Fiorentina v. Torino (Part the Second): The Cup

By: Ted | December 16th, 2008

Tomorrow in beautiful Florence the Viola will take on familiar opponents Torino (we just played ‘em two weeks ago) in a last-sixteen match of the Coppa Italia. This is a one-off match, with the winner advancing (they go to penalties if tied) and the Great Man has said the cup is important to him and he wants to win it, so it could be a pretty good match tomorrow.

Regardless, look for some less familiar faces for the club in the starting line-up. Prandelli has already announced that Pazzini will get a start and has emphasized that the kid is still in the club’s plans. He hasn’t said anything else as of yet about the starting line-ups, and I won’t really venture a guess other than to say that I don’t think there’s much that would surprise me. We could very well see Osvaldo up front with Pazz, and there could easily be names like Waigo, Semioli, Almiron, Jorgensen, or pretty much anyone else in the starting eleven. I guess it will all depend on how serious Prandelli really wants to win this thing; if he does, he’ll put out a starting line-up with four or five regular starters in it; if he is interested in using the match to look at guys before the window opens, than any guess is pretty much out the window. We shall see.

TV Situation

The game will be shown live here in the states at 11AM EST on GOLTV, because Goal has the rights to the Coppa Italia. Its shocking that THIS match will be shown live on TV, and yet I didn’t see a single Fiorentina Champions League match live on television. (One was shown on delay on Sentanta.) Regardless, I hope Ray Hudson has the day off tomorrow. Neither Barcelona nor Real Madrid is playing in the match, so he’ll have no idea who anybody is.

Prediction

Christ, I have no idea. I’ll say we win 2-0 based on our home form and the whuppin’ we laid on them ten days ago.

I’ll be back after the match with a round-up. Hope you are all well.

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• Nolan |  December 17th, 2008 at 10:46 am

  
  
  

  I don’t understand why we are risking Mutu and Gila’s health when we clearly aren’t taking this game serioiusly.

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• slakas |  December 17th, 2008 at 10:48 am

  
  
  

  i agree.

  they dont even have frey in-

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• slakas |  December 17th, 2008 at 10:52 am

  
  
  

  what’s with the toro coach
  someone get him some chianti

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• Mike |  December 17th, 2008 at 10:52 am

  
  
  

  Well Mutu and Gila are only there because Pazzosvaldo called in sick

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• slakas |  December 17th, 2008 at 11:12 am

  
  
  

  I think this is the weekend of the away teams
  i only see milan and cagliari as sure fire home winners

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• Mike |  December 17th, 2008 at 11:22 am

  
  
  

  Cagliari maybe, Milan is always dubious

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• slakas |  December 17th, 2008 at 12:04 pm

  
  
  

  udinese is more dubious
  no wins in 7 matches, home or away

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• slakas |  December 17th, 2008 at 2:31 pm

  
  
  

  as milan gives up two to wolfsburg
  doesnt really matter i guess, they’re thru

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• slakas |  December 17th, 2008 at 4:11 pm

  
  
  

  does matter.

  they didn’t win the group so they play a third place CL team like us, rather than a third place UEFA cup team lol

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• Mike |  December 17th, 2008 at 8:20 pm

  
  
  

  Yeah but Milan’s players are (literally) falling to pieces

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• Nolan |  December 17th, 2008 at 9:55 pm

  
  
  

  http://www.goal.com/en/news/711/fiorentina/2008/12/18/1017373/fiorentina-can-fight-for-second-place-della-valle

  Glad the prez is showing ambition. I was worried at times this team is losing it’s hunger, and that cannot happen. Fiorentina must consider itself a big team to be one.

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• slakas |  December 18th, 2008 at 9:12 am

  
  
  

  i think we can get 3rd.

  on another note, i don’t know how you people deal with this damn cold.

  I want HEAT. I need WARMTH

  I live by the beach, it’s not supposed to be 40 degrees in the morning

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• slakas |  December 18th, 2008 at 9:17 am

  
  
  

  snow in vegas
  http://media.lvrj.com/images/3211336.jpg

  its the coming of the Apocalypse

  damn, can’t i see a florentine scudetto before the world ends?

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• alessio |  December 18th, 2008 at 1:14 pm

  
  
  

  I live in New Orleans man, we had snow a week ago. Insane.

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• slakas |  December 18th, 2008 at 3:10 pm

  
  
  

  The Draw tomorrow
  we go against one of these eight 2nd place teams
  (seven, actually as we can’t go against Milan cuz the same assoc.)

  Twente
  Galattserray
  Stutgart
  Tottenham (I had a dream we played them)
  Milan
  Ajax
  Valenica
  Deportivo

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• Mike |  December 18th, 2008 at 6:39 pm

  
  
  

  We can’t play Milan…teams cannot play other teams from that country until the Quarterfinals

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• Mike |  December 18th, 2008 at 6:39 pm

  
  
  

  Damn Ajax, Valencia, and Galattserray scare me

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• Mike |  December 19th, 2008 at 6:33 am

  
  
  

  We got Ajax…crap…

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• slakas |  December 19th, 2008 at 8:05 am

  
  
  

  hey we beat eindhoven last year and they’re only a few pts back of ajax

  an italian team should beat a dutch team everytime

  inter and roma got nice draws
  LOL

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• slakas |  December 19th, 2008 at 8:55 am

  
  
  

  BAHAHAHA

  lyon got barca

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• slakas |  December 19th, 2008 at 8:56 am

  
  
  

  another early italy exit from the CL again maybe

  Inter v Man U
  Roma v Arsenal
  Juve v Chelsea

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• Tomas |  December 19th, 2008 at 9:00 am

  
  
  

  I agree Slakas, the best Dutch players all leave the Eredivisie to play in England, Italy, or Real Madrid. The best one still there? Probably Ajax’s Huntelaar. So yeah, Ajax does worry me a little. They have a winning history and all (although its fading), a new coach this year (van Basten), but we should git ‘er done. To paraphrase a line from a kung fu flick “Ajax’s football is good, but ours is better.”

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• slakas |  December 19th, 2008 at 9:03 am

  
  
  

  the round of sixteen would be against the winner of Marseille/ Twente Enschede

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• slakas |  December 19th, 2008 at 9:47 am

  
  
  

  hehe
  http://www.goal.com/en/news/1717/editorial/2008/12/19/1020123/calcio-special-20-things-to-expect-from-italy-v-england

  10) English commentators tut-tut about Italian diving shortly before Didier Drogba goes down like he’s caught the plague.

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• slakas |  December 19th, 2008 at 9:58 am

  
  
  

  *ahem*
  7) Manchester United fans sing “same old I-Ti’s, always cheating”, even though Inter don’t have a single Italian in their team.

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