The test for Fiorentina and Barcelona in the second half was even more severe, with only 45 minutes. After 45 minutes, it will be clear who is the Champions League champion and who is the runner-up.

The champion is naturally full of favors and wins both fame and fortune. The runner-up means almost nothing except that little bonus. If you don’t believe it, think about who the Champions League champion was ten years ago and who was the runner-up?

On the journey to win the championship, Fiorentina has taken a step ahead. If Barcelona cannot make the offense more quality, knocking on Fiorentina's goal will welcome them with another unforgettable failure that Barcelona fans will be welcomed.

12 years ago, when Barcelona, ​​known as the Dream Team, reached the Champions League final, its opponent was also an Italian team: AC Milan, they were the favorites to win the championship, but the result was AC Milan 4:0 to kill Cruyff's Dream Team, winning the 8th Big Ear Cup for Italy.

Now, Barcelona has met an Italian team again, and it is a big hit before the game. Although Fiorentina is not AC Milan and Barcelona is not the original Barcelona team, will the result be surprisingly similar?

No one in Barcelona has experienced the battle that year, but everyone knows this experience. Although they all regard the defeat as a negative teaching material, the current situation makes Barcelona players feel that history is repeating.

This bad premonition made Barcelona players very anxious. After the game started, all other players except Xavi were eager to get into the offense and wished they could eat Fiorentina in one bite. How could they remember the instructions of head coach Rijcard?

Xavi is not the team's brain yet. Both Ronaldinho and Deco are more important than him, and the ball is not less than him. After returning from injury, due to the gap in form and ahead, Barcelona relies more on Deco and Ronaldinho in offense. Xavi's role in the midfield is not even as good as Edmilson. After all, Edmilson is the only barrier to defense.

In other words, the only calm Xavi in ​​Barcelona's entire team actually did not play any role. Barcelona still maintained the fierce and fast offensive in the first half, and the choice of the last pass was even more hasty than the first half, and did not patiently wait until the best time came.

Such an offense is definitely difficult to break Fiorentina's goal. After Chen Yu scored a goal, Fiorentina's players were more determined in their defense, and even counterattacks changed from tied with defense to a more secondary position. Therefore, Fiorentina's defensive quality is better than the first half, and Barcelona's offense is no stronger than the first half. It takes great luck to break Fiorentina's goal.

Chen Yu is more focused on being his midfielder at this moment. The situation is very clear at this moment. As long as they can defend the goal, they will be the Champions League champion. Of course, 2-0 is safer, and 3-0 is safer, but they must have that strength. With Barcelona's attack power, Fiorentina's counterattack has hit a lot. If Barcelona hits a counterattack, it will take a minute to concede the ball.

Now, even if they can't hold on in the end and are equalized by Barcelona, ​​as long as they don't lose the second goal, they still have the hope of playing overtime with Barcelona in a penalty shootout. With Fiorentina's strength, they have no regrets in playing a penalty shootout final.

Even though he did nothing in the first half, no assists or goals, Ronaldinho is still the core of Barcelona's offense.

Ronaldinho is the world footballer and the most imaginative and creative player in football today. Not to mention that he played poorly in the first half, even if he played badly in the first half, Ronaldinho will still be Barcelona's first choice for offense. Rijcard and his teammates will bet that Ronaldinho can solve the game with a flash of inspiration.

Barcelona put their hopes on Ronaldinho. Fiorentina players would never be careless about Ronaldinho. No one knew when the bucktoothed Brazilian would show his power. Since they didn't know, they took the safest approach. There were always people staring at Ronaldinho, and even if the person who was guarding was doing nothing, they would not relax.

In the 54th minute of the game, Xavi passed the ball from the middle distance to find Ronaldinho on the left side. Ronaldinho was a little unprepared for this pass. He had not had time to turn around. However, Ronaldinho's ability to adapt was amazing. He hurriedly stopped the ball with his back, and then cleverly picked the ball with his heel. The ball just happened to pick him and defender Wuyi Farosi.

Uyfalusi is a frigid player. Seeing that Ronaldinho did not turn around, he thought it was a good opportunity to steal. He immediately walked around and prepared to take the ball down, but Ronaldinho's two magical moves left Uyfalusi behind.

"Baobabababababa..."

There was a burst of warm applause in the stands, and Ronaldinho's two wonderful actions attracted warm applause from the fans.

This is definitely a work of genius. Even if you can't bring an offensive opportunity in the end, such a beautiful move is enough to be praised by fans for a long time.

The Italian commentator used to be sarcastic about Ronaldinho, and now he has to praise him: "Ronaldinho is indeed a genius and very practical. He is not a flashy player like De Nielsen. Compared with Chen Yu, he has much stronger imagination and creativity, but his efficiency is not as efficient as Chen Yu. Just like the action just now, Chen Yu probably can't do it, but Chen Yu will only be easier and faster to overcome Uyfalusi."

Ronaldinho passed Uyfalusi so quickly caught Fiorentina's assisted defense player off guard. Others could not make up for Uyfalusi's position as soon as possible, so they could only make up for the central defender deputy Dainelli to make up for the defense.

In the defensive system of Fiorentina in this game, the central defender does not need to make up for the sidelines easily. Fiorentina plays almost in the iron barrel formation. The midfielders are very close to the back line. When there is a problem with the full-back, the midfielders usually make up for it. It is rare to see that Uyfalusi is passed before he defends.

However, Fiorentina's defense is thick enough. Even if Dainelli goes out, there are still two back midfielders at the front of the penalty area. Chen Yu is not far away and his abdomen is not empty. As long as one of the two back midfielders retreats to defend, Dainelli's open space can be filled immediately.

However, there was an extremely short gap between Dainelli going out to make up for defense and the midfielder retreat, and the gap in Florence was captured by Ronaldinho.

A genius is a genius. Although Ronaldinho is eager to attack, his grasp of the situation on the court is extremely accurate. If it were other players, he might continue to dribble and break through. However, Ronaldinho chose to pass the ball. After Dainelli took two steps to attack, he immediately rolled the ball and swept into the penalty area.

"...Ronaldinho passes the ball! Rolling the ball! Very fast! Beautiful choice! The ball is more accurate at altitude, but it is easy to be obtained by the goalkeeper...African Cheetah Etoo starts lightning, Brokey doesn't hold it, Gambelini is thrown away...falling on the ground and shoveling...ah! The ball hit Tordo's arms..."

"……ah……"

Amid the commentator's rapid shouts, the African Cheetah Etoo completed the shot, but the ball did not go in. He accidentally tackled the ball into Tordo's arms.

"Damn!"

The Barcelona fans stretched their necks and their eyes were straightened and couldn't help but swear. If Barcelona's attack was sweeter than chocolate in front of this attack, Etoo would be even more smelly than shit.

The Spanish commentator could no longer suppress his dissatisfaction and said: "It seems that it's time to change the striker now. Etoo is very good, but his ability to waste opportunities is too strong. With Barcelona's attacking power, if the striker is Chen and Toni, it would probably be fine to average two goals per game, but Etoo's goal is not as good as Tonido now, let alone compare with Chen."

Although Eto'o did not score the ball, Spanish fans complained and felt very regretful, and they just wanted to buy a bottle of regret medicine to drink, but Fiorentina was so scared that it was only 54 minutes. If it was tied now, Barcelona's morale would be greatly boosted and their confidence would increase. It would not be easy for Fiorentina to survive the next thirty minutes.

Barcelona's head coach Rijkaard is hesitating now. The time has been almost 60 minutes. This is the time to replace people, but who to change and how to change it makes him hesitate a little.

Previously, he was planning to exchange Iniesta for Xavi, because Xavi was in average form and now it was half-court offense and defense. Xavi's organizational role was not obvious. It was difficult to find a gap in the dense defense with a fatal first pass. Defense is Xavi's fatal injury. Although Iniesta's defense is also a remnant, Iniesta is good at breaking through. He made a lot of trouble after he came on the court, which may be able to create more opportunities.

But now after Etoo missed the opportunity, Rijkaard felt that it was not that Barcelona could not create opportunities, but that they had too poor ability to seize opportunities. If Barcelona had Chen Yu, no, even if there was Tony, the score would have surpassed now.

After looking at Iniesta who was warming up, then looking at Swedish veteran Larson who was sitting on the bench with a calm expression on his face. Rijkaard finally made up his mind to go to the striker Larson.

The Swedish old demon Larson is known as Sweden's greatest player in the past fifty years. He has delicate skills and calm shooting. Although he is only 1.78 meters tall, he has strong heading ability. Larson once won the European Golden Boot Award and scored two goals in the League Cup final. He is also the foreign player with the most goals in the British Isles European competition. In addition, he can play as a center or a winger. After Larson came on the court, he could not play the speed advantage and was not tall enough. His heading and experience are an excellent addition to the front line. The only two things that made the Black Swan worry is that Larson has not played in the five major leagues and is too old.

Rijkald waved to let Iniesta and Larson come back. Iniesta was very excited and thought he had a chance to play, but he didn't expect Rijkald said: "Andres, you take a break first, Henrik will go first."

"Yeah." Iniesta's face suddenly became cold. He lowered his head and sat down on the bench with an awkward look on his face.

Rijcard called Larson, "Henrik, please replace Juli, pay attention to transferring positions with Etoo and grab points in the middle. In addition, you must cooperate with your teammates who are inserted in the midfield. If you want to break through their iron barrel formation, it is difficult to do so by relying solely on personal strength."

"I understand what to do."

Larson pointed. He was 35 years old this year and had experienced countless games. He had long seen the problems between Barcelona and Fiorentina, but he was very calm and did not directly ask to play. He believed that Rijcard would see the crux of the problem. Sure enough, Rijcard made the right choice, and the time was also good, because his physical strength could not last for too long, and he could play a greater role when the opponent's spirit and physical strength were almost exhausted.

Two minutes later, Larson replaced Juli and stepped onto the French Stadium.

Jiuli was in a very unhappy mood because he was a French player. He played at home. Every time he took the ball in front, French fans cheered and applauded him, but he had not scored a goal and was replaced without any outstanding performance. Jiuli felt sorry for the enthusiastic French fans, and Jiuli believed that Fiorentina's physical fitness and spirit have begun to decline, and he will perform better later, which made him even more unhappy.

Fortunately, Jiuli is a very knowledgeable player. He hit Larson when he left the court, but when he returned to the bench, Jiuli ignored Rijkald, who was about to pat him on the shoulder to comfort him, and sat down until he sat down.

Others did not notice this, but the dedicated sports reporters did not miss this detail. They faithfully took this scene. If Barcelona cannot reverse the victory in the end, I believe this substitution will also become a proof of Rijkaard's crime.

Fiorentina is not alert to the replacement of Juli by Larson, both the coach and the players. In their opinion, although Larson has scored many goals, they are all in non-mainstream leagues, such as the Scottish Super League and the Dutch Eredivisie, and have not proved himself in the five major leagues. Moreover, Larson is 35 years old, and many players in Fiorentina have to call him uncle. How much can such a player play? It is normal for Fiorentina to not pay attention to him.

However, Gabriel Ping still reminded Plandelli, "Don't look short, the header is good."

Plandelli smiled slightly and said, "If he has other advantages, I really have to be careful, but headers are the ones we are most afraid of."
Chapter completed!