12/3/2008 - Everton vs Fiorentina 2nd Leg UEFA Cup

Can Everton pull off a great reverse and replicate Merseyside neighbours Liverpool's European achievement from yesterday and show another Italian side the door in this live online commentary UEFA Cup second leg tie at Goodison Park? Or will it be a repeat of their tame showing against Chelsea in their other big match this season during the Carling Cup semi final? David Moyes has fashioned a side with a perfect mix of grit and determination, and no little flair at times, but despite having developed consistency against teams of poor and average quality, Everton has unfortunately not shown better form against higher quality teams so far this season. This might be about to change against Fiorentina tonight in the UEFA Cup, if they can manage to remove the bitter memory of their Carling Cup loss to Chelsea in which they failed to turn up miserably and most importantly, let themselves down. It was the same feeling Moyes and the players felt after the first leg loss to Fiorentina, when they hardly had a look in, with Moyes himself admitting that the team once again played poorly when the occasion required the opposite.

Everton will face a Fiorentina side that might be smarting from a weekend league defeat which threw the race for Champions League places in the Italian Serie A wide open but must now concentrate on finishing the task at hand in this live online commentary UEFA Cup match between Everton and Fiorentina. If the Italian side maintain their same approach from the first leg and apply it to this game, they have more than a good chance of pulling through, given the need for Everton to go all out to make up the aggregate deficit. The game will be pretty much game over if Fiorentina scores a goal at Goodison and that will be a huge factor in Moyes' approach to the game, although there have been times when the wily Scot has been known to throw all caution to the wind in order to rescue lost causes. In fact, this might be the case once again, unless Everton decides to play a patient game and hope to get the tie into extra time. If the Blue half of Merseyside does pull this off, it would add even more weight to Alex Ferguson's insistence that the English Premier League is currently the most powerful in Europe, if not the world.