Chapter 57: The Battle of Rome (I)

"Milan are at home to Roma today, so it's a tough match. Milan have been in poor form of late, and there is no sign of a rebound, and it is unknown how long they will struggle in this quagmire, which is a travesty of the luxury forward line, regardless of scoring only two goals. Roma have also had a poor start to the season, although there have been signs of recovery recently, beating strong opponents on both fronts. However, at present, Roma is full of injuries, several important players are injured, and Milan's terrifying striker Ai Fan has returned to Milan and entered the eighteen-man squad for this game. Originally, Roma had a better chance of winning, but now Roma is playing away from home with the remnants, and Milan can have a fight with ease. The on-site commentary was still the same chatter, and he said a lot of words in one breath, which made the scene a lot hotter.

In recent rounds, Milan's form is really poor, as if they don't know how to score goals, and a group of forwards who have spent a lot of money to buy have all become headless flies, which also makes fans complain, so even in the face of a strong team like Roma, it still did not attract more fans to the stadium, and the attendance rate of San Siro today is less than eighty percent, which is also a rare situation.

Leonardo has not had a good time lately, and he also knows that his position is already in turmoil, so he also issued a must-kill order before this game, vowing to take down the Roman legion without a wolf. But he also knows that Milan has lost three consecutive games against Roma in the historical record, and it is not easy to win this game, so he put Ai Huan, who he doesn't like at all, into the eighteen-man squad, but he still didn't put him in the starting lineup.

Roma's game is indeed not optimistic, the head wolf Totti's injury is unknown, although Vucinic and Babp and others have returned from injury, but after all, the state is not good, and there are several injuries that have been determined to be absolutely impossible to play, but since Ranieri took office, Roma is undefeated in the league, and it is still better than Milan in the end, so most people are still optimistic about Roma, which is one of the reasons for today's poor attendance.

Roma still put on a 4-4-2 lineup, goalkeeper Doni finally returned to the starting line after a six-month absence, central defenders Mexis and Burdisso, wingbacks Cassetti and Reese, De Rossi, Perrotta, Pizarro, Tadei four people formed the midfield, the forward line consisted of Vucinic and Mane, Totti only confirmed before the game that he could not play, fortunately, Ranieri is known as a tinker, and no one is not a big deal for him.

Leonardo unexpectedly fielded a 4-4-1-1 line-up, with Dida in the final year of his contract replacing Storari in the goal, while Silva, who had just returned, also formed a strong defensive combination with Nesta, Odd and Zambrotta as two wing-backs, and Abate, who had finally had a chance to play recently, started the game, and he and Pirlo, Ambrosini and Seedorf make up the midfield, which may be the world's No. 1 midfielder in the middle-aged and senior group, with Pato still acting as the arrowhead and Ronaldo behind him as a shadow striker.

Huntelaar has basically been judged to be unable to adapt to Milan's attacking system at this time, and Inzaghi and Ai Huan sitting on the bench together also made that person feel a little confused, everyone thinks that these two people should be sent, and the cooperation between them seems to have more spark, but Leonardo is not willing to try at all.

The match started with Milan serving, but Roma soon got off to a dream start. Only two minutes into the opening game, Burdisso's header cleared the top back to the front, Mane's left-footed volley did not touch, Thiago Silva passed back to goalkeeper Dida but did not push the power, Mane cut the ball in front of him, dragged down by Silva into the penalty area, ten meters in front of the goal with his right foot into the lower right corner, the score became 1-0!

Mane then threatened again when he shook Nesta into the right-hand side of the box and fired a right-footed diagonal shot that Dida fell to the right but held the ball down before Perrotta could make a follow-up. In the ninth minute, Roma's Perrotta turned in front of goal and volleyed off the line.

In the thirteenth minute, Ronaldo shifted to the left, and Odor's volley from the right side met Burdisso's leg and deflected wide, which was Milan's first shot on goal after the opening.

Roma almost won a penalty in the 19th minute. De Rossi passes, Vucinic outside the instep of the outside of the box to the right side of the penalty area, Mane once again used his speed to force past Silva, Silva pulled Mane's left shoulder with his right hand, Mene lost his body balance in the small penalty area with his right foot sweeping shot into the side netting, maybe because Mane completed the shooting action or maybe this is Milan's home stadium, referee Rossetti did not award a penalty, Milan escaped.

In the 22nd minute, De Rossi's powerful left-footed volley from the top of the penalty area was blocked by Dida at the post.

Then Milan began to step up their attack, and in the 27th minute, Pizarro hit Nesta in the face with the shoulder, and Pirlo conceded a free kick to Ronaldo, who took the penalty over the wall and over the crossbar from 27 yards. In the 31st minute, Seedorf crossed from the left, Pato did not stop in the penalty area, but Ambrosini scrambled on the spot, and then sent the ball out of the penalty area, Pirlo fired a right-footed volley high from outside the box. In the 37th minute, Pirlo's free-kick from the right was headed wide and Seedorf fired a right-footed volley wide of the near post at the back post.

However, Milan's defense showed a flaw in the 38th minute, Mane broke through a low cross on the right sideline, Vucinic stopped the ball with his left foot and got rid of Nesta and Pirlo at the same time, and the one-handed push on the right side of the small penalty area was blocked by Dida three meters from the goal!

Roma's corner kick was destroyed, Milan quickly counterattacked, Pato dribbled the ball from the back 60 meters to the right side, Abate took the ball from the bottom line, Perrotta's header bounced off the head of teammate Tadei, Seedorf turned on the left side and volleyed with his left foot, the ball was saved by Doni and hit the near post, Ambrosini wanted to step forward to shoot, but Mex's first shot was destroyed.

Ai Huan sat on the sidelines and waited on the field, but his heart had already flown to a distant country, he had already learned the news of Fan Haidong's angry resignation from the Internet, and he couldn't contact him, so naturally he had no way to know the inside story, just listened to the gossip rumors, the reason for Fan Haidong's resignation was that the upper echelons of the evil didn't like his big mouth, so they deliberately forced him away, and judging from the fact that these people were active again and criticized him by name, he has also become a thorn in the side of the evil spirit, but there is nothing strange about it, it is precisely because he threatened to quit before that these people were investigated, and now it is not strange for people to settle accounts after the autumn。 (To be continued.) )