Chapter 785 Unsatisfactory Season (2)
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On the afternoon of May 23, Fiorentina came to Italy's famous Devil Stadium, Sant'Elia Stadium, where they will play the 34th round of the Serie A with the home team Cagliari.
Although Capello, who issued the declaration of leaving the team, was no longer in the game at this time and Cagliari still had a home advantage, the players in Fiorentina did not give up on the game because of this. After experiencing the most unpleasant season in nearly four years, they wanted to end the final battle with a victory and use a victory to comfort the fans who have always supported them and themselves.
Although the players have a high fighting spirit, Capello, who has completely turned against the club, did not prepare seriously. He just submitted an 18-man roster and starting lineup before the deadline. He was basically used to get along with other teams that were interesting to him.
So, when Mourinho, as an assistant coach, announced the starting list of the next day in the players, all the Fiorentine players were shocked.
The starting goalkeeper is Guadalbourne, who has not gotten several chances in almost a season. The four defenders are Fortunato, Hepia, Ferrara and Madawikia, in the order from left to right. In the midfield, the Swiss Voger serves as a single midfielder, Bresciano and Rymbéry flew together, Deco is in the center, and the forward line is a combination of Dinatale and Inzaghi.
I'll go, Capello, you're definitely letting go! Go to Cagliari, a famous Italian devil, to play at home, you're either Ferrara and Guadalbourne who were just in unknown condition, or Voger and Fortunato, who are not in the state and strength of the main players in Serie A. Even the starting striker uses Dinatale... You know, Vieri and Ronaldo's current physical condition is not at all, and they have enough physical fitness to play the last ninety minutes of the game!
Therefore, in the eyes of all Fiorentine players, Capello's move is undoubtedly a demonstration to Zhuang Mingge. This extremely stubborn head coach intends to use this extreme method to prove to people that compared to the luxurious benches in previous years, Fiorentine's current substitute lineup is simply vulnerable!
After figuring out this link, Dinatale and other players who got the starting chance also showed anger - isn't this obviously looking down on them?
It is said that when Effenberg learned the news, the German tiger was so angry that he even wanted to rush to Capello's office to drag the irresponsible head coach out and beat him up. Fortunately, Redondo and Vieri were quick-witted, and Mourinho kept persuading him, so the Germans did not stage a real-life competition with Capello on the training ground.
Although the whole Fiorentina team was extremely dissatisfied with Capello's intentional abandonment of the game, they could not change this fact. After all, Capello is still the head coach of Fiorentina. It is his duty to arrange troops and the players have no right to interfere with him.
However, when our head coach took the initiative to act as an enemy undercover, the Fiorentine players did not give up the game. Although they were slightly inferior to Cagliari in overall strength and tacit understanding, they showed several tenacious fighting spirit and desire to win in this game!
In the end, after ninety minutes of fighting with the opponent, Florence and Cagliari, who played as a substitute, ended the 1998-99 season with a surprising draw! At the same time, it proved to everyone who paid attention to this game that even if they have few opportunities in Fiorentina, they are definitely not what Capello calls a parallel product!
With the end of the round-robin stage (the reason for saying that is that the fourth-last team still has to play in the relegation play-offs), the situation in the Serie A standings this season has been completely settled.
Fiorentina won the Serie A championship for the fifth time in a row with 24 wins, 6 draws and four losses. This score of less than 80 points is also the lowest score since Purple Lily returned to Serie A. It can be seen how fierce the competition in the Serie A this season is. Even top powerhouses like Fiorentina have not won nearly one-third of the game.
AC Milan, who won seven consecutive league wins in the sprint stage, surpassed Lazio and won the runner-up in the league. He was eliminated early in the European Cup of Winners, and the Italian Cup also failed in the semi-finals. After the league was left for a long distance by Fiorentina, the title of runner-up can be said to be the most important gift given by Zacheloni and AC Milan players on the club's 100th birthday. Of course, for the Ross and Blacks, who were still in Europe a few years ago, it would be too shabby to offer a gift to just a Serie A runner-up.
Among the other teams competing for European seats, Lazio and Parma, who won three or four places, were qualified to participate in the Champions League next season, Roma, who ranked fifth, Inter Milan, who ranked seventh, and Udinese, who ranked eighth, won the UEFA Cup.
As for Vicenza, who ranks sixth in the standings, this club unexpectedly broke the curse that no one can defend the title smoothly this season. Zhuge Guidolin led the team to defeat Mallorca, known as the "second-year-old" Cooper, in the final, and stood on the podium of the European Cup of Winners for the second time!
Therefore, after successfully defending the Cup of Winners, Vicenza, who did not qualify for the Champions League, naturally got a ticket to the Cup of Winners. Among the three major European Cups, although the priority of the Cup of Winners is not as good as the Cup of Champions League, it ranks before the League Cup. Therefore, according to UEFA regulations, Vicenza's qualification for the League Cup was postponed, which was cheaper than the league eighth place.
Although they only ranked tenth in the standings, Bologna's luck is the best among the middle and lower-level teams - when the other three teams that reached the semi-finals of the Italian Cup (Parma, Fiorentina, AC Milan) all qualified for the Champions League, they naturally qualified for the Cup winners next season!
Last season's AC Milan and Bologna this season's two teams have got a chance to participate in European competitions through the Italian Cup when they are only ranked in the middle of the league. With such a precedent, all Serie A teams that think they are unable to win a good place in the league have begun to focus on the Italian Cup next season, wondering if they can also use this way to make the team get some benefits in the European arena...
For league champion Fiorentina, although they completed the five consecutive Serie A titles this season, becoming the second team to win five consecutive Serie A titles after Juventus in the early 1930s, thus completely confirming the status of Purple Lily as the top giant in Italian football. However, the team's elimination in the Champions League and the Italian Cup fell to the ground just before almost touching the threshold for victory. Such an ending obviously cannot satisfy people - especially Zhuang Mingge.
Chapter completed!