PS: Chapter 31 of "Add more to complete jihua".

With the 26th round of Serie A fixtures coming up this weekend, the Fiorentina players did not stop in London and took a special flight from Heathrow Airport to Italy the evening after the game.

Zhuang Mingge, who has been addicted to travel for a while, also plans to go back with the team, but before leaving London, he kept Kenyon and Antonioni, the two general managers, to explain that they "continue to investigate" in England.

Some people may ask, if you look at the operation model of the Premier League, isn't it okay to leave a Kenyon? In fact, Kenyon is very professional in business operations, but he has never run a football club before, so some of his ideas are likely to be different from reality.

Antonioni is well placed to avoid this, as he comes from a player position who knows what can have a bad impact on the team and thus avoid some unnecessary problems.

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On the afternoon of April 9, in the 26th round of the league, Fiorentina challenged Bari away.

Since Fiorentina had just played a big game with Arsenal in London three days ago, many Fiorentina players looked very tired in this game. However, Fiorentina still struggled to beat Bari 2-0 on the road; Substitute Corlini opened the scoring in the 66th minute; Ten minutes later, another substitute, Tacchinadi, who had been brought on from the youth team on a temporary basis, scored from a set-piece to seal the win.

In this game, Ranieri made a certain degree of rotation of the starting lineup, although this time has reached a critical moment in the league, but he does not dare to risk letting Barty and others, who have been lit up yellow in the physiotherapy center, force them to play, you know, it has only been a year since Zhuang Mingge warned him about the player's injury, Ranieri does not feel that he can compete for this top boss.

With the victory, Fiorentina are temporarily level with Juventus in the table as the Bianconeri's clash with Torino is scheduled for the evening.

As the Fiorentina fans waited anxiously, a piece of news from Torino was finally belated: Juventus had unexpectedly lost 1-2 to their younger brother Torino in the "away" (Juventus and Torino shared the same stadium at this time)! Sirenzi, who has been a brave performer this season, scored twice in this game to help the Red Bulls win this Turin derby!

At the same time, relying on the "help" of Torino, Fiorentina managed to equalize the Bianconeri with eight rounds left in the league!

After this round of league games, Fiorentina turned their attention back to the Cup Winners' Cup, although they won 1-0 away from home, but who didn't know that England teams are nervous knives? What if they let them play and it turns over? Istanbul in '05 is a testament......

However, it is also a little difficult to beat Arsenal at home, the English lost the last game and are not convinced at all, and they are still talking about how many chances they have missed, plus the aggregate score is behind, so in this game, the Arsenal will definitely play with their lives.

Although Zhuang Mingge thought that the Arsenal people would work hard, he did not expect that Graham, who had no way out, really planned to "play with his life" with Fiorentina.

In the second leg at the Frankie Stadium, Fiorentina and Arsenal played extremely hard.

Arsenal were forced off three of them in this game: two injured and one was sent off the pitch with a red card. Keown and McMahon were injured in the game, and Mawson was directly expelled from the referee with a red card for deliberately hurting people; Fiorentina didn't get much better, as Inzaghi was sent to hospital with a black kick from Mawson, and substitute Vieri took advantage of a corner kick to send Keown off the pitch with a covert move, in order to avenge his "good friend......

At the same time, the core of the midfield, Effenberg, also suffered a minor injury in the game, although Zuihou insisted on playing the whole game, but in the post-game physical examination, Dr. Carter was found to have a soft tissue contusion and had to rest for a week.

Despite the brutal game, Fiorentina managed to retain their victory after the end of the game - facing a ruined Arsenal side, Fiorentina fought fiercely against their opponents and won the second leg. In a goalmouth scuffle (that is, the time when Vieri overshadowed Keown), Djokaeff sent a corner kick, Keown "accidentally" fell to the ground in the process of competing with Vieri, and asked the defending Vieri to put the flying ball into the door of Arsenal five meters in front of the goal, 1-0, Fiorentina defeated Arsenal over two legs home and away, and successfully advanced to the European Cup Winners' Cup final!

How many years has it been since Fiorentina reached the final of the three major European cups? It is estimated that no one can answer this question except for the hardcore Purple Lily fans. Therefore, the vast majority of Fiorentina fans were overjoyed to make it all the way to the final - and of course, it would have been even better if they had brought home the trophy.

But the Fiorentina players are not in the mood to celebrate right now, as they are now in a hurry to rest at their accommodation after a 90-minute battle with Arsenal......

After a few days of rest and adjustment, the Fiorentina team gathered to continue their quest for the league title......

Although Effenberg and Inzaghi have not yet recovered from injury, Fiorentina is not without their replacements, and after a few days of rest at home, Fiorentina's players are not back to their peak form, but at least their physical and competitive condition is about 80%.

On April 14, in the 27th round of the league, Fiorentina defeated the precarious Napoli 4-0 at home, Montella, who got the chance to start, performed well and scored twice, Batistuta and Filicano added the icing on the cake to help the team continue to occupy the top spot in the standings with Juventus!

Now there are seven rounds left in Serie A, and in the next game, Fiorentina will have to start a "battle of the king's mountain" with the title rival Juventus in the 29th round, and also face Sampdoria, Roma, Parma, AC Milan and other strong teams, especially in the league zuihou two rounds, Fiorentina has to play against Parma and Milan, and if you are not careful, you will get a two-game losing streak, and the schedule can be said to be quite unfavorable.

In addition to facing Fiorentina directly, the only teams that have the ability to overturn it under normal circumstances are Roma and Parma, and from this point of view, Juve's schedule is still a little more favorable than Fiorentina.