Paul Sousa was taken off the court by Dortmund's team doctors on a stretcher.

Paul Sousa, lying on a stretcher, covered her face tightly with her hands, tears kept flowing from her fingers. He felt that this final would be the closest time in his career to the Champions League trophy.

"Don't be anxious, stabilize first, stabilize the defense line before launching an attack!"

After Paul Sousa was carried off the court by a stretcher, players from both sides returned to the court to prepare for a re-start. Heathfield, who returned from the player channel to the sidelines, thought Dortmund's players to make a gesture. At this time, he did not lose his mind because of losing the general in the game.

After all, this is the final of the Champions League. Any head coach will consider and prepare in advance if there is any emergency in the game. Therefore, Paul Sousa was injured and forced to leave the court early. Heathfield was just a little surprised at the beginning, but he would not surrender to Fiorentina because of this.

However, Fiorentina used the full-game defensive style to catch Heathfield off guard as soon as she came out. After all, in the period before the game, everyone, including Heathfield, believed that Fiorentina led by Capello would definitely play a defensive counterattack in this final.

Therefore, only Heathfield, who had recognized this, used the positional offensive tactics in this final and turned the team's formation into three or five, intending to create a breakthrough through two sides, and finally, Chap Issat and others who followed up in the middle to resolve the battle.

If he had known that Capello would have dared to use the game to keep a close eye on people in the final of the Champions League, Heathfield would have said that no matter what, the players would have taken the initiative to attack!

Since Heathfield has coached at Dortmund for so many years, he has a very high prestige among players. With his coaching ability and very flexible skills, even the famous Summer and Andres Muller are convinced by him and are willing to obey his tactical arrangements.

So after Heathfield made a "stabilizing" gesture to the players, the Dortmund player with strong tactical execution quickly stabilized his position and began to play the game according to the tactics arranged by the head coach. He was not in a hurry to attack and continued to fall in the backcourt, looking for an opportunity to kill with one blow.

However, how could Fiorentine players who have tasted the sweetness from the pressing of the whole game give up this tactic that seems to be quite restrained against Dortmund? Especially when Dortmund's midfield metronome Paul Sousa has been injured and left the court, and the opponent's control over the game has greatly reduced, if Fiorentine continues to adopt oppressive defensive tactics, the effect is quite worth looking forward to.

Although Zorke, who replaced Paul Sousa, was very brave and tenacious in the fight and was very active in counter-robbing on the spot after conceding the ball, he still couldn't replace the role of the Portuguese in the team. Moreover, at the age of 35, he has begun to become slow in his reaction and agility. Fiorentine players only need to quickly transfer the ball away after intercepting the ball to make Zorke's counter-robbing on the spot become useless.

On the Fiorentina side, the organized and planned frontcourt siege made Dortmund's backcourt a mess, forcing the opponent to spend a lot of energy on competing for the ball with Fiorentina, thus greatly reducing the possibility that Fiorentina's own goal was threatened by the opponent's players.

Dortmund's players were not stupid either. After fighting with the Fiorentines for several rounds, they discovered the Italian's intentions. Logically speaking, they should use long passes to rush at this time, but after Paul Sousa got off the court, they really couldn't find a shot point in the backcourt that could launch a long pass counterattack... Zorke and Lambert tried it, but their passes were either too strong and could not be stopped at all, or they were less powerful and intercepted by Nesta and others on the defense.

"Long passes are a technical job, not just a player who can do big feet." After breaking the ball in front of Riddle and hitting Redondo in front, Nesta whispered. In his opinion, the Dortmund was completely blindly playing big feet, not only did it have no threat to Fiorentina, but it would also waste precious game time.

Summer can complete this task well, but like Paul Sousa, who has already ended, his physical fitness is greatly limited, so he does not have many opportunities for long passes. Even if there is, Batistuta and the others will rush over to interfere as soon as possible, reducing the possibility of Summer's success in a long pass.

The players on both sides have been entangled for more than ten minutes. Although they failed to score, the fierce confrontation on the field and a large number of shots still made many Fiorentine and neutral fans exclaimed.

As for Dortmund fans, they always watched the final with fear, fearing that the team would accidentally be scored by Fiorentina again. After all, the difference between falling behind one ball and falling behind two balls is quite obvious.

In the 43rd minute of the game, Dortmund finally ushered in their best chance in the first half. Summer finally completed a very high-quality long pass, and the ball fell right in the area between Ferrara and Toldo. Riddle, who successfully counter-offside, received this long pass before the Fiorentine player came to defend!

"Ridel! Single shot!" Rao's heart suddenly rose to his throat, and his voice became a little out of tune due to nervousness. "Florence is in danger!"

After dribbling into the penalty area, Riddle observed Toldo's position. He was already thirty-two years old and knew that he was not as fast as the young and strong Nesta behind him. Therefore, the Dortmund striker directly swung his right foot while running and made a volley!

The ball floated up and headed straight to the far corner of the goal!

However, Toldo would not agree to the ball rolling into the goal he was responsible for guarding so easily. The Italian national team's No. 1 goalkeeper saved Fiorentina again, and he flew into his single hand to save the ball!

Riddle was stunned for a moment. He didn't expect that the opponent's goalkeeper was so brave that he could even block such a ball.

Taking advantage of the moment when Riddle was stunned, Nesta, who had arrived at the position, immediately cleared the ball with his big foot. The ball flew directly to the frontcourt. Batistuta jumped up and pointed the ball down. Effenberg, who followed behind, received the ball and passed directly in the middle. Ronaldo saw this and accelerated forward!

Florence's single sword!

Just as the fans in Fiorentina were about to cheer, the referee's whistle rang out of time, and the lineman also raised the flag in his hand.

Ronaldo! Offside!

The Fiorentine fans in the stands sighed. They didn't complain too much, because the big screen just showed it very clearly. At the moment Effenberg passed the ball, the Dortmund defense line led by Summer took a step forward together!

It was this step that threw Ronaldo into the offside position!

Shortly after Ronaldo was awarded offside, the referee blew the whistle to the end of the first half!

The first half ends! Fiorentina leads Dortmund 1-0 at the Munich Olympic Stadium!
Chapter completed!