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After losing one goal first, he scored three consecutive goals and defeated Juventus, Fiorentina finally widened the gap between them and the Zebras to four points, and gained a certain advantage in this Serie A championship battle.

However, despite winning this key battle worth six points, Fiorentine players are far from being able to rest. After all, after this game, the Serie A this season will be over for seven rounds. In this case, although the four-point lead is not so foolproof. Therefore, if Fiorentine players want to win the league championship trophy at the end of the season, they must be more careful in the remaining seven rounds, otherwise they will likely be brought to the top of the list by Juventus, who has not completely given up hope, and thus lose the top throne that they finally got.

Although the reversal defeat of Juventus, the team's biggest competitor in the league, Fiorentina players were excited, they quickly returned to their calmness and returned to their respective residences to rest shortly after the game, instead of finding a nightclub or bar to celebrate. Because four days later, they will have to meet here in the second leg of the Champions League quarter-finals, and the opponent of Florence is the former English football overlord Reds Liverpool!

In the first leg of the two sides, Fiorentina, who played away at the time, shook the iron barrel formation at Anfield Stadium for the purpose of retaining its strength, while Liverpool, who lacked top scorers after Irving left the transfer, was at a loss and could only threaten Fiorentina's goal through long shots and set pieces. In the end, when the game was announced to the end under the whistle of the referee, Fiorentina and Liverpool shook hands and made peace at Anfield Stadium, ending the first leg with a one-to-one score.

Because they failed to win a victory in the first leg and were scored by their opponents, Liverpool naturally had to be careless in the second leg. Because once Fiorentina seized the opportunity to score, they would face an extremely passive situation. After all, on the football field, the Italian club's defensive counterattack is an absolute killer, and no one is willing to experience the sharpness and terror of this tactic.

The English media are also very concerned about the showdown between Fiorentina and Liverpool. Not only did they not discover all kinds of gossip and negative news related to the Reds before the game, but they also tried hard to cheer for Liverpool on their respective positions, and even used the slogan "Defend the Honor of English Football".

It is not surprising that such a situation will occur. You should know that among the four teams representing the Premier League to play in the European Champions League this season, the defending champion Chelsea, who has suffered severe blood loss and financial crisis, failed in the group stage, and Manchester United and Arsenal, the two teams that have turned the Premier League into a duo, have also fallen outside the quarterfinals. Therefore, by this time, Liverpool has become the only Premier League team in the Champions League.

In this case, no matter how much the English media likes gossip, they will not cause trouble for Liverpool at this critical moment. Otherwise, once Liverpool is unstable due to their reports and fails to reach the semi-finals, they will all become the sinners of English football?

Compared with the nervous English media, Italian counterparts are much calmer. Although Fiorentina has had a history of being out of the Champions League, this is just an accidental event after all. Most of the time, Purple Lily is a very reassuring team. Therefore, these media reporters have no doubt that Fiorentina will take advantage of the opportunity to defeat Juventus to win Liverpool, and meet with Lazio, who qualified for the semi-final one day earlier, to compete in the Champions League semi-finals!

In this way, on April 14, Frankie Stadium finally ushered in the highly anticipated quarterfinals of the Champions League. Fiorentina and Liverpool will decide on this field who will get the ticket to enter the Champions League semi-finals!

Now let’s introduce the starting lineups of the two teams in this game. First of all, the visiting team Liverpool, who knows that the team is not able to compete with Arsenal and Manchester United in the league battlefield, Benitez decided to learn from his predecessor Hollier, that is, to try to seek breakthroughs in the Champions League field and use an excellent European record to consolidate his coach position.

Under the guidance of this idea, Benitez consciously chose to retain his strength in the league and keep the team in the top four in the standings. His main combat power was placed in the Champions League in order to achieve a good result.

Goalkeeper Dudek, left-back Traore, right-back Finnan, center back Carragher and Henkz, Xavi Alonso and Gerrard serve as double midfielders, Luis Garcia and Riser serve as left-right and left-wing forwards respectively, Czech forward Barroche and Australian fast-macrowell partner on the front line, this is the best deck of cards Benitez can send at this time.

To be honest, after entering the Premier League era, Liverpool now can no longer see the shadow of the invincible Reds who swept the European football world. The financial embarrassment and the reality of missing the heavyweight championship trophy for many years have made Liverpool lack attractiveness to top stars, resulting in the Reds' ability to send out such a starting lineup that has few first-tier stars even in such critical occasions.

Compared with Liverpool, which has obviously insufficient star taste, although Fiorentina has to rotate the roster to a certain extent in this game that is related to the semifinals, it can still be called star-studded.

Buffon, Robert Carlos, Nesta, Lucio, Zambrota, Marklele, Barack, Arteta, Dinatale, Vieri, Cristiano Ronaldo, this is the starting eleven players of Fiorentina in this game.

It has to be said that Mourinho's arrangement in this game once again exceeded the opponent's expectations. No one expected that the Portuguese young coach would exclude both the main players Pirlo and Milito from the starting lineup, and also allowed Arteta and Barack, who were identified as parallel companies, to form a midfield dual core!
Chapter completed!