FIORENTINA starting XI (4-2-3-1): Terracciano, Dodo (subbed for Faraoni), Milenkovic, Ranieri, Biraghi, Arthur (subbed for Maxime Lopez), Mandragora (subbed for Martinez Quarta), Nico Gonzalez (subbed for Sottil), Beltran (subbed for Barak), Kouamé, Belotti (subbed for Ikoné)
Bench: Christensen, Parisi, Comuzzo, Kayode, Duncan, Infantino
Goals: Gonzalez 92’, biraghi 108’
Viktoria Plzen starting XI (3-4-1-2): Jedlicka, Hranac, Hejda, Jemelka, Kopic (subbed for Mosquera), Cerv (subbed for Traore), Kalvach (subbed for Dweh), Cadu, Sulc, Chory (subbed for Reznik), Vydra (subbed for Kliment)
Bench: Tvrdon, Baier, Paluska
La Viola were dominant, with 73 per cent possession and 23 chances created. Plzen did not have a single shot on goal.
At the end of regulation time, the score over two legs was still 0-0, frustratingly so for the home side.
But under two minutes into extra time, Nicolas Gonzalez made the breakthrough Fiorentina so desperately deserved with a half volley resulting from a corner.
Cristiano Biraghi sealed the deal in the 108th minute when he finished off a counterattack mostly carried out by Jonathan Ikone.
Fiorentina next face Club Brugge with the first leg kicking off at 5 a.m. on Friday, May 3 (AEST).
