Chapter 82: The Collapse of the Milan Dynasty
Fiorentina head coach Ranieri, after enjoying a fantastic eight-game winning streak at the beginning of the season (four league games, two Cups of Winners, one Cup of Italian and one Super Cup), finally experienced a solid feeling of ice and fire.
The eight-game winning streak made his popularity, which was not very high, rise sharply. Countless fans and media passed on their unprecedented enthusiasm to him like fire. However, next, Ranieri, who was roasted in the fire-like enthusiasm, was poured into a sudden pot of cold water from top to bottom.
Fiorentina lost three consecutive games! After losing to Lazio four-5 at home, in the second leg of the Copa Italy game, Fiorentina was tied 2-2 by Lecce at home, and Tordo lost the victory at the last moment.
Although this draw did not hinder Fiorentina's advancement to the next round, although Lecce, who tied them, had the title of "Little Pepper" in Italian football, and although Ranieri wisely adjusted the team's tactical style after accepting the defeat against Lazio, the wonderful feeling at the beginning of the season was no longer there.
Immediately afterwards, Fiorentina went to challenge the bottom team of Serie A away. The team was tied one-to-one by the opponent while having the advantage of the whole game. The statement that "Fiorentina lacks momentum" began to be widely publicized by some Italian media.
The eight-game winning streak can make the opponents tremble and envy to the greatest extent, make various media close their crows to the greatest extent, and can also allow more fans to become potential fans of Fiorentina while enjoying the game.
However, just a three-round victory that seems normal to any normal person can allow the media to completely throw the trash into the trash and ignore it. This phenomenon has to be said to be a kind of human sadness.
After spending more than a month in fear, Florence's opponents felt that they could finally stand up and breathe, because they were very willing to believe that Florence, which had achieved a dream start in the new season, was just a "paper tiger" that had not yet been transformed. Such fantasy was largely due to the hysterical comments of some media, and the confidence brought to them.
Zhuang Mingge has always had a view that at this time, Serie A had the best leagues in Europe, the second-rate fans, and the third-rate media. Ranieri, who had led the team to eight consecutive victories before, did not give those morbid media too many excuses to talk nonsense, and now he does not have the time to listen to the inferior tabloid reporters, and learn from their mafia compatriots the ability to retaliate like whining without any illness.
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The Apennines have a deep water, which makes Ranieri, who has been leading the team for a long time recently, "hide" in the training base in Fiorentina and watch the game video for several days in a row.
But just as Ranieri was hiding in the training base and sucking firewood, the Italian media and fans took their attention away from Ranieri and Fiorentina. The reason is very simple. Another team has incredibly suffered three consecutive losses in the recent three-round league games, that is AC Milan.
Capello was very annoyed after losing to Fiorentina in the Italian Super Cup. Before the start of the new season, he spent a lot of energy to adjust the psychological and competitive state of Milan players.
With Capello's efforts, Milan's players performed quite normally at the beginning of the new season. They achieved two wins and one draw in the first three rounds of the league, and also played a triumphant song in the Italian Cup and the European Champions League.
Seeing Milan's good condition since the start of the game, everyone regarded what happened in the Italian Super Cup as an "unexpected incident".
But soon, something that no Milan fans expected happened.
On September 25, in the fourth round of Serie A, AC Milan lost 0-1 away to weak team Cremona;
On October 2, in the fifth round of the league, AC Milan was defeated by Brescia, who fought for relegation every year, and lost to one-to-three at home;
On October 15, in the sixth round of Serie A, AC Milan was scored two goals in a row by the promoted team Padova in the away game, and suffered a three-game losing streak in the league;
Three games, three consecutive losses, and only scored one goal. This is the answer given by AC Milan in the new season in the last three league games under the leadership of meritorious coach Capello.
Such an "answer" put Capello under tremendous pressure. Not only Milan's fans were dissatisfied with such a bad result, but even the media found it incredible. This is a "three-game losing streak" that happened to AC Milan. You know, AC Milan is the team that has remained unbeaten in 58 consecutive league games and only lost two games last season. Is Milan, which has such a bad performance in the new season, still the invincible and invincible "Caesar's Teacher"?
The "Roman Sports" that likes to "make trouble" even put out the title of "Who will end the Milan dynasty?" For a time, fans and media discussed and argued about Milan one after another, and right and wrong continued. Even Italian Prime Minister Berlusconi, who is in a political crisis, called General Manager Galliani in person to complain.
It is precisely because many media and fans have focused their attention on Milan that in the seventh round of the Serie A, Fiorentina, who started the game, ended the news that it had won three consecutive rounds of unwinding with four-to-one.
Because in the subsequent games, AC Milan lost again!
Three days ago, in the European Champions League group stage, AC Milan defeated the Athens AEK team, which was fighting at home with a refreshing 3:0.
Due to his "early" elimination in the Italian Cup, AC Milan, which was unfavorable in the league, got a certain amount of breathing time in October, when the game density was very high.
The big victory after the "trough" made AC Milan fans happy, and also shut up the media, which had previously spread remarks such as "the dynasty is destroyed and the building will collapse."
Just as people were looking forward to what AC Milan will perform after this "Jedi" counterattack, Milan, which had just recovered to tenth in the league, suffered a heavy blow in the seventh round of Serie A.
On October 23, the San Siro Stadium became the slaughterhouse of the visiting team Sampdoria. Faced with the "Milan's most feared opponent" that Berlusconi claimed, the AC Milan players suddenly lost their "state". The support of 80,000 fans at the San Siro Stadium was buried in the crazy attack of the "Sea Blue Army".
Although Gulit, who had transferred to Sampdoria for the second time, unexpectedly hung up the free-to-play card, and Capello used Marco Simone, who was in a state of courage in the last game to replace the sluggish Savicevic starting point, this could not change the passive situation of the home team. Sampdoria, who was heading back on the go, firmly occupied the initiative on the field with a crazy attack that was almost deadly.
No one knows what exactly is. They only know that in this game, the red-eyed Sea Blue Army broke through Milan's gates again and again when they were fighting AC Milan. People only remember that Sampdoria, who had been crazy for 90 minutes, left a 4:0 shame to the Milanese people when they left the San Siro Stadium.
Chapter completed!