Chapter 714: Juventus (1)
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Last season's La Liga champion, coached by Dutch coach Louis van Gaal, and Barcelona, which has first-class stars such as Cocu, Guardiola, and Kluivert, was unexpectedly out of the Champions Cup group stage after the end of the Champions League!
As soon as such news came out, it immediately caused a major earthquake in European football that was no less than 8 on the Richter scale!
Although the other three teams in Barcelona's group are not weak, and it is true that any team has the possibility of qualifying from this group in terms of strength alone, when the most famous Barcelona was eliminated, it still made many people feel stunned. As a result, Barcelona's prestige has declined to a certain extent in world football - no fan would think that a team that even Kaiserslautern and Parma can't handle is a top giant, even if the difference in quality between them is not huge. But it can't be helped, sometimes fans are such an idealistic group.
Barcelona's poor performance in the Champions League group stage had a negative impact not only on the perception of them, but also on Louis van Gaal's dominance of the Catalan giant. Barcelona fans and even some players in the Barcelona team agreed that someone should take the initiative to take responsibility for the team's early exit from the group stage.
If the team's results are not up to par, who is generally responsible for this? Undoubtedly, of course, the head coach of the team!
As a result, the Dutch coach, who had already initially established himself in the red and blue with a La Liga title, suffered his first crisis of confidence in Barcelona.
With that out of the way, let's now turn back to Fiorentina's two-game losing streak.
Although it was expected that Fiorentina would inevitably fluctuate due to fitness problems after completing the Toyota Cup, and they were more or less mentally prepared, the news of successive home defeats to Bologna and Rosenborg still surprised many.
How long has it been since we heard about Fiorentina's losing streak? Many people don't have much impression of this, in their memory, Fiorentina, whose results have always been extremely stable, let alone a losing streak, even if they have not seen a few times in a draw, they have not seen a few times in these years, and the number of losses is even more limited, losing in a row...... Hehe, how could this happen to Florence, especially with Capello coaching Florence!
Therefore, when some people heard the news of Fiorentina's two consecutive home defeats, they immediately realized that Fiorentina, which was almost inexplicable, had exposed its destiny at this time.
On the surface, Fiorentina still have the strongest starting line-up and the most deep bench in Europe, which is true; But in fact, in the past summer, after Di Biagio, Tomasi, Barty and other team backbones chose to fly away, the depth of Fiorentina's rotation squad was still affected. Although the newcomers Makelele and Gattuso showed that they have a bright future in the game, they are not now comparable to the strength of Di Biagio and Tomasi, who have left the team, and the tacit understanding with other teammates is still running-in, and their combat effectiveness will naturally decline a lot.
It is precisely for this reason that Capello will hide most of the main players in the match with Rosenberg, in order to allow the main players to get enough rest and recover to a normal state. And in order to achieve this goal, the always proud Capello would rather let Fiorentina suffer two consecutive defeats for the first time in a long time!
As Fiorentina's next opponent, Juventus manager Carlo Ancelotti will naturally not let go of this news. The former Parma boss who took over the reins from sacked Lippi this summer has had a rough time lately, with Pierrot, the prince of the Bianconeri, suffering an injury after a collision with an opposition defender in last month's match against Udinese, according to the team doctor's diagnosis, with a torn cruciate ligament in his left knee that will require at least nine months of major repairs!
Pierrot's serious injury has disrupted Carlo Ancelotti's plans, and with Didier Deschamps, who have been in form since the World Cup, and the aging DiLivio and Antonio Conte, Juventus have struggled on all fronts.
Therefore, in Ancenotti's view, meeting Fiorentina, who have just suffered two consecutive defeats, seems to be a great opportunity to regain the confidence of the players.
In this way, under the calculations of the two managers Capello and Carlo Ancelotti, the calendar turned to December 13, the day of the battle between Fiorentina and Juventus.
Fiorentina and Juventus have not been in good shape until the start of this game, with the former's two consecutive defeats after winning the Toyota Cup still a hot topic among fans, while the latter has been on a four-game winless streak in the league and has distanced himself from the leading group.
So, both managers will be hoping to get a win in this game to stabilize the situation and get the team back on track.
That night, the Frankie Stadium was full, after all, it was a match against rivals Juventus, not to mention the previous entanglement between the two teams, the fact that the old fox forcibly poached Davies from Fiorentina this summer was enough to make Fiorentina fans have a very bad opinion of it.
Therefore, when the Juventus players walked out of the tunnel, the three "traitors" of Iuliano, Davies and Tacinadi were taken care of by the Fiorentina fans, and the boos against them were endless, making the faces of all three people look quite ugly.
In this game, Capello put the main players who had been recuperating for a whole week into the starting lineup, hoping that they can get enough rest to recover the form before the Toyota Cup, and take advantage of the home field to kill the opponent in front of them!
However, after the start of the game, it was Juventus who were the first to attack, and Otero, who had suffered a goal drought, once again showed the fans his Florentine star style in this game, and in the 11th and 18th minutes, he received Zidane's wonderful pass in the penalty area twice to steal the shot, leading Juventus to establish a two-goal lead at the beginning of the game!
Although after Capello's adjustment, Fiorentina was helped Fiorentina get one back by Ronaldo in the 35th minute, but then Otero fell in the Fiorentina penalty area when he fought with Stam, and the referee Rossetti decisively awarded a penalty, and Otero himself came on the field to complete his hat trick in this game!
"The first half is over and now Juventus are 3-1 up at Fiorentina away! The result was a surprise result that Juventus had never had such a clear advantage in the last ten meetings between the two teams, but without Pierrot, they relied on Otero's amazing performance to take a three-to-one lead! Florence is in a precarious situation right now! Could it be that Fabio Capello's side will swallow the bitter pill of a three-game losing streak today? ”