Volume 1 Chapter 492 Dangerous Submarines

Juventus' victory on the pitch did not ease Juventus' problems off the pitch, and Juventus are still in a dire situation.

After the Italian derby, La Repubblica attacked Moggi for entering the referee's lounge, only to start the game five minutes later than scheduled, and the referee's decision was in Juve's favour.

Mogie was certainly not to be trifled with, and he immediately took La Repubblica to court, asking La Repubblica to compensate him for the loss of his reputation and apologize to him.

La Repubblica could not find evidence that Moggi had entered the referee's lounge, and the case was feared to be lost, but someone photographed Juventus' vice-president Betega indeed entering the referee's dressing room after the game, which is also not allowed in the rules.

If it had been some time ago, Betga's entry into the referee's dressing room after the game would certainly not have been a big deal, but now, due to the scandal of Juventus' control of the referee, the arbitrator Rauti immediately made a decision to impose a fine of 10UU on Betga, "without the approval of the people concerned, Betga entered the locker room." ”

However, this is only a small part of Juventus's troubles, because Juventus was too strong in the transfer market and set up a lot of enemies, and now Juventus is in trouble, and someone will fall into the hole immediately.

Former Marseille midfielder Edlie broke the news about Juventus's banned drugs, saying: "Juventus's system is more advanced and systematic, and the use of banned drugs is more ruthless, no matter what, everyone knows what the subsequent process is." ”

Although the former Marseille midfielder has squandered his savings back then, and is currently living on the relief money of conquest and the financial support of his parents, the news of Juventus is quite suspected of hyping his autobiography, but it undoubtedly makes Juventus even more embarrassed by the whirlpool of scandals.

Apparently the trouble has not only found Juventus and Moggi, but also Moggi's son, the president of Perugia club Gauci and some clubs accused Moggi's son A company of coercing the club to pay high commissions, and Alessandro Moggi is currently under investigation and questioning, if convicted, Alessandro Moggi will face jail time.

In the first round, Juventus challenged the weak Messina away, although Juventus will go to Scotland in the middle of next week to face the tall Glasgow Rangers, it is difficult to go all out in the weekend league, but with the strength of Juventus, the substitute is enough to win, so the outside world is still optimistic about Juventus, but in the end Juventus was not able to get three points from Messina, and was forced to draw by the opponent when Ibrahimovic scored twice.

The match between Fiorentina and Lazio was played later in Juventus, Fiorentina thought that Juventus would definitely win, although they had a Champions League match, but they were also ready to go all out to win Lazio at home, but Juventus was forced to draw by upset, which gave Fiorentina more options.

Fiorentina have worse bench depth than Juventus, with 13 league games remaining, and they still have Champions League targets, so at this time, it seems like a good option to choose to follow Juventus rather than catch up for the sake of the Champions League.

Prandelli discussed his thoughts with the club's top management and players, the club's top management and players all believe that the Champions League goal cannot be lost, at this time, it is not a bad thing for the league to slow down, like Juventus, if you go all out, the away team may not be able to win Messina, they were forced to draw, in addition to off-field troubles, more because the Champions League is going to play Glasgow Rangers.

Juventus are now almost Fiorentina's only title rivals, and Fiorentina will be in control of their own destiny as long as they keep the points within three points.

After Fiorentina reached this decision, Prandelli immediately made adjustments to the starting lineup, Tony, Brocki, Dainelli, Fiore 4 main players were replaced, Fiorentina used most of the main force at home to meet the challenge of Lazio, but in order to prevent the team from being collapsed by Lazio, Chen Yu still stayed in the starting lineup.

Chen Yu without Tony will obviously be more "taken care of" by the opponent, but as long as Chen Yu is there, Fiorentina's players have confidence, in this game, although Fiorentina did not play the four absolute main players, but the team still suppressed Lazio's onslaught for half an hour after the opening to give the opponent a chance to breathe.

Lazio did not know the strategic intentions of Fiorentina, they chose the tactics of defensive counter-attack away from home, strengthened the defense, and prepared to catch the holes of Fiorentina, they did not catch it in the first half, but after the opening of the second half, Lazio broke the door of Fiorentina with the first attack.

Fiorentina did not ask to win, but they never wanted to lose, a draw is the bottom line they can accept, and then Fiorentina strengthened the attack, sixty minutes later, Tony, Fiore and others were also replaced one after another, Fiorentina occupied the absolute upper hand, the last 80 minutes, Fiorentina defender Ujfarusi passed, the right side of the insertion of Chen Yu on the edge of the box chest stop the ball, picked two defenders to pass to Tony, Tony faced the goalkeeper of the attack with a right-footed shot to equalize the score.

The two sides then attacked and defended each other, but because the desire to win was not high, neither was able to score again in the end, and the two sides shook hands at the Frankie Stadium.

Of course, one point will not be too satisfactory for Fiorentina, but it is still good, the gap between them and Juventus is still 3 points, although AC Milan l:0 defeated Cagliari behind, the points are chased forward by two points, but the gap with Fiorentina is still as much as U points, Fiorentina does not need to worry for the time being.

Whatever the league is playing out now, the Fiorentinas don't have time to think about it, and now all their attention and energy is on the Champions League.

For any team, the importance of the Champions League is more than the league, in addition to the high income of the Champions League, or because the Champions League will bring a high visibility, a team wants to be recognized by the world, the only platform is the Champions League, which is the league that the fans of the whole world pay attention to, the annual Champions League final, the number of TV viewers has reached hundreds of millions, and it is completely worthy of a giant to participate in the semi-finals of the World Cup.

Now Fiorentina has gradually become a strong team after four years of hard work, and they now need to announce their return to the world, and the best way to be seen by the world's fans is to play well in the Champions League, which is why the Fiorentina team still puts the Champions League first when they have good opportunities in the league.

In addition to the importance of the Champions League knockout round, Fiorentina's opponents in the quarterfinals are not too strong, which is also an important reason for Fiorentina to go all out.

Yellow submarine Villarreal, opponent of the quarterfinals of Florence.

Compared with the purple lily, the yellow submarine is less famous, has fewer fans, and is weaker.

Located in the Royal Village of Infantes, 7 kilometres from Castellón de la Plana, with a population of just over 40,000, Villarreal has historically been a 19-year-old club that has spent most of its time in the lower leagues, almost at the same time that Fiorentina fell to the third division, Villarreal was promoted to La Liga, and then when Fiorentina made the triple jump miracle, Villarreal also began to play their legend.

In UU-0l, Villarreal was incredibly ranked 1st in La Liga, then 15th in both '01 and '03. In the summer of '03, Villarreal won their first European trophy, the International Toto Cup final, beating Heerenveen FC in the Netherlands. It was a fantastic result that gave the team their first qualification for the UEFA Cup. After that, the team shocked the world again with the Yellow Submarine making it all the way to the semi-finals of the UEFA Cup, the club's highest achievement ever.

In the 03-04 season, Villarreal finished 8th in La Liga and are one step away from going straight to next season's UEFA Cup.

Villarreal is rising rapidly, and the world has a vague sense that something big is going to happen to this small team, in the 0405 season, the yellow submarine is unbelievably ranked first in La Liga, second only to the two giants Barcelona and Real Madrid, and they are also strong again in the League Cup, and their main scorer Forlan also won the European Silver Boot Award with a goal second only to Chen Yu.

The third-place finish in La Liga saw the Yellow Submarine enter the UEFA Champions League, the most important club competition in world football. After beating England side Everton twice in qualifying, the Yellow Submarine made it to the group stage. They then finished top of their group with the biggest names Manchester United and reached the knockout stages of the round of 16 to face Fiorentina for a place in the quarter-finals.

Compared with Fiorentina, Villarreal does not have a reputation for Xuanhe, nor does it have a strong foundation, or even a huge number of fans, but the success of this La Liga team is not due to chance and luck

Before Chilean engineer Manuel Pellegrini took over Villarreal, former coach Floro had been emphasizing a holistic approach, and in the 1999-UU season, Villarreal rushed to La Liga, just as Argentina was experiencing an economic crisis, and many clubs wanted to sell players to Europe. Lianesa seized the opportunity to recruit a number of players from Argentina through loans, trials and other methods, and these players formed the base of Villarreal's team. After Pellegrini became the manager, Villarreal bought Riquelme, a world-class star who was depressed in Barcelona, as the core, and bought the powerful goalscorer Forlan for another 3 million euros.

Among all the 16 Champions League teams, Villarreal can only be regarded as the bottom of the middle, except for Benfica, Glasgow Rangers, Ajax, Eindhoven The four weak teams, Villarreal can only play against Lyon and Fiorentina, and the rest are European giants.

So after drawing the Fiorentina sign, Villarreal is also as happy as Fiorentina, at least they also have a good chance of qualifying.

Fiorentina were held to a draw by Lazio in the midweek league after the winter break, but Villarreal showed excellent form with a 4-0 thrashing of Espanyol after Riquelme's return from injury, and now Fiorentina host Villarreal will be at home to Villarreal's first-leg challenge, and their win against the Yellow Submarine will be key to the second-leg tiebreaker.