A Fiorentina blog for Viola fans
Fiorentina gets to put the disappointment of another blown lead in Serie A behind it with a trip north to keep the Conference League dream alive; indeed, that’s pretty much all that’s giving us fans any life at all right now. The opponent? Rapid Wien, currently 3rd in the other Bundesliga. Rapid started the season […]
Player grades David de Gea—6: Can’t blame him for the penalty but he was slow to react to Rafael Leão’s first, although he was unsighted by Pongračić. Did make a very good save on Santiago Giménez in the second half. Luca Ranieri—6.5: Came up nails when the team needed someone to step up with the […]
Pre-match Max Allegri had a ton of absences: Christian Pulisic, Christopher Nkunku, Ruben Loftus-Cheek, Adrien Rabiot, Ardon Jashari, and Pervis Estupiñan were all in the stands, leaving him with a front two of Rafael Leão and Alexis Saelemaekers. Stefano Pioli—making his 500th Serie A appearance as a head coach—surprisingly started Moise Kean up front, claiming […]
Late news Stefano Pioli gets Moise Kean back despite an injury suffered while international duty and goes for an all-midfield edition, leaving Roberto Piccoli, Albert Guðmundsson, and Edin Džeko on the bench in what could be something like a 5-4-1. Max Allegri’s got a raft of injury concerns of his own, leaving Rafael Leão and […]
As you’ve probably noticed if you hang out around these parts, Fiorentina has yet to win in Serie A this year and sits in 17th place in 3 points, just leading Hellas Verona on goal difference to avoid the drop zone after 6 games. That’s the worst start in league play since 1976 and the […]
This international break has been absolutely brutal for Fiorentina fans, giving us a fortnight to wallow in misery while the misfiring forwards connect on international duty and the injuries pile up ahead of a brutal upcoming schedule. The team’s hopelessness has resulted in a lot of soul-searching and a lot of looking back over Rocco […]
Fiorentina has arrived at the unenviable point of the season at which the only way to plumb new depths involves picking up a shovel, and the Viola are sure enough looking for the right tool. Two-thirds of your favorite Fiorentina podcast idiots are here to wonder where it’s all gone wrong (everywhere) and wonder if […]
We’ve spent 2 months watching Fiorentina flail around and slowly sink underwater. Whatever Stefano Pioli has tried has failed, with one brief exception. During the first half of the Como game, the Viola, deployed in a 4-4-2, demonstrated flashes of competence. Yes, it was against a bad team. Yes, it relied on the element of […]
The October international break is usually a frustration for Fiorentina fans but this one’s arrival means that we don’t have to watch this woeful team, so its arrival has been a balm to the scorched Viola soul. It was also the earliest that the club could have reasonably parted ways with its embattled upper management […]
Fresh off its first win of the season (albeit in the Conference League against a badly overmatched Sigma), Fiorentina heads to the capital for an entirely different challenge against Serie A joint-leader Roma. The match will be played on Sunday, 5 October 2025, at 14:00 GMT/10:00 EST, at the Stadio Olimpico in Rome. The forecast […]
Pre-match Stefano Pioli ignored the preseason directive to get Tommaso Martinelli into cup games and stuck with David de Gea in goal. Cher Ndour and Nicolò Fagioli got rare starts in midfield while Edin Džeko replaced the suspended Moise Kean up front. It was nice to see old friend Tomáš Ujfaluši back at the Artemio […]
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