Chapter 1401: Veterans Don't Die (Part I)

PS1: This is Saturday's update.,It's a little late.,I hope you don't care too much about the update time.,I promise not to stop talking......

PS2: Let's talk about the book friend group here, the group number is three, seven, zero, five, four, nine, nine, one, nine, nine, verifies that the answer is NTR knight, well, that's it.

PS3: Here, I would like to thank the book friend "Seventh Uncle" and "Tianyuan Hanqi" for their tips.

Looking at the extremely close championship situation between Fiorentina and Juventus, fans on both sides are naturally quite anxious. After all, the longer this stalemate drags on, the worse it will be for both teams. Because as time goes by, the day of the resumption of the European Champions Cup is getting closer and closer!

Therefore, if Fiorentina and Juventus cannot establish enough points advantage in the league during this period and prepare for multi-front battles, then after the Champions Cup knockout round, they will have to be distracted by European competitions in terms of combat effectiveness! At that time, Fiorentina and Juventus are likely to have an accident in the Champions Cup due to excessive consumption in the process of competing for the title, or to ensure that these two fronts can go hand in hand and overload the main players to continue to play, only to suddenly collapse due to physical exhaustion in the final stage of the season, and be taken away by other teams who are focused on one of the fronts.

For this situation, which is likely to happen to their own teams, fans on both sides are naturally worried. However, while the fans were keen to make a clear choice in this situation, none of them asked the club to do so. Because there is still a glimmer of hope in their hearts, or a fluke mentality, that the team is capable of taking care of both the league and the Champions Cup.

Man is such a creature that can never be satisfied. Under the temptation of profits, even if the facts are in front of them, they will not be acknowledged, and they will not wake up and regret until the catastrophe comes.

But then again, if human beings had lost this characteristic, then I am afraid that they would not have established such a glorious civilization and invented so many scientific and technological achievements and advanced technologies to promote the development of civilization, and would have long ago stopped because of the loss of their thirst for profit and enterprising spirit, let alone become the new master of the earth.

In the eyes of the two managers, Jose Mourinho and Trapattoni, the situation in front of them is different. For Juventus and Trappattoni, it would be a terrible result for Juventus to hold Fiorentina in the league until the Champions League was rekindled – and by analysing Juventus' league defeats to AC Milan and Fiorentina this season, most Serie A managers have spotted the Bianconeri's terrible bench depth and realised that if Juventus are unable to field their full squad in the game, they could steal a win from the Bianconeri.

In contrast, the situation on Fiorentina's side is much better. Although the Champions League match will also have a negative impact on Fiorentina's performance in Serie A, and Fiorentina's current bench is nowhere near as strong as it used to be, the Purple Lily's bench depth is still the best in Europe compared to other teams. Therefore, compared to Juventus, which will lose strength if it lacks some main players, Mourinho has a lot more cards available, and Fiorentina can also better cope with the situation of multi-front battles through rotation. At the very least, Fiorentina have a much better chance of dragging Juventus down than they are to be exhausted by their opponents in this Serie A title chase.

Especially after entering the second half of the season, veterans such as Vieri and Inzaghi have also begun to perform, and their competitive form has improved greatly compared to the beginning of the season. It was these veterans who frequently staged the drama of the savior in times of crisis, helping the team to stabilize the situation and allow Fiorentina to go hand in hand on three fronts and maintain the lead position in the title race with Juventus!

On 2 February, in the second leg of the Coppa Italia quarter-finals, Fiorentina, who won the first leg 3-1, were disadvantaged at the start of the match. Guadalben's goal was twice breached by Udinese in the first 20 minutes of the game, making the Purple Lily, who fielded an all-substitute line-up, surprisingly trail the home side 2-0.

If the scoreline had been kept until full-time, Fiorentina would have been eliminated by Udinese due to a lack of away goals. So, in the ensuing time, Fiorentina, who had no other choice, had no choice but to launch a ferocious counterattack towards the black chicken's goal. However, due to the lack of experience in this area of the Croatian youngster Luka Modric, who is at the heart of the playmaker, and is more impatient than the likes of Andrea Pirlo and Ballack, Fiorentina's attack has always been a bit undisciplined, and it is difficult to pose a real threat to Udinese's goal.

However, just when people thought that Udinese was about to take revenge, Inzaghi, who had been almost invisible for most of the game, stepped forward and received a header from Vieri in the 78th minute of the game, making a leap back to the top for Fiorentina to regain the lead in the aggregate score, and shattered Udinese's dream of relying on defensive counterattacks to advance to the semi-finals!

Then, taking advantage of the opportunity of the Udinese players to press hard, Inzaghi, who is the best at seizing the opportunity, continued to work hard, and scored two more goals with an overhead kick in the 89th and 91st minutes of the game, helping Fiorentina complete a Jedi reversal and locking the score at 3-2!

The hat-trick against Udinese was just the beginning of a great second half of the season for these veterans. In the 24th round of the league against Inter Milan, when the two teams were deadlocked on the field, after starting center forward Milito went off the field due to injury in the second half, substitute Vieri scored the only goal of the game for Fiorentina, leading the purple lilies to repel the Nerazzurri who visited the Frankie Stadium and take all three points at home!

In the 25th round of the league, Inzaghi's injury-time goal helped Fiorentina seal the win, beating Livorno 2-0 who were fighting for relegation, and continued to suppress the restless Bianconeri in the standings.

A week later, in the 26th round of Serie A, facing a strong Lazio, it was Inzaghi's goal in the final stage of the game that made the Blue Eagles' hopes of winning points away from home come to naught. And the assist for Inzaghi was another veteran of the Fiorentina team, Christian Vieri, who is about to turn 33!

It can be said that Fiorentina was able to not be overtaken by Juventus when Milito, Ronaldo, Ballack and other attackers were all dumb, and successfully retained the top position in the standings, Vieri and Inzaghi, the two veterans, are definitely the biggest contributors to the purple lily!

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