After twenty days of Serie A, Fiorentina occupies fourth place in the standings, the Viola are in the Champions League zone and so the Florentine people dream of a return to the Europe that counts. A series of fluctuating results in the championship have allowed the pursuers to get closer to Vincenzo Italiano’s team who have slowed down the engine revs, Atalanta and Lazio are close behind, Bologna and Napoli just behind and here the ranking is shortening towards the top. The penalty converted by Nzola in the last match drawn at the Artemio Franchi against Udinese 2-2, gave a small point to the Italian team who however left two equally precious ones on the way, from now on it is forbidden to make mistakes.
Nzola always in the balance
With the semi-final of the Italian Super Cup just around the corner, the Viola are navigating the transfer market by sight to try to shore up the squad and give some more options to the coach who occasionally finds himself with the short end of the stick and often makes a virtue of necessity. Rewinding the tape to the last match of Serie A we return to talking about M’Bala Nzola, cold from eleven meters in converting the penalty three minutes from the ninetieth minute, but still in question and still compared to Cagliari and Salernitana. With the Angolan striker leaving in Florence, Boulaye Dia could instead arrive, a Senegalese center forward from Salernitana with whom the relationship is always shaky especially after the troubled summer where the player was close to leaving several times.
The striker that Fiorentina needs?
Kean on the list
However, it is above all on Rocco Comisso’s shopping list Moise Kean, the Italian striker struggles to find space in Max Allegri’s starting eleven and could experience the thrill of playing in Florence. However, before sending him on loan elsewhere, Juventus would like and should renew his contract to secure him and not lose ownership. Fiorentina is missing a striker, missing a goalscorer, missing a man capable of picking up the pieces when he serves and carrying the team on his shoulders in difficult moments. Kean could respond to Viola’s needs and the negotiation is not impossible, even if at the same time it is not very easy either. Vincenzo Italiano’s boys will now have the opportunity to get to the bottom of the Italian Super Cup and hope for another final, after the two last year (Conference League and Italian Cup) and then dive back into the championship, with the goal of fourth a place that always remains within reach, as long as the Viola start scoring more and with more regularity.