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As the saying goes: when the water is full, it overflows, and when the moon is full, it means that no matter how prosperous everything in the world is, there will be a day when it will flourish and decline. Florence was no exception, and of course they had to obey this objective law.

So, after finishing the February campaign with a winning record that everyone was looking forward to, the Fiorentina players who entered March began to become unstable on the pitch.

On March 5, in the twenty-fourth round of Serie A, Fiorentina, who was playing at home, was unexpectedly forced to draw by Piacenza, the league's vice-president, allowing the fish belly team to successfully take away a point from the Frankie Stadium!

The two forwards who started the game, Vieri and Inzaghi, suddenly couldn't find a place for Piacenza that afternoon, and they were arguably the main culprits in Fiorentina's draw.

Vieri and Inzaghi's bad luck soon spread to Fiorentina's other players on the pitch, such as Effenberg and Redondo, two midfield superstars who also lost their accuracy in the game, hitting the post or flying off the line with several heavy shots; And Shevchenko, who came on as a substitute for Inzaghi, kicked a single ball directly into the arms of the Piacenza goalkeeper!

In addition, Wiljoward's sudden outburst was also one of the reasons for Fiorentina's disappointing draw at home. The veteran who will turn 41 years old in a month's time gave people a glimpse of the demeanor of the great defender who was known as the first center-back in Italian football, not only in Vieri's direct confrontation, but also repeatedly used his game experience to sabotage the carefully planned offensive of Eeffenberg!

In the end, Fiorentina and Piacenza exchanged goalscoring goals after a goalless match, gritting their teeth and watching their opponent leave the Frankie Stadium with a point.

With just one draw and one defeat in two games against Piacenza this season, such a head-to-head record is clearly not satisfactory to Fiorentina fans. After all, the Purple Lily, the leader of the league standings and the hegemon of Italian football today, would be at a disadvantage in a direct clash with the same team, and anyone would be incredulous and extremely depressed about this.

However, the Fiorentina fans did not, just complained after the game, and went home to rest after a few drinks in a nearby bar. On the one hand, because the team is still at the top of the table so far, neither Juventus nor Lazio can threaten its position because of a gutter capsizing of the purple lily; On the other hand, it is because Fiorentina did not win this game because it was indeed unlucky, and the players complained that they did not work hard.

Well, no team can guarantee a winning streak, and if it's just an accident, the team will be back to normal when the next round of league games starts, which is the self-consoling statement of many Fiorentina fans after the game.

However, a week later, on March 12, Fiorentina still couldn't get out of this strange bad luck when they were beaten by Torino in the 25th round of the Serie A match, suffering an embarrassing defeat!

Gian Luigi Lentini, who was the world's most valuable player at the time of his move to AC Milan, dreamed of returning to the top that afternoon, blasting Toldo's finger pass with a 25-metre wave to deliver a long-awaited victory for his parent club - Turin had not tasted victory in six league games before this game!

Looking at Fiorentina, Heynckes and the fans were all silent after witnessing the team hitting the woodwork of the Torino goal six times in the opening fifteen minutes. In the time that followed, no matter how Heynckes adjusted, Fiorentina was never able to break the cycle, and finally could only watch Torino win with a stroke of genius from Lentini!

Fiorentina's already double-digit lead in the standings has also shrunk significantly, and Juventus, who is currently in second place, has narrowed the gap with the Purple Lilies to eight points after beating Piacenza away!

Although Fiorentina still has a great initiative in this league title race, as the gap between the two sides continues to narrow, they can already feel the Bianconeri's renewed desire for the title and rising fighting spirit!

However, before tackling the challenge of Juventus' aggressive pursuers, Fiorentina will first have to deal with the threat from Europe – the second leg of the Champions League quarter-final against Chelsea at the Stadio Frankie next week!

Fiorentina, who were two goals behind in the first leg between the two sides, completed a heart-wrenching comeback thanks to a hat-trick from Inzaghi to take home a win and three away goals from Chelsea's home stadium at Stamford Bridge. Therefore, this means that if Chelsea want to break through to the quarter-finals of the Champions League after this game, they must meet one of two conditions: either they beat Fiorentina by two or more goals in this game and qualify for the next knockout round cleanly; And if they fail to do the first thing, then the Premier League side will need to score at least three times against Fiorentina in the game, while also winning the game to guarantee progress.

If Chelsea fail to do both, then the English club's European journey this season will be over.

It is for this reason that Chelsea did not have the heart to take on Fiorentina again in this second-leg match. After all, the first leg of the meeting between the two teams has already shown a huge gap in overall quality between the two sides, and the Chelsea hierarchy and manager Vialli are well aware of this.

However, when the Chelsea people found out that Fiorentina had drawn one and lost one in the last two Serie A games without scoring a goal, and had suffered from the weak teams of Piacenza and Torino, and their luck had been so bad that they could not be worse, Vialli, who was just trying to win less in this competition, suddenly had another thought.

In the eyes of the young manager, if he can seize this opportunity and lead Chelsea to keep Fiorentina out of the Champions League quarter-finals, it will undoubtedly bring him great prestige and glory!

And these are exactly the things that Vialli desires most in his heart at this time!