Chapter 385: The Arrival of the Devil's Schedule
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Three days after the Champions League exit, Fiorentina face the sixth round of Serie A as the Purple Lilies travel to Bologna.
Zhuang Mingge is not very familiar with the Bologna team, after all, its glory period is too far away, and people really can't arouse much interest in this team.
However, in Zhuang Mingge's previous life, Bologna still had a lot of popularity among many Serie A fans, for the simple reason that there are often some veterans familiar to fans in this team.
That's right, if Atalanta is the youth training base of Italian football, then in Zhuang Mingge's cognition, Bologna is a well-deserved Serie A retirement home, this team uses the main position to recruit those who are not yet ready to accept the old stars, and the effect of this move is also quite good, these veterans use their rich game experience. The most famous of these was Robert Baggio (who played for the club in the '97-98 season), and the likes of Signori and Pagliuca and Di Vaio also played there at the end of their careers.
However, the current Bologna team has yet to taste the sweetness of recruiting veterans, and the team's number one star is Swedish centre-forward Kennet Anderson, who scored five goals in the Shijie Cup '94.
As neither Nesta nor Ferrara are the kind of centre-backs who are good at playing hard, in order to cope with the onslaught of the high school striker, Capello put Stam who is still a newcomer to the team in the starting line-up and arranged for him to focus on the Swede.
The two starting full-backs are Billindeli and Fortunato, and it seems that Capello himself is still very uneasy about the ability of Stam who has landed in Serie A for the first time, and even Liliang, who does not hesitate to sacrifice the side attack, must also strengthen the safety factor of his own defense.
In midfield, considering Bologna's lack of attacking ability in midfield, Capello instead put on a rather bold attacking lineup, with only one Redondo in the midfield position, Rui Costa in the front, Djokaeff on the wing, and Effenberg coordinating back and forth, none of whom are full-time defensive players.
The forward combination of this game is Batistuta and Ronaldo, the Argentine God of War's attacking ability is trustworthy, and Ronaldo's breakthrough is also a big killer. With these two pairing up, the nightmare for the Bologna defenders is not far off.
And the process of the game was not unexpected by Zhuang Mingge, Ronaldo seemed to suddenly get hooked on the feeling of assists in this game, and the first time after breaking through the defense of the Bologna defenders was to find his teammates to complete the attack, coupled with the strong fire support of the midfield quartet, Batistuta frequently fired heavy artillery in the penalty area, and the Bologna door buzzed.
Bologna's attack is at a loss, Stam has performed well as a Serie A newcomer, staring at the opponent's ace striker Anderson with his own ability alone, making Bologna's offensive firepower almost instantly dumb - you know, Anderson's role in the Bologna team is not only a center forward who can only score goals, he is also responsible for making the ball for his teammates, it can be said that Bologna's attack is completely dependent on his play.
Therefore, after Anderson was blocked by Stam alone, Bologna's attack was completely paralyzed, and the balance of victory completely tipped in favor of Fiorentina.
In the 37th minute, Costa went straight in the middle, Ronaldo successfully received the ball in an offside position, and after attracting the attention of the opponent's goalkeeper, he passed back to the middle, and Batistuta scored with a powerful volley, 1-0.
In the 51st minute, it was Ronaldo's breakthrough that stirred up the Bologna defense, and the alien who dribbled the ball horizontally at the edge of the penalty area made the ball to Barty with his heel, and the Argentine god of war picked up his right foot and hit the goal with a heavy cannonball, expanding the score to 2-0.
In the 64th minute, Barty scored a hat-trick from Bologna's corner kick from Costa, and Fiorentina also relied on this hat-trick to beat their opponents 3-0 and make it six consecutive league wins.
Fiorentina then welcomed the first round of the Coppa Italia in midweek, and Antonioni, who went to the draw ceremony, was not too lucky, drawing Napoli, also from Serie A, rather than those from the lower leagues.
This season's Coppa Italia has been restructured by the Football Association, and the most important point is that the first round of matches will adopt a winner-or-lose rule, which not only reduces the burden on the players, but also increases the suspense of the game.
Although they met a team from Serie A in the first round of the Coppa Italia, the current Napoli team is far from the king of Maradona's team, and they dare not be distracted by such an event as the Coppa Italia mired in relegation.
2-0, Inzaghi and Vieri scored a goal each in the second half to help Fiorentina win comfortably.
After winning the first round of the Coppa Italia, the next period of competition will undoubtedly be a rather serious test for Fiorentina:
On October 27, in the seventh round of Serie A, Fiorentina hosted the Rossoneri led by Sacchi;
On October 31, Fiorentina will play the third round of the Champions League group stage against Trapattoni's Bayern Munich in Munich;
November 3 is the eighth match day of Serie A, and Fiorentina will face Parma who are looking for revenge at the Tartini Stadium;
On November 9, the Shijie Cup qualifiers were back in action, which may give some Fiorentina a sigh of relief, but after the national team competition, Fiorentina and Bayern will play the second leg at the Frankie Stadium;
And at the weekend of that week, Fiorentina's players will not have an easy time, as they face the ambitious Inter Milan in the ninth round of the league......
In other words, in addition to the time occupied by the national team's match day, Fiorentina will have to face five strong teams in a row in the next half month, which is not a terrible schedule and a great challenge for Fiorentina itself.
If Fiorentina get through this devilish schedule, it will undoubtedly have a huge morale boost for the team, and they can do it all in one go against those weak opponents in the next games, and then win the Serie A winter title, the Champions League and of course, the first Toyota Cup title in the team's history.
If this period does not go well, then the exhausted Fiorentina players will face a lot of pressure on the four fronts (league, Champions League, Coppa Italia and Toyota Cup) after this devilish season, and there is a high risk that their morale will drop and they will be overtaken by the many strong opponents watching behind the Purple Lily.
Therefore, the next devil's schedule must not be taken lightly!