Chapter 682 The new season kicks off
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After the European Cup qualifiers group stage has come to an end, Fiorentina has finally ushered in the long-awaited Serie A!
On September 12, the first round of Serie A was opened. Florence and Little Pepper Lecce, who came to Frankie Stadium, staged a refreshing offensive battle. Players on both sides scored a total of nine goals in 90 minutes, even making some fans who watched the game on TV think they opened the wrong channel.
No wonder fans have such questions. After all, Fiorentina has always given people the impression that its defense is very steady. Not to mention losing three or four goals in a game, there are only a handful of them when they are scored twice in a single game!
Therefore, this game with Lecce does have a bit of a destruction of people's views.
In the end, the powerful Fiorentina was even better. With Ronaldo's decisive victory before the end of the game, he defeated his opponent with a score of 5-4, winning the start of the new Serie A season!
Then, under the leadership of Capello, all the players of Fiorentina headed north to Trondheim, Norway's third largest city, where they will usher in their first Champions League group stage of the season!
Here I will briefly introduce the grouping situation of Fiorentina's Champions League this season. Florence, who was assigned to the first level, was very lucky in the group draw ceremony this time. Not only did he avoid the most difficult Real Madrid and Dynamo Kiev in the second level, but he also avoided the strongest Arsenal in the third level, and was assigned to Group B together with the Eredivisie giants Eindhoven, the Basque lion Athletic Bilbao and the Norwegian overlord Rosenberg.
Compared with the good luck of Fiorentina, the signing fortunes of the other three teams from Serie A are not very good: Inter Milan is better, only Real Madrid can compete with it in the C group. The remaining Graz Storm and Moscow Spartacque are average in strength and cannot pose much threat to the emergence of these two teams; Juventus' situation is a little more serious, and the same E group as the Zebras are Premier League champion Arsenal, Bundesliga powerhouse Leverkusen, and the mysterious army Galatasaray from Turkey. As long as the newly appointed Fatty An is more careful, Juventus can completely suppress the other three teams in this group with his superior strength. Of course, the terrifying football atmosphere in Turkey is something that Ancelotti needs to pay special attention to.
Parma is the most backer among the four Serie A teams. Due to Zhuang Mingge's various actions in the past few years, the European Champions League implemented a group draw several years in advance, which led to the fact that there was no death group in the Champions League this season where Bayern, Manchester United and Barcelona gathered like in history. Therefore, Parma, who was ranked in the second level, seemed unusual this time - Milk Legion, last season's La Liga champion Barcelona, Premier League powerhouse Chelsea, and Kaiserslautern, who created the miracle of winning the championship in the Bundesliga last season, were assigned to a group!
When Parma's new head coach Alberto Malesani learned that the team was drawn with these three, the young coach almost burst into tears - he was assigned to the same group as two champion teams in the four major leagues, and a Chelsea who is quite good at playing the cup. This is undoubtedly an extremely difficult European journey for Malesani, who has just taken charge of Parma's coaching post!
By the way, when this group surfaced, almost all European sports media were excited. After all, it was a very rare thing to have a group with four members in the group stage of the Champions League, which was so heavyweight. Although Fiorentina was often assigned to the so-called death group in the past few years, Purple Lily and the other three teams have a considerable advantage in terms of strength and experience, so qualifying in the group is never too big. Unlike the group where Parma is located, the strength of the four teams is almost the same. If any side takes it lightly, it is very likely to be eliminated!
Therefore, Malezani seemed so nervous - he finally waited for the opportunity to coach a strong team. If he was screwed up this time, for example, the team was directly eliminated in the Champions League group stage or had a poor league record, it would be very difficult for him to make a comeback in the future.
Not to mention Parma who was thrown into the Death Group and the nervous coach Malesani, let's turn our eyes to Florence, which has arrived in Tronheim.
The first thing the Fiorentine players did after arriving in Norway was not to go to the stadium for adaptive training under the guidance of staff sent by Rosenberg, but to take a series of cold prevention measures on the plane under the supervision of their own physiotherapy team, and then hurriedly rushed to the hotel that had been booked, without any intention to adapt to the venue immediately.
This is also impossible. Compared with the other two teams in the group, although Rosenberg is the worst in the group, its home advantage is also the most obvious among the four teams - the ice and snowy Nordic is the nightmare in the hearts of many giant teams.
The only thing that is thankful is that UEFA's away game against Rosenberg was arranged by UEFA in September, which has not yet entered the cold winter, and the opponent has not had much obvious climate advantage. If you have to wait until November and February for Norway to play in November and February, the result will be hard to say...
After a little adapted to the weather in Norway, the players in Fiorentina began to implement scheduled plans under the leadership of the coaching staff to prepare for the match against Rosenberg.
In this way, time soon came September 16, which was the day when Fiorentina's first Champions League group stage of the season began.
Capello has put a lot of effort into the starting lineup against Rosenberg's traditional Nordic power stream opponent. Not only did he use the fast and flexible combination of Ronaldo and Inzagi on the front line to deal with Rosenberg's brave and ingenious defense line, he also put the Finnish Hepia and Stam together to partner with the central defender to resist the attack of the opponent's high center forward.
As for whether Rosenberg will use their slow weakness to turn around and hit them behind them, Capello is still not worried, mainly because Rosenberg is still insisting on the traditional winger crossing from the bottom, with the high center in the penalty area to solve the battle. There is no such speed player with strong scoring ability, so naturally there is no need to worry about this problem.
Goalkeeper Toldo, Robert Carlos and Zambrota, who are of top physical fitness, serve as starting full-backs, Heipia and Stam partner in the middle, Effenberg and Redondo, two guys who are not at a loss in skills and physical fitness, form a dual core, Marklele and Gattuso are responsible for midfield sweeps, and Ronaldo and Inzaghi on the front line... This is the eleven starting players of Fiorentina in this game.
Chapter completed!