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Just as fans and experts across Europe were hotly discussing which team could stop Fiorentina, the fifth round of the European Champions League group stage quietly arrived.

This time, Florence will head to Anfield Stadium, one of England's most famous stadiums, where they will compete with Liverpool.

Since Real Madrid, currently ranked second in the group, has only won five points, if Liverpool grasps the remaining two games, the chance of qualifying from this death group is still very high.

For Liverpool, the final round of the match against Real Madrid at the Bernabeu is a game that must be fully won, because the result of that game is likely to directly determine the fate of the two teams in the Champions League this season.

Similarly, the Liverpools must do their best to win this second leg against Fiorentina. If Real Madrid defeats Leverkusen away but the Reds are killed by Fiorentina, the last round of the game is also meaningless.

Therefore, for this crucial game, Evans sent all the main players who can play: goalkeeper David James. On the defense line, Matteo and Carragher are still in the middle, the left back is Norwegian Bujonebi, and the right back is local player Robert Jones; in the midfield, McManaman is on the left, McCartell is on the right, Redknapp Jr. and Paul Ince are the forwards, because of the traditional British four-four-two parallel position of Liverpool during Evans, there is no clear distinction between front and back midfielders; on the forward line, German forward Riddle, who came from Dortmund's high-priced transfer, and Liverpool's "God" Robbie Fowler is on the front line, and Michael Irving, who has been very popular in the UK, sat on the bench.

Looking at Fiorentina, after obtaining the right to qualify in the group in advance, Zi Lily, who has tens of ten in four games, only needs to get one point in the last two games to basically ensure the first place in the group - unless Real Madrid can beat their opponents by more than ten goals in the last two games.

Considering that the team will compete against the Toyota Cup next week in a faraway place in Japan, in order to minimize the physical consumption of the players and ensure that they have a good form in the Toyota Cup to deal with the champions from South America, Capello decisively chose to be waterproof in this game, and sent a large number of substitutes in the starting lineup.

After all, if the group qualifies, a Toyota Cup championship trophy is of course more important than a Champions League group match, even if the opponent in this game is the famous Liverpool.

Desanctis, Angeloma, Ferrara, Matrazi, Fortunato, Zanetti, Tomasi, Dibiagio, Ze Roberto, Julio Cruise and Vieri, the above are the starting lineups of Fiorentina in this game.

By the way, when Liverpool coach Evans saw the starting roster of Fiorentina, like Sampdoria coach Menotti a week ago, he felt a bit in his heart: Why are Italians so virtuous? As soon as they have the advantage, they start to think about how to defend themselves?

Fortunately, Evans is not yet in his life, so he is lucky to have no sudden problems such as hypertension and cerebral thrombosis.

Evans knew that this was Capello's open plot. He was sure that in order to qualify from the group, Liverpool must strive for a complete victory in the last two rounds of group stages, so naturally they have to rely on offense to win goals and win.

Since he knew that the opponent would definitely play offensive football, Capello certainly had to make good use of this, so he let him have no worries and was about to go to Japan to play the Toyota Cup, Fiorentina, who was about to go to Japan to play the Toyota Cup, posing as an iron barrel formation at Anfield, using this way of placing a bus at the door to kill the opponent.

Using limited resources to gain the greatest profit is a compulsory course and expert skill for every Italian coach (to put it bluntly, playing defensive counterattack with your opponent after taking the lead).

Facing the shameless Capello, Evans could only order Liverpool players to attack with all their might from the beginning of the game and try their best to win.

Liverpool's offense is quite powerful. Fowler's grab points in the penalty area, Redknapp's organization and McManaman's breakthrough, and the tacit cooperation between the "Little Tigers" made the Reds' offense like flowing, with gorgeous and passion, making the fans feel relaxed and happy.

Since countless teams were attacked by Liverpool in the Premier League, when the Red Army players returned to the Champions League stage after more than ten years, they thought they could easily get the qualification to advance to the top 16 just like in the league.

However, when their opponents were replaced by teams of Fiorentina, the actual situation began to become very different.

In the first leg of the group stage, Liverpool players were surprised to find that their offense was greatly hindered in the face of the Italian reinforced concrete defense line built by Fiorentina players. Due to the limitation of the offensive space, Redknapp could not get the space for attack and organization calmly; although McManaman made a sharp breakthrough, he could only admit defeat in the face of a siege of Fiorentina players; Fowler was repeatedly bullied by Ferrara and Stam. Although he had a first-class shooting skill in front of the goal, he naturally had no way to talk about scoring goals without getting the ball.

Therefore, in Italy, the Liverpool player experienced an unforgettable defeat and was beaten by the powerful Fiorentina four-one at the Frankie Stadium.

In this second confrontation, Liverpool's coaching staff obviously did not come up with any effective way to deal with this authentic Italian-style defense.

Although the venue was replaced by Anfield, the most familiar to Liverpool players, God was quite beautiful and did not make any trouble. Tens of thousands of fans in the stands were Liverpool fans. There were all right time, place, people and people, but Liverpool just couldn't break through the opponent's goal.

Compared to Liverpool's long-term attack, Fiorentina, who was concentrating on defense, almost used a quick counterattack to make a sneak attack: In the 53rd minute of the game, Matrazi cleared McMannaman's pass before Fowler. Vieri, located in the middle circle of the stadium, headed the ball, and Ze Roberto, who followed up from the rear, received the ball and formed a single shot... If Carragher had not arrived at the goal line and promptly cleared the ball, Liverpool would have faced the embarrassing situation of falling behind with one goal.

Although I was lucky enough to not concede the ball, Fiorentina's counterattack also scared Liverpool, so the home team had to slow down the formation and the offensive to avoid being defeated by the opponent next time.
Chapter completed!