Chapter Ninety-Three: This Is Psychological Warfare?

Pato is injured and will be out for a month and a half, and the news immediately caused a wail among AC Milan's fans.

In the league, in the previous league games, the team's chasing momentum was very strong, especially Pato, who became the team's number one scoring machine on the first debut, but now he is injured again, AC Milan has basically withdrawn from the championship competition, and it is already lucky to be able to get a place in the Champions League.

The only hope left for fans is the Champions League, according to Galliani, the team has the genes of the Champions League, and even if the league record is bad, it can still perform miracles in the competition for the Champions League.

Wasn't it the same last season when the team finished fifth in the league and still won the European Cup?

But this time, AC Milan was really pushed to the edge of the cliff, seeing that the life-and-death battle with Benfica was imminent, Pato was injured, and now Ancelotti only has one Gilardino left in his hands, how to play this game.

And AC Milan's opponent is not only Benfica, but also depends on the result of Shakhtar Donetsk and Fiorentina, whether they can finally qualify from the group and reach the knockout round, which is no longer up to AC Milan to say.

After announcing the news of Pato's injury, Ancelotti said in an interview: "The team is indeed facing great difficulties now, I can understand the feelings of the fans, they always expect the team they support to achieve good results, and I am the same, I am not only the manager of this team, but also a fan of AC Milan, but the more at this time, the more the team needs the support of the fans to get through the difficulties together!" ”

Ancelotti's tone was full of helplessness, this feeling of completely entrusting his fate to someone else made him very unhappy, but there was no way, AC Milan himself was not angry, who did he complain about?

Carlo Ancelotti wants his team to rise and Galliani is thinking about another level, Fiorentina have come out and will they give it their all for an unnecessary game.

You must know that Fiorentina is still facing a third-tier battle, in the league, the points lead is a lot, and they are doing their best to fight for the third league championship trophy in the team's history.

At the same time, the Coppa Italia also reached the semi-finals, and the semi-finals will face the powerhouse Sampdoria, the team has come to this point, there is no reason to give up casually.

The Champions League is also trying to achieve good results, and in the next period of time, Fiorentina will face a two-front battle, at this time, will Fiorentina consume its own energy to fight against Shakhtar Donetsk?

Galliani's heart is also bottomless!

"I'm well aware of the current situation of AC Milan, but I'm still very optimistic about the Champions League, we just need to play our own game, it shouldn't be a problem, in the other game in the same group, Fiorentina is obviously stronger than Shakhtar Donetsk, I just want everyone to stick to their bottom line and create a level playing field!"

Seeing Galliani say such a serious thing, the reporter who interviewed him almost couldn't hold back and stuffed the microphone into Gabald's mouth.

Fair competition?

It's shameless that Jia Bald is embarrassed to say such a thing, and it was no one at the beginning, who manipulated the Serie A field with Juventus' Moggie, and finally broke out in the phonegate incident, which made the image of Italian football plummet.

Although Galliani escaped in the end, everyone knows what the situation is, and if it weren't for Berlusconi's protection, I'm afraid Galliani would have to go to the prison with Moggie to pick up soap.

Now it's asking for fair play, to put it bluntly, doesn't it just hope that Florence will take advantage of the old folks, pull them up, and spend blood and effort to clean up the Shakhtar Donetsk?

But is this possible?

Fiorentina has already qualified from the group, and the next step is to face a dense schedule, if you don't let the main players take a good rest at this time, if you don't have the strength to do it in the sprint stage of zuihou, the cooked duck flies, who is it?

And it seems that the relationship between Fiorentina and AC Milan is not very good!

When Fiorentina was facing financial difficulties, AC Milan lowered the price and robbed Fiorentina's key player Rui Costa, and then voted against it in saving Fiorentina Jihua.

Since then, the two teams have formed a feud, and after Digan's transfer to Fiorentina, because of his relationship, when the two teams met on the pitch, it was like Mars hitting Earth.

With such a relationship, you can still count on Florence to pull them, I have to say that Galliani is very naïve.

Of course, Galliani will not do such useless work, his purpose is only to set off a public opinion war to prevent Fiorentina from deliberately releasing water in the middle of the game.

"It looks like AC Milan is really in a hurry!"

In Prandelli's office, when he said this, there was a hint of pride in his tone, and Fiorentina could be proud of being able to force one of the big three of Serie A to this point.

Digan sneered disdainfully: "What is this? Psychological warfare? Let's get vaccinated first! Galliani can't help but look down on himself too much! ”

Prandley also laughed, and his expression suddenly became solemn: "But there is one thing we need to discuss, Rod!" Now I think we have to make a trade-off! ”

Digan was stunned for a moment, and couldn't help frowning, what Prandelli said he understood, in fact, he had been thinking about it before, although the current Fiorentina has been sharpened into shape, and there is no problem at all in terms of strength, but Fiorentina still lacks experience, and what young people lack most is stability, especially when it comes to the Zuihou stage of the league, once there is a problem, it will be disastrous.

Although I don't want to think about it, there are often regrettable things on the football field, and I think I tasted it once when the Bundesliga powerhouse Bayer Leverkusen tasted it.

At the end of the last century and the beginning of this century, Bayer Leverkusen was the second team in German football after Bayern, and under the leadership of coach Daum, they won three league runners-up from 1997 to 2000, including the same point as Bayern in 2000, only missing out on the trophy because of goal difference.

Just as the Leverkusen were confidently challenging for the 2000/2001 Bundesliga title, the bad news came that their "godfather of football" Christophe Leverkusen. Daum was exposed by Bayern general manager Hoeness for cocaine use, and under strong public pressure, Daum was forced to resign as head coach and leave for Turkey, while also losing hope of competing for the head coach of the German national team.

A month after Worrall acting as interim head coach, the team selected former Germany coach Vogts as the new manager, and former international Tony Fernandes. Schumacher, Litbarski, Wolfgang. Rolf formed the "star coaching staff" to assist Vogts.

In Vogts' debut, Bayer Leverkusen beat Stuttgart 4-0, and the German football world also unanimously praised the new coaching model of the "star coaching staff", and the "Bild" even asked the German Football Association to set up a similar coaching staff to welcome the upcoming Korea-Japan Shijie Cup.

Just when everyone was discussing how many rounds Leverkusen could win the championship in advance, the shortcomings of the "star coaching staff" gradually appeared, and the media began to accuse the coaches of being too showy on the training ground and off the field, and then the team's results also plummeted, and they were eliminated from the Champions League, the League Cup, and the German Cup, and the 30th round of the league was humiliated 5:2 by the fish belly Freiburg team, and completely lost the qualification for the championship.

At the end of the season, Bayer Leverkusen finished fourth, and Vogts narrowly managed to qualify for the Champions League, but he couldn't keep his job, leaving Litbasky and Rolf with Vogts, leaving only Tony. Schumacher picked up the mess.

Bayer Leverkusen went back to the traditional route, this time with former Bochum and Saarbrücken coach Top. Muller, in fact, Leverkusen had already invited Vogts to join him long before he came to power, but the Saarbrücken team refused to let him go at that time.

Top. Muller did bring a refreshing feeling to the team, and in the 2001/2002 season, although they fell to fifth in the league, the team regained the "yellow jersey" in the 13th round of the league with beautiful attacking football and strong will, and this situation remained until the penultimate round of the league.

In the Champions League, Bayer Leverkusen, who were in the group stage of death, also made great progress, facing the challenges of Deportivo La Coruna, Juventus and Arsenal, Bayer Leverkusen won the group with three wins, one draw and two losses.

In the knockout round, Bayer Leverkusen faced Liverpool in the quarterfinals, and in the unfavorable situation of losing 0:1 in the first game, a shocking reversal was staged in the second leg, ending Liverpool's unbeaten record of 15 away games in the two major European cups.

In the semi-finals, Bayer Leverkusen relied on two draws to eliminate Manchester United on away goals and meet Real Madrid in the Champions League final.

In the German Cup, Bayer Leverkusen also made it all the way, facing Schalke 04 in the final. The G14, a club organization representing Europe's top clubs, has also passed a resolution to admit Bayer Leverkusen as a full member of the G14.

Just when Bayer Leverkusen were full of confidence to win the "treble", tragedies happened one after another, first in the 33rd round of the league, the team unexpectedly lost 0:1 to the relegation team Nuremberg, and Dortmund led by Sommer took the opportunity to take away the first place in the league and laughed Zuihou, and then on May 11, they were reversed by Schalke 4:2 in the favorable situation of the first goal, losing the German Cup, and four days later, they fell under Zidane's "flying fairy". lost 1:2 in the season Zuihou, which is also the most important game, and fell from the triple crown to the unprecedented "King of Sanya".

You must know that before this, Bayer Leverkusen was also strong in the Bundesliga, when they used their unique style of play to laugh at the Bundesliga, attracting the attention of many fans.

Every time the Bundesliga is broadcast, commentators refer to Bayer Leverkusen as the forerunner of German football reform. Although they played beautifully, when it came to the league Zuihou moment, the team always habitually dropped the chain. The poor mental quality is also incompatible with the traditional steely nerves of German players.

With three rounds of the league remaining, Leverkusen was still five points ahead, but Zuihou was reversed by Borussia Dortmund, and when it comes to reversal, in 2002, Leverkusen was nicknamed the "King of Reversal", because they often "conceded" the opponent a goal at the beginning of the game, and then completely defeated the opponent through tactical adjustments and a series of gorgeous combinations.

I have to say that Leverkusen at that time was so individual that it was easy to fall in love with Leverkusen at once. But just like no one is perfect, Leverkusen's shortcomings finally exploded in a few rounds of Zuihou.

They preserved their strength in the league for the sake of the Champions League, so much so that they lost the two most crucial games and eventually lost the title.

In retrospect, if they had been eliminated early in the Champions League and focused on playing in the league, Zuihou would not have lost the game due to lack of energy and concentration.

Bayer Leverkusen is not a giant after all, they can only use a set of lineups to fight on the third line, and as a result, Zuihou has achieved nothing, and has never won the Bundesliga championship in its 100 years of existence, and it is only a little bit worse every time, maybe this is their fate.

After experiencing the "King of Sanya", the team sold many big-name players for some reason, resulting in almost relegation in the second year, and although it returned to the Champions League in the third year, it kept selling people, making this team not what it used to be.

Although Fiorentina has not yet reached the level of Zuihou, it is also facing the problem of choice, but among the three competitions, it is too difficult for Digan to make a choice.

The league title is the most guaranteed, and the league is fundamental, this must not be given up, the Italian Cup has reached the semi-finals, and the semi-final opponent Sampdoria is not a difficult opponent, it is a pity to give up.

There is also the European Champions Cup, which is what Degan values the most, although Degan does not dare to say that he can lead Fiorentina to Zuihou and finally win the cup, but as long as he can go as far as possible in the Champions League, it means huge benefits.

"Cesare! You know, it's hard! ”

Prandley understands Degan's character, to put it bluntly, he is a little greedy, but this kind of greed for honor is what Prandley is very willing to see, and no one wants the players under him, it is a group of people who have no desire.

But~~~~~~~~~~~

"Rod! We all have to think about it, it's about the whole season, and if something goes wrong, it's too late to save it! ”