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Although Purple Lily's trip to Turkey caused some turmoil, on the whole, Fiorentina still completed the scheduled task without any danger. After winning away at Galatasaray to take all three points, Fiorentina temporarily topped the group table with two wins and one draw.

However, Heynckes and his players should not be complacent, as Dynamo Kyiv are just one point behind Fiorentina in second place, while Galatasaray in third place are four points behind the Purple Lilies with one win and two losses. With a full half of the group stage still to play, the two teams still have hope of completing a comeback in the second half of the season to secure a place in the last 16 of the Champions League.

In contrast, it is the Solna AIK club, who are famous for drawing with the Purple Lilies in the opening game of the Champions League, and the team considered the weakest in Group B have only one point after three games. If nothing else, when the group stage is over, last season's Swedish league champions will be able to announce their return home.

Let's talk about the Champions Cup for the time being, and now let's return to Italy.

After returning from Istanbul, the Fiorentina players had a day off to rest at home before immediately starting preparations for the seventh round of Serie A with Heynckes. This time, Fiorentina are still playing away from home, and their opponents are Piacenza who are famous in Serie A.

According to common sense, with Fiorentina's current player configuration, even if Heynckes sends a pure substitute lineup in this game, the Purple Lilies have a considerable chance of completing the task of taking all three points away from home.

As the team's head coach, Heynckes himself seems to think so, so the Germans have decisively fielded a starting line-up dominated by substitutes and rotations, with the likes of Deco, Andrea Pirlo and Ferrara all starting the game to bring home a win this afternoon.

However, reality has given the German coach a blow to the head. Perhaps because the physical and mental fatigue of the long journey and the noisy night in Istanbul was not sufficiently relieved, the Fiorentina players continued to feel listless on the pitch after the start of the game, and Inzaghi, who started the game, was once again missing from the pitch.

Even the midweek non-appearances Andrea Pirlo and Deco were the same, two young players who shone against Parma in the face of Piacenza's bucket formation, and had to futilely dip their feet on the outside of the visitors' defence in an attempt to find a chance in Guò.

However, in the case of Inzaghi playing stealth and only Sheva alone in front of him, no matter how strong the Ukrainian's ability is, I am afraid it will be difficult for him to complete the shot under the defense of a defender.

Piacenza, led by veteran Viljovod, on the other hand, was well positioned under Fiorentina's attack, while also attacking quickly from the back to threaten the goal guarded by De Sanctis through long passes from the back.

In the end, when the game was over, Fiorentina, who was playing away, was unexpectedly defeated by the home team Piacenza and lost the battle with a score of 0-1, which was no suspense in the eyes of outsiders, and broke out the biggest upset in this round of Serie A!

In the other matches played at the same time, the other teams that represented Italy in Europe in midweek were also quite average in this round of the league: Juventus, Parma and Roma all drew with their opponents in this round, Lazio and Vicenza struggled to get their opponents right, and as for AC Milan, although Zaccheroni led the Rossoneri to an easy Milan derby, this was mainly because AC Milan did not have a European task this week. Rather than representing their strength and bench depth, they are better than other opponents.

Therefore, in the case that the strong teams in Serie A are generally playing quite hard, Fiorentina's defeat, although it feels incredible, is not something unacceptable.

Despite the shock defeat to Piacenza at the club, Fiorentina fans were quite tolerant this time around and did not blame Heynckes for the defeat, knowing what had happened to the team during the two days on the trip to Istanbul, and the poor form was understandable, and Heynckes could not be blamed for his poor command.

Similarly, this defeat also reminded Heynckes, and the German coach secretly made up his mind that he must keep some players at home when he leads the team to Turkey to play in the future, so as to avoid such a situation again.

After losing their clash with Piacenza, Fiorentina played their third away game in a week in the following week, where they faced Sicily's Serie B side Palermo in the first round of the Coppa Italia.

First in Istanbul in Turkey, then in Piacenza in northern Italy, and now on the southernmost island of Sicily, Fiorentina's three-game schedule does look a bit of a toss-up.

Although the Fiorentina players had in their hearts to greet their ancestors for 18 generations, they were unable to change the schedule and had to continue on the road to away games.

On October 27, the Fiorentina team arrived in Sicily to prepare for tomorrow's challenge against the local snakes Palermo.

Although the atmosphere at the Stadio Barbera, the home of the Palermo club, is also known throughout Italian football, and the fans living on the Apennine Peninsula are well aware of it, the Galatasaray fans are clearly more disciplined than the Galatasaray fans who are trying to interfere with the Fiorentina players' preparations, at least they can't afford to run outside the hotel where the Fiorentina players are staying in the middle of the night to disturb their rest.

Therefore, despite the Stadio Barbera showing its style as the home of the devil on the day of the match, the well-rested Fiorentina players were not affected too much, and in their opinion, the Palermo fans were much gentler than Galatasaray.

Influenced by this situation, Fiorentina's table is much better than the previous match. Ukrainian warhead Shevchenko scored twice in the game, and Pirlo, who continued to be the heart of the playmaker, scored a brilliant direct free-kick, and Kaladze took advantage of the opponent's disarray in stoppage time to score from distance!

In the end, Fiorentina's players vented their frustration in Istanbul and Piacenza with a 4-0 victory.