After the first leg of the European Cup Winners' Cup, Fiorentina returned to Serie A for the next league game. Ranieri has rotated a number of players out of concern for his fitness in order to keep them in top shape for the new season.

In the third round of the league, Fiorentina hosted Cremonese, Ranieri removed all the recent consecutive Effenberg and Kripa from the starting list, and replaced them with the young player Tomasi and the main substitute Collini, and also sent a lot of substitutes in the back line - from left to right are Francini, Verjovod, Ferrara and Parry, the young Cremonese seems to have been caught off guard by such an amazing rotation of Fiorentina - three to zero, with goals from Batistuta and Montella, Fiorentina have won three league games in a row.

Three days later, Fiorentina continued to sit at the Frankie Stadium to meet the second leg of the first round of the Cup Winners' Cup, Ranieri replaced the players who had been suspended in the previous round in this game, with a huge advantage of 3-0 in the previous leg, Fiorentina's players patiently and Bremen who were eager to equalize the aggregate score, and sacrificed the Italians' best defensive counterattack tactics, due to the red card suspension of Basler at the core of the front, Bremen faced the strict defense of Fiorentina could not speak, On the contrary, due to the player's mistakes, Djokaeff and Inzaghi were attacked successively, 2-0, Fiorentina sent the hapless Werder Bremen back to their hometown with a clean victory.

After the game, the German professional football magazine "Kicker" harshly criticized Bremen coach Rehhagel's tactical arrangement, believing that his game at home was too conservative, resulting in Bremen being completely controlled by Fiorentina in the two legs, passive everywhere, and finally eliminated 0-5 on aggregate, and at the same time, the magazine also severely criticized Basler, the German star's irrational behavior in the first leg of the game deprived Bremen of the engine to launch a counterattack against the opponent.

Rehhagel was quick to counter the criticism of The Kicker, claiming that there was no problem with his tactical set-up, and that Bremen's defeat was due to the fact that the first-team players were too old to keep up with Fiorentina's pace, and he believes that the development of young people should be taken seriously in Germany. But the current German club is madly obsessed with veterans, such as Rehhagel's Bremen: in the starting line-up for the first leg, captain Votawa is 38 years old, Thomas Schaff is 33 years old, Rufeel is 32 years old, Neubat is 32 years old, Borovka is 32 years old, Dieter Erz is 30 years old, and the only players under the age of 30 are Basler and Bodø...... But Rehhagel's words were not taken seriously by the Germans, who were still basking in the glory that the West German team in the Shijie Cup in Italy had brought them.

The Italian media began to praise Fiorentina in unison, believing that Fiorentina, under the leadership of coach Ranieri, played offensive football, blowing a strong wind of tactical change in the Apennine Peninsula and breaking the pattern of Serie A for many years. You must know that in Serie A, where defensive football is popular, Fiorentina used its fierce offensive to score 14 goals in three league games without conceding a goal, what a terrible phenomenon!

With the arrival of five consecutive wins in the new season and three consecutive wins in the league, most of the media believe that the tactical innovation of New Milan has achieved initial success, but Ranieri is soberly aware that Fiorentina's winning streak is largely due to the fact that the season has just begun, and the team's opponents in the league are generally weak, while the European opponent Bremen, Fiorentina's own style just restrained the opponent, so many victories do not say too much, and the real test is still to come.

Zhuang Mingge and Ranieri basically have the same opinion, and he also thinks that the praise of the Italian media is a bit exaggerated, because the reason why Fiorentina has made such an ideal start this season is mainly because according to Zhuang Mingge's tactical thinking that has led the football world for nearly 20 years, coupled with the fusion of Sarchi, Capello, Michels and other tactical styles of Florence, the team has been in a strategic lead from the beginning; Zhuang Mingge knows that Ranieri has never played offensive football for many years in Italian football, if he commanded Fiorentina to play "offensive and defensive balance" when playing against small and medium-sized teams, then when encountering strong teams such as AC Milan, Ranieri played, unless he was forced to do so, it was still his best defensive counterattack.

As a result, Fiorentina will need to be tested by a series of formidable opponents in their next two Serie A matches, with Fiorentina travelling away to traditional giants Inter Milan and then returning to the Stadio Franqui to face Lazio in the capital, both of which are a real touchstone for Fiorentina.

On September 25, Fiorentina, who are in good form, will travel to Milan's Meazza Stadium to challenge Inter Milan.

Inter Milan's performances have been up and down since the start of the season, beating Torino 2-0 away in the opening game, then losing at home to Roma and then being held to a stubborn draw by underdogs Brescia in the third round of Serie A.

Although Inter Milan's defense has greatly improved after the arrival of Pagliuca, it has been dragged down by the infighting of the team's two foreign players on the offensive line, and Inter Milan cannot win even if they have a good defense.

As a result, throughout the game, Zhuang Mingge saw only Bergkamp and Ruben Sousa's attack, and the two even reached the point of not passing the ball to each other on the pitch.

"I really don't know what Pellegrini is thinking, the relationship between these two foreign aides has reached this point, or quickly find a way to introduce a scientific competition and elimination mechanism to ease the contradiction between the two, at least this situation cannot occur on the court; Either simply and resolutely sell one and resolutely keep the other. Zhuang Mingge looked at Inter Milan, who was completely suppressed by Fiorentina on the field, and said to Karin beside him with a puzzled face.

"Peragrini spent a lot of money when he took the initiative to bring in these two foreign players, maybe he felt that he was losing too much money by selling one of them like this?" Karin's guess came close to the truth.

In fact, Pellegrini has already had the idea of selling his shares in Inter Milan this season, and if there are stars such as Sousa and Bergkamp in the squad, he can sell them for a relatively high price when he transfers them.

Just as Zhuang Mingge and Karin were discussing the problems existing in Inter Milan, a middle-aged man's voice interjected into the conversation between the two:

"If I were the president of Inter Milan, I would kick these two bastards out of the team!" The middle-aged man with slightly gray temples said angrily, "They dare to put their personal gains and losses above the interests of the team, they don't deserve to wear the Inter Milan jersey at all!" ”

Zhuang Mingge and Karin looked at the angry man and felt a little surprised, they didn't expect to see such fanatical fans in the VIP box.

At this time, the middle-aged man noticed Zhuang Mingge and Karin's surprised gazes, and knew that the "noise" he made just now interfered with the two, so he smiled embarrassedly and said, "I'm really sorry to disturb you watching the game." ”

"Hello, my name is Antonio Corleone, and I am the President of Florence." Zhuang Mingge felt that the man sitting behind him was a little familiar, and decided to talk to him, "Just call me Antonio." ”

"Hello, Antonio." The man also introduced himself to Zhuang Mingge very politely, "My name is Massimo Moratti, you can call me Massimo." ”

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PS1: Chapter 5 of "Add more to complete jihua".

PS2: Regarding the transfer of Rui Costa mentioned in the book review area, we can only regret that because Effenberg did not leave, there was a limit on the number of foreign players in European football at that time, and Costa basically did not play when he came......

PS3: Effenberg must not let go! It doesn't matter if it's his fan or not! After letting him go, he must not be played to death by Bayern when he runs into him......

PS4: Rui will come, but not now......

PS5: Anyway, who has the schedule for the European Cup Winners' Cup in the 90s, it's hard to check one by one......