The Era of Emerald

()ps1: "Addition and Completion Plan" Chapter 26

ps2: Today's third update... seems to have a little fever again, and I'm going to rest at night...

After narrowly advancing from the quarter-finals of the Cup Winners' Cup, Fiorentina will face defending champions Arsenal from the Premier League in the semi-finals.

Speaking of the Cup Winners Cup, there is a very interesting phenomenon, that is, no team has ever successfully defended the title.

In the previous Cup Winners Cup, the previous champions had appeared in the finals of the second year 5 times, but they failed to defend their title without exception.The most recent one is the Parma team from Serie A. They won the Cup Winners Cup in 1993 and reached the final again in the 93-94 season. A chance to defend the spell.

And this time, the one facing this curse is Arsenal, who just defeated the Portuguese powerhouse Porto and advanced to the semi-finals...

There is still a long time before the semi-finals of the Cup Winners Cup, let us turn the topic from the European arena to Italy:

The Fiorentina players who returned from Moscow did not have time to regret the unexpected loss away, because they will soon face the big boss Inter Milan at home.

After all, it was January this year when Moratti officially took over Inter Milan, and the summer transfer period before the season had passed. Although the big boss made some moves during the winter break, the haste did not fully reflect the new boss. all thoughts and intentions.For example, the cleaning of Ruben Sosa and Bergkamp, ​​because the season has just passed halfway, and the foreign aid quotas of each team are generally saturated, so naturally they will not have any thoughts on these two players.

Therefore, during the entire winter transfer period, Moratti only made some changes to the team's local player composition.

However, it is foreseeable that Boss Mo, who likes to burn money, and the Inter Milan he is in charge of, this season is probably just a role to accompany the prince to study, and next season will be when they really start to exert their strength.

In this game, Ranieri rotated some of the main players in order to prepare for the second round of the Cup Winners Cup. He was also mentally prepared to be widened by the top Juventus, but the final result was beyond his expectations. : Two to one, Fiorentina, who rotated half of the main lineup, defeated Inter Milan at home.

In fact, this is mainly because Inter Milan's defense has just undergone a major operation during the winter break. The newcomer Festa has not yet formed a tacit understanding with the team. The joint impact of the forwards and Festa's two misses led to the Nerazzurri's away defeat.

And Fiorentina's rival Juventus also won the Aquamarine team led by Mancini in an away game. Slowly it started to cool down.

So, after the 21st round of Serie A, Juventus still leads Fiorentina by two points.

And before Zhuang Mingge returned to Italy, Fiorentina, who ended the second round of the confrontation with Spartak, played another Serie A game.But this time, Ranieri, who has rotated many main players, did not have the good luck of the last time: Viola lost [-]-[-] to Zeman's Lazio team at the Olympic Stadium.

In this game, Lazio's players went crazy. Di Matteo, who replaced Gascoigne as the core of the midfield, showed his offensive talents to the fullest. A hat-trick of assists made him the best player of the game.

The Fiorentina goalkeeper Toldo was very sad and fished the ball out of the goal six times in 90 minutes. He has tried his best in this game, but the strikers of Lazio are really smooth today. The doors all went straight to dead ends, and this result made the young Toldo feel very helpless.

After returning to Florence, the Viola players who suffered a disastrous away game finally heard some good news, that is, Juventus, the leader of the league, also failed to gain a victory in this round of the league. "In the middle, it was tenaciously tied by Inter Milan.

Damn it, Lippi, did you do it on purpose?Why do you win when we win, and you have a draw when we lose?Could it be that he deliberately made fun of Florence?

This was Zhuang Mingge's first reaction after seeing the results of the second round of No.20, but then he realized that Juventus was also affected by the European war. After all, there are many strong teams participating in the UEFA Cup at this time However, it is normal for the current state of the Bianconeri fighting on the third front to experience ups and downs.

It would be great if Fiorentina could take advantage of the ups and downs of Juventus to achieve a lead in the standings, Zhuang Mingge thought.

But what Zhuang Minge didn't expect was that the first to collapse was not Fiorentina, Juventus and Parma in the championship group, nor the few teams that were in the quagmire of relegation, but the navy team-Sampdoria.

This season's Sampdoria, although they were tossed by Mantovani for a while before the start of the season, the strength of the team is beyond doubt.After 22 rounds of Serie A, ranking fifth in the league ranking should be considered a good result.

However, such a result obtained through the hard work of the players is so insignificant in the face of Mantovani's terrifying desire - because Sampdoria lost to No.20 in the three rounds. Parma, then, was beaten by Juventus in the Coppa Italia.

Two-game losing streak, cup exit, nothing in the season... a series of "blows" that should have been within the scope of his own tolerance, but made Mantovani, who had accumulated dissatisfaction for a long time, completely exploded.

At the press conference held after the game with Juventus, the little Mantovani, who lost his mind, even publicly threatened that if the team could not beat the opponent AC Milan in the next game, they would immediately release the host team. Coach Eriksson's duties, and at the end of the season, a large-scale change of the team!

As a result, the older generation of Sampdoria players, who were already dissatisfied with the new boss, felt that this time they were severely humiliated by this ignorant boss. In extreme anger, the collective volcano erupted: In the interview, Evani pointedly stated that he must leave next season; Gullit, who has just returned to Sampdoria this season, was put into injury because he publicly scolded Mantovani at the press conference The list; even the Swedish head coach Eriksson, who has always been gentle and tactful, quietly contacted the next player through his agent...

The reason why Mantovani Jr. dared to publicly say such rhetoric as "large-scale exchange of blood" is that he believed that Sampdoria's current wealth was enough for him to spend so much, but this was not the case.

Although Sampdoria's financial situation is indeed richer than most teams under the painstaking management of the previous owner for more than ten years, it does have the confidence to re-buy a group of capable players.However, Zhuang Minge knew that Mantovani, who was about the same age as him, made one of the stupidest mistakes because of his ignorance and arrogance: he should not treat the team as a toy without emotion, how he wanted to play Just play how you want, if you can't play well, blame the toy for not being strong...

The biggest failure lies not in the consecutive defeats, but in the ignorance of refusing to face failure and self-destructing the Great Wall.