After being tied by Roma away, Fiorentina, who only got one point in the 16th round of Serie A, still led the Serie A standings with twelve wins, two draws and two losses. AC Milan, who defeated the Aquarium Army three-to-zero in this round, narrowed the gap again, ranking second with nine wins, five draws and two losses.

As for the teams in the future, there is no need to repeat, because these teams have been left with 18 rounds of the league. In this case, if Fiorentina does not experience a large-scale collapse in the second half of the league, these teams can basically announce their farewell to the league championship battle this season.

Since Roma tied the last game, the gap between Fiorentina and second place was narrowed to six points. The narrowing of the lead means an increase in variables, which is something that Fiorentina players who are trying to defend the league champions do not want to see.

So, the Fiorentine players, who were full of fire, vented all the resentment of being tied by Roma in the last game to their league opponent Piacenza, this round.

Since this game is the first home court in Fiorentina after the winter break, before the game began, Fiorentina specially arranged a brief ceremony. Batistuta personally came to the sidelines to show the Fiorentina fans, and the fans at the scene also gave warm applause to the Argentine superstar who never left the team when the team was relegated.

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As a team with a goal of relegation, Piacenza naturally has no confidence and energy to fight with the league leader. In their opinion, the effect of doing this is not as good as preparing for a battle between several relegation opponents. After all, winning the same direct competitors is worth six points. If you do so, your team's hope of relegation at the end of the season will be greater. Moreover, Fiorentina's excellent record in the league this season has indeed made Piacenza's players afraid, believing that Purple Lily, who has lost only two games so far, is not an opponent like theirs that they can overturn.

Some people may mention that Fiorentina lost to Vicenza in the second round of the league, but the current situation is a little different from that at that time, that is, the players have different mentalities. Zi Lily, who had just experienced a big victory in the first round, inevitably feels proud and underestimated the opponent when facing the newly promoted team, Vicenza; and before this game with Piacenza, Fiorentina had just won a draw in Rome. Florence players who were very dissatisfied with this result are all ready to use a big victory to exchange their luck.

Of course, the most important point is that Piacenza does not have a resourceful head coach and a talented player like Vicenza, who can compete with a group of strong teams in the Serie A.

Therefore, this time, the whole team of Piacenza's plan to concede as few goals as possible, and it would be even more perfect if they could defend a draw and score a point.

Wishes were beautiful, but the result was cruel. Facing a group of Fiorentine players who were preparing to slap fire at them, Piacenza's seemingly tight defensive formation lasted for only ten minutes and was torn to pieces by the Fiorentines.

In the eleventh minute, Batistuta received the pass from Effenberg and turned around and shot 21 meters away from the goal. The ball flew into the net against the right post of the goal, one to zero;

Just four minutes passed before the first goal, Fiorentina made a comeback. Djokaf Effenberg passed the ball to Lanna. Lanna dribbled the ball for more than ten meters before passing the ball back to Djokaf in the middle. The Frenchman made a direct pass without stopping the ball. Inzaghi suddenly started from behind Piacenza's defender and received the pass. At this time, the Piacenza defenders who had turned around quickly raised their arms to signal Inzaghi to offside, but the precise linebacker ignored it.

Inzagi, who got a single shot, naturally would not waste this good opportunity to score. He shot directly without waiting for the opponent's goalkeeper to abandon the goal. The ball slipped past the right hand of the goalkeeper Piacenza and crossed the goal line. Fiorentina expanded the score to 2-0;

After Fiorentina scored the second goal, ten minutes passed. Effenberg dribbled the ball in the middle and was knocked to the ground by the player of Piacenza. The referee awarded Fiorentina a direct free kick twenty-five meters away from the goal, and the home team once again got a good opportunity to score.

Fiorentina has many players who are capable of shooting directly at this distance, such as Effenberg, Djokav, etc. After some discussion, the captain Batistuta finally obtained the power to take the free kick, and the Argentine God of War did not disappoint his hopes and expanded the score to three to zero again with a burst shot;

The home team scored three goals in a row after just twenty-five minutes before the opening whistle. The players of Piacenza were stunned. They did not expect Fiorentina to attack so crazy in this game without leaving any sympathy.

Before they could come back from their successive concealment, Djokaf scored Fiorentina's fourth goal in the game until the 33rd minute of the game. The Frenchman received a pass from Effenberg at the penalty point and scored a strong shot.

Piacenza, who was four goals behind, completely lost hope of equalizing the score. Seeing the players' expressions of despair, the visiting team head coach had to announce his surrender. In this way, even the forty-five minutes of the first half had not yet completely ended, and Fiorentina had actually won the game.

Finally, when the referee blew the whistle to the end of the game, the score on the big screen of Frankie Stadium was frozen to 7-0. Robert Baggio, who was substituting Inzag, scored twice in the second half; Vieri also replaced Batty in the 60th minute of the game, and scored his third league goal of the season in injury time.

After the game, many Italian sports media expressed their praise for Florence's big victory. After all, this big score game can attract the attention of many neutral fans and reporters, and the scene is much better than every game.

Although it is not wrong for Italian teams to generally attach importance to defense and tactics, it is not wrong to take care of the emotions of fans? After all, the football industry is still supported by the fan group. Without the audience and ratings, how many people will invest in football?
Chapter completed!