Gilardino MOM.
We could have lost easily.
I watched the match for the second time ( and for the second time i wanted to do this...

) and, as always, it's much easier to notice the details when you watch a football match for the second time.
Gilardino was indeed too quiet and it was mostly due to the way Cannavaro marked him. Looks like Canna's job in this match was to man-mark Gilardino and leave Jovetic to Chiellini and the full backs, and Cannavaro did it perfectly. Only once Gilardino won the duel with Cannavaro, at the end of the match. In all the other ~30 duels, Cannavaro won.
I voted for Cannavaro yesterday, but after watching the match again i'll have to change it to Sissoko. Almost always he was where the ball was and I have no idea how does he manage to do that. He, even though he was handicapped with the 1st minute yellow, and he couldn't tackle the way he does usually, frustrated Viola's midfield by always being next to them, which forced the visitors to make wrong passes and lose the ball in midfield a lot. He almost singlehandedly won us the midfield and thus let us create more. Everything changed after he was subbed out and it was a piece of cake job for Fiorentina from then on. The midfield was theirs and they, even without Vargas and Jovetic, were free to move inside our part of the pitch and send million crosses. Sissoko was also moving well in attack and in 4 occasions he found himself in position to shoot (saved by Frey 2 times).
The only minus in his play, as always, was his passing. Since he was the only one in our midfield mooving well, he was always free to receive a pass, but very often he fucked it up when it was his turn to pass.
Poulsen was also ok, but imo, a little worse than Sissoko and Cannavaro.