Fiorentina are back from Milan City in the fourth round of Serie A fixtures, where they host promoted Maempoli.

Due to Zhuang Mingge's intervention, Empoli lost the meritorious coach Spalletti who led them all the way from League C to Serie A in advance, forcing Empoli to change the team's head coach this summer.

It was precisely because of this unexpected change that the promoted polo team had lost all three rounds of the league. And in those three games, Empoli have scored just two goals in total, but conceded a whopping six goals – quite in line with their true quality.

In this game, Capello made certain adjustments to the starting lineup, and many main players such as Redondo, Nesta, Toldo and Davis were given the opportunity to rest, and the formation was also changed to a certain extent.

De Sanctis was given the chance to start the first team for Fiorentina thanks to his excellent performance in training; At the back, Fortunato, Materazzi, Stam and Angeloma were in the starting line-up; In midfield, Zanetti and Tomasi defended full-time, Rui Costa was the playmaker, and Ze Roberto assisted; Up front, Batistuta and Inzaghi were given starts.

Although many of the players in the starting line-up were substitutes in the first team, Fiorentina still held the opponent steady in terms of overall strength.

The players were in excellent form to the cheers of 40,000 Fiorentina fans at the Stadio Franchi, starting with Rui Costa opening the scoring for the home side in the first half with a set-piece in front; Batistuta then slammed the ball into Empoli's goal in the 32nd minute from Zambrotta's cross from the right to make it 2-0!

In the 73rd minute of the second half, Cruz, who came on as a substitute for Batistuta, was even more impressive, as the Argentine centre-forward scored his first hat-trick in Serie A with three overhead kicks in less than twenty minutes!

In the end, Fiorentina beat Empoli 5-0 at home to get their fourth victory since the start of the league, and they are at the top of the standings with 13 goals scored and conceded 4 goals and 12 points in the standings.

Three days later, Fiorentina welcomed the first round of the Coppa Italia - due to next year's World Cup in France, the Italian Football Federation has made some adjustments to the Coppa Italia and Serie A schedules, aiming to finish both competitions by the end of May next year.

As a result, Fiorentina will naturally face a lot more intensive games, which will be a big test of the players' fitness and Capello's rotation ability.

Fiorentina face Torino in the first round of the Coppa Italia, a team that was relegated a year ago failed to make it out of last season's second division, with a lack of financial resources that left them unable to bring in strong reinforcements, and the loss of key players has made Torino weaker.

On the face of it, Fiorentina have no problem taking on a declining Torino team.

However, when the game started on 1 October, the tenacious play of the Torino players took a risk and allowed Fiorentina to capsize in the gutter.

Amid the shouts of more than 30,000 Torino fans in the stands of the Alp Stadium, the Torino coach offered the tactic of pressing the bottom of the box, which is the legendary killer weapon that has caused headaches for all the giants - the iron bucket formation. Throughout the game, the Torino players came together to stop Fiorentina's offensive again and again with this ugliest defensive tactic.

Fiorentina had a whopping 31 shots on goal in this game, averaging one shot on goal in less than three minutes. However, with the home team's players using the tactic of "putting a bus at the door", Fiorentina only had four shots on goal in the Torino penalty area!

Had it not been for Batistuta's injury-time kick that opened the door to Torino with an unreasonable free-kick, the game would have been dragged to extra-time or even a brutal penalty shoot-out, which is not something Fiorentina wants to see.

So when Barty scored the free-kick at the last minute, the Argentine god of war roared and machine-gun fire in the corner area, celebrating the goal wildly!

In this way, Fiorentina beat Torino 1-0 and qualified for the next round of the Coppa Italia (the first round of the Coppa Italia was decided by a single match due to the establishment of the professional league).

So far, starting from the victory over Vicenza in the Italian Super Cup, Fiorentina has won all eight games in all competitions this season, including giants such as Inter Milan and Barcelona.

The following weekend, Fiorentina will be on a winning streak against one of their formidable opponents in Serie A, Juventus led by Silver Fox Lippi.

This summer, Juventus's transfer move can be said to be thunderous and rainy, after spending tens of millions of dollars to sign Uruguayan striker Otero, and spending a few small sums of money to buy Fonseca, one of Roma's attacking tridents, and Benfica left-back Manuel Dimas.

In terms of transfers, Moggi sold Boksic, who had a poor schedule last season, and the Croatian centre-forward returned to Lazio after a year. It's just that this time it was not Zeman he was familiar with that he was greeted there, but Swede Eriksen, who paid more attention to the balance of attack and defense.

With a huge check, he kept clamoring for reinforcements to the team, but in the end he failed to sign a few strong reinforcements. Therefore, Mo Lao Fox has become the object of many people's private jokes, and some media even ridiculed Juventus, saying that the biggest name of the Bianconeri this summer is Antonio Conte, who has returned from injury......

In Zhuang Mingge's view, Moji's approach is understandable. Although Mo Lao Fox is indeed a little stingy in the transfer market, this is mainly due to the fact that he did not change his concept in time to lead such a result. While Serie A teams are looking for ways to strengthen their squads, Moggie, who has always believed in the idea of breaking even, has been lost in the increasingly crazy transfer wave.

Spending a huge sum of $10 million to sign Otero has already made Moggi quite painful, and if it weren't for the Uruguayan striker's rebellious appearance against Fiorentina last season, he wouldn't have shelled out so much money at once.

Buying an Otero has to be so calculated, so it is understandable that Inzaghi Jr. and Djokaeff and others, who were favored by Mo Lao Fox from the beginning, eventually switched to the arms of others - in this era of soaring transfer fees, Moji's thinking has not kept up with the rhythm of the times, and he is still using the past vision to estimate the cost performance of the players, and it is inevitable to suffer losses.

Some may say that Fiorentina is not a big transfer move either. But let's not forget that Fiorentina, who have won multiple heavyweight titles in a row, are already a fairly mature team, and with the main team not showing signs of aging, Fiorentina needs to make minor repairs to the original championship squad, rather than making a big splash to destroy the good chemistry between the players.

In this way, Fiorentina and Juventus, two teams that have not made much of a move this summer, began their first match of the season at the Stadio Alp on October 5.