Chapter 1260: And the League
Vázquez waited until the 27th round to score his first Serie A goal, making four appearances in the last five games. For a 33-year-old veteran, scoring the first goal for Milan after four games should be considered a good result. And let's not forget, he also had two assists and came off the bench for the most part.
With Vázquez's presence, Inzaghi has a lot of options in attack and defence, and AC Milan have won the league all the way until the 33rd round, AC Milan are as many as eight points ahead of second-placed Juventus, and if nothing else, the Rossoneri will win the league title again this season.
Due to the advanced age of many of the main players in the team, Inzaghi has done a more thorough rotation this season than last season, and so far the team's number one star Zhang Shujie has only played 27 games in Serie A and scored 27 goals, which is not low at all.
The suspense of winning the league championship is not big, Inzaghi has put the main goal in the Champions League, AC Milan has reached the semi-finals, in the first ten games, Zhang Shujie did not play all, only played nine, but he scored fourteen goals, which is a very amazing statistic, and what is even more amazing is that he scored all of them in sports warfare.
With Zhang Shujie's form, Milan is enough to become the biggest favorite to win the Champions League. In the semi-finals, their opponent was Neymar's Paris Saint-Germain, and now the 32-year-old Neymar has fallen off a cliff, which is also a common problem for Brazilian players, most of whom have gradually gone downhill after the age of 30. Neymar also Paris Saint-Germain still has the last year of his contract, but Paris does not plan to renew his contract, there is news that Neymar will leave Paris this summer and return to the Santos team when he debuted, although Neymar did not respond positively, but from his father as his agent, he has been in contact with Santos.
AC Milan don't care where Neymar goes, they care about whether they can reach the final on the one hand, and they want to see how Mbappe plays. Last year, Li Yonghong said that he would win Mbappe this summer at the latest, and now Mbappe is facing the Milan defense directly, which will also be a good time to test him.
In the first leg, AC Milan hosted Paris Saint-Germain and Neymar was not included in the starting line-up of the big Paris, but this did not affect the Parisian attack. Mbappe played very well in this game, AC Milan's back line couldn't stop him, his ability to attack on the side caused a lot of trouble for AC Milan, if it weren't for Yan Tao's experience, I'm afraid Milan would have to concede a lot of goals.
However, Mbappe broke the deadlock in the 56th minute, but the Parisians were not happy for long, and nine minutes later, the Milan number nine equalised.
Perhaps no one would have expected that 1:1 would be the final result of this game. Paris Saint-Germain could accept the result, but Milan couldn't, and it was at the San Siro that they allowed PSG to score an away goal and not to mention not to mention being able to win on their own turf, which made it a little difficult for Milan in the second leg.
"Milan Sport" used "danger" to remind AC Milan: "If you don't have at least two goals at home, once you go away, it's easy to lose the lead." ”
I don't know if it's the crow's mouth of "Milan Sports Newspaper", in the second leg AC Milan visited the Parc des Princes, Mbappe scored the only goal of the game, helping Paris successfully advance to the final, and AC Milan can only regrettably stop in the semi-finals.
Reaching the last four of the Champions League is already a remarkable achievement, and AC Milan have been in the top four for several years in a row. However, for a top powerhouse like AC Milan, the semi-finals are far from satisfying them, and what they need is to break into the final and win the final title.
Unfortunately, their wish to win the Champions League again this season has been disappointed, and they will have to delay it for at least a year if they want to meet the Champions League again. Fortunately, AC Milan will not be without success this season, the league title is almost in their pocket, and there is also the Coppa Italia to fight for.
The overall age of the team is on the older side, the bench is not strong enough, and under the pressure of the third-line battle, AC Milan took the lead in losing the Champions League, which is actually reasonable. Chen Hui had speculated before: "If Milan can only win one championship in the end, then it is normal, if it can win two championships, it is not strange, but if it can win all three championships, it will be a bit of a surprise." This is not to say that they are not capable, but the players are a little older and can hardly withstand multi-front combat. ”
Now AC Milan's veterans have also been freed from the Champions League, and they are focused on preparing for the league and must not collapse at the last minute.
Juventus' performance this season is really average, the gap between them and AC Milan has widened to 10 points, which is not so easy to catch up, in the 35th round of the league, as long as AC Milan can beat Lazio in this game, you can clink cups in three rounds in advance. Inzaghi fielded the strongest squad in his mind for this game, with Vazquez, who had previously been on the bench for most of the time, appearing in the starting line-up.
Inzaghi did the right thing, and Vazquez was the star of the game, even overshadowing Zhang Shujie for a while, opening the scoring in the 31st minute of the first half with a brilliant strike to give AC Milan the lead and keep the score 1-0 until the end of the first half.
With Lazio running out of desire this season, the Blues are 10 points behind third-placed Napoli in fourth place, and even three wins in a row will not be able to move them up the table. At the same time, they are ten points above fifth-placed Fiorentina, and even after three consecutive defeats, they will not stay away from the Champions League places.
So Lazio at the San Siro didn't seem so excited, and many players were thinking about how to spend the holiday. This also led to the fact that although they were behind in the score, they did not organize too many effective attacks in the second half, but AC Milan, which has infinite pursuits, is getting stronger and stronger in the attack.
In the 66th minute of the game, Xu Ziyi made a long pass from the backfield, Vazquez got the ball and stuffed it to Calabria on the side, Calabria passed the ball to the penalty area near the corner, Zhang Shujie jumped high at the back point to head the goal, and expanded the score to 2:0 with the 31st league goal of the season.
Of these 31 goals, Zhang Shujie only took 29 games, and his performance was very good, and it was no longer a problem to win the top scorer. His goal also helped AC Milan beat a lacklustre Lazio 2-0 to lift the league title three rounds ahead of schedule.
(End of chapter)