Chapter 404: The End of the Devil's Schedule

Fiorentina fans were in a happy mood with Bayern Munich at home, and even if they have to face a big club like Inter Milan at the Meazza Stadium this weekend, it won't cause them to worry for the slightest.

Even AC Milan, Parma, Bayern have overcome such difficulties, what is Inter Milan! I believe this is the sentiment of most Fiorentina fans at this time.

On November 17, the Fiorentina squad arrived in Milan by coach to take on one of the city's two head snakes, the Nerazzurri Inter Milan.

This season's Inter Milan can be described as a cup, and the owner of Mozzo generously recruited a lot of players during the summer transfer period, especially the arrival of Chilean killer "Ivan the Horror" Zamorano and "Prince of Melancholy" Robert Baggio, as well as Kanu's outstanding performance in the Olympic Games, so that many Nerazzurri fans began to look forward to the Inter Milan forward line after the two joined forces.

As a result, Kanu, who had been a coquettish performer at the Atlanta Olympics, suffered a major blow at the start of the season when he was found to have a heart attack during an in-team medical exam, forcing him to be taken to the hospital for full treatment and a full reimbursement for the entire season.

Roberto Baggio was even more tragic, and the melancholy prince who came to Inter Milan found that despite the warm welcome of President Moratti and the first-class treatment in every aspect, the team's head coach, the Englishman Hodgson, was not interested in him and did not regard him as the cornerstone of Inter's revival, but only treated him as a good striker. Moreover, the competition in Inter Milan's forward line is more fierce than that of Fiorentina, after all, Zhuang Mingge will also consider the balance of attack and defense when recruiting him, and Boss Mo, as the "chairman of the fans", prefers to pile up big-name stars.

Which position has more well-known stars? Strikers, of course!

In this way, Baggio sadly found that he was facing even more fierce competition at Inter Milan than in Fiorentina, Zamorano, Blanca, Guntz, Fontoran...... This is a good forward to compete for less than two starting positions (because Hodgson likes to use a four-five-one and four-four-two formation), which is a worse situation than Fiorentina, because when Ranieri was in charge of the Purple Lily, he used at least three strikers!

With the manager not appreciative, the team competitive, and the dressing room atmosphere not harmonious, Roberto Baggio was a little depressed in the face of these complications.

Baggio's melancholy does not matter, in the sixth round of Serie A Inter Milan and Juventus Italian derby match with a scramble with former teammate Tacchinadi was injured, after the game Inter Milan press officer announced with a sad face that according to the preliminary diagnosis of the team doctor, Robert Baggio has torn a calf muscle and needs to recuperate for at least two months......

With Canu and Baggio both reimbursed, Hodgson had no choice but to change his tactics and reinstate Blanca and Guntz to pair them up front with Zamorano, the two homegrown strikers who performed well last season and hope they can still carry the banner of Inter's attack this season.

Fortunately, Guntz said that he has maintained a good goal rate since the beginning of this season, and several key goals have helped Inter Milan get a lot of points; However, Blanca, who became the Nerazzurri's top scorer last season, could not find the target and was experiencing a long goal drought; At the same time, Zamorano, who was pinned on by the Inter Milan club, lost the momentum of "Ivan the Terror" in the Apennine Peninsula, although he did not suffer a long-term goal drought, but he also did not have the style to kill all sides in La Liga.

In this way, Inter Milan, who had been in chaos in the front line, welcomed Fiorentina, who had already won two consecutive league titles at 8 p.m. on November 17.

In this game, Capello still put on a four-four-two formation, goalkeeper Toldo, and the center-back combination is the partner of Nesta and Ferrara, who have returned from injury, and Stamm, who has a slow turn, is not suitable to deal with Zamorano; The two wing-backs were Fortunato and Billindeli, with Di Biagio and teenager Zanetti in the midfield position, and Rui Costa and Tomasi in front of them, with Batistuta up front drawing the attention of the opposition defenders and Filippo Inzaghi roaming in various positions looking for the opener.

It is clear that Capello intends to play defensive counter-attacks away from home, after all, Fiorentina just played a fairly tight Champions League match with Bayern Munich in midweek, and the players are at a low point both mentally and physically, and in this situation to take the initiative to attack Inter Milan, who have home advantage, is obviously not in line with Capello's character.

Hodgson also attaches great importance to this game, after all, Inter Milan can still achieve five wins, two draws and one loss in the league under the injury plague and accumulate 17 points is quite difficult, if this momentum continues, even if it cannot surpass the form of Haode A little against the sky Fiorentina, but it is still very certain to lead the team to a Champions League place next season.

Goalkeeper Pagliuca, defenders Angeloma, Bergomi, Frecy, Lanna, midfielders Bertie, Winter, Sforza, Zanetti, strikers Zamorano, Guntz - Hodgson, who has no European pressure, has come up with the strongest squad he can send, hoping to achieve a relatively good result on his home turf, so that the team's good momentum since the start of the new season can be maintained.

With the managers of both teams trying to be steady, the situation on the pitch was rather dull when the referee blew the whistle for the start of the game...... This is a matter of course, and the players on both sides are mainly based on the counterattack tactics of steady defense, and it is easy not to risk attacking, and the scene is not dull to hell.

In the face of Fiorentina, who has won seven wins and one draw since the start of the game, Hodgson said that he would not dare to let his team risk attacking, after all, everyone knows that Fiorentina's ability to play a quick counterattack is the best in Europe, although there is no Ronaldo on the field now, but the purple lily still has Rui Costa, a passing master, and Inzaghi, a mysterious opportunist master, on the field!

Capello is also happy to see the opponent make a defensive appearance, although he took the initiative to rotate most of the starters for this game, but from the midfield arrangement, he knows that this guy does not mean to win three points away from home, for him, one is enough.

Capello would be forgiven for thinking so, after all, the current top two in the table are Fiorentina and Inter Milan, and such a draw will not have any impact on the points gap between the two teams; Juventus and Parma were not in great form at the start of the season, having been beaten by Fiorentina by nearly ten points before the start of this league game; AC Milan's form has also plummeted after being badly repaired by Fiorentina, and they only have 13 points so far.

Therefore, a draw is still within the acceptable range for Capello.

Hawkers, although the league has two consecutive draws, it doesn't sound so good......

So, under the guidance of this kind of thinking, in the end, Fiorentina and Inter Milan had a very tacit understanding and drew 0-0, each taking a point, and everyone was happy.