Chapter 872: Battle against Chelsea (7)
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The 4-2 scoreline completely broke down the psychological defence of the Chelsea players, and after the restart, the likes of Babayaro and Flo began to make more mistakes in the game, and their attention was not as focused as before, giving the impression that they had abandoned the game early.
Although a handful of extremely determined Chelsea players, such as Gianfranco Zola and Dennis Wise, have not given up on rallying the scores, people with a little sense are aware that Chelsea are clearly on the wrong side and Fiorentina will not give them any chance to turn the tables when they are back in form!
To tell the truth, with the strength of the current Chelsea team, with the strength and form of Zola, Leboeuf, De Huye and others, they are indeed qualified to fight for some honors, but the head coach position has always been the key to restricting them from going further - from the beginning of Gullit to the current Vialli, Chelsea has never thought of equipping the team with a qualified manager while spending a lot of money to bring in high-level foreign aid!
Although as players, Ruud Gullitt and Vialli are the kind of superstars who are very good in football, and they have the ability and the momentum to lead their team-mates forward in the face of adversity; But as a manager, they are far from qualified, and they can't give the players enough confidence to win when they take off their shirts!
So, when the Chelsea players, who felt that they had lost hope of a comeback, began to play negatively on the pitch, Vialli did not stand up and cheer the players up to fight Fiorentina until the last minute of the game, but sat in the dugout, watching his team with a hollow face as the Fiorentina players who felt and confident were toyed with between applause!
After seeing the manager's expression of almost disarming and surrendering, the already negative Chelsea players naturally did not go to play with Fiorentina for this game; And with most of his teammates already disarmed and surrendered, no matter how brave and good Wise and Zola are, it will be difficult to recover the team's defeat!
In this way, the battleless Chelsea were breached twice by Fiorentina in the following period, Shevchenko and Vieri each scored their second goal of the game, and the final score was fixed at 6-2!
Six to two! Just like the first leg between the two sides, Fiorentina, who were playing at home, completed a hearty reversal with their strong attacking power when they were once two goals behind, and eliminated Chelsea from the Premier League with an aggregate score of 9-4 over the two legs, and won a place in the quarterfinals of the Champions League!
"It's over! Congratulations to the Fiorentina lads for reaching the quarter-finals of the Champions League once again. Although they were locked in a tough battle in the first half due to some force majeure, the final result proved that as long as they can play at a normal level, Fiorentina is undoubtedly one of the strongest teams in Europe and the world! ”
At the same time, Vieri and others were happily celebrating on the court. Reaching the quarter-finals of the Champions League was nothing to celebrate, but Vieri and Ronaldo felt that the victory was precious because they finally regained their sense of scoring goals in this game and still scored six goals in a row after falling behind by two goals at one point.
On the other side of the pitch, the Chelsea players walked down the tunnel with their heads bowed under the leadership of Gianfranco Zola and Dennis Wise. Despite losing 2-6 at this stadium and being eliminated by Fiorentina when they once saw hope of progressing to the quarter-finals, Zola and Wise did not cry because of this. Because they knew they had done their best, and that Fiorentina had been eliminated purely because of their inferior skills, and not for any other reason.
In Zola's opinion, if they were defeated by their opponents after a hard-fought battle of equal strength, because of some luck factors, then they did have the right to cry; But they were almost beaten by Fiorentina, who had almost regained the feeling of scoring in this game, and even if they cried bitterly after the game, they obviously would not get much sympathy from people, but they were likely to be labeled as a soft egg or too poor in psychological quality!
To be a well-deserved pillar and leader of the Chelsea foreign mercenary team, in addition to the real ability to convince other team-mates, the leadership qualities of Zola and Wise themselves are also an important factor.
So, under the pressure of Gianfranco Zola and others, Chelsea did not make a fuss after the game, but honestly returned to the dressing room, and flew back to London overnight after attending a press conference - after the European exit, they still have to work for next season's Champions League qualification, Chelsea's position in the Premier League is not very secure, and it is easy to fall out of the top four if you are not careful.
Having finished the second leg of their Champions League tie at home to Chelsea and successfully advanced to the quarter-finals of the Champions League, Fiorentina welcomed the 26th round of Serie A this weekend.
In this game, Heynckes rotated the starting lineup. Vieri, Ronaldo and Shevchenko, who played the whole game in the last game, were all suspended in this round, leaving only Big Inzaghi as a single arrow in front, Di Livio and Caradze as the main fullbacks, Nesta and Ferrara starting together, Pirlo and Deco combing the midfield, Gattuso and Zanetti two big will protect the defense.
Although Cagliari wanted to take advantage of Fiorentina's fluctuating form after the recent battle with Chelsea to pick up some points at the Stadio Franqui, Fiorentina's strong bench depth played an important role at this time - not to mention the likes of Andrea Pirlo and Di Livio who could only serve as rotation players in Fiorentina, but their quality was already at the level of the main team of Serie A!
Inzaghi tripped in the 17th minute when he burst into the Cagliari penalty area, and the referee decisively punished him, and then Pippo himself hit the penalty to help the Purple Lily open the scoring! In the second half, the two sides changed places, Heynckes saw through Cagliari's intention to get back the score, let the team play a defensive counterattack in the game, and finally Pirlo took advantage of a set-piece opportunity in front of the field to score the second goal of the game for Fiorentina!
In the end, Fiorentina won 2-0 at home to Cagliari, ending the embarrassing history of two consecutive league games without a win!