Chapter 284: Coppa Italia Semifinals (1)
When the night of April 3, 1995 hung over the city of Milan, the San Siro Stadium, which had been silent for three days, was once again rejuvenated! It's just that this time it was not Inter Milan that aroused the enthusiasm of fans, but another giant club in Milan City, the former European king AC Milan.
One might ask, how can AC Milan say that their home stadium, the San Siro, was only quiet for three days, when they were playing away from home last weekend? At least it's been more than a week!
To illustrate, the stadium is actually the same stadium, but after it was renamed the Stadio Meazza in 1980, because the player it commemorates is one of the greatest strikers in the history of Inter Milan, AC Milan fans still use the former name of the stadium - San Siro out of a sense of rivalry between mortal enemies.
San Siro and Meazza are just two names for the same stadium.
It is precisely because of this that the Italian Football Federation and UEFA will be extremely cautious when arranging the schedule for the Milan duo, when both teams play on the same day, the two giants must be a home and a guest, otherwise the schedule of the two teams will definitely not be arranged because they are both at home in the second round.
Zhuang Mingge sometimes speculates in his heart that the reason why the San Siro Stadium has the reputation of "vegetable field" is also inseparable from this point - think about it, when the turf maintenance time of a stadium is only less than half of that of other fields, how can it be expected to have first-class turf, which is ravaged by more than 20 big men every week, and no matter how Haode turf is, it does not have such a strong recovery ability.
Moreover, since the stadium is shared by the Milan giants, there are also many inconveniences when maintaining the stadium or updating the stadium facilities, and the Milan duo have historically wasted their saliva over how much each side has contributed, even though their owners are quite wealthy.
Despite all the inconveniences of sharing a stadium, there are many cases in Europe where two teams share the same stadium, such as the Olympic Stadium between Bayern Munich and Munich 1860, the Alp Stadium shared by Juventus and Torino, and the Ferraris Stadium shared by Sampdoria......
There are a number of reasons for this, such as the fact that the stadium was built with a joint contribution from two clubs, or whether the two clubs were split from one club.
The Fiorentina players were chatting in the visiting dressing room at the San Siro Stadium after three days of languishing at the Pinettina base for the Coppa Italia semi-final.
"Ahhh It's finally time for this day! Effenberg stretched out in the dressing room and said, "Inter's training base is terrible, and after three days there I felt like something was wrong with me. ”
"Hey, Stefan, don't be so squeamish, okay?" Batistuta smiled, thinking that the comfortable environment created by the club for the players really fed the appetite of his teammates, and even the hardware facilities of a giant like Inter Milan began to look down, "Besides, you can't compare everything with our Fiorentina, you must know that our training base was only built the year before last, and all the standards are first-class, How can an antique like Pinettina, built in the 60s and not modernized much, be in the same condition as ours? ”
Building the first-class hardware facilities in Europe is also one of the measures taken by the Fiorentina club led by Zhuang Mingge to strengthen the players' sense of belonging to Fiorentina.
With Fiorentina having just played a league game three days ago, Ranieri made some changes to Fiorentina's starting line-up, given that some players might not be able to keep up with the fitness of some players in this packed schedule.
Up front, the tinkerer, who tasted the sweetness of the match against Inter Milan, continued to field a front three, with Robert Baggio, who played the full 90 minutes in the previous game, given a break and Frenchman Djokaeff given a start.
In midfield, the duo of Tacchinadi, Davies and Effenberg remained, while the likes of Di Biagio, Kripa and Rui Costa were on the bench.
As for the backline, it is the tinkerer who has changed the most, because AC Milan's wing attack is quite sharp, whether it is Maldini on the left or Panucci on the right is the best fullback in Europe, the attack and defense are extremely solid, so Ranieri put the more solid defense Lanna and Billindeli in the starting line. Zambrotta's defeat was due to his youth and ease of being beaten by Maldini and Donadoni in their prime, while Fortunato's physical condition meant that he still couldn't adapt to the rhythm of a two-game week.
The centre-back combination is still Ferrara and Nesta, after all, AC Milan's two strikers, Weah and Kluivert, are the kind of versatile forwards, and only the two of them can limit these two black strikers, and if they are replaced by Viljoward or Filicano, they will definitely be left behind.
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It seems that because of distracted politics, AC Milan's big boss Silvio Berlusconi has not been to the San Siro for quite some time, especially after the team was eliminated from the UEFA Cup by the Bordeaux team led by Dugari and Miku (due to Zhuang Mingge's golden finger caused Zidane to leave Bordeaux early, so Miku also joined the Ligue 1 club earlier than in history), Disillusioned that the club had missed out on another Grand Slam opportunity, Silvio Berlusconi has devoted most of his energy to politics, leaving AC Milan entirely to Galliani.
"Manager Galliani, it's been a long time."
"President Corleone, welcome to the San Siro Stadium to watch the game." Jia Bald also bowed slightly to Zhuang Mingge, although the two clubs are now playing sparkly in the league, but in fact, there is no irresolvable deep hatred between AC Milan and Fiorentina, so at least there is still politeness.
However, the thing that gave Zhuang Mingge a headache soon appeared, because at this time, the bald man saw that there were no paparazzi or the like on the left and right, and he brought up the old matter again: "By the way, Chairman Corleone, I don't know if you have any plans to sell Filicano now, and we are willing to make a very generous offer for him......"
"That, Manager Galliani, or we will talk about this matter after the game, you see that the players on both sides have begun to enter the stadium now, let's " Zhuang Mingge, who was dizzy by Galliani, hurriedly found an excuse to put the topic aside for the time being.
At this time, the referee's whistle sounded on the pitch, and the first leg of the match between Fiorentina and AC Milan officially began!
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