Chapter 873: After the War

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After beating Cagliari at home, Fiorentina managed to maintain the eight-point gap to second-placed Juventus without narrowing the gap further.

Eight points may seem like a lot, but it's less than three goals away. If Fiorentina encounter another goal drought like the previous one or the team's collective poor form, then this lead will definitely not stop the Bianconeri who have been chasing after them all the time!

Therefore, Heynckes is well aware that with eight rounds of the league to go, he must not be a little careless or underestimated, because it is likely to make Fiorentina's entire season of efforts come to naught!

So, under Heynckes' careful response, in the next few games in March, Fiorentina, who regained their sense of goal, although not as crazy as in February, finally maintained a normal level.

On March 23, in the semi-finals of the Coppa Italia, facing Inter Milan coached by Lippi, the Fiorentina player who was visiting the Meazza Stadium showed good form, and finally defeated this strong opponent with a goal from Vieri, and entered the final of this season's Coppa Italia!

By the way, in this crucial battle, Robert Baggio and Panucci, who have a deep grudge against Lippi, still did not get a minute of playing time, the former sat on the bench for a full 90 minutes, and the latter was directly pushed into the stands by the Silver Fox to watch his teammates' performances.

Therefore, after the Nerazzurri were defeated by Fiorentina by one goal and unfortunately fell at the door of the Italian Cup final, many media and experts believe that Lippi, as the head coach of the team, has an unshirkable responsibility, and the Silver Fox will definitely be swept away by Moratti for failing to lead the team to a breakthrough in the league and the Champions Cup, just like his predecessor!

However, the next move of the boss made the group of people who wanted to watch the excitement smash their glasses: Moratti not only firmly expressed his support for Lippi in an interview with reporters, but also announced that he will continue to invest in the transfer market this summer, so that the Silver Foxes have more room to build Inter Milan according to his ideas.

All in all, Moratti, who has always been considered tolerant of players and strict with the manager, chose to continue to trust the Silver Foxes between Lippi and the players this time, rather than supporting Robert Baggio, whom he likes so much!

Moratti's move naturally hurt Roberto Baggio's self-esteem, and the already incompatible Prince of Melancholy with Lippi immediately said after learning the news that he would submit a transfer request to the club and leave Inter Milan this summer to play in a team that has always been able to give him enough playing time.

And after Baggio publicly announced that he would not stay at Inter Milan next season, many teams began to get moving. Although the Prince of Melancholy is over 33 years old, and he has barely played many games this season, there is still a big question mark over the strength of his prime, but Roberto Baggio's vast tournament experience and ability to decide the trend of the game in an instant still appeals to many team managers and managers.

Although Roberto Baggio's demand for his playing time has made the real giants such as Real Madrid, Fiorentina and other clubs discourage the intention of bringing him in. But clubs like the leagues in the middle and upper tiers who want to go further, such as Vicenza and Roma, or those who want to strengthen their strength to increase their chances of relegation, such as Verona and Lecce, want to take advantage of this opportunity to recruit Baggio and achieve their goals!

Therefore, it is foreseeable that in the transfer market this summer, there will be a battle for Baggio!

Let's talk about Baggio first, and now let's look at Fiorentina, who have just finished the 27th round of Serie A.

In this round of the league, Fiorentina's opponent is their younger brother Vicenza in Italy. However, Heynckes did not take Vicenza lightly because it was a satellite team of Fiorentina, because he knew that Guidolin, the Vicenza manager, would never deliberately waterproof for such a reason.

Moreover, although Vicenza was poached most of the main squad by various giants wielding a checkbook last summer, after Xiao Zhuge has been carefully tuned for more than half a year, this patchwork team has basically been polished, not only in the last six league games with four wins and two draws, but also in this season's European Cup Winners' Cup competition, another successful semi-final, shocking many experts and fans.

Therefore, don't look at Vicenza's current player configuration is not as gorgeous as last year, with the strength of its starting lineup, even the seven sisters of Serie A dare not guarantee that they can win the current all-main team Vicenza.

Fiorentina are no exception, especially after the last week of big games against Chelsea and Inter Milan, and a week of double matches, the competitive and fitness of Fiorentina's players has fallen into a slump at this moment. Therefore, such a Fiorentina team that is not in the best form meets Vicenza, which is the main force, and the result can be imagined.

In the end, after 90 minutes of play, Fiorentina and Vicenza, who were playing away and in poor form, were tied 1-1, and Shevchenko's goalmouth in stoppage time in the second half helped the Purple Lilies get a point away from home!

Despite picking up just one point against Vicenza, the gap between Fiorentina and second-placed Juventus has widened to nine points after this round of fixtures - in the other game at the same time, the Bianconeri lost away to AC Milan led by Zaccheroni, so they were unable to take advantage of Fiorentina's draw at Vicenza to close the gap with the Purple Lily, but instead extended the lead by their opponents!

Seeing that the team once again wasted a good opportunity to close the gap, Moggi became increasingly dissatisfied with the team's current coach Carlo Ancelotti. Unlike history, the Juventus of this world has never tasted the league title since the end of the Platini era, and after nearly 14 years of precipitation, Juventus has gone from the top of the club to the bottom of the players, and their desire for the Serie A title has reached an unprecedented height!

Therefore, Juventus's tolerance for Ancelotti's repeated chain dropping behavior is naturally unlikely to be as tolerant as Zhuang Mingge's previous life. Zhuang Mingge learned from the grapevine that Old Fox Mo seemed to have begun to secretly look for An Fatzi's successor......