[m1ke]

Fiorentina stopper Alessandro Gamberini claims that the Viola deserve to play in next season’s Champions League rather than Milan.

The Florentine outfit spent most of the season in fourth place, but were overtaken by the Rossoneri last weekend after a costly 2-1 defeat against strugglers Cagliari.

It came as a bitter blow with just two games remaining to try and turn things around and Gamberini feels that it is rough justice.

“From the way we have performed in the League this season, we deserve fourth place more than Milan,” he maintained.

“Unfortunately we have an extremely tough week or so, but at least we know that we had an excellent season overall.”

Fiorentina are also coming to terms with their heartbreaking UEFA Cup semi-final penalty shootout defeat against Rangers.

“We were all dreaming of the UEFA Cup Final and we would have deserved that too,” Gamberini continued.

“There is plenty of anger inside us, but this group of players knows how to react and we will do so again.”

The Gigliati will have to hope that Napoli do them a favour by taking points off Milan this weekend.

“I hope that Napoli trouble them, but to be honest we have to keep focused on our games,” Gamberini insisted.

“With the team that Milan have, I would have expected them to be challenging for the Scudetto, not fourth place.”

[morgoth]

Gamberini is right la Fiorentina deserves to be in the CL more than we do considering the overall season, but Milan managed to earn points even when they weren't playing a good football, and maybe it's the main reason why we're ahead of them today, the difference between the two sides is definitely the experience. One should keep in mind that the race isn't over yet, and those two games aren't that simple for both teams.

[m1ke]

Gamberini is right la Fiorentina deserves to be in the CL more than we do considering the overall season

Just curious as to why you think that?

If Milan end the season with more points than Fio, then considering our fixture schedule this season I think we more than deserve a CL spot! Granted, we were awful at times, but points don't lie!

[kurtsimonw]

Just curious as to why you think that?

If Milan end the season with more points than Fio, then considering our fixture schedule this season I think we more than deserve a CL spot! Granted, we were awful at times, but points don't lie!

Exactly. You deserve to finish wherever you finish.

I think getting into the latter stage sof the UEFA Cup hurt them.

[acid911]

Exactly. You deserve to finish wherever you finish.
I think getting into the latter stage sof the UEFA Cup hurt them.

You're right on both counts. But getting into the later stages of UEFA Cup hurt them as much as it hurt us playing in the Club World Cup - it took much of our attention even if for a couple of weeks, and it resulted in a loss of few precious points.

Of course, it takes nothing away from the fact that we've been crap most of the season. (IMG:http://cyrus.medialayer.net/~m1ke/milanfan.com/forums/style_emoticons/default/wink.gif)