Chapter 289: On the eve of the semifinals
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After knocking out AC Milan in the Coppa Italia, Fiorentina managed to reach the final of this season's Coppa Italia against Atalanta – an order of magnitude different from the few Fiorentina have faced on their way to the final.
Zhuang Mingge doesn't think that with a player configuration like Fiorentina, he will lose to a small team like Atalanta.
In this way, counting the league that has been won nine times out of ten, as long as Fiorentina can play normally, it can basically ensure that they will get two championship trophies at the end of the season!
Then, Fiorentina's next focus is on the semi-finals of the UEFA Champions League in a week's time!
However, before the UEFA Champions League, the Purple Lily first has to solve some problems in the league.
On April 14, in the thirtieth round of Serie A, Fiorentina went to challenge Udinese away.
Since the first leg of the Champions League with Monaco team is three days later, in order to save the physical strength of the main players and to prevent the players from being suspended due to injury before the game, Ranieri sent a large number of substitute players in this game, and the absolute main players such as Barty, Effenberg, and Ferrara were put on the bench by the tinkerer.
Even Fiorentina's substitutes were clearly familiar with the club, which had already played each other three times this season, with Vieri opening the scoring with a header from a corner in the 15th minute to give the visitors the next goal.
Despite being in a disadvantageous position from the start of the game, it is clear that the home team will not surrender so easily. Ten minutes later, German centre-forward Bierhoff, Udinese's leading attacker, equalised in the same way, and the score became 1-1.
However, the stubborn resistance of the Udinese players also aroused Fiorentina's fighting spirit, and the Fiorentina players, who are looking forward to two consecutive Serie A titles, will certainly hope to lock up the trophy early and help the team continue to move towards the seemingly unattainable goal of the treble!
In the face of the tidal wave of Florence's attack, Udinese, who was outnumbered, finally couldn't withstand it.
In the 62nd minute, Fortunato broke through to the bottom line on the left side and crossed a low ball, Filip Inzaghi stretched out his right foot and stabbed the flying ball into the door of Udinese before the opposing defender cleared, 2-1!
Inzaghi's goal seemed to completely destroy the will of the Udinese players to resist, and the home team was crushed by Fiorentina in the following half-hour, and if it weren't for the Udinese goalkeeper's high and low block, perhaps Zaccheroni's side would have suffered a heavy defeat.
It's not surprising that this is happening, after all, the season has reached this point where the players' physical reserves are actually almost depleted, and most of them are holding on in one breath. And a team with a thin squad like Udinese naturally can't beat the dominant Fiorentina after letting out this breath.
In the end, Fiorentina won 2-1 against Udinese at the Stadio Friuli and took a solid step towards the league title!
Due to Fiorentina's victory, AC Milan tried their best to win Napoli in this round, and the three points obtained did not play a role in narrowing the gap between the two teams, and the Rossoneri are still seven points behind the leader Fiorentina in the standings with four rounds left, that is to say, as long as Fiorentina gets two more wins in the league, then this season's Serie A title will be spent on Filencial!
Not to mention the Milanese's desperate pursuit of the unattainable point difference, Fiorentina immediately flew to Monaco, a small country in the south of France, after finishing the match against Udinese, to prepare for the first leg three days later.
At this time in history, Monaco should have fallen into a slump after Arsene Wenger's resignation, but thanks to the appearance of Zhuang Mingge and a big golden finger for Wenger, the club on the northern shore of the Mediterranean Sea has a large number of talented players.
Zinedine Zidane, Trezeguet, Thierry Henry, Makelele, Candela, Ismael...... A series of shining names not only helped Arsene Wenger solidify his position, but also led Monaco to another peak in the club's history, not only winning the Ligue 1 title for the second year in a row (Monaco had already secured this season's league title several rounds before the semi-finals) and completing the French Cup three times in a row, leaving the club, which was once a minor player in the French football map, with a faint tendency to take over the Ligue 1 supremacy left by relegated Marseille.
However, Zhuang Mingge is not worried that Fiorentina will encounter too many obstacles, after all, the current Monaco team is still a big gap compared to the top Dortmund team that Fiorentina met in the quarter-finals.
Perhaps because Zhuang Mingge and Arsene Wenger have a good personal relationship, Fiorentina who came to Monaco did not suffer any difficulties, whether it was adapting to the venue or borrowing the training ground, under the care of Wenger, an insider, everything seemed to be unimpeded.
Of course, when the Fiorentina players were training, there were many Monaco coaches and scouts standing around the training ground, and they were there to ask for information......
Due to some trivial matters, Zhuang Mingge arrived in Monaco a day later than the team, and as soon as he got off the plane, he was pulled into a Monaco club car by Wenger, who was already waiting there.
Zhuang Mingge, who was sitting in the car, watched Wenger pour red wine for himself and give himself local Monegasque specialties in this extended Lincoln, this feeling...... How embarrassing is it?
"Arcena, is there anything you want me to do? Such a sad face. Zhuang Mingge looked at Wenger, who was there with a wary face, and said, "We have known each other for so many years, if you have anything to say, don't fix these vain things." ”
"Ah, haha, you really saw it." Wenger smiled at Zhuang Mingge a little embarrassed, after all, the things he planned to ask him for advice today were really a little difficult to talk about, otherwise he wouldn't have engaged in these things, "Then Antonio, I'll tell you the truth." ”
"Hurry up, say it, I'm going to watch the team's training when you're done."
"Well, I want to ask, is there any reasonable way to avoid taxes?" After a long time of talking, Wenger finally said the problem hidden in his heart.
“…… What?! Zhuang Mingge felt for a while that he must have hallucinated, Wenger, a doctor of economics, actually planned to evade taxes?!
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