Chapter 838: Devil's Schedule (2)
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In order to better cope with the coming devil's schedule, after the match against Roma, Heynckes did not give the players a day off after the game, as is customary, but did recuperation training and pre-match preparation in the training base from the next day.
The players did not express much opposition to Heynckes' arrangement, because the results achieved by the German team in the past few months have been recognized by the Fiorentina players led by Effenberg, so they will obey his dispatch. Otherwise, if Heynckes can't show any real skills, with the temper of these players, Fiorentina's dressing room will have to be turned upside down.
Fiorentina fans, meanwhile, are rejoicing at their team's victory over Serie A's Serie A side for their attacking firepower, after all, the team's face was shining with a victory over the Red Wolves led by Zeman.
"With this game as a foundation, who would dare to say that our Fiorentina attack power is not as good as that of Roma in the future!" This was one of the most common phrases of Fiorentina fans after the game, "The reason why we don't have as many league goals as Roma is because we don't need to be like them, we have to focus all on attack to win." ”
Roma fans, while unhappy with the remarks coming from Fiorentina fans, did not object as vehemently as usual – who had let them lose out on what they were best at attacking before?
If you are willing to gamble, you have to admit defeat, unless you are facing the sworn enemy Lazio, and for Roma fans, they still have this bit of energy.
Word of mouth spread among the fans, and the extremely exciting battle between Fiorentina and Roma spread throughout Italy, and all the fans who heard about the rumors managed to get a video of the match, and then passed on the game through their mouths!
After all, Italian fans have never discovered that the team they support can also play this kind of fast-paced attacking football, and driven by this novelty, they will naturally start a more lively discussion about this game, thus raising its popularity among the Italian fan base to another level!
As the fans' interest in this game became stronger and stronger, the media who originally thought that this turmoil finally couldn't sit still, and began to give up their original arrogance and reserve, put down their bodies and honestly analyze the game that had ended.
You know, before the matchup between Fiorentina and Roma began, these media and pundits just treated the match as an ordinary cup match and didn't get them enough interest to follow it. Even if the matchup between Roma and Fiorentina can be called a strong confrontation in this round of the Coppa Italia, with a lot of potential value in terms of commercial gimmicks and fan appeal, the attitude of these guys is still so arrogant that they are unwilling to promote it too much.
However, when they found out that the fans would have more and more enthusiasm for such a domestic cup match, even if they wanted to slap themselves, they had to start studying the game for their own jobs.
As a result, after these so-called experts studied and came up with several different opinions, they themselves divided into several factions for this reason, and pinched each other!
Some say that Fiorentina and Roma teamed up to give their fans a very good game, and the Football Association should use this as a template to encourage Italian clubs to take the initiative to adopt offensive tactics and speed up the pace of the game, so as to enhance the spectacle of domestic competitions; There are also those who disagree with this, arguing that it is completely unreasonable for the two teams to completely abandon the traditional Italian defence, and if all teams adopt this style of play, even if they can please the fans, it will definitely be a disaster for Italian football on the European stage!
While opinions on this vary from one side to the next, it is clear that fans prefer to watch the fast-paced, close-knit and goal-scoring games rather than the tactical, slow-paced, goal-scoring contests. As a result, inspired by the game, the Italian Football Federation, which has been more commercially focused than it has historically been, has quietly incorporated the pace of the game and the intensity of the attack into the league's reform plan.
After all, only by making Serie A and Coppa Italia more enjoyable can they attract more fans, who are likely to get a higher price when they sell their TV rights.
I have to mention here that although the Italian Football Association sometimes does do things with some brains, but this time they are rarely shrewd when making decisions - after deciding to strengthen the offensive atmosphere of the league, the Football Association did not rush to implement a plan to enforce it, but quietly asked a few clubs that have a good relationship with the Football Association to see what Serie A these big men have with great power, as a test before the implementation of reforms, lest the reform measures be carried out because they violate the interests of the majority of the people, which in turn will reduce the prestige of the Football Association.
In Zhuang Mingge's previous life, the reason why the phonegate incident broke out in the slump of Italian football was, on the one hand, indeed because Mogi pulled the tiger skin fox of the Agnelli family, thus suppressing most opponents; On the other hand, it is because of the emergence of the Catania incident in 03 that everyone is aware of the weakness and incompetence of the Italian Football Federation, which makes match-fixing and ** more prevalent in Italian football!
Therefore, when Zhuang Mingge learned that the Football Association had done a rare thing with his brain this time, he put away his thoughts about the other party and prepared to be a bystander to see if the Football Association could do a good job.
If he can't even do this thing, then Zhuang Mingge has to consider learning the Premier League, and join other teams to kick away the Italian Football Association, which has more than enough success and more than defeat, and set up a Serie A company to run the league independently.
That's all for the discussion on how to reform the tactical style of Italian football, but let's get down to business.
After beating Roma in a crazy goal shootout, the time officially entered December 1999, and Fiorentina's second game in the Devil's schedule was just around the corner.
On December 5th, the Fiorentina players, who had been given a full four days of rest, waited at the Stadio Frankie to meet their opponents in Serie A and AC Milan, who were runners-up in Serie A last season.