Chapter 207: The conditions for winning the championship!
At 3:00 p.m. on the 25th, Mikhainovic said in his pre-match speech at the Florence training ground: "We all know that Milan won last night."
Everyone nodded to indicate that they knew the news.
The Serbian continued: "Milan is not so easy to be surpassed. The media said it is right. They are far behind us in terms of their background and experience in winning the championship."
Yes, there have been several rounds, and Fiorentina has never been able to surpass Milan, and the gap between the two teams has remained at two points.
This situation made Fiorentine players doubt themselves: we all acted like this, but Milan has not given us a chance. Is it really possible for us to surpass Milan?
The emotional changes of the Serbians' keen players, Florence first played in this round, defeating Cagliari 2-1, surpassing Milan in one fell swoop and ranking first.
However, twenty-four hours later, Milan regained the top spot.
"But there is a fact that we cannot ignore!"
Mikhainovic said in a deep voice: "Milan has a group of powerful and experienced veterans, which allows them to withstand strong pressure and win in key games."
Everyone nodded.
The Serbian said with a bright look: "But the veterans also have problems with veterans. Ibrahimovic and Pirlo did not play due to injury last night!
It is said that Gatuso has been on the battlefield with injuries, and Inzagi and others have been away from the stadium due to injuries for a long time!
As the sprint phase approaches, their injuries may increase, and then we will have a chance…”
Girardino nodded and said, "The coach said it's right. As the injuries increase, Milan's situation will get worse and worse. We don't have major injuries at the moment, and that's our advantage!"
The players expressed their opinions one after another: "Actually, we are perfect to achieve this point. As for whether we can surpass Milan in the end... everything depends on God."
"Actually, even if we didn't win the championship in the end, we beat Milan cleanly at home, which is enough to make us proud!"
"What a pity, if we hadn't lost too many points at the beginning of the season, we would have surpassed Milan long ago..."
Wang Qi didn't say anything. For him, his professional experience only had a dozen games and he didn't have so much emotion.
No matter what the situation is, in his opinion, the ultimate goal of the game is to win.
After waiting for the players to calm down, Mikhanovic continued: "The only thing we can do now is to be ourselves!
If we don’t do our best, even if Milan makes a mistake and loses the game, we won’t have a chance to surpass them!”
After he exhaled heavily, he said in a deep voice: "So we must be clear and realize that we must meet two conditions in order to surpass Milan!
First, we must be ourselves well, keep winning, and continue to put strong pressure on Milan so that they have no chance to breathe!
Under constant pressure, Milan can make mistakes!
Second, Milan made a mistake!
In fact, these two conditions are related. The key is the first point. We can continue to win. Only in this way can Milan make mistakes and we have the opportunity to surpass them!"
These Serbians' words have the effect of "seeing the sun through the clouds", allowing players to see the future more clearly and understand what they should do.
Then, let’s train now!
The whole team in Florence sweated heavily on the training ground, and success has always been for those who are prepared...
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At the same time, at the Milan training base, Allegri is also doing ideological work for the players.
"Purple Lily is really surprising this season. It continues to put pressure on us and makes us feel like we can't get rid of them.
Last night we had the problem of dealing with the ball too simple during the game. We always thought that we could solve the problem with just one kick. In fact, it was so easy to score goals.
I understand everyone’s idea is to score a goal early to determine the lead, but win easily and regain the top spot!!
In some of our team members, I think that Purple Lily competes with us for the championship, which is a bit funny.
Purple Lily...whether they have the ability to compete with us for the championship?
So, some of our team members had the idea: quickly turn the purple lily a little further away and don’t let them see hope!
This idea is very dangerous!”
Allegri said in a deep voice: "Even if there is no Purple Lily, other teams may appear to compete with us for the championship. We must face up to the Purple Lily because we have not taken advantage of them!"
Milan won at home in the first leg, while Fiorentina also won at home in the second leg, and the two sides tied.
"So we must calm down now, take every opponent seriously, and every game seriously!"
Allegri continued: "We can't make mistakes, because the purple lily is eyeing us!"
The players looked solemn.
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May is quietly approaching, the weather in Italy begins to rise, and Serie A is entering its last month.
The Serie A championship this season will be produced in May!
On the last day of April, the 35th round of Serie A started, Inter Milan debuted first, and they challenged Cesena, the middle and lower rankings, away.
With Inter Milan defeating Lazio, who was previously ranked third in the last round, they surpassed Lazio in one fell swoop and rose to third place.
Inter Milan is now at seven points from Florence!
With only four rounds left, it is quite difficult to surpass Fiorentina to directly qualify for the Champions League.
At 8 p.m. on April 30, the match between Inter Milan and Cesena started on time.
Both sides played very cautiously in the first half and failed to create an excellent scoring opportunity. Entering the second half, both sides strengthened their offense.
In the 11th minute of the second half, Cesena forward Budan received a cross in front of the goal and scored a volley, Inter Milan fell behind by zero!
After the game restarted, Inter Milan, who was behind in the score, launched a fierce attack, and Cesena retreated from defense at all.
A half-court offensive and defensive drill appeared in front of people.
However, under Cesena's tight defense, Inter Milan never found a chance to score, and the ninety-minute game came to stoppage time in a flash.
What made Cesena regret happen at this time.
In the first minute of stoppage time, Etoo, who was on the bench, passed the ball to the goal from the left, and Pazini scored a volley, 1-1, Inter equalized the score in the first minute of stoppage time!
After the game restarted, Inter Milan strengthened pressing in the frontcourt. In the fourth minute of stoppage time, Inter Milan got a chance to counterattack quickly. Maicon made a cross from the side, Pazini jumped high in front of the goal and headed the ball. The ball bounced into the goal, two-to-one!
In this way, Inter Milan scored two goals in a row with Pazini's breakout in stoppage time, reversed the game and defeated Cesena!
Chapter completed!