PS: Continue to ask for recommendation votes here, free books don't need everyone to spend money, and it should be okay to give more recommendation votes, right? Thank you here~

“Goooooooal！ Fiorentina scored! It was Frédéric Ljungberg who scored the goal! It was a clever shot in front of goal! From the slow-motion replay, we can see that before Ljungberg's shot, the Arsenal defenders' attention was all focused on Ronaldo and Vieri, letting go of the Swede's marking, and it was this negligence that led their goal to fall again! Now Fiorentina are two goals ahead of home team Arsenal at the Highbury Stadium! It seems that even Arsenal, who are the champions of the Premier League, will not be able to stop Fiorentina's fierce attack at their home stadium! ”

"The situation that Arsenal are facing now has become quite difficult! Not only did they have one less man on the pitch, but they were also two goals behind Fiorentina in the scoreline! In that case, they would have equalised. ”

"Maybe Wenger should consider changing his strategy and finding a way to get Arsenal not to concede goals in this game, after all, this is only the first leg, even if you lose, it's nothing, as long as you don't lose too badly and lead the rest of the game to be passive......"

While the commentator chattered, Wenger also looked helplessly at this somewhat erosive situation on the field. However, at this time, he was still hesitating, whether it was time to break the cauldron and fight with Florence at this time. Arsene Wenger didn't make a decision because the game, played at home, was important, but it wasn't a matter of life or death. If they don't get back on the scoreline and are counter-attacked by Fiorentina to score a few more goals, then Arsenal's Champions League this season is really hopeless.

Capello, by contrast, doesn't have so many concerns. After Fiorentina took a 2-0 advantage, he immediately ordered his team to shrink the formation, while patiently playing the ball in the middle of the field, passing it around was not an attack. If the Arsenal players rush up and press, then Fiorentina will have a good game with them to grab the circle, using the pass to drain the opponent's physical energy, slowly weakening Arsenal, so that they can no longer launch a counterattack.

In this way, under the hesitation of Wenger and the command of Capello, Fiorentina ended the first half with a score of 2-0!

Anelka walked into the tunnel in a rage, he barely touched the ball a few times in the entire first half, and was walked like a stupid donkey by the opponent with a large number of midfield backs, which made the French rising star who was ready to give Fiorentina a little color to see.

Seeing Anelka like this, Bergkamp couldn't help frowning, and then quickly relieved, in his opinion, this is the expression that a young player with enthusiasm and arrogance should be.

However, what the Ice Prince did not expect was the fact that Arsenal was beaten by Fiorentina in the game, which made Anelka realize for the first time the huge gap in strength between Arsenal and the top giants, and at the same time planted a seed in an unknown place in his heart.

After the start of the second half, Fiorentina still controlled the ball as firmly as before, so that the unwilling Arsenal players could only face the door of Fiorentina helplessly - they couldn't even grab the ball, so how did they get back the score?

If it weren't for Bergkamp's sudden outburst in the 71st minute of the game, he made a series of stunned dribbles like a god, breaking through the defense of Makelele, Redondo, and Stam in a row and knocking the ball to the middle of the penalty area.

Bergkamp's performance was also the only highlight of the entire second half. Other than that, Arsenal, who were playing with one man less, were largely unable to press Fiorentina effectively in midfield, and most of the time they were either cautiously guarding against surprise attacks or being teased like headless flies.

Fiorentina, on the other hand, are more likely to pass back and forth from midfield and back-to-back to kill time, only to launch an attack when they find that the opponent is about to move, allowing the Arsenal players to retreat into the half-court defence.

However, even so, Fiorentina still created a few good chances to score in the second half, but unfortunately Vieri and others were not very lucky, and the ball shot was either saved by Seaman who was guarding the goal, or kicked it on the goal frame and bounced out!

Arsene Wenger was frustrated by Fabio Capello's realistic and almost boring tactical philosophy, because if Fiorentina intended to continue to attack in the second half to further extend the lead, he could also allow his players to drop back to lure Fiorentina into pressing, and then use the speed of the likes of Overmars and Anelka to launch a quick counter-attack.

However, Capello did not give Wenger a chance to turn the tables at all, and the extremely realistic Italian coach would rather give up a chance to win a morale-boosting away game than a secure victory.

Of course, Wenger will not admit that the reason why he is not used to Capello's realism is because it is inconsistent with his rather idealistic tactical philosophy.

Finally, when the referee blew the whistle for the end of the game, Fiorentina defeated Arsenal 2-1 in the first leg of the contest between the two sides, winning the game without shock, and took a solid step on the road to the quarterfinals of the Champions Cup!

At the post-match press conference, in the face of a large group of reporters' questions about the process of the game, Wenger replied with a bit of a sense of not losing the game: "I am very satisfied with the performance of the players in the game tonight, we still managed to stabilize the situation with one less player and a goal down soon after the game, and we were not beaten by the opponent by a big score, which is enough to prove the strength of our Arsenal!" I am sure that in the second leg in half a month's time, we will definitely be able to impress Mr. Capello and his team at the Frankie Stadium! ”

"Well, I'm also a big believer in that." In the face of Wenger's provocation, Capello, who was at the other end of the table, nodded very cooperatively and said, "Half a month later, I will be waiting for the Frankie Stadium, hoping that the Arsenal backline without Keown can have a better performance." ”

Ignoring the teasing elements of Capello's words, Wenger continued his speech, but this time it was a bit of a stunner. Because in this passage, Wenger expressed his dissatisfaction with the red card shown by the referee to Keown in the game: "Martin (Keown) was sent off was the turning point of this game, Martin is a good player, he will never make malicious and hurtful actions, the foul on Ronaldo is just his impulse." I think a penalty is enough, and adding a red card is a bit of a penalty. ”