Chapter 695: Getting Better (5)
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After the third round of Group B, Fiorentina have won all three games in the group stage of this season's Champions League and are firmly at the top of the group table with nine points; PSV Eindhoven are in second place with six points from two wins and one loss after losing to Fiorentina; Champions League regular Rosenborg is third with three points; Athletic Bilbao, who participated in the Champions Cup as a new army, finished at the bottom of the group with a bare zero egg, leaving the Basque lion without face.
Four days after beating PSV Eindhoven at home, Fiorentina face the sixth round of the league at the Stade Franky, beating Atalanta's promoted Masa Nellitana in last season's play-offs.
Zhuang Mingge didn't know much about Salernitana, and one of the few impressions he had of this team was that Iuliano had started his career with the team, and that there was Marco Di Vayo, who is now in Salernitana's starting line-up for this game. Others are either only mixed in the lower divisions with their strength, or they are purely here to play soy sauce.
In this game, Capello made some changes to the starting lineup, Carlos and Zambrotta two full-backs rotated and rested, Fortunato as left back, central defenders Nesta and Materazzi, right back Iran international Madavecchia, Makelele, Gattuso and Anderson Deco as three midfielders, Di Natale, Vieri and Ljungberg formed a front three, with strong power and impact to destroy the away team's defense.
In this game, Fiorentina, who had an absolute advantage in strength, played quite simply and brutally on the offensive end. When the players get the ball, most of them will quickly pass the ball to Deco, who looks like a farmer in the Brazilian midfielder, then Di Natale and Ljungberg on the flanks will initiate crosses, and finally Vieri in the middle and Gattuso and Deco will follow behind.
Defensively, Fiorentina were more at ease, with Salernitana's attack almost completely stalled when Nesta, Materazzi and Makelele teamed up to kill the opponent's arrowhead Di Vayo.
In the case of the delay in attacking, the impatient Di Vaio showed his still immature side in the game, and he should actually be looking for killing opportunities through guò's constant off-ball running, and at the same time this pull will also give his teammates, rather than blindly delaying the fighters in the front court like this game, which affects the offensive rhythm of the whole team.
In the end, Fiorentina won the game without shock, with Vieri's brace and Gattuso's goal, Fiorentina won 3-0 at home and won four consecutive league wins!
Fiorentina did not have a Champions League game in the following week, but the players still did not have a chance to stop as the first round of the Coppa Italia was already on schedule.
With Fiorentina drawing in the first round of the Coppa Italia against Napoli, who had just been relegated to the second division last season, and they also face Parma away in the seventh round, Capello decided to send a full bench to deal with the Napoli side who had suffered a huge loss after relegation.
Goalkeeper De Sanctis, the back four from left to right are Fortunato, Hyypia, Materazzi and Madavecchia, midfielders Zanetti, Vogel, Deco, Pirlo and Bresciano, and in the forward line Di Natale himself alone in the front, this is Fiorentina's starting line-up for this game.
Although Capello said that he was all substitutes, the so-called "substitutes" like Materazzi and Pirlo who appeared in the starting list were even an important member of Italy's World Cup championship this year.
Under the command of the young midfielders duo of Deco and Pirlo, Fiorentina firmly dominated the field from the beginning of the game, and until the end of the game, the Napoli players did not get a good chance to score, and even the positions of the shots were mostly outside the Fiorentina penalty area - it can be seen how much pressure this Fiorentina substitute defense caused the opponent!
Bresciano and Madavecchia, two newcomers to the team, were excellent in this game, and their aggressive breakthroughs on the flanks seemed to give Fiorentina a pair of wings, and a succession of crosses gave Di Natale a lot of chances to shoot at the front.
Di Natale, who played the whole game, scored twice, Bresciano and Madavecchia each brushed up an assist on him; The Australian, meanwhile, set up Andrea Pirlo to open the scoring in the 57th minute and scored Fiorentina's fourth goal of the game with a long-range shot from outside the box near the end of the game!
Napoli is more tragic, with a large number of main players leaving the team this summer, they can put together a starting line-up that can cope with Serie B, which has exhausted the efforts of Napoli management, and it is a great achievement to break into the first round of the Coppa Italia.
In the end, Fiorentina won 4-0 against Napoli and advanced to the next round of the Coppa Italia with their heads held high.
Then, in the seventh round of the league, Fiorentina went to the Stadio Taldini to challenge Carlo Ancelotti's Parma, and finally relied on Vieri's unreasonable shot in the Parma penalty area in the second half to draw with the Milk Army.
After winning the Golden Boot with nine goals at the World Cup in France, Vieri has been in surprisingly good form this season, scoring nine goals in the last seven league games so far, an average of more than one goal per game, making many Fiorentina fans miss Batistuta in their hearts and begin to support Vieri, the successor of the god of war.
Next, in the fourth round of the Champions Cup group stage, Fiorentina drew 0-0 with PSV Eindhoven away from home, and firmly occupied the top spot in the group with three wins and one draw in four games; Athletic Bilbao, on the other hand, beat Rosenborg by three goals at the San Mamés Stadium to claim their first Champions League win of the season.
It is not only Athletic Bilbao supporters who are excited about Rosenborg's defeat, but also Fiorentina fans - Fiorentina, who are seven points clear of third in the group after Norway's home defeat, have already qualified from Group B and qualified for the last 16 of the Champions League two rounds ahead of schedule!