Chapter 1101: Autumn Hurricane (5)
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The day after Fiorentina II's surprise win over Bologna, Fiorentina FC also welcomed Napoli in the first round of the Coppa Italia.
After being relegated from Serie A in the 2000-01 season, the Napoli management, who had little understanding of the current state of the team, made a rather serious mistake by risking a large deficit in the finances of the first team and preparing to rely on this team to compete in Serie B, believing that the team could definitely return to Serie A after a season!
However, it turned out that the Napoli hierarchy had made an extremely wrong decision. In last season's Serie B competition, Napoli, who finished fifth, not only failed to qualify for direct promotion, but also lost their last hope of promotion in the promotion play-offs by a surprise defeat to Empoli, who are inferior to their reputation and strength.
The result of not returning to Serie A as a result was undoubtedly a huge blow to Napoli, not only forcing them to release a large number of key players at the end of the season to ease the growing financial pressure on the club, but also completely frustrating the calculations of the Napoli hierarchy, unable to use the huge TV broadcast fee to cover last season's financial deficit, and they had to face the dilemma of high debt.
As a result, Napoli had to completely rebuild the first team in the summer of a mass exodus of first-team members, and the departure of a large number of key players had an even worse negative impact on the club that was once glorious in the Maradona era. For example, the strength of the team has dropped dramatically due to the large turnover of personnel, and the remaining players are also worried about the future because of this move by the club...... All in all, Napoli now has the feeling that it is in turmoil and that it could collapse completely at any moment.
In this situation, the panicked Napoli have managed just one win in the first six rounds of Serie B this season. If they continue to play in the same form as they are now, let alone return to Serie A, they will be able to stay in the second division at the end of the season and celebrate with champagne.
Faced with such a weak and unmotivated opponent, Heynckes decisively fielded a starting lineup consisting of a large number of substitutes in the game. As a result, veterans such as Effenberg and Redondo, who have been sitting on the bench or even in the stands since the start of this season, and have played little time have been given the opportunity to start today, and Gattuso, who is full of energy and brave style, entered the starting list as the bodyguard of the two; Guadalben replaced Gianluigi Buffon as the starting goalkeeper, with Sun Jihai, Lucio, Nesta and Zivo in front of him forming the backline; As for the front three, it is a combination of Di Natale, Diego Milito and Portuguese teenager Cristiano Ronaldo.
Although there are many problems with Heynckes' starting lineup, for example, Redondo and Effenberg are now far less competitive than when they were at their peak, and they can easily be chased by opponents as loopholes; Although Gattuso is fierce defensively, he has a very poor sense of position, and he can only be used as a-stirring stick, and he cannot play the role of Makellele; Cristiano Ronaldo has not yet completely shaken off the style of play that he over-pursued and neglected practicality when he played for Benfica, and for this reason he was not less taught by Carlos and Zivo when he was training in the team.
However, despite all the problems and shortcomings of this starting lineup, it is not a problem to deal with the current team with poor tacit understanding and poor strength. Although Ronaldo almost became a second Denilson in front of these seasoned veterans, and his flashy dribbling skills were almost completely unplayable after a few surprises in the early days, Fiorentina still controlled the pace of the game under the planning of Redondo and Effenberg, and did not give the Napoli players a chance to cause an upset.
In the 28th minute of the game, the Napoli player's cross pass in the midfield, Gattuso intercepted it halfway and passed it to Redondo, who played a standard wall-hitting combination with Effenberg and then went straight to the middle, and Diego Milito, who received the ball in the open space, made a slight adjustment and shot directly with his feet, the ball hit the far post and bounced into the goal, 1-0!
Milito's goal made the Napoli players start to panic. After all, their opponent in this game is the famous Fiorentina, in the face of such a behemoth, there is already a little weakness in their hearts, and now they are being engaged by Milito like this, these players suddenly have a disagreement on the next game strategy, some people think that they should strengthen the attack to score goals, some people think that the defense should be done first is the foundation of winning, and some players who feel that the general trend has gone began to play soy sauce on the field......
So, taking advantage of the disagreement of the Napoli players and the disjointed formation on the pitch, Fiorentina went down two more times before the end of the first half and completely sealed the victory of the game!
In the end, at the final whistle, Fiorentina defeated Napoli 3-0 at the Stadio São Paulo to advance to the next round of fixtures.
However, for Fiorentina, another thing that happened in the game made the victory of the purple lily not so perfect - in the 66th minute of the game, Redondo instigated an offensive in the midfield, Di Natale broke through and passed back to the middle, Diego Milito received Di Natale's cross at the front of the penalty area and divided the ball into the penalty area, Ronaldo, who ran without the ball from the right side and cut into the penalty area, received Milito's pass, but was entangled by the Napoli defenders who returned to the defense in time in the process of preparing to shoot, Then he fell headlong in the Napoli penalty area!
Although at first glance, Ronaldo's fall must have been done by the Napoli defenders, and a penalty kick must not have escaped. However, when the scene just now was played in slow motion on the big screen of the stadium, it immediately caused a scolding from the Napoli fans in the stands. Because it is clearly shown in the picture that before the Napoli defender stretched out his foot to steal, Ronaldo had already jumped up and collapsed in the penalty area without any physical contact!
Because the evidence is conclusive, and the face of the referee on duty in this game is not as indestructible as Moreno and Henin, he naturally will not blatantly award Fiorentina a false penalty, but instead show a yellow card to the Portuguese youngster on the grounds that Ronaldo faked a fall!
So, with this yellow card and the inaction of the whole game, Ronaldo's first starting performance after returning to Fiorentina came to an end in a bleak situation.