Seville, Spain – May 1: Fiorentina’s Luca Ranieri scored her team’s first goal in the UEFA Conference League 2024/25 Semi-final first leg match between Real Betis Baropina and ACF Fiorentina at Estadio Benito Vallimarin in Seville, Sville on May 1, 2025. (Photo: Denis Doyle/Getty Images)
Luca Ranieri gave Fiorentina’s hopes in the third conference league final after Abde Ezzalzouli and Antony Strikes, halving the real Betis lead from the first leg.
Viola took the risk from the start a week later, missing out on the two Serie A game while dealing with family issues, but Dodo was out after surgery for appendicitis. Betis missed Mark Roca and Diego Lorente, but striker Cedric Bacamb returned to start defender Natan, owned by Napoli.
The second leg will take place at Stadio Franchi on May 8th as Fiorentina attempts to reach the conference league final for the third year in a row.
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Betis shrugged Pietro Comuzzo off to the right to pull back from his side craft, and Abde Ezalzouri blew the finish off from close range to the underside of the crossbar, crossing the line completely.
Isco intercepted a whimsical pass and immediately curled his right foot from the edge of the area, but Fiorentina began to put together a long possession spell and should have equalized it as Roland Mandragora nodded Robin Gosen’s width from 10 yards.
Fiorentina’s Cataldi retreat
Danilo Cataldi had shots from the edge of the area, but suffered from muscular issues in the process and was replaced by Yacine Adli.
Betis had a big opportunity to double his lead with a halftime stroke. Luca Ranieri and Marine Pongrasic were confused in the corner, and Mark Bartra sat kindly just to blow up from 10 yards.
Fran Beyetes quickly slipped out of his line as Fabiano Parisi rolled from the right and suffocated at Lucas Bertrand’s feet.
Moise Kean came in for a restart, but it was David De Gea who filmed centerstage with an epic one-handed response, with the exception of the Batra header from Isco’s free kick.
Beetz warned him to hurry out again as Keene controlled the deflected Gosen cross, but they admitted second, as Fiorentina had held Betis behind.
Antony attacks the first attempt from the edge of the area by Ranieri, which bouncing back into his path, causing him to break a rebound on the roof of the half-borie net.
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What an end from Antony!
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The Pablo Fornarus should have spent a third right away, but his finish was straight at DeGia following a Smart Vacamb layoff.
Instead, Fiorentina pulled it back from the left as Gosens controlled the ball above the top and pulled it back from the left for Defender Ranieri to go home from 12 yards.
Two or two or two later, I watched the headers from the corner of Roland Mandragora and grazing a coat of paint from a distant post.
Valtra also sent the header wide in the corner routine, but stopped, Michael Forruncho charged into Giovanni Rocerso’s extremely dangerous tackle, making a referee and Valwave play.
Real Betis 2-1 Fiorentina
Ezzalzouli 6(b), Antony 64(b), Ranieri 73(f)
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