Standing in the center circle were Tony and Di Natale, while Chen Yu stood directly behind them.

Barcelona were lined up with Samuel Eto'o and Lionel Messi in the centre circle, with Ronaldinho behind them on the left.

The game was played at 45 p.m. local time in Spain, and there was still about a minute before the start of the game, and the referee Bennett stepped on the ball and looked at his watch from time to time, and the fans and players in the stadium were nervously waiting for the start of the game.

Today is Messi's first start in the Champions League, he looks at the stands from time to time, looking for his father Jorge and brother Rodrigo, but the Camp Nou, which can accommodate more than 100,000 people, is almost full of fans, where can Messi see his father and brother.

African cheetah Eto'o saw Messi's uneasiness, he took Messi, "Leao, don't be nervous, believe in yourself, you will succeed." ”

Messi whispered: "Thank you, Samuel, I'm not nervous." ”

Samuel Eto'o said: "Well, you just hit them down the right flank, don't be afraid to lose the ball. ”

Messi looked at Brockie, who was standing directly in front of him, and his nervousness disappeared slightly, "I'm not afraid." ”

"Forced"

A minute passed, at 45 p.m., and with Bennett's whistle, the Champions League group stage between Fiorentina and Barcelona officially kicked off.

Fiorentina returned the pass, Messi, Eto'o, Ronaldinho as the vanguard quickly stepped forward, followed by their midfielders and defenders, like a tide to the Fiorentina half.

Fiorentina's return pass was not slow, but Barca's forward cut was quicker, and as soon as the ball reached the back line, Barca's front three arrived and pressed Fiorentina's back four at the same time. Fiorentina's defenders wanted to pass the ball to the midfield, and at this time Barcelona's midfielder had already passed the center circle, and the defenders also came to the center circle, and even goalkeeper Valdés stood in front of the big penalty line.

Fiorentina had never encountered such a situation, even in the face of the strong Serie A triling, the opponents did not put so much pressure on their backline, the opponents from the striker to the defender overwhelmingly, so that the defender looked up, there was not a passing point, it seemed that there were Barcelona players in every position.

Marcho, who got the ball, made a long pass to Tony, and he was left with only this option.

The ball fell to Barça's feet as a matter of course.

At such a long distance, Barcelona's defenders can fully prepare for all defenses, Toney tried to give the ball to Di Natale under the defense of two defenders, but it was stolen by Xavi, and Di Natale was easily turned and shook by Xavi when he counterattacked.

The ball was repeatedly passed between the players of Barcelona, the position of the pass was in the half of Florence, the players of Florence pressed with all their might, wanting to destroy Barcelona's attack, but let the players of Florence force to grab no matter how active, Barcelona's passing was not chaotic at all, constantly in the front, middle and backfield to do horizontal and vertical passing, really forced by Florence to be anxious, the ball was passed directly back to the feet of their goalkeeper Valdés, and then the four defenders retreated to meet Valdés, and continued to pass after getting the ball.

Back and forth, the ball had been passed at Barca's feet for almost two minutes, and Fiorentina not only failed to steal it, but also failed to make Barca make a mistake.

Fiorentina's striker ran behind the ball, but he couldn't touch the ball, not even anyone, he was a little deflated and angry, so he simply gave up pressing, as long as the ball was only within 30 meters, let Barcelona pass it at will.

Fiorentina thought that Barcelona's short passes would not be a threat until within 30 meters, but they didn't know that Barcelona didn't know how to pass long, their passes were just because the strikers didn't run their positions, and once the strikers ran into good positions, they had no problem with long and short passes.

In the third minute of the game, the African cheetah Eto'o suddenly turned around and ran towards the penalty area when he retreated, and at this time Xavi suddenly accelerated, and the ball flew more than 30 meters like a missile, penetrating Fiorentina's midfield and going to Eto'o in the run.

The cheetah started and turned so fast that Fiorentina's two centre-backs, Dainelli and Ujfarusi, would have been almost impossible to stop and turn to defend Eto'o.

Thankfully, Frei's attention was highly focused at this time, and when Xavi's long pass was played, Frei was quick to attack, and when Eto'o wanted to shoot, Frei grabbed ahead of Eto'o and saved the ball desperately.

The ball flew in front of Pancaro, who was standing on the left side of the penalty area, and Pancaro kicked the ball forward with a big kick.

Pancaro thought it would be safe to drive the ball to the front, but Barcelona's attack was never so simple, Eto'o's rush made Fiorentina's defensive position change greatly, when Pancaro cleared the ball, the formation did not recover, the ball fell in front of Van Bronthorst, Van Bronthorst stopped the ball on his chest, and almost without any pause, he made a long pass to Ronaldinho on the left side and continued to attack.

Van Bronckhorst couldn't have controlled his strength and speed at such a distance, but Ronaldinho's ball sense was excellent, and he easily stopped the ball with his thigh, and then knocked his heel diagonally to Deco in the back row.

Deco didn't dribble the ball and crossed straight down the middle, and Van Bommel followed up with a long-range shot.

Barcelona's attack was fast, from the back to the front, to Van Bommel to shoot, Fiorentina's centre-back had just returned to his position, and there was no chance to intercept, and goalkeeper Frei had just returned to goal.

Frei made another flying save and didn't touch the ball, but the ball also flew off the post and off the line.

In the opening five minutes, the ball was almost entirely controlled at the feet of Barca, and although they only launched two attacks, these two attacks were very sudden and fast, like lightning strikes, and there was almost no time to resist.

In just five minutes, Fiorentina's players were beaten all over the body, and at this time they felt the horror of Barcelona's attack, and the Serie A team is not the same style at all.

Control of the ball was back at Fiorentina's feet, but the story of the first five minutes was still repeated, with Barcelona pressing all over the place, surrounding Fiorentina in their own half, and then the striker pressed high in the midfield, forcing Fiorentina to drive the ball out, snatch it away, and then continue to control the ball.

It is easy for Barcelona to snatch the ball from the feet of Fiorentina, but it is too difficult for Fiorentina to snatch the ball from the feet of Barcelona, and the passing of the Barcelona players is like never making a mistake, no matter how fast and fierce Fiorentina's pressing is, the player with the ball is always answered, and the ball can always be passed to the feet of his teammates.

In the sixth minute of the game, Barcelona passed more than a dozen balls and did not find Fiorentina's defensive gap, and immediately changed the way of attacking, Ronaldinho received the ball and looked at Deco, as if he wanted to pass the ball, but he didn't need to look at the ball, it seemed that he could control the ball with his eyes closed, the ball was stopped by him, walked to the middle, and then pulled back, he threw off Pachenza, who was marking him, and went straight to the right-back Maggio.

In the face of Ronaldinho, the world footballer who dribbled out of the world, Maggio's nervous atmosphere did not dare to breathe, staring at the ball and Ronaldinho's feet without blinking, ready to make foul moves at any time

Maggio didn't dare to let Ronaldinho break through, for other players, the wide break was a cross, but for Ronaldinho, breaking through the past and cutting inside, he could assist or score with a direct shot.

Maggio saw the ball and Ronaldinho's foot move to his left side, as if to cut to his own inside, Maggio stepped sideways to the left to prevent Ronaldinho from cutting inside, while also preventing Ronaldinho from playing his famous trick of swinging his tail and breaking through his own right.

Maggio felt that he had thought it through, but he had forgotten how Ronaldinho, who could easily see through and defend himself, could win the World Footballer of the Year without a title.

Ronaldinho did pull the ball over quickly, but instead of breaking through from the left, he didn't break through from the right, but pierced a crotch through Maggio.

The stands erupted in applause and the shouts of "Ronnie" were heard endlessly.

Seeing Ronaldinho running past his right side with a sly smile, Maggio could only reach out in despair and grab Ronaldinho's shirt.

Ronaldinho was pulled to the ground.

"Yellow card"

There was an uproar in the stands and the Barcelona fans shouted.

force

English referee Bennett came running with a whistle, but he did not show Maggio a yellow card, but issued a verbal warning and awarded a free-kick.

Barca's players clearly wanted to test Fiorentina's defences, and those who could scramble for headers came to the Fiorentina penalty area to scramble for headers.

Ronaldinho took the penalty himself and drove the free-kick towards the middle of the pitch to find Puyol.

Fiorentina's header was certainly not as good as Bremen's in the group, similar to Panathinaikos, but definitely better than Barcelona, and when Ronaldinho took the free-kick, Toney did not come to the penalty area to defend.

The ball was passed into the penalty area and easily headed out by Ujfarusi, although the ball fell to the feet of Barcelona again, but Ronaldinho's free kick was pulled down did not have any effect, which gave the Fiorentina players a little confidence.

At this moment, almost all of the Fiorentina players returned to their 30-meter area, and Barcelona could not find a chance to pass the ball together, so they could only pass the ball back and pull the Fiorentina players out and attack again.

After the first few minutes of contact, Fiorentina had a little understanding of Barcelona's attack, in the 7th minute of the game, Deco passed back to Van Bronckhorst, this was a normal pass, Deco saw Chen Yu not far away, but he didn't think Chen Yu could grab the ball according to the speed and distance that Chen Yu had shown before, but Chen Yu suddenly accelerated and poked the ball out of the ball before Van Bronckhorst took the ball.

Van Bronckhorst felt that he could get the ball before Chen Yu touched the ball, and when the ball was tackled by Chen Yu, he didn't even make a foul.

Chen Yu took the ball along the sideline at high speed, Van Bronckhorst chased after him, and Van Bommel and Puyol in the middle were decisive in the middle and chased directly to the side, not giving Chen Yu a chance to cut inside.

Chen Yu went down to the bottom line and didn't find a chance to cut inside the goal, so he could only cross the ball to the middle to find Tony and let Toni deal with the bearded Oleg.

Before the game, Fiorentina thought that Oleg was the weakest link in Barcelona's defenders, but he didn't expect Oleg to be put in the position of central defender, and against the high school forward, Oleg didn't look so clumsy, Toni couldn't get rid of Oleg, and could only pass the ball to Di Natale.

Di Natale saw that full-back Belletti had already made up for the middle and had no chance to cut into the box to shoot, so he shot directly at the edge of the box.

Barcelona goalkeeper Valdés reacted quickly and made a flying sideways pounce to save the ball off the line.