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In the second leg of the Coppa Italia quarter-finals, Fiorentina played Roma for the fourth time this season.

In the previous three games, Fiorentina remained unbeaten with one win and two draws, and had a certain psychological advantage.

But this one was a battle of life and death, and Rome would never let Florence pass it easily.

In fact, the game was even harder than Fiorentina had imagined.

Roma are eighth in the league, close behind first-placed Juventus and unable to qualify for the UEFA Cup, which is like a lifeline for them, and they will never want to give up and must not give up.

A month ago, Roma manager Del Neri said: "Roma are still one of the strongest teams in Serie A and we still have hope of reaching the Champions League." ”

Now Deneri's words have changed, saying before the second leg of the Coppa Italia quarter-finals: "We have to prove that we are the best team in Italy, and the Coppa Italia is the best chance, this is the only chance we have to win the title, we must not give up." ”

In the game, the Roma players under pressure exploded, they put Fiorentina under pressure from the first minute of the game, and the full-court pressing left Fiorentina breathless, and the vicious fouls made people forget that this was once a championship team.

Fiorentina's determination is still a little worse than Roma's, they still have great hopes of winning the league, although they don't want to give up in the cup, but with such a strong fighting spirit and determination of the opponent, Fiorentina's players are afraid to win, and they are afraid of injury.

But the more you fear, the more you come, in the thirtieth minute of the first half, Prince Totti scored a beautiful free kick, and Roma overtook the aggregate score to: Fiorentina's away goal advantage also disappeared.

In the first minute, Fiorentina striker Mikoli was tackled after a powerful shot on goal, and Mondonico replaced him with Ricano.

Mikoli is Fiorentina's second goalscorer, with eight goals and has gradually become Chen's best partner, and his injury is a big blow to Fiorentina.

After falling behind, Fiorentina launched a counterattack.

Roma did not give an inch, they were not satisfied with the score of 1-0, and continued to attack after the goal, carrying out the tactics of pressing and vicious fouls all over the field, and were determined to beat Fiorentina's morale and avenge their defeat in the league.

Fiorentina suffered another major blow at the end of the first half, when their main centre-back Dainelli suffered a tackle injury and a thigh muscle strain.

Dainelli's injury hit Fiorentina harder than Mikcoli's injury, because in the forward line, there are players who can replace Mikoli, as long as Chen Yu, who scores more than one goal per game, is not injured, Fiorentina does not have to worry about scoring.

But there is no substitute for Dainelli.

So far this season, the reason why Fiorentina has been able to rank among the top three is mainly because of Chen Yu, who has scored crazy goals in front, and the back line with the smallest change, Chiellini, Maggio, Ujfarusi and Dainelli, the four of them are almost as thunderous as Chen Yu.

Now that Dainelli is injured, neither Derrickari nor Viari can replace him at the level of Dainelli, Derinkari and Viari are from Serie B, and Dainelli is prepared for Serie A, and this is the difference.

At half-time, Mondonico was furious.

"You're acting like a bunch of cowards, not like a bunch of men playing football at all, where is that? This is the Frankie Stadium, this is our home stadium, this is the stage where we perform, there are our fans sitting in the stands, but you let Roma go wild here and you don't have a fever on your face, do you feel ashamed or not, I know that you are afraid of getting hurt, but now you see no, none of the opponents are injured, and we have two players, you are afraid of being injured, not afraid of being injured, it is not up to us, but on the opponent, unless we give up this game......"

It was the first time that Mondonico had issued a stormy criticism, and there was silence in the locker room, including captain Chen Yu bowing his head, although Mondonico's authority did not have Capello, Ancelotti, Lippi and other gold medal coaches, but at this time, no one dared to face his anger.

“… With only three games to go until the Coppa Italia title, this is the closest trophy we can get, we have a chance to win our seventh Coppa Italia in our history, we have a chance to etch our name in the history of Florence, we have a chance to win this game"

Mondonico looked at the expressions of the players and found that their expressions were a little excited, and he immediately called Chen Yu up, "Chen, you are the captain, you can tell me, our problems in the first half, do we still have any hope?" ”

Chen Yu understands what the coach means, and as the captain, he must fully cooperate with the coach.

'In the first half we played too timidly, we were frightened by the opponent's fierce fouls, we were afraid of injury, we were unbeaten against Roma in three games because we were fighting them, now they are fighting us, there is hope, in the second half, I think the most important thing is that we can't concede any more goals, if we concede another one we have to score three goals, it is very difficult. As long as you don't concede a goal at the back, I guarantee that you will score in the front, Ricano, are you confident? ”

Rigano said, "No problem, as long as they can hold on." “

Mondonico said: "Did you hear it, our Chen team said, he guaranteed to score, Rigano also made a promise, in the second half, we have to show the ruthlessness with them, never back down, forget the league, now there are more than a dozen games left from the league, concentrate on winning this game." ”

In the second half, Fiorentina unified their will to win. They have already injured two players and if they lose this game again, it will be more than worth the loss. Either way, they have to give it a go.

Fiorentina let go of their hands and feet to fight Rome, Rome's advantage in the first half was gone, the two sides fought very fiercely, the opening ten minutes, Rome's midfielder Mancini Jr. was injured, which hit Rome's morale a lot, and the blow to their attack was even greater, and then Fiorentina had the upper hand in the midfield.

After the 75th minute of the hard-fought game, the leading Roma were a bit conservative and tried to hold on to their slim advantage, but Fiorentina were able to give it a go.

In the RU minute of the game, Fiorentina's substitute central defender Drica Li made a long pass to attack, Rigano stopped the ball on his chest to Chen Yu, Chen Yu inserted it at high speed, tossed the ball with his thigh, volleyed with his right foot, and the ball hit the crossbar like a cannonball and bounced into the net.

Fiorentina equalised and the aggregate score between the two sides became a draw.

With the same number of goals scored at home and away, the score would be played until the end of 90 minutes, and the two sides would have to play extra time.

Roma are not shy about playing extra-time with Fiorentina and they don't want to stay up for league play, while Fiorentina are keen to settle the game in 90 minutes.

With a little more than ten minutes remaining, Fiorentina went all out and Roma were forced to counter-attack.

Roma on the counter-attack were not without threat, but they became more threatening, and on 83 minutes, Totti's through ball gave Cassano a one-on-one chance to face goalkeeper Sejas.

It was a chance to kill the game, but Barry was genius to get past Sejas and was saved by Sejas. It caused countless Roma fans to sigh.

In the RU minute, De Rossi and Cassano formed a favorable situation of two against two in the back, but De Rossi was stabbed from behind by Obodo who returned to defend when he dribbled the ball.

The two counterattacks of Rome woke up the Florentines, who knew that they had not suppressed Rome's strength, and could only honestly retreat fifteen meters to fight against Rome.

In the 90 minutes of the game, neither side scored more goals, the game was tied and the two sides went to extra time.

In extra time, Chen Yu, who was super physical, and Ricano, who came on as a substitute, became the most active people, and the twin towers they formed also turned the Roma penalty area upside down.

In the first half of stoppage time, Chen Yu actually had the upper hand when competing for a header with the 1.97-meter Delas, Delas stuck the position, thinking that Chen Yu was difficult to cross, but Chen Yu rushed up from the big penalty area, pressed Delas, and broke through the door of Rome for the second time with a powerful header, rewriting the score as: Unwilling to admit defeat, Rome attacked. Fiorentina were given good space to counter-attack.

In the second half of stoppage time, Maresca went straight to the goal, and Chen Yu and Rigano formed a situation of double ghost shooting.

The faster Chen Yu dribbled the ball to goalkeeper Perizoli and did not shoot, and for the sake of safety, he selflessly passed to his teammate Ricano, who pushed the empty goal and completed his goal commitment

Trailing by two goals, Roma were also physically exhausted and could no longer organise a counter-attack, and Fiorentina struggled to qualify for the last four of the Coppa Italia at the cost of two injured men.

Although the Fiorentina victory is a miserable victory, but it is not without value, in another game in the same zone, Udinese defeated Milan 4:l at home, completed a big reversal, advanced to the semifinals, Fiorentina will face Udinese in the semifinals, compared with AC Milan, Udinese is definitely a little more tender, for Fiorentina, the chance of reaching the final is greater.

In the first half of the Coppa Italia quarterfinals, Inter Milan beat Atalanta 3-0 and advanced 4-0 on aggregate, while Cagliari advanced with an aggregate score of 4-3 despite losing to Sampdoria away, and their opponent was Inter Milan.