Chapter 1423: Locking the Champion
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With Villarreal out of the way, let's turn our attention back to Florence. After beating Villarreal 1-0 on aggregate in the semi-finals, the Purple Lily finally got a ticket to the Champions League final after a full three-year hiatus!
You know, the last time Fiorentina reached the Champions League final was in the 2002-03 season. In the next two seasons, although the Purple Lily is still a strong contender for the Big Ears Cup, it has always missed the final, leaving fans with a lot of regrets. And now, Fiorentina fans finally have the chance to see their team shine on the stage of the Champions League final!
The Fiorentina players were also quite excited at this time, although the team had already missed out on the treble of the Coppa Italia, but in their eyes, becoming the double of Serie A and the Champions League was also a goal worth working for. Therefore, even though most of the league titles have already been achieved, the Fiorentina players are still working diligently on their daily training under the supervision of Mourinho and do not show any slackness.
After all, if a player annoys Mourinho at this time because of his bad attitude, and is kicked out of the 18-man squad for the Champions League final, it will definitely be a lifelong regret for this player. Even more seriously, if someone carelessly makes a low-level mistake in the game and causes the team to lose the trophy that should be in their hands, not to mention that Mourinho will not let him go, and other Fiorentina players will kill him in the first place......
And the day after Fiorentina knocked out Villarreal, another Champions League semi-final was also decided. AC Milan, led by Ukrainian nuclear warhead Shevchenko and Brazilian rising star Kaka, lost 0-2 away to Lazio and was finally blocked out of the Champions League final by the Blue Eagles with an aggregate score of 1-2!
AC Milan felt gloomy at the loss. After all, just last season, they beat Lazio 5-2 in the Champions Cup final to lift the Cup, the highest honour for European clubs. Unexpectedly, less than a year has passed, and the main lineup has not changed, but the head coach has changed from Mancini to Lippi's Lazio actually has the capital to beat them. Such an obvious change was really difficult for AC Milan players to accept.
Among them, the person who felt it the most was Shevchenko. The reason why the Ukrainian nuclear warhead chose to leave Florence and switch to AC Milan was because he was dissatisfied with the reality that he was going to give Vieri a hand, but AC Milan could give him the position he wanted; On the other hand, it was because AC Milan were making a lot of money in the transfer market at the time, which made him feel the Rossoneri's ambition to compete for the trophy and think that he could take his football career further here.
However, what Sheva did not expect was that after he joined AC Milan, Lao Bei invested less and less in the transfer market, and in recent years, he only introduced Gilardino when he was rarely generous, and the rest of the time he was basically slammed to death, and he did not have the ambition to compete for the championship at all.
So, after personally experiencing the semi-finals winning and then losing, and being successfully reversed and eliminated from the Champions Cup by Lazio, Shevchenko, who felt that there was no hope in AC Milan, moved the idea of transferring again. This time, he plans to defect to Lazio, who have reached the Champions League final for the second year in a row and have been in the limelight in recent years!
In fact, since Roman Abramovich announced his entry into Lazio, the Russian tycoon has not stopped recruiting Shevchenko's fellow countryman from AC Milan. It's just that AC Milan was a top giant in Serie A at that time, and the results were much better than the Blue Eagles, and Sheva was also very comfortable in the Rossoneri, so this transfer has been stranded.
And now, with AC Milan continuing to miss out on the league title and stopping in the semi-finals of the Champions Cup, Shevchenko's heart has finally begun to be touched by Abu's hometown friendship.
Although Berlusconi was greatly dissatisfied with AC Milan's fruitless ending this season, this time, Lao Bei's mind finally remained at least clear, and he did not jump out to fire Ancelotti's squid - or rather, Lao Bei has realized that when he no longer wants to invest heavily in AC Milan, Ancelotti is the best choice he can make as a head coach who can fully integrate the team's resources and give full play to their good fighting effectiveness.
In this way, Fiorentina's opponent in this Champions Cup final has finally been released under the great anticipation, that is, the Blue Eagle Lazio, who has just successfully avenged the Rossoneri!
For this final opponent, Fiorentina also felt a little tricky. Although Lazio was indeed left behind early by Fiorentina and Juventus in the league, under the guidance of the silver fox Lippi, Lazio's fighting power has been greatly improved compared to the Mancini period. In the two meetings in the league this season, the record between Fiorentina and Lazio is one win and one loss, and the Purple Lilies do not have much of an advantage on the field. All this is enough to show that after getting Lippi, Lazio has evolved into a rather formidable opponent.
However, before they can deal with Lazio, Fiorentina will have to solve problems on the league battlefield first. On May 7, Fiorentina, who rotated most of the main lineup, welcomed the penultimate round of the league match with Reggina at the Stadio Frankie in anticipation of the eagerly anticipated by more than 50,000 home fans.
Although Juventus and the Italian media tried desperately before the game, hoping that Reggina could show the spirit of fair play and go all out to stop Fiorentina in this game and ruin the opponent's dream of winning the championship early. However, for Regina, who has already been relegated early and has no hope of European competition, there is obviously no need for them to offend Fiorentina, a bigwig-level team, at this time.
Although there is no shortage of stories in the history of football where teams have lost the championship trophy in the gutter at the last minute, in the vast majority of cases, there are not too many surprises in such a game with a huge disparity between strength and weakness - if the small ball will rely on the so-called willpower and iron bucket formation to upset the giants on the field, then what is the use of these giants and stars?
Three to one, Fiorentina sent away Reggina who had a day trip to the Stade Frankie with a score that was not too excessive, and achieved a crucial victory and three points, successfully defeated the old rival Juventus, and locked the Serie A championship in the 05-06 season one round ahead of schedule!