Chapter 454: Opponent in the Final

The score was 1-0 on the pitch and 1-2 on aggregate, a situation that was too bad for Lippi and the Juventus players.

Because if Juventus are to reach this season's Champions League final, the Bianconeri will have to score two goals against Fiorentina in the next 90 minutes without conceding any more goals.

As a result, the Juventus players had to launch a fierce attack on Fiorentina's door after the restart, hoping to equalise before the Fiorentinas could take advantage of the space behind them to counter-attack. If all goes well, Juventus still have a chance to level on aggregate, and if they do, the disadvantage they did in the first leg will be gone.

The ideal is beautiful, but the reality is cruel. Although the away Juventus players desperately attacked to equalize, Redondo's beautiful long ball over the top in the 23rd minute of the game shattered the Bianconeri's hopes, and Ronaldo, who successfully countered offside, drove straight into the Juventus penalty area like an unsheathed sword, and pushed the empty goal with a smash past Peruzzi, extending the score to 2-0!

Ronaldo's goal was a huge mess for the Juventus players. Unlike history, due to the influence of Zhuang Mingge and the rise of Fiorentina, although the overall strength of this Juventus team under Lippi in this shijie is good, it is far inferior in terms of championship honors.

There was no title to play underneath, which led to the fact that these Juventus players were not very confident when they played against Fiorentina, so they were in a hurry to equalize when they were behind the score.

If it were Juventus, who were full of championship honours, they would not be so anxious when they were behind, but would use their strong midfield control to slowly control the tempo of the game before waiting for an equaliser.

Therefore, when Ronaldo extended the score again, some of the Juventus players began to lose their minds, and under the boos of the home fans and the huge psychological pressure caused by the score behind, they repeatedly made mistakes in the following games, either the pass was directly tackled by the Fiorentina players or leaked when defending.

Especially in this game, Juventus's starting central defender Iuliano, although it was not his intention to transfer to Fiorentina back then, but after he joined the Bianconeri, a series of actions to discredit his former club made Fiorentina regard him as a complete traitor.

Therefore, every time Iuliano got the ball, the Fiorentina fans would give him a huge decibel boo, and under the wild boos of the fans, Iuliano formed a vicious circle: the more he tried to perform in the game, the more he made mistakes in his busy schedule and made more mistakes on the pitch.

The reason why Ronaldo's anti-offside was successful, Iuliano can be said to have contributed a lot. Because at the moment of Redondo's pass, it was Iuliano who dragged on the Zuihou side of the Juventus defense.

After that, his reckless robbery was a mistake, knowing that the last thing Ronaldo was afraid was one-on-one, and Iuliano not only allowed the alien to easily get rid of himself with a pull pass, but also completely exposed the door of his team to Fiorentina's blade.

As a result, the Juventus players had to face a very embarrassing situation, which was that they had to devote some of their energy to caring for their own backline while they were struggling to equalize......

Although Zinedine Zidane pulled Juventus back in the 81st minute with a long-range shot, it was too late, as substitute Vieri came on for Inzaghi to score Fiorentina's third goal of the game eight minutes before he took advantage of a mismarking by Iuliano in the box.

In the end, when the final whistle blew, the score on the big screen was fixed at 3-1, with the home team in front and the away team behind.

This means that Fiorentina defeated arch-rival Juventus 4-2 on aggregate in the two legs of the semi-finals of the UEFA Champions League and reached the final of the UEFA Champions League for the second year in a row!

Juventus' players wept sadly on the pitch, and for many of them, it was their first Champions League game, and while reaching the semi-finals of the Champions League in one fell swoop was a remarkable achievement, who wouldn't want to reach the final to compete for that only trophy?

The paparazzi and broadcasters pointed their cameras at Pierrot, who was watching the game from the stands, and found that the Bianconeri were also in tears, and he was in a very low mood at the moment after missing the game due to injury.

Fiorentina's players, meanwhile, celebrated their victory on the pitch, reaching the Champions League final for the second year in a row has convinced many of those who want to go to Fiorentina that they have made the right choice.

The salary level is top in Europe, there are championships to win, there is no shortage of money and glory, so why not stay here?

Suffice it to say, unless someone is unhappy with their playing time (like Robert Baggio), or has lost their hunger for titles (like Billindley), or is an ungrateful white-eyed wolf (like Tacchinadi), there are basically no players who want to leave the club.

The Serie A civil battle between Fiorentina and Juventus came to an end, and a day later, another semi-final was decided.

The brave Ajax eventually lost, although Van Gaal led his Ajax men to the best of their strength in the two-legged semi-final against Borussia Dortmund in the hope of getting the Dutch giants to the Champions League final for the third season in a row. However, Borussia Dortmund's boss Heathfield has stifled Ajax's hopes with a brilliant tactical set-up.

Dortmund's ability to control the tempo of the game was greatly improved after acquiring Paulo Sousa, one of the leading figures of Portugal's golden generation, from Juventus, with Sousa and Andrés Müller helping Dortmund to keep the game firmly under control, and with a defensive line led by Summer, Ajax's struggles were completely futile.

Inzaghi Jr., who shone in the quarterfinals, was invisible all over the court under the marking of Jürgen Kohler, and Collini's defense in the face of Zorke showed the weakness of getting rid of the lack of ability, lacking Collini's organization and scheduling, and Ovimas and Ronald de Boer and others almost became headless flies in the frontcourt, and could only blindly rush and fight, completely lacking the temperament of Michels's all-attacking and all-defensive mentality.

In this way, the home and away two-legged matches, two 1-0, Dortmund easily beat Ajax and reached the final of the Champions Cup for the first time in history!