Chapter 814 Champions Cup Grouping
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The result of Fiorentina's easy victory over Parma was beyond the expectations of many people, because in their opinion, Fiorentina, which has undergone a change of coaches and blood exchange and has two main players who cannot play, Parma, who has famous players such as Chiesa and Crespo, obviously has the opportunity to win like last season.
Anyone who has watched Florence's game last season knows that Robert Carlos and Ronaldo, two Brazilians, occupies a very important position in the Purple Lily tactical system. Therefore, when they missed this game because they participated in the Copa America, many experts believed that Parma could make a big fuss about this, because it was difficult for Carlaze and Shevchenko, who were the stand-in starters, to perfectly replace Carlos and Ronaldo's role on the court, just like Fortunato and Dinatale last season.
However, just when these experts unanimously agreed that Florence would face a tough battle tonight, reality slapped these people loudly!
The Purple Lily soldier, who had the upper hand on the court, won the Milk Legion 2-0 without any blood, and both Karaze and Shevchenko performed very well in the game. The former's brave fight and attacking on the defensive end made people see the shadow of Carlos in him; the latter threatened Parma's goal several times in the game and scored a goal that locked the victory for the team.
Such an unexpected result not only completely failed the predictions of these professionals before the game, but also made Parma, who was the loser, feels like he lost the game and then lost the game on this night.
Although Maclale did trip over Ortega in that defense, his behavior could only be considered an ordinary defensive foul at most, which is not a big problem; and the nature of Ortega boxing Maclale was completely different, especially this happened in the Italian Super Cup final. In the eyes of the Italian Football Association, which is determined to develop the Asian market, Ortega's approach obviously had a certain negative impact on Italian football, so it must be punished heavily!
Therefore, after the game, the Italian Football Association quickly suspended Ortega for its violent behavior in the Italian Super Cup for three additional games and fined $50,000; Parma also imposed internal punishments on Ortega shortly afterwards. Although there was no specific details, seeing that the donkey missed the team's training many times and repeatedly hinted in interviews that he regretted joining Parma, the Argentinian was obviously quite dissatisfied with the team's move.
After all, in Ortega's view, although he came to the team as a substitute for Peron, he is still the core of Parma's organization on the court. At this time, the club did not stand up to express their protection, but punished him with the Football Association. This is a manifestation of disrespect for him.
Ortega obviously forgot that if you want to get the recognition of the club and the fans, you need to come up with something worthy of praise. It took half a season for Perron to completely conquer everyone at Parma. However, like Ortega now, he has no contribution, so he started asking the club for this and that?
Therefore, Ortega's performance of being inadequate enough has aroused the disgust of many people from Parma. The little donkey, who has been well received since his debut, began to go downhill from this day on.
As for how the Parma Club should communicate with Ortega, who was stubborn, to let him return to the court to play for the team and avoid the huge investment they invested in the Argentinians being wasted. This is a later story, so I won't mention it here for now.
After returning to Italy from Japan, the Fiorentine players who had gone through a long journey finally got a short rest. However, it won't take long to continue to invest in the intense preparations for the new season.
Since the Champions League was terminated in the semi-finals last season, Fiorentine players no longer need to prepare for the European Super Cup matches during this period like they did in previous seasons. Instead, they can watch the upcoming Super Cup finals to be held on the last weekend of August from the perspective of a bystander.
However, before this, Fiorentina will need to send someone to participate in the Champions League grouping ceremony held the day before the Super Cup final.
Time flies quickly, and it is August 28th in a blink of an eye. On this day, Zhuang Mingge, with Karin and head coach Heinx, attended the Champions League group draw ceremony held in Monaco.
With his outstanding performance in the European arena in the past five seasons, Fiorentina has been naturally divided into the first level, and together with seven teams including Barcelona, Real Madrid, Bayern Munich, Manchester United, Arsenal, Parma and Monaco, formed the first level of the Champions League group stage.
The eight teams in the first grade this season all come from G14, an organization that represents the common interests of European giants (Note: Dynamo Kiev became another new member of the G14 organization this summer). It can be seen that after the arrival of the Boseman era, major European giant clubs have mastered more and more star resources. As for the Champions League, which represents the highest level of European football clubs, it has gradually evolved into an arena between major giants!
Therefore, the possibility of seeing the scene where small and medium-sized balls such as Nottingham Forest and Aston Villa would make a comeback and win the Champions League under the siege of a powerful man twenty years ago has become slim.
Finally, when the grouping ceremony ended, Fiorentina, along with Dynamo Kiev, Galatasaray, and Solna AIK Club from Sweden, were assigned to Group B. It seems that after Purple Lily ended in the Champions League semi-final last season and restored suspense to the Champions League, UEFA no longer has to try his best to create problems for Fiorentina from the group stage.
Zhuang Mingge was not surprised by the result of the lottery, because this situation was expected on his way to Monaco.
After all, Fiorentina just poached two generals from Dynamo Kiev this summer. At the same time, the two teams had a record of playing against each other in the Champions League knockout stage last season. If UEFA did not know how to make a big fuss, then Bekenbauer could take a shower and go to bed, and the position of UEFA president was replaced by someone else.
The most important thing is that these three group opponents in Fiorentina have quite obvious geographical advantages at their home courts. I won’t say much about Sweden and Ukraine. Even with Turkey, which is relatively warm in climate, Galatasaray’s home court also has the title of “Hell Home” in European football. It is natural to imagine what kind of treatment the teams that are away there will be.
Chapter completed!