Chapter 955: First Round Elimination
Lichtsteiner's appearance strengthened Juventus' attack on the right flank, and Torino's tactics were the same as in the first half, still playing defensive first and drawing Juventus out before thinking about attacking. Juventus have no other option now, and they have no choice but to attack after being one goal behind.
It must be admitted that Torino's defence was not very tight, otherwise Juventus would not have given Juventus two chances in the box in less than five minutes, but their goalkeeper Sirigu was very good, no matter how difficult the ball was, so that Juventus' forward line could not do anything.
Dybala was tripped by Torino defender Nkuru in a breakthrough in the front court, and the referee gave a free kick, Dybala was already playing very hot, and then Nkuru stabbed the explosive bag, and after Dybala got up from the ground, he pushed Nkuru hard, and scolded in his mouth: "Fuck you!"
Nkuru was a little confused, in fact, he didn't mean to kick down Dybala, and now he was pushed by the other party, and he was also very unhappy, so he also pushed Dybala and said viciously: "What are you doing?"
Seeing that the situation was not right, the players on both sides immediately came over and pulled the two apart, and the referee also came over and gave each of them a yellow card.
Juventus's free kick was taken by Zhao Wenkang, Zhao Wenkang chose to hit the goal directly, the angle was very tricky, and the ball went to the dead corner. Zhao Wenkang looked at it from his position, and the goal should have been scored. He was ready to celebrate the goal in advance.
However, Sirigu played again, he moved two steps quickly, and then flew together, the whole person stretched in the air, and lifted the ball off the crossbar with one palm. The moment Zhao Wenkang saw the ball being pounced, he held his head in his hands, opened his mouth wide and widened his eyes, and looked at Sirigu in disbelief.
"Sirigu's ball was saved! It's unbelievable, if you hadn't seen it with your own eyes, maybe no one would have believed it would have been saved. Juventus really didn't score today, Sirigu was too good. ”
Allegri had no other way to do it, and just three minutes after Juventus missed a good chance to score, Torino had one of the best chances of the second half, when Berotti played a clever one-two with team-mate Berenguer on the left side of the box before bursting into the box, where Buffon abandoned and Berotti slotted past the Italian goalkeeper to slotted the ball into the empty net with his left foot.
2:0! Torino leads Juventus by two goals at home!
The Torino fans cheered excitedly! In normal football matches, two goals is a relatively safe advantage, and now there are about 23 minutes left before the end of the game, and in theory, Juventus still has a chance. However, today's Torino goalkeeper Sirigu is like a hanger, whether it is Dybala or Mandzukizi, or Zhao Wenkang behind him, he can't penetrate his ten fingers.
Allegri had no choice but to make emergency substitutions, bringing on Higuain and Piazza at the same time, while Torino's side changed two defenders and a defensive midfielder, making it clear that he was going to rely on defense to get the three points at home.
Juventus had plenty of chances, but they couldn't get the ball into the net behind Sirigu. The on-site commentator said: "Maybe only a penalty kick will be able to knock on the door guarded by Sirigu." ”
Unfortunately, Juventus were unable to get a penalty and when the game ended, Torino beat city rivals Juventus 2-0 at home. The Bianconeri did not get a win and also lost the chance to catch AC Milan in the standings. Allegri declined to be interviewed after the game and plunged headlong into the dressing room.
On the second day of the game, Torino Sport believed that Juventus' performance on the pitch was actually better than Torino, but they failed to take advantage of the goal opportunity and were stolen by Torino on the counter-attack. Sport believes Torino were the better performers, especially Sirigu, who had 23 shots on goal and 18 of them were on target, but Cilicu was denied.
Seeing Juventus lose, AC Milan can be described as overjoyed. Yan Tao, who has always been high-profile, was the most active, and directly posted a photo of the score of this game on his ins, with a few "laughing" expressions.
Zhang Shujie was relatively introverted, he just wrote lightly: "I thought we lost two points after being forced to draw by Sampdoria, but who knew that after the Juventus game, we had one more point." ”
This is a relatively humorous statement, before this round, AC Milan led Juventus by two points, after this round, AC Milan led Juventus by three points, Zhang Shujie's so-called "one more point" is the extra point in the standings.
Well, now AC Milan leads the Serie A standings with a three-point advantage, if you only look at the points, Milan and Juventus will be one goal difference, but AC Milan has ten more goal difference than Juventus, so even if the points are the same, AC Milan will still rank first, which can be regarded as expanding Milan's lead invisibly. Now, the Rossoneri coaches can prepare for the Champions League knockout tie with Atletico Madrid in good spirits.
This is the first time AC Milan have met Atletico Madrid since returning to the Champions League, as early as the 2014 Champions League quarter-final second leg, AC Milan lost 1-4 to Atletico Madrid, thus being eliminated, since then, the Rossoneri missed the Champions League in the final year, but after buying a number of big stars, AC Milan returned to the Champions League the following year and won the eighth Champions League title in the team's history last season.
The Chinese derby is also a big one to watch, with Tang Ling facing a Milan striker led by Zhang Shujie for the first time. In the past, he was teammates with Zhang Shujie in the national team, but now that he is going to be an opponent, his role does not seem to have completely changed. He said in an interview with the media: "I am both excited and nervous to be able to face Zhang Shujie. The excitement was that I could play against the greatest striker of the day, and the nervousness was that I didn't seem to know how to defend him. I hope Simeone can solve this problem effectively. ”
Tang Ling handed over the world problem of "how to defend Zhang Shujie" to Simeone, and Simeone is also studying, of course, according to his tactical style, he can't send someone to stare at it alone, and pressing in a high position is his main tactical play. And he's been practising hard lately, and he feels that pressing is the only way to stop Milan.
Defending champions AC Milan don't seem to be as nervous as Atletico Madrid, Inzaghi can guess what tactics Simeone will use, but Inzaghi won't use this method, he still focuses on counter-attacking, but now he is asking his players to keep the ball more. There are more than one or two masters of the Milan ball, and if they can take advantage of the width of the pitch and open up the formation, they can break Atletico's high pressing.
(End of chapter)