After returning from Milan City, Fiorentina ushered in the fourth round of Serie A, where they faced the newly promoted Mar Enpoli at home.

Due to Zhuang Mingge's intervention, Empoli lost the meritorious coach Spaletti who led them from League One to Serie A in advance, forcing Empoli to change the team's head coach this summer.

It was precisely because of this unexpected change that the newly promoted team lost all three rounds of the league. In addition, in these three games, Empoli only scored two goals in total, but conceded as many as six goals - quite in line with their true strength.

In this game, Capello made certain adjustments to the starting lineup. Many main players such as Redondo, Nesta, Tordo and Davis got a chance to take a turn, and their formation was also changed to certain levels.

Desanctis got the opportunity to start with his outstanding performance in training, which was his first time since joining Fiorentina; on the defense line, Fortunato, Matrazi, Stam and Angeloma entered the starting line; in the midfield, Zanetti and Tomasi defended full-time, Rui Costa served as the core of the organization, and Ze Roberto was assisted; on the forward line, Batistuta and Inzagi got the opportunity to start.

Although many players in this starting lineup serve as substitutes in the first team, Fiorentina still steadily defeated the opponent in terms of overall strength.

The players showed excellent form amid the cheers of 40,000 Fiorentine fans at Frankie Stadium. First, Rui Costa took advantage of a frontcourt set piece opportunity to score the first record for the home team; then Batistuta received Zanbrotta's right cross from the 32nd minute and fired the ball into Empoli's goal, rewriting the score to 2-0!

Cruise's performance, which was even more amazing in the 73rd minute of the second half, was substituted by Batistuta. The Argentine center scored three consecutive games in less than 20 minutes, and staged his first hat-trick in the Serie A!

In the end, Fiorentina defeated Empoli at home five to zero, and won the fourth victory since the start of the league. In the standings, he scored 13 goals and conceded four goals and scored 12 points, and Parma chased behind Fiorentina with three wins and one draw.

Three days later, Fiorentina ushered in the first round of the Italian Cup - due to the French World Cup next year, the Italian Football Association has made certain adjustments to the schedule of the Italian Cup and Serie A, and strives to end both events before the end of May next year.

In this way, the intensity of the game that Fiorentina has to face has naturally increased a lot, which is a big test for the players' physical fitness and Capello's rotation ability.

Fiorentina's opponent in the first round of the Italian Cup is Torino. This team, which was relegated a year ago, failed to break out of last season's second division. The lack of financial resources made them unable to introduce strong aids, and the loss of main players made Turin's strength worse and worse.

On the surface, there is no problem with Florence taking over the declining bottom team of Torino.

However, when the game started on October 1, the tenacious players of the Torino players made the gutter capsize in Florence.

Amid the shouts of more than 30,000 Turin fans in the stands at the Alp Stadium, the head coach of the Turin team used a tactic to put the bottom of the box, which was the legendary killer weapon that made all the giants very troubled - the Iron Barrel Formation. Throughout the game, the Turin players worked together to use this ugliest defensive tactic to stop Fiorentina's offensive again and again.

Fiorentina's shots in this game were as high as 31 times, with an average of one shot in less than three minutes. However, when the home team players used the tactic of "setting a bus at the door", Florence, who played away, only had four shots in the penalty area of ​​the Torino team!

If Batistuta hadn't directly knocked out the Torino team's goal with an unreasonable free kick in the injury time period of the game, then the game would have been dragged to overtime or even a cruel penalty shootout. This is not something Fiorentina wants to see.

Therefore, when Bati scored this free kick at the last moment, the Argentine God of War roared and made a machine gun squirting in the corner kick area, celebrating the goal frantically!

In this way, Fiorentina defeated Turin with one-to-zero strength and qualified for the next round of the Italian Cup (due to professional league advice, the first round of the Italian Cup is a single game to decide the outcome).

At this point, starting from the Italian Super Cup victory over Vicenza, Fiorentina has achieved a brilliant record of winning all eight games in all competitions this season, including giant teams such as Inter Milan and Barcelona.

In the next weekend, Fiorentina will face Juventus led by Lippi, one of their strongest opponents in the Serie A arena.

This summer, Juventus' transfer movements can be said to be loud and thunderous. After spending tens of millions of dollars to sign Uruguayan scorer Otero, he spent a few more money to buy Fonseca, one of Roma's offensive tridents, and Benfica's left-back Manuel Dimas.

In terms of transfer, Moji sold Boksic, who performed poorly last season, and the Croatian center returned to Lazio's arms a year later. However, this time, what he was greeted there was not the familiar Zeman, but the Swedish Eriksen, who focused more on offense and defense balance.

With a huge check in hand, he kept shouting that he wanted to strengthen the team, but he failed to sign several strong players in the end. Therefore, the old Fox Mo became the target of many people's private jokes, and some media even joked about Juventus, saying that the biggest signing of the Zebras this summer was Antonio Conte, who returned from injury...

In Zhuang Mingge's opinion, Moji's approach is understandable. Although Mo's old fox is indeed a little stingy in the transfer market, this is mainly because he did not change his concept in time, which led to such a result. While Serie A teams are looking for possibilities to strengthen the team's strength, Moji, who has always believed in the concept of balance of income and expenditure, was lost in the increasingly crazy transfer wave.

It would have hurt Moji if he hadn't done this Uruguayan scorer last season when he faced Fiorentina, he wouldn't have taken so much money to kill Moji.

It is understandable that I have to be so stingy when buying an Otero. At the beginning, Inzaghi, Djokav and others who were attracted by Mo Lao Fox, eventually turned to someone else's arms. In this era of soaring transfer fees, Moji's thinking has not kept up with the pace of the times, and is still estimating the cost-effectiveness of the players with the past perspective, so it is inevitable that they will suffer losses.

Some people may say that Fiorentina's transfer is not very good. But don't forget that Fiorentina, which has won multiple heavyweight championships in succession, is already a very mature team. When the main players have not shown signs of aging, what Fiorentina needs to do is to make minor repairs in the original winning lineup, rather than to make a big call to destroy the originally good chemical reaction between players.
Chapter completed!