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After entering 2004, Fiorentina, who finally got rid of the deadly one-week double-game schedule, won consecutive victories on the Serie A and the Italian Cup, and achieved a seven-game winning streak. Such results immediately attracted the attention of all European giants after being exaggerated and promoted by the media!

It's no wonder that Fiorentina is the most champion club in Europe in the past decade, the two most powerful trophys, Serie A champion and Big Ear Cup, can bring one of them back almost every year. In this case, it would be a hell of these clubs that are also determined to win the championship if they don't pay attention to the trends and news of Florence.

Of course, Fiorentina's seven-game winning streak depends on its top strength, but it is inseparable from the schedule of Purple Lily during this period. You should know that Fiorentina's game frequency in January and February is mostly one-week matches. Occasionally, when encountering double matches in a week, their opponents are mostly weak teams like Brescia and Ancona. This is completely different from Fiorentina's situation before the winter break. During that period, Fiorentina not only had to face the schedule of double matches for a week, but also had strong opponents like AC Milan, Juventus, and Parma. Therefore, Fiorentina won seven consecutive victories after the arrival of the New Year, which is not too unexpected. Even in these games, Heinquez used rotation tactics a lot to increase the playing time of young players.

Some people may think that Ribery and Ronaldo and others do not get enough time to exercise under the suppression of Vincent and others, and their abilities may not be better than those of the same period in history. When facing experienced old frymen, they may become invisible people in the game, thus dragging the team's back. But don't forget that if Ribery and Ronaldo and others are invisible on the court, they will definitely not achieve such an effect by relying so-called game experience alone. The ability of the players themselves is the most critical.

To give the simplest example, 35-year-old Maldini is still one of the top defenders in the world in this world, and can lead AC Milan to win the League Cup championship. If it were 35-year-old Park Ji-sung or Hong Mingfu, let alone let them deal with Ribery and Ronaldo who are far from reaching the peak of their careers, even defending Baggio or Toti of the same age, they would be killed as a scumbag.

Therefore, under such a schedule, it is not surprising that Heinquez led Fiorentina to win seven consecutive victories. Of course, if Purple Lily lost points that should not have been lost during this period and did not set a sufficient distance from the pursuers behind her, then when the Champions League game started again at the end of February, Fiorentina would face a very passive situation.

This is true. Although Fiorentina won consecutive victories during this period, they failed to widen the gap between AC Milan, which ranks second in the standings. The Reds and Blacks still stared behind Purple Lily by six points, looking for opportunities to narrow the gap between them and the leader.

In this case, Heinquez must not be careless at all. Otherwise, Fiorentina will likely repeat the mistakes of the 2001-02 season.

As the saying goes, if the water is full, the moon is full, the loss will be lost. After achieving a spectacular seven-game winning streak, Fiorentina finally got the team's first defeat after entering 2004: In the semi-finals of the Italian Cup held on February 12, Fiorentina, who was away from the Olympic Stadium in Rome, lost one-to-three with nearly 70,000 Lazio fans on the scene, and was eliminated by the Blue Eagles led by young coach Robert Mancini!

Since Abramovich announced his acquisition of Lazio last summer and invested huge sums of money in the former tyrant on the brink of bankruptcy, making it the richest club in Europe, Mancini has had an in-depth discussion with Begiristan and Abu on Lazio's future development plan.

After all, the examples of Morati's investment but nothing was still vivid in my mind. Mancini does not want his new boss to follow Morati's footsteps because of his quick success. They also hope to lay a solid foundation first, let the players develop enough tacit understanding and fully integrate into the team's tactical system, and then launch an attack on the Serie A and Champions League champions!

Abu also humbly listened to the suggestions of Mancini and Begiristan and agreed to give them more time to transform and upgrade the team, rather than asking them to achieve results immediately.

The reason why Abraham made a completely different decision from when he joined Chelsea in his previous life was mainly because there was a big gap in the competition for championships in the current Serie A and the Premier League at that time. Abraham knew that if Lazio wanted to dominate the Serie A, he had to overcome the four difficulties of the Northern Three and Fiorentina. This challenge was a bit too difficult for the Blue Eagles, who had not yet recovered. In contrast, the suggestions of Mancini and Begiristan were obviously more reasonable and operational.

As for why Abraham proposed the league championship after taking over Chelsea in his previous life, it was because the Premier League was a duo between Manchester United and Arsenal at that time, and Liverpool, the former English football overlord, was just a soy sauce party. Under such circumstances, the rising Chelsea has a lot of hope to win the Premier League championship.

Facing Lazio, who had all the main players, Fiorentina, who sent a large number of substitutes in this game, was decisively tragic. Even the main goalkeeper Buffon was hidden by Heinx, these players on the Fiorentina field did not have enough confidence to play a defensive counterattack.

A good goalkeeper can stand half a team, this sentence is not just a saying.

However, although Lazio ended the winning streak, Fiorentina did not suffer much damage. Because in their eyes, the Copa Italy is just a useless event, and its greatest value lies in training young players rather than competing for the final championship. Therefore, if Fiorentina finally won the championship trophy, it would be a celebration, but if it was eliminated in the middle, there would be no regrets.

What's more, even fools can see that Fiorentina deliberately lets the water out of the Italian Cup semi-finals, so naturally no one will say anything more about this loss.
Chapter completed!