feel gratified is that their competitors on the road to relegation also lost. Cremona was bitten by the lingering Naples, and Barry was defeated by the Bianconeri [-]-[-] at home. Dowa lost his temper to Parma, and Brescia, who was ranked bottom, unexpectedly defeated Foggia, who was third from the bottom.

This also made ** feel relieved, at least this weekend can go on peacefully...

The top three seats in Serie A have not changed. After this campaign, Fiorentina is two points behind the top Juventus team and three points ahead of the No.3 Parma team. The championship battle is still going on.

After the match against **, the time has entered February. At this time, the leagues of various countries have begun to enter the sprint stage, and the season goals of each team have also been clarified. The relegation team, the European team, and the championship team It's all becoming clear.

But Zhuang Minge didn't have the time to study this. At this time, he pulled Karin and Antonioni and was sitting in front of the TV watching the draw ceremony for the quarterfinals of the European Cup Winners' Cup.

"Arsenal, Chelsea, Zaragoza, Feyenoord, Spartak Moscow, Auxerre, Porto... plus our Fiorentina, there are two teams from the Premier League in the quarterfinals, although the English They have been away from the European arena for a long time, but they were able to dominate Europe before the Heysel tragedy... It would be great if they could draw Auxerre. The French team is relatively easy to deal with, but their head coach Guy Lu is also a very cunning old fox, and he may not be easy to deal with." Zhuang Mingge said while sitting in front of the TV and eating the snacks brought by Karin.

"That's right, the guys who can enter the quarter-finals of the Cup Winners' Cup are not easy to deal with... But we, Fiorentina, can't win so easily. No matter what team we face, we have to find a way to win!" Antonioni said with a smile.

"Well, you are right. After all, we all represent Fiorentina. Without the confidence to win, how can we build the team into a giant comparable to Juventus and Milan." Zhuang Mingge also laughed when he heard Antonioni's words.

"Tony, the lottery is about to start now." Karin, who was sitting on the other side, reminded. .

This quarter-final draw ceremony is also the last draw of the Cup Winners Cup this season, and will be divided into the upper half and the lower half. Although UEFA does not seem to pay special attention to the draw ceremony of the European Cup Winners Cup. The second round of draws did not invite anyone from the top eight teams to watch, so Zhuang Mingge was happy to relax.

It’s better in Europe, even the European Cup Winners’ Cup quarter-finals draw can be watched live. At this time, in China, you should only be able to watch the broadcast of Serie A?Zhuang Mingge took a bite of his dim sum, thinking in a daze.

At this time, the lottery ceremony had already begun, and the final matching results were gradually presented to all the audience in front of the TV.

"We're in the lower half..."

Zhuang Mingge nodded with satisfaction when he saw Fiorentina's name appearing in the fourth quarter-final match. This position meant that Fiorentina would take the lead in the next quarter-finals The vantage point of the host, and in the semi-finals, it is also an away game-if Fiorentina can enter the semi-finals.

Judging from the arrangement of home and away games alone, Fiorentina's position is already very good. The key is to see which team they will face next.

The results of the first half came out soon, Chelsea, first home and then away, against Zaragoza; Feyenoord, first home and then away, against Auxerre from France; the next one, is the second half In the first game in the region, Arsenal played away against Porto in Portugal.

All that remains is the team that Fiorentina will face in the quarter-finals...

"Moscow Spartak." Karin calmly read out the name of the team.

"Oh my God! Didn't make a mistake?" Antonioni shouted in surprise, "How could this happen! Let's go to Russia to play in the ice and snow in February!"

"Fortunately, the game is a two-round home and away game. If we can withstand the Russian offensive in Moscow, Florence can still win at home." Zhuang Mingge can only comfort Antonioni in this way, because he also knows that Russia How terrible is the team's home field advantage...

After all, even Barcelona, ​​which was later called the "Cosmic Team", would be defeated by the Rubin Kazan team in Russia, so you can know how much the ice and snow environment will have a great impact on the visiting team.

ps: Chapter 19 of "Addition and Completion Plan"