The Era of Emerald

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After conceding one goal in a row and winning against Juventus with three goals in a row, Fiorentina finally widened the gap between them and the Bianconeri to four points and occupied a certain position in this Serie A title race. advantage.

However, despite winning this crucial battle worth six points, the Fiorentina players are far from being able to relax.After all, after this game is over, there are still seven full rounds of Serie A this season. Under such circumstances, although the four-point lead is quite a lot, it is not so foolproof.Therefore, if Fiorentina 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 are likely to be caught up by Juventus, who has not completely given up hope. Lose the hard-won top spot.

Although the Fiorentina players were excited about the reversal victory over Juventus, the team's biggest rival in the league battlefield, they quickly regained their composure and returned to their respective residences to rest shortly after the game, instead of looking for Go to a nightclub or bar to celebrate.Because four days later, they will be here to meet the second round of the Champions League quarter-finals, and Florence's opponent in this game is the former English football overlord, the Red Army Liverpool!

In the first round of the contest between the two sides, Fiorentina, who was playing away at the time, put up an iron barrel at Anfield Stadium for the purpose of preserving strength, while Liverpool, which lacked top scorers after Owen transferred and left, was helpless. Shots and set-pieces to threaten Fiorentina's goal.In the end, when the whole game was declared over under the whistle of the referee, Fiorentina and Liverpool shook hands at Anfield and ended the first round of confrontation with a score of one to one.

Since they failed to win a victory in the first round of the contest and were scored an away goal by their opponents, for Liverpool, this second round of the game is naturally negligent.Because once Florence seizes the opportunity to score a goal, they will face an extremely passive situation.After all, on the football field, the defensive counterattack of Italian clubs is an out-and-out killer. No one wants to experience the sharpness and horror of this tactic for themselves.

The English media are also very concerned about the match between Fiorentina and Liverpool. Not only did they uncharacteristically fail to discover all kinds of lace and negative news related to the Red Army before the game, but they also desperately cheered for Liverpool on their respective positions. Slogans like "defending the honor of English football" were used.

It is not surprising that such a situation occurs.You must know that among the four teams representing the Premier League in the European Champions Cup this season, Chelsea, the defending champion who suffered from severe blood loss and financial crisis, collapsed in the group stage. Manchester United and Arsenal have turned the Premier League into The teams that had signed Errenzhuan also fell outside the top eight.Therefore, at this time, Liverpool seems to have become the only Premier League team in the Champions League.

Under such circumstances, no matter how much the English media likes gossip and fears that the world will not be chaotic, they will not trouble Liverpool at this juncture.Otherwise, once Liverpool's morale is unstable due to their reports and they miss the semi-finals, then they must all become sinners of English football?

Compared with the nervous English media, the counterparts in Italy are much calmer.Although Fiorentina also has a history of being upset in the Champions League, this is only an accident after all. Most of the time, the Viola is a very reassuring team.Therefore, these media reporters have no doubts that Fiorentina will take advantage of the momentum after defeating Juventus to win Liverpool, and join Lazio, who qualified for the semi-finals a day earlier, to join the Champions League semi-finals!

In this way, on April 4th, the Frankie Stadium finally ushered in the much-anticipated quarter-finals of the Champions League. Fiorentina and Liverpool will be on this venue to decide who will get the ticket. Tickets for the Champions League semi-final!

Now let's introduce the starting lineups of the two teams for this game.The first is the visiting team Liverpool. Knowing that the team does not have the ability to compete with Arsenal and Manchester United in the league, Benitez decided to learn from his predecessor Houllier. That is, trying to seek a breakthrough in the Champions League and use an excellent European record to stabilize his position.

Under the guidance of this idea, Benitez consciously chose to retain his strength in the league, keeping the team in the top four of the standings, and put the main combat power in the Champions League, in order to be able to win. A good grade.

Goalkeeper Dudek, left back Traore, right back Finnan, central defenders Carragher and Henkez, Xavi Alonso and Gerrard as double midfielders, Luis Garcia and Riise as left and right respectively The winger, the Czech striker Baros and the Australian fast horse Kewell partnered up front. This is the best card that Benitez can play at this time.

To be honest, after entering the Premier League era, the current Liverpool can no longer see the shadow of the invincible Red Army that swept European football back then.Financial embarrassment and the reality of missing the heavyweight championship trophy for many years make Liverpool less attractive to top stars. As a result, the Red Army can only send such a starting lineup with few first-line stars even on such critical occasions.

Compared with Liverpool, which is obviously lacking in star flavor, although Fiorentina had to rotate the lineup to a certain extent in this match related to the semi-finals due to the huge consumption of the fierce battle with Juventus last weekend, they still can. Call it star-studded.

Buffon, Roberto Carlos, Nesta, Lucio, Zambrotta, Makelele, Ballack, Arteta, Di Natale, Vieri, Ronaldo, this is the match for Fiorentina The starting 11 people.

It has to be said that Mourinho's arrangement for this game once again exceeded the opponent's expectations.No one expected that the Portuguese marshal would exclude the two main players, Pirlo and Milito, from the starting list, and let Arteta and Ballack, who were identified as parallel importers, form a midfield duo!

What the hell is Mourinho trying to do?This is the only question in the hearts of all those who saw Fiorentina's starting lineup for this game.