After the match against Bologna, the Fiorentina players did not get the chance to rest this time because they have a very painful schedule ahead of them.

Fiorentina host a menacing Manchester United in the second leg of the quarter-finals of the UEFA Champions League on March 12 in a fierce battle for a place in the Champions League semi-finals.

Fiorentina will face three successive league games in the 24th round away against rival Sacchi's AC Milan, in the 25th round at home to the talented goalkeeper Gianluigi Buffon's Parma, and in the 26th round, Fiorentina will face another Milan side from Milan City, the Nerazzurri of Roy Hodgson.

And, if Fiorentina beat Manchester United to advance to the Champions League semi-finals, Fiorentina will have to play the winner of the Champions League semi-final tie between Juventus and Atletico Madrid in the week following the 26th round of league play......

Facing five strong opponents in a row in less than a month, Fiorentina have had enough luck.

However, complaining clearly does not help to solve these problems, and Capello is only paying lip service to the situation, and more often than not, he spends his time training and studying the opponents.

On the evening of the 12th, the Frankie Stadium welcomed the second leg of the Champions League quarter-finals between Fiorentina and Manchester United as scheduled.

In order to avoid capsizing in the gutter, although the team led 4-2 on aggregate, Capello did not dare to take it lightly, and sent almost all the starters from the first leg on the pitch, only making some minor adjustments up front - Philippe Inzaghi, who started in the first leg, was on the bench this time, replaced by Fiorentina captain Batistuta.

After all, Inzaghi played the entire 90 minutes against Bologna three days ago, and his fitness and competitive condition are really difficult to estimate, and if he happens to be at a low point, Capello will want to cry without tears.

On the other hand, Ferguson also made some changes to Manchester United's starting line-up for this game.

First up front, Ferguson put Ole Gunnar Solskjaer on the starting line-up due to Andy Cole's recurrence of an old injury after the first leg and he needed to be out for a month, after all, there are not many reliable strikers in United's first-team squad right now.

In midfield, Ferguson did not put on the golden midfield that Manchester United fans are talking about, but replaced Paul Scholes in the forward position with Nicky Bart, strengthening the midfield defense while allowing Cantona to take on more attacking tasks in the middle. Of course, Ferguson's main aim was to get United's attack around Fiorentina's toughest central defence, and more from the flanks of Ryan Giggs and David Beckham.

Fiorentina has many advantages in this game, such as the second leg of the match is played at their home stadium, and the strong home atmosphere of the Frankie Stadium can often allow Fiorentina players to play at a super level; At the same time, the 4-2 victory in the first leg and the advantage on the field also gave the Fiorentina players more initiative and psychological advantage in this game.

However, Fiorentina, who are playing at home, also face a downside, that is, God does not seem to be very good with them. From the night before the match, Florence received a continuous light rain across the city, which really caught Capello off guard, after all, when the field was too slippery, many of Fiorentina's ground attacking tactics could not be implemented smoothly.

Therefore, Capello had to temporarily modify the team's tactics for this game, asking the players to reduce some of the tactical coordination of ground attacks, adding some long passes and hanging plays, with Barty's liliang and physical condition and Ronaldo's speed, coupled with the accurate long passes of Redondo and others, Fiorentina is enough to make the opponent drink a pot if he really plays a long pass and rush.

Capello is also rejoicing in his heart at the moment, fortunately, he put a high striker like Barty when he submitted the starting list, otherwise it would be unrealistic for Fiorentina to play a long pass.

As Capello had predicted, the muddy pitch made it difficult for both sides to play a good cross-cutting link-up, greatly limiting the ground attack for both teams, forcing players on both sides to quickly move the ball up front and then create scoring opportunities through the individual abilities of the strikers.

As both teams coincidentally used the tactics of long passes and hanging downs, the tempo of the game was raised to a fairly fast level from the start.

On the muddy turf, players from both sides fought aggressively and then quickly attacked the opposing goal. Ole Gunnar Solskjaer was flying in the Fiorentina penalty area one minute before the ball fell to Batistuta's head the next minute and turned into a header.

However, neither team's shots posed much of a threat to the goal during this period, and the slippery field and continuous light rain greatly affected the accuracy of the shots, so the players on both sides used a lot of running and positive attitude to get used to the field under their feet as soon as possible.

After all, whoever can adapt to such a venue first will be able to take the initiative on the field first.

In the end, it was Fiorentina who played at home that took the lead in adapting to the venue, anyway, the Frankie Stadium is also their home stadium, and the Florence players are naturally much more familiar with this stadium than Manchester United, who may not have come to the last time in a few years, even if the situation of the field is a little different from usual because of the rain, but the feeling of most places is still the same, so after the first twenty minutes of the game, Fiorentina gradually found the feeling of the game occupied the initiative on the field!

Batistuta was very active on the pitch - he was the captain of Fiorentina and at this point he felt that he had to step up and lead the team to victory!

In the 25th minute, Redondo made a long pass from the backfield, Ronaldo in the front field unloaded the ball in the run and began to counterattack, and the alien shook Bart and Keane who came to defend him in the sprint, and then distributed the ball to Batistuta who ran into the penalty area!

Barty, who received the pass, adjusted a little in the box and fired a volley straight from the spot, but his shot was blocked by Schmeichel and a Fiorentina corner.

Immediately after, Effenberg whipped in a tactical corner, which after a couple of passes found itself at the feet of Batistuta, who had been pulled out of the box.

Barty did not choose to stop the ball, but faced the direction where the ball was flying, and turned directly to volley with his right foot the moment the ball reached his side!

Barty's shot was so decisive that almost all Manchester United players didn't expect that the Argentine striker would turn and hit the goal without stopping the ball!

Fortunately, Schmeichel's concentration was enough, although his team-mate blocked his view, but the Manchester United goalkeeper relied on his own prediction to pounce on the left side and pressed the ball under him!

In this way, with Schmeichel's brilliant performance, Manchester United were lucky to escape in the first half.