There is no doubt that Pellegrini is a good coach and it will not be easy to bring an obscure small team like Villarreal to where it is today, but at the tactical level, Pellegrini is not very good, in the face of Fiorentina, who is very good in attack, it was not a wise choice for him to replace striker Jose Mari in the minute, and now that the score is behind, he has to change to another striker, which is almost equivalent to doing nothing, but wasting two substitutions.

Figueroa has helped Villarreal no more than Jose Mari in attack, facing Fiorentina's Italian-style defense, the header is not very good, and there are not many South American players The spirit of Figueroa is more about pinning down Fiorentina's defenders and creating opportunities for Forlan.

At the beginning of the game, Fiorentina was unfamiliar with Figueroa, Figueroa chested past Donadale on the edge of the box and volleyed hard before Oujfarusi could make up for it, but the ball went wide of the post.

Fiorentina then felt that the Argentine kid had two brushes and immediately strengthened his defense, and Figueroa was dumbfounded, but Figueroa's diversion was still obvious, and after he came on the pitch to attract the defence, Forlan's threat gradually increased.

The most restless at this time are Villarreal, who will be eliminated if they can't score, and the most nervous is Fiorentina, who are only one goal ahead, and once Villarreal scores, they are likely to be dragged into extra time, at this time, both sides want to get out of this uncomfortable situation, but after a game and a half, both sides are already familiar with their opponents, and without mistakes, neither can break the deadlock for the time being.

The score did not move, but time continued to slip, and in the blink of an eye, it was 75 minutes, less than 20 minutes before the end of the game, Fiorentina gave up the intention of scoring, replaced Fiore, replaced the defensive defender Pachenza, and made a plan to defend to the death.

Villarreal also used their last substitution, sent forward Guayre, and played a three-striker combination, ready to fight to the death in the back.

Ten minutes of chaotic scrambling in the midfield, a few long-range shots without quality, the fans on both sides watched little interest, and even the cheering was much less.

"One in one"

"One in one"

Villarreal fans chanted at the pitch in Spanish and then began singing the team anthem to encourage their players to survive the face of adversity and complete the Jedi counterattack.

The Fiorentina fans are not idle, they came today to run 10,000 people, and they can compete with the fans of Villarreal, and when the fans of Villarreal sing the team anthem, they also sing the team anthem, and use their singing voices to fight the singing.

The players were not in the mood to pay attention to the changes in the stands at this time, and after the substitutions, the game became tense, the rhythm of attack and defense became very fast, and there was no time to even get the ball.

This pace of play is a disaster for Riquelme, he is slow, he is slow to get the ball, if he is given time and space, he can make imaginative through passes, but right now, there are only two waiting for Riquelme, one is tackled and the other is fouled.

At the moment when the two sides began the final decisive battle, Villarreal naturally pinned their hopes on Riquelme, but after Riquelme was fouled twice in a row and tackled once, Villarreal's players did not dare to pass the ball to Riquelme again, they gave up the advantage of the midfield, and directly found Forlan, Figueroa and Guaire with long passes, or broke through from the side to the bottom cross, and played the simplest long pass and bottom cross.

La Liga is the most technical content of the five major leagues, but at the most critical juncture, they also used their own shameless "rough" style of play.

Fiorentina is the best Italian team at defense, if Villarreal plays a subtle combination, they may still be a little afraid, now Villarreal does not have a strong center, but also dare to play long passes and side crosses, they are not afraid at all, it turns out that before Villarreal did not adopt this simple and rough tactics, Fiorentina also shrunk the lineup, compressed the space in the backfield, and now they not only did not continue to shrink, but expanded the defensive range, All of Villarreal's ball handlers defended tightly and prevented them from making high-quality passes.

Prandelli's on-the-spot command was excellent, his response was quick, Fiorentina's full-time pressing broke up Villarreal's chaotic attempt to win, the quality of their slings was poor, and it was difficult to get down the flanks, and they didn't even get a shot on goal for five minutes of onslaught.

Seeing the minute, the attack did not improve at all, and the Villarreal player passed the ball to Riquelme, who was standing in the midfield and doing nothing.

Although Riquelme did not touch the ball for several minutes, Fiorentina did not relax their marking, the ball reached Riquelme's feet, Riquelme stopped and turned, dodged Pachenza's tackle, did not take two steps forward, and was knocked to the ground sideways by Montolivo.

The referee immediately blew the whistle for a foul on Montolivo and gave Montolivo a yellow card.

Villarreal's free-kick was in a good position, some 29 metres from goal, and Riquelme stepped up to the ball to take the set-piece himself.

The free-kick was a bit far away, and goalkeeper Toldo focused on organising his players to defend against Villarreal's header and did not think Riquelme would hit the goal directly.

However, Riquelme had a very unsatisfactory game, especially just now, completely enraged by the opponent's shameless foul tactics, he did not cooperate with his teammates, and directly kicked a banana ball in the opposite direction of goalkeeper Toldo's position.

Riquelme was angry, the force was not small, but the accuracy was reduced, the ball did not cross the wall, but Riquelme was lucky, the ball hit the shoulder of the new Guailere and refracted it, and the ball flew in the direction of Toldo's position.

Toldo saw Riquelme hit the side of the goal directly against the wall, and he immediately moved quickly to save the ball, but before he could move to the middle of the goal, the ball flew in the direction of his original position.

"Not good"

Toldo screamed, but there was nothing he could do but look back blankly and watch the ball fly into his goal.

A star like Riquelme has perfected his footwork, and as soon as the ball leaves his feet, he immediately knows that he has not kicked it well, and when he is secretly screaming badly, he finds that the ball has refracted to the other side of the goal and flew into the net.

In an instant, Riquelme's bitter melon face turned into a hibiscus flower, and he raised his arms and rushed to the sidelines like a flight to celebrate the life-saving goal.

“aIaIaI…… Roman Roman Roman Roman: l Roman goal Villarreal once again overtook the score and pulled Villarreal back from the edge of the cliff, this goal could not allow Villarreal to advance, but it could ⊥ Villarreal to continue to survive, maybe extra-time or even penalty kicks are the only way for the two sides to decide the winner......

The Spanish commentator at the scene was roaring loudly, and he had just been just as restless as the average Villarreal fan, and the goal finally gave him a chance to vent.

In the stands, the Villarreal fans were even more emotional, some applauded, some shouted, some pumped, some jumped to their seats in excitement, and all the fans went crazy for the goal.

As the commentator said, this goal will not allow Villarreal to advance, but this goal will allow Villarreal to continue to live and live, which is the root of all hope.

The goal, the equaliser, the overtake, the successive joys and sorrows made Pellegrini a little numb, he stood still, just clenched his hands. He has been telling himself in his heart that Riquelme's refracted ball is only to help Villarreal continue his life, and it will not allow Villarreal to advance, he must be calm, now the opponent still has an advantage, that is, they are away, and one more goal can be used as two goals, and the key now is to keep the score until extra time, and when it comes to extra time, the opponent's advantage is gone. But for him, the problem is that there are no substitutions, there are three strikers on the field, and he can't say that he can hold if he wants to defend, but the risk of attacking is greater? How to break? Once again, Chilean engineers were caught in a dilemma.

At Pellegrini's side, Prandelli was also immovable, but the mineral water bottle in his hand was squeaked by him, his mood was very bad, Fiorentina was less than ten minutes away from victory, but luck was against him, and actually gave the opponent a reflex goal, I now the score is exactly the same, for Fiorentina, the only advantage left is that if they score again, one goal will be used as two. However, there are only seven or eight minutes left, and if it goes into extra time, Fiorentina will not have this advantage, can Fiorentina still score?

At this time, the impact of losing the ball on De La Valle was great, he was ready to celebrate the victory, and even thought of words to thank the players and fans, but seeing the duck in his hand fly, which made De La Valle very frustrated and annoyed, he hated to rush to the sidelines, yelling at the players and coaches, telling them to lock up the win early, don't be so conservative, anything can happen on the football field, only more goals can put an end to all accidents.

Villarreal president Roig, who sat with De La Valle, was in a good mood, Villarreal is just a small club, he is already very happy to be able to play to this point, and now his team is playing at home, it seems that God has favored him again, Roig feels that there is no small hope of qualifying, he sat for a while, then got up and went to the stands, ready to cheer for the team with the fans, and strive for another goal at the last moment, and Fiorentina to advance.