Pioli’s team also wins the return to Reggio Emilia after the 3-0 of the first leg. In goal Dodo, Ranieri and the Bosnian, in the first stamp with the Viola
Initial shock, suffering and great fear, but in the end Fiorentina wins, passes the turn and wait for tomorrow’s draw to get to know the next opponents of the group stage. In the return challenge of the Conference League playoffs, the formation of Stefano Pioli wins 3-2 against Polissya and, after the 3-0 of the first leg, eliminates the Ukrainians at the Mapei Stadium in Reggio Emilia (neutral field for the restyling works in progress at Franchi) even if with too many chills. The Polissya, after 14 minutes of the first half, is in fact in the lead of two goals, while Fiorentina’s goals all arrive in the second half, first with Dodo, then with Ranieri and finally with Edin Dzeko, at his first goal in Viola.
the choices
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Without Kean disqualified (expelled in the first leg) and without Roberto Piccolo (not present on the UEFA list for the Play Off), Stefano Pioli relies on Edin Dzeko center forward, slated for the first time as a holder since he has been in Florence. Behind him Fazzini and Ndour on the trocar, in midfield Dodo, Fagioli, Mandragora (Captain) and Parisi while in the backward department there is Comuzzo with the news Pablo Marì and Viti. The experience of David De Gea always on goal. There are six changes in the viola compared to the challenge of seven days ago. Ruslan Rotan for the Polissya instead deploys his classic 4-3-3 with Gutsuliak, Filippov and Nazarenko in attack, just like in the first leg, and compared to a week he only changes two interpreters in the initial eleven or Talles costs in midfield and Mykhailichenko in defense.
Shock start
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The first minutes are frightened: in 2 ‘it is already 1-0 for the Polissya because an incomprehension between Comuzzo and De Gea leaves the green light to Nazarenko who signs the advantage of Porta empty. Ukrainians take confidence and make the game in search of doubling that arrives at 14 ‘with Andriyevskiy who, from the left, from distance, finds a deadly conclusion under the crossing of the posts. A beautiful goal that gets uphill the Fiorentina evening despite the 3-0 of the first leg. Dodo looks for some lunges, but the viola are out of turns and never manage to make themselves dangerous while the opponents continue to believe and create, with the viola defensive phase that skids and the attack that does not find solutions. At 38 ‘comes the first and only conclusion on goal, central, of Fazzini who does not worry Kudryk.
reversal in the second half
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Pioli immediately throws into Gudmundsson instead of Ndour and Gosens for Parisi in search of a turning point. The two will prove to be decisive. Fiorentina is immediately more reactive and an excellent initiative by Fazzini arrives at 9 ‘which however is stopped by the pole. For the Polissya, Lednev enters Talles Costa and Haiduchyk for Filippov, while among the Viola Pongracic and Sohm they take the place of Comuzzo and Mandragora. To report a Gosens ‘header (patient) at the 25th minute but the German is more decisive in 33’ when the assist for Dodo is needed and brings the result on 2-1 giving the first sigh of relief to his. The spinning of the replacements ends and the last to enter Fiorentina is Ranieri for vines. And it is precisely the defender, on the first occasion, to sign the 2-2, on assist once again by Gosens on the developments of a corner beaten by Gudmundsson. And it is still on the developments of a gud’s corner that the final 3-2 arrives thanks to Dzeko who bags a ball replied by Kudryk after a header from Marì. Tomorrow the draw for the group phase and certainly, immediately, some reflection among the viola in view of the next commitments.
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