The news of Batistuta's winning the European Ballon d'Or quickly caused quite a stir in Florence and even throughout Europe, after all, as the first non-European player to win this award, it naturally attracted wide attention from all shijie fans. And Batistuta's Fiorentina naturally took advantage of this momentum to show his face in front of all shijie fans, letting people know that Italy is not only the top three in the north and Napoli, but also a team called Fiorentina that can suppress them at the top of the Serie A table.

Under the unremitting publicity and promotion of Kenyon, the manager in charge of the club's marketing operations, especially with the help of the broad platform of Adidas, Barty and Fiorentina's popularity in the Shijie range has increased significantly.

At the same time, Barty's award is a well-deserved supremacy of Serie A, after all, no country's top league can be as domineering as Serie A, which can give birth to eleven "European Footballers" in 14 years.

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After a short Christmas break, the Fiorentina players gathered at the training base on time on the third day after the new year to prepare for the next game.

After all, on January 7, Fiorentina will usher in the first game after the New Year, and the whole Purple Lily team will go south to challenge the "Red Wolves" Roma on that day.

Before the game, the media agreed that Fiorentina, who had won five consecutive league games before the winter break, would win comfortably in this round, after all, the Purple Lily's squad is much stronger than its opponents Roma, who at this time are not the top team with countless players at the turn of the century, and Fiorentina has grown into a strong team that impresses the European giants.

Claudio Ranieri was clearly confident of winning the game, having been the first to announce his starting line-up for the game against Roma the day before the game. However, it can be seen that Ranieri does not have any pride in the line-up, except for Kripa who is unable to play due to a cold and Lanna who is suspended for yellow cards, Fiorentina's main players are all on the field, and it is clear that the tinkerer intends to welcome the new year with a win in the first game after the winter break.

The trend of the game was indeed as expected by the media before the game, from the beginning of the game, Fiorentina suppressed Roma with home advantage in all aspects, and the anti-away Purple Lily scored the club's first goal in 1996 six minutes after the opening whistle, and Batistuta, who had just won the European Ballon d'Or, received Fortunato's cross from the left and beat Aldair's header to score, 1-0;

Roma, who were behind the score, were unwilling to be swallowed the bitter fruit of defeat like this, and they immediately launched a counterattack after the restart.

The attacking combination of Giannini and Balbo was indeed a top-notch frontcourt configuration a few years ago, and now the 32-year-old old prince is obviously inadequate, although his physical fitness has declined sharply, although his jishu and awareness are still as good as ever, but under the care of the young and strong Davis and Di Biagio, it is difficult for the old prince to use normal jishu movements, let alone provide passing support for Balbo on the front line.

In this way, in the case of the Roma team's attack being slow to open the situation, the away Fiorentina extended its lead in the twenty-eighth minute of the game, Giannini was stealing the ball by Davies, Rui Costa, who received the ball, half-turned and sent a 40-meter long-distance pass directly through the entire defense of the Roma team, and Roberto Baggio, who was successful in the anti-offside position, easily shook the attacking Roma goalkeeper and pushed the empty goal, and the score became 2-0! Fiorentina had a number of chances but couldn't convert them into goals, and the scoreline remained until the end of the first half.

When the referee blew the whistle for the end of the first half, thousands of Fiorentina fans in the Stadio Olimpico rejoiced – celebrating their team's outstanding performance in the first half.

However, in the face of being suppressed by Fiorentina and scoring a goal each by Batty and Baggio in the first half, Roma coach Mazzoni responded calmly and replaced Giuseppe Giannini, the in-form "Prince of Rome", with Francisco Totti, who has improved rapidly this season, at half-time, leaving the team's attacking organization entirely to the young player under 20 years old.

As a result, Mazzoni's substitution became the turning point of the game, and Totti, who came on as a substitute, did not show the slightest stage fright, but relied on his jishu and dribbling ability to maneuver with Fiorentina's entire defensive system, and at the same time used relentless running to connect players in every position of the team.

Under Totti's command, the Roma players, who had been distraught by Fiorentina in the first half, regrouped and played several sharp counter-attacks.

In the 62nd minute, Davies' pass to Effenberg in the middle was intercepted by Totti, who dribbled the ball past Davies and Di Biagio in front of him, and faced the defense of his friend Nesta, calmly distributed the ball to the unguarded Balbo, and the Barty compatriot did not live up to Totti's expectations, and a powerful shot pulled one back for Roma, and the score became 1-2.

Seeing the hope of equalizing, the Red Wolves players rekindled their fighting spirit in the following time, and the Roma team, which stepped up their attack, scored another goal in the 78th minute of the game, Totti made a one-two in front of the field and Balbo in a row to the front of the Fiorentina penalty area, Zuihou The Argentinian successfully passed the ball to Totti under the defense of Ferrara, and Totti scored with a powerful right-footed volley directly on the line of the penalty area!

In this way, at the end of the game with more than ten minutes left, the Roma team, which was two goals behind in the first half, magically tied the score at 2-2!

The two-goal lead was equalized by the opponent, and Fiorentina was naturally unwilling to get a draw like this. Therefore, in the following time, the Purple Lily's players launched a tidal attack on the door of the Roma team, but this time it was the Roma backline led by Brazilian central defender Aldair, and Fiorentina's several extremely threatening shots were blocked by the Roma defenders, allowing the Purple Lily to return in vain. In particular, in stoppage time of the game, Costa took a corner kick, and Inzaghi, who replaced Baggio, fell to the ground five meters in front of the goal to tackle, and the Roma goalkeeper could not reach it, but the ball was blocked by the Brazilian on the goal line and cleared out of the penalty area.

In the end, thanks to the excellent performance of teenager Totti in the second half, Fiorentina ended up with only one draw at the Stadio Olimpico.

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