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Although Lazio fans were very unhappy with the team's 1-6 aggregate defeat to Fiorentina in the Coppa Italia final, fortunately, because the Blue Eagles only lost to Fiorentina by a small goal in the second leg of the home game, and did not lose as badly as in the first leg, Lazio fans remained quite calm after the game, and did not have a riot at the scene that could easily have a bad impact on Italian football.

At the celebration that followed, the Fiorentina players looked very excited. However, most of them did not win the trophy, but because they finally avenged the league title stolen by Lazio! After all, the Coppa Italia is actually just a chicken rib for them with titles in their books of honour, and Berti, who joined last summer, is really happy to win the title.

After winning the Coppa Italia trophy over Lazio, the Fiorentina team arrived in Paris, France by plane early on the morning of May 26 to prepare for the Champions Cup final two days later. The other team competing in the final, Valencia, flew to Charles de Gaulle International Airport later in the day.

Although in the first few days of the final, the managers of both sides invariably issued gag orders to the players for the purpose of tactical secrecy and decompression of the players, but such a move is obviously not a problem in the eyes of the major sports media. Faced with such a situation, they gave full play to their imagination and creativity as journalists, using a series of unwarranted speculations and reports to build momentum for the Champions Cup final, and at the same time, in order to better attract the attention of fans and sell more newspapers.

"Hehe, these media really dare to write anything, yesterday they also said that Shevchenko may miss the final due to injury, and today they claimed that Carboni was out for a month with a sprained ankle on the training ground." Heynckes casually threw the stack of newspapers he had just delivered on his desk, and said to Mourinho with some tears and laughter, "Obviously, Valencia, like us, forbids spectators to enter during training, I really don't know how they got this news, it can't be all made up, right?" ”

"So I say, Joseph, you don't need to care about these pointless things." Mourinho advised, "Now our priority is to get the players as used to the final venue as possible, to develop tactics against Valencia, so that there is no effort to play tricks with the media." ”

"Haha, that's right, there's really no time left." Heynckes said, taking out the tactics board, "So, let's take this opportunity to discuss tactics for a while......

In this way, the two-day pre-match preparation passed quickly, and the time finally came at 6 o'clock in the evening of the 28th, and the Fiorentina players arrived at the Stade de France by bus to welcome Fiorentina's last official match of the season, the 1999-00 European Champions Cup final!

Let's take a look at the starting lineups of both teams. For Valencia, the goalkeeper is Canizares, who transferred from Real Madrid last season, and since the Spanish national team returned home in the group stage of the World Cup in France, the goalkeeper in his prime has become the first choice of the Matadors; At the back, Valencia is a veteran, with Frenchman Angeloma on the right, Italian Carboni on the left, Yugoslav international Miroslav Djukic as the starting centre-back, and his partner Mauricio Pellegrino, the Argentine defender (29) is also the only defender under the age of 30 in Valencia's starting backline.

Suffice it to say, if it weren't for Pellegrinola's low average age in Valencia's backline, and the Spanish media's lack of attention to building momentum for local clubs other than Real Madrid and Barcelona, the Bats would likely have created a defensive five that is no less than Arsenal's.

In the forward line, the attacking line formed by Argentine bug Claudio López and attacking versatility Miguel Angulo is not capable of attacking the attack, but their excellent attacking ability and speed are an important guarantee for Valencia to play high-quality counter-attacks. Crucially, these two can also help on the defensive end, which is Cooper's top priority, which is the main reason why the Argentine coach chose them to put the leading scorer of the Ranieri era, Romanian 'Cobra' 'Cobra' Ilije, on the bench.

As for the midfield, it is the most well-known and strongest link in the Valencia team. The midfield of Farinos, Gerrard, Keely Gonzalez and Mendieta is a skilful midfielder, with each of them being superior in technique and physique, as well as a strong runner. When they start together, not only do they magically complement each other in terms of individual characteristics, but also make the Bat Legion often have the upper hand in the game with an equal number of midfielders, and can launch a quick counterattack more calmly, and then win the game!

Farinos, Gerrard, Keely Gonzalez, Mendieta...... When this once famous golden midfielder in European football appeared in front of Zhuang Mingge's eyes, it immediately caused a lot of emotion in the latter. After all, for all football fans who have been exposed to European football around the turn of the century, Valencia has a special place in their hearts.

At the turn of the century, Real Madrid, known as the Galactic Battleship, and Barcelona, a traditional Catalan giant, were able to compete for several years, until Soler took office, and the strength of the Valencia team in front of him was undoubted.

It wasn't until Orti stepped down and Soler was successfully elected as the new president that Valencia began to decline from prosperity, but even so, it was not until Koeman became the coach after 06 that they completely lost the strength to compete with the two giants of La Liga. It can be seen from this that Valencia at that time had a strong heritage!

Although he felt very cordial to the familiar bat army in front of him, Zhuang Mingge felt a little regretful that it was not Fiorentina's old acquaintance "tinker" Ranieri who was sitting in the Valencia coach's seat at this time, but Hector Cooper, who was known as the "second in ten thousand years"!