Fiorentina coach Claudio Ranieri has finally experienced the feeling of fire and ice after a fantastic eight consecutive wins at the start of the season (four league games, two Cup Winners' Cups, one Coppa Italia and one Italian Super Cup).

Eight consecutive wins have made his originally not very high popularity rise sharply, and countless fans and media have passed on their unprecedented enthusiasm to him like fire. However, next, Ranieri, who was roasted in the fire-like enthusiasm, was drenched from top to bottom by a sudden basin of cold water.

Fiorentina are winless in three games in a row! After a 5-4 defeat at home to Lazio, Fiorentina were held to a 2-2 draw at home by Lecce in the second leg of the Coppa Italia, with Toldo's save in the Zuihou moment ruining the victory.

While the draw did not prevent Fiorentina from progressing to the next leg, despite the fact that Lecce, who drew against them, is known as the "Little Pepper" in Italian football, and although Ranieri wisely fine-tuned his team's tactical play after accepting the defeat against Lazio, the wonderful feeling of the start of the season is no longer there.

Immediately afterwards, Fiorentina went to challenge the Serie A fish belly team Reggiana, and the team was forced to draw 1-1 by the opponent when they dominated the whole game, and the statement of "Fiorentina's lack of stamina" began to be hyped by some Italian media.

The eight-game winning streak can make opponents fear and envy to the greatest extent, can make all kinds of media close their crow's mouths to the greatest extent, and can also make more fans become potential fans of Fiorentina while enjoying the game.

However, just a three-game winless streak that would seem normal to any normal person can make those media completely throw a blind eye to the eye-catching headline of "Florence's eight consecutive wins" that previously dominated the front pages of major newspapers, and this phenomenon has to be said to be a kind of human sadness.

Fiorentina's opponents felt that they could finally stand up and breathe a breath after spending more than a month in fear, because they were very willing to believe that Fiorentina, who had made a dream start to the new season, was nothing more than a "paper tiger" that had not yet been reformed.

Zhuang Mingge has always had a point of view, at this time in Serie A, with the best league in Europe, the most second-rate fans, and the most third-rate media, Ranieri, who led the team to eight consecutive victories, did not let those sick media get too many excuses for nonsense, and now he has no time to listen to those inferior tabloid reporters, from their mafia compatriots, learned the ability to moan and retaliate without disease.

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The water in the Apennines is so deep that Ranieri, who has led the team to a winning streak recently, insisted on "hiding" in the training base of Florence and watched the game video for several days in a row.

But while Ranieri was hiding in the training ground, the attention of the Italian media and fans was taken away from Ranieri and Fiorentina, for the simple reason that there was another team that had suffered three consecutive defeats in the last three league games: AC Milan.

Capello was annoyed by the defeat to Fiorentina in the Italian Super Cup and spent a lot of effort to adjust the mentality and competitive condition of his Milan players before the start of the new season.

Thanks to Capello's efforts, Milan's players have behaved fairly normally at the beginning of the new season, with two wins and one draw in the first three rounds of the league, as well as triumphant performances in the Coppa Italia and the UEFA Champions League.

Seeing the state of Naliang Haode since the start of Milan, everyone regarded what happened in the Italian Super Cup as just an "accident".

But soon, something happened that all Milan fans did not expect.

On September 25, in the fourth round of Serie A, AC Milan lost 0-1 away to the weak Cremonese;

On October 2, in the fifth round of the league, AC Milan was defeated by Brescia, who fought for relegation every year, and lost 1-3 at home;

On October 15, in the sixth round of Serie A, AC Milan was beaten by the promoted Mapadova team twice in a row and suffered three consecutive defeats in the league;

Three games, three defeats in a row, and just one goal, this is the answer of AC Milan in the last three league games under the leadership of the meritorious coach Fabio Capello.

Such an "answer" has put Capello under tremendous pressure, and such a poor result is not only dissatisfied with Milan fans, but even the media find it incredible. This is a "three-game losing streak" that happened to AC Milan, you know, AC Milan is the team that has maintained 58 consecutive league games unbeaten and only lost two games last season.

"Roma Sport", which likes to "cause trouble", even typed "Who will end the Milan dynasty?" For a while, fans and the media discussed and argued about Milan one after another, right and wrong. Even Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi, who is in deep political crisis, personally called General Manager Galliani to complain.

It is precisely because many media and fans have focused their attention on Milan that as a result, in the seventh round of Serie A, Fiorentina, which took the lead, swept Padua 4-1 to end their three-game winless streak The news did not attract much attention.

Because in the following matches, AC Milan lost again!

Three days ago, in the group stage of the UEFA Champions League, AC Milan defeated AEK Athens at home with a hearty 3-0.

Due to the "early" exit in the Coppa Italia, AC Milan, which had a bad year in the league, got a certain respite in October, where the competition was very dense.

The big win after the "trough" cheered AC Milan fans, and also silenced the media that had previously spread the rhetoric that "the dynasty is falling, the building is about to fall".

Just when people were looking forward to what kind of performance AC Milan would have after the "Jedi" counterattack, Milan, which had just risen to tenth in the league rankings, suffered a heavy blow in the seventh round of Serie A.

The San Siro Stadium on October 23 became the slaughterhouse for the visiting Sampdoria team. Faced with what Berlusconi claimed to be "Milan's most feared opponent", the AC Milan players suddenly lost their "form". The solidarity of the 80,000 fans at the San Siro Stadium was drowned in the frantic attack of the "Sea Blues".

Although Ruud Gullit, who moved to Sampdoria for the second time, unexpectedly hung up his exemption card, and although Capello started in place of the sluggish Savčevic with Marco Simeone, who was in great form in the previous game, it could not change the passive situation of the home team. Sampdoria, who is mainly anti-guest, firmly occupies the initiative on the field with an almost desperate crazy attack.

No one knows what it is, they only know that in this game, the red-eyed Aqua Blues broke through Milan's gate again and again against AC Milan, and people only remember Sampdoria, who was crazy for 90 minutes, left a 4:0 that humiliated the Milanans when they left the San Siro stadium.

Sampdoria gave Milan four consecutive league defeats, but also made everyone realize: the eight-year-long Milan dynasty has collapsed, and Serie A has returned to the period of competition.