With Bayer Leverkusen out of the starting line-up, let's now look at Fiorentina's side.

Having been placed in a dangerous group of death by UEFA, Capello intends to try to win both Liverpool and Bayer Leverkusen to ensure Fiorentina have an advantage over Real Madrid in the group standings.

In Capello's eyes, Real Madrid, the La Liga champions who have been trained by Ranieri for a whole year, are the toughest opponents in this group.

Through the defensive system created by Ranieri, the Italian coach, and the offensive system that has been removed by the tinkerer, plus Raul, Davo Suker, Seedorf, Hierro and other top players, the strength of this Real Madrid team is now much stronger than the one two years ago.

Therefore, in this game, Capello did not have the slightest reservation, sent a full main lineup, and clearly wanted to win all three points at Leverkusen's home stadium.

Goalkeepers Toldo, Robert Carlos and Zambrotta split the flanks, with Stam and Nesta, who have improved rapidly over the past year, partnering in central defence, with the former marking his fellow Dutchman Meyer and the latter using his defensive versatility to fill holes in the backline.

In midfield, Effenberg, the best German player in the mix, was undoubtedly on the starting line-up, with Argentine Prince Redondo and Tiger forming a duo, with Davies and Tomasi in charge of sweeping up the midfield.

Up front, Capello brought on Ronaldo and Philippe Inzaghi in response to the slow-turning weakness of Leverkusen's two centre-backs, Warnes and Novotny, with the former's pace and the latter's tackling of the point enough to give Leverkusen's backline a headache.

Once the game began, Bayer Leverkusen, who had won the kick-off, took advantage of the home momentum to launch an attack on Fiorentina's door.

After receiving the return pass from his teammate in front, Emerson turned to resist Tomasi who ran over to grab the ball, and he was not afraid of the opponent's pressing at all, and pushed the ball to Heinze on the left, who immediately drove the ball along the sideline and rushed to the Fiorentina half.

Zambrotta, who was in charge of defending on the right flank, did not rush over to defend Heinze, because there was still Neuville lurking beside him, and if he was not careful, he would be beaten by the opponent to form a one-two.

Seeing that Zambrotta's defense was a little difficult, Tomasi, who had just returned to his own half, gave full play to his undead characteristics and ran to the defensive position in time to help Zambrotta resist Bayer Leverkusen's attack on the left.

The experienced Heinze observed Tomasi's action and immediately shifted the ball to the feet of Nico Kovac in the middle, and the Croatian midfielder won the ball and immediately went straight to the middle without waiting for the Fiorentina players to come over and defend!

The ball passed past Redondo and rolled to Meyer's feet, but the Dutch centre-forward was so hated by Stam that he couldn't turn around and shoot back to LaMelo who was involved in the attack. The latter was just about to shoot from a distance, but was robbed of the ball by Redondo, who arrived in time!

The Argentine prince immediately passed to Effenberg after winning the ball, and did not give LaMelo a chance to counter-attack on the spot, and he did not want to make another mistake against Udinese.

Effenberg looked up and looked up at the situation in front of him and sent a long ball over the top from the back of the center circle of the court!

Because Bayer Leverkusen pressed the whole team before and wanted to take advantage of the visitors' unstable foothold to launch a strong attack, when Fiorentina launched a counterattack, Leverkusen's players had not yet recovered from their attacking form.

In the competition of speed, the two central defenders of Warnes and Novotny are not aliens' opponents at all, so Ronaldo easily grabbed the ball before the two, and without making the slightest slowdown, he only took the ball and rushed towards the door of Leverkusen!

The next thing was simple, Ronaldo, who formed a one-on-one momentum, rushed into the Bayer Leverkusen penalty area, then shook Henin with a feint before sending the ball into the Leverkusen goal.

1 to 0! Fiorentina lead!

The Leverkusen players did not give in lightly and launched a ferocious counterattack after the restart!

But the result was that when the first half ended, Bayer Leverkusen were three goals down, with Ronaldo and Inzaghi scoring once each in the ensuing period to help Fiorentina end the first half with a 3-0 scoreline.

Fiorentina, who are three goals ahead, looked like they could have won the game early, and Bayer Leverkusen's helplessness against Fiorentina's concrete defence at the start of the second half gave people confidence that the visitors would win the game comfortably.

However, in the final ten minutes of the game, there was an unexpected change on the pitch.

In the 82nd minute, Heinze crossed the ball from a 45-degree angle on the left flank, and Meyer struggled to head the ball towards the goal under the interference of Stam. In the face of this difficult shot, Toldo did not take the ball into his arms, but let the ball bounce back into the box from his arms!

Toldo got away!

At this moment, Neuville appeared in the position where he should have been, and there was nothing exciting in the whole game, and he got this opportunity goal! I saw that the German striker easily pushed the far corner of the goal with his right foot, helping Bayer Leverkusen pull one back, 1-3!

Five minutes later, Bayer Leverkusen made a comeback, again with Heinze's cross from the left, and it was still Bayer Leverkusen's shot from inside the box, only this time it was the veteran Kirsten.

In the face of Kirsten's powerful shot, Toldo couldn't reach it, and the score became 2-3!

Towards the end of the game, Bayer Leverkusen chased the score gap to just one goal!

Bayer Leverkusen, who saw hope, launched a tidal wave of attacks on Fiorentina's goal in the final minutes, and in order to solidify the team's defence and avoid being equalised, Capello replaced Inzaghi with Di Biagio to strengthen the defense and hope to hold on to the lead.

The clock was ticking down in the tug-of-war between the two sides, and it was soon the final minute of stoppage time when Bayer Leverkusen's corner kicked.

In fact, it was already past the game time, but the referee decided to let the home team take the corner and then announce the end of the game.

Capello is naturally very dissatisfied with this, in his opinion, it is difficult to say whether Leverkusen, who has already gained momentum, will come to score a whistle at this time, and he naturally hopes to nip it in the bud for this unstable factor. However, the referee's decision could not be changed, so after a few words of protest to the fourth official, Capello complained and returned to the dugout.

At this moment, Nico Kovac took a corner kick and Kirsten met the ball directly with his right foot and volleyed it over! Toldo didn't react to his shot!

Unfortunately, Kirsten's last-minute shot hit the post and bounced off the line!

The referee didn't give the Leverkusen players another chance to equalize, and after the ball flew off the line, he blew the final whistle directly!

In this way, with goals from Ronaldo and Inzaghi, Fiorentina finally narrowly defeated Bayer Leverkusen 3-2 away and got their first victory in the group stage of this season's Champions League!