The Era of Emerald

That's enough for Evans' situation, now let's turn our attention back from Liverpool to Fiorentina.

After returning to Italy, Fiorentina ushered in a Coppa Italia match, which was different from the previous single-elimination round in the first round. Starting from this round, the subsequent Coppa Italia matches will adopt a home and away two-round match system.

This time, Fiorentina's opponent in the Coppa Italia is the aquamarine team Sampdoria, which changes every year.

On October 26, the first round of the contest between the two teams took place as scheduled at Sampdoria's home stadium, Ferraris Stadium.

This summer, affected by factors such as Mantovani's continued misconduct in the transfer market and the team's poor record, Sampdoria lost the old captain and the team's spiritual leader Robert Mann in the past summer. After Chini, coach Eriksson and French iron back Kalumbu quarreled with the club for several months to transfer to Real Madrid, they finally landed on the Iberian Peninsula with a worth of 800 million US dollars.

In order to make up for the negative impact of these people leaving the team, Mantovani invited the meritorious coach Menotti, who led the Pampas Eagles to win the World Cup for the first time, and introduced the golden bomber Klinsmann from Bayern Munich. Montella partner striker.In addition, Mantovani also spent a lot of money to buy Angel Morales from the Argentine Independence Team according to Menotti's suggestion. The Argentine coach believes that this young midfielder can become the second Maradona.

For Fiorentina, affected by the team's recent continuous battles, Capello continued to carry out a substantial rotation of the team's starting lineup in this game to maintain the competitive state of the players, and at the same time minimize their injuries due to fatigue probability.

Therefore, in this game, according to the proposal provided by the physical therapy center, Capello sent a starting lineup with a mix of main players and substitutes: goalkeeper De Sanctis, four defenders are Fortunato, Stam, Nei Sta and Angloma; In midfield, Rui Costa became Fiorentina's playmaker in this game, while Brazilian Ze Roberto helped the Portuguese attract the attention of the opponent's defenders so that Kos The tower can organize the attack more calmly.

The other two starting midfielders were given by Tomasi and Zanetti. The main task of these two young players is to take on the defensive task of the Fiorentina midfielder. After all, although Ze Roberto and Rui Costa The defensive enthusiasm is very high, but their defensive ability can also play a role in harassment. Therefore, Tomasi and Zanetti, who have a large defensive area and abundant physical fitness, are Capello's first choice.

On the forward line, Julio Cruz, who has not had a chance to play for a long time, made his debut. His striker partner is the alien Ronaldo.

After the start of the game, Sampdoria, who were playing at home, was at a disadvantage and was beaten violently by Fiorentina in their own half!

The attack line composed of Cruz, Ronaldo, Costa, Ze Roberto and others completely suppressed the Sampdoria players, and the wave after wave of attacks made Sampdoria's gate like a ship floating in huge waves. A lonely boat may capsize at any time!

It is not that Sampdoria, who is always passive, has tried counterattacks. With Veron, a passing master, and a first-class striker like Montella, it is entirely possible to seize a few opportunities to counterattack and score goals.

However, Sampdoria sadly encountered a De Sanctis who was in excellent condition.

Although this is only the second time that De Sanctis has started for Fiorentina, he did not show the slightest stage fright in the game, but instead showed an excellent competitive state: he first made a decisive attack in the No. Then in the No.201 minute, Veron's free kick that went straight to the dead corner of the goal was pushed out of the bottom line, and after Veron took a corner kick, he jumped high and directly used both hands The ball was picked off in mid-air, and the Sampdoria players who were going to score a goal came back without success... De Sanctis's wonderful performance ran through the entire game!

If it is God's will to encounter a De Sanctis who is in excellent form, then the group of weak teammates surrounding Veron and Montella is completely man-made.

Menotti's striker combination in this game is luxurious. The golden bomber Klinsmann, the three-time Serie A Golden Boot winner Signori, and the small plane Montella made their debut at the same time!

In terms of fame and book strength alone, the combination of these three is by no means inferior to other giants in Europe, and they were in very good shape last season: Klinsmann also scored [-] goals in the Bundesliga last season , Signori also scored [-] goals in Lazio, not to mention Montella, as the silver boot of Serie A last season, he has proved his ability.

No matter how you look at it, Sampdoria's striker combination is enough for any Serie A team's defense to drink a pot.However, in terms of how effective it has been so far this season, the trio is a good example of the idea that football is not about adding and subtracting.

Klinsmann and Signori have both encountered a long scoring drought this season, resulting in the seemingly powerful striker trident that can only be supported by Montella alone.

Morales, who was introduced as Maradona's successor, proved to be a high-priced parallel importer. Facing the iron-blooded defense of the Serie A defenders, the Argentine midfielder often disappeared from the field and disappeared for several 10 minutes.

The old captain Mancini who was in charge of the last pass and the midfielder Tieguan Kalumbu went away, and with such a group of weak teammates, no matter how good Montella and Veron are, they are hard to beat with two fists.

In the 16th minute of the game, Ze Roberto dribbled past Baleri who was defending him on the left and sent a cross. Cruz, who followed him in the middle, jumped directly to the top, and the ball changed the direction of flight and flew straight into it. Sampdoria's gate, one to zero!

No.307 minutes, Ze Roberto, after attracting Baleri's attention, passed the ball to Fortunato, who was plugged in on the edge, and the latter's cross again helped Kroos knock Samp Doria's gate, the score became two to zero!

No.60 In the second minute, Cruise broke through the goal guarded by Fabrizio Ferron with a header for the third time. Mannini's old age was exposed in front of Cruise's header bombing again and again!

He completed a hat-trick in his first start this season. Kroos was extremely excited. The Argentine center ran to the stands where the Fiorentina fans were, took off his jersey, waved it wildly, and enjoyed the Fiorentina fans. Cheers and curses from Samp fans.

In the end, with Cruz's hat-trick, Fiorentina took away a victory from Ferraris Stadium [-]-[-]!