Chapter 836: Journey in November (2)
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After defeating Vicenza, Florence welcomed Dynamo Kiev led by Lobanovsky three days later.
In this game that will determine who is the first in the group, although Dynamo Kiev, who played away, performed very hard under the command of the old Ukrainian coach, and tried his best in both offense and defense, which far exceeded people's expectations for this team before the game, facing Fiorentina, who had all the main players and had no problems in the slightest condition, Dynamo Kiev, who had lost several important players this summer, finally lost to the home team 1-3 at Frankie Stadium, and unfortunately lost in the competition for the top spot in the group.
At the same time, in another Group B group match, Galatasaray was forced to the Swedish Solna AIK team in an empty home court. With only the last round of the group stage left, Galatasaray, who had only four points in five games, said that nothing could catch up with Dynamo Kiev, who had already won nine points.
In this way, the situation of Group B's qualifying was clear before the last round began: Fiorentina, with four wins, one draw and thirteen points, and Dynamo Kiev, with three wins and two losses, ranked second. These two teams successfully qualified to advance to the Champions League knockout stage. In the current Group B, the only suspense in the current Group B is whether Galatasaray can maintain their third place in the group in the last round, and thus obtain the qualification to continue to compete in the League Cup.
Whether Galatasaray can resist the Swedes' last-minute counterattack is not about Florence, so I won't discuss it here. Now let's turn the topic back to Florence.
On the other hand, after getting Dynamo Kiev to ensure the top spot in the group, the Fiorentine players didn't have time to take a breath and immediately ushered in the 11th round of Serie A on the weekend.
On November 27, facing Bologna, who has two veterans, Paliuca and Signori, the Fiorentine players who were away from Dalala Stadium worked very hard in the game. Heinquez also made adjustments to the starting lineup and hid some players who played the whole game in the middle of the week to ensure the players' condition in this game.
However, even if Fiorentina hides some of its main players, the forward line composed of Ronaldo and Shevchenko is not a decoration. In people's eyes, these two talented forwards are fully capable of tackling Bologna's defense line with their own strength and leading Zi Lily to score three-pointers away!
But things often develop beyond people's expectations. In this game, one player has indeed become the most dazzling star, but this person is neither Ronaldo nor Shevchenko, nor anyone on the 18-man roster in Fiorentina, but the goalkeeper of Bologna Gianluca Palioca!
The ending of being swept out by Inter Milan this summer made Paliuca, the number one goalkeeper of the Italian national team in France last year's France World Cup, lose face. Although his departure was mainly because the new head coach Lippi told Moratti that he was old and embarrassed, and Boss Mo, who has always been extremely tolerant of players, made the decision to sell Paliuca under the trick of Silver Fox, for a goalkeeper, the age of thirty-three is still a golden period of his goalkeeper's career, and Paliuca's performance in the Nerazzurri last season can be said to be quite outstanding. Just because of Lippi's one-sided words, it is naturally impossible to say that Paliuca has no resentment in his heart.
Therefore, on the day he left Inter Milan, Paliuca secretly made up his mind to join forces with Signori to do something in Bologna, allowing Moratti to realize the consequences of his trust in others' words.
Therefore, Fiorentina became one of the key targets Palica's focus. With the high popularity of Purple Lily in Italian football, if he can perform well against Fiorentina, it will inevitably attract enough attention to make Inter Milan, who easily let him go, feel regretful.
In this way, the Fiorentine player who didn't know that he had been innocently caught in the game met a Palioca who was like a god descending to earth. This player who firmly controlled the throne of Italy's number one goalkeeper before Buffon emerged in an instant was in excellent condition in the game. The high and low blocks made Fiorentine's offense repeatedly fail.
Especially in the 32nd minute of the game, Ronaldo dribbled the ball into the penalty area. After attracting the attention of two Bologna defenders, he suddenly passed the ball to Vieri on the other side, who was unmarked. However, the latter's powerful shot that went straight to the dead corner of the goal was directly lifted out of the baseline by the extremely brave Palika, which made the atmosphere of the home team fans in the Dalala Stadium reach the highest level!
Palioca, who made consecutive wonderful saves, greatly hit Fiorentina's morale. After all, no matter who sees his shot, their morale will be more or less affected.
If Pirlo hadn't used a frontcourt positioning ball before entering injury time, he had used a frontcourt set-piece opportunity to successfully break through Paliuka's ten fingers, I'm afraid Purple Lily would have to regretfully win a draw at Dalala Stadium in this round of the league.
In the end, with Pirlo's free kick before the end of the game, Fiorentina struggled to win this unexpected and difficult opponent away.
After the 11th round of Serie A, Florence ushered in the third round of the Italian Cup on the last day of November. Zeman once again led the Red Wolves to the Frankie Stadium, intending to win a ticket to advance to the quarterfinals of the Italian Cup here!
However, it is somewhat difficult for Zeman to achieve this goal. Not to mention that he also needs to face the third-line battle but the depth of the bench is obviously not as deep as that of Fiorentina. The two forward players, Montera and Tony, are suspended due to injury, are enough to greatly reduce the confidence of Roma fans.
You should know that although Fiorentina has basically maintained the intensity of a weekly double match during this month except for the national team match day, Purple Lily is not like other Serie A teams, because of frequent battles, and there are large-scale injuries.
It has to be said that the sports medicine experts in the physical therapy center can achieve such remarkable results. If they did not monitor the physical condition of each player in real time, formulate scientific training plans and diet plans based on this, and then strictly implement them. Otherwise, Florence's current situation is likely to be much better than Rome and others.
Chapter completed!