Paulo Sousa was taken off the pitch on a stretcher by Borussia Dortmund's team doctors.

Lying on a stretcher, Paulo Sousa covered his face tightly with his hands tightly and tears streaming down his fingers, and he had a feeling that this final would be the closest he would have come to a Champions League trophy in his career.

"Don't be in a hurry, first stabilize the defense, and then attack!"

After Paulo Sousa was stretchered off the pitch and the players returned to the pitch to rekick off, Heathfield, who had returned to the sidelines from the tunnel, made a gesture to the Dortmund players, and he did not lose his mind because of the loss of the big man in the game.

After all, this is the final of the Champions League, and any manager will think about and prepare for any unexpected situation in the game, so Paulo Sousa was injured and forced to leave the field early, and Heathfield was only a little surprised at first, but he will not surrender to Fiorentina because of this.

It's just that Fiorentina really caught Heathfield off guard by using the full-court pressing defensive style as soon as they came up. After all, in the period leading up to the game, everyone, including Heathfield, thought that Fabio Capello's Fiorentina would definitely play a defensive counter-attack in this final.

Therefore, Heathfield, who recognized this, used the tactics of positional attack in this final, and changed the team's formation to 352, intending to create a breakthrough through two wings, and Zuihou was followed up by Chap Issat and others in the middle to solve the battle.

If he had known that Capello would have dared to use the whole court to mark people in the Champions Cup final, Heathfield would not have let the players take the initiative to attack!

Heathfield has been in charge of Borussia Dortmund for so many years, so he has a high prestige among the players, and with his coaching ability and considerable dexterity, even the famous Summerer and Andrés Müller are convinced of him and are willing to submit to his tactical arrangements.

Therefore, after Heathfield made a "steady" gesture to the players, the Dortmund players with strong tactical execution quickly stabilized their positions and began to play according to the tactics arranged by the manager.

However, how could the Fiorentina players, who had already tasted the sweetness of the full-court pressing, just abandon this tactic that seemed to be quite restrained against Dortmund? Especially when Borussia Dortmund's midfield metronome Paulo Sousa has left the pitch injured and the opponent's control of the game has been greatly reduced, it is worth looking forward to the effect if Fiorentina continue to adopt pressing defensive tactics.

Although Zorke, who replaced Paulo Sousa, was quite brave and tenacious when scrambling, and he was very active in counter-attacking on the spot after conceding the ball, he still could not replace the Portuguese role in the team, and at the age of 35, he had begun to become sluggish in his reflexes and agility.

On the Fiorentina side, the organized and jihua front court siege turned Dortmund's backfield into a pot of porridge, forcing the opponent to spend a lot of energy on competing with Fiorentina for the ball, thus greatly reducing the possibility of Fiorentina's own goal being threatened by opposing players.

Borussia Dortmund's players weren't stupid either, and after a few rounds of battling with the Fiorentina they spotted the Italians' intentions. It stands to reason that they should have used long balls to rush at this time, but after Paulo Sousa went off, they really couldn't find a spot at the back to launch a long counter-attack...... Zolke and Lambert both tried, but their passes were either too strong for the strikers to catch at all, or they were a little less powerful and were intercepted first by the likes of Nesta at the back.

"Long passing is a jishu job, not that a player who can open big feet can do it." After smashing the ball in front of Riddle again and heading it to Redondo in front of him, Nesta whispered that in his opinion, the Dortmund people were completely blindly driving the ball and wasting precious game time without threatening Fiorentina.

Summerer is well suited to the task, but like Paul Sousa, who has already been played, he is physically limited and therefore doesn't have many opportunities for long passes. Even if there were, Batistuta would rush over to interfere at the first opportunity, reducing the likelihood of Summer's long pass being successful.

The players on both sides have been entangled for more than ten minutes, although they have not been able to score, but the fierce confrontation between the players on the field and a lot of shots still make many Fiorentina and neutral fans addicted.

As for the Dortmund fans, they have been watching this final with trepidation, for fear that the team will accidentally be scored by Fiorentina again, after all, the difference between being one goal behind and two goals behind is quite obvious.

With 43 minutes played, Borussia Dortmund finally had their best chance of the first half. Summerer finally made a long pass of great quality, the ball landed right in the area between Ferrara and Toldo, and Riddle, who was successfully countered offside, received the long ball before the Fiorentina players came up to defend!

"Riddle! Single Knife! 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 box, Riddle took a look at Toldo's position, and the 32-year-old knew he couldn't match the young and strong Nesta behind him in terms of speed. Therefore, the Dortmund striker's right foot directly on the run is a volley!

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

However, Toldo would not allow the ball to roll into the goal he was guarding so easily. The No. 1 goalkeeper of the Italian national team saved Fiorentina once again when he flew and saved the ball with one palm!

Riddle was stunned for a moment, he didn't expect the opposing goalkeeper to be so brave that he could even block this kind of ball.

Taking advantage of Riddle's stunned moment, Nesta, who had already arrived at the position, immediately cleared the ball with a big foot, and the ball flew directly to the front, Batistuta jumped up first and pointed the ball down, and Effenberg, who followed from behind, received the ball and went straight to the middle, and Ronaldo accelerated forward when he saw this!

Florentine's single knife!

Just as the Fiorentina fans were about to cheer, the referee's whistle sounded at an inopportune time, and the linesman raised his flag at the same time.

Ronaldo! Offside!

The Fiorentina fans in the stands let out a sigh, and they didn't complain too much, because the big screen just showed very clearly that at the moment of Effenberg's pass, the Dortmund defense led by Summerr took a step forward!

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

Shortly after Ronaldo was ruled offside, the referee blew the whistle for the end of the first half!

The first half of the game is over! Fiorentina lead Dortmund 1-0 at the Olympic Stadium in Munich!