After talking about Leverkusen's starting lineup, let's look at Fiorentina again.

Since being assigned to a crisis-ridden death group by UEFA, Capello's plan is to win both Liverpool and Leverkusen as much as possible, so as to ensure that Fiorentina has the lead in the group standings against Real Madrid.

In Capello's eyes, the La Liga champion Real Madrid, who had been trained by Ranieri for a whole year, is the most difficult opponent in this group.

With the defensive system created by Ranieri, the Italian coach, and the offensive system that was removed by the pot-making maker, plus top players such as Raul, Davao Suk, Sidorf, and Jero, the strength of this Real Madrid team is much stronger than the one two years ago.

Therefore, Capello did not reserve at all in this game and sent out a full-scale lineup, which clearly wanted to score three points at Leverkusen's home court.

Goalkeepers Toldo, Robert Carlos and Zambrota are separated from the wings. Starm and Nesta, who have made rapid progress in the past year, are partnering with the central defender. The former is responsible for keeping his Dutch compatriot Meyer, while the latter is going to use his versatility in defense to fill loopholes in the defense at any time.

In terms of midfield, as the best German player abroad, Effenberg undoubtedly appeared on the starting lineup. Argentine Prince Redondo and the Tigers formed a dual core, and Davis and Thomassi were responsible for the midfield sweeping work.

On the forward line, Capello sent Ronaldo and Philip Inzaggi to the two centre-backs of Leverkusen, who were slow to turn against Leverkusen's weaknesses, and Capello sent Ronaldo and Philip Inzaggi. The speed of the former and the latter's grab points were enough to give Leverkusen's defense a headache.

After the game started, Leverkusen, who won the kick-off, took advantage of the home goal and launched an attack on Fiorentina's goal.

After receiving the return pass from his teammates in the frontcourt, Emerson turned around and held Thomassi who ran over to grab the ball. He was so strong that he was not afraid of his opponent's pressing to such a level. With a arch, he passed the ball to Heinze who was inserted on the left. The latter immediately dribbled the ball along the sideline and rushed to Fiorentina's half.

Zanbrotta, who was responsible for the right defense, did not rush over to defend Heinze because Neuville was lurking beside him. If he was accidentally beaten by his opponent, he would be likely to make a breakthrough by a two-pass and one.

Seeing that Zanbrotta's defense was a little difficult, Thomassi, who had just returned to his own half, fully utilized his own characteristics of not being able to run and ran to the defensive position in time to help Zanbrotta resist Leverkusen's left offensive.

The experienced Heinze observed Thomassi's actions and immediately transferred the ball to Nico Kovac in the middle. After the Croatian midfielder got the ball, he immediately passed the ball without waiting for the Fiorentine players to come over to defend and immediately passed the middle!

The ball passed by Redondo and rolled to Meyer's feet. However, the Dutch center was stared at by Stam so much that he could not turn around and make a shot, so he had to return the ball to Lamero, who was involved in the attack. The latter was about to take a long shot, but was intercepted by Redondo who arrived in time!

After getting the ball, the Argentine prince immediately passed it to Effenberg, without giving Lamero a chance to counterattack on the spot. He didn't want to make another mistake in the game against Udinese.

Effenberg looked up and observed the situation ahead, and sent a long pass from the top from the back of the middle circle of the court!

Since Leverkusen's entire team had been under pressure before and wanted to take advantage of the opportunity of the visiting team's unstable foothold, when Fiorentina launched a counterattack, Leverkusen's players had not yet recovered from their offensive state.

In the competition of speed, Vaughans and Novotney, the two central defenders, are not alien opponents at all, so Ronaldo easily got the ball before the two. Without slowing down at all, he only took the ball and rushed towards Leverkusen's goal!

The next thing was very simple. Ronaldo, who formed a one-on-one strike, rushed into Leverkusen's penalty area, then shook over Haining with a fake move, and then sent the ball into Leverkusen's goal.

One to zero! Florence leads!

The Leverkusen player who did not lose the game easily did not accept the loss and launched a fierce counterattack after re-activated!

But the result of their doing was that when the first half ended, Leverkusen was in an embarrassing situation of falling behind by three goals, and Ronaldo and Inzaghi each scored one goal in the following time to help Fiorentina finish the first half with a score of three to zero.

Fiorentina, which seems to be leading three goals, can already announce the victory of this game in advance. After the start of the second half, Leverkusen's performance against Fiorentina's concrete defense made people firmly believe that the visiting team will easily win the game.

However, when the game reached the last ten minutes, unexpected changes occurred on the court.

In the 82nd minute, Heinzer made a high pass from the 45th angle on the left. Meyer struggled to push the ball towards the goal under Stam's interference. Faced with this difficult shot, Tordo did not steadily put the ball into his arms, but instead let the ball bounce back from his arms to the penalty area!

Toldo took it off!

At this moment, Neuville appeared at the position he should have appeared the most. He did not perform well in the whole game and got this opportunity ball! The German striker easily pushed the ball with his right foot and scored in the far corner, helping Leverkusen win a goal, one to three!

Five minutes later, Leverkusen made a comeback, and Heinze's cross from the left was still the Leverkusen player's shot in the penalty area, but this time the person who shot was replaced by veteran Kirsten.

Facing Kirsten's powerful shot, Tordo was beyond his reach and the score became two to three!

At the end of the game, Leverkusen chased the score gap to only one goal left!

Seeing hope, Leverkusen launched a tide of offensive towards Fiorentina's goal in the last few minutes. In order to stabilize the team's defense line and avoid being equalized by the opponent, Capello replaced Inzagio with Dibiagio to strengthen the defense, hoping to defend the lead.

Time passed by minute by minute in the tug-of-war between the two sides, and soon it was the last minute of injury time, Leverkusen's corner kick.

In fact, the game time has exceeded this time, but the referee still decided to let the home team take this corner kick and then announce the end of the game.

Capello was naturally very dissatisfied with this. In his opinion, it was hard to say whether Leverkusen, who had already risen, would score a buzzer-beating goal at this time. For this unstable factor, he naturally hoped to kill it in the bud. However, the referee's decision cannot be changed, so after protesting to the fourth official for a few words, Capello complained and sat back on the coach's seat.

At this time, Niko Kovac took a corner kick, and Kirsten swung his right foot and volleyed in the air against the ball! Tordo had no response to his shot!

Unfortunately, Kirsten's ball shot at the last moment hit the goal post and bounced out of the bottom line!

The referee did not give Leverkusen players another chance to equalize the score. After the ball flew out of the baseline, he directly blew the final whistle!
Chapter completed!