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When the long game finally came to an end with Ambrosetti missing a penalty, Effenberg's ecstatic look and Ambrosetti's helpless tears after scoring the crucial penalty were quickly captured by a reporter present, and this contrasting photo became a must-have for countless media when commenting on this final!

Fiorentina won hard, Vicenza was still glorious despite defeat! This is what the vast majority of sports media have to say about the game after the UEFA Super Cup.

Facing Fiorentina, a powerful Fiorentina team that dominated almost all of European football, the Vicenza players showed surprising courage and willpower in this match, stubbornly dragging the Purple Lily into the final penalty shoot-out. In the process of shooting penalties together, Vicenza withstood huge psychological pressure when the score was behind, and after fifteen rounds of vicious battles with the Florentines, he gave the victory to the Purple Lily because of a penalty difference.

And this just gives the media who are always afraid of the world to create enough room to create a conversation, and they spend a lot of space to focus on Fiorentina's fifteen rounds of penalties to take out Vicenza to lift the trophy, but they turn a blind eye to Fiorentina's great chances to create a lot more than their opponents.

These biased comments and reports in the media inevitably affected the judgment of the fans, and many people mistakenly believed that Fiorentina's strength had fallen sharply with the departure of a large number of players in the summer, and even a small role like Vicenza could not be handled.

Of course, such a view can only deceive fans and laymen who don't know much about football. After all, as the saying goes, the layman looks at the excitement, and the insider looks at the doorway. None of the managers who really play football, such as the managers who lead the team to play games all day long, believe the nonsense of these media, but invariably raise the risk factor of Vicenza and Fiorentina by a notch in their hearts.

After all, this protracted penalty shoot-out really shocked many people's jaws and glasses, and almost all managers have to weigh themselves in their hearts after watching the video of this game, to see if their team has the willpower of Fiorentina and Vicenza to score so many penalties under such tremendous pressure.

A penalty shootout actually has to play fifteen rounds to determine the winner, what kind of trouble is this?!

Moreover, the most important thing is that in these 30 penalty kicks, the players on both sides only kicked three penalties in total, which made everyone who cares about the psychology and pressure resistance of the Fiorentina and Vicenza players have a new understanding, and realize that if they really meet these two teams in the future, the game may be very difficult to play......

A team with a lot of stars is not terrible, but a team with strong willpower and excellent players is very scary, because this kind of team is often extremely difficult to defeat and can be reversed by others if you are not careful.

In this way, under the tangled gaze of a group of managers, Fiorentina ushered in the second official game of the new season.

On 31 August, three days after the UEFA Super Cup, the 1998-99 Italian Super Cup final was held at the Stadio Olimpico in Rome.

The match will still be between Fiorentina and Vicenza, two teams who fought each other only three days ago today and can only be said to be fate - who allowed Fiorentina to win the treble last season, and the runners-up of the Coppa Italia happened to be the team that won the Cup Winners' Cup?

As a result, Fiorentina and Vicenza had to face a rather awkward schedule at the start of the season, meeting in back-to-back finals of the UEFA Super Cup and the Italian Super Cup.

With both teams losing a lot of money in the UEFA Super Cup final three days ago, many players have yet to recover from that attrition game. Therefore, in tonight's final, Capello and Guidolin had to make a large rotation of their respective starting lineups, lest the players suffer any injuries due to the fatigue caused by continuous battles, then the two managers will be dumbfounded.

After all, if the big players are lost before the league starts, it will undoubtedly be a big blow to the morale and strength of the team.

It is precisely because of this factor that the fans were presented with two very different starting lineups from three days ago at the Olympic Stadium that night.

Compared with the starting lineup that did not fall behind in the face of the big teams, the strength of Vicenza after the rotation, at least the strength on the books has declined significantly. The team's formation has also changed from the previous four, four, two wings to a small diamond shape in the midfield, and has become more focused on layer by layer transmission and gradual penetration.

At the back, Odor and Koko were replaced by Lauren and Grosso, while Balotta, Onopko and Repka are still in the starting line-up, but it is still unknown how much they will be back after the brutal battle three days ago.

In terms of midfield, the starting single midfielder is the long-established Serie A powerhouse Coys, the core of the organization is the youngster Mofeo, Brocki and Zauri play a role in connecting the front and back, their task is mainly to provide support for Mofeo in the offensive end, and at the same time assist Coyce to build a midfield defense.

Up front, Tony and Larsson were replaced by C. Lucarelli (the Livorno centre-forward who won the Serie A Golden Boot) and Cristiano Doni, who moved from Atalanta who lost the relegation play-offs this summer.

Fiorentina, by contrast, clearly have the upper hand in this regard, as Capello has far more cards at his disposal than Guidolin in Vicenza. With the current player configuration of the Fiorentina first team, it is not impossible for Capello to play even if he puts out two completely different but similar starting lineups, the only question is how to keep all the players in a relatively good competitive condition.

Goalkeepers De Sanctis, Fortunato and Madavecchia started at full-back, with Materazzi and Hyypia partnering in the middle; Claude Makelele sits alone in the midfield position, Deco and Andrea Pirlo form the core of the team, and Gattuso plays the role of a midfield stir-churner with his excellent running ability and ferocious interception. Partnering up front are Filipe Inzaghi and Di Natale, with the former's elusive movement and the latter's all-round ability complementing each other in a pretty good pairing.

In this way, under the watchful eyes of tens of thousands of fans at the scene, Fiorentina and Vicenza kicked off the Italian Super Cup together and started the second match of the season!