After the Glasgow Rangers won a 4-0 home victory, the players were warmly welcomed by the fans when they returned to Fiorentina. Antonioni and others complained to Zhuang Mingge in private, believing that it was a very regrettable thing that they did not go to watch such a brilliant victory.

After achieving a good start in the European Champions League, Fiorentina players finally got rid of the shadow of losing to Vicenza away, and their morale was greatly improved.

Although morale has improved, the two games in the early stages of the season still consumed a lot of the physical fitness of Fiorentine players. So in the third round of Serie A with Cagliari three days later, Ranieri still chose to rotate and put some players whom the physiotherapy center thinks are not suitable for playing outside the roster: captain Batistuta returned to the starting lineup with Baggio; because Lanna fought against Lauderup Jr. in the last game, the starting left back of the game was replaced by Fortunato; although 30-year-old Kripa was still in good shape, considering his age and playing style, this game was started by Dutch Wild Boar Davis, and the other two players in the midfield were Tachinadi, Rui Costa and Djokaf, because vice captain Effenberg accidentally sprained his ankle when returning from Glasgow...

On the bench were Inzagi and Vieri, a pair of good friends. Although the two men's playing time this season has declined due to the joining of Ronaldo and Baggio, neither of them complained, but instead had a more meticulous attitude on the training ground.

In addition, there are players such as Tomasi, Dibiagio, Zambrota, Veljoward and Guadalbourne on the bench in case of emergency.

Although the players attached great importance to this game and did not make the mistake of underestimating the enemy again, such frequent large-scale rotations still affected Fiorentina's combat effectiveness, especially in the offensive line. Bati and Baggio partnered with the forward line for the first time, and Costa was also looking for the feeling of cooperating with frontcourt players, and made many mistakes in passing cooperation, so at the beginning of the game, Fiorentina was suppressed by the visiting team.

Since there are fewer players in the back line rotation, Fiorentina's defense is still doing quite well in this game. Faced with the joint impact of Oliveira and Muzzi, the Fiorentines still firmly defended the defense line, and Toldo also used wonderful saves to prove to the national team head coach Saki that he is definitely worthy of a place in the European Cup in England!

In the fifth minute of the game, Muzzi headed ten meters away from the goal, and was lifted out of the baseline by Toldo's palms!

Immediately afterwards, Cagliari took a corner kick, Oliveira pulled a beautiful arc ball at the front of the penalty area, Tordo moved his feet quickly for a few steps, steadily took the shot and hugged the ball.

In the twelfth minute, Muzzi shot hard again in the penalty area. The ball flew close to the ground to Florence's goal, but was knocked to the ground by Tordo, who had reacted quickly, pressed the ball tightly under him.

Tordo's wonderful performance at the beginning stabilized Fiorentina's position, and also bought valuable time for Fiorentina's offensive players to find tacit understanding.

Twenty minutes after the game, the players in the frontcourt finally began to adapt to the existence of their teammates, which made Fiorentina's offensive gradually become fierce, and Cagliari, who was very arrogant at the beginning, stepped back to his half.

As the Serie A Golden Boot last season, Batistuta has not scored a league goal yet. This includes reasons why his opponents are more closely guarding him, and other teammates in the team shared his playing time.

Although Batistuta, who loves Fiorentina, is happy to see the team prosper and will not mind the reduction in playing time, as a striker and the captain of the team, he still wants to score a goal as soon as possible and give his strength to Fiorentina.

Barty was quite lucky, and his unremitting efforts were quickly rewarded.

After forty-five minutes of the first half, although the Fiorentine players got some chances to rewrite the score, they were unfortunately unable to seize it and had to enter the halftime break from zero to zero.

Then the game changed again. This time, Fiorentina kicked off first. The ball quickly passed back to Rui Costa's feet. The young Portuguese midfielder suddenly made a straight pass after the defense of a Cagliari midfielder. The ball accurately landed at Baggio who was in front.

This time it was Baggio's turn to show his ability to the fans on the scene. After receiving a pass from Costa in the frontcourt, Baggio used a fake move to make Cagliari's defender pounce on him, avoided it and easily broke into the penalty area. Then, facing the attacking goalkeeper, a light cross-bang, passed the ball to Batistuta on the other side of the penalty area.

Of course, Batistuta would not waste the excellent opportunity created by his teammates. He directly shot with a strong shot against the empty goal, and the ball quickly entered the net, one to zero!

This goal was also the only goal in the whole game. Although Fiorentina got many good opportunities to score in the following time, it was obvious that the goal of Frankie Stadium was unwilling to put the ball in today. Fiorentina players hit the side post and two crossbars in the second half, and the cup was beyond the reach.

After winning a victory, Fiorentina ranked fourth in the standings with six points in three games, two wins and one loss. The first was Juventus, the runner-up last season. Under Lippi's training, the Zebras showed strong stability and achieved a record of winning all three games.

AC Milan also won all three games. Although the main players were seriously aging during the three consecutive championships that year, the newly introduced strong players such as Via and Cruyvit still drove forward with the old Milan tanks.

The third place is Lazio of the Blue Eagles. Led by the offensive madman Zeman, Lazio still seems not so stable. In this round, they were unfortunately forced to tie the three-to-three by Barrie, and unfortunately ranked third with a two-point disadvantage.

With powerful players such as Machegiyani, Favali, and Grandoni, he actually scored three goals by Barry. This shows how little Zeman pays attention to the team's defense...

The schedule for Fiorentina is not very easy. Next weekend they will challenge Parma away, and then another European Champions League group stage. After the fifth round of the league, there will be a national team match day. The international players in Fiorentina will go to various places to participate in two European Cup qualifiers, which is a great test for the players' physical fitness.
Chapter completed!