At the same time, the stars who are behind Sun Jihai, such as Sadie and Cafu, have to accept this reality and give up the competition for the starting lineup and instead attack the remaining substitute qualification!
At a time when fans all over the world are arguing about which stars to vote for, whether Sun Jihai should start as a star or not, Fiorentina players don’t care about this trivial matter and Sun Jihai. For them, although the qualification for starting as a star is indeed a good honor, it seems that it is lighter than the League Champions League.
So during this period, Heynckes led Fiorentina players to fight around on three fronts and conscientiously implemented the strategy of attacking the league battlefield.
On November 24th, in the 10th round of Serie A, Fiorentina beat Turin 20 away with goals from vieri and Inzaghi, and scored three points from this newly promoted team, which stabilized their position as the leader in the standings.
Then three days later, most of the starting lineup was rotated and a large number of young players such as Ribery and Vucinic were sent to Florence to usher in the fifth round of the Champions League group match. Although Ribery really tried very hard to win a victory for the team in the game, the cold climate in Ukraine seemed to freeze their state, making the game initiative firmly grasped by Dynamo Kiev. Finally, when the final whistle sounded, Florence lost the first game of the season in the Champions League with a goal.
After returning to Italy from Ukraine, Florence defeated Vicenza on the last day of November. Their younger brother won another precious victory in the league and refreshed the league standings to 10 wins and 1 lossa quite remarkable achievement for a team.
In this way, the twogame winning streak of the unlucky league ended the whole journey in November when Florence lost to Parma in the uproar and noise brought by the star voting!
Chapter 1212 Busy December (1)
In the 11th round of Serie A, Florence beat Vicenza 30, and its extremely strong posture officially entered December 23 after leading the league standings.
For Florence, this month’s schedule can be said to be worse than cheating, not to mention the first round of the Italian Cup, the last round of the Champions League group match with Real Sociedad, which needs them to worry about. The only game that needs Florence to go to Japan to participate in the Toyota Cup is enough to make Heinks have a headache.
You know, due to the relatively tight schedule for Florence to participate in various events in the season, the final of the Toyota Cup was scheduled for December 3!
This means that Florence will fly to Tokyo immediately after the 11th Serie A match on November 3rd to prepare for the Toyota Cup final three days later. At the same time, they will also cooperate with the organizers and sponsors to participate in a series of commercial activities. After all, Japan is one of the few relatively mature and economically developed football markets in Asia. Florence has always attached importance to marketing and commercial promotion, but it cannot do anything stupid to selfdestruct its image at this time.
If Florence really finds a reason to put off these commercial activities, maybe the Japanese Football Association and local enterprises will not say anything, but if they have a knot in their hearts in private, they will definitely not try their best to publicize Florence as before, and they will probably turn their attention to other big clubs and Japanese fans will probably face the unfavorable situation that their market share in Japan will be embezzled by other clubs.
Don’t overestimate the capacity of an island country. Maybe they are humble enough to learn from each other’s strengths and weaknesses when facing the strong. In this process, they don’t have a trace of vigilance. But once something happens, they will try their best to find a way to beat the teacher and even find help to increase the possibility of success. This can be seen from Japan’s attitude in a series of major events such as the RussoJapanese War and the two world wars.
Therefore, in recent years, football in Japan has made remarkable progress. If Florence wants to continue to occupy an advantage in this market, it must show something different from other European teams. For example, in some activities, it should be arranged as much as possible to make Japan feel that it can be more respected than just being raised as a golden laying hen by these powerful men.
If Florence only needs to play two games in a week between Japan and Italy, which are separated from Wan Li, it’s just that the depth of Florence’s current battle can still be arranged by Heinks, but the most embarrassing thing is that after the Toyota Cup final, Florence will fly back to Italy immediately to participate in the twelfth round of the league match against Ma Zhuang and AC Milan, which is in good condition, will have a real fight!
And three days after this round of competition, the Royal Society will come to Frankie Stadium to make a desperate fight for the last qualifying spot!
By the end of the first five rounds of the Champions League group stage, the ranking situation of Group B is like this. Florence’s three wins, one draw, one loss and ten points ranked first in the group, which has completely locked a place in the top 16; Ajax and Real Sociedad scored seven points in the first five games, but Ajax beat the latter in the second place in the standings with the advantage of goal difference when the two sides played each other. Dynamo Kiev, with only four points, is bound to win the Champions League semifinals at the bottom of the list, but if they beat Ajax in the final round and Florence beats Real Sociedad at home, there is still hope for a UEFA Cup seat.
For Florence, it is obviously far from enough to lock in a place in the last 16 of the Champions League. The socalled rich names and sense of honor, regardless of the practical point of view, can make Viola avoid most strong teams in the last 16, so as to better retain their strength and facilitate them to compete for honor on three fronts at the same time.
Therefore, for the four teams in Group B, the last round of the group match must not be careless, because if one team is not good, these teams will fall into a trap situation, which will adversely affect their journey in the half season.
Now, when Florence arrived at Tokyo airport on the night of December 1, the players’ faces were full of fatigue. Obviously, they have not recovered from the game against Vicenza the day before, so they need enough rest to recover, which consumes a lot of energy. At the same time, they need to adjust the time difference as soon as possible to avoid inattention in the game.
Carlos bianchi, the coach of Boca Juniors, is smiling when he noticed this situation. This famous Argentine coach, who made a great name in his career as a player, was even praised as the Libertadores Cup King after he became a head coach. He is no stranger to Florence.
After all, Bianchi dealt with the Serie A team (AC Milan at that time) in the Toyota Cup when he was coaching sarsfield, and even in Argentina, he paid great attention to the trend of European football. Naturally, he would not ignore Florence, the most popular team in Europe, and he was quite familiar with the technical characteristics of Viola’s players.
As the saying goes, knowing ourselves and knowing ourselves can win a hundred battles. Bianchi may not know this sentence of Sun Wu, but his careful information collection and preparation before the game really proved this old saying well.
Sobbianchi was so excited when he learned that Florence players were generally quite tired, because the worse their opponents’ state and physical fitness, the higher their chances of winning!
You know, since the arrival of the bosman era, it has become more difficult for South American teams to beat these European teams with deep pockets. Because of the huge differences in personal treatment and living environment, South American clubs have lost a lot of outstanding stars, which has made the strength gap between the two sides become more and more wide, and the outcome of the Datian Cup has lost suspense.
Therefore, the news of Florence is a pleasant surprise for Bianchi and his Boca Juniors!
In this way, Florence ushered in their first game in December at Yokohama International Arena, and also kicked off the hard journey of Viola.
Chapter 1213 Busy December (2)
Yeah, it’s really a troublesome opponent. Pirlo carefully fiddled with the foot ball while observing the position of teammates and Boca Juniors to avoid being intercepted by the opponent in the backcourt, thus hitting a counterattack and threatening his own goal. How could you create so many threats if we didn’t play a league match with Vicenza three days ago to recover our strength and the jet lag was not completely reversed?
Although the shortterm European tour failed in European football, Bianchi is still very prestigious in South American football, especially in Argentina. Otherwise, he would not have been nicknamed Governor.
Therefore, when Bianchi arranged tactics before the game, he specially ordered Boca Juniors to strengthen their running and physical confrontation during the game, and when Florence fought a war of attrition, none of these Boca Juniors had any objection to it. Even Tevez, a thorn in his side, didn’t come out to oppose Bianchi. After all, he is young and impulsive, and he is not an ignorant fool.
In Bianchi, Boca Juniors were arranged to play handtohand with Florence from the beginning of the game. Fierce physical confrontation and a large number of balls running consumed opponents’ little physical preparation, so that the time for Boca Juniors to win would come when Florence players ran on the court again due to physical exhaustion.
This is an open plan set by Bianchi. He knows that Boca Juniors can’t compete with the top giants like Florence if they simply compete with each other’s book strength. Therefore, he has grasped the weakness of Florence’s longdistance physical weakness and will enlarge and give full play to their own advantages, thus increasing their chances of winning the championship trophy.
You know, you still have to face the tough schedule of a week’s doubles. Florence is different from the Argentine League where Boca Juniors are located. At this time, players have entered the offseason, and they have enough time to prepare for their physical fitness and adjust their competitive state. These are the advantages of Boca Juniors.
Now I’d like to introduce one or two teams’ starting lineup in Florence. Due to the time difference and the double match in a week, Heinks can make the list of Florence in the Toyota Cup finals according to the training status of the players and the professional opinions of the physiotherapy center.
So under these conditions, vieri and Vincent can sit in the stands and cheer as audience teammates. After all, their playing style relies too much on physical fitness. If it is not well protected, there will be two talented but easily injured glass people in Florence.
By the way, Heinz also intends to exclude Sta and Inzaghi from the list of ten people, but considering that this may make the organizers dissatisfied, the German coach finally put them on the bench for disposal, which is a thought for the fans who attended the game on the day.
Buffon, Carlos, Lucio, gamberini, Sun Jihai, Derossi, Gattuso, Pirlo, Ribery, diego milito and cristiano ronaldo are the eleven starting players of Florence in the final of the Toyota Cup!