Chapter 597: Crazy April (7)
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Winning this contest with Atalanta, the ownership of the Serie A championship can basically be said to be settled.
With only four league games remaining, Fiorentina are a full twelve points ahead of the second-placed Old Lady, which means that Fiorentina only need to pick up one point in the last four games of the league, then they will complete the feat of winning four consecutive league titles!
Fiorentina is thrilled by the fact that the only clubs in their history to win Serie A more than four times in a row are Torino in the forties (1943-1949, a three-year hiatus due to the outbreak of World War II) and Juventus in the thirties (1931-1935, five in a row).
And now, with the Purple Lily in high hopes of becoming the third team in Serie A history to complete four consecutive league titles, the Fiorentina players are naturally extremely excited. After all, four consecutive championships is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity for them as professional footballers.
If you only win four league titles, then the player only needs to choose to play for the big clubs, plus a little luck and enough time to achieve this goal; But if it's a quadruple win in a row, then it will take more than just a little luck, but a strength that is stronger than all opponents to be able to hope for this great feat!
Therefore, when the four consecutive league titles are in front of the players, the Fiorentina players feel very excited and at the same time, they also have more confidence in their own strength - some people dare to say that the Fiorentina players who have won the Serie A four consecutive championships under the siege of the top three in the north, Parma and Roma are not good? If you say this, I don't think even a ghost will believe it.
The self-confident Fiorentina players soon reached the 31st round of Serie A, this time against Sampdoria who were already on the waning side.
Sampdoria's performance in the league this season is very bad, although Mantovani Jr. has invested a lot in the transfer market, including Klinsmann, Bogasion, Signori and other well-known stars, and even brought in the legendary coach Menotti, who led Argentina to win the World Cup for the first time, but it still can't save the Sea Blues who are gradually moving towards the best.
After the brainless Enrique Mantovani successively sold Pagliuca, Verjovod, Mancini and other outstanding dressing room leaders, Sampdoria, which once became a Serie A powerhouse under the painstaking management of the old Mantovani, finally showed signs of collapse and became another former powerhouse in decline after Napoli.
Sampdoria have been hovering in the middle of the league table this season, unable to compete for European qualification next season, and have no worries about relegation, and there is no sign that a few years ago it was a powerhouse that could compete with the top three in the north.
With the Champions League semi-final against Real Madrid coming up four days later, Capello made some changes to his starting line-up: goalkeeper Toldo, defenders Fortunato, Materazzi, Ferrara, Angeloma, midfielders Kripa, Zanetti, Tomasi and Rui Costa, and Vieri and Inzaghi up front.
Although Menotti, who knew that he would be out of class at the end of the season, was in a melancholy mood, the Argentine coach did not affect the line-up because of his bad mood, and Sampdoria was still the main force in this game, and Menotti hoped that the players could work hard for Sampdoria's honor.
Ferron, Manini, Pesarisi, Mihajlovich, Valeri, Bogasion, Veron, Salsano, Leegler, Signori and Montella, this is the starting line-up for Sampdoria for this game.
Menotti's idea is very good, but the Argentine coach has forgotten a very important point, that is, in the current Samp team, the only players who have experienced the golden Samp period are the old courtier Manini, and excluding the veteran Salsano, the other nine players have only been in Sampdoria for a few years, and they have not yet developed enough sense of belonging to the team.
As a result, Sampdoria players simply can't fight for the team's glory as Menotti imagined, and the league rankings don't make them very concerned about the outcome of this game, after all, winning will not qualify for Europe, and losing will not drop the team into the relegation zone.
Compared to the desireless Sampdoria, Fiorentina's attitude towards the game is much more positive, and under the double stimulation of the two major honors of four consecutive league titles and trebles, the players want to use a victory to determine the ownership of the Serie A title as soon as possible and become a member of the team that has won four consecutive championships!
With Fiorentina and Sampdoria both well-known among the fan base and likely to be key battles in deciding the league title this season, the Italian Football Federation moved the high-profile match to Saturday night, interspersed with what was supposed to be an Italian derby at the same time, in order to get better ratings and publicity.
After the start of the game, Fiorentina, who came to the Ferraris stadium, dominated the game, and firmly occupied the initiative on the field under the command and dispatch of Rui Costa.
According to Capello's arrangement, Kripa and Tomasi and others resolutely revolved around the Portuguese midfield during the game, using a lot of off-ball runs to provide Costa with more points to the ball; Rui Costa didn't live up to Capello's expectations, creating scoring opportunities for his teammates with scalpel-like passes.
Fiorentina's style of play, which first controls the midfield and then tears apart the defence with running and passing, has made Sampdoria passive throughout the game, and after the departure of the likes of Mancini and Karembo, their attack and defense have gone terribly wrong.
So far, Sampdoria have scored 47 goals in the 30 league games that have ended, and although the attack is not as good as last season, it is still not satisfactory; But they have conceded a total of 51 goals in 30 games, which is only slightly better than a few teams that are fighting in the relegation battle.
Therefore, Rui Costa has made good use of this weakness of Sampdoria. In the 25th minute, he sent a long diagonal pass to Angeloma, who cut in on the right, and then sent a 45-degree cross into the box, Vieri in the box forced Mihajlovic to head home the opening goal for Fiorentina!
Vieri looked very excited after the goal, took off his shirt and ran under the stands where the Fiorentina fans were to celebrate the goal.
The Sampdoria players stood on the sidelines, indifferent to Vieri's celebrations, and their minds were probably on their minds most about where they should go on holiday at the end of the season, rather than the games in front of them.
With Vieri's goal, the score became 1-0! Fiorentina, the goal of four consecutive league titles is only a stone's throw away!