Chapter 1317: Before the League Starts
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Fiorentina comfortably beat Lazio 3-1 in the final of the Italian Super Cup, a result that really broke the glasses of many experts who claimed that the Blue Eagles had a better chance of winning the title.
You know, unlike Lazio, who have been on a recruitment spree in the summer transfer market to boost their strength, Fiorentina have lost a lot of players this summer, among which Giuli, Stam and Albertini have played a very important role in the Purple Lily team. Coupled with Andrea Pirlo's absence and the impact of the European Championship game, Fiorentina can be said to be quite underdog before the game.
What's more, Fiorentina also lost their meritorious coach Heynckes in June this year, although the new coach of the team Mourinho has also led the Fiorentina second team to jump two levels and win the Italian Cup, but this qualification is obviously not enough for the Portuguese to sit in the position of Fiorentina, the head coach of a top European giant.
In fact, if it weren't for Mourinho's years of experience at Fiorentina, his efforts to get the big names in the team to recognise his ability, and the support of Zhuang Mingge, the owner of the team, the Portuguese would not have been able to become Fiorentina's manager in the face of skepticism.
Some people may use the example of Sacchi and Mancini, but don't forget, these two are Italians, and Sacchi also had the full support of the elder Berlusconi at that time, and Mancini made a name for himself as a player, and these prestige and connections are enough to make him a lot easier when he just became a manager.
It is precisely for this reason that Mourinho's coaching ability has become one of the main reasons for people to look down on Fiorentina. After all, compared to Roberto Mancini, who was imposing as a player and had a good record as a manager, Mourinho, who was born as a translator and had only coached Serie B teams at best, did not have any qualifications worthy of trust.
However, in the end, Fiorentina were without Andrea Pirlo, the midfield commander, who had beaten Lazio to death in this game. Although Drogba had a small outburst in the middle of the game to help the Blue Eagles pull back a point, then Mourinho used a redemption tactic to dismantle the Ivorians, and then Milito's goal to seal the victory completely extinguished the last glimmer of hope for Lazio's comeback!
Although a 3-1 scoreline made Lazio not look so embarrassed to lose, everyone who watched the game from beginning to end knew in their hearts that Mancini, who was constrained everywhere, from the pre-match arrangement to the on-the-spot adjustments, was clearly no match for the Portuguese coach, who had previously been only a little famous in Italian football.
It can be said that through this game, people really realized that Mourinho is not as unhelpful as they imagined, let alone the kind of nanny coach who only listens to the opinions of the stars in the team as they think, but a very capable coach!
So, after the Italian Super Cup, Mourinho's name began to be hyped by major sports media and spread to the ears of every fan who pays attention to the situation of Italian football.
After finishing the Italian Super Cup and opening the season with a trophy, Fiorentina did not play a single game for the remainder of August, with all the players resting in their training base under the supervision of Jose Mourinho in preparation for the Serie A tournament that kicks off next month.
After all, due to the European Championship and the departure of many of the main rotation players, Fiorentina have not done as well as they used to prepare for the pre-season this summer. Therefore, in order for the players to form a tacit understanding with each other as soon as possible, to familiarize themselves with the new tactical system that he has improved, and also to allow the new players to better integrate into the team, Mourinho must seize all the time available to the team to run in.
It would be added here that due to the remarkable achievements of the Serie A league in the development and expansion of overseas markets in recent years, and the increasing commercial income, this big cake called Serie A, which only has 18 teams participating, is extremely attractive. Therefore, in order to further enhance the influence of Serie A, and also to allow some outsiders who are interested in Serie A to participate in this feast of dividing the cake, the Italian Football Federation made the decision to expand the Serie A league at the end of the World Cup in South Korea and Japan two years ago, and it was not until this summer that the expansion plan was finally completed.
That is to say, starting this season, the number of teams participating in Serie A will be officially expanded to twenty, the top four will qualify for next season's Champions Cup, and the teams that finish fifth to eighth will go to the League Cup, while the number of relegation teams remains the same, the bottom three teams in the standings will be directly relegated, and the bottom four will go to play the relegation play-offs with the second division team.
At the same time, in order to reduce the number of times that many stars are reimbursed for injuries due to malicious fouls by players in the game, the Italian Football Federation announced that it will conduct free training for all referees with Serie A law enforcement qualifications from this season, so that they can strengthen the control of discipline on the field.
In addition, the Italian Football Federation also announced another measure, that is, when the two teams have the same points, the number of goal difference or the mutual record of the two teams is no longer the primary basis for determining the final position, but the number of goals scored by the two teams in the league this season is the number one condition for judging the league ranking!
The implicit meaning of these actions of the Italian Football Federation can be said to be clear at a glance, advocating attack or those who can play fluent coordination will have more advantages in the future, and those teams who will only put buses at the door or hurt people with malicious fouls will become the target of the Football Association's severe crackdown!
Of course, the effectiveness of these measures still needs to be tested in actual combat. What Fiorentina and Mourinho need to do is to follow this trend and continue their current glory, and not be swept into the dustbin of history.