Friendlies, draw between Fiorentina and Nottingham Forest
Florentin drew 0-0 at home to Nottingham Forest in the second friendly of its tour of England. On the occasion, Stefano Pioli fielded all the bigs as starters, from De Gea to Gudmundsson in support of the attacking pair formed by Dzeko and Kean.
The latter just before halftime had a chance to unlock the result, but the opponent’s goalkeeper neutralized it, in the same action Dodo hit the crossbar. In the resumption, at 15′, the Viola coach revolutionized as usual the lineup with 9 changes, among second lines and youngsters, and just one of them, Braschi, had at 90′ came close to scoring.
Before the match, Fiorentina general manager Alessandro Ferrari, who arrived earlier in the day together with newly acquired Simon Sohm, presented Nikola Milenkovic with a jersey celebrating his 264 appearances in the purple shirt. The third and final English friendly will be on Saturday at’Old Trafford against Manchester United.
In the meantime, on the market front, Nzola is moving to Pisa on loan with a right of redemption at about 6 million and a counter-redemption in favor of Fiorentina, which today took note of the turnaround of Flamengo tired of waiting for Lucas Beltran.
