Chapter 579: A Great Victory over the Rossoneri
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With Fiorentina gearing up and down to make a name for themselves, the Purple Lilies face their last opponent in the first half of Serie A, AC Milan, led by former Fiorentina coach Claudio Ranieri.
Ranieri has been quite depressed in Milan this season, and the tinkerer who thought he could lead the Rossoneri out of the trough was stunned to find that this team could no longer be saved by small repairs after he really took charge of AC Milan.
However, although he was a little discouraged by the current state of the team, the responsible Ranieri did not just break the jar and broke the pot, and the tinker did everything he could to tinker with the crumbling high-rise of AC Milan and rejuvenate the Rossoneri.
At least not as in the case of last season, when Sacchi led the team, when the players reached the very end of the season and were even indifferent to the outcome of the game.
Looking at Fiorentina again, although the unbeaten golden body was broken by Lazio, the psychological state of the Fiorentina players was more stable. After all, the unbeaten streak is also a great psychological burden for the players, who will pay too much attention to this record and affect their own performance on the pitch, which will affect the outcome of the game.
So, while Fiorentina's unbeaten streak was unexpectedly terminated by Lazio to the shame of many fans, it may not be a bad thing for Fiorentina players.
At the very least, it will allow them to travel light for the upcoming events.
So, in this situation, on the evening of January 25 at the San Siro Stadium, the chaotic AC Milan and the lightly armed Fiorentina had a confrontation.
Although Ranieri fielded the strongest squad in this game to get a win, a look at AC Milan's starting line-up shows how difficult it has been for Milan.
Up front are Kluivert, who sleepwalks on the pitch and is in constant trouble off the pitch, and Liberian George Weah, who is no longer glamorous as he gets older; Although the aging Savicevic is getting more and more old in skill and awareness, the sharp decline in physical fitness has made him unable to do anything in the forward position, and Ibrahim Ba, a promising star transferred from Nantes in Ligue 1, has not fully adapted to the rhythm of the game in Serie A, and his performance is very mediocre, so Milan's midfield is actually supported by Croatian Boban and Albertini.
In the eyes of many, AC Milan's right-back position is a big hole: the veteran Tasotti retired, the former main right-back Panucci was forced by Sacchi to leave Spain, and Reziger and Bogard, who were considered unsuitable, also moved to Barcelona this summer, making the Rossoneri's originally rich right-back reserve instantly wiped out.
Although Ranieri made up for this weakness by moving Maldini to the right wing-back position, and Maldini did not disappoint the tinker, playing just as well on the right as he did on the left, the young man is only one man after all, and he can't take care of the whole defence.
The center-back combination of Desailly, who retreated from the midfield position to play central defender, and the old courtier Costacuta seems to be strong, but the performance on the field is extremely clumsy: the former is used to the days when defending with teammates behind him (in the club is the old captain Baresi, in the national team is Blank), but he and Costacuta are the kind of central defenders who have strong frontal defensive ability and a little lack of filling awareness, so the effect of the duo is actually not ideal; The most important thing is that the latter's competitive form in recent years has been at a low point in his career, and even his own defensive tasks may not be completed with quality and quantity, let alone to fill in the positions of his teammates, and it is already thankful that his teammates do not support him.
As for Leonardo, who succeeded Maldini as left-back, the performance was mixed, although the Brazilian who was strong in attack and weak in defense gave the team a lot of help in attack, but he was completely a colander in defense, and his left side was repeatedly broken by opponents is the best proof of this.
In the goalkeeper position, the old and dizzy old Rossi and the mediocre Taibi are not good candidates, but at this time, Ranieri can only pull out the big one among the short and choose the old Rossi as the starting goalkeeper of this game, and at the same time secretly pray in his heart, hoping that the goalkeeper will not make such a low-level mistake as saving the ball in the game.
Looking at Fiorentina again, it seems that they want to demonstrate to Berlusconi, Capello did not spare his old club in this game, and all the players sent to the field were Fiorentina's first-team players: Toldo, Robert Carlos, Nesta, Stam, Zambrotta, Redondo, Davies, Effenberg and Rui Costa, and Vieri and Inzaghi in the forward line.
Although Batistuta and Ronaldo did not start, with the strength of this lineup, they are still safe against AC Milan, which is already mired in the quagmire.
The race was uneventful and there were no incidents. The poor and weak AC Milan were no match for Fiorentina in the full squad and surrendered after only 20 minutes of resistance - because by this time, the Rossoneri were already down 0-3 at home.
The biggest contributors to this were Rui Costa and Inzaghi, with the former's precise passing and the latter's ghostly movement complementing each other perfectly, and the effect was clear: two of Fiorentina's first three goals in the game were directly assisted by Costa, all of whom benefited from Inzaghi.
However, although AC Milan has announced their surrender, the game still has to go on......
So, at the end of the game, Filip Inzaghi scored a hat-trick in the final game of the first half of Serie A, with Ronaldo and Vieri scoring a goal each, while Rui Costa provided four assists in the game...... The Fiorentina players worked together to help the team beat AC Milan 5-1 and shatter all the rumors about the purple lily!
By the way, Rui Costa's impressive performance of four assists in a single game instantly attracted a team in short supply of good playmakers, who either sneaked up on Costa himself with a high salary or an absolute main position, or ran to Fiorentina with a cheque book to express his willingness to pay a huge transfer fee to take the Portuguese.
All in all, after this game, Fiorentina smashed a lot of gossip about the collapse of the dynasty and made the bricks who feared that the world would not be chaotic to close their beaks, but it also had one more annoyance, that is, the team chasing Rui Costa was more and more annoying.