After the two World Cup qualifiers, the players who participated in the national team competition disbanded on the spot after the game, returned to the team they played for and continued to devote themselves to the long club competition.

Florence naturally started daily training after these international players of the team returned to the team. After all, the next few weeks were basically the rhythm of a week's double game. If the players' physical fitness was not properly allocated, something would happen sooner or later.

On the fourth day after the national team match day, October 13, Serie A ushered in the fifth round, with Fiorentina playing against the Blue Eagles at home.

Although the team's head coach is still Czech coach Zeman, Lazio's performance began to decline sharply this season, losing to mid-range team Bologna in the first round of the league, and then failed to win in four rounds of the league, which was completely inconsistent with the identity of the Serie A seven sisters.

Lazio's poor performance this season cannot be blamed for Zeman for being ineffective. After all, the Czech coach is the kind of player who gives him a suitable tactical system to him. Once the player does not match his tactical ideas, the team's performance will be unsatisfactory.

Lazio, who sold Boksic and DiMatio, belonged to the latter. Cranioti's original intention may be good. He hopes to introduce some more competitive players to take the team that has been on the brink of glory for several years to a higher level. However, the newly introduced Proti overlaps with the team's leading scorer Signori, and there is also a lack of Boksic's running restraint and the midfield organization of DiMatio and Winter. Without players suitable for their own tactics, Zeman's leading performance will naturally decline sharply.

Zeman has tried to change Proti to Boksic's previous position, but Proti, who is already 29 years old, is a point-catching shooter with a completely fixed technical style, and it is really hard to change his style; the other point is that Proti is only 1.70 meters tall, and it is good to lie in front of the goal and sneak attack, but it does not have the same effect as Boksic.

Therefore, it is predictable that Lazio's performance decline will decline.

Facing such a team that is not in shape, although many main players in the Fiorentina team participated in last week's World Cup qualifiers, Capello, who has done some research on Lazio's current situation, has arranged a targeted starting lineup.

The goalkeeper is still Tordo, Ferrara and Nesta in the middle. After all, after the transfer of the tall and powerful Boksic, Lazio's offensive line is mainly small and fast. If he rashly replaces Stam or Viljoward, the slow turning speed of the two of them is likely to be directly beaten by their opponents.

The ones controlling the left and right are Robert Carlos and Bilindley. Neither of them have national team competition tasks, so they can fully implement Capello's tactical intentions with sufficient physical fitness.

The former is so leisurely, not because Brazilian head coach Zagalo is too arrogant and looks down on Carlos, but because the Brazilian national team, as the winner of the United States World Cup, does not need to participate in the long World Cup qualifiers, can be directly shortlisted, so Carlos did not get the call from Zagalo this time; the latter did not get the call from the national team more because there are two fierce men, Panucci and Toricelli in the same position.

In the midfield, since Dibiagio and Davis both represented the national team in the World Cup qualifiers, both of them got a chance to rest in this game. Redondo and Effenberg, who have been excluded from the national team's goal, got the starting position after nearly half a month of rest.

At the same time, in order to make up for the Argentine's shortcomings in interception, Capello sent young player Thomassi to take charge of Davis and Dibiagio's previous work; the starting midfielder was Rui Costa. For the young and strong Portuguese midfielder, it is not a problem to play twice a week occasionally. As long as the physiotherapy center does not show the red light during the physical examination, it can play on the game.

As for the forward line, Batistuta, who had just flew over half of the earth to represent the Argentine national team in a World Cup qualifier, naturally could not be placed on the starting list. Inzagi, who played two qualifiers, was naturally the same. In this way, Ronaldo and Vieri, who did not have the national team's game mission, got the chance to start.

Facing this mixed lineup of Fiorentina's main players and substitutes, although Lazio's lineup was quite complete and the team's main players were not dragged down by the national team except Nedved, but they were still at a disadvantage in the competition with Purple Lily.

Especially the attack line that Blue Eagles fans have always been proud of has disappointed these fans in this game. Signori and Proti have never found a tacit understanding. Kasirach's form plummeted after experiencing the failure of the European Cup. As the main striker of the Blue Eagles, he has not yet opened in the new season.

On the other hand, Fiorentina, who was fighting at home, became more and more braver, and used waves of sharp counterattacks to make Lazio busy.

First, Vieri beat Chamot in the 30th minute, received Carlos' cross from the left and headed to score, winning the goal for Fiorentina; then Ronaldo once again staged a long-distance run. The aliens who received the ball near the middle circle of the stadium passed Baronho one after another, Fosse and Grandoni formed a single shot. Finally, facing Macegiana who attacked, Ronaldo easily got rid of the opponent and sent the ball into the empty goal, 2-0!

Although Lazio, who was behind two goals, launched a fierce attack in the second half, his fragile defensive system once again made the Blue Eagles players realize that the final victory cannot be achieved by just attacking.

In the 52nd minute, Rui Costa scored a top ball in the midfield. Vieri successfully counterattacked and volleyed to the ball and sent the ball into the goal, freeing the score to 3-0.

In this way, Fiorentina, who had a home advantage, calmly won Lazio and ushered in five consecutive league wins.

After defeating Lazio, Fiorentina ushered in its second Champions League group stage in the following mid-week, this time their opponent is Gothenburg from the Swedish league.

Although Gothenburg players who played away played very hard in the game and cleared the ball many times before the football was about to cross the goal line, they faced the stronger Fiorentina without the advantage of home court. Such a move can only slightly delay their death.
Chapter completed!