Forlan's shot was just a call for Villarreal's counterattack, and then Villarreal's two full-backs suicidally attacked in front, and Senna also frequently stepped forward to shoot from distance and grab points, which brought more difficulties to Fiorentina's defense.

Originally, Prandelli's tactics were for Tony, Chen Yu and Fiore to stay in front and be responsible for attacking, but now, Prandelli also had to let the three come back two, leaving only one Toni to press Villarreal's two central defenders in front.

Prandelli is a very flexible Italian coach, he will change his tactical arrangement according to the change of the situation on the field, and he has the courage to deny himself, at first he tried his best to increase the score, but now looking at the situation, he thinks that L: Stay until the end of the first half is also a good result.

Chen Yu also felt the severity of the game situation, if Villarreal equalized, not only Fiorentina's efforts in the half were in vain, but he was afraid that the psychological burden would be even greater, he quickly made adjustments, and switched his consciousness to defensive midfield superstar Gerrard, which can not only help the team defend, but also will not delay the opportunity to counterattack.

Villarreal deserves to be a La Liga team, don't look at them as a team that focuses on defense and counter-attack, and they play a counterattack with all their might, and there are still many tricks and methods, which makes Fiorentina unable to defend.

However, Fiorentina is also worthy of a Serie A team, in the case of the front, middle and back three players working together to defend, Villarreal's attack did not achieve a substantial threat, there are too many defensive players, a player's mistake will be immediately made up by other players, the hole brought by the change of defense line is also fleeting, Villarreal is not a giant like Real Madrid Barcelona after all, it is difficult to seize such a hole in a short time.

Villarreal dominated the last six minutes of the first half, but the score was not changed, and Fiorentina used a tight and tenacious defense to maintain the l-0 advantage until halftime.

It wasn't exciting enough to be passive, but it was a Champions League quarter-final and the score was better than everything else, and the Fiorentina fans gave their players a round of applause for their 45 minutes of effort. The mood of the players is also good, everyone completely played the goal set by the coach before the game, and took the lead in the score, as for the passivity in the last few minutes, everyone did not have too much worry, after all, it was a half-game, the opponent also reached the round of 16, it is impossible to have no strength at all, and in the second half of the game, they cannot let the opponent have no chance at all.

Back in the dressing room, Prandelli gave every player a hug and praised them highly, "Playing well, attacking well, defending back, Villarreal doesn't have many chances, if we continue to play like this, we will score another goal in the second half and keep a clean sheet against the opponent is not far away." ”

"In the second half, we have to play with the two of them again and let them know where this is."

"Make them happy for a while, and let them go home crying in the second half."

'The clean sheet is the most important thing.'

The players are very excited, the Champions League quarterfinals, there are not many games of this level, they played very well, and everyone has expressed that they want to score more goals in the second half.

Prandelli saw that the players were a little too excited and felt that they needed to cool them down, so he said: "You have to remember that this is a Champions League quarter-final, our opponent is by no means a fish belly, not a few if we want to score a few, everyone has to be ready to play a tough game, in the second half, our goal is still to try to score more goals on a solid basis, clean sheets are the first, goals are the second, as long as we can hold on until 70 minutes, I believe we will have a lot of chances." ”

Team deputy Dainelli, as the backbone of the defense, looked at the problem more calmly, said: "I think the important thing in the second half is to defend, defend, there is a chance to attack, the ability of the La Liga team to defend is average, we have to believe in Chen and Tony." ”

Chen Yu said: "Well, leave the offense to us, and do a good job of defense." ”

Toni said: "Don't worry, we'll score in the second half. ”

Prandelli said: "Defending is everyone's business, don't rely on defenders alone, in the second half everyone continues to play according to our established tactics, okay, now have a good rest, we believe everyone, we will definitely reach the quarterfinals." ”

The home team's dressing room was harmonious, but the away team's dressing room was noisy.

'We were too slow and gave the opposition plenty of chances to defend.'

"It's not that we're slow, it's that the opponent has too many people defending."

"We all wait for our teammates to run out of position, and we don't run ourselves, how can there be any space."

"The strikers should have a breakthrough."

"If you don't break through in the midfield, let's face a few defenders to break through?"

Almost everyone is complaining about other people, although the complaints are all facts, but the scene and result of the game are by no means caused by a certain line, so everyone feels very wronged.

Coach Manuel Pellegrini has always been a very calm person, and he couldn't help but be angry at this time, and slammed the closet, "Don't complain, it's everyone's fault, we didn't take the chances, we gave the opponent a lot of opportunities, we controlled the ball in midfield, but there weren't many chances created, everyone was responsible, but now is not the time to complain, we must let go of all grievances and work together to get the score back in the second half." Don't look at the fact that we are down 0:l now, as long as we can get it back, L:l is a draw comparable to a victory, if you don't score a goal, it's useless to say anything. ”

Pellegrini's words hit the nail on the head, although it is now 0:l behind, but in fact, Villarreal is not much more passive than when it was 0:0, as long as they score, they can still be regarded as leading half a goal, and they are still active when they return to home.

The players actually understood, but the score was behind, and the onslaught could not score, which made them lose their coolness, and now when the manager says this, the players have calmed down and temporarily suppressed the anger.

Seeing that the players were calm, Pellegrini patiently pointed out the problems that occurred in the first half to the players, and at the same time planned the tactical arrangements for the second half to prepare for the second half and Fiorentina again.

Halftime is a rare adjustment time for fans, otherwise it is very tiring to watch 90 minutes in a row, most fans go to the toilet at this time, and then buy some zero beer or something after going to the toilet, but because the atmosphere between the two sides before the game is not friendly enough, everyone is nervous to watch the game again, and now some extreme fans begin to provoke the other party's fans, stacking across the barrier, throwing sundries, messing up the stands, and some people try to rush through the isolation zone to do it, However, the security guards and blast police arrived in time to drive the fans back.

Fifteen minutes passed, the players walked out of the dressing room, the stands immediately returned to calm, and all the fans turned their eyes to the stadium.

The quarter-finals of the Champions League are very important for both Fiorentina and Villarreal, who have never reached the quarter-finals, Fiorentina's best result is the quarter-finals, they both have hopes of making history, and the fans certainly don't want to miss a minute.

Referee Merck looked at the time, forced a snort, and blew the whistle for the start of the second half.

In the first half, Villarreal made a lot of effort at the beginning and end, and played Fiorentina very embarrassed, and after the start of the second half, Villarreal also followed the lines of thought in the first half, ready to play Fiorentina by surprise, but Fiorentina was very well prepared, and the pace of the game was raised quickly at the beginning, and the pressure in the midfield was much stronger than in the first half.

It turned out that Villarreal would only lose the opportunity to take the ball calmly at the front of the penalty area, and now they are difficult to calm down in the backfield, Chen Yu and Toney have stepped up their pressing in the front, making Villarreal's attack difficult from the source.

Villarreal was very passive, making mistakes in the midfield, especially Riquelme, teammates passed him a lot of balls, but Fiorentina strengthened his two-man scramble, less than five minutes into the opening game, Riquelme was tackled twice, fortunately, Senna, Tacinati Riquelme's protection was in place, did not let these two mistakes become Fiorentina's scoring opportunities.

Fiorentina's pressing lasted fifteen minutes before slowing down, and Villarreal regained the midfield advantage and the two sides returned to the rhythm of the middle of the first half, with the ball in the Fiorentina half, but unable to find the Fiorentina penalty area. Fiorentina didn't have many chances to get the ball, but the ball was at the feet of Chen Yu and Toney.

Although Pellegrini was a little surprised by Fiorentina's opening attack, he was not surprised and anxious about the current stalemate, and he had already thought of countermeasures: forwards and forwards broke through, full-backs assisted, and midfielders and central defenders inserted points and long-range shots at the right time. Although this correspondence is a bit risky, but Pellegrini is very eager for away goals, he would rather concede another goal, but also strive for a goal, he can accept the score: l, but can not accept the score of 0:l, if there is no away goal, it will be too uncomfortable to return to the Love Song Stadium, not to mention that the tactics are not easy to arrange, the psychological pressure alone is enough to crush these rookies who participated in the quarterfinals for the first time.

Fifteen minutes into the second half, Villarreal's attack suddenly intensified, with all three lines pressed together, the full-backs assisted, opened the gap in the middle, and gave full play to Riquelme's passing ability, and the sudden insertion of the central defenders and midfielders became a nightmare for Fiorentina's backline, because they were not prepared to defend the central defenders at all.

In the 17th minute of the game, Riquelme passed straight to Forlan, who could not move forward under the marking, and could only knock the ball back to Senna, who was inserted.

Senna was also defended, but when Senna passed the ball back to Pena, Fiorentina didn't go up to mark Pena, because everyone had the task of marking.

Pena dribbled the ball unmarked to the edge of the box and by the time the Fiorentina player could react, he was already on target.

Pena shot hard into the bottom left corner of the goal, but the defender's footwork really couldn't compare with the striker, he had a lot of force in this kick, but he didn't hit it on target, and the ball flew off the post about half a meter or so out of the bottom line.

However, Pena's insertion shot still startled Prandelli, he understood that Pellegrini was desperate, he did not dare to slack off, and immediately made substitution adjustments, Jorgensen, who was both offensive and defensive, came on the field, replaced Pachenza, and let Jorgensen keep an eye on the opponent's central defender, and at the same time strengthen the attack, not allowing Villarreal to easily hit the Fiorentina half.