The Era of Emerald

() After losing to Udinese in an away game, Fiorentina did not get a longer buffer time again. Three days later, they will fly to Bucharest, the capital of Romania, to participate in the fifth round of the Champions League group stage.

Bucharest Steaua Football Club was founded in 1947. The original name was Bucharest Army.Like many small country leagues, Steaua Bucharest, Rapid Bucharest and Dynamo Bucharest have divided up most of the honors in Romanian football and are known as the "Three Heroes of Romania".

For Steaua Bucharest, their peak moment was the 1985-86 season.In the European Champions Cup that year, the Romanian team went all the way. In the semi-finals, they eliminated the Belgian overlord Anderlecht team led by the legendary Belgian star Enzo Schiff in two rounds.In the final, they met the Spanish Barcelona team led by German superstar Schuster. After 120 minutes of fighting at the Pisjuan Stadium in Seville, Spain, the two sides still could not decide the winner and could only enter the cruel point. ball fight.In the penalty shoot-out, Barcelona was bravely saved four penalty kicks in a row by Steaua Bucharest goalkeeper Dukadam, while Steaua Bucharest was hit successively by Luktus and Balint. In the end, the Romanian overlord won [-]-[-]. Defeating Barcelona for the first time reached the top of Europe, and this is also the first time an Eastern European team has won the Champions League.

Subsequently, Star Bucharest joined forces with Dynamo Kyiv, which owns "Ukrainian Lightning" Blokhin, in the subsequent European Super Cup. In the game, the 20-year-old Haji dominated the game. Before the end of the first half, 1 Minutes Haji scored the only goal of the game, helping the team win the UEFA Super Cup, Steaua Bucharest reached the pinnacle of club history!

Although Star Bucharest failed to win any decent honors in the European arena in the following years, their strength should not be underestimated. A Champions League semi-final (87-88 season) and a Champions League final (88-89 season) are enough to prove at this point.

The drastic changes in Eastern Europe around 1990 naturally also affected Romania, which is also a socialist system. Under the effect of "shock therapy", Romania's economy completely collapsed, and the star team that lost its economic foundation naturally lost its former glory.

After losing the support of the national system and national finances, as the replica of the Romanian national team, Steaua Bucharest naturally and another "brother" Red Star Belgrade from the socialist camp suffered the same fate. Poached away, leaving only a pitiful check for the devastated star team.

Galka and Luktus, these are the only two players in the Steaua Bucharest team whose name Zhuang Mingge can still name, other well-known stars such as Haji, Popescu, Dumitrescu and others Has moved to a foreign club, which is why the former European powerhouse Star Bucharest was eliminated from the group early in this season's European Champions Cup after four games.

After obtaining the right to qualify for the group two rounds ahead of schedule, Ranieri has considerable room for maneuver in this game against Steaua Bucharest. With the lack of major generals in Florence's striker, he naturally does not need to send the main force to fight. The Romanians slammed.

After the defeat against Udinese, Ranieri has a deeper understanding of the characteristics of these players in the first team, so he also has more targeted when arranging the team's tactics. In the last game The probability of that kind of offensive chaos is also greatly reduced.

Therefore, Ranieri continued to send out a lineup mainly based on rotation and substitute players when arranging the starting list, but compared with the game against Udinese, this time he made a lot of changes, and Vieri came forward alone. Playing as a lone striker, Ranieri intends to use his impact to destroy Steaua Bucharest's defence.

In the midfield, Tinker sent three players, Tomasi, Kripa and Tacchinardi, to take charge of the defense of the midfield, and in order to maximize the characteristics of Vieri, Ranieri specially used the The winger position has been sealed for a long time. The two wingers are Djorkaf, who returned to the team early, and Zambrotta, who moved forward. The four defenders are Fortunato, Filicano, and Verjovo. De and Billindley.

After the start of the game, Tomasi, who was young and strong and could not die, followed Garka closely. According to Ranieri's arrangement before the game, his task was to give the Bucharest star's midfield engine a firm grip. Staring at death.

Luktus can be regarded as a good striker in Romania, but if placed in the whole of Europe, he can only be regarded as a second-rate striker. The striker who once played for Fiorentina only scored three goals in a season. League goals, this is enough to prove that he is not suitable for the Italian defensive system.And although Luketus's speed is fast, his ability to combine the ball is not good. The goals basically rely on direct attacks after receiving the pass from his teammates. Under Ranieri's key care, Luke Tush couldn't receive the pass from his teammates, so he naturally couldn't play at the top.

After blocking the opponent's offense, Florence's offensive began to slowly come out.

Although Vieri, who is only 22 years old, is not yet fully mature technically and physically, and his competitive state also fluctuates from time to time, but in the past two years with Batistuta, a top center, he has been influenced by his progress for more than two years. It is still obvious that facing Steaua Bucharest, which can only be regarded as a third-rate defense in Serie A, although Vieri cannot be said to have everything he wants, he still has the upper hand. Every time he touches the ball, it will cause the home team watching the game The fans exclaimed for a while.

In the end, with Vieri's header before the end of the first half, Fiorentina won a victory in Bucharest and remained unbeaten in five Champions League group matches with four wins and one draw.

While Fiorentina won the away game, Zhuang Minge also received another good news, that is, the Glasgow Rangers lost in this round of the group stage. They were defeated by the desperate Real Madrid. The White Knights played against Scotland in this game. The big men fought for a full nine and 10 minutes, and after paying the price of two injured departures and five yellow cards, they took away a precious victory at home from Rangers with a score of [-]-[-].

In this way, after the Rangers lost, Fiorentina, who scored [-] points in five games, led the Rangers ranked second in the group by four points, and secured the top spot in the group one round ahead of schedule!