Chapter 917: The End of the League (2)
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At this point, the 1999-2000 Serie A season was over. Fiorentina has achieved 21 wins, 7 draws, 6 losses and 70 points in all 34 Serie A games, and only because of the disadvantage of each other's records was overtaken by Lazio at the last moment, and finally had to regretfully settle for the runner-up, and its grand plan to complete the league for six consecutive championships was also shattered because of this defeat!
Relying on Fiorentina's last-ditch gutter overturn and a big home win over Regina, Lazio finally won the first title of Serie A since the beginning of the new century with 70 points. Seventy points is also the lowest score for a team to win the championship after the change to a three-point system in Serie A, which also makes Lazio, who managed to win the second league title in the club's history, set a small record.
It is precisely because of this, coupled with the fact that the Blue Eagles won the championship with the same number of points with the advantage of mutual records with Fiorentina, and the experience of being bloodied by Valencia in the Champions Cup, which made many fans and experts believe that Lazio, as the champion of the new league, has not actually been able to compete with the top teams, and is more like a manifestation of their good luck.
However, Lazio fans and players who are already immersed in the joy of winning the championship obviously don't care about these opinions, anyway, the championship trophy is already in their pocket, and no matter what others say about it, it can't change this fact!
In the eyes of the Lazio players, the reason for this statement is more out of jealousy that they have managed to win the league title by breaking the eight-year lockdown of Fiorentina and AC Milan. The Blue Eagles, who were in the excitement after winning the championship, were completely unaware that there was indeed a lot of luck in their victory.
Although the Lazio players were unimpressed, Cragnotti was very reluctant to make such comments. Therefore, in order to change this perception of Lazio, the ambitious chairman has once again raised funds in the stock market, ready to catch a few big fish in the upcoming summer transfer market, further update the team's squad, improve the team's combat effectiveness, and strive to make the club join the ranks of the top giants as soon as possible!
Behind Fiorentina and Lazio in third place in Serie A was Carlo Ancelotti's Juventus. The Bianconeri have picked up 67 points from 34 league games and are four points clear of third in the league table. However, despite Ancelotti's poor results in the past two seasons, the Juventus hierarchy, who had lost confidence in Ancelotti, still made the decision to part ways peacefully with the manager, and announced the news at the post-match press conference.
Carlo Ancelotti's departure did not come as a surprise, although the new generation of Italian coaches has been remarkable at Juventus in the past two years, and the ability to lead the Bianconeri, who are in the throes of injury and regeneration, back to the top three in the league is enough to prove his coaching ability, but the bad relationship with the core of the team Pierrot made him lose his foothold in Juventus, and he had to end his coaching journey with a slight failure in the Bianconeri.
Behind Juventus, the Milan duo are fourth and fifth in Serie A. However, compared to AC Milan, who finished fourth in the league and have already secured qualification for next season's Champions League (according to UEFA regulations, the Rossoneri need to start from the qualifying round), fifth-placed Inter Milan are much more nervous, because whether they can secure a Champions Cup place depends entirely on Fiorentina beating Valencia in the Champions League final!
(Note: Due to the butterfly effect brought about by Zhuang Mingge's crossing, the allocation of UEFA Champions Cup places is different from the same period in history, and the defending champion can automatically get a place in the main match of the Champions Cup, and does not occupy the quota of his country's league.) Therefore, if Fiorentina beat Valencia in the final, Inter Milan, who finished fifth in Serie A, will automatically secure a postponed Champions League spot. )
So, so to speak, Inter Milan fans are now the group of people who want the Purple Lilies to win in the Champions League final, apart from Fiorentina's supporters, because only if Fiorentina win in the final will they have the possibility of seeing the Nerazzurri appear on the Champions Cup stage next season!
After all, although the UEFA Cup is indeed a good platform for many teams, for a giant club like Inter Milan, the stage of the UEFA Cup is still too narrow. In the context of the expansion of the Champions Cup, it is difficult for a club that has not qualified for the Champions League stage to match the title of a giant. The bottom line is that there is a world of difference between the economic benefits of participating in the Champions Cup and the League Cup!
With Inter's wages and Moratti's lavish spending, if the Nerazzurri end up playing in the UEFA Cup, then Mr. Fachetti will be in a daze at the end of the season, even with a huge amount of TV fee income.
However, for the current Inter Milan, they don't have to worry too much about this - although Moratti is limited by the family, he can still use some of the funds, plus there is the second largest shareholder, Tronchetti, who is only responsible for the money, and it is not a problem to spend money to erase the financial deficit.
The same mentality is shared by Inter Milan, a team that suffered a heavy bloodshed last summer and fought tenaciously under the leadership of manager Guidolin to finish the season in eighth place in the league. However, for Vicenza, who failed to achieve three consecutive Cup Winners' Cup titles and exited the Coppa Italia early, finishing eighth in the league means that they also need Fiorentina's "help" to have a chance to secure a European spot.
Between Inter Milan and Vicenza, the clubs that have already secured qualification for the UEFA Cup are Parma, who are sixth in the league, and Roma, who are seventh. The declining form of teams such as Dino Baggio and Benarivo, as well as the chronic fatigue of key players such as Chiesa, have been a big reason for the Milk's malaise this season; The decline in the Red Wolves' results is more due to the fact that Zeman does not have a strong enough backline to build underneath, and Di Biagio's move to Inter Milan has deprived Roma's midfield of necessary defensive hardness. Therefore, it is inevitable that the Czech coach who has no rice to cook will lead the team to achieve such miserable results.
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