Chapter 394： Absurd start

"Viewers in front of the TV, welcome to the 2004-2005 season, the UEFA Champions League final!"

"This is the Ataturk Stadium in Istanbul, Turkey."

"The two teams facing tonight are all star-studded teams, namely AC Milan from Serie A and Barcelona from La Liga."

"Both teams are among the top giants in world football today."

"AC Milan has participated in the Champions League final for the tenth time and won six championships. Barcelona has participated in the Champions League final for the fifth time and has only won the Champions League once in history."

"It can be said that both teams are European giants, but in the Champions League final experience, AC Milan is better."

"It is worth mentioning that the last time Barcelona reached the Champions League final was in Athens in 1994, and the opponent at the time was AC Milan. The Rossoneri, coached by Capello, defeated Crewe by 4-0. Yves's Dream Team."

"Since then, Barcelona has fallen into ruin and has not been able to return to the stage of the Champions League final for eleven years."

"On the contrary, AC Milan, just two years ago at Old Trafford in Manchester, with the final penalty kick, defeated Juventus, won the Champions League, so Ancelotti repeatedly emphasized before the game , Their experience in the Champions League final is very rich, and they are not even afraid of a penalty shoot-out."

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"The Turkish side specially prepared a compact and wonderful large-scale singing and dancing performance."

"But tonight's protagonist is still the St. Burred Cup and the two participating teams."

"From the live footage, we can see that the players of both teams have appeared in the player channel and are ready to play at any time."

"AC Milan is wearing a white jersey. This is their favorite jersey color in the Champions League final. Because they won the championship when wearing this jersey, they are very happy."

"Barcelona is wearing their home jersey."

"Now, we have got the starting lineups of the two teams."

"First introduce AC Milan."

"The goalkeeper is Dida, and the defense is Martinho, Nesta, Stam and Cafu. This should be the top defense in world football today, and Cafu said before the game that AC Milan I will definitely win, because as long as he wins this game, Cafu will have won the Grand Slam of his career."

"The midfielders are Seedorf, Pirlo and Gattuso. The Brazilian teenager Kaka is ahead, and the double forwards are Shevchenko and Crespo."

"This is Ancelotti, the head coach of AC Milan."

"Ancelotti put down his words before the game and wanted to break Barcelona's goal in three minutes. Now we are all looking forward to it. We want to know if he has really done enough preparations and can really break in three minutes. Barcelona goal?"

"Barcelona's starting lineup is the traditional four-three-three formation."

"The goalkeeper is Valdes, the defense is Van Bronckhorst, Oleg, Puyol and Belletti, the midfielder is behind Marcos, Deco and Xavi are in the center, and the trident is Rona in the front. A combination of Erdinho, Sudong and Giuly."

"From the formation of Rijkaard, it is not difficult to see that in such an important final, he still focuses on stability. Iniesta, who had a high voice before the game, did not appear in the starting lineup. It’s sitting on the bench."

"In addition, Edmilson, who has returned from injury, also did not play. Obviously Rijkaard is not at ease with them."

"After all, this is the Champions League final!"

"The players of the two teams shook hands with each other and went to the sidelines to take photos with each other."

"The game is about to begin. The captains of the two teams, Puyol and Maldini, went over to guess."

"We saw that Puyol took the lead and got the right to serve."

"Barcelona obviously also want to get the serve, they like to control the ball."

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When Puyol guessed the right to serve, when he walked back, he waved his fists at his teammates, and at the same time greeted everyone, forming a circle.

Fighting for the right to serve, this is definitely good news for Barcelona, ​​who is good at handling the ball.

"After the opening, we have to stabilize the rhythm, calm down, and slowly consume with the opponent first, don't worry, when we are familiar with the rhythm and pressure of the game, we will work hard again, understand?" Puyol asked loudly.

"Understood!" The players replied together.

"Come, let's call one!"

After speaking, Puyol stretched out his hand.

The Barcelona players also stretched out their hands one after another, got up with Puyol, and shouted one, two, three, "Come on!"

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The two teams each retreated to half-court and put on a battlefield.

Su Dong and Jiuli stood in the middle circle and prepared to serve.

Everyone on both sides of the enemy is like a great enemy, and no one dares to be careless.

Su Dong is actually very worried about the opening, because Barcelona's defense, especially the opening defense, is always very bad.

Against Bayern, against Chelsea, almost all of them lost the ball in the opening ten minutes or so.

This time, Ancelotti called out to score three minutes before the game, which is definitely an exaggeration, but it is also a psychological warfare.

More importantly, Barcelona's defense is really not good.

Rijkaard explained to the players before the game that Edmilson’s game against Villarreal was not ideal. If he rashly allowed him to play in the finals, it might even backfire, so Oleg continued to start. .

It's not that Rijkaard is unwilling to change, but that no one can change it!

"Wait a while, let's run more, grab more, put more pressure on their defense." Su Dong said to Jiuli.

The French winger also kept nodding his head, obviously not having much trust in the fragile defense.

Su Dong turned his head to look at AC Milan's half-time. Shevchenko and Crespo stood on both sides of the center circle. Su Dong was directly opposite Kaka. This Brazilian teenager played quite well in AC Milan this season. Yes, when I saw Su Dong, I grinned, smiled and nodded in greeting, feeling very sunny.

Reaching out and not hitting the smiley man, even though Su Dong wanted to beat this guy so hard he could not play the game, he could only nod his head and smile at this moment.

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With a crisp whistle, the referee quickly blew the whistle for the start of the game.

Su Dong quickly kicked the ball to Jiuli, turned around and ran forward.

Giuly passed the ball back to Marcos, allowing Barcelona to take the ball in the midfield, and he rushed forward quickly.

AC Milan began to press, Shevchenko, Crespo and Kaka all rushed into the Barcelona half for the first time, forming an oppression and encirclement of Barcelona in the front field.

After Van Bronckhorst got the ball on the left, he felt the pressure of two nearby AC Milan players and immediately passed the ball forward with a big foot, wanting to go directly to Su Dong.

But the pass was not well given, the intensity was a little lighter, and Gattuso took the first step to get the ball down.

Kaka retraced the organization and handed the ball to Kafo, who picked a pass and gave it directly to the frontcourt Shevchenko.

After the Ukrainian stopped the ball in his chest, he tried to take the ball inside, but Marcos, who was dragged by the Barcelona midfielder, broke the ball.

Pirlo grabbed the ball and gave it to Seedorf.

Seedorf just stopped the ball, and Barcelona's defense has quickly fallen into position.

The Dutch midfielder transferred the ball to the foot of Kaka who was on the right side of the center. After Kaka stopped the ball and turned around, he drove the ball quickly to the front and sprinted to the right. The speed of the dribble was extremely fast. Nardinho took the ball straight to Van Bronckhorst, forcing the Dutch left-back to almost fail to keep up and was forced to foul the front left of the penalty area.

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"Kaka's speed is really fast, and the ability to dribble the ball is extremely strong."

"AC Milan attaches great importance to this free kick attack, the position is very good, very threatening."

"Stam, Nesta and Martinho are all tall players coming up."

"As we said before, there is a very clear gap between Barcelona and AC Milan in terms of average player height. Set-kick tactics and high ball will definitely be the focus of AC Milan."

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"Look at the free kick this time. Pirlo quickly took a free kick. There was some confusion in the penalty area."

"Martini!"

"The ball is in!!!"

"Oh my God, the opening was only fifty-two seconds. AC Milan used a free kick in the frontcourt to score Barcelona's goal by captain Maldini in just fifty-two seconds!"

"Barcelona's free kick defense made a man-to-man error!"

"They must have thought that Pirlo was going to make a high kick, looking for Stam and Nesta, but they didn't expect that Pirlo would directly take a low ball and the Barcelona defenders didn't even notice Maldini."

"One to zero!"

"This is definitely a dream start!"

"Maldini opened the record for AC Milan!"

"This goal also made him the oldest goal scorer in the history of the Champions League final."

"We now have to admire Ancelotti. He said that he would break Barcelona's goal in three minutes. In fact, it didn't take three minutes at all, just fifty-two seconds They realized theirs. committed to."

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Losing the ball at the beginning, although Barcelona was shocked, it was not completely unprepared.

Head coach Rijkaard and captain Puyol both spoke out to stabilize the team, hoping that the players can calm down and stabilize their positions.

Before the game, Barcelona did not have deductions and plans for losing the ball first, but they did not expect to lose so fast.

The player quickly stabilized his mind and was not in a hurry. He still wanted to control the ball.

AC Milan obviously focused on grabbing the ball in the midline area. They are not keen on the ball. They prefer to quickly launch a counterattack after grabbing the ball. The weapons are long passes and Kaka.

In the third minute, after AC Milan grabbed the ball again, Seedorf made an oblique long pass and sent the ball to the right side of the Barcelona penalty area.

Crespo blocked Puyol with his body, stopped the ball in front of the baseline outside the penalty area on the right, then turned to pass, hit the ball out of the baseline, and earned a corner kick.

Seedorf was responsible for taking the corner kick, precisely to the point.

Crespo suddenly jumped from the front of the goal to the front point, ahead of Deco, and shook his head at close range.

The ball touched Crespo's head and quickly got into the right side of Barcelona's goal.

Two to zero!

In an instant, two completely different faces appeared in the stadium.

On one side is AC Milan, who is surprised and inexplicable. Their players and fans are almost crazy with excitement.

On the other side is Barcelona, ​​who was beaten up.

Before the game, everyone felt that Ancelotti was bragging. They all felt that even if Barcelona's defense was not reliable, could it still allow you to score in three minutes?

But things in the world are so absurd.

Barcelona not only lost the ball within three minutes, but also lost two in one go!

It's all set shots!