Chapter 315: Equalizing and Overtaking
"Li Mu's goal made the score 1:1! This is his sixteenth league goal this season, and he has 12 assists, which is the assist king of the entire Serie A!" Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info
Shen Hao looked at Chen Hui: "Li Mu and Zhang Shujie have scored a total of 39 league goals for Juventus, tying the 'twin stars' of the 97/98 season, do you think they have a chance to reach forty goals?"
"Absolutely. There's one more round of the league. โ
"I mean, can it be done in this game?"
Chen Hui looked at Zhang Shujie on the field and said, "Yes!"
In the fifty-eighth minute of the game, Li Mu equalized. He was holding Zhang Shujie's shoulders and said with a smile: "For the championship, let's score a goal." โ
Zhang Shujie nodded: "I will do my best." โ
AC Milan had learned that Li Mu had scored for Juventus, and Allegri's face turned cloudy, and he beckoned Pato to the warm-up area. At this time, Inzaghi had warmed up for more than ten minutes and had not been instructed to play.
After Juventus pulled a goal back, they stepped up their attacks, and Cagliari did not seem to be planning to attack, or not to take the initiative to attack. The players still put the bus in front of the goal, occasionally counterattacking once or twice.
It seemed to have become an offensive and defensive drill, all the players in Cagliari returned to their own half, "9-0-1" was almost "10-0-0", Zhang Shujie and his teammates did their best, but in the face of a defensive formation like an iron bucket, there was not much to do.
The combination of Li Mu and Vidal's brilliant shot just now, if you want to replicate it again, it is basically impossible. Cagliari was determined to hold on to this one goal.
Agazzi saved Li Mu's long-range shot off the line, and Juventus got the first corner of the second half, which was still taken by Li Mu. Now set-pieces are more important than ever for Juventus and they have to take them.
Li Mu saw Zhang Shujie's location and spread it to his surroundings. Zhang Shujie jumped to his feet under the defense of Astori and Perrico, flicked his head at the goal, Agazzi struck a single fist, the ball flew off the crossbar, and Juventus won another corner.
This time on the other side, Li Mu did not pass directly into the penalty area again, he kicked to Barzagli, who answered outside the penalty area, Barzagli controlled it twice, and then passed to Li Mu.
In just a few seconds, the crowd in the Cagliari penalty area was slightly loose, Li Mu suddenly got up and sent the ball to the penalty area, he passed a bocce ball, Zhang Shujie did not grab the front point, Marchisio outflanked the back point, stabbed a shot, hit Agazzi's chest, and the ball bounced back into the penalty area.
Vidal went to shoot, but was kicked out by Canini with a quick kick and into the midfield. Cagliari had no teammates here and the ball fell to the Juventus players.
This "offensive and defensive drill" continues.
Conte was a little anxious on the sidelines, the game played to sixty-eight minutes, after Li Mu scored, Cagliari's defense was much more fierce than before, almost every Juventus player involved in the attack was violated, but Cagliari's fouls were very skillful, many times the referee was a verbal warning, and there were fewer cards.
What annoyed Conte even more was that the foul was either on the left or right side of the penalty area, or it would not be directly facing the goal, so Juventus could not even get a free kick that could be directly facing the goal.
He had called Vucinic to warm up.
Vidal controlled the ball horizontally at the top of the arc of the penalty area, he tried to shoot from a distance, was blocked by the defender, blocked to the feet of Lichtsteiner, Lichtsteiner wanted to shoot but saw that the route had been blocked, he passed to Zhang Shujie, at this time Zhang Shujie and the right post opposite, as soon as he took the ball, three Cagliari players immediately surrounded him, and the people around here were dense, he was surrounded by such a circle, and he couldn't find space to dribble the ball. It's amazing that he can still protect the ball from being snatched away.
In desperation, he had no choice but to hand the ball to Chiellini, who split again.
The scores of other games scrolled below the large LCD screen, and the strong teams such as Roma, Napoli and Lazio were ahead of the opponents, and Conte did not care about the victory or defeat of these teams, he just took a look at the situation of Inter Milan and AC Milan.
Coincidentally, the words "Inter Milan 1:2ac Milan, Milito 73โฒ 51" were typed under the LCD screen.
Inter pulled a goal back, and the goal came about thirty seconds earlier.
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Milito celebrated his 24th league goal as he overtook Zhang Shujie to temporarily sit second on the scorers' list.
Inzaghi in the warm-up area looked at Milito and then at the score, he wanted to play, but Allegri didn't call him. Pato, who came to warm up a little later than him, was already on the pitch, but he was still doing the warm-up activities, and he didn't know if he would be able to play, and he had been silently warming up on the sidelines several times this season until the end of the game, and sometimes even called back to the bench by Allegri.
Milan fans also felt a little distressed when they looked at him, how could the years not be forgiving, and in more than two months, Inzaghi will be thirty-nine years old. Although he can still run, although he will still try his best, he is finally old.
He was warmed up with two Inter Milan players, Cรณrdoba and Obi, who did not speak and moved on their own. Pato, who had just come on the pitch, had already had a shot on goal, and although he didn't score, it also scared the Inter fans out of a cold sweat. Inzaghi looked at the energetic Pato and thought to himself if he was only in his twenties.
Allegri called Cassano, Aquilani and Payes to the warm-up area, and when Inzaghi saw the three approaching, he suddenly had a bad feeling that he might not be able to play.
AC Milan still have two substitutions, and according to Allegri's "habit", the choice should be made between Cassano's three, and the aging Inzaghi will probably be abandoned again. So why did Allegri ask him to warm up at the start of the second half?
No one knows why. All it is known is that Inzaghi has made 299 appearances since joining AC Milan, and is still short of reaching 300 with one game to go, and Allegri seems unwilling to achieve his wishes.
Ibrahimovic's shot hit the post and Milito's volley was deflected off the crossbar three minutes later. The Milan duo were shocked once, but fortunately did not concede a goal. Inter Milan's attack was uninterrupted for a few minutes, Pazzini missed a lone shot, and the fans of Meazza sighed repeatedly.
In the 78th minute, Payes replaced Robinho and a defender replaced an attacking player. Allegri wants to stabilize the defense first, anyway, the team is ahead, and there are Ibrahimovic and Pato in the front, and the attack will not be weak.
But what Allegri didn't expect was that Payes made a mistake as soon as he came on the pitch, he missed the ball when he was competing with Pazzini, and Pazzini seized the opportunity to head through the door of AC Milan. 2:2๏ผ
Pazzini made up for it, and after wasting a solo goal, he finally equalised for Inter. Payes certainly bears the blame for the goal, and while his five-minute warm-up wasn't too long, it wasn't too short to get the best out of him. But his "best state" is rising.
It took only five minutes for Inter Milan, who were two goals behind, to bring both teams back to the starting point. In the AC Milan dugout, Allegri's face sank.
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Juventus' side already knew the reports of the two Milan teams, and Conte called back Vucinic, who had been warming up for a long time, and sent him on the pitch to replace Leonardo Bonucci. Inter Milan and AC Milan are now drawn, and Conte feels his hopes of winning the title ahead of schedule have increased.
Zhang Shujie with the ball couldn't shoot, he was not greedy, passed to Vidal, Vidal was four or five meters outside the penalty area, wanted to shoot and felt too far, so he was assigned to the side, Marchisio received the ball and knocked it to Li Mu, Li Mu picked up the penalty area.
Zhang Shujie jumped up for the ball, he jumped high, and the defender next to him was at least a head lower than him, but goalkeeper Agazzi stretched his arm and picked the ball off in front of him.
As the minutes ticked by, the managers of the two championship teams were in a bit of a hurry. Antonio Conte is anxious that his team has the advantage but can't score again, and Allegri is anxious that he doesn't know the exact situation of Juventus and is constantly worried about whether his team can go ahead again.
Zhang Shujie received a pass from Li Mu, Cagliari sent three people to surround him as usual, he stepped on the ball and pulled it back, dodging the three's scrambling, and broke through the crack with a small step to protect the ball. He was knocked by Astori and almost fell, but he barely stood up straight, took a few more steps into the middle, and kept his half-truth possession skills to confuse the opponent before the ball was snatched away.
"Zhang Shujie's skills are so good that none of the three Cagliari people stopped him this time. However, he didn't seem to be able to get off his feet, and the defense around him was very tight. โ
The commentator was right, he really couldn't get up and shoot, he was trying to draw the opposition defence's attention to himself and open up space for his teammates. Li Mu, Vidal, and Marchisio were already running, Zhang Shujie glanced at them out of the corner of his eye, and then flicked the ball to the left back, and was about to pass it out, when Cagliari's fourth defender, Ekdal, leaned over and stretched out his foot to Zhang Shujie.
"Beep!" the referee blew the whistle. Ekdal kicked down Zhang Shujie, the referee stepped forward and showed a yellow card, and Ekdal had nothing to say. It was indeed a foul and the referee showed no favouritism to the home team.
Juventus finally got a free-kick right in the direction of the goal, and the distance was ideal, about twenty-two or three metres. In Pirlo's absence, the penalty for this free kick fell to Zhang Shujie.
"It's a dangerous free-kick. But Pirlo is not on the pitch now, and it is not known how good Zhang Shujie, who is in charge of the penalty, is at free-kicks. He scored a free-kick at Parma last season, but at Juventus he has yet to score too much. โ
Zhang Shujie practiced free kicks every day after training, and Li Mu practiced with him, all of which Conte knew, otherwise he would not have let him go to penalties. In fact, Zhang Shujie never thought that he would be able to take free kicks at Juventus, until Pirlo's accidental injury gave him this opportunity.
Chen Hui and Shen Hao looked at the young man with solemn expressions, and the two of them seemed to have turned into statues, not moving. In the bedroom, Wang Shihan interlocked his fingers, lightly held them on his chest, stared at the computer, and silently prayed for Zhang Shujie.
"Applejack......" she whispered in a voice that she could only hear.
Cagliari was lining up the wall, and Li Mu walked up to Zhang Shujie: "It's been eighty-three minutes, and time is running out." โ
"Well, I know. โ
"So...... Kick it in. โ
"I'll try. Zhang Shujie forced himself to calm down. He looked at the goal and thought of Wang Shihan, he knew that Wang Shihan must be staying up late to watch his game.
The human wall has been lined up, Zhang Shujie looked at the angle and looked at the upper left corner of the goal.
The referee's whistle blew, Li Mu covered, ran to the ball and jumped over, Zhang Shujie ran three meters to the side of the ball, lowered the center of gravity, sank his left shoulder, and hit the middle of the ball with the inside of his right foot. The ball went around the scattered wall and slammed into the goal.
The ball fell in a curve in the air, and Agazzi's body was in the air, but he still couldn't touch the ball, and the ball flew into the goal from the top left corner, setting off the net!