Volume 1 Chapter 245 Low Tide
After back-to-back victories over Inter Milan and Juventus, Fiorentina's morale and form were at their peak, and the team's leadership had set their sights on winning the title after leading second-placed Juventus.
Climbing to the top of the table so quickly is not a good thing for this group of players who have come up from Serie B, who have been able to fight in obscurity in the lower leagues, who have been able to fight hard in the face of adversity, but who have been proud and underestimated in the face of media praise and successive victories.
In the first round of Serie A, Fiorentina hosted the promoted polo team Livorno.
It was a good chance to grab points, Fiorentina were able to beat Inter Milan and Juventus, and no one would believe that Livorno in the middle could pick up points against Fiorentina, who were also extremely humble and thought a draw would be the best outcome.
Juventus and Milan also gave Fiorentina a spell at this time, saying that according to the schedule, Fiorentina is likely to stay at the top of the table until the winter break.
However, the results of the big hit are always surprising.
Livorno's fighting power increased greatly after Livorno-born Italian President Ciampi came to cheer at the Frankie Stadium and even beat Fiorentina away.
In this game, Colomba counterattacked with Lucarelli in front, and the defenders piled up behind to set up an iron bucket formation, so that Fiorentina, who were eager to win, had little to do.
The first to score was Livorno, Chen Yu, who had scored 18 goals in the previous round, was finally unable to continue to score under Livorno's multi-person package, until the 75th minute, Fiorentina substitute Di Natale equalized with a long-range shot, but Livorno actually used an own goal from Ujfarucci to overtake again.
After the game, Fiorentina coach Mondonico apologized to the Fiorentina fans, admitting that he was a little careless and did not understand the hardships of the game, which ultimately led to the failure to win Livorno at home.
Chen Yu, the team's interim captain, is more optimistic than his teammates and coaches, he believes that there is no unbeaten team in the whole of Europe now, and Fiorentina's loss is just a relief from the psychological burden, as long as they can play the next games, they can continue to attack the championship
Fiorentina's defeat was a great opportunity for Juventus and AC Milan, and in the next game, Juventus and AC Milan did not let the opportunity slip away, Juventus defeated the in-form Lecce 0 away from home, AC Milan beat Siena at home, and the two teams narrowed the difference with Fiorentina to l points and five points.
Only Inter Milan continued to wander around in the cycle of draws, and this round they were forced to draw by Cagliari, and the distance from the top three was further widened, and the difference between the three teams has reached more than 10 points, and after the game, Mancini admitted that there is no hope of winning the championship, and the most realistic idea is to keep the top four positions in the league.
The first round of Serie A ended, and the battle in the Asian zone of the World Cup Qualifiers also started almost at the same time.
As the Chinese team with the most fans in the world is the focus of this round of Asian qualifiers, this round is also a battle of life and death for the Chinese team, before the last game of Group D, Kuwait and the Chinese team are points, and the records between the two teams are also 0 to defeat each other, but Kuwait's goal difference is two more than the Chinese team, according to the regulations, China must score three more goals than Kuwait if it wants to qualify for the group
Due to its special relationship with China, there were many rumors before the game that Hong Kong, China might release water, but Hong Kong, China denied it. However, in the first leg of the meeting between the two teams, China only played IUj sex Hong Kong, China, this time not only to win, but also to win by a large score, no one believes it if they don't need to be tired.
The process and result of the game also fully proved the pre-game speculation, China and Hong Kong team, Kuwait and Malaysia, are suspected of match-fixing, but Kuwait is more "fake" and smarter, they are watching the game between China and Hong Kong to adjust their scores, and at the last moment to let the opponent release the water, and finally the Chinese team defeated the Hong Kong team 0 but still failed to qualify, and was eliminated by Kuwait who defeated Malaysia with a goal difference.
The funniest part of this game is that when the game just ended, the players of the Chinese team and the officials of the Football Association thought that they had advanced and began to celebrate in the stadium, and when the fans let out earth-shattering boos, they realized that they had miscalculated.
After the game, extremely disappointed Chinese fans and sports media ridiculed the Chinese team and the Chinese Football Association on the Internet and newspapers, saying that they were shameless and stupid, with an IQ equivalent to that of a primary school student.
The Chinese team failed to qualify for the group qualifiers, next year's top ten, and the World Cup the year after next are not expected to participate, basically there is no game to play in three years, and Chinese and foreign sports media think that this is a very cup of things for Chen Yu, who is popular all over Serie A.
Although Chen Yu was expelled from the national team before, and the peripheral group stage of the World Lu World Cup has not been recruited, but no one thinks that Chen Yu will be permanently excluded from the national team, Chen Yu's performance in Serie A is already at the world level, and no one can withstand the pressure of excluding such a player from the national team, and now Chen Yu has not been recruited just because the opponent's level is too weak to use Chen Yu, the Chinese Football Association and Ali Han hope to suppress Chen Yu, frustrate his arrogance, and come in handy again in the top ten. But no one thought that the Chinese team was so incompetent that they didn't even make it to the top ten. In this way, Chen Yu was at the peak of his age, and he didn't have a national team game until 10 years.
After the Chinese team's game, reporters from Sports Weekly and Football Newspaper tried to interview Chen Yu, but Chen Yu refused to make any comments about the Chinese team.
However, Gao Fei, who was selected for the national team for the first time and did not get a chance to play for a minute, told reporters that Chen Yu actually cared about the Chinese team, and he went to watch the live broadcast after the game that day, and he was sad and angry that the Chinese team was eliminated like this, and he drank a lot of wine that night.
After the first round of Serie A, the first leg of the third round of the Coppa Italia kicked off.
The Italian Cup is a level lower than the league and the Champions League, and the strong teams must not look down on it, Capello and Ancelotti openly said that the Italian Cup is a game to restore the state of players, and it is impossible for them to send the main team to participate in the game; And although the relegation team is not qualified to look down, but they can't send the main team to participate in the battle, for them, to be able to survive in Serie A has to do their best, where is still in the mood to think about what championship, what ranking, in case the main players in the Italian Cup have any mistakes, they just can't find a place to cry.
Only mid-table teams are taken seriously in the Coppa Italia, there are also strong teams that have little hope in the league, such as Inter Milan, and teams that are not confident of winning the championship but want to have some glory, such as Fiorentina, and the result of the game is the same as the team's attitude towards the game.
In the match between Fiorentina and Parma that started first, I don't know if it was because the Chinese team was eliminated and Chen Yu was full of anger, or the last round of the league was forced to draw by Livorno, and he didn't score to make Chen Yu angry, in short, Chen Yu sprinkled his anger on the opponent Parma in the third round of the FA Cup at the weekend, in this game, Chen Yu scored two goals with a kick on the head and foot, and assisted Pordillo to help the team beat Parma 3-0 and almost stepped into the quarterfinals with one foot.
The other seven games were upsets, with Juventus losing 0 away to bottom-placed Atalanta, Roma losing at home to second-bottom-placed Siena and Lazio losing away to Cagliari, with the only surprise coming from Inter Milan's defeat to Bologna. In the other games, Udinese and Lecce staged a goal battle, and in the end, the Black Chicken beat Pepper 4, AC Milan beat Palermo comfortably at home, and Sampdoria beat Torino 0.
The second leg of the third round of the Coppa Italia will start after the winter break, but the result cannot be difficult to guess, even if Juventus has no intention of winning the championship, but they are unlikely to be eliminated by Atalanta, and several other teams, such as Fiorentina, AC Milan, Inter Milan, Roma and other strong teams to reach the quarterfinals, there should be no suspense, only in the quarterfinals, can you see which teams want to train and really hope to win the championship.
The 13th round of the league is a more important round for Fiorentina, in the last round they were held to a draw at home by mid-table Livorno, and Juventus were chased by Juventus to only have a one-point advantage, this round Juventus and Inter Milan will play the Italian derby, which is a good opportunity for Fiorentina and AC Milan to compete for the fisherman's profit.
However, the promoted horse is the promoted horse, the strong team is the strong team, in such a good opportunity to open up the gap with the competition, Fiorentina fell off the chain again, they drew with Messina away from home, Messina's iron bucket formation and marking tactics worked again, Chen Yu could not play under the opponent's almost inseparable defense, no goals and no assists, Fiorentina's only goal came from Rigano who returned from injury.
And AC Milan showed his old spiciness, composure, in this situation, they are not impatient, away Uj flying donkey Chievo, quietly narrowed the gap with Fiorentina eight points into points, if Juventus loses, AC Milan will tie the old lady in points.
Fiorentina was defeated by Livorno in the last round, and the media thought that Fiorentina was proud of the enemy, and this round was once again drawn by the mid-table team Messina, and the direction of public opinion in the media began to change.
"Milan Sports Newspaper" believes that Fiorentina's tactics have been seen through by the opponent, as long as Chen Yu is targeted, Fiorentina will lose its magic. Two games with one loss and one draw, Chen Yu did not score, which is enough to explain the problem.
"Fiorentina entered the harsh winter ahead of schedule, their tactics were understood by their opponents, their fighting spirit is not as good as before, and the striker Chen Yu is not magical, and now Fiorentina urgently needs new strength to lead them out of the predicament." ”
Seeing leaders Fiorentina make another mistake, Juventus were very eager to beat Inter Milan away to regain the top spot, but the rush was not enough, Juventus was chased to a draw by the draw master Inter Milan in a good situation of 0 lead, and in the end they had to continue to settle for second place by one point.
(Ask for a monthly pass, today's three watches, brothers give some encouragement)