PS: Chapter 27 of "Add more to complete jihua".

According to Fortunato's attending doctor, Zhuang Mingge can basically be sure that the Italian left-back, who died young in history, has successfully overcome the illness and only needs to continue to be hospitalized for a while, and if there are no accidents, he can return to the team for recovery training.

Fortunato did not have to die early due to leukemia, and this historical change brought Zhuang Mingge a great sense of achievement. Although Zhuang Mingge doesn't think he is a saint, he can save a life through his own efforts, this kind of thing, Zhuang Mingge is still willing to do it a few more times.

According to the data sent back from the United States, although Fortunato's physical fitness has decreased a lot due to the battle with illness in the past year, he is still not yet 24 years old and still has a good chance of returning to the peak. Even if Fortunato doesn't regain the level he did at Juventus, his talent and awareness will guarantee him a place in Fiorentina's first team.

However, Fortunato will not be able to return to Fiorentina from the United States for at least a month, so Zhuang Mingge only made a phone call to the player and told him to recover well and not rush to make a comeback.

Fortunato, on the other side of the phone, was clearly impressed by the owner's concern, and he was well aware that the club had spent a lot of money to treat his leukemia. If such a thing is put in other teams, it is estimated that the players can only receive a condolence payment and then spend the rest of their lives in the hospital, right?

During the call, Fortunato tried to convince Zhuang Mingge that the team did not need to pay him the salary agreed in the contract until he officially played for Fiorentina, but Zhuang Mingge refused without hesitation:

"What are you kidding, I know Andrea (Fortunato) your family is not rich, your salary should be kept to support your family, since Florence chose to sign you, they will not pay you a lira less in the contract!"

Zhuang Mingge's words made Fortunato, who was on the other side of the microphone, grateful, and he secretly swore in his heart that as long as the club did not abandon him, he was willing to play for Fiorentina for the rest of his life.

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Fortunato's side of things will be put aside for now, and the topic will return to Serie A.

At this time, the calendar has flipped to April 2, which is the match day of the 25th round of Serie A.

In this round of matches, Fiorentina won 4-0 at home to Brescia, who were determined to be relegated, and Batistuta scored twice in this game to lead the scorers with 23 league goals.

Juventus did not stop their progress, facing AC Milan, another team of the "Holy League", the Bianconeri unceremoniously defeated the Rossoneri 2-0 at the San Siro Stadium, completing the double against Milan this season and continuing to lead by three points.

At this time, there are still nine rounds left in Serie A, and some football media are focusing on the title battle between Juventus and Fiorentina, and they are also starting to pay attention to whether Batistuta will become the first Serie A Golden Boot in 36 years to score more than 30 goals.

In an interview with reporters, Batistuta said that he was very happy to have the opportunity to break the "30-goal curse" of the Serie A Golden Boot, and at the same time, Barty also said in the interview that leading Fiorentina to a league championship trophy is his greatest wish now.

However, Barty's beautiful wish can only depend on whether the previous Juventus will make mistakes, and the current Fiorentina is most likely to fight for not only the Serie A championship, but also another trophy, that is, the European Cup Winners' Cup.

In the middle of the week, Fiorentina travel to London, the capital of the United Kingdom, to Highbury Stadium in north London, where they will face the first match of the UEFA Cup Winners' Cup semi-final with Premier League side Arsenal.

Arsenal have been one of England's top teams since their inception, and have never left the top flight after the first shijie battle through the expansion of the first division, and in the thirties, under the leadership of the famous coach Chapman, swept England with an epoch-making "WM" tactic, becoming the second team in the English top flight to win three consecutive league titles - the first to do so was Huddersfield Town - and now a team in League One.

Ten top-flight titles, six FA Cups, two League Cups, and one each of the League Cup and Cup Winners' Cup, Arsenal are undoubtedly one of the best teams in England.

If Arsenal are the aristocracy of English football, then Fiorentina are the standard civilian team in comparison......

Although the opponent is the famous Arsenal, Zhuang Mingge did not preconceive of it as the Wenger version of Arsenal that pays attention to ornamentation and advocates jishu cooperation in his memory.

Because at this time, the manager of this Arsenal team is still the same Graham.

At this time, Arsenal was still a traditional English team, paying attention to physical confrontation, advocating liliang and abundant physical fitness, and the tactical style of play was mainly based on long passes and rushes, and the defensive side was tall and large, and they occupied a larger defensive area and high-altitude advantage.

Arsenal under Graham have a tough and fierce style of play. In the late 80s and early 90s, when teams such as Liverpool and Nottingham Forest were gradually declining, and Manchester United led by Lord Ferdinand had not yet risen, Arsenal became the king of English football at that time.

The invincible Arsenal has won a lot of honors, especially in the 1988-89 season in the League One Zuihou round of miraculous defeat of the Red Army Liverpool, while winning the league title, the Red Army, as the old hegemon of England, completely entered the bottomless abyss of more than 20 years without a league title.

However, such a reversal that took place before the creation of the Premier League is a long time ago. Zhuang Mingge's most vivid memory of this Arsenal game was the European Cup Winners' Cup final a year ago.

Despite the fact that Arsenal were generally unfavourable ahead of the final, and their opponents, defending champions Parma, were trying to become the first team to win back-to-back titles in the Cup Winners' Cup, the result was a big surprise – Arsenal won Zuihou.

Arsenal relied on tenacious defence, ferocious tackles, a successful sneak attack by striker Ian Wright, and the jaw-dropping 901 formation of the "Gunners" behind the lead.

Although Zhuang Mingge knows that in the face of such a difficult team, as Arsenal's main players gradually get older, it seems to be going downhill. But he is well aware that Fiorentina will need to give it their all to overcome such an experienced and mature Arsenal team.

The arrival of the first leg of the semi-finals of the Cup Winners' Cup has made the London police feel like a big enemy, although the Heysel and Hirtsburgh massacres are a thing of the past, but the ubiquitous English football hooligans have made the police dare not take it lightly.

More than 100 Italian police officers who were invited to the event raised such an action to maintain law and order to the height of international cooperation, which seemed to be a continuation of the cooperation between the two police in the 1990 Shijie Cup. In the face of the feud between Italy and England in the 1990 Shijie Cup (referring to the third and fourth place finals of the Shijie Cup in 90, Italy defeated England to win the third place), facing the football hooligans who were frantically looking for an outlet, although the British police successfully crushed the football hooligans in that Shijie Cup, but this time, the British people who have always been arrogant also had to turn to the Italian police who they saw as inefficient.

Arriving in Fiorentina in London the day before the game, as soon as I got off the plane, I went directly to Arsenal's home stadium Highbury Stadium under the leadership of head coach Ranieri for the only pre-match field adaptation training.