The Era of Emerald

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After defeating Ajax at home, Fiorentina has achieved four matches, three wins and one tie in this season's Champions League group stage. It is only one step away from qualifying for the top sixteen. It's a great time!

Seeing that the team is in sight, the Fiorentina fans are naturally extremely satisfied.Although Fiorentina suffered a surprise draw in Amsterdam, which dashed the Viola's hopes of advancing to the Champions League rematch with a clean record, Fiorentina's progress in Group B is still enough to keep their supporters happy.

In contrast, Ajax, who had one win, one draw and two losses in the penalty area in the first four rounds of the group stage, was not in such a good mood.Since the main rival Real Sociedad defeated Dynamo Kiev on another field, they are temporarily ranked third in the group and must strive for victory in the next two games in order to keep their chances of advancing to the top [-]. .

If Ajax's poor performance in the last two Champions League group matches caused them to go home after the group stage, it would undoubtedly be an extremely fatal blow to this Eredivisie giant!

You know, if Ajax fails to reach the Champions League knockout round, then the economic loss alone is an astronomical figure that is enough to make Ajax executives distressed, not to mention the possible consequences of this result. The negative impact on the prestige of Ajax club.After all, although Ajax is still the well-deserved No. [-] club in the Netherlands, clubs such as PSV Eindhoven and Feyenoord, which are slightly inferior to Ajax in terms of background, are now developing fiercely. , if you are not careful, you may be overtaken by the opponent, and you will fall behind in the increasingly brutal competition.

Therefore, in the face of such a critical situation and the possibility of losing a large amount of financial revenue, the Ajax executives who were not very concerned about the infighting between Van der Vaart and Ibrahimovic finally cheered up and began to rectify In the locker room environment, try to re-twist these players into a single rope, and get another place in the top sixteen of the Champions League!

After all, Ajax's book strength is still quite strong anyway.If they can settle these contradictions within the team as soon as possible and devote themselves to the game, then it is still possible to overtake Real Sociedad in the group standings.

As for the league, Ajax is not very worried.Although the discord between Ibrahimovic and van der Vaart has caused the team's strength to plummet, but with the overall strength beyond the domestic team, Ajax's current position in the Eredivisie is quite stable.Even if PSV Eindhoven and Feyenoord try their best to catch up, it will be difficult to pose a threat to them this season.

However, although the top management of the Ajax club had good ideas, when they really started to deal with these contradictions, they found that the degree of difficulty far exceeded their previous expectations.Neither Van der Vaart nor Ibrahimovic is willing to take the initiative to bow to the other party at this time, admitting that it is their fault.And this also made the two still fight each other in the game, Ajax's promotion path is still hopeless, and other players are also disappointed with the club, and they are secretly contacting their respective agents to seek help. Possibility of transfer.

Faced with this difficult situation, the Ajax management had no choice but to adopt the simplest and most direct solution, which was to sell one of Ibrahimovic and Van der Vaart, leaving the other as the core of the team, so as to completely solve the problem. The current problems in the team locker room.However, in this way, Ajax's overall strength is bound to be severely weakened, and it will no longer be able to compete for any heavyweight honors in the European arena.

Of course, even if Ajax really did this in the end, sending Ibrahimovic or van der Vaart away next summer, I am afraid it will be just a little more time, and the ending of being divided up by various powerful players is definitely not going to happen. changed.

Having finished talking about Ajax, let us now turn our attention back to Fiorentina.After the match against Ajax, Viola ushered in the ninth round of Serie A in the following weekend. This time, their opponent is Parma, who has been reduced from a powerful to a follower.

Due to the loss of Parmalat, the big queen and the biggest sponsor, Francesca's Parma did not make many moves in the summer transfer market, and was able to retain the main striker under the watchful eyes of a group of hungry wolves. At the same time, Adriano introduced Bonera and Morfeo at a low price, potential stocks that could not get a chance to play in the giant clubs, which is already the biggest success of Parma.

I have to say that Fiorentina's schedule this season is really quite cheating.From the fifth round of the league against Inter Milan to the current round of the match when they went to the Tardini Stadium to challenge Parma, the opponents of the Viola for five consecutive games were all teams that were capable of causing them trouble. With the Champions League and national team competitions, Fiorentina may lose a lot of points if they are not careful, thus losing the top position in the standings and losing the initiative in the league battlefield.

In fact, if it weren't for the fact that Inter Milan and Juventus, the two powerful rivals, have experienced a serious decline in their performance or suffered from injuries this season, Fiorentina, who is fighting on two fronts, may really be able to compete in the five rounds of the league. I have suffered several defeats in China.

Although there were complaints about the tough schedule arranged by the Football Association, Florence did not express these complaints.Because they knew very well in their hearts that the reason why the Italian Football Association arranged the schedule in this way was to create obstacles to Fiorentina's way to defend the title as much as possible. Viola always announced the championship a few rounds in advance, so that the ownership of the league championship was lost early. suspense.

To be honest, the Italian Football Association has done quite kindly in this regard.At least they were only embarrassing Fiorentina on the schedule, and did not let the referee implement double standards in the scale of whistleblowing, or even deliberately make a judgment that is not conducive to Fiorentina during the game.If it was replaced by Stern's overshadowed NBA, or the extremely lack-minded FA, and the previous UEFA in charge of Michel Platini, then Florence might really be killed by these tricks. Woolen cloth.

As for specific examples in this regard, you can look at the sixth game between the Lakers and Kings in the NBA Western Conference Finals in the 01-02 season, Chelsea before Mourinho left this season, and the infamous Stamford Bridge tragedy.

Of course, then again, if the Italian Football Association really dared to let the referee whistle the Fiorentina game like this, then Zhuang Mingge would definitely not sit idly by.At that time, it is really hard to say which side will suffer the disadvantage~