From January 8th, Serie A will officially kick off the UU year, and teams will also return to the league competition. The league title, the top scorer and the relegation spot will be the top three suspense in the second half of the season.

At the end of '05, Fiorentina won the title of "Winter Champion" by L points, but in the history of Serie A, the "Winter Champion" has only a probability of becoming the final champion with more than UU%. This advantage is really not huge. If Fiorentina had led the team with an experienced and stable coach like Capello, the probability of winning the title might have been greater, but a young coach like Prandelli, who had never won a league title, would probably only have a lower chance of winning the title than UU, despite his talent.

Fiorentina has two hurdles in front of him, and these two hurdles do not come from his opponents, but from himself.

Because of the ban, Chen Yu and other four main players can not play, which makes every game of Fiorentina very difficult, although the opponent in the 18th round is the weak team Regina, but considering that Empoli can draw Fiorentina, Reggina who is fighting at home can not even beat Fiorentina can not be said to happen. The opponents in the round of 19 are seventh-placed Chievo the Donkey, who have a good chance of ending Fiorentina's unbeaten run with a lack of major generals.

Fiorentina's danger is Juventus's opportunity, in the 18th and 19th rounds, Juventus's opponents are Palermo and Reggina respectively, with Juventus's stability, whether home or away, the possibility of winning is not small, as long as Fiorentina has a game that cannot win, Juventus has a very big chance of overtaking Fiorentina.

For the Milan duo, catching up with Juventus and Fiorentina in the league table is not entirely hopeless, but the chances of success are not very good. If they are unable to close the gap on Juventus in the last month or two, then the Milan duo may gradually abandon the league and focus on the Champions League instead. As for Livorno, Chievo, Roma, Lazio, etc., who are currently ranked 5678th in the standings, they may not have the ambition to compete for the title this season, and how to keep their UEFA Cup places and then impact the Champions League places is their most realistic goal.

The league title is Fiorentina's biggest goal, and the top scorer is another goal that Fiorentina is particularly concerned about. Last season's top scorer Chen Yu stabilized the rate of more than one goal per game almost made the top scorer lose suspense, but because of the ban, now Tony has gradually caught up, Chen Yu has scored 17, and Tony's goals have also reached 16, only one goal away from Chen Yu, but now Chen Yu has to ban two games, but Tony can get the opportunity to play, as long as Tony scores one goal in two games, he will be able to catch up with Chen Yu.

With Chen Yu's ban, not only Tony has the opportunity to compete for the top scorer, but the other strikers also see hope, in just three rounds, the competition for the scorer list has seen a new change, Trezeguet has scored 15 goals to chase behind Tony, if nothing else, the top scorer should be produced between the three of them. But if in the second half of the season there is a bizarre situation in which Gilardino and Lucarelli scored four goals each in the same game, then Adriano and Gilardino, who are currently ranked 415th in the scorer list, will still have hope of competition.

Compared with the relatively clear competition pattern of the league champion and top scorer, in fact, the most elusive thing is the relegation situation of the league. Among the teams currently at the bottom of the table are Cagliari and Messina, two island teams that have shown a dark horse posture in previous years, as well as promoted horses such as Treviso. However, among these teams, the most eye-catching is Parma, who were also one of the "Seven Sisters of Serie A" in the past. In fact, in last season's Serie A, Parma narrowly escaped relegation through the play-offs in the final stages. After the sale of relegation hero Gilardino this season, the team's strength has further declined, and the investment promised by former Real Madrid president Sanz has not been forthcoming. If Parma end up being one of the relegated teams, it will be another tragedy after Fiorentina's relegation four years ago.

In the 18th round, the relegation teams are not having a good time, Treviso wants to play Roma, which is gradually recovering from form, Messina is going to play away from home and Empoli, who is also fighting for relegation, Cagliari's opponent is the mid-table team Udinese, Parma wants to challenge AC Milan, and almost none of the bottom four teams have any hope of winning. And the championship team can't be said to be very comfortable, except for AC Milan to play Parma at home, Fiorentina at the top of the table is short of major generals, and they have to play away, and there is a great possibility of winning, drawing or losing. Although Juventus and Inter Milan have a better record and are strong, but the opponents in this round made them "suffer" last season, Palermo team beat Juventus at home last season, and Siena team also drew at home to the then unbalanced Inter Milan team, sometimes the style of play is compatible, don't look at Juventus and Inter Milan are very strong, maybe it is really possible to capsize in the gutter.

Due to the midweek Coppa Italia quarterfinals, the top two Fiorentina and Juventus matches are the first, these two games are related to the top position, both teams are also the main force, out of all the energy of the game, did not spare any force for the midweek Italian Cup, but the process of the game still makes fans worry,

Fiorentina conceded a goal in the first minute, and then they fought back, but they were never able to break through Regina's goal, and the difficulty lasted until the second half minutes before Jorgensen equalized by Jorgensen, who returned from injury, at this time, everyone thought that Fiorentina would take advantage of the victory and chase the opponent, but Fiorentina did not seem to wake up from the holiday, and began to sleepwalk after the equalizer, until the last minute there was no more chance to score, even inferior to Regina, The average Reggina also hit a post in the RR minute.

Fiorentina has never been able to gain the upper hand, which gives Juventus hope, but Palermo is indeed not a team to mess with, they play Juventus and also work hard, the first goal is Palermo's Teliz, but in the second half Juventus's viper Mutu was powerful, scoring twice, single-handedly led Juventus to reverse Palermo, and also helped Juventus to overtake Fiorentina again with an L point advantage and climbed to the top of the standings.

The top Fiorentina was frustrated, it was an excellent opportunity for the Milan duo, but in front of the opportunity, the Milan duo also showed a completely different psychological quality and mentality, AC Milan fell behind three times, tied three times, and completed a big reversal with the goal of the Ukrainian nuclear warhead Shevchenko at the last moment, while Inter Milan once again fell into the strange circle of last season, they were in a hurry in the face of the opportunity, but in the end they did not score a goal, and they could only reluctantly shake hands with Siena, ending the good situation of six consecutive wins.

After this game, AC Milan narrowed the score with the top by one point, and now there is only a U point difference from Juventus at the top of the table, and the gap with Fiorentina has become 5 points, while the gap between Inter Milan and the top has been widened to 10 points, although this can still be regarded as a hopeless gap, but with the mentality of Inter Milan, they basically have no hope of winning the championship, and keeping the Champions League place is their best choice

In the relegation ball, Messina, the only hope of winning, really won, they beat Empoli to get out of the relegation zone, and also pushed Empoli's manager Soma directly to the crater, and could be out of class at any time.

Cagliari was upset at home, beating Udinese.

Treviso and Parma were not so lucky, Roma and AC Milan did not let the upset happen, and the defeat allowed Treviso and Parma to stabilize the bottom two positions.

The match with Reggina made Fiorentina fall from the top of the table, and also made Prandelli and Fiorentina players realize the dangerous situation in front of them, now they are one point behind Juventus, and the score gap with AC Milan is only 5 points, and they must not draw or lose the next game with Chievo, otherwise Juventus will be surpassed by 3 or 4 points, and the fate of winning the championship is not in the hands of Fiorentina.

After the game, "Milan Sport" believes that Juventus has finally taken the lead in the championship race, don't look at the one-point advantage is very weak, but in the hands of a conservative master like Capello, he can play tricks with a one-point advantage.

"La Repubblica" said that Chen Yu's dependence finally broke out, without Chen Yu, in the last four games, Fiorentina won two and drew two, the key is that the opponent is very weak, and it is really too bad to achieve such results.

In this case, Prandelli boldly made the decision to give up the Italian Cup, and the day after the end of the 18th round, Prandelli announced the starting lineup for the second leg of the Italian Cup with Juventus, including Tony, the main U players were hidden, and only Chen Yu, Montolivo, and Fiore were three banned players on the field with a group of substitutes to compete with Juventus for a quarter-final qualification.

There are Chen Yu, Montolivo, Fiore, seven rookies, trying to beat Juventus is almost a dream, and Capello has also hidden a few main players, but the substitute gap between the two teams is huge, Juventus came with the confidence of winning, and finally in this game that is considered to be a preview of the Italian Cup final, Fiorentina: 4 defeated, Juventus stepped forward to the quarterfinals of the Italian Cup.

The Coppa Italia was a strategic abandonment by Prandelli, and the defeat was nothing, but what was unacceptable to Prandelli and the fans was that the main goalkeeper Frei needed surgery due to a torn ligament in his left ankle and he would miss the rest of the season. And he will also say goodbye to the World Cup as the substitute goalkeeper of the French team.

Frei's injury made fans and the media pessimistic about the future of Fiorentina, the media have said that Fiorentina lost on both fronts, may repeat the collapse of last season, fans are very worried about the state of the team, at the gate of Florence's training base, there are hundreds of fans playing "Chen Yu come back quickly" banner, for Fiorentina fans, Chen Yu is their most regrettable hope, if Chen Yu can not turn the tide, it is not impossible for Fiorentina to repeat last season's collapse.

As the saying goes, fortune is not a one-way street, after being eliminated in the Italian Cup, losing the top spot in the league, and the main goalkeeper was injured and reimbursed, Fiorentina suffered another misfortune, due to the disagreement between the club's top management and the owner of the Frankie Stadium over the issue of rent, from the 19th round of Serie A on October 15, Fiorentina will not be able to play home games at the Frankie Stadium for the time being. After the Coppa Italia match, Fiorentina reluctantly announced that the home match against Chievo was temporarily scheduled to be played at Perugia's home stadium.

Under all kinds of unfortunate blows, the game with Chievo has become less important, for Fiorentina, finding a reliable goalkeeper is now above all else, last season's goalkeeper Sejas, can only be regarded as decent, after half a season of idleness this season, it is difficult for him to lead Fiorentina to compete for the league title, let alone make a difference in the Champions League.

Although it is now during the winter break, Fiorentina can buy people, but the position of goalkeeper is very special, every team has a main goalkeeper, the main goalkeeper will basically occupy all the time, because the goalkeeper is basically not injured, and there is no physical problem, so it is difficult for the substitute goalkeeper to even have a minute to play.

Fiorentina wants to buy the main goalkeeper of other teams is definitely hopeless, a good goalkeeper is equivalent to half a team, this sentence is enough to show the importance of the goalkeeper, a team will never sell the main goalkeeper halfway unless it does not want results.

So now for Fiorentina, there is only one option, which is to find a reliable and practical substitute goalkeeper in other teams, rather than hoping to buy a main goalkeeper with strength and potential.

Toldo, Inter Milan's backup goalkeeper, once known as Santo Toldo, before Frei was not injured, Fiorentina was ready to exchange Bodinov for him as a substitute, but at that time it was just a dispensable deal, but now he has been promoted to Fiorentina's most important transfer.

Aside from Toldo, Fiorentina doesn't have much to choose from right now. Transfers always start with a goalkeeper and end with a striker, and this winter will be no exception. In the first three days of the transfer window, several 'big' deals were linked to the goalkeeper, with Chimonti going to Cagliari and Parma's Lupatelli swapping with Palermo's Guadalbon.

Good goalkeepers have transferred three, and the rest are Lazio's Balotta, Palermo's Santoni, and Roma goalkeeper Kurchi, among which Lazio's Balota and Palermo's Santoni are substitute goalkeepers, but they almost squeezed the main goalkeeper down, and the strength is not bad, and because of the strength, they are not willing to be a goalkeeper who has no chance to play for a minute.

Roma goalkeeper Kurci is the main goalkeeper, but because of injury by the substitute goalkeeper Doni squeezed out, from the main goalkeeper to the substitute goalkeeper, this taste is not better than from general to slave, so if Rome can not allow Kurchi to be the main force, Kurchi will obviously choose to leave.

Before Frei was not injured, these substitute goalkeepers were definitely reluctant to come to Frei as a substitute, but after Frei's injury was reimbursed, these substitute goalkeepers became very interested in Fiorentina's invitation, everyone knows that this is an opportunity to get on the top, and there are 18 rounds of games, as long as they have the strength and can sit firmly in the position, even if Frei recovers from injury next season, they may not be able to snatch the position back.

The substitute goalkeeper wants to go to Fiorentina, but the owner of the substitute goalkeeper does not want to let go, especially Lazio, Roma and Inter Milan, they are all competitors of Fiorentina, if Fiorentina collapses, Inter Milan is expected to win the championship, and the Roma duo will hope to reach the semi-finals and get the Champions League seat.

The senior management of the Fiorentina club contacted the agents of several goalkeepers and found that the goalkeepers had a very positive attitude, thinking that the recruitment problem was not big, and the offer for Toldo was the same as that of Inter Milan, and planned to exchange Bodinov, and also added 3 million euros to Inter Milan.

Moratti is naturally very unhappy about this, although he and De La Valle have been friends for many years, but friends are friends, business is business, Europeans are very clear about this, Moratti feels that Fiorentina is in urgent need of a goalkeeper now, and he actually dares to increase the price, Moratti replied directly to De La Valle that Toldo has an important role for Inter Milan, and with Frei's previous experience, he did not dare to let Toldo leave, because if Cesar was injured, Toldo could still come up, Toldo was gone, and there was no one in the position of second goalkeeper.

Fiorentina then contacted Roma goalkeeper Kurci, who was very interested in going to Fiorentina and did not ask for a high annual salary, but Roma refused to let him go, and Roma chairman Sensi said that Kurci and Doni are the main goalkeepers, and they will rotate and play in the winter break.

Too many changes in goalkeepers will inevitably affect defensive tactics and effectiveness. Like Parma and Palermo, the three goalkeepers are rotated, and the number of goals conceded is P and 25 respectively, ranking fourth respectively (the worst Siena conceded 30 goals), so Sensi's words are just clichés, and he doesn't want to give Kurci to Fiorentina.

Courci and Toldo are Florence's first choices, and only if they can't really get the two of them can Florence consider Balotta in Lazio and Santoni in Palermo.

Della Valle then made concessions and was ready to exchange Bodinov for Toldo directly, without Inter adding money, but Moratti still said that Dellavale's offer was not sincere. And the chairman of Rome, Sensi, does not want Bodinov, he only wants money, and it is fifteen million, not a single coin is missing.

This made De La Valle very angry, and he publicly said that if he couldn't buy a good goalkeeper, it would be better to let Sejas continue to be the main player, who had already played in the main team last season and had a record not much worse than Frei.

However, Prandelli said that whether Sejas can play the main team will need to see the weekend game against Chievo, if Sejas cannot adapt to the high-intensity game, Fiorentina must also buy people, otherwise there is no hope of winning the championship.