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When Fiorentina swept Vicenza 5-0 to lift the Italian Super Cup for the fourth time in a row, almost all Serie A teams began to lament: who could stop the Fiorentinas from pursuing victory?

When Vicenza defeated Fiorentina in the Coppa Italia last season, many teams were hoping to overturn Fiorentina's rule. But unexpectedly, Fiorentina then used a series of brilliant results to make other Italian clubs feel deep despair!

Undefeated in the season to win the championship! Unbeaten in sixty-one consecutive Serie A matches! Serie A three times in a row! Champions Cup twice in a row!

The scariest thing is that this Fiorentina team is in a completely different situation from AC Milan three years ago! When AC Milan swept Europe to complete the feat of three consecutive league titles, most of the players in the team were already in their thirties, and it was very difficult for these veterans to maintain this peak form, so at the time.

But Florence is a different story! The oldest player in their first team is Ferrara, who has just turned 30, and is the prime of his career for a centre-back; And stars like Ronaldo, Vieri, Rui Costa, they haven't even reached their golden age yet!

This means that if Fiorentina can keep these players and keep them in the current form, the Purple Lily's dynasty will last for at least five years!

Originally, these people also put the last glimmer of hope on Vicenza, the "nemesis" of Florence, and this dream has been completely shattered today. Purple Lily proved to everyone with a bloody 5-0 that the loss was just an accident, and if it weren't for the god-like play of Otero, Vicenza would have been eliminated long ago!

Now, Florence has finally got back the debt from Vicenza with interest!

Not long after the Italian Super Cup, Fiorentina had another tournament, the UEFA Super Cup final.

Due to Zhuang Mingge's suggestion, the old man Johansson did not make any moves to expand the UEFA Cup this time, so while ensuring the spectacle and intensity of the UEFA Cup, Johansson also dispelled the idea of letting the UEFA Cup champion replace the Cup Winners' Cup to play the UEFA Super Cup.

Therefore, Fiorentina's opponents in the UEFA Super Cup this time are Barcelona FC, the winners of last season's European Cup Winners' Cup and one of the hegemons of Spanish football.

However, before the UEFA Super Cup kicks off, Fiorentina will also be sent to another UEFA organised event, the draw for the 1997-98 UEFA Champions League.

On August 23, 1997, the day of the draw for the UEFA Champions League group, UEFA still set Monaco as the venue for the ceremony.

"Massimo, I'm so glad to see you here!" As soon as Zhuang Mingge walked into the venue of the draw ceremony, he saw a familiar figure and immediately greeted the other party enthusiastically, "Now, we have four teams in Serie A that can participate in the next group stage!" ”

"Haluha, Antonio, you can't help but underestimate my Inter Milan, right?" Although Inter Milan and Fiorentina are rivals in China, this did not hinder the personal relationship between Moratti and Zhuang Mingge, and the boss of Moratti saw that his friend was still so cheerful, "Although my Inter Milan may not be as good as your Fiorentina in terms of overall strength, but against those teams from outside the four major leagues, it is a matter of hand!" ”

As the deserved first league in Europe, Italy has a total of Fiorentina, Parma and Juventus three clubs have directly qualified for the group stage this time, while Inter Milan, who finished fourth last season, kneeled 7-1 on aggregate from Poland in the third round of qualifying to qualify for the Champions Cup.

"Hehe, that's what I said." Zhuang Mingge thought about it for a while, and felt that what Moratti said was indeed very reasonable, after the arrival of the Boseman era, the gap between the strength and weakness of the teams became more and more obvious, and those small balls without many good players were naturally not the opponents of giants such as Inter Milan.

While chatting with Moratti, Zhuang Mingge was also observing the other club representatives who came to participate in the draw ceremony.

The four clubs from Spain are Real Madrid, Barcelona, Real Betis and Deportivo La Coruna. I have to say here that before Lopella was not brain-dead enough to exhaust his family wealth to bring in Denilson, Betis could also be regarded as a powerhouse in La Liga.

In fact, many La Liga teams have a history that can compete with the two giants of Real Madrid and Barcelona, but they all fell without exception in the end, and most of the reasons for the decline are because these teams have a brainless management (such as Valencia after 04, Betis of Lopella, and Atletico Madrid of the old Hill), Only a handful of clubs have been unable to maintain their competitiveness for a long time due to the size of the city they are located in, resulting in the defeat of the last club (such as Super Laco and Villarreal).

In the Premier League, despite a five-year ban in the mid-to-late eighties, the Englishman relied on the superb performances of Premier League teams in recent years to hold down their rivals Germany in the European table, and eventually became the last league to be eligible to send four teams to the Champions League.

This time, the Premier League teams that qualified for the Champions League were Manchester United, Newcastle, Liverpool and Gunners Arsenal. In Zhuang Mingge's view, among these four clubs, except for Manchester United, which is relatively difficult, the remaining three are not to worry!

Newcastle don't talk about it, Zhuang Mingge has some impressions of this team, he remembers that since the beginning of this season, the Magpies have caused civil unrest with Keegan's dismissal, although they are still those players, but the overall combat effectiveness of the team has declined significantly; Liverpool were just a flashy team before Houllier took over; As for Arsenal? Forget it, let's not talk about it......

The three teams representing German football in this season's Champions League are Bayern Munich, Bayer Leverkusen and Borussia Dortmund, although there is one less place than the Premier League, but with Bayern and Dortmund, two strong teams that reached the quarterfinals last season, the British are not very confident.

After all, although the Premier League has surpassed the Bundesliga in the standings, the best result of a Premier League team in the Champions League in the past five years has been an quarter-final, which is really not enough compared to last season's Champions League runners-up Borussia Dortmund.