PS1: This is Thursday's update, a little late, I hope you don't care too much about the update time, and I promise not to stop the update......

PS2: Let's talk about the book friend group here, the group number is three, seven, zero, five, four, nine, nine, one, nine, nine, verifies that the answer is NTR knight, well, that's it.

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PS4: Without Ramsey, Wales is really much worse in combat effectiveness...... Also, congratulations to Cristiano Ronaldo and Portugal for reaching the final of the European Championship. Regardless of the outcome, Ronaldo is worthy of his status as a top superstar and the heart of the national team.

After the Champions League group draw at the end of August and the half-month international break that followed, the Fiorentina players returning from the national team were ready for the second round of Serie A.

Considering that there is a Champions League group stage in midweek, Mourinho began to rotate the team's starting line-up on the advice of medical experts at the physiotherapy center, so as to ensure that these players who participated in the national team competition can be in good condition for the next game, and reduce the possibility of injuries due to overwork.

And the result of this game made Mourinho quite satisfied. Seemingly influenced by the 5-1 win over Sampdoria in the opening game of the league, Fiorentina made some changes to the starting line-up, but the away Purple Lilies still easily solved the home team in the game, and beat Messina, who was trying to get points at home, to the ground, and finally took away a 3-0 victory from the St Philippe Stadium.

Then, in the first round of the 05-06 Champions League group stage in midweek, Fiorentina relied on Buffon's consistent and excellent performance and Diego Milito's stunning goal in the 88th minute of the game to beat the traditional Belgian giants Club Brugge 1-0 at the Jan Bredel Stadium to win the team's Champions League opening the season.

After beating Club Brugge, Fiorentina did not stop winning the game. In the next three games, Udinese, Lecce and Vienna quickly became the ghosts of Fiorentina, putting Fiorentina at the top of the table on both the league and Champions League fronts, and extending the Purple Lily's winning streak in all competitions in the new season to seven (four in the league, two in the Champions Cup, and one in the Italian Super Cup)!

With seven consecutive wins at the start of the new season, Fiorentina has made the whole European football world tremble with their form and strength at the start of the season. Even Fiorentina's arch-rivals, Juventus, who have won six in a row in the new season, have not been able to steal the limelight from the Purple Lily.

Many Juventus fans are unhappy with this result. They believe that the reason why Purple Lily was able to achieve seven consecutive victories in the opening tournament was largely due to the fact that the opponents they had encountered during this period were generally weak. In contrast, Juventus lost to Fiorentina in the Italian Super Cup, but the Bianconeri's six-game winning streak was clearly a little more valuable - at least in the Champions League, Juventus also won Liverpool at Anfield (due to the butterfly effect brought by Zhuang Mingge, Chelsea failed to reach the top four of the Premier League last season, while Liverpool caught the last train of the Champions League at the last minute), but Fiorentina? They won against teams from the second-tier European leagues, Club Brugge and Rapid Vienna!

However, these doubts from Juventus fans were soon extinguished with another victory for Fiorentina in the league - in the fifth round of Serie A, Fiorentina at the Meazza Stadium managed to take all three points on Inter Milan thanks to a direct free kick from Andrea Pirlo and a heavy shot from Ballack!

For this defeat, Inter Milan coach Ranieri is also quite helpless. In this game, the tinkerer can be said to have taken the defensive counter-attacking tactics to the extreme, and his tactics not only prevented Fiorentina's attacking trident from finding good scoring opportunities, but also allowed the Nerazzurri to get several solo chances. If it weren't for Buffon's bravery, who staged a scene in this game, coupled with Lucio's sudden pressure to disrupt Inter Milan's defense, and forcibly carved a hole in this copper wall, I'm afraid Fiorentina will lose Milan City tonight.

It has to be said that since Gianluigi Buffon showed amazing competitive form against Sampdoria, the Fiorentina players have started to be more aggressive on the pitch and at the same time more daring to press the attack. As a direct result, Fiorentina's defence has become less solid than last season, while attacking more pressing than before.

Lucio, in particular, has been a key player in Fiorentina's attacking arsenal this season as Carlos opted to leave and his successors Zivo and Heinze lacked assists.

Although Mourinho values defence, he is quite encouraging for defenders to step in and participate in the attack. The Portuguese knew very well that relying only on midfielders to attack was too flat and could easily be targeted by opponents with a bucket formation and dense defence. And if the defender can press at the right time in the game and participate in the attack, it will often have a surprise effect. After all, under normal circumstances, most teams are not very psychologically prepared for defenders, especially central defenders, and it is easy to leak defense.

It was this change that caused many teams accustomed to Fiorentina's previous attacking mode to fail to turn a corner for a while, and the defensive system inevitably had holes, and as a result, the Purple Lily broke the goal and finally lost the game in a daze.

However, although Fiorentina have won five consecutive Serie A games, the Purple Lilies do not have a single point advantage in the league standings. The reason is simple, that is, Juventus also won all five games since the start of the league, and only fell to the second place in the standings due to the disadvantage of goal difference!

Although Juventus were beaten 5-1 by Fiorentina in this season's Italian Super Cup final, Patrick Vieira, who transferred from Arsenal, was a timely shot in the arm for the demoralised Bianconeri, allowing the Juventus players to quickly emerge from the heavy defeat to Fiorentina in the Italian Super Cup final.

If it weren't for the arrival of Patrick Vieira, who swept away the gloom of the previous final defeat, Juventus would not have been able to bite Fiorentina tightly in the opening stages of the league and go neck with the Purple Lilies in the standings with a five-game winning attitude.