Six points in 15 matches, a frightening standings and a direct clash lost against Verona that makes the worst-case scenario even more real. Fiorentina's season continues to slip away without any footh...
Six points in 15 matches, a frightening standings and a direct clash lost against Verona that makes the worst-case scenario even more real. Fiorentina's season continues to slip away without any foothold, turning week after week into a waking nightmare.
The numbers are merciless. Viola is last in Serie A and, despite hopes, today the word that describes reality is just one: Serie B. A term that no one in Florence dares to utter, but which, as the days go by, stops being a taboo and becomes a real possibility.
😳 LAST PLACE AND CONCRETE SERIE B NIGHTMARE
We are now close to the halfway point and the team led by Vanoli is in desperate need of an immediate turnaround. Time is running out and recent European football history offers no reassuring footholds: when a club also engaged in Europe starts so poorly in the league, the outcome is rarely happy.
In the 21st century, among the main European leagues, only two teams have done worse than Fiorentina after 14 matches - and considering that in this case Viola has one more match compared to the proposed data, the situation becomes even more worrying -. We are talking about Hertha Berlin 2009/10 and Cologne 2017/18, stuck at 5 and 3 points respectively. In both cases, the end was marked by relegation.
📉 THE CONFERENCE DREAM AND THEN...
Yet, the Viola collapse is even more surprising when looking at the context. Florence is well familiar with the double weekly commitment: in the last two seasons, the Conference League was only narrowly missed, and thinking of such a crisis — especially after the previous years with Italiano and Palladino on the bench and Kean as a protagonist — seemed simply unthinkable.
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🅱️ CLUBS IN CUPS STARTED BADLY: THE PRECEDENTS
In Italian football, however, black seasons are not an exception. Since 2000, there have been 13 cases of teams falling below the average of one point per game by the 14th round. Fiorentina appears again in one of these, the 2001/02 season. Even then, the end was bitter: Serie B.
Only four times has the worst been avoided. Almost always starring Parma, managing to save themselves in 2001/02, 2004/05, and 2006/07. The exception being Milan 2006/07, starting with 8 penalty points and incredibly going on to win the Champions League.
All teams, however, at this point in the season had more points than the current Fiorentina. A detail that makes the picture even more alarming.
In short, yet another defeat in the league has highlighted a deep crisis, which does not seem destined to resolve quickly. The dismissal of Pioli and the arrival of Vanoli were supposed to mark a discontinuity, but the field tells a completely different story.
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