Therefore, despite the unexpected draw with Lecce in the round of the league, the Italian media did not look down on Florence’s prospect of winning the league this season.
However, although the league battlefield situation was excellent, Florence returned to home but failed to win a victory at Frankie Stadium.
In the 26th round of Serie A on March 22nd, Florence was still going backwards. Literally, compared with the same period in history, Viola Bologna failed to score three points against this opponent. After 90 minutes of the battle with Bologna, both teams failed to score in the game, and a draw ended the game.
Florence can’t help but work hard in this game. batistuta and effenberg, the two vice captains, led the players to work hard in the game, almost to the point where every goal was contested.
However, it is a pity that Florence was still not favored by the goddess of fortune in this game. batistuta volleyed vigorously in the small restricted area and kicked directly into the arms of Bologna goalkeeper antonioli; Although Ronaldo passed antonioli’s defense, his push was cleared by the Bologna defender when he arrived at the goal line; In the sixty-fifth minute, effenberg slammed the door directly through the entire Bologna defense line, and even goalkeeper antonioli announced that he had surrendered, but the ball hit the goal crossbar and popped up the baseline, leaving Ronaldo and batistuta in front of the goal with no chance to make up the shot …
So Florence had to accept the bitter result of drawing with Bologna at home.
Three games in a row ended in a draw, which caused discussion about Florence.
Many non-Fiorentina fans are happily claiming that after more than three years of glory, Fiorentina players have finally lost their hunger for the championship and honor, and they have to endure the contradictions of Capello’s bloody ruling team, which led to the decline of Florence’s record after entering March. Although Florence fans are a little surprised by the team’s three consecutive draws, they are in a stable mood, thinking that this is just a self-adjustment of the team after the third-line war and will soon return to the winning track.
Furthermore, even if Florence wins a few draws in the league now, it is nothing, and the difference of 15 points from the second place is enough for Florence to squander. After all, Juventus and Inter Milan are equally distracted in the European games, and it is impossible to guarantee victory in the remaining league games.
After the draw with Bologna, Florence was unlucky recently. In this week, it ushered in the Italian Cup match with AC Milan. In the first leg of the Italian Cup semi-final, Florence has been unlucky recently. In the face of Ranieri’s interest rate, AC Milan still failed to win. Liberian veteran george weah shot one by one to help the Rossoneri win Florence 2-1 at home.
However, ze Roberto scored a long-range goal in the 16th minute, which made Florence lose away from home and got an away goal. Viola left hope for a comeback in the second leg half a month later.
This defeat embarrassed Florence for four consecutive games, and also created the longest consecutive record of Viola after Zhuang Ge entered Florence!
In March, Florence only scored one win, three draws and two losses in all the six games that have ended, which made Viola, the European hegemon, look a bit unworthy.
Therefore, after losing to his old club AC Milan, Capello felt a great responsibility. He devoted all his energy to adjusting the players’ psychological state, so that the players could keep a normal heart as much as possible to play, so that Florence could get out of this continuous cycle.
Haste makes waste. Capello still knows.
However, in spite of this, it still needs a hearty victory, not just psychological counseling, to make Florence players really feel anxious about the game.
On March 29th, facing the morale of the bottom of the points, the former powerhouse Naples was eager to break the endless cycle, and the Florence players vented all their frustrations and anger accumulated recently on this southern Italian team.
Although there will be a Champions League quarter-final against Barcelona in three days, this does not hinder Capello’s determination to take the knife of this fishing team, so Capello sent many main players in this game so that they can vent their anger on this opponent.
Toldo, angloma, Starr, Materazzi, Carlos, Dibiagio, Lei Dongduo, Zati, Rui Costa, vieri and Inzaghi … For Napoli, which is at the bottom of the points, Florence’s starting lineup is obviously a bit too cruel.
Vieri is a lot shorter than him, Ayala is under great defensive pressure. He rampaged in the restricted area of Naples the whole game. Inzaghi scored a goal under the cover of the former. Carlos scored a beautiful long-range shot. Lei Dongduo played the Napoli goalkeeper with a volley …
In the end, Florence’s five-goal victory over Naples at home ended four consecutive embarrassing records and scored three valuable points!
Chapter 591 Crazy April (1)
The 5-0 home victory over Naples not only allowed Florence players to vent their grievances accumulated for nearly half a month, but also allowed Viola to finally break the endless cycle since the draw with Dortmund in early March, and the upcoming Champions League match with Barcelona added a lot of confidence in victory.
A big win is over, and it’s bad luck to get home in March. Now Florence hopes that the team’s luck will improve in the new month … Don’t expect to score some strange goals in the game, and hope that those chances that they have finally created will not become meaningless statistics because of the so-called bad luck.
In this way, the players sincerely pray that Florence will usher in the first leg of the quarter-final of the Champions League against La Liga giants Barcelona in April.
On the evening of April 2, Barcelona, the capital of Catalonia, Spain, will have a wonderful showdown at the most famous Camp Nou stadium in this city!
The first match against Barcelona was in the European Super Cup at the beginning of the season. In that match, Florence beat her opponent 4-1, which not only achieved the feat of winning the European Super Cup three times in a row, but also almost made Barcelona a laughing stock of the whole European football again.
Therefore, before this game, Barcelona, from the head coach Fan Jiaer to the players, were gearing up to know that Florence had been in a terrible state recently, and they were ready to take this opportunity to complete a hearty revenge at their home.
In this game, Fan Jiaer still insisted on making his set of famous goalkeeper hesp, right-back reiziger, veteran Nadal and Portuguese central defender Hernando Cotto, and left-back Sergi Barjuán, with sharp assists. In midfield, Guardiola and Silades appear together in the back waist position, while luis enrique takes the front waist; The striker Brazilian rivaldo and Portuguese Magic Wing madeira filipe are separated from each other, and at the top is Brazilian striker Sonny Anderson.
The starting lineup of these eleven players can be said that Fan Jiaer can play the most powerful deck of cards. The Dutch coach believes that after half a year of running-in, it is not a problem for these players to win Florence in the first round.
However, Fan Jiaer didn’t notice that there was a person who knew Barcelona well in the column of assistant coach given by Florence.
On the sidelines, Capello turned his head to look at himself with a defiant face. Fan Jiaer smiled coldly in his heart and said that you should be happy now and cry when the game is over.
"Have you remembered all our tactics for canceling this game?" After condescending to Fan Jiaer in my mind, Capello turned to sit back in the coach’s seat and said to the assistant who had just arrived, "I finally worked out a set of tactics to deal with this Barcelona team. I don’t want to see these guys forget all about it after sleeping."
Capello, a new Portuguese, is still very appreciative because he saw from this young man that he was an unruly and ruthless coach who was more skillful than seriously managing the team.
Out of love and talent, Capello has given a lot of care to this junior and assistant, especially in terms of skills and tactics. Capello can be said to answer Mourinho’s questions. This kind of treatment has never been given to Mourinho by Fan Jiaer, and it reminds the Portuguese of the days when he was a translator at Old Robson’s side.
When I followed old Robson, Mourinho was translated from a humble to a qualified assistant coach to realize the first leap in his life. Now, just over two months after coming to Florence, Mourinho has been carefully guided by Capello and feels that he is about to welcome a coach for a second promotion.
Mourinho is not that kind of person who is ungrateful. He is determined to take practical actions to repay Capello’s care for him. Therefore, after the team finished the game against Naples, the Portuguese took the initiative to find Capello with a thick stack of information and explained to Capello what he had learned about Barcelona tactics in detail all night.
Capello attached great importance to Mourinho’s valuable information, so they took advantage of the team’s holiday the next day to work overtime in the office for a whole day to determine the tactics of Florence in a game
At the same time, according to Mourinho’s first-hand information, Capello finally confirmed the starting list of the team in the first leg of the Champions League quarter-final after careful consideration and consideration.
The goalkeeper is still toldo. Capello doesn’t have to worry that the goalkeeper will lack enough motivation to play in this key situation; Starr and Stam partnered with central defender Roberto Carlos and Zambrotta to play the left and right defenders respectively. Although Carlos played a full game against Naples four days ago, it didn’t bother him much for Brazilians with extremely strong physical fitness to play twice a week once in a while. Moreover, in that massacre, because Naples gave up the game early because of falling behind by a big score, Carlos didn’t consume too much energy to finish the promotion to the starting left-back position.
In midfield, effenberg, who didn’t play in the match with Napoli, rightly occupied a starting place, while Hernando Lei Dongduo continued to play in the starting place to form a double-core midfield in Florence with the tiger; Davis and tommasi, two physical supermen with defensive coverage, got the remaining two starting positions.
The striker Ronaldo and batistuta started together. The former breakthrough and the latter strength are the biggest headaches for Barcelona defenders. Their performance on the spot will directly determine the success or failure of Florence’s trip to Barcelona.
Anyone who knows a little about football tactics can see that the away game in Florence is a defensive counter-attack tactic, which helps the home team to press the attack to leave a big piece and Ronaldo’s speed to threaten Barcelona!
"Sir, I’m here to assure you that everyone has kept these things in mind. Just wait and see the good show!" Mourinho said quite positively that the Portuguese were quite worried about this game, and there was no intention to retaliate against Fan Jiaer.
"Haha, then I’ll just wipe my eyes."
Just as Capello and his mentor were communicating on the sidelines, both players were already on the court. Referee Nelson looked at a watch and blew his whistle!
The first leg of the Champions League quarter-final between Florence and Barcelona is official!
Chapter 592 Crazy April (2)
Although Barcelona hopes to take advantage of Florence’s recent poor state and take advantage of home court to beat this powerful opponent in the first leg, it is best to score a big score, but Florence taught Barcelona players who are dreaming a good lesson tonight.
After the game, Barcelona won the ball and took the lead in launching the attack. Guardiola observed the situation ahead after receiving the ball from the frontcourt, and then distributed the ball to Sergey on the left, who immediately prepared to give the ball to rivaldo in front along the border.
However, when Sergey kicked the ball, tommasi suddenly made a wonderful steal from the middle of the road!
Because tommasi’s steal was in Barcelona’s half-court and the incident was sudden, Barcelona players were stunned for a while and did not choose to retreat at the first time, which gave Florence a chance to fight back.
See tommasi quickly cross the ball to the middle of the road. effenberg Tiger didn’t stop the ball. At the first time, he sent a straight ball. The ball flew past Nadal and rolled to Ronaldo’s foot!
Aliens conveniently take the ball into the restricted area to form a single-handed face-off. hesp Ronaldo didn’t even make a fake move and directly pushed the far corner of the goal to win!