After learning that Juventus lost away from home, it was hard to get a goal from Dinatale to get the visiting Florence players in Palermo. Suddenly, they were jubilant because they had been paying close attention to the Bianconeri’s movement and the situation in the standings. The players realized that they had been waiting for the opportunity to finally come!
So three days later, in the 23rd round of Serie A, Florence played a spirited battle with Sampdoria at the laris Stadium. The two teams scored a total of two goals in the game, and finally Florence was stronger, beating the navy five to three and taking three points away!
Mourinho was going to fight Sampdoria’s defensive counterattack, but in a conversation, Simone woke up and made Magic Bird change his mind. It’s really good that you are going to listen, but even the old guys Juventus and trapp failed to resist Sampdoria’s offensive. Are you sure you must have this thing to kill all the tricks of Zeman’s offensive madness?
Er Diego, you are right. Simone’s words scared Mourinho into a cold sweat and rushed to reflect on all kinds of loopholes and shortcomings in his tactical arrangement. He found that the facts were as the other side said. Now it is really impossible for Florence to seal its opponents. Although it has not won a decent championship honor, Zeman’s coaching team is famous for being crazy. If they really fight on the offensive end, maybe the game will get out of our control and let us repeat Juventus’s mistakes.
In this way, Simone persuaded Mourinho to decisively adjust the tactics and decided to let the team compete with Sampdoria for offensive ability, so that the game could be played in a strong and fastpaced environment, and at the same time, the opponent’s offensive rhythm could be disrupted as much as possible, so that Sampdoria players could play in a rhythm that they were not used to.
You know, although Veron is an excellent midfielder, he is used to slowpaced games. He is not good at playing fast and hates physical confrontation with his opponents. These are the places where Fiorentina players and Mourinho can go.
However, Sampdoria failed to replicate the feat of beating Juventus in the last game. It was precisely because Veron was restricted by Mourinho’s arrangements that his mistakes in the game increased greatly, giving Florence many opportunities for quick counterattack.
Although the team won the final victory and the fans were amazed by the wonderful goal performance of the team, Buffon, the main goalkeeper of Florence, was not very happy in his heart. After the game, the world’s first goalkeeper hugged Mourinho and frowned and walked into the player’s channel.
It’s no wonder that no one will be happy to get the ball from their own goal after game.
However, Buffon’s little emotion soon disappeared after he returned to the dressing room with the arrival of a message. Juventus was hit again because he had not recovered from the defeat in another Serie A match at the same time. After Cagliari, the Bianconeri once again took a point from the Barbera Stadium in an island team.
Despite the release of the ban, Dewed and Emerson tried their best to bring a victory to the team, but this time their teammates were dragged down by the lack of physical fitness for a week’s double match. Coupled with Palermo’s poor home bonus, Juventus finally shook hands with their opponents 11 after the 90minute game.
So after only one round of competition, Florence expanded their advantage in the standings by more than five points with another gutter capsize of Juventus!
Chapter 1313 Full of twists and turns
At the end of the 21st round, Juventus was still neck and neck with Florence in the standings, only taking second place due to the low number of goals scored. Now, after only two rounds, the Bianconeri have fallen behind the leader Florence by more than five points, and the situation has become extremely bad in just one week!
This change has come too suddenly. Juve’s top management just got the news that the team’s league has been unbeaten for two consecutive rounds. Before they came up with countermeasures, the team has been pulled by Florence in the standings, and the situation is in jeopardy!
This old fox has lost a lot of hair in his Mediterranean head, but he can’t think of any good way to make Juventus reverse this unfavorable situation. After all, Italian football is no longer his influence through blackbox manipulation. For example, the means of bribing referees to make their own profits in previous lives can’t be rooted in this world.
Moggi is very sure that once he dares to make any small move on this side, the thunder horse from the Italian judicial department will fall on his head!
However, I don’t know whether it was influenced by Juventus, which topped the standings. Florence also fluctuated in the last few rounds of the league, and failed to further expand its lead by taking advantage of the unstable morale of its competitors.
First, in the 24th round of the league match against Parma, Florence was almost beaten to the ground by Adriano and Tevez at home. Finally, with the help of veteran Carlos’ direct goal and Inzaghi’s mistake in front of the door, it was difficult to beat the opponent without being won by the round. Juventus took the opportunity to close the distance, and then Florence was beaten again by Vicenza, the younger brother of the class. Not only did it fail to report the halfseason away defeat, but Guidolin also finished the league double play in the season and suffered the second defeat in the league battlefield!
I have to say that Florence’s loss in this game is really strange. In the whole game, Florence players shot as many as 32 times, including more than 20 positive shots. However, Viola failed to score a goal in this game, and the shot was either successfully blocked by Vicenza goalkeeper and defenders or missed the goal range.
It is precisely because of this that when Buffon guarded the gate and was broken by lucarelli and scored the only goal in the game, Mourinho didn’t get angry with people on the sidelines. He could sigh in his heart. After all, he still managed to score a goal after winning this game. It can be said that Florence is really unlucky today and can’t blame people.
Here, by the way, due to Zhuang Ge’s generation, Inter Milan has built a luxury attack line composed of Crespo, Mutu, Martins, Caron and recoba, and these players have maintained a fairly good competitive state in the season. Taking turns to score goals on various fronts has ensured that the Nerazzurri completed the coaching change last summer, so there is no shortage of manpower in the front line. Naturally, the boss will not consider buying back half of Adriano from Parma, even if the young Brazilian striker shows the potential to become a superstar, he is not interested in taking him back to Meazza Stadium.
After all, Inter Milan are now competing fiercely with AC Milan and Lazio for the top four places in the league, that is, the seats in the European Cup this season. Therefore, even Moratti’s coaching change frequency is the same as changing clothes, and the fans know that this is not the time to add chaos to the team.
Now, although Florence was killed by Vicenza in the league, Juventus did not seize the opportunity to narrow the difference between the two teams to two points with a victory. Instead, they drew 11 with the home team Messina at the Sanfilippo Stadium and had to end the away trip with a draw.
In this way, despite Florence’s defeat, Viola still has a fourpoint advantage in the standings, which is enough for them to squander another round of competition.
It can be said that Juventus suffered enough from these island teams in Serie A last season. These teams from Cagliari and Palermo to Messina were just newly promoted, but they lost a lot of points for the Bianconeri. Without these teams, Juventus might have been sitting in Florence at this time!
Then Florence played the first leg of the Champions League semifinal in the middle of the week, with a score of 31 easily defeated at the Dragon Stadium. Last summer, Porto, the main player, was poached and successfully passed the threshold of being strong. Therefore, many Florence players can’t wait to schedule the second leg in half a month.
However, influenced by the Champions League in the middle of the week, Florence, Italy, still did not perform well in the 26th round of Serie A at the weekend. At Frankie Stadium, it was a onetoone draw with visiting Houdusse, and it was unbeatable for two consecutive rounds!
At this stage of the season, Mourinho has never had the experience of coaching in the top league before, and his weakness is gradually revealed. When the Portuguese coach has almost no experience and every opponent is extremely difficult to chew, his shortcomings in player rotation and maintaining the team’s state are exposed, which is reflected in the fact that Florence is unable to win the league in two rounds
Juventus finally seized the opportunity to have home court advantage this time. trapattoni made great efforts in this league. Finally, with the help of Trezeguet, he grabbed the hard bone of Vicenza in front of the restricted area and narrowed the gap between them and Florence to one point!
It seems that Florence needs Mourinho to redouble his efforts to restore the team to the former state of stopping the gods and killing the buddhas as soon as possible if it wants to stay at the top of the standings. Otherwise, Florence will be really passive once Juventus has recovered its strength and recovered to the supergod state at the beginning of the season.
Chapter 1314 Keep an advantage
The lead has shrunk from five points to one point, and Florence’s original excellent championship situation has suddenly become subtle. After all, no matter which team leads the second place by one point in the standings, it will make people have the illusion that this advantage is not safe or they will soon be surpassed by other teams. They have no idea that even if the second place is fierce, the leader will still be the leader, and if it can be maintained until the end of the season, it can still be placed in the second place.
Many former dormant media and experts also jumped out at this time, saying that Mourinho’s tactics have been completely seen through after more than half a season’s research by coaches. Florence sat at the top of the standings and entered the countdown stage. It was only a matter of time before Juventus was revived and overtook …
No one in Florence agrees with this statement except some fans who believe in the alarmism of these media. Hu said that in the eyes of Florence players, they will encounter two consecutive rounds of unbeaten situation in the league. On the one hand, they are unlucky and many excellent scoring opportunities have not been converted into goals; On the other hand, Fiorentina can’t compete in the league because they have to cope with Juventus’ challenges in China and the Champions League and the Coppa Italia, which consumes their energy and physical strength to a great extent.
Although Juventus also has a European game in the season, don’t forget that unlike Florence, which needs to prepare for the Champions League, Juventus didn’t qualify for the Champions League in the season and can participate in the UEFA Cup. The difficulty and challenges of this world UEFA Cup are comparable to those of a strong player.
Therefore, although the top position of the team was faltering in Juventus, Mourinho did not show anxiety on the occasion, and no player publicly expressed dissatisfaction with the team’s sluggish performance during this period, because they all knew that it was a great thing that Florence could reach this level this season, and no one in Florence would deliberately make things difficult for Mourinho at this point.
Mourinho’s performance has played a very good role in calming the morale of the army, so that Florence players can make an aggressive offensive in Juventus without panic, and at the same time temporarily forget the two consecutive defeats in the previous league and concentrate on preparing for the training ground instead of fighting meaningless war of words with reporters who have penetrated the media.
It is said that although these players have won several honors in the past and become the backbone and spiritual pillar of Florence now, we should never ignore the ability of the head coach to be a top champion. The head coach has the ability to make the team bravely move forward in adversity and explode beyond imagination!
Now Mourinho, although lacking in coaching experience, has shown his talent and skill in boosting morale and uniting players, so Portuguese talents can still unite the players around him at this time and Qi Xin will work together to tide over the difficulties.
If it were an extremely headstrong independent coach like Fan Jiaer, I’m afraid the team would have to win several games in a row, and this guy would have to resign because of his poor record
So in the 27th round of Serie A, Florence beat the visiting Reggina 40 at Frankie Stadium, which ended the embarrassment of their own league for two consecutive rounds and finally resisted the powerful offensive launched by Juventus behind them!
However, it is a pity for Mourinho that Juventus also won the game. In the face of continuous combat effectiveness, the Roma Bianconeri easily defeated the Red Wolf and continued to exert strong psychological pressure on the top Florence.
Trapattoni believes that if the team can maintain the current momentum, Mourinho, a teenager with rich coaching experience, will surely panic under such great pressure and even collapse directly, thus dragging Florence down. At that time, it will be time for Juventus to return to the top of the standings!
However, in the following week, Florence rotated most of the main players. First, in the second leg of the Champions League final on March 1, it was better to rely on a defensive counterattack and a goal from vieri than to defeat Porto, last stand and successfully advance to the Champions League. Then three days later, in the 27th round of Serie A, Florence beat Lecce 41 away with the help of Milito and Inzaghi’s double goals, which completely dashed the pepper’s hope of scoring points at home!
Juventus is also horribly stable. The Bianconeri beat Chievo by a goal away from home and kept a onepoint gap with Fiorentina, which made Mourinho gnash his teeth but was tolerable.
On March 2nd, three days ago, Florence was unfortunately defeated in the quarterfinal of the Italian Cup. In the 29th round of Serie A, Florence won three goals at the Meazza Stadium, and Inter Milan scored three points away!
To be honest, Florence won this game so easily mainly because these players in the starting lineup are all the same today, and almost every shot can cause great threat and trouble to the home team players, which led to the defeat of the Nerazzurri, which has always attached importance to defense.
It’s been three weeks since Florence was tied by Houdusse. Viola not only didn’t continue to slump and was overtaken by Juventus after two consecutive rounds, as those experts and media said, but kept this slight advantage until now.
Is it true that Florence will keep winning in a row to keep this insignificant advantage until the end of the season? This is what people think after waiting for more than half a month to find that the top of the standings has not changed hands.
If this really happens, how humbled Juventus will be to win the second place …
Chapter 1315 Unexpected
Although people are amazed at Florence’s resilience in adversity, in the eyes of most people, it is very difficult for Florence to keep this integral advantage and stabilize Juventus behind her.
Therefore, in any case, Juventus has a better chance of winning the championship. Even if the Bianconeri are still one point behind Viola, most fans agree that this possibility is much higher than that of defending the Fiorentina League.
Of course, a large part of this is due to the popularity gap between the two coaches. After all, compared with trapattoni, the worldfamous coach who also led Italy to win the Delao Cup gold medal last year, Mourinho has just turned 42 and his teaching experience is plain. It is really difficult to give people a feeling of peace of mind. Even though Magic Bird led Florence to achieve quite excellent results in the league and the Champions League this season, many people still think that this Portuguese young marshal is not as stable and reliable as trapattoni.