Chapter 289 The Eve of the Semifinals
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After eliminating AC Milan in the Italian Cup, Fiorentina successfully entered the final of the Italian Cup this season. Their opponent in the final was Atlanta - compared to the few opponents that Fiorentina encountered on the road to the final, Atlanta is not the same order of magnitude at all.
Zhuang Mingge doesn't think that a player like Fiorentina will lose to a small team like Atlanta.
In this case, including the league that is almost certain to win, as long as Fiorentina can perform normally, it can basically ensure that it will win two championship trophys at the end of the season!
Then, the focus of Florence's work next is the European Champions League semi-finals a week later!
However, before the European Champions League, Purple Lily must first solve some problems in the league.
On April 14, in the 30th round of the Serie A, Fiorentina went to challenge Udinese away.
Since it was the first round of the Champions League match with Monaco three days later, in order to save the physical strength of the main players and to prevent the players from having an extremely scam like a ceasefire due to injury before the game, Ranieri sent a large number of substitutes in this game. Barty, Effenberg, Ferrara and other absolute main players were placed on the bench by the tumbler.
Faced with this club that has been played against three times this season, even the substitutes of Fiorentina are obviously very familiar with this opponent. Vieri took the lead in using a corner kick opportunity to head the ball in the fifteenth minute, winning the away team first.
Although he was at a disadvantage when he was behind in the score at the beginning of the game, the home team obviously would not surrender easily. Ten minutes later, German center Bierkhov, the number one attacker in Udinese, helped Udinese equalize the score in the same way, and the score on the field became one-to-one.
However, the tenacious resistance of Udinese players also aroused Fiorentina's fighting spirit. The Fiorentine players who are looking forward to the Serie A two-game winning streak will certainly hope to lock in the championship trophy early and help the team continue to move towards the seemingly out of reach of the triple crown!
Faced with the tide of Florence's attack, Udinese, who was a soldier and widowed, could not stand it anymore.
In the 62nd minute, Fortunato broke through to the bottom line on the left and then made a low cross. Philip Inzaggi stretched out his right foot to stab the flying ball into Udinese's goal, two-to-one!
Inzagi's goal seemed to completely destroy the will of Udinese players to resist. In the next half hour, the home team was defeated by Fiorentina as if they had collectively lost their souls. If Udinese's goalkeeper had not been high and low in this game, Zacheroni's team might have suffered a crushing defeat.
It is not surprising that this phenomenon will occur. After all, the season has reached this point, and the physical reserves of the players of various clubs have actually been consumed, and most of them are persisting with one breath. Teams like Udinese with a thin lineup will naturally not be able to compete with Florence, which has the advantage after venting this breath.
In the end, Fiorentina won Udinese 2-1 at the Friuli Stadium and took a solid step towards the throne of the league championship!
Due to Fiorentina's victory, AC Milan tried his best to win Napoli in this round and the three-pointers won was not a little bit narrowing the gap between the two teams. With four rounds left in the league, the Ross and Blacks still fell behind the leader Fiorentina in the standings for seven points. In other words, as long as Fiorentina wins two more games in the league, the Serie A championship this season will be defeated by Fei Leng Cui!
Not to mention the Milanese chasing the unattainable score difference in despair, after Fiorentina ended the game with Udinese, the entire team immediately flew to Monaco, a small country in southern France, to make final preparations for the first round three days later.
Monaco in this period of history should have fallen into a trough after Wenger resigned, but due to Zhuang Mingge's appearance and giving Wenger a large gold finger, the club located on the north coast of the Mediterranean has a large number of talented players.
Zidane, Trezeguet, Henry, Marklele, Candela, Ismail... A series of shining names not only helped Wenger consolidate his coaching position, but also led Monaco to another peak in club history. Not only did he win the Ligue 1 championship for two consecutive years (Monaco had already locked the league championship of this season several rounds in advance before the semi-finals), but also completed three consecutive French Cup championships, making this club, which was originally not very important in the French football territory, faintly taking over the banner of French Ligue 1 overlord left by Marseille, who was ordered to be relegated.
However, Zhuang Mingge is not worried that Fiorentina will encounter too many obstacles. After all, there is still a big gap between the current Monaco and Dortmund that Fiorentina encountered in the quarter-final knockout team.
Perhaps because Zhuang Mingge and Wenger had a good personal relationship, they did not suffer any difficulties when they came to Florence in Monaco. Whether they were adapting to the venue or borrowing the training ground, everything seemed unimpeded under the care of Wenger, an insider.
Of course, when Fiorentine players were training, there were many Monaco coaches and scouts standing around the training ground to inquire about information...
Due to some trivial matters, Zhuang Mingge arrived in Monaco one day later than the team. As soon as he got off the plane, he was pulled into a Monaco club's special car by Wenger, who had been waiting there.
Zhuang Mingge, sitting in the car, watched Wenger pour red wine for himself and give him local Monaco products in this extended Lincoln. This feeling... How could he be so embarrassing?
"Arsena, is there anything you need to do to me? You're so frowning." There must be something wrong with something. Zhuang Mingge looked at Wenger, who was very attentive there with a look of vigilance, and said, "We have known each other for so many years. If you have anything to say, don't mess with these stupid things."
"Ah haha, you can see it." Wenger smiled at Zhuang Mingge with a little embarrassedly. After all, what he planned to ask him for advice today was really hard to say, otherwise he wouldn't have done these things, "Then I'll tell the truth about Antonio."
"Hurry up and say, I'll go to see the team's training after you finish."
"Well, I want to ask, is there any reasonable way to avoid taxes?" After a long time of grinding, Wenger finally told the question hidden in his heart.
Chapter completed!