Chapter 16: The Battle of Fiorentina (Part I)

For Ling Feng, there is no big meaning in the same game, not to mention that the Premier League games are many well-known in the world, and now Manchester United is fighting on four fronts - the league, the Champions Cup, the FA Cup and the League Cup, as for the garbage league cup, Ling Feng has never participated in a single one.

The Premier League's schedule is extremely unreasonable, with heavy games, too many events, and many times, clubs have to face a situation of two games a week, and Ferguson often does not let Ling Feng play the whole game, which is also in this regard - Ling Feng and Cantona are the main attackers of Manchester United, and neither of them can make too many injuries.

Now Manchester United's strength is too strong, the only thing that can make Ling Feng interested is Wenger's Arsenal, even Liverpool is not qualified, and some strong teams in the Champions Cup are also okay.

In a word, Ling Feng can't wait to leave Manchester United at the end of this season!

Another thing worth mentioning is that the Chinese women's football team, which has been training in Florence for a year, has ended their overseas training trip and started preparing for the Women's World Cup in the United States in five months.

The current strength of the Chinese women's football team is originally world-class, plus their one-year sparring - that is the future successor of the Chinese men's football team, Barty and others did not compete with the women's football girls, but they were full of praise for the outstanding skills of Sun Wen, Liu Ailing and others.

In Baggio's words, the strength of the Chinese women's football team is to pull the men's football team, which is also quite impressive.

In the 99 years of the Women's World Cup in history, the Chinese team won the runner-up on penalties at the Rose Bowl Stadium, so this year, I believe they will be able to lift the championship trophy.

Time passed quickly, Ling Feng's performance in the game was as strong as ever, and Manchester United gradually established its position as the leader in the Premier League standings - the end of the 27th round, six points ahead of second-place Arsenal.

In the Champions League, Manchester United won four and drew two, finishing top of the group, with two draws against Saint-Germain and Bayern Munich.

In the first round of the knockout round, Manchester United defeated Inter Milan without Ronaldo 4:1 home and away, and their opponent in the semifinals turned out to be Fiorentina!

Ling Feng finally had to inevitably face his old club last season, and there were so many close comrades-in-arms!

The news of Ronaldo's sky-high transfer to Fiorentina is undoubtedly a bombshell dropped on the Europa Peninsula, and when everyone is speculating about how Fiorentina should arrange the four top strikers, it is found that Fiorentina is the same as before, not even the lineup has changed at all, and Ronaldo has not even entered the substitute list.

It's okay if you didn't see an alien in the first two games, but the problem is that Ronaldo seems to have evaporated from the world, and he hasn't appeared since the transfer - including training!

This had to make everyone mad – the reason for the madness was, on the one hand, the official Florentine explanation.

Speaking at a press conference at the start of the second half of the season, Maradona said: "Since Ronaldo has not yet been integrated into Fiorentina's squad and he is now in the adjustment phase, he is not visible on the player list. ”

After two rounds, Maradona replied to a reporter's question: "Aliens have not yet fully adapted to the gravitational pull of the earth, so they have to repair for a while." ”

Two more rounds, Maradona deliberately held a press conference, claiming that "aliens have overcome the gravitational pull of the earth", but Ronaldo still did not show up during the game.

"Unfortunately," Maradona said after the game, "we had planned to put Ronaldo on the pitch, but before the game he stole a biscuit, and as a result, he stuck in his throat and was taken to the hospital for emergency ......"

In every round of the game in the future, Maradona had to stand up and make a big statement, making everyone sigh, why is Ronaldo's fate so tragic since he arrived in Florence?

For example, I was bitten by a dog, accidentally hit a telephone pole while walking, smashed a water bottle on my foot while in the kitchen, and went hunting with Baggio and suddenly exploded my shotgun......

It's almost like he stuffed his teeth when he drank cold water!

The reporters are crazy with their hair, even if Ling Feng is gone, Florence is now adhering to his badness, that is-playing to death reporters is not worth their lives......

Ronaldo himself now receives the best physiotherapy in China, which is the pure Chinese medicine method recommended by Ling Feng, using acupuncture and moxibustion to help him recover from his knee injury, without surgery, just by sticking dozens of needles in his thigh......

Ronaldo is now organizing the wedding, he and Milani are in full swing, but what is depressed is that the doctor asked for abstinence during the treatment, which is bitter for the mule, and can only be seen but not eaten - in fact, it is completely unnecessary, but the doctor accepted Ling Feng's red envelope and deliberately said so......

Traditional Chinese medicine is a mysterious field for foreigners, and no matter how bold Ronaldo is, he does not dare to disobey the doctor, for fear of causing some sequelae such as "sexual dysfunction and hemiplegia".

After holding back for half a year, when Ling Feng saw him again, that guy's eyes were red, and he looked over-energetic......

The big game between Manchester United and Fiorentina has attracted a lot of attention, but it is regrettable that this game is not a final - the semi-final is still a two-game winner home and away, and none of the games have come out strongly.

The other semi-final between Bayern Munich and Real Madrid is also exciting, but it is undoubtedly much inferior in light compared to this big battle.

Fiorentina and Manchester United are both leaders in the league, in order to prepare for this crucial game, both managers have begun to deploy the physical fitness of players in the first five rounds, and the main scorers such as Baggio, Ling Feng and others, in order to avoid injury and fatigue, play an average of only 45 minutes per game before being substituted.

On April 17, 1999, the 34th round of the English Premier League came to an end, Manchester United ranked first in the league with 25 wins, 7 draws and 2 losses, extending their advantage over the second-place Arsenal team to 11 points, as long as they drew in the next game, then they could lift the Premier League championship trophy in advance.

At this time, the FA Cup is also about to reach the semi-finals, Manchester United will face Chelsea, and the other two places in the last four will be occupied by Arsenal and Liverpool.

The 98-99 league season is coming to an end, and the teams are going to make the final sprint.

Ling Feng returned to the Florence City Hall Stadium and was greeted by the cheers of 60,000 home fans.

It was Ling Feng who saved the Fiorentina club, and it took him just one year to build Fiorentina into the strongest team in the world, the Serie A championship, the European Champions Cup, and the first World Club Cup championship that has just ended - in the final of the Club World Cup in China, Fiorentina beat River Plate 3:0 and won the first Club World Cup after the reform. Baggio scored six goals in each of his four games and walked away with a Mercedes car.

In fact, Barty had already scored six goals in the first three games, but in order to dominate the organizers' car, Fiorentina completely centered on Baggio in the last game, helping the Prince of Melancholy score a hat-trick in the 60th minute of the game, tying Barty's goal - and then Baggio and Barty both went off the field consciously, and what awaited them was a crying look from the organizers.

In Ling Feng's words to the organizers: "What do you care about with such a small amount of money? Isn't it just a car, just pay an extra $300,000, and you're embarrassed to let the two top scorers drive a car back? ”

Originally, the Mercedes-Benz company was very "embarrassed", but after Ling Feng said it in public, they were not so "embarrassed", and it was worth paying for an extra car in their pockets......

And I forgot to mention that in order to attract major clubs to participate, Ling Feng made the organizers of this competition a lot of blood, in addition to the top scorer can drive a car, the most valuable player can also get a reward of 500,000 US dollars.

Of course, Feishui did not leave outsiders to the field, and the World Cup Ballon d'Or winner Zinedine Zidane happily took the check for $500,000 with six assists and two goals......

After the game, Barty and Baggio generously took the initiative to copy their respective car keys and give them to Ling Feng - in fact, they also knew that even if they didn't give it away, Ling Feng would steal it and match it by himself - it was better to consciously order it......

When the players shook hands, Ling Feng and the Fiorentina players hugged, punched, and kicked their butts one by one......

The referee was terrified, is this considered a foul......

The referee didn't see it, the relationship between Florence and Ling Feng is known to the world, be careful that Ling Feng stepped forward to give himself a knife and gave himself a gameover.

Ling Feng had said before when he played against Hamburg in Florence that he would not shoot at the parent team, but before this game, Ling Feng took the initiative to say that he would do his best in this game to challenge the current Fiorentina team composed of top players.

Ronaldo, who was being treated far away in China, was crying and shouting that he wanted to come back to compete - he was ravaged several times by Ling Feng's Fiorentina last season, and now it was time to ravage Ling Feng himself.

But looking at the dozens of needles in his legs, the alien finally gave up on the idea.

The race finally began in anticipation.

Laudrup Jr. was on the bench and started with Baggio and Barty.

Fiorentina served first, they played in no hurry, several of the world's top midfielders in the midfield passed smoothly, Manchester United's midfield is just as strong, but compared to the ability to control, it is a grade worse than Fiorentina, the Premier League is about fast attack, not this kind of slow positional warfare.

Roy. Keane's solidity has become a barrier in the midfield, while the efforts of Ryan Giggs and David Beckham have also become key to the United defence, especially Beckham, who has crushed the media criticism with his 25 assists and seven goals in the space of almost a year, and now the fans are no longer targeting him as much as before.

Beckham has won the support of the fans with his own efforts.

But when it comes to possession, there are only a handful of players in the United squad who can match Fiorentina's attacking players.

Zidane perfectly replaced Ling Feng's position, although he couldn't run back and forth like Ling Feng, but his control in the midfield, as well as the double forward waist formed with Effenberg, made Batistuta and Baggio get the most powerful firepower support, although now Fiorentina's offensive rhythm is not as fast and sharp as when Ling Feng was in the past, but this kind of slow positional battle also makes the opponent chill.

The British "Sun" pointed out before this game: "No team has always controlled as Fiorentina, and no team has fought Manchester United in a fast attack - provided that Ling Feng must play his best form." ”

As a versatile player on the field, Ling Feng's values are the most suitable for fast attack, and now many fans also know that in the Manchester United team, Ling Feng is not satisfactory, although he occupies the top spot in the Premier League scorer list, but Manchester United is not suitable for him, Ferguson is not suitable for him.

But in this game, Ferguson said in terms of tactical arrangement, allowing Ling Feng to play freely, and the tactics are based on Ling Feng, and unless he is injured, he will definitely not replace Ling Feng!

Injured in the match against Fiorentina? That can be said to be a zero probability event, in the face of the Fiorentina team, which is known as the most luxurious squad in the world, Ferguson had to rely on Ling Feng.

Ling Feng didn't bother to pay attention to him, but he also wanted to have a good fight with his old teammates, after all, there were not many opportunities like this.

There must be a group of equally powerful teammates for Ling Feng to have a chance to defeat Florence, otherwise Ling Feng would not dare to think of it with his own strength.

Fiorentina in front of you is the only veritable all-star lineup in the world!

Moreover, it is an all-star team that cooperates quite well and knows itself very well!

This match is the most powerful opponent Ling Feng has faced since his debut four years ago.