The final score of the match against Barry was frozen at 6:1. Inzaghi scored a hat-trick in the first match. Barty, Effenberg and Montera, who replaced Inzaghi in the 65th minute, scored a goal each, while Barry scored a goal in the 90th minute.

The next day, many Italian media praised the performance of the Fiorentine Youth Army in this game, believing that their ability "can already dominate the League Two, and even achieve good results in the League One."

At this moment, Zhuang Mingge in the Florence presidential office threw a stack of newspapers on the ground in depressed:

"Haha, these media can really praise the players. Inzagi was called the second Paul Rossi by them. Montera can succeed Mazaro, and Pesotto should be recruited into the national team... I can already imagine what the team is in now."

Because Zhuang Mingge has dug up too many future stars, the team is now mostly young people. The oldest player in the team is actually Kripa, who is 28 years old. The team has a large number of young players. First, the state is prone to fluctuations, especially when it comes to the critical stage of the game, it is common for young players who do not have much experience in the game to make mistakes; second, once they are praised by public opinion, they are easily elated and forget how much ability they have.

Zhuang Mingge originally hoped that Effenberg, Batistuta and others could stabilize the team, but he miscalculated. These players had the strength to play in Serie A and could still cheer up against some strong teams in the second division. However, when facing weak teams, even if they were still training normally on the surface, they couldn't help but feel a little relaxed in spirit.

In the next league game, Fiorentina will go away against his defeated player Livorno, not long ago. The players disagree with the opponents they easily defeated in this warm-up match. Even Effenberg, Kripa and others couldn't play in training and tactical meetings. Ranieri seemed to have taken it lightly because of his good start at home and his lack of strength.

So, the proud and complacent young people were beaten hard by the Livorno in the next game. 0:3, Fiorentina lost at home. The whole game was led by the opponent. Less than 20 minutes into the game, Livorno took advantage of the slackness of the Fiorentina players to score two points in a row. Then the whole team retreated and started to play a defensive counterattack when Fiorentina counterattacked heavily. He took advantage of the empty opportunity behind Fiorentina to win another goal in the 78th minute, and Fiorentina finally lost to Livorno.

After the game, Zhuang Mingge did not criticize the players because he knew that this was the tuition paid by the team for rejuvenation, and he believed that the team could adjust it soon.

However, the loss in this game was obviously a big blow to these young people. In the next game, Fiorentina failed to win, and Purple Lily was tied 1:1 by the visiting Palermo team at home.

In the next two league games and one Cup of Italy, Fiorentina tragically suffered two consecutive league losses (scores were 0:1 and 1:2 respectively), and only in the first round of the Italian Cup, they managed to advance by relying on their own goals.

In the Serie B, Fiorentina only achieved a bad start of 1 win, 1 draw and 3 losses in the first five rounds, and Ranieri began to feel a little unstoppable. Although the boss has not yet expressed his opinion on the public, he only sent his own secretary, the tough Miss Carin privately told him that the club's support for him, if the team continues to win this way, his job will definitely not be guaranteed.

So in the next week, Ranieri, who has always been easy-going, made a rare ruthless move, and the whole team will stay at the training base for closed training this week.

Just as the team started a closed training camp, Zhuang Mingge was reading a newspaper in the office.

"Young man embarrasses his great responsibility, Florence falls into the abyss!"

This is the title of "Turin Sports" after Fiorentina's four consecutive league games were not won.

Since Juventus snatched Baggio from Fiorentina in 1990, the relationship between the two teams has been very tense. As Juventus' mouthpiece, Turin Sports will naturally not miss this great opportunity to take advantage of the situation.

Although Zhuang Mingge didn't think there was anything interesting about this report, he knew that he should have made a move at this time. The team's continuous losses made these young people obviously begin to doubt their abilities. It is of course a good thing for a person to recognize himself, but being self-deprecating is an overcorrection.

On the same day, Zhuang Mingge invited the best psychologist from a local hospital in Florence to provide psychological treatment for the players one by one.

After receiving psychotherapy, the players finally regained some vitality and were no longer as dead as before receiving treatment. Although they were then caught by Ranieri to participate in the training camp, there were finally some laughter and joy on the training ground, which diluted the clouds that had originally shrouded over Florence.

In the 6th round of Serie B, Fiorentina will challenge the current league leader Padua away. Padua has started the season quite well. They have achieved 4 wins and 1 draw, without losing a single goal. This time Padua faces the poor form of Zi Lily at home. Padua fans are full of confidence that the team can win at home.

But the game against Fiorentina became a nightmare for Padua fans, and the boys in Fiorentina showed all their talents in this game:

At the beginning of the game, Fiorentina launched a tide of offensives. Pesotto and Corini made continuous efforts on the flank to tear up Padua's defense line. Then Corini pulled his feet and shot from the penalty area line, and the ball was slightly higher than the crossbar;

Three minutes later, Fiorentina made a comeback, Pesotto made a 45-degree cross, Batistuta headed the ball into the penalty area, Inzagi rushed over and grabbed the shot, and the ball entered the net, 1:0;

In the 10th minute, Batistuta received Pesotto's cross and headed the ball again, but the shot turned into Effenberg. Unfortunately, the German shot angle was too straight and was ruthlessly confiscated by the goalkeeper;

In the 14th minute, Dibiagio intercepted the ball and launched a long pass to launch a counterattack. After Effenberg got the ball and was savagely knocked down by the opponent's defender, Fiorentina got a free kick with an excellent position. Batistuta shot vigorously, and the ball flew directly into the goal. The opponent's goalkeeper did not react at all, 2:0;

In the 20th minute, Inzagi successfully entered the penalty area against offside. Padova defender knocked him down behind him. The referee on duty gave Fiorentina a penalty kick and showed a red card to the foul player. Inzagi personally scored a shot, 3:0;

With three goals behind, one less player to fight, Padua completely collapsed at this moment. In the next 70 minutes, Padua's players were out of control and made consecutive mistakes on the court. The Fiorentine players took this opportunity to start scoring wildly...

At the end of the game, the score had already become 9:0. Inzagi and Bati scored hat tricks respectively. Vieri and Montra, who came on the bench, scored one goal each, and even right-back Bilindley scored a 45-meter-long lob shot in the 78th minute.

This game with Padua proved the potential of these young people in the team to all those waiting to see Fiorentina jokes, and also greatly restored their self-confidence. Although the young players' states are still ups and downs, this is also reflected in subsequent games. If they are in good condition, they will be beaten by a weak team in the second division. However, no matter what, the team finally returned to normal track.

The match against Padua was the last match of Purple Lily in September, followed by Fiorentina's 4 wins and 1 loss in five league games in October, with the only loss being the team's core team Batistuta and Effenberg being called to play in the World Cup qualifiers for the national team, and the young people's state has fluctuated, resulting in losses.

So far, Serie B has been held for 10 rounds, with Fiorentina ranked 7th in the league with 5 wins, 1 draws, 4 losses and 11 points, but it is only 3 points away from the top of the league Bari (6 wins, 2 draws, 2 losses and 14 points), and the hope of upgrading is still very high.

Here I would like to add: The Italian league now implements a 2-point system, that is, wins one game and gets two points, draws one point, and loses zero points. The familiar 3-point system in Italy only started in the 1994-95 season.
Chapter completed!