Chapter 849

Light rain on the evening of September 15, 2010.

At the San Siro stadium, 65000 Milan fans and 5000 away England fans gathered in the stands. England coach Fabio Capello watched the match in person.

The referee of the match is Frenchman lanua. This is his first law enforcement against AC Milan and Manchester City.

Not surprisingly, blue moon hasn't played in the Champions League in decades.

AC Milan coach Alegre, wearing a stiff suit and tie, stands in the roof of the coach's seat of the home team, gazing at the stadium with his brow locked, making his whole face look like an awkward word.

In this game, he learned from the experience of playing at Cesena three days ago and formed a 4312 formation.

The goalkeeper is Abbiati, the back line is jankulovsky, Tiago Silva, Nesta and abate, the midfield three players are Seedorf, Flamini and the captain Gattuso, the front waist is Kevin Boateng, the double forward is Pato and the big Inzaghi combination.

This is also the most stable combination of self defense that he can row out at present.

Manchester City are still sticking to their own three four three game.

This team went crazy in the Premier League three days ago. After hiding South American players such as Sanchez, Kaka and Mascherano, the cold team still washed Blackburn in the Premier League and showed strong attacking power.

AC Milan have to block Manchester City's attack to win this game.

Goalkeeper Peter Cech, the defensive line is kompani, Harvey Martinez and Mascherano, the midfield is Harvey Alonso, David Silva and Modric are in the middle, Kaka is in front, and the front field is the combination of Cristiano Ronaldo, Benzema and Sanchez.

The Portuguese superstar played only 60 minutes in the League three days ago, but the result was five times. The attack momentum was shocking, and Kaka and Sanchez didn't play that game, especially Kaka.

But this game is obviously different.

The most difficult part of Manchester City's attack is that they have a group of top stars with outstanding personal ability, and the high cold can well knead these stars into an organic whole, which makes the opponent impossible to defend.

You know, there are only four people on the defensive line, and the defensive resources are limited. If the focus is on restricting the side, then Kaka, David Silva and Modric in the middle will get more space for activities, and the threat will not lose to the side at all.

But if you put a lot of troops in the middle, then the side is bound to be empty.

Just like this game, Alegre put his posture very low before the game and focused on the defense and counterattack.

He is very clear that this is Manchester City's first Champions League game, the cold is determined to win, coupled with Manchester City's recent state is too good, AC Milan do not have the capital to die, even at home.

But even if you want to defend and counterattack, you have to be able to defend.

Therefore, he changed to play three back midfield. Gattuso cooperated with abate and Nesta on the right side to limit Cristiano Ronaldo. Seedorf and Jankulovski were in charge of Sanchez on the right side of Manchester City.

But in order to avoid the middle too thin, so Allegri's overall formation retracted, which makes AC Milan in the scene is very embarrassed, very passive, and even give up the ball completely.

Fortunately, before the game, it rained in Milan after several days of overcast weather.

But is that ok?

No, the veteran Seedorf's running ability is very poor. He can't bear two consecutive games and obviously can't keep up. Therefore, on the left side of AC Milan, jankulovsky is more one-on-one defending Sanchez.

The cunning Alpine must have realized this, and made adjustments soon after the opening. Manchester City began to intensify their attack and concentrate on attacking the left side of AC Milan. Sanchez began to be very active, breaking through jankulovsky frequently, or passing, or entering the restricted area, just like a mixed river dragon, stirring up the whole defense of Milan.

In the opening ten minutes, Manchester City shot with four legs. Although they didn't form a direct threat, they also made AC Milan sweat.

Then Manchester City's offensive is still unabated, with skilled pass control advantage, blue moon organized and planned the attack again and again.

Especially in the 17th minute, Manchester City suddenly shifted the ball from the right to the left. After David silvala received the ball from the left, he crossed the penalty area and Benzema took the first place. He headed the ball to Cristiano Ronaldo and the Portuguese shot from close range.

As a result, the shot hit the crossbar solidly and bounced back into the penalty area.

Then there was a scuffle in the restricted area of AC Milan. Kaka took advantage of the trouble and shot a low shot, which was blocked by goalkeeper Abbiati. After that, Benzema's supplementary shot was blocked by Nesta's key foot, which popped up the bottom line.

The whole process happened in a blink of an eye, but Manchester City shot in the three legged penalty area, and every time it was a threat.

After the corner, Tiago Silva judged the landing point and headed the ball to clear.

With the ball flying over half-time, watching Manchester City players quickly out of the penalty area, Allegri breathed heavily, and finally survived a crisis.

But his tone has not been completely put down, Manchester City again sent the ball across the middle line, into the Milan half.

Alegre put half of his heart in the first place and raised it again.

"Damn it, it's not going to stop!" Allegri scolded indignantly.

With the advantage of pass control, Manchester City firmly controlled the ball, constantly organized and planned the attack, and reached the half court and forbidden area of Milan.

"Our problem right now is that we can't hold the ball." Assistant coach in the side very depressed said.

Alegre won Pirlo and Ronaldinho at the same time, it is not without reason, these two players are lack of defensive ability, in the face of cold Manchester City, it is likely to lead to AC Milan's defense directly by the other side.

In the last game, Cesena was active on both wings, and then defeated AC Milan with a strong center. Allegri had to learn from his experience, so this game won Ronaldinho and Pirlo, and chose Kevin Boateng and Flamini, two players with better defensive ability.

But the price is also very high. The only one who can hold the ball is Seedorf.

But in this cold game, Modric was arranged to restrain Seedorf. As long as Seedorf got the ball, Modric was close to him at the first time and did not let him easily create a threat.

Once Seedorf is limited, AC Milan's attack is difficult to start. Kevin Boateng frequently withdraws to participate in the defense. Pato and Inzaghi are isolated in the front court, which is more like a decoration.

"Tell them that the referee's law enforcement in this game is a little soft, and the action can be bigger. Don't let Manchester City control the ball at will." Allegri said angrily.

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"After all, AC Milan are still weak and have no choice

Different from Alegre who stood up from the beginning of the game to watch the game, in the coach seat of the visiting team, Gao Han was the old God sitting there, watching the game leisurely, not to mention how relaxed he was.

Today's AC Milan is no longer the Rossoneri when they were coaching Inter. Now Milan is more like an old hero who has lost his courage.

Whether it's Nesta or Pirlo, Ronaldinho, Inzaghi and Gattuso are all good. They have long lost their high spirited spirit. Some of them are old and strong.

But in front of the young city, they can't hold up at all.

From the beginning of the game, the right and rhythm of the ball were completely controlled by Manchester City. AC Milan could only defend blindly and couldn't fight back at all, even it was difficult to take the ball to organize a counterattack.

"Maybe at this time he should consider taking down a striker and replacing Ronaldinho to increase the chances of getting the ball in the front court." Brian Kidd suggested.

Sometimes, the cold team in the game will simulate the opponent's ideas, predict the opponent's next move in advance.

But Gao Han shook his head, "I don't think so."

"Why?" Brian Kidd doesn't understand.

"Inzaghi is 37 years old and can't support AC Milan's attack line independently, but Pato is young and immature. It's hard to take advantage of playing alone. That's why Allegri stubbornly chooses double strikers."

In the final analysis, it is the unreliable strength of the players.

Pato was once the European golden boy that everyone was looking forward to, especially when he joined AC Milan. However, in the past two years, Pato's development has deviated from everyone's expectation and his performance has begun to shrink.

Originally, AC Milan wanted to bring in Ibrahimovic from Barcelona, but after a detailed discussion with Gao, coupled with the unsuccessful introduction of villa, Guardiola gave up his mind, changed his decision and left Ibrahimovic.

As a result, this season, Ibrahimovic and Lionel Messi cooperate more and more skillfully, and become the two major offensive artifact of La Liga.

AC Milan once thought about bringing in Robinho from Chelsea, but it was not clear.

In the final analysis, it is because there is no money, no people to buy, and the team is not strong enough.

Fortunately, Allegri didn't play Pirlo and Ronaldinho in this game. Otherwise, these two veterans, plus Gattuso and Seedorf, will form a midfield, which can destroy them with Manchester City's attack power.

But even now, alpine is still full of confidence.

After the opening, Manchester City completely controlled the situation on the field, the ball control rate, the number of shots and other data are all ahead of AC Milan, according to the current situation, the goal is sooner or later.

Also because of this, so Alpine has never used the meaning of skill cards.

The last game against Blackburn, he was useless, as a result, the team still beat Blackburn 7-1.

If he used a skill card in that game, he could score at least a few more goals and score double-digit goals, but in Gao's view, it's meaningless to brush the number of goals, not to mention save face for Allardyce, isn't it?

He is also confident in this game, so he has not considered using skill cards for the time being.

"They're doing a little bit too much right now." Said Brian Kidd, frowning.

On the pitch, AC Milan's Kevin Boateng shoved the Spaniard when he came back to defend David Silva, and was fouled by the referee, but he didn't give a card, which made city players on the pitch dissatisfied.

Gao Han turned his head, took a look at Alegre, and hummed with a smile, "I think this is his last move."

After a pause, Gao Han again said with a proud smile, "tell the players to continue to control the ball, continue to attack, the goal is in front of them!"

Brian Kidd quickly conveyed the cold words to the court.

The morale of city's players was boosted.

They know that Gao Han is always anticipating. He said that if he wants to score, he must score!

(end of this chapter)