Six points after two games in the Conference League championship phase: Fiorentina’s quest for full points continues on Swiss soil too. Not even a simple match, the one that emerged from the 90 minutes plus added time at Kybunpark: the first half saw the two teams return to the locker rooms with the score 1-0 in favor of the Swiss, before the quality and hunger of Fiorentina came to the fore. in the second half.
Driving the Viola in the second half played on the Swiss green and white pitch were two men who remained in the shadows for a long time and swallowed up by criticism more often than not in the years they spent in Florence: on the one hand the absolute MVP Ikone, scoreboard in hand, author of the first professional double of his career; on the other, Sottil, who didn’t score with either a goal or an assist but was literally uncatchable when he switched on.
Mister Palladino said he was satisfied in his post-match analysis. In the press conference he began as follows: “The approach wasn’t wrong. We faced a courageous team, who played forward with great intensity. They didn’t let them play cleanly, in fact the first goal came from recovering the ball from our exit But I liked the team, we had several opportunities to score. At half-time I gave some instructions to the boys and they put everything into practice, raising the quality going forward. who played from the start and who came in.”