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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.