March 4, 27th round of Serie A, San Siro Stadium.

AC Milan's home match against Inter Milan has just started, and Xu Ziyi had to miss this game due to a calf strain before the game. However, "Milan Sports Daily" believes that the powerful AC Milan will not be much weaker because of the lack of Xu Ziyi, and in terms of winning rate, they feel that AC Milan is bigger.

Inzaghi made some changes before the game, with Calhanoglu replacing Xu Ziyi and leaving everything else unchanged. In this game, all Milan fans posted a portrait of Zhang Shujie with "22" written on it in the stands. This figure represents the fans' hope that Zhang Shujie can continue to score goals, so that his consecutive scoring games in the league will reach 22, becoming a new record in the top five leagues.

Zhang Shujie worked very hard in the game, and in the opening two minutes, he shot twice in a row with his left and right feet, but unfortunately they were blocked by Handanovic. Inter Milan obviously don't want to make themselves a stepping stone for Zhang Shujie to set a record, so they will be very shameless.

Inter Milan defended Zhang Shujie very tightly and carefully, within 25 meters, the Nerazzurri sent people to follow him at any time, and considering Zhang Shujie's ability to get rid of the spot, they also deliberately arranged another player nearby as an assistant defense, and cut off Chen Zihua and the front players and the two wings in the midfield, so as to block AC Milan's attack.

It did work well at the start, and although Zhang had two shots in the opening two minutes, it was done from outside the box. In the first fifteen minutes of the game, AC Milan could not successfully score the ball for Inter Milan, but Inter Milan passed the ball to Icardi in the box twice, but fortunately Yan Tao and Romagnoli cleared the ball one after another, so that Donnarumma was not exposed to the opponent's gun.

In the twenty-eighth minute, the first goal of the game was scored. Not from AC Milan, it's from Inter. Portuguese midfielder Joao Mario crosses Icardi diagonally from the edge of the box, who scrambles to score and Inter Milan lead AC Milan 1-0 away!

"Inter Milan are ahead of AC Milan thanks to Mauro Icardi's goal. It was Icardi's 24th league goal of the season and he is fourth on the scorers' list, ahead of Juventus' Dybala, Lazio's Immobile and AC Milan's Zhang Shujie. ”

The scorer list in Serie A is very interesting, Zhang Shujie is temporarily ranked first with 37 goals, and then the difference between the second and fourth places is not much, and there is only a gap of four goals between them. The media also joked: "Other leagues are competing for the Golden Boot, only Serie A is competing for the Silver Boot." The implication of this is that the Serie A Golden Boot has been booked by Zhang Shujie.

After taking the lead, Inter Milan are more defensive and they know that AC Milan will definitely play, and once they attack, the space at the back will expand. This is the case with many strong dialogues, when there is no goal, both sides will play more carefully, only when the goal is scored, then the backward side will strengthen the attack, and the leading side will focus on defense, and strive to score another counterattack without conceding a goal.

Milan could guess their thoughts, but they still had to put the formation up, Inzaghi let the players control the ball more, even if a wave of attacks could not be played, they could not let the ball be snatched away by the opponent, and they must be firmly controlled at their feet.

Unfortunately, AC Milan did not score a goal despite having more possession in the first half, leaving the dressing room with a 1-0 scoreline. Among them, Zhang Shujie's four shots were all within the frame of the goal, but none of them could penetrate the gate guarded by Handanovic. The busiest player in the entire first half was Handanovic, who faced Zhang Shujie and Silva, as well as long-range shots from players such as Chen Zihua and Calhanoglu.

At the start of the second half, Inter Milan took the lead and Icardi scored another goal, but the betrayal was offside and the goal was invalidated. Mario then fired a long-range shot from outside the box that hit the crossbar and stunned the AC Milan fans.

"AC Milan were a bit passive, and if they weren't lucky, Inter would have been at least two goals ahead by now. ”

However, AC Milan's long-term defensive counter-attacks have become accustomed to the opposition's indiscriminate bombardment. As long as the opponent does not score in the attacking climax, then AC Milan have a way to play out. After about ten minutes of fierce attack at Inter Milan, seeing that they failed to score, the momentum of the players also dropped a lot, and AC Milan took this opportunity to hit a wave of counter-attacks.

First, Calhanoglu made a long-range shot from outside the penalty area, which caused Zhang Shujie's dissatisfaction. Milan's No.9 has run to the position, if Calhanoglu passes the ball, Zhang Shujie will get a one-on-one knife, and he is also very likely to break Messi's record, but Calhanoglu is eager to score his own goal, but missed a chance to work as a team.

Inzaghi is also a little dissatisfied, a qualified midfielder is to pass the ball when the striker has a better position, if the ball is replaced by Chen Zihua or Xu Ziyi, or even Bonaventura, this kind of thing will not happen.

Four minutes later, AC Milan's counter-attack returned, and this time Zhang Shujie also used reasonable movement to run out of gaps, and the player with the team was no longer Calhanoglu, but Chen Zihua. He accurately sent the ball to Zhang Shujie, Zhang Shujie burst into the penalty area, at this moment, he had not completely slowed down, he felt his ankle hooked by Miranda behind him, and he also lost his balance and fell into the penalty area. It will be a penalty, an undisputed penalty.

The referee was about to blow the whistle, but saw Zhang Shujie, who was lying on the ground on his side, kicked the ball to the right side of the penalty area, which was supposed to be a heavily defended area, but because Zhang Shujie rushed into the penalty area before, the defenders were attracted over, and there was no one in this place, and Chen Zihua appeared in this gap.

He gently pushed a right-footed shot into the far corner, Handanovic fell to the ground to save, but with no defender in front of him, he couldn't do anything about it himself, and the ball slid into the goal by sticking to the post.

1:1! Chen Zihua equalized for AC Milan! The Rossoneri's number 10 has scored in three consecutive games, and his personal league goal tally has reached 14, more than the 12 in the same period last season, and if this continues, he is very likely to set a new high for his Serie A goals at the end of the season.

With this equaliser, AC Milan's attack became more fluid and the defense was handy. Inter Milan are getting a little tricky, and in such a draw, should the team adopt a balance between attack and defence, or should they strengthen their attack?

(End of chapter)