Just as Zhuang Mingge was worried about the horror schedule of Fiorentina in March, the draw ceremony for the Champions League quarterfinals had officially begun!

I saw that Platini, who was a special guest at this lottery ceremony, smiled and drew a note from the glass container. When he opened it, he saw that "the first team in the upper half was born, and it was the Florence club from the Serie A!"

"Not bad!" Seeing Fiorentina's signing, Zhuang Mingge relaxed a little, because according to the rules set by UEFA, the four teams drawn first are the order of the game, which is quite beneficial for Fiorentina - as long as you get a good result at the opponent's home court, you can return to Frankie Stadium to prepare for a comeback.

Moreover, the order of Fiorentina's matches in the semi-finals is also the first away and then the host - if Fiorentina can defeat his opponent and enter the Champions League semi-finals.

Judging from the home and away game arrangement alone, Fiorentina's position is already very good. The key is to see which team they will face next.

Platini's moves very quickly, and the four teams that were first and then home were drawn by him. Florence and Juventus were located in the first half, and Bayern Munich and Dortmund were located in the second half. This means that in the Champions League semi-finals this season, there will be a very likely scene of fighting in the same room.

Next, the next team Platini will draw is Florence's opponent in the quarterfinals.

"Fiorentina's opponent in the quarterfinals is Manchester United from the Premier League!"

As soon as Platini finished speaking, Zhuang Mingge's eyes went black. Among the remaining four teams, the one he didn't want to meet was Manchester United. At this time, no one knows better about Manchester United's resilience than him. You know, last season, Manchester United was a team that could reverse the championship even when the league was once behind the leader Newcastle 12 points!

Moreover, Manchester United's current lineup configuration is also quite strong. Although their old captain Steve Bruce transfers to Birmingham, the Red Devils still have good players in various positions such as Paris, Gary Neville, Roy Keane, Giggs, Beckham, and Cantona. Faced with such a team with super psychological qualities and good players' abilities, it is natural to imagine how hard Florence will face in the quarterfinals.

Although there are no weak teams in the Champions League, they met Manchester United in the quarterfinals, and Fiorentina's luck was really unlucky...

Another Italian team, Juventus, has a bad luck in signing. Their opponents in the quarter-finals were last season's La Liga champion Atletico Madrid; on the contrary, the two Bundesliga teams in the second half were good luck. Dortmund, who was strong and powerful, met Monaco, who lost the team's soul, Zidane, while Bayern met Ajax, who can be said to be the weakest in the quarterfinals.

I'll take a break, it's not that Platini did it on purpose. I remember that although this guy played football in Juventus, he didn't seem to be very fond of Serie A teams and the Premier League that burned money... Zhuang Mingge suddenly remembered a report about the shady draws of lottery that he had read before, and thought with a twitching corner of his mouth.

What Zhuang Mingge didn't know was that at this time, in faraway Manchester, a red-nose Scottish old man who was also sitting in front of the TV watching the lottery ceremony, saw that Manchester United's opponent in the quarter-finals was the champion team of the championship team, Fiorentina, suddenly sprayed out all the red wine he had just drunk: "Uoa, are you deliberately trying to kill Manchester United? We actually encountered Fiorentina at this time!"

After the Champions League draw, Fiorentina ushered in a strange schedule. They will play two games in a week with Vicenza, and two away games...

First, it was a league match of the 18th round of Serie A, and then it was a second round of the Italian Cup quarter-finals... To be honest, when the Italian Football Association officials arranged the schedule for these two teams, they did not expect such a strange situation to happen. However, since the schedule has been set, it is too late to change now, so they can only do it like this.

Since Fiorentina was beaten to pieces by the opponent's striker Otero in the last matchup with Vicenza, this time when they met in the league, everyone in Fiorentina hoped to teach the lucky Vicenza with a big victory.

Therefore, Capello sent all the main players in this game. Ronaldo and Inzaghi, who have scored consecutive goals in recent rounds, partnered with the forward line, Djokaf and Effenberg were transporting shells behind them, and Davis and Dibiagio joined forces to be responsible for the midfield defense; on the back line, Fortunato, Nesta, Stam and Angeloma, Capello believed that his goal was quite safe.

As a result, Fiorentina, who was determined to take revenge, once again encountered an unsolvable Otero. The Uruguayan striker took Tony's header in the 25th minute of the game. Under Nesta's close defense, he shot with his right foot with his back to the goal, almost leading Vicenza to a great victory. If Inzaghi had not tied the score for Fiorentina in the injury time period of the game, Fiorentina had finally maintained its unbeaten 44 consecutive league unbeaten games until now.

Capello, who was in the locker room after the game, rarely criticized any player. After all, Fiorentina's defense did not make any low-level mistakes in the game. Even if the goal was lost, it can only be said that Otero's shooting method was too incredible - who would have thought that the Uruguayan striker would dare to shoot with his back to the goal?

Ronaldo and Inzagi showed no sign of slackness in this game. The two got a lot of shots in the game, but they were either blocked by Ambrocsini and others who returned to defense in time or saved by Vicenza's goalkeeper. Moreover, the Fiorentine players shot five goalscorers in this game, and their tragic luck was also one of the reasons why Fiorentine failed to win.

So the Fiorentines had to swallow the anger and wait to get the venue back on this field in the Copa Italy game three days later.

Three days later, the second round of the Italian Cup between Fiorentina and Vicenza began as scheduled. Capello sent a double tower combination between Bati and Vieri, and arranged Glencier, Robert Carlos, Zambrota and others on the wing, intending to bypass Vicenza's increasingly powerful midfield defense and break through the opponent's goal in the simplest and most brutal way.

As for Vicenza, Guidolin naturally could not hold a lot of good cards like Capello and could combine them at will. In order to compete for the Italian Cup, he had to put all the main players on the starting list. Fortunately, these players in Vicenza are young enough, most of them are less than 23 years old, and the main center Tony and midfielder Ambrosini are not even over 20, so they can fully support them in terms of physical fitness.
Chapter completed!