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"Gooooooooal! Fiorentina scored a goal! The goal was Frederick Lungberg! This was a clever goal shot in front of the goal! From the slow-motion replay, we can see that before Lungberg shot, the Arsenal defender's attention was all focused on Ronaldo and Vieri, and he emptied his guard's attention to the Swedes. It was this negligence that caused their goal to fall again! Now Fiorentina leads the home team Arsenal two goals at the Highbury Stadium! It seems that even Arsenal, who is the Premier League champion, cannot stop Fiorentina's fierce offensive at their home court!"

"The situation Arsenal is facing now has become quite difficult! Not only are they missing one person on the court, but they are also two goals behind Fiorentina in the score! In this case, they even want to equalize the score."

"Maybe Wenger should consider changing his strategy and find a way to prevent Arsenal from losing the ball in this game. After all, this is just a contest in the first round, and it's nothing if he loses. As long as he doesn't lose too badly and leads to passiveness in the subsequent games..."

While the commentator kept chattering, Wenger also looked helplessly at the somewhat corrupt situation on the court. However, he was still hesitating whether he should fight Fiorentina at this time. The reason why Wenger did not make a decision is that although this game played at home is very important, it is indeed not at the critical moment of life and death. He just took the risk of putting on the offense. If he failed to win the score and was hit by Fiorentina and scored a few more goals, then Arsenal's journey to the Champions League this season would have no hope.

In contrast, Capello did not have so many concerns. After Fiorentina gained a 2-0 advantage, he immediately ordered the team to shrink the formation and patiently play the control ball in the midfield. The passing is not an attack. If the Arsenal players rushed up to press, then Fiorentina would have a good time with them in the game of scrambling, using the pass to consume the opponent's physical fitness and slowly weaken Arsenal, thus making them unable to launch a counterattack.

In this way, under Wenger's hesitation and Capello's command, Fiorentina ended the first half with a score of 2-0!

Anelka walked into the player channel angrily. He almost never encountered a few balls in the first half, and was like a stupid donkey walking with a large number of midfielders. This made how the French star who was about to give Fiorentina a little color tolerate it?

Seeing Anelka like this, Borgkamp couldn't help frowning, and then quickly felt relieved. In his opinion, this was the performance that a passionate and arrogant young player should have - wasn't he the first to be a cottager, and he also looked like this?

However, what the Ice Prince did not expect was that the fact that Arsenal was almost powerless to fight back by Fiorentina in the game was the first time Anelka realized the huge gap in strength between Arsenal and the top giants, and at the same time, it also planted a seed in the unknown part in his heart.

After the second half of the game started, Fiorentina still controlled the ball as firmly as before, leaving Arsenal players who were unwilling to lose can only face Fiorentina's goal - they can't even get the ball rights, so how can they win the score back?

If Borgkamp hadn't suddenly erupted in the 71st minute of the game, and used a series of shocking extraordinary moves like a god descending to earth, breaking through Marklele, Redondo and Stam in succession, and then knocked the ball to the middle of the penalty area. Anelka, who followed up in time, threw Nesta away with speed and shot, winning a game back for Arsenal, I'm afraid the Gunners would have lost all their money and face in this game!

Borgkamp's performance also became the only highlight of the entire second half. In addition, Arsenal, who had one less player, was basically unable to effectively press Fiorentina in the midfield and frontcourt. Most of the time, they were either careful to guard against the opponent's sudden attack, or were teased by the opponent in their palms like a headless fly.

Fiorentina is more about passing the midfield back and forth and back-to-back foot in the backcourt to kill time. Only when they find that their opponent is ready to move will they launch an attack, allowing Arsenal players to huddle in the half-court defense again.

However, even so, Fiorentina still created several good scoring opportunities in the second half. Unfortunately, Vieri and others were not very lucky. The ball shot was either driven by Siman, who was guarding the goal, or kicked it on the box and bounced out!

Wenger was helpless against Capello's realistic tactical concept, because if Fiorentina plans to continue to use offense to further expand its lead in the second half, he can also let the players withdraw from defense to lure Fiorentina to the attack, and then use the speed advantages of Ovemas and Anelka and others to launch a quick counterattack.

However, Capello did not give Wenger a chance to turn the tables. This very realistic Italian coach would rather give up a chance to win away games that would boost the players' morale, and to securely win.

Of course, Wenger would not admit that the reason why he couldn't stand Capello's realistic approach was because it was inconsistent with his somewhat idealistic tactical concept.

Finally, when the referee blew the whistle to the end of the game, Fiorentina defeated Arsenal 2-1 in the first round of the two sides, calmly won the victory of the game, taking a solid step on the road to the quarterfinals of the Champions League!

At the post-match press conference, facing a large group of reporters' questions about the game process, Wenger's answer was quite a bit like losing and not losing: "I am very satisfied with the players' performance in the game tonight. With one less player and one goal behind shortly after the game, we still successfully stabilized the situation and were not defeated by our opponents by a big score. This is enough to prove our Arsenal's strength! I believe that in the second round of the game half a month later, we can definitely leave a deep impression on Mr. Capello and his team at Frankie Stadium!"

"Well, I believe this very much, too." Capello, who was on the other end of the table, nodded very cooperatively and said, "Half a month later, I will wait for the big trip at Frankie Stadium, hoping that the Arsenal defense line, which lacks Keon, can perform better."
Chapter completed!