The first news is to find on 18 April a Fiorentina in full swing for a European qualification and for the conquest of a final. Just a year ago, after 33 league games, the Viola had 34 points in the standings and hoped to score 6 in the remaining 5 games to finally scream: “We stayed in Serie A”. Now they have 56. The world has turned upside downbeyond all reasonable expectations.
The second news tells that in a few hours Fiorentina will go to Turin to play it all out, devoid of awe, strong with a maneuver able to worry anyone. The rest will be seen. But as a starting point it’s not bad.
There would also be another consideration to do. This season the purples have already crossed the Bianconeri on two occasions: November 6 in the league and March 2 in the Italian Cup. Fiorentina was always short-nosed defeatyet retracing the tape of challenges, already a draw would have gone close to Italian.
Allo Stadium the 3 points for Juve came in the 46th minute of the second half, thanks to a shot from the bottom by Cuadrado, carambulated on Biraghi’s leg, impregnable at that point for Terracciano. A stroke of luck, not of billiards, also the son of Fiorentina’s numerical inferiority, who remained in 10 at 28 ‘of the second half due to Milenkovic’s double yellow. A Juventus poor in terms of the game, dominated for large parts come on purple.
At the Franchi even worse for Fiorentina, a practically one-way race. Vlahovic, on his return to Florence after the sensational transfer to Juve, anesthetized by the contestation of an entire stadium and by Igor’s muzzle, viola to attack continuously trying to move the Juventus bus from the edge of the area. Not scoring is a fault, but losing in that way is a cruelty. The football is beautiful and perfidious at the same time, especially when always at 46 ‘of the second half (a curse that minute) a bizarre own goal by the unfortunate Venuti materializes. Another blow to Juventus’ good fortune (let’s call it that …), after a game improvised by Allegri and organized by Italian.
Wednesday night there will be the third match of the season between bianconeri and viola, but if Fiorentina are confirmed on those brilliant standards of play, this time the outcome will have to be different. Maybe the carom could come out on the purple wheel.
The challenge between Allegri and Italian it is also the duel between a technician with a heavy palmares, expert, shrewd, expression of our tradition, a restorer in short, and another representative of the new advancing, a symbol of innovation in a championship that struggles to find interpreters like this. Reason does not live on one side alone, not even in football. Allegri follows a path, which in the past has brought him great successes, and he has no intention of abandoning it. Italian beats another and until today is giving him great satisfaction. Juve focuses entirely on individuals, Fiorentina on a coded game, aggressive and offensive. In this way he has folded Atalanta 3 times, one Milan and Naples and drew at San Siro with Inter.
At the Stadium it will restart from 0-1 by Franchi (in the Italian Cup the away goal rule still applies), Juve will have two out of three results available, a good advantage. But just why Fiorentina has a European mentality – he knows no differences between home and away games – we are authorized to think that the viola will not be affected by the disadvantage of Florence. On the contrary, if possible, they could get a further boost in the implementation of its plan.
Reach the final of the Italian Cup – missing since 2014 to the viola – it will be a feat, but not impossible. Also because Juventus will not arrive in the best conditions for the appointment. The draw in Bologna in addition to having sparked great controversy (rossoblu in 9, infinite recovery), slowed the bianconeri on the race to fourth place, animating a bitter debate in Agnelli’s club. Not only: in midfield Allegri has some problems. The emergency in the median has already presented the score against Bologna and could also give problems in the Cup. They will be definitely out of Locatelli (in the pits for a while) and Arthur. As well as McKennie, another long patient. Starting up Zakaria could also be ruled out. Allegri doesn’t have a director and he has to make do. It also happened that Dybala reached down to help out, but that’s not really his job. In fact, he risked doing damage. Fiorentina could just hit in the middle of the field, directed by Torreira. Not to forget the outsiders, the strong point of the Italian maneuver.
Allegrimaster in creating unfavorable psychological conditions for the opponent, tried to create confusion in the head of Fiorentina: “For the Champions League – he said Anchovy – there are also the Viola who have a better schedule, they have to recover a game and have a direct match with us on the last day… ”. Merry has been cleverplaying their cards, on the eve of a race that is worth a season because the Coppa Italia has suddenly become an important goal for Juve as well.
Fiorentina wants to give themselves a dream, they have every right to do so. It costs nothing to try, doing it is worth a fortune. If the match with Juventus will never be like all the others, let alone this one … In Turin there will be 1000 viola fans, speaking of dreams. They have always believed in it. Going everywhere. The itinerant Fiesole. Florence expects a big Wednesday.
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