After losing the second round of the league, Fiorentina slipped from the top of the list, and the teams such as Juventus, Parma, AC Milan, and Lazio who won this round took over, and their league ranking fell to the sixth place.

After losing this game, Ranieli brought the team back to Fiorentina in dejectedly. Although the fans did not blame the players for this loss, this gutter capsized incident did sound the alarm for the entire Fiorentina team, especially Ranieli himself.

After losing, Ranieri recalled that his boss reminded himself several days before the game not to underestimate Vicenza. However, he was so confident at the time that he did not say these words in his heart...

Ranieri, who finally recalled this incident, was sweating profusely. After all, no matter where in Italy, the head coach could not conflict with his boss, otherwise his job would be out of stock. Moreover, there were not many teams like Florence that were both rich and ambitious in the whole of Europe, and he could not find a better job with his resume.

So after returning to Florence, Ranieli visited Zhuang Mingge as soon as possible and sincerely admitted to him that he had made the mistake of underestimating the enemy. However, to Ranieli's surprise, Zhuang Mingge did not seem to be furious about Ranieli's deaf ears for his suggestions this time, but comforted him with kind words and asked him to lead the team to play well.

In this way, Ranieri returned to the training base in a daze and continued to prepare for the next game.

If Fiorentina is still the team that was mostly young two years ago, it is very likely that it will take them a long time to recover from this defeat. But now it is different. There are 12 players in the first team of Fiorentina who are over 25 years old, and they are all over the field. For those who have strong enough psychological adjustment ability, a league loss at the beginning of the season will not affect their psychological state at all.

In the following week, Fiorentina will face the first round of the European Champions League group stage. They will challenge the overlord of Scottish football - Glasgow Rangers Club, in Scotland's largest city.

This is the third time that the FILO club has ever participated in the European Cup. The last time they participated in the European Cup, it can be traced back to the distant 69-70 season. Since then, Zi Lily has never won a league championship again, and the desire to participate in the European Cup again naturally became a mirror and water moon.

This time, the Fiorentines, who had been waiting for twenty-five years, finally looked forward to the European Champions League game!

In Group C where Fiorentina is located, in addition to the lack of strength of the champion Bucharest star from Romania, both La Liga champion Real Madrid and Serie A champion Glasgow Rangers are very difficult opponents.

Glasgow Rangers, who had already shown a downturn under the attack of his old opponent Celtics, rose strongly after steel tycoon David Murray took over. Taking advantage of the opportunity that the English team was suspended by UEFA in the mid-to-late 1980s, Rangers used their huge financial resources to attract a group of top British local players, and even became the representative of British football. Even though the Premier League has been in operation for more than three years, there are still many excellent players in Glasgow Rangers, such as Paul Gascoin, the creative midfielder of English football, Scottish center, and former European Golden Boot winner McCoyst, supplemented by famous players such as Brian Lauderup, Mikhailichenko, is a very powerful team.

Faced with such a team, Ranieli, who had just learned a lot of lessons from Vicenza, will naturally not be as arrogant as a Serie A championship, nor will he dare to lose the club's first Champions League game in nearly 30 years after losing a league game. If he even loses this game, no matter how tolerant the fans of Fiorentina are, Ranieli himself will probably be quite depressed for a long time to come.

The day before the start of the Champions League group stage with the Rangers away from Fiorentina, Zhuang Mingge quietly brought Nesta, who did not enter the 18-man roster in this game, to visit Gascoin, who had just transferred from Serie A Lazio to Rangers this summer.

As mentioned before, Gascoin was originally the core of Lazio's organization, but was seriously injured by Nesta, who was still playing for the Blue Eagles at the time, in the team training. As a result, he was forced to recuperate for a full six months before returning to the court.

However, when Gaza returned to the first team after recovering from injury, he was surprised to find that he had no place in the team. During his injury, Czech Zeman distributed the team's organizational work to Dimatteo, Fosse and others, which made the Blue Eagles transform in the six months after Gaza's absence, and the English are no longer the indispensable one.

During this period, Cranioti had not yet obtained a large amount of funds by listing the Lazio club, so naturally he would not support such a rotation player with a high salary for no reason. So this summer, Crab boss sold Gaza to Scotland for 8.7 million pounds.

After Nesta knew that Gasco was transferred, he was always depressed, believing that his reckless actions forced Gasco to transfer to Scotland, which led to him rarely making tackles during the game, and often hesitated and missed opportunities when making tactical fouls.

Therefore, this time, Zhuang Mingge took his position to visit Gascoin with his classmates, hoping to unravel the knot that had troubled him for a long time.

...

"Hahahaha... Little guy, you're thinking too much!" Gascoin couldn't help laughing after hearing Nesta's intention of coming to this trip, and patted Xiaonei's shoulder hard, "We players, as long as we have the ability, where can't we play football? There will always be a team willing to accept you."

Although Gazar's bad lifestyle and casual attitude are often criticized, in general, Gazcoin is still a straightforward and good person. He never gets into evil with others for no reason. Therefore, Gazar easily forgives Nesta's unintentional mistakes back then.

"but……"

"You cultural people have a lot of things to do, don't say anything. If you come and do this for me, you will clear up the matter!"

"Okay, since you said that, Alessandro, don't be so stupid, cheers!" Zhuang Mingge also raised the cup full of beer and shouted loudly.

"Cheers!" *3
Chapter completed!