Defending champions Juventus played away from home against Fiorentina the "Purple Lily", which was the highlight of this round; AC Milan will also face a test away from home against the sixth-ranked "flying donkey" Chievo team this season; In the final four of this round, only Inter Milan's opponent is a weak team, and it is at home against promoted Ascoli, in the case of the old lady and the purple lily catching each other, and the city rival AC Milan encountering a strong opponent, the Nerazzurri will definitely not let go of this opportunity to increase points.

Such a battle for the top of the table is much more exciting for Fiorentina fans than the Tuscan derby, after all, several teams in the Tuscany region are not strong enough to threaten Fiorentina's position, and the victory is almost certain before the game, but Juventus is different, this is the strongest and most successful team in the entire Apennine Peninsula, and now it is at the top of the table, Fiorentina and their match were hyped up in the week before the game.

The first leg of the Coppa Italia match between the two teams in midweek was considered a warm-up match between Fiorentina and Juventus, and it was not only a hot off-pitch affair in that match, but also a fierce game, with Fiorentina coming out on top with a two-goal lead at Juventus to fall behind in the two-legged qualifying match.

If Fiorentina is left in the Italian Cup, then they can no longer hide their strength in this league, and compared to Juventus in the Champions League in midweek, Fiorentina has no worries, they have already qualified for the Champions League group, and there is no ambition to compete for the first place in the group, so they can play a game with Juventus wholeheartedly.

In the last game, Fiorentina had about 35,000 people at home, and this game, Fiorentina's official website gave an announcement three days in advance, and 43,000 tickets have already been sold out, so far, the number of people who came to watch the game has exceeded the previous game.

When Juventus returned to Fiorentina from Turin, their confidence improved even more than they did last time, after all, they scored two goals in a row to equalise in the last game after falling behind by two goals, and the players had a better understanding of the quality of their opponents, and they also swept away the gloom of losing more than they won at Fiorentina.

When the Juventus players walked onto the pitch from the dressing room, they were greeted by boos, shouts of challenge and name-calling, and the Juventus were fortunate that there were no raindrops of debris flying down this time, and it looked like the threats from Della Valle and Mayor Domenich before the game still played a big role.

The on-site commentator is also a hardcore Fiorentina fan, and he is not friendly to the Florentina fans, not only did he not make any indications, even if it was a fake statement, but also constantly ridiculed Juventus's lack of hardcore fans, and there were less than 3,000 fans who came to watch the game, which was really insulting to the style of the giants.

“…… Only 3,000 people came to Florence, not the fans who came to the stadium to watch the game, but all the fans, this is incomprehensible, we know that as long as it is a Fiorentina game, we don't need to say at home, even if it is to play a low-level team, there will be no less than 20,000 people, but in the last Champions League of Juventus, only 96 spectators came to the Alp Stadium, of which only 4lUl people bought tickets to enter, and the rest were season ticket fans......"

Listening to the cynicism of Fiorentina's on-site commentators, Moggi sitting in the VIP box did not take it to heart, even if the Alp Stadium became one of the least attended teams in Serie A, they are also the club that attracts the most sponsorship in the world, and the Libyan oil company Tam1 has provided Juventus with a whopping 15UU million pounds. Equally complacent about Juventus is that their television contract is one of the most expensive in the world, earning a whopping £48.5 million from the league alone. Such numbers allow Moggie to ignore the ridicule and sarcasm of Alp's dismal attendance.

However, Capello, who was standing on the sidelines, felt very different from Moggie, he would rather the team be less profitable, and he would not have such a small number of fans in the stadium to help, 3,000 Juventus fans are like a flat boat surrounded by more than 40,000 Florence fans, which seems very small.

Prandelli took the initiative to come over and shake Capello's hand.

The strongman had a big impact on Prandelli's coaching career, and Juventus had also planned to ask Prandelli to coach, but because Capello resigned from Roma, Juventus chose Capello in love, and Prandelli went to Rome where Capello stayed.

After arriving at Fiorentina, Capello's Juventus was Fiorentina's biggest rival, Capello liked to defend, Prandelli was more good at attacking, and the two managers with completely different styles seemed destined to become a pair of rivals.

After the players came on the pitch, the commentators finally gave up on the attack on Juventus for the time being and began to introduce the starting line-ups of both sides to the fans.

“… Juventus starters: Goalkeeper: Abbiati; Defenders: Zambrotta, Cannavaro, Thuram, Chiellini; Midfielders: Camoranesi, Emerson, Vieira, Nedved; Forwards: Ibrahimovic, Trezeguet...... Before the game, there was talk of Gianluigi Buffon's comeback, the world's No. 1 goalkeeper who suffered shoulder surgery after suffering a pre-season "Berlusconi Cup", he returned to normal training three weeks ago and passed a reserve match, but today he was still on the bench and it seems that Capello does not want to risk him yet. In fact, during the more than three months that Buffon was absent, Juventus did not miss him much. The Zebras have played well on both fronts, and the Champions League is currently out of the league ahead of schedule. Although Gianluigi Buffon didn't start, today was a much stronger and more complete Juventus, with the main players who missed the Coppa Italia in midweek all returning to the starting line-up, including our main left-back Chiellini from last season, but now we don't have to miss him, we have our own Pasquier......"

“…… Let's take another look at Fiorentina's starting line-up: goalkeeper: Frei; Defenders: Ujfarusi, Gambelli, Dainelli, Pasquel; Midfielders: Donader, Fiore, Jorgensen, Chen Yu; Forwards: Di Natale and Toney......

This is a 44 lineup, but with what we know about Prandelli and Fiorentina, such a lineup can become 43I at any time during the game because Chen Yu and Di Natale have the ability to play forward, especially our all-round warrior Chen, he is simply a strategic pawn of Prandelli, and every change of his can make Fiorentina change the style of play, the biggest highlight of today's game is the stars of Chen and Juventus, the battle between Toney and Ibrahimovic, in comparison, The outside world is more optimistic about Fiorentina playing at home, in the strong dialogue, Fiorentina has always been unambiguous, last season beat Juventus twice, and before that just lost AC Milan...... Let's watch the game first and analyze it while watching......"

After the start of the game, Juventus, who kicked off first, played very aggressively and got into the game very quickly.

In the first minute, Nedved forced his way to the flank, Camoranesi was disrupted by Pasquier when he tried to go down, and Juventus won a corner.

Camoranesi took the corner himself, and Thuram and Cannavaro both came to the box to fight for headers.

Fiorentina's air defense is very strong, the ball is passed to the penalty area, and Chen Yu, who reacts quickly, bounces high and heads out of the penalty area.

The ball was once again under Juventus' control, and Juventus continued to break through the middle, playing on Pasquier's side, because Fiorentina's side was the main attacking force, and Pasquier's side was relatively young, and his side became Juventus' main attacking direction.

However, although Pasquel is not very old, he is becoming more and more mature defensively, otherwise he would not have squeezed Pancaro to the bench, and Camoranesi has just been disrupted by an attack, this time Camoranesi and teammate Zambrotta attacked Pasquier.

Zambrotta and Camoranesi played a one-two, Zambrotta quickly inserted and broke through Pasquel, but when he broke through to the bottom line and wanted to cross, he was blocked by Chen Yu, who was back to follow

Within a minute of the game, Juventus had two corners.

Pasquier nodded gratefully to Chen Yu, if Chen Yu didn't come back in time, he was afraid that after the game, he was afraid that this would be another defensive failure for himself, as the team's offensive core and spiritual leader. It is commendable that Chen Yu is so active in defense.

Chen Yu waved his hand, "It's nothing, be careful yourself, today they seem to be going to focus on this direction."

Today, Prandelli's task for Chen Yu is still to connect the striker and the midfielder, it seems to be the front waist, but Chen Yu's task is by no means as simple as the front waist, Chen Yu because of his good physical strength and fast speed, many defensive tasks have also fallen on him, such as the defense of the wing, which should have been Jorgensen's responsibility, but the Danes were not able to grab Chen Yu's front.

Chen Yu performed very positively today, he seemed to vent his frustration to the game, and ran wildly after the game began, seemingly not estimating the consumption of physical energy at all.

Camoranesi hoisted the ball into the box again, this time with a Dainelli header that headed the ball out of the box.

However, compared with the last time, this time Fiorentina deployed a lot of troops on the periphery, after the ball came out, Fiore and Toney's pressing made Juventus unable to launch a second attack, and the ball passed to the feet of Juventus goalkeeper Abbiati to be stable.

In the opening minute, the tone of the game had been set, both sides were intent on attacking, Juventus of course wanted to extend their lead, and Fiorentina also wanted to take advantage of the home advantage to drag Juventus off the top of the table, but it was up to the players of both sides to play and luck.