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Giampaolo Pazzini and Adrian Mutu maintained Fiorentina's cushion in that fourth Champions League spot.
The Viola were feeling the pressure in fourth place and rotated the squad after their midweek 1-1 UEFA Cup draw with PSV Eindhoven. They welcomed a desperate Reggina side battling to get out of the bottom two under new Coach Nevio Orlandi. The Calabrians hadn't won on their travels all season and had lost all five of their previous visits to Florence.
Riccardo Montolivo flashed an early shot off target, but Reggina had a strong penalty appeal waved away when Per Kroldrup appeared to bundle over Stephen Makinwa.
Makinwa was causing a lot of problems for the Viola defence with his pace and his dangerous effort whistled past the top corner.
Montolivo's right-foot screamer from the edge of the box was palmed round the near post.
Fiorentina broke the deadlock somewhat against the run of play with Giampaolo Pazzini. The Under-21 international soared above the defenders for a glancing header into the near top corner from Manuel Pasqual's cross from the left.
Sebastien Frey stuck out a foot in a fantastic point-blank reaction save from Luca Vigiani's header on the half-hour mark.
Reggina were far from out of it and were unlucky to hit the upright with Franco Brienza's angled drive when Frey had been beaten.
After the restart substitute Martin Jorgensen won back the ball in midfield and threaded through for Pazzini's angled drive to flash across the face of goal.
Fiorentina should have doubled their advantage on 58 minutes. A well-worked team move saw Jorgensen's angled drive well saved and Pasqual turned the follow-up on to the underside of the crossbar of an open goal!
Pazzini's header met a Montolivo cross, but was kept out by Salvatore Aronica's goalline clearance.
Campagnolo had his palms stung by Montolivo again and Edgar Barreto floated a free kick inches over for Reggina.
In stoppages Mutu put the result beyond doubt when Christian Vieri's cross was flicked on by Massimo Gobbi for Mutu to sweep in with the inside of his left foot.
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