In the second half, Capello replaced Dicanho and Ellanho, respectively, replaced Massarro and Donadoni who could no longer run, trying to find opportunities to equalize and overtake the score, but AC Milan's passive situation on the court still did not improve.

Taking advantage of the opportunity of Milan players to attack, the Fiorentina players organized defense calmly under the dispatch of midfielder Effenberg, and were also looking for opportunities to launch a counterattack.

The Milan players finally made a fatal mistake after being unable to conquer for a long time. In the 78th minute of the game, Albertini's pass was interrupted, and Effenberg passed directly to Djokav to launch a counterattack.

Djokaf immediately dribbled the ball on the left side of the court. When he rushed to the same line as the penalty area line, he decisively made a cross, and his cross also accurately found Batistuta who followed at high speed. Costakuta, who returned to defense, recklessly knocked Batistuta from behind in the penalty area. The referee decisively awarded the penalty and showed a red card to Costakuta who was fouled. Unfortunately, Batistuta used too much force in the penalty kick, and the ball was directly above the crossbar.

After Costakuta was sent off, AC Milan, which had one less player to fight, became more passive, while Milan head coach Capello replaced the main scorer Marco Simone with veteran Philip Galli, and announced in disguise that he gave up the game.

Ranieli also understood Capello's substitution when he saw it, and immediately replaced Batistuta and two other foreign players who had just returned to the team and had not fully recovered their physical fitness. The players from both sides also tacitly maintained the 1-0 score until the final whistle.

In the end, Fiorentina successfully scored three points at the San Siro Stadium.

Some people may ask why Capello gave up this game instead of trying to fight for it. There is actually a reason:

First of all, AC Milan had one less player on the court at that time, and trying to equalize the score would have to consume more physical strength. Most of the Milan players were national players of various national teams, and their physical reserves were much worse;

Secondly, unlike the knockout round, the league schedule is very long. For Capello, who gave up the championship and was dedicated to preparing for the team's reconstruction, the gains and losses of a game are nothing, not to mention that the Serie A has just reached halfway through and there are still seventeen rounds to end. The loss of these three points is within the range Capello can bear.

In another game at the same time, Juventus, who ranked first before the game, unexpectedly got three goals in Sardinia by the home team Cagliari, and ended in a miserable defeat.

In fact, this is no wonder Lippi. Before this game, the six main players in Juventus, including Viali and Baggio, were unable to play for various reasons. At this time, the so-called "wealthy" teams were restricted by foreign aid quotas, which made their first-team bench depth far less powerful than later generations.

In this way, Fiorentina successfully surpassed the Zebras in the standings with the help of the victory of this game and successfully returned to the top of the league with a slight advantage!

This result made Fiorentina fans ecstatic. Now the team they support has finally surpassed Juventus again and is one step closer to winning the league championship!

This result also made the older generation of Fiorentine fans recall the 1968-69 season when Fiorentine won the Serie A championship. Although there are still seventeen rounds to the end of the season, who dares to assert that Fiorentine cannot win the Serie A championship trophy at the end of the season?

At this time, Zhuang Mingge knew that the team must be kept calm, because he knew very well that the more in the second half of the season, the harder the game would be, because the team's goals set by this season have basically begun to be clear, and at this time they began to be blindly optimistic, obviously it was not necessary.

What's more, the ups and downs of these young players in Fiorentina have not been fundamentally solved. When Bati was absent, Inzagi and Montera's young forwards were unable to bring a stable goal to the team. If they were in good condition, they could see whoever they were killed. If they were in poor condition, they might be invisible on the court for 90 minutes.

Moreover, although Fiorentina won steadily in the last game, the mood of the Fiorentina players in the game was obviously not excited enough compared to the beginning of the season. What Florence encountered next was not the relegation team in the league, and the opponent would obviously fight his team to successfully relegate, so it is not time to laugh yet.

In response, Zhuang Mingge personally went to the head coach Ranieri to talk to him to pay attention to the atmosphere in the team and not let excessive optimism spread throughout the team.

The 18th round of Serie A game a week later made Zhuang Mingge begin to feel whether he has the "crow mouth" skill like the great god Bailey.

Cagliari, who defeated Juventus in the last game, continued to sit in Sardinia. They bit Fiorentina two in the game while playing at home. This team, which performed extremely poorly in the first half of the season, began to rebound in the second half of the season. You should know that they had already lost six consecutive rounds before defeating Juventus, and were even defeated five to zero by Sampdoria, who was in a storm. However, they were able to sweep Juventus three goals in the last round, which proved that under the pressure of relegation, they had already started to explode. In this game, Cagliari performed very well. They withstood Fiorentina's attack and relied on two goals in the second half of the local center Muzzi, who snatched three-pointers from Fiorentina's mouth, which also allowed Fiorentina to return to the second place in the league again...

After winning this game, although Cagliari still ranked 16th in the standings, he was only two points away from his 15th-ranked rival ** team.

The only thing that could make Fiorentina fans feel at ease with the hard-earned top spot is that their team no longer needs to have a headache for relegation like they did two years ago.

Zhuang Mingge, who saw the team lose this game, was also a little troubled at this time. Although when he set the season goal in July last year, he asked the team to try to win a European quota as much as possible, and the main goal was the Cup of Winners, he did not expect that after half a season, with Batistuta's continuous goals, Fiorentina was only two points behind the top, and no matter how he looked at it, he had the opportunity to win the league championship.

"Forget it, it's a step to take." Zhuang Mingge could only comfort himself like this. After all, several masters from the physiotherapy center were in charge. The chances of large-scale injuries in Fiorentina have been greatly reduced by himself. Whether he can win the league championship can only depend on God.

Just when Zhuang Mingge was having a headache for the team to get entangled with Juventus in the league, on Lazio's training ground, another thing Zhuang Mingge talked about finally happened:

"The young central defender's attack training ground! General Lazio was seriously injured for half a year!" This is the front page headline of "Roman Sports" the next day.

The thing is this: During a Lazio team training, the fledgling young central defender Alessandro Nesta fully demonstrated his newborn calf and not afraid of tigers - in a confrontation, he was so young that he used a flying tackle to break Gascoin, causing all the fibula and tibia of the Englishman to fracture.

Although Gascoin, who was lying on the stretcher, has always emphasized that "it was just an accident, not Nesta's fault", Gascoin was the number one star that was loved by Lazio fans at the time, so the Blue Eagles fans pointed their finger at Nesta, who was only 18 years old, and the young Italian central defender was under tremendous public pressure.

Although Gascoin, who was living in the hospital, took the initiative to clarify to Lazio fans that the foul was not Nesta's fault and called on the Blue Eagles fans to forgive the child, the results were very little. The young Nesta was excluded in the team because of this foul.

Nesta was excluded in Lazio?

It seems that you can use it for a while, perhaps bringing unexpected surprises to Florence.
Chapter completed!