According to the rules set by UEFA, Fiorentina, who won Group C in the group stage, will play in the order of away and home, which means that on February 28, the Fiorentina team will travel to Germany to face their opponents in the quarter-finals at the Westphalian Stadium.

The Dortmund team in the 95-96 season is quite difficult to deal with, they have a first-team lineup that is not inferior to Bayern Munich: on the back line, there are Batistuta, Djokaeff and others who are very familiar with the top marking central defender Jürgen Koller who has played for Juventus for many years, Reut and Heinrich are separated, plus the best free man in German football after Matthaus, Matthias Summer, Dortmund's backfield strength is terrifying;

And the Hornet's midfield is not much inferior to Fiorentina in terms of fame and strength, Andres Muller, Riddle, Chap Issat, and Lars Ricken, who is known as a talented teenager in German football, and Michel Zolke, Heilrich and other powerful players on the bench, can be said to be full of talent.

Either way, Dortmund are much stronger than Fiorentina's other Bundesliga side they faced in the European Cup Winners' Cup last season, and certainly even more difficult to deal with. After all, Borussia Dortmund are no match for Juventus and AC Milan, and Fiorentina have met with them more than twice a year and know each other well, while Fiorentina's players in teams like Borussia Dortmund can only learn from match footage and paper materials.

Therefore, in the space of three days, Ranieri instilled all the information about Dortmund gathered by the club's scouts into the Fiorentina players, hoping to help them in the Champions League game in the future.

As the players were gearing up for the European Cup, Zhuang Mingge received another piece of good news from the physiotherapy centre: Brazilian striker Ronaldo, who had been sidelined for four months due to injury, had finally reached the fitness criteria and could return to play. However, the playing time of the aliens has been severely limited by Thomas Carter himself, and the Brazilian is currently only allowed to play 30 minutes in official matches.

On February 28, three days after the end of the 23rd round of Serie A, Fiorentina welcomed the first leg of the Champions League quarterfinals.

As this is the first leg of the Champions League quarter-finals and is also a match at Westphalia, the famous "home of the devil" in Europe, Ranieri made some changes to Fiorentina's starting line-up: Di Biagio and Effenberg, who were banned in Serie A, were given the opportunity to start the Champions League, while the other two were Dutch boars Davies and Kripa; The four defenders, from left to right, are Lanna, Ferrara, Nesta and Zambrotta; Up front, the tinkerer removed captain Batistuta from the starting line-up and replaced him with Robert Baggio, who was more agile and agile in his movements, and started with Big Inzaghi.

It was clear that Ranieri was intent on attacking the counter-attacking tactics at Borussia Dortmund's home stadium, taking advantage of the German team's defenders' general slowness to turn and take advantage of Effenberg's excellent vision and precise passing. Batistuta was removed from the starting line-up for this reason, and in Ranieri's view, the attacking combination of Robert Baggio and Inzaghi, who are faster and better at taking chances, is more suitable for his tactical set-up in this game.

Originally, Ranieri wanted Ronaldo to start with Baggio, but under Thomas Carter's stern warning that he would only play 30 minutes, the tinkerer had to give up on this plan and put the Brazilian on the bench just in case.

Ranieri played his calculations well, but he obviously forgot how terrifying Dortmund's home stadium was, and he didn't know that Dortmund's manager, Heathfield, who is still only a little famous, is also a pretty good tactician.

On February 28, with the cheers of nearly 60,000 Dortmund fans at the Westphalen Stadium, the Dortmund players used wonderful offensive coordination and tight defense to suppress Fiorentina playing away.

Similarly, the huge cheers of the 60,000 Dort's fans at the Westphalen Stadium also shocked the Fiorentina players to a certain extent, making them look a little restrained in this game; Meanwhile, the centre-back combination of Jürgen Kohler and Summerer was so solid that Baggio and Inzaghi couldn't find a counter-attack.

"Roar!" Jurgen Kohler yelled in excitement after a successful break from Effenberg's pass to Baggio, and since Fiorentina's return, he has finally been able to play his best as a top-class centre-back after being replaced by a top-class libero Summer, after being replaced by a top-class libero Summer, rather than having to carefully wipe his partner's ass.

Seeing that Fiorentina's counter-attack could not be played, the Dortmund players who had no worries became more and more courageous in the shouts of the home fans, and in the 33rd and 52nd minutes of the game, Chapu Issat and Andrés Müller scored one goal each to take a 2-0 lead on aggregate.

The genius teenager Rickon's goal in the 68th minute made the score 3-0 on the pitch and kicked Fiorentina into the abyss.

Had it not been for Ronaldo, who came on as a substitute and took advantage of a counter-attacking opportunity in the 78th minute to run long distances and score a valuable away goal for his team after running for the entire half, Fiorentina could have been a complete defeat in this game.

When the news of Fiorentina's 1-3 defeat to Dortmund in the first leg of the contest spread, the surprised German media issued a voice of "German football re-emergence", while Fiorentina, who lost away, was accused by many Italian media, and comments on "losing the face of Italian football" and "insiders in the civil war and outsiders" sprung up like mushrooms after a rain, and they didn't remember that last year they also praised Fiorentina, who had just won the European Cup Winners' Cup, as the pride of Italian football.

At the same time, many critics have accused Ranieri of being too conservative as the team's manager, holding a lot of good cards but not knowing how to use them, as if they could lead Fiorentina to the Champions League.

Just when public opinion was overwhelmingly criticizing the team and head coach Ranieri, Zhuang Mingge, as the president of the club, stood up at the right time and clearly expressed his support for Ranieri, which temporarily calmed down the turmoil.

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