The Era of Emerald

The final score of the game against Bari was fixed at 6:1. Inzaghi scored a hat-trick in the first game. Batty, Effenberg and Montella, who replaced Inzaghi in the 65th minute, each scored a goal. Scored a face-saving goal in the 90th minute.

On the second day, many Italian media praised the performance of the Fiorentina youth team in this game, thinking that their ability "can already dominate the second division, and even the first division can achieve good results."

At this moment, Zhuang Mingge in the chairman's office in Florence threw a stack of newspapers on the ground depressed:

"Hehe, these media can really tout players, Inzaghi is said to be the second Paul Rossi by them, Montella can succeed Massaro, Pesoto should be recruited into the national team... I can already imagine it now What is the state of the team?"

Because Zhuang Mingge has recruited too many future stars, the team is now dominated by young people. The oldest player on the team is actually 28-year-old Kripa. A team with a large number of young players is prone to ups and downs. Especially at the critical stage of the game, it is common for young players without much game experience to make mistakes; second, once they are touted by public opinion, it is easy to become smug and forget how much they are capable of.

Zhuang Minge originally hoped that Effenberg, Batistuta and others could stabilize the team, but he miscalculated. These players already have the strength to play in Serie A, and they can still play against some strong teams in Serie B. Mentally, but when facing the underdogs, even though they are still training normally on the surface, they can't help but relax a little mentally.

In the next league game, Fiorentina will go to an away game against Livorno, their recently defeated team. Pa and others were also unable to keep their spirits up, and Ranieri seemed to have taken it lightly because of the good start at home and the strength of the opponent.

As a result, the proud and complacent young people were hit hard by the Livorno people in the next game with a sap. 0:3, Fiorentina lost at home, and the Fiorentina team was led by the nose throughout the game , less than 20 minutes into the game, Livorno took advantage of the slackness of the Fiorentina players and scored two points in a row. Then the whole team retreated and started a defensive counterattack when Fiorentina made a large-scale counterattack, and took advantage of Fiorentina's empty rear. In the next city, Florence finally lost to Livorno.

After the game, Zhuang Mingge did not come forward to criticize the players, because he knew that this was the tuition fee paid by the team for the rejuvenation, and he believed that the team would be able to adjust back soon.

But the loss of this game was obviously a big blow to these young people. In the next game, Fiorentina also failed to win. Viola was tied 1:1 by the visiting Palermo team at home.

In the next two league games and one Coppa Italia match, Fiorentina tragically ushered in a two-game losing streak in the league (the scores were 0:1 and 1:2 respectively), and they only managed to advance to the first round of the Coppa Italia with their opponent's own goal.

In Serie B, Fiorentina only got off to a bad start with 1 win, 1 draw and 3 losses in the first five rounds. Ranieri also began to feel a little restless. Although the boss has not yet publicly expressed his opinion, he only sent his own secretary. The tough Miss Karin privately expressed to herself the club's support for her, but if the team continues to lose victories like this, her job will definitely be lost.

So in the next week, Ranieri, who has always been easy-going, made a rare move. The whole team will stay at the training base for closed training this week.

Just as the team started closed training sessions, Zhuang Mingge was reading a newspaper in the office.

"Young people are embarrassing, Florence falls into the abyss!" "

This is the headline of "Torino Sport" after Fiorentina's four consecutive league games without a win.

Since Juventus snatched Baggio from Fiorentina in 90, the relationship between the two teams has been very tense. As the mouthpiece of Juventus, "Torino Sport" will naturally not let go of this great opportunity to add insult to injury.

Although Zhuang Mingge doesn't think this report is interesting, he knows that he should act at this time. The team's consecutive losses have made these young people obviously begin to have doubts about their abilities. Good thing, but belittling yourself would be overkill.

On the same day, Zhuang Minge invited the best psychiatrist from the local hospital in Florence to provide psychological treatment for the players one by one.

After receiving the psychological treatment, the players finally regained some vitality, and they were no longer as lifeless as before receiving the treatment. Although they were caught by Ranieri again to participate in the training camp, there were finally some laughter on the training ground. The cloudy clouds that had originally shrouded Florence were diluted a bit.

In the 6th round of Serie B, Fiorentina will challenge Padua, the current leader of the league, in an away game. Padua has had a very good start this season. The Padua fans are full of confidence in the team's ability to win at home.

But this game against Fiorentina has become a nightmare for Padua fans. The Fiorentina boys showed all their talents in this game:

At the beginning, Fiorentina launched a chao offensive. Pessoto and Corini played consecutively on the wing to tear apart Padua's defense. Then Corini took a long shot from the penalty area line and the ball was slightly higher. beam;

Three minutes later, Fiorentina made a comeback, Pessoto made a cross from a 3-degree angle, Batistuta flew the header into the penalty area, Inzaghi rushed to grab a shot, the ball hit the net, 45:1;

In the 10th minute, Batistuta received another pass from Pessoto and then made another header, but it was Effenberg who shot the goal. Unfortunately, the German's shot angle was too straight and was blocked. ruthlessly confiscated by the goalkeeper;

In the 14th minute, Di Biagio steals the ball and launches a counterattack with a long pass. After Effenberg gets the ball and is savagely brought down by the opposing defender, Fiorentina gets a free kick in an excellent position. Batistuta vigorously With a draw, the ball flew directly into the goal, and the opponent's goalkeeper didn't respond at all, 2:0;

In the 20th minute, Inzaghi was offside and successfully entered the penalty area. The Padua defender brought him down behind him. The referee on duty gave Fiorentina a penalty kick and showed the foul player a red card. Inzaghi made the shot himself. , 3:0;

Three goals behind and one less player to fight, the Padua team collapsed completely at this moment. In the next 70 minutes, the Padua players lost their minds and made repeated mistakes on the court. The Fiorentina players took this opportunity to start scoring crazy...

At the end of the game, the score had become 9:0. Inzaghi and Batty scored hat-tricks respectively. Vieri and Montella, who came off the bench, scored a goal each. In 78 minutes, he scored a sling shot 45 meters away.

The game against Padua proved the potential of these young people in the team to everyone waiting to see the jokes of Fiorentina, and at the same time greatly restored their self-confidence. Although the state of the young players is still ups and downs, in the This was also reflected in the subsequent games. If the state is good, it will be defeated by whoever is in good condition. If the state is not good, it will be beaten by a second-tier underdog. But anyway, the team finally returned to the on the normal track.

The game against Padua was the last game of the Viola in September, and then Fiorentina achieved 9 wins and 10 loss in 5 league games in October, and the only loss was due to the core of the team. Batistuta and Effenberg were called up to play for the national team in the World Cup qualifiers, coupled with the ups and downs of the young people, which led to the defeat.

至此意乙已经进行10轮，佛罗伦萨以5胜1平4负积11分的成绩位居联赛第7，但是距离联赛榜首的巴里队（6胜2平2负积14分）仅有3分的差距，升级的希望依然很大。

Here is an added sentence: The Italian league now implements a 2-point system, that is, two points for a win, one point for a draw, and zero points for a loss. The 3-point system that everyone is familiar with now only started in Italy from the 94-95 season. started to implement.