Chapter 713: Unpopular
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Winning the Toyota Cup for the third time in a row was a cause for celebration, but the Fiorentina players were not part of the celebrations. Because in four days' time, they will have the twelfth round of Serie A against Bologna, and there is really no time to participate in the celebration of Rauschzi.
It is for this reason that after Zhuang Mingge politely declined the invitation of the organizers of the Toyota Cup, the members of the Fiorentina first team and the logistics staff hurriedly flew halfway around the world to Florence the day after the game, making intense preparations for the next game.
As for the publicity work in Japan and a series of commercial promotion activities in Florence, Zhuang Mingge entrusted it all to Kenyon.
Vasco da Gama, on the other hand, was reversed at the last minute by his opponent in a good situation, a result that caused Edmundo to be strongly dissatisfied with his teammates and manager. The Brazilian Beast believes that it was the reluctance of his teammates to take the lead and the manager's conservative tactical style that kept the team away with the trophy, and got into a heated argument with head coach Antonio López on the training pitch. A furious Edmundo then submitted a transfer request to da Gama, asking the club to trade him to another team, and he couldn't stand working with a dumb coach like López.
Due to Edmundo's outstanding performances in Brazil and the Toyota Cup in the past two years, many teams have fallen in love with this brave and well-rounded Brazilian beast; At the same time, da Gama's management also felt that Edmundo's troublesome and affecting the atmosphere of the team was difficult to manage, and it was better to sell him for some dollars when the value was high, which could be used for the sustainable development of the club.
In this way, Edmundo, who was bent on making a lot of money, began to embark on the road to work in Europe.
That's all for Edmundo, on December 5, Fiorentina, just a few days after returning to Italy, welcomed Bologna at the Stadio Franqui.
Although Fiorentina have only played one Toyota Cup final in the last week or so, the long journey has taken a heavy physical toll on the players, greatly affecting their form of play.
This can be seen from the listless mental state of the Fiorentina players on the pitch and the inexplicable mistakes in coordination.
In the end, Bologna beat a tired Fiorentina 1-0 away from home thanks to veteran Signori's powerful shot from inside the box in the 68th minute, picking up valuable three points and giving Fiorentina their second league defeat of the season.
Although Capello wants the players to find time to rest, let them take a collective break for a week or so, adjust their condition and then go to the next game. However, in the face of the schedule that has been scheduled for a long time, even if it is as tough as Capello, he can only obediently obey the arrangement. Otherwise, what awaits Fiorentina is not as simple as losing...... AC Milan was banned by UEFA for a year due to an early exit, and Capello was one of those involved.
Four days later, on 9 December, Fiorentina hosted the final round of the Champions League group stage, this time against Norway's Sowegian champions Rosenborg who were fighting for second place in the group.
In the case of ensuring the top spot in the group, in order to give the team's main force enough time to rest, Capello resolutely made a large-scale rotation of the starting lineup in this game, putting a large number of team players on the bench, or even directly excluded from the game squad. As a result, Fiorentina's starting lineup for this game is basically full of bench players like De Sanctis, Di Natale, Deco and Vogel, and only a few positions are arranged with the main or main rotation players like Inzaghi and Materazzi.
While De Sanctis and Di Natale have a promising future and are showing good quality at the moment, they are not yet fully developed in a Champions League level and are clearly no match for a team like Rosenborg who can dominate in Norway.
After all, football matches are not only about the talent and ability of individual players, but also about game experience, personal experience and temperament, which are incalculable, and the current Fiorentina second team lacks these things.
In this way, although Fiorentina fought desperately at their home stadium and scored a goal each in the game by Inzaghi and Di Natale, due to the difference in experience and experience between the two teams, Rosenborg finally took a difficult victory at the Frankie Stadium and ended the game with a score of 3-2.
After losing this matchup, Fiorentina ushered in an embarrassing two-game losing streak at home, which shocked many Fiorentina fans who were completing the team's treble in the Toyota Cup.
However, despite taking all three points from Rosenborg in this game, they still failed to secure a place in the last 16 of the Champions League. Because in the other group game played at the same time, with a goal from the main central defender Bouma and a brace from the chief striker Ruud van Nistelrooy, PSV Eindhoven, who visited the San Mamés Stadium, defeated Athletic Bilbao who were announced early, 3-1, and got three crucial points away from home!
As a result, with all six rounds of the group stage over, Fiorentina topped the table with four wins, one draw and one loss with 13 points, and advanced to the round of 16 of the Champions Cup; PSV Eindhoven is in second place with three wins, one draw and two losses, accumulating 10 points, and is in the knockout stage behind Fiorentina; Rosenborg had a record of three wins and three losses in the group stage, and was blocked out of the round of 16 by a narrow disadvantage of one point!
Rosenborg didn't complain about the result of being eliminated at the last minute, after all, they also have their own unshirkable responsibility for this outcome - who caused them to lose to Bilbao in the previous game? You must know that PSV Eindhoven was a double kill against the Basque Lions......
With Fiorentina's defeat at home, the group stage of the Champions League has officially come to an end, and the top 16 list of the 98-99 European Champions Cup has finally been released.
The four teams from Italy have all achieved quite gratifying results, not to mention Fiorentina, Inter Milan and Real Madrid, who are also in Group E, both advanced to the next round, Juventus joined Arsene Wenger's Arsenal in Group A, and Daum's pharmaceutical company once again fell out of the knockout round; The most surprising thing is that Parma, under the leadership of the new coach Malesani, the Milk Army in the group of death actually beat all kinds of strong opponents, and joined hands with the Bundesliga champion Kaiserslautern to reach the quarterfinals as the group leader, knocking Barcelona and Chelsea out of the competition, and breaking the biggest upset in this season's Champions Cup!