After the group stage, Leverkusen's players returned home, and the La Liga giants Real Madrid advanced to the Champions League rematch with Fiorentina.

With this precious victory against Liverpool and the "help" of Fiorentina on another field, Real Madrid beat Leverkusen, who had scored seven points with 8 points with two wins, two draws and two losses, and luckily escaped from this death group.

The next day, Spanish media pro-Real Madrid commented, highly praised Florence's spirit of fair play, which made Capello, who was preparing for the next game in the office, smiled bitterly: These Spaniards are really self-indulgent. From the beginning, I didn't plan to let Real Madrid go, but the players who are suitable for playing games happen to be suitable for this set of tactics. In addition, Leverkusen himself is not good at making a contribution, which resulted in such a result.

No matter what Capello thinks, the original bad relationship between Real Madrid and Fiorentina has indeed changed a lot because of this game. The easing of this relationship will bring many benefits to Fiorentina in the future, but no one can see it now.

After the Champions League match, Capello gave the players a day off so that they could have some breathing time to recover their exhausted physical fitness, and then took the team to the small town of Vicenza in northern Italy without stopping.

With the secret support of Zhuang Mingge, the time traveler, Vicenza's bench depth and overall strength have been greatly enhanced compared with the same period in history. In addition, the resourceful "Little Zhuge" Guidolin, Vicenza this season has not been as good as in history, because of distraction from the European game, resulting in a significant decline in the team's performance in the league.

On December 14, Fiorentina ushered in the 12th round of Serie A.

Although Vicenza's physical recovery is not very optimistic because she has just played in the European Cup Winners, Vicenza's players still have a certain advantage in physical fitness compared to Florence in Japan, which is something Guidolin can use.

After the game started, Fiorentina, who won the kick-off, took the lead in the attack. Due to the team's physical fitness troubles and suggestions from the expert group of the physiotherapy center, Capello could not send out the strongest lineup. In addition, the opponent in this game was still the relatively weak Vicenza. If he played a defensive counterattack, Guidolin might directly dragged it into a draw. Therefore, Capello decided to let the players launch an attack immediately after the game began, and strive to establish enough lead when the physical fitness was still sufficient.

Capello's strategy of starting the game was good. Batistuta's powerful volleyball in the eleventh minute of the game led the visiting team to the lead, and also allowed Fiorentina to lead the home team to a 1-0 score to end the first half.

However, after the second half, as time went by, Fiorentina had to gradually slow down the pace of the offense because their physical fitness was no longer enough to support this intensity of attack. Even Thomassi and Davis, who claimed to be unable to run, had a big breath in the game due to this continuous weekly double games, which was enough to show how bad the physical condition of the Fiorentina players was at this time.

This negative change in Fiorentina gave Vicenza a chance to counterattack. After discovering that the opponent's physical fitness had begun to call the police, under Pirlo's command, the home team's offense gradually improved. The continuous offensive allowed the Fiorentina players who had reached their limit to have the ability to resist, but had no power to fight back.

If Toldo hadn't gone wild again in this game, he would have saved Vicenza's several must-have goals like a god descending to earth, such as Ambrocsini and Barack's long shot straight to the goal in the second half, Tony's header in the 62nd minute, and Pirlo's free kick shot in the dead corner in injury time, I'm afraid Fiorentina would not have conceded only one goal in the second half.

In the end, the tired Fiorentina tied with Vicenza away, ending the team's ten-game winning streak since the start of Serie A this season. However, although he only got one draw, Fiorentina still led the standings with 31 points. Juventus (22 points) and Inter Milan (27 points) who were chasing behind him had a certain gap. What's more, Fiorentina still had one less game now, so on the road to winning the Serie A championship, Fiorentina still has a considerable advantage.

After being tied by Vicenza away, Fiorentina ushered in the 11th round of Serie A with Parma three days later.

Back at the Frankie Stadium, the physical condition of the Fiorentine players who had three days of breathing improved significantly. Faced with the aggressive Parma under Ancelotti's leadership, the experienced Capello once again pointed out the young Fat Ann's lack of coaching ability.

A few days before the game started, Capello first used the media to launch a psychological battle, which made Ancelotti mistakenly believe that the physical condition of the Fiorentine players has not improved, and planned to rely on defending at home to get a point.

The wrong judgment led to Ancelotti, who had always wanted to complete revenge in front of Capello, gave up the previous style of playing that he attached great importance to defense when he was deploying troops and took the risk of adopting offensive tactics. In Ancelotti's view, since Fiorentina intends to defend to the death, if he also focuses on defense, he will undoubtedly hit Capello's mind.

Goalkeeper Buffon, four defenders are Benarivo, Cannavaro, San Sini and Touram. In the midfield position, Ancelotti only arranged one player Dino Baggio this time, and the two left and right front guards are Feorre and Zemaria. Croatian Staniic serves as the midfielder. The forward line is still the unshakable forward combination of Crespo and Chiesa.

Ancelotti believes that with the attack power of this lineup, even if he fights away, it will be no problem to win Fiorentina, which is struggling and lacks.

However, Ancelotti, who was full of confidence, was stunned after seeing the starting lineup of Fiorentina: Tordo, Carlos, Nesta, Stam, Zambrota, Redondo, Effenberg, Rui Costa, Ze Roberto, Ronaldo, Vieri... Capello did not defend at home as he said in the interview, but also played the one-middle card and also played the offensive tactics!

Knowing that he was fooled, Ancelotti had no choice but to hold an emergency temporary combat meeting to let the players on his side calm down first and make the latest requests.

"Since Capello wants to attack so much, we must let him understand that our Parma's attack power is far stronger than him!" In the visiting team locker room at Frankie Stadium, Ancelotti said passionately while knocking on the small blackboard behind him, "In the face of absolute strength, all conspiracies are just paper tigers!"

As for how many Parma players are convinced by Ancelotti's words, it's unknown. After all, almost all Parma players know this time, and their coach was put on by Fiorentina coach Capello.
Chapter completed!