Chapter 138 The Battle of Tianwang Mountain (1)
Thank you for the reward of Luanyu?
On April 23, in the 28th round of Serie A, Fiorentina played away against Sampdoria.
For fans who have experienced Sampdoria's golden age, the 94-95 season was a complete nightmare for Sampdoria.
Before this game, Sampdoria only won one victory in the last five league rounds. In these five league rounds, the Aquarium Army's record was one win, one draw and three losses, and only scored four points. What's more, due to the misconduct of the new boss Mantovani Jr., the former iron-clad Sampdoria no longer exists. Gulit and Evani, the two main players last season, announced in advance that they would leave the team in the summer. Lombardo and Mancini and other core players were also watching, and the entire Sampdoria became a mess.
Sampdoria is now distorted. Because Mantovani is keen on transfer operations, Sampdorian players lack security and involuntarily began to calculate their way out for next season. In this case, if Sampdoria can still play well, that would be a hell...
Originally, Zhuang Mingge was still very interested in the contest with Sampdoria, but when he saw the expressions of the Sampdoria players on the court, he lost interest in the game.
With the 28th round of the league, Sampdoria can be said to be relegated without worries. Of course, with the gap in points between them and the teams ahead, they cannot compete for the European quota for next season. In this state of having no desire for results and having to worry about their jobs, Sampdorian players have only a few of them and some fighting spirit. Most players either have bored expressions or indifferent expressions. Such a team will not be exciting to defeat them.
The result of the competition was not beyond Zhuang Mingge's expectations.
With a "carrot" like the league champion, the fighting spirited Fiorentina defeated the unfighted Sampdoria three goals at the Ferraris Stadium.
At the beginning of the game, with the encouragement of the fans, the Aquarium Legion made a relatively tenacious resistance, but when the game reached the 20th minute, Effenberg, who had returned from injury, received a return pass from Batistuta and helped Fiorentina take the lead with a long shot from 25 meters away, Sampdoria's players completely lost their fighting spirit.
Then in the 30th minute, Fiorentina's captain Batistuta also scored a goal: Djokaf made a low cross from the left, and Bati, who was standing at the front of the penalty area, kept volleying directly, scoring his 25th league goal this season.
In the second half, Montera, who came on the bench, scored a goal by relying on a chance to fail in the offside in Samper's defense line, locking the score to 3-0. In fact, at the beginning of the second half, Sampdoria had already given up on the game. Their head coach Eriksson stood helplessly on the sidelines without making any adjustments.
Besides, even if he wants to adjust, what can he adjust? Faced with these players who have no fighting spirit, even if the Swedes have countless ideas, there is no room for them to play.
When the game ended, the whole of Fiorentina fell into a carnival - of course, it wouldn't be so exciting if they just beat Sampdoria, but another good news was enough to make the fans of Purple Lily happy: Juventus lost again!
That's right, you read that right. The old woman, who has always been steady, once again capsized in the 28th round of Serie A. They lost to Padua with one goal at home!
In fact, this cannot be blamed for the carelessness of Juventus players. Who made Juventus play a League Cup game in the middle of the week, resulting in Juventus players' physical fitness and Lippi's tactical idea of emphasizing running cannot be used...
So, before the direct dialogue between Fiorentina and Juventus arrived, Zi Lily successfully took a three-point lead in the standings!
Next is the battle with Juventus on April 30.
If you win, then Fiorentina can get a huge advantage of six points with five rounds left in the league; if you lose, then Fiorentina will tie the points by Juventus while also ranking second due to the disadvantage of mutual performance with Juventus (the ranking method of Serie A, when the points are the same, first look at the mutual record, and then look at the goal difference).
So, in the next league, Fiorentina must not lose! After all, we cannot always pin our hopes on the old woman's gutter to capsize...
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For Juventus, this season is undoubtedly quite successful.
This is Lippi's first season in Juventus, and in this first year, he led Juventus to double-kill AC Milan in the league. When it was about to enter May, Juventus, who fought on the third line, had the chance to win the championship on three battlefields: in the Italian Cup and the UEFA Cup, they reached the finals. Coincidence, the opponents in these two finals were Parma; in the league, they were only three points behind Fiorentina, who was the top Fiorentina, and in the next round, they would have the last direct dialogue with their opponents away from home.
Lippi and Juventus will naturally not give up easily for the league championship, not only because Juventus has not tasted the taste of a league championship for nine years, but also including the fact that only league champions and defending champions are eligible to participate in the Champions League next season - compared with the Winners Cup and the UEFA Cup, the European Champions League is of course more attractive. Moreover, if you can participate in the Champions League, Juventus can also get a considerable broadcast fee next season. The Winners Cup and the League Cup are completely incomparable to this point...
So, in the next week, Lippi designed a lot of tactics against Fiorentina and made Juventus players remember as much as possible. At this time, Ranieri was also doing the same job as Lippi.
"Remember it all! The opponent (Juventus) has excellent running and interception skills, so I ask you to do a quicker shot in the game than usual! Don't give Juventus the chance to interrupt our offensive rhythm!" As the head coach of Fiorentina, Ranieli was under a lot of pressure at this time. He learned from some channels that Zhuang Mingge was very dissatisfied with his tactical arrangement in certain games. In order to save his job, he must win this game against Juventus.
After all, even Trapatoni, who has made great contributions, was fired by Juventus because he did not win the league championship. Who knows if he will follow in his footsteps...
Chapter completed!