Player grades and 3 things we learned
Fiorentina 1-2 West Ham: Player grades and 3 things we learned
A heroic Viola side came away without hardware but displayed its mettle.
Sassuolo 1-3 Fiorentina: Player grades and 3 things we learned
The Viola finished the Serie A campaign with a bang. In Nico’s case, a literal bang.
Fiorentina 1-2 Inter Milan: Player grades and 3 things we learned
You can’t fault the effort. You can barely fault the result.
Torino 1-1 Fiorentina: Player grades and 3 things we learned
Nobody is going to remember this game.
Basel 1-3 Fiorentina: Player grades and 3 things we learned
The Viola keep setting up obstacles for themselves and then knocking them right back down.
Fiorentina 1-1 Atalanta: Player grades and 3 things we learned
A fascinating tactical battle that occasionally descended into chaos. This is peak Serie A.
Lech Poznań 1-4 Fiorentina: Player grades and 3 things we learned
13 straight unbeaten and a pretty clear path into the semifinals. The Viola keep on rolling.
Cremonese 0-2 Fiorentina: Player grades and 3 things we learned
A lot of very intelligent preparation made this one look simple, but it wasn’t.
Fiorentina 1-0 Lecce: Player grades and 3 things we learned
Getting the win despite a sub-par performance is a fascinating new development for a team that’s so often underachieved.
Sivasspor 1-4 Fiorentina: Player grades and 3 things we learned
It’s tough to draw too many conclusions from a game that was essentially played in a hog wallow, but we’re going to do our darnedest.
Cremonese 0-2 Fiorentina: Player grades and 3 things we learned
A routine win over a clearly-overmatched opponent isn’t what we associate with the Viola, but we’ll happily take it.
Fiorentina 1-0 Sivasspor: Player grades and 3 things we learned
The Viola once again laugh in the face of every xG model you can imagine, but at least this time they came away with a win.
Hellas Verona 0-3 Fiorentina: Player grades and 3 things we learned
It doesn’t always have to be pretty, which is a weird conclusion from a 0-3 win on the road.
Fiorentina 3-2 Braga: Player grades and 3 things we learned
Despite their best efforts, the Viola can’t dig themselves deep enough to avoid progressing to the Conference League Round of 16.
Braga 0-4 Fiorentina: Player grades and 3 things we learned
Maybe this team isn’t as doomed, doomed, doomed as we’d been led to believe.
Fiorentina 0-1 Torino: Player grades and 3 things we learned
Nobody’s having fun right now.
Fiorentina 1-0 Sampdoria: Player grades and 3 things we learned
A calm, professional 1-0 win over an inferior opponent is just the weirdest thing to write about for this team.
Fiorentina 2-1 Sassuolo: Player grades and 3 things we learned
This edition of the Viola can never make it easy on itself, but sometimes that’s still good enough.
Fiorentina 1-1 Monza: Player grades and 3 things we learned
It’s safe to say that this kind of result is part of a pattern rather than an outlier.
AC Milan 2-1 Fiorentina: Player grades and 3 things we learned
Nobody’s interested in rants about refereeing, but sometimes they’re justified.
Fiorentina 2-1 Salernitana: Player grades and 3 things we learned
The Viola seem to be graduating from fragile basket case to glass cannon, and that is, at worst, a lot of fun.
Sampdoria 0-2 Fiorentina: Player grades and 3 things we learned
Even in a win, the long shadow of refereeing incompetence looms over the result.
RFS 0-3 Fiorentina: Player grades and 3 things we learned
The Viola finally follow the script and come away with a fairly routine, controlled win.
Fiorentina 2-1 Başakşehir: Player grades and 3 things we learned
Growth is always a good thing but it’s rarely a linear thing.
Lecce 1-1 Fiorentina: Player ratings and 3 things we learned
And no, it’s not just that the third kit is stunningly gorgeous.
Atalanta 1-0 Fiorentina: Player grades and 3 things we learned
Losing to Atalanta in Bergamo isn’t a bad result in and of itself. But what it says about the club and its mentality aren’t great, Bob.
Fiorentina 2-0 Hellas Verona: Player grades and 3 things we learned
The Viola made some systemic changes that paid off in a big way.
Başakşehir 3-0 Fiorentina: Player grades and 3 things we learned
The man of the match was directly responsible for a goal, if that tells you what kind of performance this was.
Bologna 2-1 Fiorentina: Player grades and 3 things we learned
There are some interesting bits to pick out from amongst the smoldering wreckage, but make no mistake. It’s a smoldering wreckage.
Fiorentina 1-1 RFS: Player grades and 3 things we learned
As much as we’d like to forget this one, there were still some interesting nuggets in it.
Fiorentina 0-0 Napoli: Player grades and 3 things we learned
Some really, really, really good performances remind us of just how good the Viola can be.
Fiorentina 2-1 Twente: Player grades and 3 things we learned
A very Jekyll-and-Hyde performance overshadows some of the good vibes, but it’s sunny as the Tuscan skies after the Viola returned to European play with a win.