Chapter 1238: Champion Suspense
The final score of the match was 4:0 and Barcelona suffered a heavy defeat at the San Siro. The Spanish media are almost not optimistic about them anymore, who can believe that they can score at least five goals in the second leg and come back from defeat?
Messi himself admitted: "We were tough, the blow of 0:4 was too big for us. However, no matter how much the outside world is not optimistic about us, we will still not give up hope of qualifying. And it's not like AC Milan hasn't been overturned in a situation where promotion is almost certain. ”
This sentence made the AC Milan players very unhappy, especially Inzaghi! You must know that in the player era, Inzaghi and his Milan had two extremely unpleasant experiences in the Champions League, originally with the strong recovery of the Rossoneri in recent years, many people don't want to mention the things of the year anymore, and Messi's sentence undoubtedly disgusted the Milan players.
Zhang Shujie said: "I can understand Messi's feelings, I admire them for having the courage to turn the tables in the second leg, football matches need such a spirit." But I don't quite understand why he brought up something unpleasant in the first place, didn't he know that his words hurt our fans a lot? I don't think a top player like Messi should say something like that. ”
Inzaghi also said: "No matter what tactics Barcelona use in the second leg, we will never give them any chance! I can swear with my life that there is only one last game left in Barcelona's Champions League journey this season!"
It seems that Inzaghi was really angry, otherwise he would not have said such a thing. And Yan Tao even declared war on Barcelona: "You still have to think about it, will there be another '7:0' tragedy." ”
After the verbal fight, AC Milan returned to the league and they won unsurprisingly, Juventus also won this round, and the two teams are still five points apart in the standings, AC Milan are still the favourites to win the Serie A title.
The second leg against Barcelona began four days later, and when Barcelona were clearly stronger in attack than away from home, there was probably a shout from the fans. As for AC Milan, Barcelona fans did not hesitate to boo, especially for Zhang Shujie, as soon as he took the ball, the Camp Nou stands booed.
In the 33rd minute of the game, Zhang Shujie broke through Umtiti's defense at the edge of the penalty area and hit the goal with his left foot, Ter Stegen touched the ball, but Zhang Shujie's shot was very fast, and the ball still rolled into the goal after changing direction.
1:0! AC Milan took the lead away, and the aggregate score between the two sides became 5:0! More importantly, AC Milan scored an away goal! There was only one hour left in the game, and Barcelona wanted to score six goals in these 60 minutes, an average of one goal every 10 minutes, which is difficult to imagine.
This goal was fatal for Barcelona, in the 59th minute of the second half, Andre Silva headed another goal, rewriting the score to 2:0, in the 76th minute, Zhang Shujie was tripped by the opponent's defender in front of the penalty area, AC Milan got a free kick, Zhang Shujie personally penalized and hit, the score became 3:0!
That's the end of the game, and the rest of the time is all a formality. When the score was over, Barcelona lost 0:3 to AC Milan at their home stadium, and the aggregate score was 0:7 to elimination.
With a single game of 0:3 and an aggregate score of 0:7, Barcelona suffered its heaviest defeat since the 2012/2013 season. Coincidentally, both games were directed by Zhang Shujie, who scored three goals in two legs against Barcelona last time at Bayern to help his team win 7-0, and today, Zhang Shujie also scored three goals in two legs to help AC Milan beat Barcelona 7-0.
Barcelona's humiliating defeat is not entirely accidental, over the years, with the aging of Messi, they have gradually stepped down from the altar, and Barcelona, which lacks the future crown prince, is difficult to compare with Real Madrid, after all, Real Madrid still has stars such as Asensio and Te'o, but Barcelona is still eating the old book. But now, they don't even have to eat their old books.
AC Milan made it to the last four after a frantic 7-0 run. They are about to return to the league, this round of Serie A AC Milan opponent is the fifth-placed Cagliari, Inzaghi will Zhang Shujie, Yan Tao, Conte and other players in the snow, even Chen Zihua and Xu Ziyi, he only intends to play half of the game alone.
But what I didn't expect was that Milan lost 0:1 to Cagliari in this round, allowing Cagliari to get a valuable three points on the road to relegation. This defeat was something that no one expected, and the "Milan Sports Newspaper" said: "Although AC Milan has rested many main players, they can't even win Cagliari, right? Where is the spirit of the previous two-legged Barcelona 7:0? Perhaps AC Milan should face a reality, in the absence of half of the main players, the players on the bench are not able to carry the banner for the time being." ”
Inzaghi said: "It was an accident and we have to refuse that in the future, we still have the advantage of winning the title in Serie A. ”
In the Serie A standings, AC Milan have played one more game and are five points ahead of Juventus. A day later, the match between Juventus and Chievo began, with Juventus winning 3-0 at home and closing the gap to AC Milan to two points. The suspense of the Serie A title race is back.
In the 34th round, AC Milan ushered in a tough battle, their opponent was the city rival Inter Milan, and Juventus's opponent was the relegation team Benevento, and the Bianconeri won basically no problem. The key is AC Milan, Inter Milan are currently fourth in Serie A, four points ahead of fifth-placed Fiorentina, and Inter Milan cannot afford to lose, otherwise they may not be able to go to next season's Champions League.
Juventus and Benevento kicked off early on Friday, with Huang Yu opening the scoring for the Bianconeri with his second league goal of the season, before Zhao Wenkang doubled the lead for the first time in four years for two Chinese players to score in the same game. Towards the end of the game, Dybala locked the score at 3-0.
It was Dybala's 30th league goal of the season, seven goals behind Zhang Shujie, and it is unlikely that he would be the top scorer, but he helped Juventus to all three points in both league games, both 3-0. Now Juventus has one more game in the league and has overtaken AC Milan in the standings, temporarily ranking first. And they put all the pressure on AC Milan's side.
(End of chapter)