Chapter 221: First in the group

Fiorentina did not get another long buffer time after the defeat at Udinese, and three days later they will fly to Romanian capital Bucharest for the fifth round of the Champions League group stage.

Star Bucharest Football Club was founded in 1947 as Army Bucharest, and in 1961 the club was renamed Star Bucharest, and it has been used ever since. As in many small national leagues, Steaua Bucharest and Rapid Bugaslete and Dynamo Bucharest share most of the glory of Romanian football and are known as the "Romanian Three".

For the Bucharest Star, their peak moment was the 1985-86 season. In that year's European Champions League, the Romanians made it all the way, knocking out Belgian giants Anderlecht in the semi-finals over two legs led by Belgian legend Enzo Schiff. In the final, they met a Spanish Barcelona side led by German superstar Schuster, and the two sides were still dead after 120 minutes at the Estadio Pizjuán in Seville, Spain, and had to go to a brutal penalty shoot-out. Barcelona were saved four penalties in succession by Bucharest Star goalkeeper Dukadam in the penalty shootout, while Bucharest Star was hit by Lectush and Balint successively, and finally Romania defeated Barcelona 2-0 to reach the top of Europe for the first time, which is also the first time that an Eastern European team has won the Champions League.

Subsequently, Bucharest Stars met with the Dynamo Kiev team with the "Ukrainian Lightning" Blokhin in the European Super Cup, and Hadji dominated the game at the age of 20 in the game, and Haji scored the only goal of the game one minute before the end of the first half to help the team win the UEFA Super Cup, and the Bucharest Stars reached the peak in the club's history!

Although the Bucharest stars did not win any more decent honours on the European stage in the following years, they were still not to be underestimated, as evidenced by a Champions League semi-final (87-88) and a Champions League final (88-89).

The drastic changes in Eastern Europe around the 90s naturally also affected Romania, which was also a socialist system, and under the effect of "shock therapy", Romania's economy completely collapsed, and the star team, which had lost its economic foundation, naturally lost its former glory.

After losing the support of the national system and state finances, the Bucharest Star, which is a copy of the Romanian national team, and the other "brother" of the socialist camp, the Red Star Belgrade, suffered the same fate.

Galka and Lectusz, the only two players in the Bucharest star team who can still be named, other well-known stars such as Hagi, Popescu, Dumitrescu and others have moved to foreign clubs, which is why Weishenme's former European powerhouse Bucharest stars have been eliminated from the group in this season's European Champions Cup.

After qualifying from the group two rounds to go, Ranieri has plenty of room to manoeuvre against Steaua Bucharest, and with Fiorentina lacking a major in attack, there is no need for him to send his main force to fight the Romanian.

After the defeat against Udinese, Ranieri has developed a deeper understanding of the characteristics of these players in the first team, so he has been more targeted in his team's tactics, and the chances of attacking chaos in the previous game have been greatly reduced.

As a result, Ranieri continued to field a squad dominated by rotations and substitutes when arranging his starting line-up, but this time he made a number of changes compared to the game against Udinese, with Vieri playing as a lone striker, and Ranieri intended to use his impact to destroy the Bucharest defence.

In midfield, the tinkerer sent in Tomasi, Kripa and Tacinadi to take charge of the midfield, and in order to make the most of Vieri's characteristics, Ranieri specially used the long-sealed full-back position, the two wings were Djokaeff who returned early and Zambrotta who moved forward, and the four defenders were Fortunato, Filicano, Verjoward and Billindelly.

As soon as the game began, the young and strong Tomasi followed closely to Galca's side, and according to Ranieri's pre-match arrangement, his task was to keep the Bucharest Star's midfield engine firmly on the ground.

Lectuche is a decent striker in Romania, but in Europe he is a second-rate striker, and the fact that the former Fiorentina striker has only scored three league goals in a season is a testament to his lack of adaptation to the Italian defensive system. And although Lectush is very fast, his ability to combine the ball is not good, and the goals basically rely on the direct attack after receiving the pass from his teammates, and under the focus of Ranieri, Lectush can't receive the pass from his teammates, and he is naturally unable to play when he is in the front.

After blocking the opponent's attack, Fiorentina's attack began to play slowly.

Although the 22-year-old Vieri is not yet fully mature in jishu and physically, and his competitive state fluctuates from time to time, his progress is still obvious after more than two years of following Batistuta, a top center forward, in the face of the Bucharest Stars, which can only be regarded as a third-rate backline in Serie A, Vieri Although he cannot be said to be a take-and-take, but he also has the upper hand, and every time he touches the ball, it will cause a burst of exclamations from the home fans who are watching the game.

In the end, thanks to Vieri's header before half-time, Fiorentina won in Bucharest and are unbeaten in five Champions League group stage games, with four wins and one draw.

While Fiorentina won away at the same time, Zhuang Mingge also received another good news, that is, Glasgow Rangers lost in this round of group stage, defeated by a desperate Real Madrid, the white knights and the Scottish big man in this game fought for a full 90 minutes, after paying the price of two injured departures and five yellow cards, took away a valuable victory from the home of Rangers with a score of 2-1.

In this way, after the Rangers lost, Fiorentina, who had 13 points from five games, were four points ahead of the second-placed Rangers in the group, and locked the top spot in the group one round earlier!

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