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Chapter 684

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While Fiorentina won the first game, another group match in the Champions League Group B also sounded the whistle to the end of the game. At the home court, Athletic Bilbao tied 2-2 with the visiting Dutch giant Eindhoven in 90 minutes. Echeberia, Urses, Van Nistrui and Oye scored one goal in the game, allowing the two teams to finally end with a draw.

In this way, after only one round of the group stage, Fiorentina took the lead and ranked first in the Group B standings with three points!

On the fourth day after the first round of the Champions League, Fiorentina ushered in the second round of Serie A.

Speaking of which, the second opponent that Fiorentina players face in the league is their old acquaintance, which was Vicenza, who had just met them twice in the European Super Cup and the Italian Super Cup not long ago.

Regarding the result of this game, most fans and media are one-sidedly optimistic about Fiorentina's away victory. After all, in the two matches more than half a month ago, Fiorentina won one victory and draw, which will naturally attract more favor.

However, many people are confused by these appearances and do not notice a very critical element, that is, the Fiorentine players who have just returned from cold Norway to warm Italy have not received enough rest time.

As soon as they return to China, they have to go to another away game to continue the game. This is a very difficult test for many Fiorentine players, especially in terms of physical fitness and mental state. Moreover, even those Fiorentine players who only observe with the team and do not participate in the battle with Rosenberg have also experienced varying degrees of fatigue due to the climate differences between Norway and Italy and the fatigue of travel.

Vicenza naturally would not miss this great opportunity. Zhuge Guidolin made full use of the fatigue period that Fiorentina had been running around in succession and took the lead in the game. Luca Tony and Larson each scored a goal in the 12th and 18th minutes of the game, allowing the home team to establish a two-goal lead early!

Although Vieri and Pirlo each used one goal to pull the two teams back to the same starting line in the following time, Vicenza, who sent all the main players to play, was to win a victory at home, and was obviously unwilling to be satisfied with the result of a draw.

Therefore, after being equalized by Fiorentina, Vicenza players took advantage of their physical strength to continue to launch a tide-like attack on the goal guarded by Toldo. And their efforts were favored by the goddess of luck when the game entered the injury time stage.

"The ball has entered! Ambrosini! Massimo Ambrosini! Wonderful header!" This was the third minute of stoppage time in the second half, and the commentator roared passionately, "Three to two! Vicenza took advantage of a corner kick in the frontcourt at the last moment of the game, and Ambrosini defeated Fiorentina!"

With the commentator's hoarse roar, Fiorentina suffered its first defeat in the league this season at the Romeo Monti Stadium.

Once the news of this defeat came out, many smart teams immediately realized that although Fiorentina introduced powerful players like Marclayle and Gattuso in the past summer, it seemed that their overall strength had not been weakened much, but in fact, the current Purple Lily can no longer be as calm and comfortable in dealing with multi-line battles as in the past few seasons.

This discovery naturally gave many head coaches the confidence to overturn Florence's rule. They all believed that as long as they could seize the opportunity, they would definitely be able to kill Florence, which was already strong outside and at the same time, just like Vicenza!

However, these people who are in extreme excitement obviously forgot a very important point, that is, the reason why Fiorentina loses to Vicenza is indeed because the players used for rotation in Fiorentina are not as fierce as the previous few years. On the other hand, they fought with Rosenberg in Norway four days ago and were not in their best state at all. With the combined effect of these two factors, Fiorentina lost to Vicenza away.

It was precisely because of this loss that after accidentally losing to Vicenza away, Capello, who realized the fundamental reason for the team's loss, quickly led the team back to Fiorentina overnight. After returning to his base camp, Capello first asked the players to disband and recuperate for two days. When he recovered almost, he would concentrate on preparing for the third round of the league held on the weekend.

According to the schedule made by the Italian Football Association, Fiorentina still has to play away in this league. This time, Purple Lily's opponent is AC Milan, coached by offensive madman Zacheroni.

Due to the poor record of the Ross and Blacks last season, it was removed from the G14 organization, and the Serie A giant is celebrating its 100th birthday next year, Berlusconi finally opened his wallet this summer and gave the team enough financial support. He only made a little request, that is, at the end of this season, Zacheroni must lead the team to win a championship trophy to celebrate the club's birthday!

So, after discussing the signing with Zachelloni, Galliani embarked on a long road with a thick check book. Many teams were neatly announced their surrender under the attack of this kind of money shell, and used their main players and even core players to exchange for a large amount of US dollars.

Bierhof and Hervig came from Udinese at a high price. Their arrival effectively made up for AC Milan's shortcomings in the forward and right-back; although Vicenza stubbornly resisted the actions of Galliani Ambrosini and Koko, Galliani dug up Federico Jonti, who had played for a short time in Fiorentina, to strengthen the bench depth of the defensive midfielder; coupled with the Argentine national team's main central defender Robert Ayala, who bought last season's unfortunate relegation, greatly strengthened the safety factor of the defense line with a lot of loopholes after Costakuta fell into a long-term downturn. Well, at least it seems like this on paper.

Meanwhile, Galliani's move also retained Meyni and French defender Deselli, who should have left before the start of the season, allowing Zacheroni to have more good cards to call during the season.

Of course, Galliani also made some very puzzling deals. For example, when he had not left the team, he introduced three players, Dida, Abiati and Lehman, at the goalkeeper position, before he left the team, which made AC Milan suddenly fall into an embarrassing situation of crowding in the goalkeeper position!

Objectively speaking, although there are slight flaws in some transfers, AC Milan's overall signings were quite successful this summer. While cleaning up a large number of redundant staff, it injected enough fresh blood to complete the team's renewal.
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