Glasgow's Ebrox Stadium on 14 September.

The Ebrox Stadium, home of Glasgow Rangers, is one of the oldest and largest football stadiums in the UK. The stadium is also a UEFA five-star stadium with the highest attendance record of 118567, set in January 1939 when Rangers played Celtic, the most attendance league match in England. After a bit of modernization, the 57,000-seat Ebrox Stadium has become the second largest stadium in Scotland, behind Edinburgh's Molaifi Stadium.

Now, Fiorentina will play their first European Cup match in 25 years.

Compared to Fiorentina, who have no experience in the Champions League, Rangers, as one of the supremacies of the Soviet Super League, can be said to be quite experienced, although they have not achieved too many results in the Champions Cup in recent years, but the rich experience of the tournament can make up for this to a large extent.

At the same time, Glasgow, as the largest city in Scotland, naturally has a large number of fans here, and the cheers of more than 50,000 Scottish fans in the stadium can better stimulate the state of the home team players; Moreover, because the owner of Rangers is a famous British steel tycoon, and he is willing to invest in the team out of his pocket, so Rangers, who are not bad for money, have made a certain degree of reinforcement this season, Gascoigne transferred from Lazio, and another Brian Laudrup, who has not played in AC Milan, both have played in Serie A for many years, and are quite familiar with Fiorentina's team personnel and tactical play, which are quite unfavorable factors for Fiorentina.

Out of caution, Ranieri honestly played all the good cards in his hand in this game.

The goalkeeper is still Toldo, with Ferrara and Firicano partnering in central defence, with the two men having a lot of experience and height to deal with the opposition's veteran centre-forward McCoyster, and the two wings are Lanna and Billindley.

Up front, Ranieri eventually fielded a combination of Ronaldo and Roberto Baggio, given the opposition's superiority in scrambling for the ball in the air and physicality, with their jishu, speed and dexterity fearing the most in the older and slow-to-turn Rangers backline.

With Ronaldo and Baggio up front, Ranieri has made some changes to the midfield quartet this time, with Rui Costa replacing Djokaeff as the starting midfielder, and Fiorentina need the Portuguese's bloody pass to tear apart the opponent's backline, rather than the Frenchman's breakthrough, after all, Ronaldo and Baggio are also good at breaking through.

In addition to Costa, the other three in midfield are Effenberg, Kripa and Di Biagio, and Ranieri thought for a long time before choosing between Kripa and Davies, after all, Kripa has the advantage in terms of height when the defensive ability is about the same, and it is also more advantageous when defending high balls......

After the start of the game, to the cheers of more than 50,000 Rangers fans, the home team in blue uniforms under the command of Gascoigne established themselves in midfield, constantly breaking through from both wings of the stadium, trying to tear apart the Fiorentina defense from the flanks and hand it over to the old captain McCaucist in the middle to settle the battle.

Laudrup Jr. is indeed a top-class winger without being plagued by injuries, and his brilliant dribbling and breakthrough jishu on the right flank have left Rangers fans in a daze.

But Lanna, who is responsible for defending him, is not an idle person, having played against Laudrup Jr. when he was still playing for Sampdoria and is very familiar with his jishu style, so although he is a little lacking in ability, it is not a problem to defend against the right side of the Rangers.

As for Mikhailchenko on the left, the older Ukrainian has long since lost his former style, and he may be able to find a place in the rough Soviet Super League with Jishu, but in the face of the young Billindley, the Ukrainian midfielder is completely blocked......

After withstanding the Rangers' attack since the opening kick-off, Fiorentina's counter-attack slowly came out.

Ronaldo's excellent combination of man and ball and explosiveness made the notorious Basille Boly (who tackled Van Basten with a vicious foul in the UEFA Champions League final '93, leaving the Prince of Ballet at the peak of his career at the age of 28) helpless, and now it is not two years ago, when he could kick Basten's ankle with impunity, and now he is afraid of a long-term UEFA ban for doing so......

Rui Costa was behind the Brazilian with a steady stream of shells, Effenberg was in charge of combing the midfield, and Kripa was always ready to intercept the opponent's counter-attacks and buy the necessary time for his team-mates to return to the defence.

In the 21st minute of the first half, after a long entanglement with the Rangers players, Fiorentina finally scored the first goal of the Champions League this season, and Rui Costa in the front court received Effenberg's score and cleverly deducted the defense of the opposing midfielder Ian Ferguson, and sent a shot close to the ground, and the ball directly penetrated the Rangers' defense!

Ronaldo easily accelerated away from Boly, who was marking him, received the pass, and then shook the opposing goalkeeper out of center of gravity with a pendulum pass, and easily opened the door to victory for Fiorentina with a goalmouth push!

Fiorentina took the lead in the first round of the group stage!

After the deadlock was broken, the Rangers players started to get a little impatient, and although they were able to finish at least third in the group, everyone knew the difference between continuing to play in the Champions League and only going to the League Cup, the former meant more income and more exposure, and the latter was much worse - for Rangers who dominated the Scottish league, it was not interesting to go to the League Cup, they were more concerned about how far they could go in the Champions League.

Therefore, Rangers must not be eliminated in the group stage!

After the restart, in the face of the Rangers' attack, Fiorentina fearlessly pressed the opponent in the midfield, Kripa stubbornly entangled the opponent's playmaking core Gascoigne, Rui Costa also retreated to help, so that the England midfielder's organization in the middle was repeatedly frustrated, and their captain, and number one striker McCoyster, the form of this game was quite average, and he was not able to get too many chances under the attack of Ferrara and Firicano.

Fiorentina are well on their way to their first Champions League victory!

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