Chapter 597 Crazy April (seven)
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After winning this battle with Atlanta, the ownership of the Serie A championship can basically be said to be settled.
With only four rounds left in the league, Fiorentina leads the second-ranked old woman by twelve points, which means that as long as Fiorentina gets one point in the last four rounds of the league, they will be able to complete the great achievement of four consecutive championships in the league!
This situation made Fiorentina extremely excited. After all, the clubs that won the Serie A championship for more than four consecutive times in history were Turin in the 1940s (1943-1949, suspended for three years due to the outbreak of World War II) and Juventus in the 1930s (1931-1935, five consecutive championships).
Now, with Purple Lily having great hope of becoming the third team in Serie A history to complete four consecutive championships in the league, Fiorentine players are naturally extremely excited. After all, four consecutive championships are a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity for them as professional players.
If you only win four league championships, then players can achieve this goal by choosing to play in the giants, plus a little good luck and enough time; but if you win four consecutive championships, then what you need is not just a little luck, but a stronger strength than all opponents in order to have the hope of achieving this great cause!
Therefore, when the league's four consecutive championships were placed in front of the players, while the Fiorentine players were extremely excited, they also had more confidence in their strength. Some people dare to say that the Fiorentine players who won the fourth consecutive championship in Serie A were not strong enough with the Northern Three, Parma and Rome, and other powerful enemies. If this is said, even ghosts would not believe it.
The Fiorentine players, who had increased their confidence, soon ushered in the 31st round of Serie A. This time their opponent was Sampdoria, who was already in a diminishing state.
Sampdoria's performance in the league this season was very bad. Although Mantovani Jr. invested a lot in the transfer market, including Clinsmann, Bogsion, Signori and other well-known stars. He even invited the legendary coach Menorti who led Argentina to win the World Cup for the first time, but he still could not save the Aquarium Legion, which was gradually moving towards the top.
After the brain-dead Enrique Mantovani sold Paliuca, Veljoward, and Mancini, the outstanding locker room leaders, Sampdoria, who once became a Serie A giant under the painstaking management of Old Mantovani, finally showed signs of collapse and became another former strongman who was heading for decline after Naples.
This season, Sampdoria has always been hovering in the mid-range area of the league standings, unable to compete for the European qualification for next season, and has no worries about relegation. It is impossible to see that it was a powerful force that could compete with the three northern top three years ago.
Since it was the semi-finals of the Champions League with Real Madrid four days later, Capello made some rotations for the team's starting lineup: goalkeeper Toldo, defenders Fortunato, Matrazi, Ferrara, Angela, midfielders Kripa, Zanetti, Tomasi and Rui Costa, and Vieri and Inzagi were partnered on the front line.
Although Menotti, who knew that the class would be dismissed after the end of the season, was in a depressed mood, the Argentine coach did not affect the arrangement of troops due to his bad mood. In this game, Sampdoria was still the main force. Menotti hoped that the players could fight hard for Sampdoria's honor.
Feron, Manini, Pesarisi, Mihailovic, Baleri, Bogsion, Veron, Salsano, Legler, Signori and Montera, this is the starting lineup of Sampdoria in this game.
Menotti's idea is very good, but the famous Argentine coach forgot something very important, that is, in the current Samp team, the only player who has experienced the Golden Samp era was the old minister Manini. Apart from veteran Salzano, the other nine players spent only a few years in Sampdoria and had not yet developed enough sense of belonging to the team.
Therefore, Sampdoria players cannot fight for the team's honor as Menotti imagined. The league rankings that are neither up nor down make them not very concerned about the result of this game. After all, they will not be qualified for European competitions if they win, and they will not fall into the relegation zone if they lose.
Compared with Sampdoria, who has no desires, Fiorentina's attitude towards the game is much more positive. Under the dual stimulation of the two honors of the four consecutive championships and the triple-champion, the players all want to use a victory to determine the ownership of the Serie A championship as soon as possible and become one of the teams with four consecutive championships!
Since Fiorentina and Sampdoria are well-known among the fans and are likely to be a key battle to determine the league championship this season, the Italian Football Association specially moved this highly anticipated game to Saturday night, interspersed with the Italian derby that should have been held, thus achieving better ratings and publicity effects.
After the game started, Fiorentina, who came to the Feraris Stadium, turned away and firmly occupied the initiative on the court under the command and dispatch of Rui Costa.
According to Capello's arrangement, Kripa and Tomasi and others resolutely revolved around the Portuguese midfield during the game, using a large number of off-ball runs to provide Costa with more points for the ball; and Rui Costa did not disappoint Capello's expectations and used a scalpel-like pass to create scoring opportunities for his teammates again and again.
Fiorentina's style of controlling the midfield first and then tearing the defense with running and passing balls made Sampdoria passive in the game. After Mancini and Karenbu and others left the team one after another, their offense and defense had big problems.
So far, Sampdoria has scored forty-seven goals in the thirty rounds of the league that has ended. Although the offense is not as good as last season, it is still unsatisfactory; but they have conceded a total of fifty-one goals in thirty games, which is only slightly better than a few teams that are in the relegation battle!
Therefore, Rui Costa made good use of Sampdoria's weakness. At the 25th minute of the game, he sent a long diagonal pass and passed the ball to Angeloma who was inserted on the right. The latter immediately made a 45-degree cross. Vieri, who was staying in the penalty area, heading the ball to Mihailovic, and scored the first record for Fiorentina!
After scoring the goal, Vieri seemed very excited. He took off his jersey and ran to the stands where the Fiorentine fans were celebrating the goal.
Sampdoria players stood aside and were indifferent to Vieri's celebration. Now they are thinking the most about where to go on vacation after the season is over, rather than the game in front of them.
Chapter completed!