After losing the second round of the league, Fiorentina slipped from the top of the table, and was overtaken by Juventus, Parma, AC Milan, Lazio and other teams who won this round, and the league ranking fell to sixth place all of a sudden.

After losing this inevitable game, Ranieri returned to Fiorentina with his team dejected, although the fans did not criticize the players for this defeat, but this gutter capsizing incident did sound the alarm bell for the whole Fiorentina team, especially Ranieri himself.

Ranieri only recalled after the defeat that his boss had warned him not to underestimate Vicenza days before the game, but he was so confident that he didn't take it to heart......

Ranieri, who finally recalled this incident, was instantly drenched in a cold sweat, after all, no matter where he is in Italy, the head coach cannot clash with his boss, otherwise his job will be lost, and there are not many rich and ambitious teams like Fiorentina in the whole of Europe, and he can't find a better job with his resume.

So after returning to Florence, Ranieri went to visit Zhuang Mingge as soon as possible, and sincerely admitted to him that he had made the mistake of underestimating the enemy. However, to Ranieri's surprise, Zhuang Mingge did not seem to be angry at Ranieri for ignoring his advice this time, but comforted him with kind words and asked him to lead the team to the game.

In this way, Ranieri returned to the training base in a daze and continued to prepare for the next game.

If Fiorentina are still the same young team they were two years ago, it will likely take a long time for them to recover from this defeat. But that's no longer the case, with 12 players over the age of 25 in Fiorentina's first-team squad spread across the pitch, and for them who are mentally fit enough, a league defeat at the start of the season will not affect their mental state at all.

Fiorentina will be tested in the first round of the group stage of the UEFA Champions League this coming week, taking on Glasgow, Scotland's largest city, Glasgow Rangers, the giants of Scottish football.

This is the third time in Fiorentina's history that the club has played in the European Champions Cup, the last time they played in the main event of the European Champions League was back in the distant 69-70 season, and the Purple Lilies have not won a league title since.

This time, the Florentinans have been waiting for 25 years to finally look forward to the European Champions League!

Fiorentina are in Group C, and apart from Romania's champion Bucharest, both La Liga champions Real Madrid and Soviet Super League champions Glasgow Rangers are very difficult opponents.

Glasgow Rangers, who had already been weakened by the blows of old rivals Celtic, rose to prominence after the arrival of steel tycoon David Murray. Taking advantage of the ban of English teams by UEFA in the mid-to-late 80s, Rangers used huge financial resources to attract a number of top British local players, and even became the representative of English football for a time. Even now, after more than three years of operation in the Premier League, Glasgow Rangers still have many excellent players in the team, such as the creative midfielder Paul Gascoigne of English football, Scottish center forward and former European Golden Boot winner McCaucest, supplemented by Bryan Laudrup, Mikhailichenko and other famous players, it is a very strong team.

In the face of such a team, Ranieri, who has just learned a lot of lessons from Vicenza, will naturally not put on a stand for the Serie A title, nor dare to lose the club's first Champions Cup game in nearly 30 years after losing a league game. If even this game is lost, no matter how tolerant the Fiorentina fans are, I am afraid that Ranieri himself will be quite aggrieved for a long time to come.

The day before the start of the Champions League group stage between Fiorentina and Rangers, Zhuang Mingge quietly took Nesta, who was not included in the 18-man squad for this game, to visit Gascoigne, who had just transferred from Serie A Lazio to Rangers this summer.

As mentioned earlier, Gascoigne was originally the core of Lazio's organization, but was seriously injured by a shovel by Nesta, who was still playing for the Blue Eagles at the time, during team training, and was forced to recuperate for half a year before returning to the field.

But when Gaza returned to the first team after returning from injury, he was surprised to find that there was no place for him in the team - during his injury, Czech Zeman divided the team's organizational work to Di Matteo, Fosse and others, so that the Blue Eagles achieved a transformation in the six months of Gaza's absence, and the Englishman was no longer an indispensable one.

At this time, Cragnotti has not received a large amount of money through the listing and financing of Lazio Club, and naturally he will not support such a rotation player with a high salary for no reason. So in the summer, the big boss of Carat sold Gaza to Scotland for £8.7 million.

Nesta has been sullen since learning of Gascoigne's transfer, believing that it was his reckless actions that forced Gascoigne to move to Scotland, which in turn led to his rare tackles during the game and often hesitated to miss opportunities when tactical fouls were made.

Therefore, this time, Zhuang Mingge took advantage of his position to bring Xiao Nei's classmate to visit Gascoigne, hoping to untie the knot that had plagued him for a long time.

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“hahahaha…… Imp, you're thinking too much! After listening to Nesta's description of the purpose of this trip, Gascoigne couldn't help but hahadaxiao and patted Xiao Nei's shoulder fiercely, "We are players, as long as we have the ability, where can we play?" There's always a team that's willing to take you. ”

Although Gazza's bad life style and casual attitude are often criticized, in general, Gascoigne is still a good straight person, and he will never make enemies with others for no reason, so Gaza easily forgave Nesta for his unintentional mistakes back then.

"But ......"

"You cultural people just have a lot of things, don't say anything, come and give me this drink, and this matter will be cleared!"

"Okay, since you've said so Gaza, Alessandro, don't be so inkblotted, cheers!" Zhuang Mingge also raised the glass full of beer and shouted loudly.

"Cheers!" *3

At this time, none of the three people present realized how much this conversation would affect Nesta's future career......

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