Chapter 1091: The Battle of Riazor (Part I)

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Despite beating Reggina 3-0 at home to make it three wins in a row in the opening league game, the Fiorentina players did not get much time to recuperate after the game as a Champions League group game awaits them in three days' time.

With such a busy schedule, Heynckes naturally won't be so frustrated that he has to train his players every day. So, after a short one-day break to recuperate, the Fiorentina team set out for Spain early the next morning.

At this time, the well-known La Liga boycott at the end of August has come to an end. After half a month of painstaking negotiations, the alliance of 12 small and medium-sized La Liga clubs has achieved certain results, and under their unremitting resistance, Real Madrid and Barcelona, the most hawkish opponents, have to face up to the reality that this season's La Liga is likely to face a postponement, or even an indefinite hiatus.

While both clubs see La Liga as their backyard and other La Liga teams as their talent base or a shelf of talent, the grim situation at hand clearly does not allow Real Madrid and Barcelona to continue to delay. After all, if La Liga is really completely suspended because of this boycott, it will obviously cause incalculable losses to Real Madrid and Barcelona!

Therefore, after realizing that continuing to spend like this will only hurt both sides and cheapen the other three major leagues, Florentino and Gasparte took the initiative to find the Spanish Football Federation and expressed their willingness to withdraw a sum of money from the club's account to the Football Association to settle these troublesome teams.

After Real Madrid and Barcelona nodded their heads, the Spanish Football Federation, which was already anxious, immediately reached a settlement agreement with the 12 clubs that boycotted the game, and distributed the part of the TV broadcast fee received from the two giants to these teams, which finally calmed the storm in time.

However, despite this, the boycott still had a very serious negative impact on La Liga, and the most direct impact was that La Liga opened half a month later than the originally scheduled schedule, which made La Liga's reputation among fans drop a lot and lose a lot of popularity.

Fiorentina's opponent in the group stage of the Champions League in this round is one of the leaders of this La Liga boycott, the Deportivo Club in the Autonomous Region of Galicia!

Although Deportivo is the leading brother of this La Liga boycott, Deportivo will inevitably incur the jealousy of the Spanish Football Federation afterwards, and it is predictable that it will encounter all kinds of difficulties and deliberate targets in the league schedule and on the pitch in the future. But then again, if Deportivo doesn't, it will have to face the miserable situation of Real Madrid and Barcelona, two of the top giants, who have a huge TV broadcast fee and can't even drink a mouthful of soup on their own.

Therefore, in order to ensure its competitiveness in the league, it will not decline due to the aging and transfer of this group of key players, or even suffer the doom of relegation, Deportivo must stand up and fight for enough benefits for itself. Otherwise, with the current trend of rising player salaries, and the meagre financial income of clubs of the same level as Valencia and Atletico Madrid compared to Deportivo La Coruna, it is only a matter of time before this champion team disintegrates and declines.

"Mackay, Tristan, Bellerón, Mauro Silva...... It's no wonder that Deportivo La Coruna has been able to do so in La Liga, Real Madrid and Barcelona in the past two years, and their main squad and bench depth can indeed be said to be first-class. Sitting in the VIP box of the Riazor Stadium, looking at these Deportivo players who appeared on the field, Zhuang Mingge sighed very emotionally, "Rondo Iro is really a very capable chairman, and he can build such a very competitive team with extremely limited financial resources." But unfortunately, according to the development trend of modern football, Deportivo La Coruna, which is not rich in the region and is not supported by a consortium or owner with deep financial resources, is destined to be carved up by those giants. ”

Just when Zhuang Mingge lamented that Super Laco was running out, the players on both sides had already set up positions on the field, waiting for the referee to blow the whistle for the start of the game.

Because Laco's away victory over Bayern Munich in the last round of the group stage was too impressive, Heynckes naturally did not dare to be careless about this game, for fear of following in the footsteps of Heathfield and becoming the ghost of Super Laco.

Gianluigi Buffon, Zambrotta, Nesta, Stam, Carlos, Claude Makelele, Albertini, Pirlo, Di Natale, Diego Milito and Vieri – these are Fiorentina's starting eleven for this game.

Although three players including Deco, Ballack and Inzaghi did not enter the starting list this time, Fiorentina has never relied on only eleven main players to play the world, and excellent bench depth is the main reason why the Purple Lily can play on three fronts.

Generally speaking, in the first team of most top giants, there are generally 14 or 5 players who have the strength to play the main team. Because in this way, they can be more relaxed to meet the situation of multi-front battles, and avoid the team being unable to play at the strongest in key occasions due to double matches a week or player injuries, which will affect the team's results.

For Fiorentina, who have dominated European football for many years and have Zhuang Mingge, a time-traveler, who has opened his golden finger behind his back, the depth of their bench is naturally much deeper than that of other giants. After all, apart from Fiorentina, who team has the ability to put together a number of first-class midfielders such as Albertini and Andrea Pirlo, and still allow them to live together in harmony in the team?

Looking at Deportivo La Coruna, although after years of hard work by Rondoiro, the team has saved a good team, so that Laco can fight on the third line without losing the chain, but in general, their starting lineup in this game has not changed from the last game against Bayern.

It's no wonder, given that Laco has a fairly limited bench depth, especially against a formidable opponent like Fiorentina, and Irueta has even fewer available troops at his disposal.

In this way, with the whistle of referee Nelson, the focus of the second round of the group stage of the European Champions Cup Group G was officially announced at the Riazor Stadium!