Instead of paints or oils, the awesome Argentinian uses the ball to display his immense talent on his canvas which is the pitch in Florence’s Stadio Comunale ArtemioFranchi.
Rui Costa played a delightful slide rule pass to Abel Balbo inside the United box, where Denis Irwin should have been, but instead of shooting he gave the ball away trying to square it to Batistuta.
Fiorentina, who have won just one Serie A game in two months, were transformed from the side that scraped a goalless draw here against Arsenal in September as they sent United crashing to their heaviest defeat in the Champions League for five years.
