Before this season Viola bought Cesare Natali from Torino, Marco Marchionni from Juventus, Jose Castillo from Lecce and Manuel Da Costa from Sampdoria.They also bought Cristiano Zanetti from Juventus.Prandelli will use today 4-2-3-1 formation with lone striker Jovetic.Gilardino is out suspended for two rounds,after the red card with Lyon.This is very offensive tactics anyway,because behind him we will see Marco Marchionni and Adrian Mutu also offensive players.Marco Marchionni join Cesare Prandelli, former coach at Parma, and former teammates Sébastien Frey, Marco Donadel, Alberto Gilardino and Adrian Mutu.Marchionni signed a contract with ACF Fiorentina after having spent three years with Juventus F.C. He was part of a swap plus cash deal that saw midfielder Felipe Melo go the other way to Juventus.I think in this match this player and his form will be very important,because he really impress for me in match against Livorno.Vargas will play also behind Jovetic in midfield.Zanetti,Gobbi will play also in midfield.So option with practically 4 offenisve players is a very risky here of course but for me this is a very good decision.This match will be quite different than last match with Livorno so this tactics should be good this time,because Liverpool is also very offensive team.This is also good choice for Prandelli tactics because this players they are very creativity.In defence we will see of course Dainelli,very good and impress in last matches,also we will see Pasqual,Gamberini and Kroldrup.This time on the bench Jorgensen,Montolivo,Dainelli so option with Montolivo in second half also looks like very interesting.
Liverpool is a of course big firm in Europe,with very long experience in Champions League,almost year after the year they playing in this competition.Liverpool in last game with Hull in Premier League they showed very good football.They trashed 6-1 team from Hull.But today game will be completly other than this match.Benitez will play with 4-2-3-1 formation also,only Torres in upfront.But of course behind hime will play Kuyt,also offenisve player,he also scored the winning goal in Liverpool's opening Champions League encounter against Debrecen in 1-0 win. Kuyt's goal against Debrecen means only Ian Rush and Steven Gerrard have scored more goals for the club in the European Cup.Javier Mascherano is out of today's Champions League match against Fiorentina with a tight hamstring. But Benitez once again will play with Gerrard,Benayoun,Riera,Lucas in midfield line.This is quite interesting formation,Gerrard is always dangerous on the pitch with nice shoot of course,Benayoun also.In defence option with Carra,Johnson,Skrtel,Insua is maybe not strong but this is best line up at the moment in Liverpool.Babel,Voronin,Kyrgiakos on the bench this time but this is a good decision by Benitez.
For me Liverpool will be better side here,they have very good experienced in Champions League and I think today will be more motivated side also,so for me away win here in Florence.