Chapter 779: Farewell, Samp
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It is precisely because the final of the Coppa Italia has not been played that Capello did not put the team on holiday in advance after being eliminated by Bayern, but continued to stay on the training ground after the game and actively prepare. After all, as anyone in Italian football knows, despite Parma's mediocre season under new coach Malesani, a top-four squad and a Champions League quarter-finals finish, the team with the likes of Crespo and Gianluigi Buffon are undoubtedly a tough opponent.
By the way, even if Fiorentina didn't reach the final of the Coppa Italia, Capello wouldn't really let the players disband on early vacation. After all, the league is directly related to Fiorentina's face in Italian football, if Capello really dares to lead the team to play a wave of three consecutive defeats in the last three rounds, not to mention whether Zhuang Mingge will be angry because of this, Fiorentina fans will not be able to spare him in the first place!
However, before the Coppa Italia final against Parma, Capello will have to deal with another team, Sampdoria who are making their final efforts to relegation!
The 1998-99 season was a nightmare season for Sampdoria and for the fans who supported it.
Not to mention whether Mantovani Jr.'s transfer decision to bring in only Ortega as a replacement after letting go of Veron, Legler and Bogasion last summer was correct, not to mention the high hopes of Lee Sharpe's cheating cousin, the incident of being openly released by the Argentine international Sansini, who has already been confirmed, has dealt a great blow to Sampdoria's prestige and the morale of the players.
It is the failed transfer of Sancini that has made many fans begin to realize that the current Sampdoria is no longer the team that could attract popular stars such as Seedorf and Gullit a few years ago, but just a former powerhouse that is about to fall into the endless abyss.
Although Montella tried to turn the tide with a steady stream of goals as he had done in the past, it was Sampdoria's top scorer who suffered an untimely injury at the start of the season that dealt a fatal blow to the Sea Blues, who were in the midst of a storm!
Without Montella in front of the city, Sampdoria completely **, from the ninth round of the league lost 0-3 to Inter Milan, to the 22nd round by Roma 3-1 at home, Sampdoria did not taste a win in three months!
Fourteen consecutive league games without a win, the competition between teams in Serie A, which is even more fierce than in history, I believe everyone should know very well......
On May 9, in the 32nd round of Serie A, Sampdoria, who had a back-to-back battle, sat at the Ferraris Stadium and ushered in the challenge of Fiorentina.
With Montella in good form and back-to-back goals since returning from injury, Sampdoria are now only second from bottom in the standings, but the gap between the Apra and fourth-bottom Salernitana is only four points, and if they can win all the last three rounds, maybe they can really pull off a miracle at the last minute and successfully avoid relegation at the end of the season.
The wishes are beautiful, but the reality is cruel. Although Capello made a significant rotation of the starting line-up due to the Champions Cup clash with Bayern Munich in midweek in order to allow the main players to better recover for the first leg of the Coppa Italia final in midweek, Fiorentina, led by Andrea Pirlo and Vieri, is still not a team that Sampdoria can deal with now.
In the 39th minute, he opened the scoring with a volley from Ortega's cross from the ribs of the penalty area, continuing his good scoring form after his comeback.
Sadly, no matter how brave Montella was in the game, Sampdoria's cheating backline would have made all of his efforts come to naught, especially when Vieri's heavy tank came into play, and Sampdoria's defenders were powerless to stop the world's leading centre-forward from rampage through their penalty area.
Just three minutes after Montella's goal, Vieri received a corner kick from Andrea Pirlo in the penalty area and shook his head to tie the score at 1-1!
While thousands of Fiorentina fans who came to the Stadio Ferraris to cheer in the stands celebrated Vieri's goal, Montella looked at his former teammate Vieri who was celebrating the goal with his hands on his hips.
I believe that most people can understand Montella's mood at the moment, with such a group of pig teammates, even if Montella incarnates Maradona, it may be difficult to turn the tide.
This goal was only the beginning of Vieri's outburst, in the 54th minute, Madavecchia received Pirlo's 45-degree angle cross, Vieri jumped high directly in the process of running forward, and beat the Yugoslav central defender Sakakic, who was introduced by Sampdoria as a stand-in for Sansini, to come to a powerful high-altitude bombardment!
It seems that he was intimidated by Vieri's momentum, and perhaps due to his own lack of ability, anyway, the goalkeeper of Sampdoria who faced Vieri did not make an effective save, but just stood in front of the goal and watched the ball fly into the net.
Two to one! Fiorentina overtook the score!
After being overtaken by two goals in a row after taking the lead, Sampdoria's players began to panic on the pitch - if they couldn't get enough points in this game, then they were already at a disadvantage and could have lost in a brutal relegation battle early!
In the seventy-second minute of the game, Fiorentina seized the opportunity of Samp's players to press the back air defense, Pirlo penetrated Samp's back line with a seemingly careless pass, Vieri inserted in time to form a single knife, and scored with a left-footed volley in the face of the attacking opponent's goalkeeper, while reaping his personal hat trick in this game, it also completely crushed Sampdoria's last hope of scoring points at home!
In the end, the game ended at full-time, and Fiorentina, who were playing away, beat Sampdoria 3-1. At the same time, there was also the news of Salernitana's surprise 1-0 win away from Cagliari.
This means that with only two rounds of the league remaining, the gap between Sampdoria and fourth-placed Salernitana has been widened to as much as seven points!
It is for this reason that when the news of Salernitana's victory was heard, the Sampdoria fans in the stands of the Ferraris Stadium went violent. They can't, and don't want to believe, that Sampdoria, which has brought them countless joys and honors in the past ten years, has announced relegation from Serie A in advance when there are still two rounds left before the end of the league!