On January 18, in the first leg of the Italian quarter-finals, Fiorentina relied on a sneak attack by Robert Baggio at the beginning of the game and won the game with a score of 1-0, leading the total score while successfully scoring a away goal;

On January 21, in the 18th round of Serie A, although before the start of this game, Batistuta, the No. 1 scorer in Fiorentina did not enter the roster due to a minor injury, Zi Lily still scored 3-0 in the away game with Inzagi's second goal and Vieri's header.

On January 25, Fiorentina hosted the second leg of the Italian Cup with Sampdoria at home. Although Purple Lily only led 1-0 in the total score, no one dared to promise that Sampdoria would not go crazy in this game, just like the 13th round of Serie A, which also gave the Fiorentines a defeat, Ranieri still rotated most of the main players with courage in this game, and even the starting goalkeeper was replaced by Guadalpen, which had rarely played.

As a result, this team consisting of benches and rotational players played against the Sea Blues at Frankie Stadium. Although the goal guarded by Guadalbourne, who had been away for a long time, was successively broken by Chiesa and his former teammate Montera, Vieri and Baggio's goals equalized the score on the field twice for Fiorentina.

The two-time lead and the opponent equalized twice. Sampdoria's players couldn't help but become impatient. The Sea Blues, which had undergone a major blood change last summer, is no longer the "Golden Samp" who also included calm and sophisticated passion in the past. Although the current team captain Mancini has prestige and ability, Mancho, who is impatient and unable to handle relationships with his teammates, is obviously not a good team leader.

Seeing that the remaining time of the game is getting less and less, Sampdoria's players can't help but feel a little anxious. After all, their schedule is quite relaxed this season, and they are basically the rhythm of one game a week. The club also invested heavily in the summer to create the offensive combination of Chiesa-Montra-Mancini-Sidov, intending to take advantage of the decline of the former league overlord AC Milan and the relatively loose schedule to rise again.

However, the performance of the Aquarium this season disappointed Sampdoria's fans. Although they had a top-ranked attack line in Europe, Sampdoria failed to achieve a result that matched their own strength. After the 18th round of the league, they only got twenty-two points to rank eighth, and the leader Fiorentina's points were exactly twice that of Sampdoria. Such a result made Sampdoria withdraw from the competition for the league championship this season early.

In this case, the Italian Cup championship naturally became the only honor that Sampdorians had hope to win this season.

However, in the first round of the match, Sampdoria, who played at home, lost by zero to one. This result forced Sampdoria, who intends to dominate the Cup, to a desperate situation!

Therefore, in today's second leg, Sampdoria's players could not be said to have worked hard, and they were almost every goal, but when they found that the lead they had worked hard to win was tied twice by the second team in front of them, the gap in their hearts was naturally imaginable.

While this psychological gap greatly hit the morale of Samp players, it will naturally make the visiting team more eager to regain the lead. But as the saying goes: hasteness is not achieved. The imbalance of mentality has made these young Samp players completely give up their due tactical style in the last ten minutes of the game, and just rely on their personal abilities to launch an attack on the goal of Fiorentina. As a result, it is naturally futile in the face of the orderly and strict defense of Purple Lily.

Before the game ended, Sampdoria's Dutch midfielder Seidorf swung his right foot thirty meters away from the goal and shot a long shot. As a result, the ball flew out of the baseline against the crossbar. The referee of this game did not give the away team a corner kick, and directly blew the whistle to the end of the game. This means that the "Florence II Team" finally tied with Sampdoria at the Frankie Stadium, defeating the opponent 3-2 with a total score of 3-2.

This result scared Fiorentina coach Ranieri. He originally planned to lose in this game so that the team could get more rest time in the intensive schedule in April this year. Unexpectedly, these players actually won Samp, who played all the main players so well.

It seems that it is necessary to give these bench players more playing time. Maybe it can bring more surprises to yourself. Ranieri thought happily, after all, as a head coach, he naturally hopes that the more good players he has under his command will be better.

On the other side, Sampdoria's boss Enrique Mantovani left the VIP box at Frankie Stadium with a dark face after watching this game. It seems that this arrogant little Mantovani is going to have another major operation on his team this summer...

On January 28, Fiorentina ushered in the 19th round of Serie A. This time their opponent was Vicenza, who lost the first game of the season.

This time, Ranieri, who no longer proudly underestimated the enemy, did not hesitate to put out the lineup he had studied that could best restrain Vicenza's tactics: goalkeepers Toldo, Nesta and Ferrara were the center backs, and Lanna and Zambrota were physically strong on both sides. The main reason for not sending Fortunato was that the potmaker was worried that the former Hope Star would not have enough energy to deal with Vicenza's successive attacks on the right, while the starting right-back Bilindley missed the game regretfully due to accumulating four yellow cards;

In the midfield, in response to Vicenza's frequent attacks, Ranieli arranged for Dibiagio and Davis to protect their back line together. Rui Costa appeared on the starting lineup as the core of the team's organization and starting point of the offense. German Effenberg was forced to rest for a week because he was on the physiotherapy center because he had a yellow light on.

Djokaf and Robert Baggio are the executors of the team's offense. Both have excellent skills and dribbling abilities. They can deliver shells to Batistuta, which is at the forefront, and can also solve the battle themselves. Such offensive players are undoubtedly the most troublesome type of Vicenza's defense line.
Chapter completed!