Chapter 914: The End of the League (Part I)

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It's May 14, and the San Nicola Stadium is packed. More than 20,000 Fiorentina fans travelled with the team to watch the game, making it a rare time for the 58,000-seat stadium to sell out.

Although the San Nicola Stadium, which was rated as a four-star stadium by UEFA, was one of the venues for the 1990 World Cup in Italy, and also hosted the European Champions Cup final in the 90-91 season, the hardware facilities are naturally quite excellent, and the football atmosphere in the city of Bari is also very strong, and the residents here have a very high enthusiasm for football. However, as the owner of this stadium, the Bari club really has no outstanding results and performances in Serie A, which directly hit the enthusiasm of fans to watch the game, and also greatly affected the ticket sales of the San Nicola Stadium, making this stadium have to occupy the top of the home vacancy list of Serie A teams for a long time.

(Note: After the Italian Football Federation began to carry out reforms under the impetus of Zhuang Mingge, the club Bari bought the ownership of the San Nicola Stadium at its own expense.) It is no longer the case that the club has to lease the stadium from the municipality, and it is not possible to commercialize and modernize it according to the actual situation. )

It is for this reason that the management of the club were overjoyed to learn that the tickets for the match had been sold out by the fans - they had not seen such a good sales result for a long time.

Well, that's all for the discussion of these trivial matters about ticket sales, but now let's get down to business.

In order to ensure that he won this game, Heynckes did not send an all-bench lineup, but put on a mix and match lineup of main and substitutes. The starting goalkeeper was Toldo, with Robert Carlos at left wing-back, Di Livio at right wing-back, and Nesta and Stam starting in central defence. In midfield, Claude Makelele and Deco played in a back two, and the 22-year-old Brazilian is in the prime of his life, and for him, the occasional double game a week will not cause any fitness problems. In front of Makelele and Deco are the team's captain Effenberg, who has rested for a whole week, and midfielder Gattuso!

The duo in the forward line are the duo of Vieri and Inzaghi, who are standing in the middle circle of the pitch at the moment, quietly waiting for the referee to blow the whistle for the start of the game!

Although it is a mixed and matched lineup, it can be seen from the players that Fiorentina has in various positions that Heynckes does not mean to underestimate the enemy in the slightest. Di Livio and Deco may only be a substitute or main rotation player at Fiorentina, but in reality, no matter which team they play in Serie A, they are capable of playing a more important role!

Therefore, in this case, in terms of the overall combat effectiveness of the team, Fiorentina is naturally more than a step ahead of Bari!

Let's take a look at how the two teams stood in the Serie A standings ahead of the start of this round. Fiorentina needless to say, as the Purple Lilies, who are currently three points clear of second-placed Lazio, only need a draw in this game to ensure they lift the trophy for the sixth consecutive time at the end of the game. On the Bari side, although the club has been hovering around the relegation line for a long time this season, they are three points ahead of fourth-from-bottom Torino, and they have the advantage of each other. In other words, even if Barry loses in this round, it will not affect their relegation cause, because they are unlikely to be overtaken by these teams behind them!

So, no matter how you look at it, this game is a big advantage for Fiorentina.

This was well confirmed by the on-field trend after the start of the game, and Fiorentina, who had the overall strength, firmly grasped the initiative of the game. The duo of Deco and Effenberg in the midfield made the Bari team's backline bèi tired, and Di Livio and Carlos's wide breaks and crosses allowed Vieri and Inzaghi to be ambushed in the Bari penalty area with plenty of shooting opportunities!

Suffice it to say, in order to ensure that the team can retain the top spot in the table at the end of the game and lift the league trophy, the Fiorentina players have absolutely no intention of letting go of the water in this game!

On the other hand, Bari, who is playing at home, has nothing to pursue at this time, so the players seem to be very hopeless in this game, and many of them are not even on the field, but start their holidays early. So it's no surprise that the home side will be beaten in the half of the pitch by Fiorentina away side after the game starts.

To the regret of Fiorentina fans, despite the team's absolute dominance on the field, and the chances of scoring can even be counted by playing, the players' goal form today was not very good. Vieri and Inzaghi, who started as strikers, missed a number of good chances to score and missed the goal.

Especially in the 32nd minute of the game, Carlos hit the goal 35 meters from the goal, causing the Barry goalkeeper to save the ball, and Inzaghi, who followed up in the penalty area, shot the ball directly away!

Seeing that his shot would be so outrageous, Da Inzaghi was also a little incredulous, holding his head in his hands, he looked at the goal in front of him with a stunned face, as if he couldn't believe that the shot just now was actually kicked out by him.

Although the poor goal luck made all the Fiorentina fans who watched the game feel depressed, the overwhelming dominance shown by Fiorentina in the game still made the fans quite relieved about the result of this game, and believed that the team could finally get the points smoothly and complete the sixth consecutive Serie A title.

However, just as Fiorentina fans were expecting their team to lift the league trophy after the game, things changed on the pitch: the Bari defender went too hard during a big clearance at the back, and the ball flew straight across the halfway line of the pitch and fell into the Fiorentina half.

Generally speaking, most of these purposeless clearances are picked up by the Fiorentina defenders, who have a numerical advantage, and then passed to the likes of Deco and Effenberg, who reorganize the attack and continue to besiege the Bari team.

However, this time, the clearance of the Barry defender was not only not accepted by Di Livio and Nesta as expected, but just fell to the feet of Cassano, who was constantly roaming around the Fiorentina back line!