Chapter 862 Mutu
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Fiorentina won the Serie A half-time championship, and this news did not cause any turmoil in Italian football. For fans, it is nothing new to Fiorentina's winning of just one and a half-time championship is not new, unless the team completes six consecutive Serie A championships at the end of the season, or a team successfully overturns Purple Lily's dominance over Italian football, and snatches the league championship from Fiorentina. Only such news can attract their attention and attention.
The fans cannot blame the fans for their high demands. Who made Fiorentina's dominance over the Serie A and their strong strength have been deeply rooted in the hearts of the people. After all, the five consecutive league championships are clearly placed in front of people, making it difficult for them to ignore them.
Therefore, in this context, it is really not a big deal in people's eyes that Fiorentina won the Serie A half-time championship this season. At most, it gave many Fiorentina fans an excuse to celebrate, and it also made many fans of other teams more unhappy with Purple Lily. Fiorentina's strong dominance in the league naturally means that other teams who are interested in Serie A championship have become increasingly slim.
Especially Juventus and Inter Milan, the former has never tasted the taste of a league championship since the end of the Platini era, while the latter has been missing the league championship for nearly ten years so far, so the fans of these two teams are most resentful about Fiorentina.
After all, these two clubs are different from teams such as Parma, the Serie A seven sisters, and the Roma twins. Although these teams have shown strong competitiveness in recent years, they have never had much honor to be able to achieve, especially in the league championship. These three teams combined are not as much as Fiorentina has won in the past five years. The situation of Juventus and Inter Milan is completely different. The team's history is quite brilliant and the league championships are ranked first and third, and they cannot accept the reality of missing the league championship for a long time.
Therefore, for many head coaches, coaching giant clubs like Juventus and Inter Milan is a very difficult challenge event, because these two giant clubs, which have already had signs of being infatuated with the desire for league championships, are now difficult to accept the result of winning the top few leagues or becoming strong contenders for Serie A championships. What they need is a real league championship trophy!
It is precisely because of this that although the old Fox Mo has begun to regret firing the team's former coach Lippi, he still has no intention of asking the Silver Fox back, because he feels that even if the other party returns, it is impossible to lead the Zebra Legion to overthrow the rule of Fiorentina.
In fact, everyone knows that the main reason why Juventus is falling further and further by Fiorentina is that Moji invests too little in the transfer market. After letting go of top stars such as Viali, Deschamps and Blanc, they did not introduce players of the same strength. Instead, they bought new stars such as Henry and Tudor, who have great potential but have not yet been fully developed, as well as powerful players such as Ambroseti and Otero, whose abilities are far worse than first-class stars. Although this makes the Zebra Legion's tactical style more holistic, their combat effectiveness and bench depth have decreased a lot compared to when Moji first entered Juventus.
In Inter Milan, although after Zhuang Mingge's guidance, and with Facheti, a professional and blue-black legend, Morati's problem of being impatient and reckless in the future has improved, this does not mean that Boss Mo Da will slow down the pace of reviving the Blue-Black Legion and competing for the league championship.
Back to the topic, after a big victory over Barrie at home, Fiorentina ushered in the 18th round of the Serie A in the following weekend. This time, Fiorentina's opponent was Venice, who was slaughtered by them in the opening game of Serie A this season.
Although Fiorentina suffered a defeat at Venice last season, the whole team of Fiorentina believes that they will definitely not repeat the same mistake this time. On the one hand, they are in very good shape at the moment, especially the main center Vieri, the Italian tank has become more vigorous after the arrival of the new millennium. This point is from his score of six goals in just two appearances, and currently ranked first in the Serie A scorer with seventeen league goals. It is terrifying. On the other hand, Venice, who has lost Recoba, once again exposed its essence as a bottom. This team that has only won three games in the league so far is one of the favorites to relegate this season, with odds second only to Piacenza, who has firmly ranked as the deputy captain of the league.
Therefore, when the time came on January 23, when Fiorentina players walked out of the player channel and stepped onto the Pierre Luigi Benso Stadium, they were full of confidence and thought it would be a breeze to win the game.
However, reality poured cold water on these players with great confidence. When ninety minutes of regular time passed and the referee blew the whistle at the end of the game, thousands of Venetian fans were making deafening cheers in the stands, and hundreds of Fiorentine fans who came to the scene to watch the game were in silence!
(Note: Although the Venice home stadium, Pier Luigi Benso Stadium, set an entry record of more than 26,000 people in 1966, has been strengthened by modernization and the Football Association to strengthen supervision of the safety of the stadium. As a result of the continuous decline in the local economic situation in Venice, the stadium can currently only accommodate 7,450 fans, making it one of the most compact home stadiums among the 18 Serie A teams this season.)
The reason for this scene is that in the just-concluded Serie A 18th round of confrontation, Fiorentina, who played away, unexpectedly lost 2-3 to Venice, who ranked last in the league standings!
Adrian Mutu is the biggest contributor to Venice's sudden victory in this game. This young forward from Romania showed great power in the game. He first received a cross from his teammate in the 15th minute of the game and scored in front of the penalty area, setting the first record for the home team. Then, Mutu took advantage of the opportunity of free kicks in the frontcourt twice in the 37th minute and 81st minute of the game, and used a hat trick to make the efforts of Shevchenko, who scored twice in this game, becoming useless.
Chapter completed!