Chapter 836: November's Journey (Part II)
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After the victory over Vicenza, Fiorentina welcomed Lobanovsky's Dynamo Kiev three days later.
In this match that will determine who will win the group, although the away Dynamo Kyiv has to work very hard under the command of the Ukrainian coach, both offensive and defensive, much more than people expected of this team before the game, but in the face of Fiorentina, who has played their main role and has no problems in form, Dynamo Kyiv, who lost several important players in the past summer, finally lost 3-1 to the home team at the Frankie Stadium, unfortunately losing in the competition for the top spot in the group.
Meanwhile, Galatasaray were held to a draw by Sweden's Solna AIK in the other Group B group game. With only one final round of the group stage remaining, Galatasaray, who have only four points from five games, said that they could not keep up with Dynamo Kyiv, who already had nine points.
In this way, the qualifying form of Group B was already clear before the final round began: Fiorentina came out on top with 13 points from four wins and one draw, and Dynamo Kyiv with three wins and two defeats came in second, both of which managed to qualify for the knockout stages of the Champions League. The only thing that remains in doubt in Group B is whether Galatasaray can retain their third place in the group in the final round of fixtures and qualify for a trip to the UEFA Cup.
Whether Galatasaray can withstand the Swede's last-minute comeback is none of Florence's business, so let's get into it here, but let's turn the conversation back to Fiorentina.
On the other hand, after securing Dynamo Kyiv to secure the top spot in the group, the Fiorentina players did not have time to catch their breath and immediately ushered in the 11th round of Serie A at the weekend.
On 27 November, against Bologna, who boasted Pagliuca and Signori veterans, Fiorentina at the Stadio d'Allara worked very hard and Heynckes made changes to the starting line-up, hiding some of the players who played the full midweek to ensure the players' fitness for the game.
However, even if Fiorentina hides some of the main players, the forward line composed of Ronaldo and Shevchenko is not a decoration. In the eyes of people, these two talented forwards are fully capable of single-handedly taking down Bologna's backline and leading the Purple Lilies to all three points away!
But things often turn out of the way people don't expect, and there was one player who did shine brightly in this game, but it was neither Ronaldo nor Shevchenko, nor any of the Fiorentina eighteen men in the squad, but Gianluca Pagliuca, the patron saint of Bologna's goal!
The end of being swept away by Inter Milan this summer made Pagliuca, the main goalkeeper who won the Hercules Cup for the Italian national team at last year's World Cup in France, look gloomy. Although his departure was mainly due to the new head coach Lippi telling Moratti that he was dying of old age and embarrassed to take on the task, and the boss Mori, who has always been unusually tolerant of players, made the decision to sell Pagliuca under the deception of the Silver Fox, but for a goalkeeper, the age of thirty-three is still the golden period of a goalkeeper's career, and Pagliuca's performance in the Nerazzurri last season can be said to be quite good, just because of Lippi's one-sided words to send such an excellent goalkeeper away, To say that Pagliuca has no resentment in his heart is naturally impossible.
Therefore, on the day he left Inter Milan, Pagliuca secretly made up his mind to join forces with Signori to make a career in Bologna, so that Moratti could realize the consequences of his gullibility.
As a result, Fiorentina has become one of Pagliuca's key targets, with the high profile of the purple lily in Italian football, if he can do well against Fiorentina, then it is bound to attract enough attention to make Inter Milan regret letting him go.
In this way, the Fiorentina player, who did not know that he had innocently laid the gun, met a god-like Pagliuca in this game, the player who firmly held the position of Italy's number one goalkeeper before Buffon's sudden rise to prominence, was in excellent form in the game, and the high and low blocks made Fiorentina's attacks repeatedly futile.
Especially in the 32nd minute of the game, Ronaldo burst into the penalty area with the ball, and after attracting the attention of two Bologna defenders, he suddenly distributed the ball to Vieri, who was unmarked on the other side, but the latter's powerful volley straight to the corner of the goal was directly lifted out of the bottom line by the brave Pagliuca, which made the atmosphere of the home team fans in the Dalara Stadium reach the most!
Pagliuca's successive brilliant saves were a huge blow to Fiorentina's morale, after all, whoever sees their own shot always being denied by the opposing goalkeeper will suffer to a greater or lesser extent.
If it weren't for Andrea Pirlo, who took advantage of a set-piece in front of the game to kick a shocking lift ball and successfully break through Pagliuca's ten fingers before the game entered injury time, I am afraid that the Purple Lilies could only get a regrettable draw at the Dalara Stadium in this round of the league.
In the end, thanks to Pirlo's free-kick before the end, Fiorentina struggled to win the surprise and difficult opponent on the road.
After the 11th round of Serie A matches, Fiorentina ushered in the third round of the Coppa Italia on the last day of November, and Zeman once again led the Red Wolves to the Frankie Stadium with the intention of securing a ticket to the quarterfinals of the Coppa Italia!
It's just that Zeman is still somewhat difficult to achieve this goal, not to mention how much strength the Red Wolves, who also need to face third-line battles but the bench depth is obviously not as deep as Fiorentina, and the two strikers Montella and Toney are suspended due to injury is enough to make Roma fans lose confidence.
You know, although Fiorentina has basically maintained the intensity of two games a week during the month, except for the national team break days, the Purple Lilies have not been like other Serie A teams, because of the frequent travel of a large number of injuries.
To be able to achieve such remarkable results, I have to say that it is the credit of the sports medicine experts in the physiotherapy center, if they do not monitor the physical condition of each player in real time, and formulate a scientific training plan and diet plan accordingly, and then strictly implement it. Otherwise, it is very likely that Florence will not be in any better place than Rome at the moment.
This is part of Zhuang Mingge's transformation of Florence for more than six years, modern football is not only about who has more stars, but also about logistics and scientific management!