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After defeating AC Milan, the entire Fiorentina team immediately flew to Spain to prepare for the second Champions League group stage three days later. Their opponent this time was Athletic Bilbao, the Basque lion.

"I said, boss, what do you think about UEFA and the Football Association? Can you arrange such a scam schedule?" On the plane, Vieri and Inzagie complained to Capello half-truely, "We have not played at Frankie Stadium since the first game of the Champions League, and we are not going to be exhausted at the Frankie Stadium. Is this the rhythm of trying to exhaust us?"

"Haha, how is this possible? It's just a coincidence." Capello replied with a smile in response to the complaints between the two of them, "I said, if you two have this free time to think about these useless things, it's better to hurry up and take a little longer... The team's schedule this season is very intensive, and if you don't have a good rest, it will affect the status of the next game."

So, a plane carrying the entire team of Florence arrived in Bilbao, Spain in the "sighs" of Vieri and Grand Inzagi.

Athletic Bilbao is a very special club, and its special feature is that they are extremely stubborn in player blood. Since Bilbao was founded, they have been insisting on using only players with Basque blood!

As for other people who want to play in Bilbao, if you don’t have Basque blood, no matter how outstanding your skills and great your fame are, this Basque lion will choose to keep it out, just to ensure the purity of the club’s bloodline!

Although Athletic Bilbao's persistence has successfully ensured the purity of the Basque bloodline within the team, it has also made them fall further and further by other strong teams in the increasingly fierce Boseman wave. Therefore, although Athletic Bilbao unexpectedly won the second runner-up in La Liga last season, not many people still regard it as a strong team, and only regard this phenomenon as the last rebirth of this former powerful force.

On the evening of September 30, the home court of Athletic Bilbao Club was filled with the San Mames Stadium. Nearly 40,000 Bilbao fans and more than 1,000 Fiorentine fans who came from afar made the stands full of people.

Faced with European overlord Florence, who has completed three consecutive championships in the Champions League, Athletic Bilbao head coach Luis Fernandez did not make much adjustments to the team's starting lineup - in fact, he could not make too many changes, because Bilbao's recruitment strategy was destined to basically only expect that some good seedlings with high loyalty and first-class potential emerged from those with Basque blood.

In the first teams of Athletic Bilbao, there are usually Basque players like Urses and Echeberia who come from other teams' youth training but are extremely loyal to Bilbao, and "people" like Julen Guerrero who come from the club's youth training system and climb up step by step - if you want to meet top foreign players like Lizarazu who have both strength and Basque passport and meet the club's tradition, it is simply unanswered for Fernandez.

This extremely narrow range of recruitment also made the star flavor of Athletic Bilbao very weak. As a loyal player in football manager game, Zhuang Mingge, after seeing Bilbao's starting lineup, looked at it for a long time and only recognized Urses, Guerrero, Echeberia, Alcota and others, and he had no impression of the others at all.

In Fiorentina, since Capello rotated some positions of the team in the previous league with AC Milan, in this game, Capello still put on a set of starting lineups that mix the main players and substitutes: Desanctis, Zambrota, Hypia, Nesta, Fortunato, Redondo, Effenberg, Marklele, Voger, Vieri and Inzaghi, this is the eleven starting players of Fiorentina in this game.

Although this is the fourth away game in Fiorentina in the past half month, the players do not seem to be troubled much. Faced with the aggressive Basque Lions, most of the players played very high competitive levels in the game. They only took one first half to beat Athletic Bilbao, which played at home!

Although Guerrero led the team to fight hard on the court as always and assisted Urses to score a goal to equalize the score in the 28th minute of the game, the Spanish team's habitual heavy attack and light defense still gave Fiorentine players too much room for counterattack; the team has almost no complete system when defending, and relying entirely on the personal abilities of the defensive players, the bad habits of Vieri and Inzaghi in the penalty area of ​​Athletic Bilbao can be said to be like fish in water.

In the 22nd minute, Zanbrotta forced a breakthrough in Carlos Garcia's defense on the right and made a high pass. Vieri in the penalty area accelerated for a brief time, then jumped high, and pushed Alcota, who was guarding him, to the ball and rushed to the top!

Strength! Deterrence! Vieri's greatest advantage is undoubtedly revealed at this time!

Facing Vieri's thunderous header, the Bilbao goalkeeper had only time to wave his gloves, and the ball quickly rushed into the Athletic Bilbao goal! One to zero!

When Vieri pushed the ball into the Athletic Bilbao goal, the entire San Mames Stadium instantly became silent, leaving only the cheers from more than a thousand Fiorentine fans who came with the team!

Seeing the ball flew into the goal, Vieri clenched his fists and roared, and then hugged his teammates who were swarming in! He has always liked to play against La Liga teams, because few defenders there can compete with him in terms of physical fitness and are far from Italian teams in terms of defensive strength. Therefore, when encountering Spanish teams, Vieri can basically handle the entire defense line of the opponent alone.

In the 36th minute, the one who sent the cross this time was Fortunato on the left, and the player who grabbed the point in front of the goal was replaced by Da Inzagi. The only thing that had not changed was the final score, two to one!

Athletic Bilbao, which was once again behind, was about to organize a manned counterattack, but Guerrero was successfully intercepted by Voger while dribbing the ball in the frontcourt, which made the situation on Bilbao worsen again - Redondo's long pass from the backcourt accurately found Vieri's head, and the latter immediately headed the ball to Da Inzagi who was hiding behind him. Super Pipo, who was unmarked, pushed the ball at the penalty point, and changed the score to three-to-one!

Inzagi's goal greatly hit the morale of Bilbao players. It's no wonder that no matter which team is going to counterattack, the morale will be more or less affected by such a slap by the opponent.
Chapter completed!