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It is indeed a matter of celebration to win the Toyota Cup for the third time in a row, but the players in Fiorentina did not participate in the subsequent celebrations. Because in four days, they will usher in the 12th Serie A round with Bologna, and they really don't have the time to participate in the celebration ceremony.

It is precisely for this reason that after Zhuang Mingge politely declined the invitation of the Toyota Cup organizer, Florence first-team members and logistics staff hurriedly flew across half the earth to return to Florence the next day after the game, and made intense preparations for the next game.

As for the publicity work in Japan and a series of commercial promotion activities about Florence, Zhuang Mingge delegated all of these to Kenyon and handled them with full authority.

As for Da Gama, due to his reversal by his opponent at the last moment in a good situation, this result caused Edmunddo to be strongly dissatisfied with his teammates and head coach. The Brazilian Beast believed that it was his teammates' unimprovement after leading the score and the head coach's conservative tactical style that made the team pass by the championship trophy, and had a fierce quarrel with head coach Antonio Lopez on the training ground. Then, the angry Edmunddo submitted a transfer application to Da Gama Club and asked the club to trade him to other teams. He could no longer bear the days of working with a fool coach like Lopez.

Due to Edmundor's outstanding performance in Brazil in the past two years and his outstanding performance in the Toyota Cup, many teams have taken advantage of this brave and comprehensive Brazilian beast. At the same time, Da Gama's management also felt that Edmundor's troublesome spirit and influenced the atmosphere in the team were not easy to manage. It would be better to sell him when the value was high and exchange it for some US dollars to be used for the sustainable development of the club.

In this way, Edmunddo, who was determined to make a lot of money, began to embark on the road to work in Europe.

That’s all for Edmunddo’s matter. On December 5, Florence, who had just returned to Italy for a few days, welcomed Bologna, who came to challenge at the Frankie Stadium.

Although Fiorentina has only played one Toyota Cup final in the past week, the long journey has still put a heavy physical burden on the players and greatly affected their game status.

This can be seen from the listless mental state of Fiorentine players on the court and the inexplicable cooperation mistakes.

In the end, with veteran Signori's powerful shot in the penalty area in the 68th minute, Bologna defeated the exhausted Fiorentina 1-0 away. While getting a valuable three-pointer, it also gave Fiorentina his second defeat in the league this season.

Although Capello wanted to ask the players to find time to have some rest, let them take a break for about a week, adjust their condition before participating in the next game. However, facing the already scheduled schedule, even if Capello is as tough as Capello, he can only obey the arrangement. Otherwise, waiting for Fiorentina would not be a simple thing to lose... When AC Milan was suspended from UEFA for a year due to early exit, Capello was one of the parties involved in that incident.

Four days later, on December 9, Fiorentina ushered in the last round of the Champions League group stage at home. This time their opponent is Norwegian overlord Rosenberg, who is fighting for the second place in the group!

With the team's top spot already, in order to give the team's main combat power enough time to rest, Capello resolutely made a large-scale rotation of the starting lineup in this game, putting a large number of team main players on the bench, and even directly excluded from the game roster. In this way, Fiorentina's starting roster is basically bench players like Desanctis, Dinatale, Deco and Voger. Only a very small number of positions have main players or main rotation players like Da Inzagi and Matrazi.

Although the future of Desanctis and Dinatale is worth looking forward to, and now they have indeed shown good abilities, they have not yet fully grown up and are obviously not opponents of teams like Rosenberg that can dominate Norway in Norway.

After all, football matches are not only essential to the players' personal talent and ability, game experience, personal experience and temperament, which are indirectly estimated, and what the current Florence second team lacks is these things.

In this way, although Fiorentina resisted desperately at its home court, and the game was scored by Inzaghi and Dinatale, due to the gap in experience and experience between the two teams, Rosenberg finally took away a victory at Frankie Stadium and ended the game with a three-to-two score.

After losing this showdown, Fiorentina ushered in an embarrassing two-game losing streak at home, shocking the eyes of many Fiorentina fans who are completing three consecutive championships for the team in the Toyota Cup.

However, although Rosenberg scored all three points in this game, they still failed to win a place in the top 16 of the Champions League. Because in another group match, with the goal of the main central defender Boma and the second goal of the chief striker Van Nisstrui, Eindhoven, who was away from the San Mames Stadium, defeated Athletic Bilbao, who announced his exit early, three crucial points were won by the away game!

Therefore, with all six rounds of group stages ending, Fiorentina ranked first with four wins, one draw and one loss, and advanced to the top of the Champions League quarterfinals with their heads raised; Eindhoven ranked second with three wins, one draw and two losses, and advanced to the knockout stage immediately after Fiorentina; Rosenberg's record in the group stage was three wins, three losses, and was blocked from the goal of the top 16 with a slight disadvantage of one point!

Rosenberg did not complain about the result of being eliminated at the last moment. After all, they themselves have an unshirkable responsibility for the reason for this ending - who made them lose to Bilbao in the previous game? You should know that Eindhoven had a double kill when he played against the Basque Lions...

With Fiorentina losing at home, the Champions League group stage officially came to an end, and the 16 strong rosters of the European Champions League in the 1998-99 season were finally released.
Chapter completed!