Chapter 276: Accident
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After a 5-2 comeback to Borussia Dortmund to reach the semi-finals, Fiorentina has attracted more and more attention with their outstanding performances in the European Champions League. As last season's Serie A champions, Fiorentina eliminated last season's La Liga champion Real Madrid and Bundesliga champion Borussia Dortmund in the Champions Cup.
Fiorentina's outstanding performance makes their title even more worthy of the title, at least when people talk about Fiorentina, they will not say that they won the Serie A title last season because of the poor performance of other strong teams such as AC Milan that made the Purple Lilies choose a big advantage, but will say "No wonder they won the double last season, it seems that they still have two brushes!" ”
Of course, you can't become a fat man in one bite, Fiorentina wants to become a veritable European giant, and it must continue to prove with outstanding results in the next few years or even more than ten years that it can gradually establish the image of a strong team in the hearts of fans, so as to get closer and closer to Zhuang Mingge's goal.
After the do-or-die battle with Borussia Dortmund, the Fiorentina players did not have much time to go to the bar or celebrate in their own homes, after all, there are still ten rounds of the league, and the whole season has entered the sprint stage of Zuihou, and the Fiorentina players naturally cannot let their guard down when all the teams are chasing their own season goals.
On March 10, Fiorentina traveled to Bari, known as the "Giant Killer".
Because the bloody battle with Dortmund four days ago exhausted the physical strength of many Fiorentina players, it was impossible for them to recover from fatigue in just four days, and the physiotherapy center even turned on the red lights for Di Biagio, Lanna, Zambrotta and other players to ask Ranieri to reduce the playing time of these players.
In view of this situation, Ranieri had to choose to rotate a large number of players in the game against Bari, the goalkeeper is still Toldo, but the center-back combination in front of him has become Verjovod and Nesta, and Filicano, who is still physically good, did not get the chance to start.
In midfield, Di Biagio was banned from playing by Carter during the team's medical examination, Eeffenberg is still in the suspension period, and Djokaeff, who played 90 minutes in the last game, also has some fatigue symptoms, so Ranieri simply turned Fiorentina's starting midfield combination into an unusually iron-blooded pair - Davies, Tacinadi and Kripa were three defensive stalwarts in the team, and Portuguese Rui Costa was responsible for controlling the team's tempo.
On the front line, Robert Baggio, who scored twice in the game against Dortmund, was found to have a slight strain in his left calf muscle after the game and had to rest for a week, while the captain Batistuta, who scored the decisive goal, did not have any physical problems, but the Argentine God of War was also forced to announce a truce for this game, and the reason for the truce was very helpless - the reason was that the German Tiger deliberately threw him to the ground after throwing Barty with others after the game, which directly caused the Argentine God of War to slightly strain his back muscles.
It is said that after learning the truth about Barty's injury, the terrifying expression on Zhuang Mingge's face made Effenberg, who boasted that he was not afraid of heaven and earth, not dare to appear in front of him for four days......
As a result, Ranieri had no choice but to start Vieri and Inzaghi, who were good friends, and Ronaldo, who was still limited by the physiotherapy center, sat on the bench and waited for his time.
Although Fiorentina's starting lineup is a little lacking in star flavor, in terms of strength, it is not a problem to win Bari, who is at the bottom of Serie A.
After all, Bari's results this season are not very good, and the 3.5 relegation places in Serie A (Zuihou three are directly relegated, and the penultimate relegation play-offs are play-offs) make Bari's relegation situation extremely grim, so Ranieri believes that under the pressure of relegation, Bari will definitely try to snatch three points from Fiorentina's mouth with an attack at all costs! That's why Ranieri will put out such a very defensive midfield combination, and his purpose is to take advantage of the opportunity of the Bari team to press hard against the opponent's counterattack!
At least before the start of the game, Ranieri was indeed wishful thinking.
However, when the game started, Bari gave the tinkerer a hammer in the head, and they did not attack the visitors in this game in order to fight for enough relegation points, as Ranieri imagined, but played an unhurried defensive counterattack on their home turf!
"Barry came into this game with the attitude of only taking one point! Are they not afraid of relegation at the end of the season? Grozzi Jr., who had to follow Zhuang Mingge to watch the Fiorentina game away, couldn't help but exclaim when he saw the almost identical tactical arrangement of the two teams.
"What's so strange about this, after all, Fiorentina's attack is not weak, even if Gabriel and Robert are unable to play due to injury, but we also have Philip and Ronnie, if the Bari attack rashly, they will only die worse." Zhuang Mingge was analyzing Grosz Jr. on the side, but he also knew in his heart that he was just an afterthought, before the announcement of the starting lists of both sides, no, even before the opening whistle blew, no one could confidently guarantee that his tactical arrangement was 100% complete against the opponent.
But then again, this game is really boring......
Fans who have watched the game should know how tedious it must have been when both teams on the pitch are playing defensive counter-attacks!
The Barians did come in the mood to hold a draw, but Fiorentina can't afford to do that calmly, after all, they are now only six points ahead of second-placed AC Milan, and if they draw and Milan win on the other side, they will only have a lead of four points - four points with nine games left in the league, which is not a big difference.
So, after nearly twenty minutes of Tai Chi with the home team, Ranieri finally decided to let his players take the initiative, and he did get the effect - but negatively.
In the 41st minute of the game, Davies was cut off on the left side, and the Barry defender's long pass counterattack happened to find Proti in front of the Fiorentina penalty area, who evaded Viljoward's tackle with the ball and burst into the penalty area and scored with a furious shot!
It was Bari's first shot on goal since the start of the game!
1 to 0! Barry surprisingly leads Fiorentina at home!
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