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.”

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!

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Fiorentina were great this season, we were awful, so WE deserve the CL spot! hope you get what I mean

I agree, Fio exceeded mine and most other peoples expectations this season. But.. if they finish with less points than Milan (considering the poor season we've had), they can't have done THAT well

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.

I agree, Fio exceeded mine and most other peoples expectations this season. But.. if they finish with less points than Milan (considering the poor season we've had), they can't have done THAT well

if they're having trouble with playing UEFA and the regular season they won't even make it out of the group stages in the CL.

if they're having trouble with playing UEFA and the regular season they won't even make it out of the group stages in the CL.

Guys, you must keep in mind that even if they don't have a big chance of going far in the CL, it doesn't mean they don't even have to play it and let another club who has best chances to go in their place! If they don't play it they'll never have the experience needed to win it one day, how do you think a club like Lyon for example managed to be feared in europe? By playing the CL a year after another they developed and learned to do well in the competition. If it was down to whom is going to represent the best the country in europe, then there is no point in fighting for the 4 first places, just pick up the best clubs and send them in the CL!!!

Doesn't the UEFA Cup have as many games as the CL? So I fail to see why it would make a difference. Also, the CL group stages are at the start of the season where they wouldn't be tired, so..