The Era of Emerald

After returning from Milan, Fiorentina ushered in the fourth round of Serie A. They played against the newly promoted Empoli at home.

Due to the intervention of Zhuang Mingge, Empoli lost the meritorious coach Spalletti who led them from League One to Serie A in advance, forcing Empoli to change the team's head coach this summer.

It was precisely because of this unexpected change that the newly promoted polo team lost all the past three league rounds.And in these three games, Empoli only scored two goals in total, but conceded as many as six goals-quite in line with their true strength.

In this game, Capello made some adjustments to the starting lineup. Redondo, Nesta, Toldo and Davis and many other main players got the opportunity to take turns, and the formation has also undergone certain changes. .

De Sanctis got the opportunity to start with his outstanding performance in training. This is the first time he has played for the first team since joining Fiorentina; Tamm and Angloma entered the starting lineup; in the midfield, Zanetti and Tomasi dedicated defense, Rui Costa served as the playmaker, and Ze Roberto assisted; forward line, Batissi Tuta and Inzaghi got the chance to start.

Although many players in this starting lineup are serving as substitutes in the first team, in terms of overall strength, Fiorentina still stabilizes their opponents.

Amidst the cheers of 30 Fiorentina fans at the Frankie Stadium, the players showed their outstanding form. First, Rui Costa took advantage of a set kick in the first half to open the scoring for the home team; then Barcelona Tistuta received Zambrotta's right cross in the No.[-] second minute and blasted the ball into Empoli's goal, rewriting the score to [-]-[-]!

Cruz, who replaced Batistuta in the No.703 minute of the second half, performed even more amazingly. The Argentine center scored three consecutive cities with head kicks in less than 10 minutes, staged his best performance in Serie A. First hat trick!

In the end, Fiorentina beat Empoli [-]-[-] at home and won their fourth victory since the start of the league. In the standings, they won all four games, scored [-] goals and lost four goals and accumulated [-] points. Parma chased after Fiorentina with three wins, one draw and ten points.

Three days later, Florence ushered in the first round of the Coppa Italia. Due to the relationship between the World Cup in France next year, the Italian Football Association has made some adjustments to the schedule of the Coppa Italia and Serie A, trying to make these two events at the end of May next year. Before it was all over.

In this way, the intensity of the game that Fiorentina will face has naturally increased a lot, which is a big test for the physical fitness of the players and Capello's rotation ability.

Fiorentina's opponent in the first round of the Coppa Italia is the Torino team. This team, which was relegated a year ago, failed to break out of the second division last season. The lack of financial resources made them unable to introduce strong support. The main players The loss of Turin made Turin's strength go from bad to worse.

On the surface, it seems that Fiorentina has no problem at all in taking down Turin's declining team.

However, when the game started on October [-]st, the tenacious efforts of the Turin players risked capsizing Fiorentina's gutter.

Amidst the shouts of more than 3 Turin fans in the stands of the Alpi Stadium, the head coach of the Turin team resorted to the bottom-of-the-box tactic, which is the legendary killer that has caused headaches for all giants-the iron barrel array .Throughout the game, the Turin players worked together to stop Fiorentina's offensive again and again with this ugliest defensive tactic.

Florence scored as many as 31 shots in this game, with an average of one shot in less than 3 minutes.However, when the home team players resorted to the tactic of "putting a bus at the door", Fiorentina, who was playing away, only scored four goals in the penalty area of ​​the Turin team!

If it hadn't been for Batistuta's unreasonable free kick to open the gate of the Turin team in the stoppage time of the game, then the game would probably be dragged to overtime by the Turin people The match was even a brutal penalty shootout, which is not what Florence wants to see.

Therefore, when Batty scored this free kick at the last moment, the Argentine god of war roared and made a machine-gun sweep in the corner area, celebrating the goal crazily!

In this way, Fiorentina beat Turin [-]-[-] and qualified for the next round of the Coppa Italia (due to the professional league's suggestion, the first round of the Coppa Italia is determined by a single game).

So far, counting from the victory over Vicenza in the Italian Super Cup, Fiorentina has achieved a brilliant record of eight victories in all competitions it has participated in this season, including many giant teams such as Inter Milan and Barcelona.

In the following weekend, Fiorentina will take advantage of their winning streak to face one of their strongest opponents in Serie A, Juventus led by Silver Fox Lippi.

This summer, Juventus's transfer moves can be said to be thunderous and rainy. After spending tens of millions of dollars to sign Uruguayan striker Otero, they spent a few small sums of money to buy one of Roma's offensive tridents. There are two players, Fonseca and Benfica left back Manuel Dimas.

In terms of transfers, Moggi sold Boksic, who performed poorly last season, and the Croatian center returned to Lazio's embrace after a year.It's just that this time it wasn't the Zeman he was familiar with, but the Swede Eriksson who paid more attention to the balance of offense and defense.

With a huge check in his arms, he kept clamoring to strengthen the team, but in the end he failed to sign a few strong players.Therefore, Mo Laohu has become the object of many people's private jokes. Some media even ridiculed Juventus, saying that the Bianconeri's biggest signing this summer is Antonio Conte who returned from injury...

In Zhuang Mingge's view, Moji's actions are understandable.Although Mo Laohu was indeed a little stingy in the transfer market, this was mainly due to his failure to change his views in time which led to such a result.While the Serie A teams are looking for the possibility to strengthen the team, Moggi, who has always believed in the concept of balance of payments, is lost in the increasingly crazy transfer waves.

Spending a huge sum of 1000 million US dollars to sign Otero has already made Moggi quite heartbroken. If the Uruguayan shooter had not performed against the sky against Fiorentina last season, he would not have paid out all at once if he killed Moggi. so much money.

Buying an Otero has to be so preoccupied, so it is understandable that Inzaghi and Djorkaeff, who were favored by Mo Laohu from the beginning, eventually switched to others-in this era of soaring transfer fees In the era, Moggi's thinking has not kept up with the rhythm of the times, and he is still using the eyes of the past to estimate the price-performance ratio of the players. Naturally, it is inevitable to suffer losses.

Some people may say that Fiorentina's transfer actions are not big.But don't forget that Fiorentina, which has won multiple heavyweight championships in a row, is already a fairly mature team. What Fiorentina needs to do is to make minor repairs to the original championship lineup when the main force has not shown signs of aging. Instead of wantonly signings to destroy the good chemical reaction between the players.

In this way, Fiorentina and Juventus, two teams that did not make much action this summer, launched their first contest of the season at the Alpi Stadium on October [-]th.

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