The Era of Emerald

After the group stage, Leverkusen's players went home, and together with Fiorentina, it was La Liga giants Real Madrid who advanced to the Champions League rematch.

With this precious victory against Liverpool and the "help" of Fiorentina on another field, Real Madrid beat Bayer Leverku with seven points with six games, two wins, two draws and two losses. Sen, was lucky enough to escape from this death group.

The next day, the pro-Real Madrid Spanish media made comments one after another, highly praising Fiorentina's spirit of fair play, which made Capello, who was preparing for the next game in the office, smile wryly: These Spaniards are really self-made. Passionate, from the beginning I didn't intend to let Real Madrid go. It's just that these players who are suitable for the game are just suitable for this tactic, and Leverkusen itself is not up to date, which caused this result.

No matter what Capello thinks, the originally bad relationship between Real Madrid and Fiorentina has indeed changed considerably because of this game. The easing of this relationship will bring Fiorentina a lot of benefits in the future, but now everyone Still can't see it.

After the Champions League match, Capello gave the players a short day off so that they could have a little breathing time to recover their exhausted energy, and then he took the team to the small town of Vichen in northern Italy non-stop. inspect.

Thanks to the secret support of Zhuang Mingge, a traveler, Vicenza's bench depth and overall strength have been greatly strengthened compared to the same period in history.Coupled with the resourceful "Little Zhuge" Guidolin, Vicenza this season has not been as it has been in history, because the team's performance in the league has declined sharply due to the distraction of the European war.

On December 12th, Fiorentina ushered in the No.14 round of Serie A.

Although Vicenza's physical recovery is not very optimistic because they have just played the European Cup Winners' Cup, but compared with Florence, which was on an expedition to Japan, Vicenza's players still have a certain advantage in terms of physical fitness. This is something Guidolin can take advantage of.

After the game started, Fiorentina, who won the kick-off, took the lead in attacking.Due to the team's physical troubles and the advice from the expert group of the physiotherapy center, Capello could not send out the strongest lineup in his hands.In addition, the opponent in this game is still a relatively weak Vicenza. If they play a defensive counterattack, they may be directly dragged into a draw by Guidolin's tricks.Therefore, Capello decided to let the players attack immediately after the start of the game, and strive to establish enough leads when their physical fitness is still sufficient.

Capello's strategy of attacking at the opening received good results. Batistuta's powerful volley in the No.11 minute of the game led the visiting team to take the lead, and also allowed Fiorentina to lead the home team with a score of [-]-[-] to end the first half game.

However, after the start of the second half, as time went by, Fiorentina had to gradually slow down the rhythm of the attack, because their physical fitness was no longer enough to support an attack of this intensity. West is gasping for breath because of this consecutive week of double matches in the game, which is enough to show how bad the physical condition of the Fiorentina players is at this time.

This negative change in Florence gave Vicenza a chance to counterattack. After realizing that the opponent's physical fitness had begun to call the police, under the command of Pirlo, the home team's offense gradually improved. The continuous offensive allowed Florence, which had reached its limit, to Players can only parry, but have no power to fight back.

If it weren't for Toldo's rampage again in this game, he would have saved several of Vicenza's must-have goals like a god, such as Ambrosini and Ballack's two feet going straight to the goal in the second half. Long-range shots, Toni's header from close at hand in the second minute of No.60, and Pirlo's free kick in the dead corner in stoppage time, I am afraid that the number of goals conceded by Fiorentina in the second half will never be It's just a mere one.

In the end, the exhausted Fiorentina drew with Vicenza in the away game, ending the team's ten-game winning streak since the start of this season's Serie A.However, although they only got one draw, Fiorentina still leads the standings with 31 points. Juventus (22 points) and Inter Milan (27 points), which are struggling to catch up behind them, have a certain gap with Viola .What's more, Fiorentina still has one game less, so Fiorentina still has a big advantage on the road to the Serie A championship.

After being tied by Vicenza in the away game, Fiorentina ushered in the No. 11 Serie A make-up match against Parma three days later.

Back at the Frankie Stadium, the physical condition of the Fiorentina players who got three days of respite has improved significantly. Facing the menacing Parma under the leadership of Ancelotti, the veteran Capello once again pointed out that the young Fatty An's lack of coaching ability.

A few days before the start of the game, Capello first used the media to launch a wave of psychological warfare, making Ancelotti mistakenly believe that the physical condition of the Fiorentina players has not improved, and plans to rely on defense at home to get a point.

Misjudgment caused Ancelotti, who had always wanted to complete revenge in front of Capello, to give up the previous style of play that attached great importance to defense when he was arranging troops, and instead took a risk to adopt offensive tactics-in Anche From Lottie's point of view, since Fiorentina intends to stick to the defense, if they also focus on defense on their side, it is undoubtedly in the hands of Capello.

Goalkeeper Buffon, the four defenders are Benarivo, Cannavaro, San Sini and Thuram. Ancelotti only arranged Dino Baggio as a player in the midfielder position this time. The two full-backs are Fiore and Zemaria. The Croatian Stanic is the attacking midfielder. The front line is still the unshakable combination of Crespo and Chiesa.

Ancelotti believes that with the offensive power of this lineup, even in an away game, it will not be a problem to win the depleted Fiorentina.

However, Ancelotti, who was full of confidence, was dumbfounded after seeing Fiorentina's starting lineup: Toldo, Carlos, Nesta, Stam, Zambrotta, Redondo, Effen Borg, Rui Costa, Ze Roberto, Ronaldo, Vieri... Capello did not defend at home as he said in the interview, but also played the card of a single midfielder, Also played offensive tactics!

Ancelotti, who knew he had been duped, had no choice but to hold an emergency combat meeting to let the players on his side calm down first, and at the same time made the latest request.

"Since Capello wants to attack so much, then we have to let him understand that our Parma's offensive power is far stronger than his!" In the visiting team's dressing room at the Frankie Stadium, Ancelotti knocked on the back The small blackboard said impassionedly, "In the face of absolute strength, all conspiracies and tricks are just paper tigers!"

As for how many Parma players are convinced by Ancelotti's words, it is unknown. After all, almost all Parma players know this time, and their head coach was put together by Fiorentina coach Capello.

The battle between Florence and Parma is about to be staged.