Nico Gonzalez’s wrong foot (the right) and a counterattack concluded by Biraghi took Fiorentina to the Conference League semi-final with Brugge. Like a year ago, the Viola are among the elite of European football. It took extra time and a tremendous effort to get to the finish line, but yesterday Fiorentina fully deserved the victory. He wanted it, he looked for it, he also played (the entire first half certainly) his aggressive and quality football. Viktoria Plzen, as in the first leg, only thought about defending themselves, found themselves with ten men due to Cadu’s expulsion in the 21st minute of the second half and in the end they couldn’t hold up after seven European matches without conceding a goal. But it had to go like this, the opposite would have been sensational, with the Czechs in the semi-finals and the Italian team at home. Except that the Viola got into a haunted match, the reflection of a season where bad luck often plays a role.
In the end, in this infinite match full of energy spent there are also two posts, a crossbar (25 of the woodwork was hit by the Viola in all competitions!) and five extraordinary interventions by Jedlicka, Viktoria’s shuttered goalkeeper. In the 90th minute the statistics spoke of 26 shots by Fiorentina against 2 and 73% of ball possession for Italiano’s boys. It couldn’t have ended with an elimination, but having dragged this match to extra time confirms the story of this season: Fiorentina is a rollercoaster, up and down, unable to make things simple with the strength of their own qualities. He writes it Corriere dello Sport.
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