Chapter 682: The New Season Begins

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After the group stage of the European Championship qualifiers has come to an end, Fiorentina has finally ushered in the long-awaited Serie A!

On September 12, the first round of Serie A began, and Fiorentina and Lecce Jr., who had come to the Stadio Franky, staged a heart-warming attacking battle, with players from both sides scoring a full nine goals in 90 minutes, and even some fans who watched the game on TV thought they had opened the wrong channel.

It's no wonder that fans have such doubts, after all, Fiorentina has always given the impression that the defense is very solid, not to mention conceding three or four goals in a game, that is, there are only a handful of times when someone breaks the goal twice in a single game!

Therefore, this match with Lecce is indeed a bit ruinous.

In the end, it was the powerful Fiorentina who came out on top, with Ronaldo's strike before the end to call it a day, defeating the opponent with a score of 5-4 and winning the start of the new season in Serie A!

The Fiorentina players then headed north under the leadership of Fabio Capello to Trondheim, Norway's third largest city, where they will play their first Champions League group game of the season!

Here is a brief introduction to Fiorentina's Champions Cup grouping this season, Fiorentina, who were placed in the first pot, had quite good luck in the group draw ceremony this time, not only avoiding the most difficult Real Madrid and Dynamo Kiev in the second pot, but also avoiding Arsenal, the strongest in the third pot, and the Eredivisie giants PSV Eindhoven, Basque Lions Athletic Bilbao and Norway overlord Rosenborg were placed in Group B.

Compared to Fiorentina's good fortune, the other three teams from Serie A have not been very lucky: Inter Milan are better, only Real Madrid can compete with them in Group C, and the remaining Graz Storm and Spartak Moscow are not too good to pose much of a threat to the emergence of these two teams; Juventus' shape is a little more severe, with Premier League champions Arsenal, Bundesliga powerhouse Bayer Leverkusen, and the mysterious Galatasaray from Turkey in Group E, as long as the new Ann Fat Man is careful, then Juventus can completely suppress the other three teams in this group with superior strength. Of course, the frenetically frenetic football atmosphere in Turkey is something Ancelotti needs to pay special attention to.

Parma is the most back-to-back of the four Serie A teams, due to Zhuang Mingge's various actions in previous years, the European Champions Cup was drawn several years in advance, and then this season's Champions Cup did not appear as in history Bayern, Manchester United, Barcelona three teams gathered in the group of death. Therefore, Parma, who have been placed in the second pot, are in a group this time - the Milk Army are in a group with last season's La Liga champions Barcelona, Premier League powerhouse Chelsea, and Kaiserslautern, who won the Bundesliga last season!

Parma's new manager, Alberto Malesani, almost burst into tears when he learned that his team had been drawn with the three clubs – being in the same group as two of the champions in the four major leagues, plus a Chelsea team that is quite good at playing cup competitions, it will undoubtedly be an extremely difficult European journey for Malesani, who has just taken charge of Parma's coach!

By the way, when this group surfaced, almost all the European sports media got excited. After all, it is very rare to have a group with all four members in such a heavyweight group in the group stage of the Champions Cup - although Fiorentina has often been placed in the so-called group of death in previous years, the Purple Lily and the other three teams have a considerable advantage in terms of strength and experience, so qualifying from the group is never too much of a problem. Unlike Parma's group, the four teams are all about the same quality, and either side is likely to be eliminated if they are taken lightly!

That's why Malaisani is so nervous - he finally waited for the opportunity to coach a strong team, and if he messes it up this time, for example, the team is out of the Champions League group stage or has a poor league record, then it will be very difficult for him to make a comeback in the future.

Leaving aside Parma and the nervous coach Malesani, who were thrown into the group of death, let's turn our attention back to Fiorentina, who had arrived in Trondheim.

The first thing the Fiorentina players did when they arrived in Norway was not to go to the stadium under the guidance of the staff sent by Rosenborg to adapt to the field, but to prepare a series of cold protection measures on the plane under the supervision of their own physiotherapy team, and then hurriedly drove to the hotel that had already been booked, and there was no intention of adapting to the venue immediately.

There is no way around it, and although Rosenborg is the worst in the group compared to the other two teams in the group, its home advantage is also the most obvious of the four teams - the icy Nordics are a nightmare for many big teams.

The only good thing is that Fiorentina's away game with Rosenberg was scheduled by UEFA in September, which has not yet entered the cold winter, and the opponent has not yet had a clear climate advantage. If, like Bilbao and PSV Eindhoven, we had to wait until November and December to play in Norway, the result would not be clear......

After a little bit of acclimatement to the Norwegian weather, the Fiorentina players began to implement their plans under the guidance of the coaching staff to prepare for the match against Rosenborg.

In this way, the time quickly came on September 16, which is the day of the start of Fiorentina's first Champions League group game of the season.

Against Rosenborg, a traditional Nordic power-stream opponent, Capello put a lot of effort into the starting lineup, not only offering a fast and flexible combination of Ronaldo and Inzaghi in the front line to deal with Rosenborg's brave and less dexterous backline, but also putting Finns Hyypia and Stam together in central defence to fend off the attack of the opposing high striker.

As for whether Rosenborg will take advantage of the weakness of the two to turn slowly and slam them behind them, Capello is still not worried, mainly because Rosenborg is still insisting on the traditional way of crossing from a winger and a high striker in the penalty area, and there is no such speed player with strong scoring ability, so naturally there is no need to worry about this problem.

Goalkeeper Toldo, first-class physical Roberto Carlos and Zambrotta as the starting full-backs, Hyypia and Stam in the middle, Effenberg and Redondo, two technical and physical losers, formed a duo, Makelele and Gattuso in the midfield, and Ronaldo and Inzaghi up front...... That's Fiorentina's starting eleven for this game.

So, at Rosenborg's home stadium, the prepared Fiorentina and the Norwegian overlord had a fierce battle!