Chapter 839: Devil's Schedule (3)

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After a seven-game winning streak in the sprint last season, overtaking Lazio to a last-minute silver medal in the league, Zaccheroni's coaching skills were recognised by AC Milan's management for his ability to lead the Rossoneri back to their glory days.

As a result, with Berlusconi's financial support, AC Milan has made a lot of moves in the transfer market this summer. Although Zaccheroni did not get his favorite Shevchenko and Kaladze due to Galliani's mistakes, the arrival of Rebrov, another of the Ukrainian twins, and the return of Koko and Ambrosini and other youth stars who have been on the sidelines, have left Zaccheroni with a lot more available soldiers.

Meanwhile, Brazilian Serginho and homegrown rookie Tonetto have moved from Sao Paulo and Empoli respectively to strengthen the Rossoneri's wide flanks and allow Zaccheroni to use his best three, four and three formations more comfortably.

By the way, after the introduction of Rebrov and others, counting Weah, Leonardo, Guli and Dida, the four players who were already in the Milan team, the number of non-European foreign players in the AC Milan first team suddenly exceeded the five-man limit stipulated by the Italian Football Federation. Therefore, in order to bring in these non-European foreign players, and at the same time not to lose Dida, the goalkeeper that Lao Bei is very optimistic about, AC Milan had to open up some links, and only applied for Italian nationality for the Brazilian at the last minute before the league registration deadline, and successfully stuffed Dida into the first team's 25-man squad.

And this move of AC Milan naturally caused dissatisfaction among other Serie A teams. After all, when all teams are honestly playing games within the scope of the rules, suddenly a team obtains undeserved benefits in a crooked way, even if the team's additional gain is just a substitute goalkeeper, it will inevitably cause strong dissatisfaction and resistance!

While it's true that Italy allows players to have multiple citizenships, the minimum requirement to apply for Italian citizenship is that the player must have lived in Italy for at least five years before he can apply, and Dida, who has only been in the Apennines for only one year, clearly does not meet this requirement! Therefore, AC Milan's success in applying for Italian citizenship for Dida means that the rules of the game that everyone follows are not being given the attention they deserve!

So, after the start of the new season, the other 17 Serie A clubs jointly wrote to the Italian Football Federation, asking the Football Association to punish AC Milan for violating the rules!

And the Italian Football Federation is not ambiguous, although Dida's Italian nationality is a foregone conclusion and there is no room for change, but the Football Association, which has the backing of 17 other teams, has a rare hard time on a giant club like AC Milan, and rejected Dida's registration in the name of not receiving a notice that Brazilians have Italian nationality!

This means that the Brazilian goalkeeper will not be able to play for the Rossoneri in the league until the winter transfer door opens!

At the same time, Berlusconi's rather power-seeking thing was caught by his political opponent, the ruling coalition headed by the current Italian Prime Minister Prodi, and the indiscriminate bombardment made Lao Bei's public opinion in Italy drop by several percentage points!

Berlusconi, though very annoyed by the attacks from his political opponents, had no good way to remedy the situation, and even his allies were unwilling to stand up for him at this time, but began to discuss the possibility of changing the leader of the alliance - who made the old Bey really angry on the issue of Dida's Italian nationality?

Although Dida was banned for half a season by the Football Association due to nationality issues, AC Milan fans still have high expectations for the team's future this season, after all, with so many strong reinforcements, the team's results should be much better than last season.

However, to the disappointment of Rossoneri supporters, AC Milan have been mediocre on all fronts since the start of the season. The Italian Cup was eliminated by the opponent early, and the Champions Cup group stage was also lost to the weak team one after another, and even the qualification for the League Cup as the third place in the group was a problem, and in the league only four wins, five draws and one loss accumulated 17 points in the standings...... That's how Zaccheroni handed over to the club and the fans about a third of the way through the league.

"Zaccheroni's spirit of sticking to his football philosophy is certainly commendable and does find a good way out for attacking football, but his tactical thinking of pressing attacks is very demanding for the players, especially the three strikers up front." Sitting in the VIP box at the Frankie Stadium and looking at the AC Milan players who kept attacking but did not return, Zhuang Mingge commented, "At Udinese, on either side of Bierhoff are Poggi and Amoruso, two strikers who are good enough to break through and have a lot of physical fitness, so Zaccheroni's tactics can be successful." Now, the thoroughly aging Weah simply can't provide enough support, and Bierhoff's physical function has been declining since last season, and it is also no longer as brave as it used to be, and it will be difficult to break through the opponent's backline if Rebrov is responsible for scoring alone. ”

As Zhuang Mingge said, Zaccheroni chose to continue to trust the attacking trident of Bierhoff, Weah and Rebrov in this game, but only Rebrov is actually the only one of the three who has the ability to pose a threat to Fiorentina's backline, and the other two have lost their world-class impact due to the decline of their physical functions, and the threat they can create is naturally only a handful.

Looking at Fiorentina, the players who had been preparing for five days withstood the visitors' attacks with the cheers of more than 40,000 home fans, and then kept passing the counter-attack against AC Milan in a concise and efficient manner. In the case that the offense could not form an effective suppression of the opponent, Zaccheroni's three, four, and three formations were naturally infinitely amplified by Fiorentina.

Ambrosini and Jonti's midfield is brave but not delicate enough to compete against Fiorentina's world-class midfield configuration; Helwig and Koko on the flanks are good enough, but in front of the better Carlos and Zambrotta, their skills are somewhat inadequate; And with the fire support from teammates such as Redondo and Carlos, Ronaldo, who is getting better and better at combining people and the ball, and Inzaghi, who is becoming more and more skilled in anti-offside skills, tear the central defense line composed of Desailly, Maldini and Ayala to pieces!

In the end, when the game was over, Fiorentina defeated AC Milan 1-3 at the Stadio Frankie, and managed to take all three points in this so-called matchup!