Chapter 436
In the first nine rounds of the Serie A, Juventus and Capello were the most glorious ones. After Fiorentina's amazing last season, she has changed from a dark horse to a white horse this season. Their outstanding performance is not as shocking as last season. Milan has always been slow to warm up at the beginning, and the same is true for this season. If they had not achieved six consecutive victories recently, they would have been ranked outside the fifth place.
If the record of 8 consecutive victories should be shared with others, Capello will be the only one who won 9 consecutive victories. On October, after a big away victory over Lecce, Capello drew the league start-game winning streak maintained by Juventus' predecessors Carcano and Trapatoni. On October, after Juventus defeated Sampdoria at home, Capello became the number one player in Serie A.
But Capello did not have time to celebrate this great achievement, because Juventus will go to San Siro to challenge Milan on the weekend, striking Capello's personal record of 9 consecutive wins in AC Milan in the 19934 season.
This giants match is very important to Fiorentina. Now Fiorentina has fewer points upwards than Juventus and more three points downwards than Milan. Their opponent in this round is the mid- and lower-level team Cagliari, and winning is no problem. As long as he wins, no matter whether Milan and Juventus win or lose, it will be a good result for Fiorentina.
If Juventus wins, Fiorentina can put aside the six-point gap in chasing Milan; if Milan wins, Fiorentina can surpass Juventus in this round and become the league leader; as for the two teams draw, it will be the best for Fiorentina. They can not only become the leaders, but also open a two-point gap with Milando.
Judging from the historical record, Juventus and Milan are likely to draw. In the last ten matches between the two teams in San Siro, Milan has 3 wins and 5 draws in 10 games; 13 goals and 15 goals conceded, which means that the two teams have half the chance to draw.
But judging from the current situation, Juventus is currently leading Milan by 5 points, so for Milan, victory is of great significance, and losing is absolutely not possible. If Capello's Juventus is 8 points wide, this is almost irreparable. Not to mention whether Milan will make mistakes by itself, even if they will not make mistakes, Capello will never make more mistakes than them.
However, before Florence could sit in the mountains and watch the tiger fight, they would first get rid of Cagliari, otherwise the two tigers would be relieved and fight comfortably.
Last season, Cagliari returned to Class A after eight years under the leadership of ignorant Zora. With the warm love of fans and club chairman, the short-legged tiger Zora led this Class A new team to compete in Serie A for a year. As a result, under the guidance of the team's offensive style of play, Cagliari blew up a Sardinian whirlwind in Serie A: Zora's old tree blooms in new flowers, and his courage remains the same; forwards Rangera and Esposito were selected for the national team for their outstanding performance, which is a grand occasion that Cagliari has never had in many years. After the season, the meritorious coach Arigoni, who led the team to relegation, had a conflict with the club chairman Sellino, and veteran Zora also fulfilled his promise a year ago and retired gloriously.
In the new season, Selino invited the unknown Texel to coach. The latter has been scattered in the low-level league. Last season, Terrietina, who led Class II, barely passed the play-offs to successfully relegate. Although the 47-year-old middle-aged coach said after taking office that he would not make much changes to Cagliari's existing tactics last season, without the leader and core Zora, Cagliari was like losing his soul. Now he lost five losses and four draws, ranking second from the bottom in the standings. He is already deeply involved in the relegation circle and has no infinite glory of last season.
Although Cagliari has limited strength, there are several players on the team that cannot be underestimated.
Esposito was late to become a big shot and only made his mark last season. His strong body and wind speed are a nightmare for all Serie A defenders. Rangera has outstanding skills and strong ability to capture opportunities in front of the goal. Last season, he was the team's number one scorer. Suao has scored 4 goals this season, making him the best scorer of Cagliari this season; the core of the midfield is Budel, who cannot play as the main player in AC Milan. Although he has no chance to perform in Milan, where talents are full of skills, and he still plays a big role in Cagliari's small ball club.
Faced with such a team, Fiorentina, who plays at home, certainly doesn't need to put in too much energy. They also have a Champions League qualifying match with Bremen in the middle of the week. As long as they don't particularly despise their opponents, they will definitely win.
In fact, Fiorentina did not underestimate the enemy too much, but did not pay much attention to it. As a result, they played very difficult. If it weren't for the brave counterattack of Tony and Chen Yu, Fiorentina would finally turn defeat into victory, even if the Purple Legion lost, no one felt a pity, because Cagliari's defensive counterattack made them embarrassed, especially in the first half, the away team even planned to lead. As the second-to-last Cagliari in the standings, Fiorentina did not have any advantage in his home court at the beginning, except for Chen Yu and Tony's performance, it was remarkable. In the first 45 minutes, Plandelli's team was suppressed by Cagliari. Just two minutes into the game, Chen Yu immediately inserted into Cagliari's penalty area, and Canini was forced to use a foul to stop the attack of the Fiorentina striker.
In the 20th minute, Fiorentina had an excellent opportunity. Pasquire made a cross and Tony headed the ball in front of everyone, but unfortunately he missed the right post.
In the minute, Cagliari striker Suao received a pass from Essiposito in the counterattack and scored a goal ahead. After conceding the ball, Fiorentina's heavy pressure was pushed forward, but there were not many intensive defense methods against Ascoli, and Tony, the arrow was also stared at by the opponent.
However, Tony is worthy of being an international shooter. In the 8th minute of the second half, Chen Yu broke through the middle and dribbled the ball, and suddenly passed the ball to Tony who was in front of the ball. The latter reached out to the goalkeeper Campano Rolo, who was attacking, and stretched out his right foot and stabbed the ball into the goal, scoring his 9th goal.
In the 37th minute of the second half, Tony reciprocated his favor. He took the ball from the right and faced the double-team of two opponents' defenders. When the ball was about to go out of the baseline, Chen Yu inserted his shot and scored his 1st goal, which finally gave the home team the lead.
Then, Cagliari paid the price of Conte (protesting that referee Canini received the second yellow card) and was sent off by a red card, and the situation of ranking second to last in the league did not change. With Tony's one shot and one pass, Fiorentina continued to sit in the favorable situation of two-way and one pass.
After thrillingly defeating Cagliari, Florence finally had the confidence to sit in the mountains and watch the tiger fight.
The battle between Juventus and Milan on Sunday night has not yet begun, and good news came on Sunday morning, with another rival to the champion and Champions League seat: tied by Sampdoria.
Previously, Inter Milan was widened by Juventus by 1 point gap, and the gap with Fiorentina was as much as 9 points. It can be said that the battle between Juventus and AC Milan in this round is also an opportunity for them. If Inter Milan can defeat Sampdoria away and Juventus loses to Milan, the gap between them and Juventus is only 8 points left. Even if Fiorentina wins, the gap between them and the top can become 9 points.
9 points, three games, and now the league has just passed by one quarter. For Inter Milan, there are still opportunities.
But Inter Milan, like Fiorentina, may be because they want to win too much. Facing Sampdoria, who ranked 9th in the standings, Inter Milan lost ground and played very restrainedly at the beginning. Sampdoria only took U minutes to break Inter Milan's wishful thinking. In the opening minute, Pisano passed a curve ball from the left, and Bonazzoli in the middle attracted two defenders. Diana, who followed up at the back point, flew from a small angle to score. Three minutes later, Zenoni made a wonderful arc ball from the right, and Diana headed the ball 8 meters away from the goal in the middle and scored twice. Sampdoria led Inter Milan by 0.
Although Inter Milan then relaxed his mind and no longer had the mentality of gains and losses. He had to defend and counterattack and finally tied the score, a draw was obviously of no benefit to the overall situation. Even if Juventus lost in San Siro later, Inter Milan could not narrow the gap between the top scorers now, because Fiorentina won the game, and the gap between them and Inter Milan was also 1 point.
The battle between Juventus and Milan, which has attracted worldwide attention, kicked off at San Siro Stadium at 30:00 on Sunday.
The game between AC Milan and Juventus made the Milan police feel like they were facing a great enemy. The game started at 30 pm, and from 14:30 pm, many military police had already patrolled at the TT iron entrance near San Siro. From 16 pm, the rumbling sound of helicopters over the San Siro area began to sound. The task of the helicopter was to patrol whether there was a possibility of fans' conflict in a certain corner from the sky.
The San Siro Stadium has not been full for a long time. 30 minutes before the game, there were almost no empty seats in the stands. Data obtained from AC Milan official shows that the number of spectators entering the field to watch the game reached 7,970, setting a record for the season, bringing more than 1.7 million euros to the Milan club.
In addition to ordinary fans, many football celebrities and social celebrities also came to the scene. After all, there are many Italian power figures involved in this game, such as Prime Ministers Berlusconi, Agnelli, Moji, Galliani and others, who will come to the scene to watch.
But what is unexpected is that Fiorentina's head coach Plandley also came to the scene. His arrival, but Inter Milan coach Mancini did not, which is enough to show a lot of problems.
In this game, no matter from players to coaches, from club strength to historical heritage, both sides are evenly matched. It can be said that any result is possible.
After the opening, both teams tried to reduce space and did not give each other a chance. After ten minutes of the game, both sides did not even have a chance to play the goal. Just as everyone was looking forward to which hero was about to open the deadlock, the game had a dramatic scene.
In the 13th minute, Seidorf broke through from the left and sent the ball to Girardino from the gap between the two defenders. Girardino protected the ball back with his back. Seidorf shot with his right foot 18 meters in front of the goal. The ball hit the ground and slipped the shovel. The leg of the ball changed its running trajectory and passed Chimenti, who made a save in advance, flew into the net.
Refracted the goal, the goalkeeper had no choice but to do anything about it. It can be said that luck allowed AC Milan to win the lead.
Then Juventus gradually strengthened its offensive power and also gained a certain advantage in the away game. However, in the minute of the game, another accident occurred: Kaka broke through on the right, Viei stretched his leg and tripped him, and was warned by a yellow card. Pirlo took a free kick from the right and passed it diagonally in front of the goal. The ball hit Cannavaro's heel on the edge of the small penalty area and bounced to Kaka. Kaka was very surprised. He accepted the gift without hesitation, and volleyed his right foot from 9 meters in front of the goal to hit the top of the goal, helping AC Milan
The game has become very strange now. AC Milan's two goals were actually given by Juventus players. After Juventus set a winning streak, it seemed that they had exhausted their good luck. Such a scene would happen, allowing gold medal coach Capello to stand there and scratch his head without stopping. There was no way.
Generally, the winner is almost the same as the winner and the loss of the game. It is difficult to turn the tables under such a score. However, when the whistle is not blown, the players will continue to play until the end because they know the importance of such a game. It is no longer limited to the court, and may even affect their daily lives.
Juventus is worthy of being a veteran team, the Serie A's king's army. They were not discouraged under such a blow and continued to attack Milan in an orderly manner, and they were pulled back by Trezege in the minute.
However, Juventus' bad luck did not end. In the RU minute, Kaka broke through and was knocked down by Chiellini. Pirlo took a free kick from P meter from the right side. His right foot was half-high and his ball was not strong, but Chimenti misjudged the ball's flight trajectory. He rushed to the left but failed to lift the baseline, but blocked the ball into the goal.
This time, the Juventus and Milanese all seemed to have seen a ghost and couldn't believe their eyes. Capello kept shaking his head, and Ancelotti seemed to be hit by a pie falling from the sky.
AC Milan's three goals were assists, mistakes or owned by Juventus players, which was simply too strange. Even Juventus, known for its firm will and resilience, could not stand it. In the last few minutes, they lost the courage to equalize the score, and attacked with powerlessness without creating any threats. They could only accept the defeat arranged by God on the road.
The next day, the two major Italian daily newspapers, Evening Post and Le Republic, used the same title - AC Milan slapped Juventus's record.
The Evening Post commented: "AC Milan and Juventus have divided the league championships in the past 14 years. On the 8th of last season, C Milan had hope of defeating the injured and the roster was not in order at home, but was scored by Trezege and lost the league championship. In this game, Trezege scored again and tied Platini's goal record at Juventus (10, but AC Milan defeated Capello, the seemingly invincible Juventus with his rock-hard spirit."
Antonio Dilosa, editor-in-chief of the Milan Sports Daily, pointed out in an editorial titled "Reappearance of the Red Devils" that this game made AC Milan completely forget the shadow of the Istanbul Champions League final defeat, "It is also the lead, but in this game, Milan's three lines appear more coordinated, and the defense is more stable, making the opponent unable to counterattack.
Milan ended Juventus' nine consecutive victories with his own winning streak. He avenged the 35th round of home defeat last season and lost the league championship.
After this game, the one who benefited the most was Fiorentina. Beating Cagliari Fiorentina was waiting for the fisherman to make a profit. In the end, they once again got the top of the scoreboard with one point higher than Juventus and became the leader in Serie A.
After AC Milan, ranked third, dropped Juventus, the gap between them and Juventus was only a point, and the gap with Fiorentina was only 3 points. The situation of Romance of the Three Kingdoms was officially formed, and Inter Milan wanted to become the contender for the championship again because of being tied by Sampdoria. Unless a miracle happens, there is no hope.
Fiorentina not only quietly topped the standings, but their opponents are still very weak in the next few rounds of games, while Juventus and Milan are all strong teams. For Fiorentina, if they can seize the opportunity in the future, it is possible to widen the points gap with Juventus and Milan, laying a solid foundation for winning the championship. If the gap cannot be widened, both sides will encounter strong opponents in both sides and even three lines. In the end, Fiorentina, with poor experience and strength, may fall in front of the trophy like last season.
In addition to outstanding team performance, Fiorentina also outperformed all the players in personal strength. Chen Yu scored ll goals in 10 rounds and has stood proudly at the top of the scorer list since the start of the game. Tony scored 9 goals in 10 rounds, second only to Chen Yu. He became the No. 2 scorer in Fiorentina and the biggest opponent of Chen Yu's defending top scorer.
Chapter completed!