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Just when fans and pundits across Europe were debating which team would be able to stop Fiorentina, the fifth round of the group stage of the UEFA Champions League was quietly approaching.

This time, Fiorentina will travel to Anfield, one of England's most famous stadiums, where they will take on Liverpool.

With Real Madrid, who are currently second in the group, only five points on their hands, Liverpool have a good chance of qualifying from this group of death if they make the most of their remaining two games.

For the Liverpudlians, the final round clash with Real Madrid at the Santiago Bernabeu is an absolute winner, as the outcome of that game is likely to directly determine the fate of both teams in this season's Champions League.

Similarly, in this second leg against Fiorentina, the Liverpudlians must do their best to win, in case Real Madrid win Bayer Leverkusen away and the Reds are beaten by Fiorentina, then the final round of the game is also meaningless.

Therefore, for this crucial game, Evans sent all the main players who could play: goalkeeper David James, in the backline, Mateo and Carragher partnered in the middle, the left back is Norwegian Bjonabi, and the right wingback is local player Robert Jones; In midfield, McManaman is on the left, McCartel is on the right, and Redknapp Jr. and Paul Ince are the defenders, because Liverpool's traditional British four-four-two parallel position during the Evans period has no clear distinction between the front and the back; In the forward line, German striker Riddle, who has been transferred from Borussia Dortmund for a high price, and Liverpool's "God" Robbie Fowler are partnered in the attack, while Michael Owen, who has recently been on fire in the UK, is on the bench.

Looking at Fiorentina, after qualifying from the group early, the Purple Lily, who have accumulated 10 points in four games, only need one point in their final two games to basically secure top spot in the group - unless Real Madrid can outscore their opponents by more than 10 goals in their final two games.

Considering that the team will compete for the Toyota Cup in that far-flung part of Japan next week, in order to reduce the physical consumption of the players as much as possible and ensure that they have a good form in the Toyota Cup to cope with the South American champions, Capello decisively chose to fight against the waterproof in this game, and sent a large number of substitutes in the starting lineup.

After all, with group qualification already confirmed, a Toyota Cup trophy is of course more important than a Champions League group stage, even if the opponent is the famous Liverpool.

De Sanctis, Angeloma, Ferrara, Materazzi, Fortunato, Zanetti, Tomasi, Di Biagio, Ze Roberto, Julio Cruz and Vieri, these are the Fiorentina starting line-ups.

By the way, when Liverpool manager Evans saw Fiorentina's starting list, like Sampdoria coach Menotti a week ago, he was lying in a groove in his heart: why are Italians so virtuous, as soon as they have the advantage, they start to think about how to defend it?

Fortunately, Evans has not yet reached the age of his fate, so he is lucky not to have sudden hypertension and cerebral thrombosis.

Evans knows that this is Capello's ploy, and he is sure that Liverpool must win all the last two rounds of the group stage in order to qualify from the group, and naturally rely on attack to score goals and win.

Now that he knows that the opponent is definitely going to play attacking football, Capello must of course take advantage of this, so he let Fiorentina, who have no worries about the future and is about to go to the east to play the Toyota Cup, put on an iron bucket formation posture at Anfield, and use this way of putting a bus at the door to stifle the opponent.

Maximizing the benefits of limited resources is a must for every Italian coach (to put it bluntly, playing defensive counter-attacks with opponents after taking the lead).

In the face of the shameless Capello, Evans can only order the Liverpool players to attack with all their might from the start of the game and do everything they can to win a victory.

Liverpool's offense is quite powerful, Fowler's point grabbing in the penalty area, Redknapp's organization and McManaman's breakthrough, and the tacit cooperation between the "Little Tigers" make the Reds' attack like a cloud of peers, full of passion in the gorgeous, so that the fans are relaxed and happy.

Because in the Premier League, countless teams have been scored by Liverpool with attacks, so when the Reds players returned to the Champions League stage after more than ten years, they thought that they could easily qualify for the round of 16 as they did in the league.

However, when their opponents switched to a team of Fiorentina's calibre, the situation started to change dramatically.

In the first leg of the group stage, the Liverpool players were surprised to find that their attack was greatly hampered by the Italian reinforced concrete defence built by the Fiorentina players. Due to the limited space for attack, Redknapp simply did not have the space to step in and organize calmly; Although McManaman broke through sharply, he could only obediently admit in the face of a vote of Fiorentina players; Fowler has been repeatedly bullied by Ferrara and Stam in partnership, although he has a first-class nose in front of goal and superb shooting skills, but it is naturally impossible to score goals when he can't get the ball.

Thus, in Italy, the Liverpool players suffered an unforgettable defeat at the Frankie Stadium at the mighty Fiorentina 4-1.

And in this second meeting, Liverpool's coaching staff clearly did not come up with any effective response to this authentic Italian-style defence.

Although the venue was changed to Anfield, which is most familiar to Liverpool players, God is also quite beautiful and there is no trouble, and the tens of thousands of fans in the stands are Liverpool fans. The right time and place are all right, but Liverpool just can't break down the opponent's goal.

Compared to Liverpool's long-term attack, Fiorentina, who concentrated on defense, almost took advantage of a quick counterattack to sneak attack: in the 53rd minute of the game, Materazzi grabbed Fowler's pass and cleared McManaman's pass with a big foot, Vieri in the middle circle of the stadium pressed Matteo's header to cross, and Ze Roberto, who followed up at high speed from behind, received the ball to form a one-on-one ...... If Carragher hadn't rushed to the goal line to clear the ball in time, Liverpool would have faced the embarrassing situation of falling behind by one goal.

Although they were lucky not to concede a goal, Fiorentina's counter-attack also scared Liverpool a lot, so the home team had to slow down the formation to avoid being really defeated by the opponent next time.

In this way, under Capello's careful planning, Liverpool, who had no way to say anything in the face of Fiorentina's turtle shell, finally drew 0-0 with the Purple Lily at home!