Chapter 611: The End of the League (Part I)

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Although the Real Madrid players, who were unwilling to be blocked out of the Champions League final, pressed all the way to participate in the attack in the last few minutes, Fiorentina used defense to make Real Madrid's players return again and again.

In fact, Real Madrid's attack became largely unthreatening after Panucci left the pitch with cramps and Savio and Ziegy were targeted by substitutes Tomasi and Zambrotta. Morientes is a first-class striker, but his strength lies in grabbing points, and it is impossible to single-handedly pick up an entire backline like Ronaldo; Raul is in a similar situation, as a top shadow striker, he is not very good at organising, and his breakthrough is only at an upper mid-level level, and he has little to do to turn the defeat around without midfield support against the central defence of Nesta and Ferrara.

Therefore, Real Madrid's offensive routine at this time mainly relies on the wing, and the role of the players in the middle is to choose the right time to distribute the ball to the wide players, and then insert to complete the shot.

Therefore, in the next few minutes, Real Madrid, whose wings were completely strangled by Fiorentina, basically did not create any scoring opportunities, and could only wait helplessly for the outcome of the upcoming trial.

When Morientes kicked the ball high over the crossbar under Nesta's marking, referee Friske blew the whistle for the end of the match, and the whole Frankie Stadium was instantly transformed into a sea of joy!

At the same time as the final whistle was heard, the Real Madrid and Fiorentina players sat down on the turf one after another, gasping for breath - in this game, the players on either side could be said to have exhausted their last bit of strength, so that now there is no extra strength to walk off the pitch.

However, the Fiorentina players were obviously a little happier, after all, despite the difficult process of the whole game, they still got a satisfactory result; Real Madrid, by contrast, was more tragic, with the likes of Raul and Morientes all red in tears, grieving that they had fallen outside the door of the final.

In this way, Fiorentina defeated La Liga giants Real Madrid 6-3 in the second leg of the semi-finals, and at the same time completed a miraculous reversal with an aggregate score of 7-6 and entered the Champions Cup final for the third consecutive year!

Fiorentina's victory at home to Real Madrid, reaching the Champions League final for the third time in a row, left all the Fiorentina fans excited, and they spontaneously poured into the streets to celebrate the magical comeback all night!

At the same time, the vast majority of the media in Europe are promoting Fiorentina's victory, on the one hand, because the fact that the two teams can play a huge score of 6-3 in the Champions League semi-finals is a gimmick in itself, and the media naturally cannot let go of this opportunity to attract people's attention.

On the other hand, it is because Fiorentina's victory can indeed be said to be hard-won: the first leg was lost 1-3, and although the match once took a 4-1 lead, it was pulled 3-4 by Seedorf's outburst...... This extremely unfavorable situation is not something that any team can survive, and if it were replaced by some teams with insufficient willpower, they might have surrendered long ago.

However, the Fiorentina players scored twice in the last 20 minutes, and also kept a clean sheet against Real Madrid, killing the Spanish giants at the gates of the Champions League final!

There are two major elements that attract such attention, and of course these media will spare no effort and willingly give Florence free publicity within the world boundary.

However, Zhuang Mingge himself is looking at the excitement of these things, after all, at this stage of the season, all the work of the club has to put the team and players in the most important position, and naturally there is no spare time to deal with the endless harassment of those media reporters or shoot commercial advertisements.

I have to say that this vicious battle with Real Madrid has greatly depleted Fiorentina's vitality, after all, almost all the Fiorentina players who played on the game maintained a high level of concentration during the game, and the physical and mental consumption was naturally very large...... If nothing else, even a physical superman like Robert Carlos had a slight cramp after the match, and the intensity of the match can be imagined.

In this way, Fiorentina, exhausted in the second leg of the semi-finals, met AC Milan, the league's worst opponent of the season, in the final league match three days later.

By the start of this round of fixtures, the suspense of Serie A had largely settled: Fiorentina had won the league title three rounds ahead of schedule, Juventus and Inter Milan, four points behind the Bianconeri, finished second and third respectively, and each of them had a place in next season's Champions League, while Udinese, Parma and Roma were battling it out for a final Champions League qualification.

Needless to say, Serie A's premier European points in the UEFA standings will be able to send three teams to the UEFA Cup next season, so after this round of the league, the three unlucky ones who lost the four teams competing for the last Champions League qualification will qualify for the UEFA Cup.

In terms of the relegation battle, there has been a big deviation between this season's Serie A and history: Empoli, who have lost their meritorious coach Spalletti, and Napoli, who are in decline, have been firmly in the bottom two positions in the standings, and these two clubs have confirmed early relegation at this time; The last direct relegation spot will be drawn from Atalanta, Brescia and Lecce.

Of course, the bottom four-placed team can't rest on their laurels as they play a relegation play-off against a Serie B side......

Therefore, although the last round of matches has not yet started, the result of this game does not have much substance for the two teams of Fiorentina and AC Milan: the purple lily, who won the championship in advance, just wants to end this game quickly and recover to cope with the next two finals of the Coppa Italia and the Champions Cup; With all four of them empty this season and no hope of competing for a ticket to next season's European competition, the Rossoneri have no desire for this game.

In the end, Fiorentina, who came on as a full substitute, lost 2-3 to AC Milan in the final game of the league, ending the 1997-98 Serie A season!

Despite the loss, Fiorentina didn't have much frustration on their faces, because next at the Stadio Frankie, a grand league championship award ceremony was about to take place!