Comparison between team and fans at the end of the match. Italian:
He wins the last championship match Florentinein Bergamo’s recovery against Atalanta in the match postponed last March 17 due to Joe Barone’s illness. A 3-2 for the Viola which leaves the Italian team at 60 points in the standings, in a match that was worth little for the ranking (only for the Nerazzurri, who still aspired to finish 3rd) but a lot for the attitude and pride after the great disappointment in Athens.
Ready to go and Castrovilli invents a left-footed shot for Belotti who gets the ball rolling and scores 0-1. Atalanta’s equalizer comes with Lookman, who appears in front of Martinelli (baby viola making his professional debut) and overtakes him. But Fiorentina didn’t give up, and in the 18th minute they took the lead again with Nico Gonzalez, who coordinated a long cross from Biraghi left-footed and chipped the post. Sparkling match, Atalanta still tied with the razor Scalvini (who later left injured, making coach Spalletti worried about the European Championship). But still viola at the end of the first half: first the goal disallowed by Ranieri, then the 2-3 Belotti on the development of a corner after a shot by Beltran.
The second half saw Atalanta push in search of a new equalizer, but Miranchuk, Scamacca (nice save by Martinelli) and the others failed to score, as did Gonzalez at the other end because he found Carnesecchi ready. So it ends 2-3 and Fiorentina gives a minimal response of pride: at the end of the match, a long discussion between the team and the approximately 200 fans present in Bergamo, obviously disappointed with the situation after the Conference final, with Commisso and the club having given no explanations or answers so far. Now room for the future, with the decision on the new coach (it should be Palladino) and, everyone hopes, on the ambitions of the next Fiorentina.
The official farewell of Vincenzo Italiano arrived after the match. Thus sporting director Pradè to Dazn: “We have made a journey with Vincenzo Italiano, a man who until Friday at 11 in the morning we hoped to be able to continue together and I am convinced that if we had won the Cup everything would have changed. Today we part ways professionally but we will not part ways on a human level. We will lose a lot without Italiano and I really wish him the best. The new Fiorentina? We have clear ideas, we are a very ambitious company, we have a strong president and we want to improve. Future? Palladino was spotted Friday evening in Florence after we had spoken to him in the morning Italian. We need to talk to some profiles we’ve identified. We have the maximum support from Commisso. Today, without a figure like Barone, the sporting responsibility will be mine and I will have to be clear and aware in my choices.”
These are the words of Italian: “They have been three wonderful years. I’m leaving different from how I arrived, certainly improved and with enormous baggage thanks to the club, the boys and all the purple people that I will always carry in my heart. Even without the trophy it was a great journey. For me they have been three really positive years and I’m not talking about results but about the relationships that have been created. Football is amazing from this point of view. I get excited because leaving Florence, leaving this bond, is not nice but this is football, we move forward and open new pages. The relationships created will remain forever. I gave everything, I gave my best and when you ask to go further it’s right to go further. It is right to leave room for a new thought that can make Fiorentina grow further and that can bring joy to this square. We move forward, new scenarios and new pages open up in football. It’s been a fabulous three years. We set ourselves some goals and we managed to achieve them.”
