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Chapter 343 Champions League debut
Florence, this city had another very beautiful name in former China - "Jade Lengcui".

Florence, the capital of Tuscany, is located in the basin at the western foot of the middle section of the Apennine Mountains. It is the birthplace of the European Renaissance and a world-famous cultural tourist attraction.

The city with a population of 44 is most proud of not only its world-famous cultural landscape, but also the best team that the locals consider—the Fiorentina team.

The "Violia" that has gone through hardships is the inner comfort of the Florentines, and Gabriel Batistuta, who makes the "Violia" bloom, is the real "God of War" in the hearts of the Florentines.

In 1991, Batty, who was only 22 years old, joined the Serie A, known as the "World's No. [-] League" and "Little World Cup" after leading the Argentine national team to win the America's Cup, and Florence was his destination.

After joining Florence, Batistuta quickly showed his strength and soon became the team's top scorer. He also has a good reputation in Serie A. Unfortunately, Florence In the 92-93 season, they fell into internal and external troubles, and finally they were relegated to the second division in 93.

At that time, the Fiorentina team, which had many stars, was on the verge of collapse. Many star players fled the city, but Batistuta chose to stay. He even rejected teams including AC Milan, Inter Milan and Manchester United. Invited by many wealthy teams, they stayed in Florence wholeheartedly, and even had to lower their salaries for this.Batty's move touched all Fiorentina fans, as well as many young players. They finally chose to stick with Batty in Fiorentina, which was relegated to the second division.

A year later, Florence returned to Serie A as the champion of the second division, and gradually became a team with the strength to win the championship in Serie A.

In 1996, after winning the Serie A FA Cup and the Super Cup for Fiorentina, excited Fiorentina fans paid out of their own pockets to erect a bronze statue for Batistuta in downtown Florence.

However, although with the gradual growth of Batty, Fiorentina is also playing better and better in Serie A, but the team is still far away from the league championship. Compared with Inter Milan, Juventus, Roma, Lazio and other teams, Florence is much worse than these teams in terms of lineup depth and team management.

Fiorentina, which is in a group with Arsenal, Barcelona and Sweden's AIK Solna, is the second team in this group. Due to the suspension of the Premier League team by UEFA (the reason for the Heysel tragedy), Fiorentina is a level higher than Arsenal. Moreover, in this era, although Serie A is declining, it is still higher than the Premier League. famous.

The E group where Arsenal and Fiorentina are in is also a relatively famous death group in the first round of the Champions League group stage. Barcelona's strength is beyond doubt, and the remaining place is Fiorentina and Arsenal. The only place to compete, so the first round of the match between the two teams will be extremely important. If anyone can win this game, it means who will get the upper hand.

In order to prepare for this game, the Arsenal team came to Florence three days in advance to adapt to the venue. It was too late to visit this famous cultural capital. Liu Han and the Arsenal players were all engaged in intense preparations. As the team participating in the Champions League for the second time in the 90s, although Arsenal had little experience, Wenger was full of confidence. He wanted to make Arsenal a blockbuster in this Champions League.

In order for Wenger to ensure Liu Han's efficiency in this game, Liu Han did not play in the seventh round of the Premier League against Aston Villa at home. Liu Han, who filled the whole game and scored an equalizer goal in stoppage time, was still firmly pressed on the bench by Wenger.

Although Liu Han doesn't know much about the opponent in this game, Wenger is very familiar with it. In order to prepare for this game, Wenger has already watched all the matches of Fiorentina last season and this season in advance. After reading it again, Wenger still attaches great importance to the opponent's strength.

However, Wenger seemed very confident about this game, and his confidence came from Liu Han.

Although Liu Han has only adapted to Arsenal's offensive system so far and has not fully integrated into the system, Wenger feels that Liu Han's type of striker is a nightmare for Serie A defenders.

Not afraid of confrontational physical fitness, super reaction speed and agility, coupled with unconventional ideas and flashes of football quotient, Liu Han is very restrained from any angle. A defender known for his defense and experience.

Arsenal's preparations are rich and active, but their opponents don't pay much attention to Arsenal.

For Italian teams, although their defense is more worried about teams with fierce confrontation like the Premier League, but because the Premier League teams have gradually begun to emerge in the European arena in recent years, coupled with the consistent rough style of the Premier League teams , it can be said that as long as the Italian teams participating in the Champions League do not encounter a team like Manchester United, they are not too worried about this game, so the Fiorentina team actually does not pay much attention to the Arsenal team, although they have heard that the Arsenal team now has a team. He is a very good center forward, and he was a basketball superstar before. This has attracted some attention from Florence, but he has not received much attention. According to Batistuta, who has received basketball training before, basketball and football are completely different. There is no similarity between the two sports. Batistuta was selected for the Argentine National Youth Basketball Team back then. He is very similar to Liu Han in this respect.

Arsenal's first game of the UEFA Champions League this season will be held at the Frankie Stadium. This stadium, which can accommodate nearly [-] fans, has only opened less than [-] tickets to British fans, but this is not to blame for Florence. The club is stingy, but the name of British football hooligans is really too famous. All the European games that the Premier League teams participate in have a higher level of security in the stadium than other games.

After Liu Han stepped into the stadium, in addition to the purple that catches the sky, there is also the team emblem of the lily. This will be his first appearance in the European arena. Liu Han thinks I should leave a deeper image for everyone.

(End of this chapter)