Chapter 960: Penalties

ZHANG SHUJIE SCORED HIS ELEVENTH Champions League goal of the season!

"Atletico Madrid is really unlucky, seeing that the first half is about to end, but Zhang Shujie scored another free kick, and they didn't have a good time in the second half. ”

Zhang Shujie patted his heart, opened his arms, and ran to the stands of Milan fans, listening to the cheers of the fans. His teammates also ran up, Yan Tao grabbed his shoulders and roared towards the stands, his face a little hideous.

Inzaghi was overjoyed, against a tough opponent like Atletico Madrid, he could lead by two goals in the first half, which is not something anyone can do. Even the likes of Barcelona and Real Madrid have not been able to do so in recent years. But now, AC Milan has done it.

Simeone shook his head helplessly and sat back in the dugout. He suddenly felt that this AC Milan team was even more difficult to deal with than Real Madrid and Barcelona, and several key players in key positions in their team were at their peak age, and it was time to create brilliant moments.

Simeone can now only hope to pull two goals back as soon as possible in the second half, as for the three points...... Let's just equalize first.

2:0 was the final score of the first half, and after a minute of stoppage time, the players of both teams walked off the pitch and walked to the dressing room, and after a fifteen-minute break, the two sides continued to play in the second half.

Chen Hui rubbed his shoulders and looked at Sun Delong, who was typing on the keyboard: "Old Sun, are you surprised to see this score?"

Sun Delong's head smiled unawkwardly: "Very surprised and pleasantly surprised." Although on paper, AC Milan is stronger than Atletico Madrid, but it was beaten 2:0 in the first half, it is estimated that many people did not expect it before the game, and this is still at Atletico Madrid's home stadium. ”

Chen Hui nodded and said, "Yes." All I can say is that AC Milan are really too strong at the moment, sometimes they don't have the advantage or even passive, but they only need one or two counter-attacks to get their chances, and they have a good rhythm in the midfield when they attack. ”

Sun Delong glanced at the score on the LCD screen and said, "In the grasp of opportunities, they are indeed very strong." ”

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In the Atletico dressing room, Simeone was a little unhappy with the team's first half, believing that the players were only empty but unable to transfer goals, especially Griezmann, in the second half of the first half, those two chances could have been taken once, the result would have been very different. Simeone asked the players to continue to strengthen their attack in the second half and not give up fighting in the front court. He knew that his disciple could not play AC Milan technically, so he could only adopt this method, even if he ran out of strength.

In addition, Simeone is also planning to make a substitution, he wants to replace Gameiro with Torres. If Antoine Griezmann was mainly about missing a chance in the first half, then Gameiro was largely out of sight, at least for most of the time.

On the AC Milan side, Inzaghi did not make any adjustments, knowing that the game is in their favour now, not only in terms of the scoreline, but also in the fitness of the players. In the first 45 minutes, AC Milan's players did not run very widely, except for the counter-attack and after the counter-attack, most of the time the players were in the second half of their own game. Inzaghi told the players that Atletico's fitness would not last long, and even after a fifteen-minute break, they would only be able to surround for 20 minutes at most in the second half, so Milan must survive those 20 minutes.

At the same time, Inzaghi reminded the players that they must not be careless in the second half, although 2:0 is a relatively safe score, it does not mean that this can sit back and relax. Inzaghi had seen first-hand how his team could be reversed, and now he will not allow that to happen to his team.

The second half of the game began, and the players of both teams walked out one after another. Atletico Madrid used the first substitution, with veteran Fernando Torres coming on for Gameiro.

Once Torres was in Chelsea, was loaned to AC Milan for half a season, the coach at that time was also Inzaghi, but that half a season for Torres, was a very failure, he played 10 games for Milan, but only scored one goal, such an efficiency not to mention compared with the striker, even some offensive midfielders he can not compare, so half a season later, Torres can only return to Chelsea, until December 2014, Torres announced his return to Atletico Madrid.

Simeone is now replacing him in the hope that his experience can help Atletico and rely on his impact to win some space and opportunities for Griezmann.

In the second half, Atletico kicked off, and AC Milan still contracted the formation and ceded possession to Atletico. And Atletico Madrid is not a team that mainly focuses on possession, and Milan's counter-approach makes Atletico Madrid players a little uncomfortable. This, combined with their strong defensive ability in the midfield, made it difficult for Atletico to get the ball into Milan's penalty area. So, it was the same situation as in the first half – the ball went in, but the striker couldn't get the ball.

However, the presence of Torres has allowed Atletico to get some chances, and despite his age, he has absolutely no physical problems when he first comes on. Inzaghi asked Yan Tao, who was also impactful, to defend Torres, and the two inevitably had frequent conversations. Atletico's first shot came from Torres, but his shot was too straight and was pulled out of the bottom line by Donnarumma, and Atletico got a corner kick in less than two minutes.

Carrasco took the penalty, he drove directly to the penalty area, Torres fought for the point, but under the interference of Yan Tao, he failed to form an attack, the ball went vertically into the sky, and fell vertically, Donnarumma immediately attacked, both fists hit the ball outside the penalty area, Rodriguez controlled the ball and kicked it to Zhang Shujie in front.

"AC Milan launched a counter-attack, this is what they do best, Atletico Madrid must be careful, if they concede another goal, then they have little hope. ”

Zhang Shujie unloaded the ball with his right foot and gave it to Silva with his left foot, at this time Silva failed to control the ball under the pressure of Tang Ling and Godin, and Milan's counterattack was broken just after 20 meters of halftime. It was also the shortest comeback of AC Milan's trip so far in the game.

"It seems that Atletico Madrid paid special attention to the efficiency of Milan's counter-attack, and consciously sent people to take care of key areas. But this is also inseparable from the physical strength of the players, as the game progresses, this method may not be so good at the end of the game, after all, the consumption is too great. ”

Tang Ling gave the ball to Carrasco, Carrasco took a few steps, Rodriguez chased back, Torres in front of him ran up, Yan Tao followed, but Carrasco did not pass the ball to him, but passed to Griezmann in the back, and Bonucci followed closely.

Griezmann received the ball at the edge of the penalty area, stepped into the penalty area, Bonucci also followed the penalty area, and made an interception action, at this moment, Griezmann, who was hit, suddenly tilted his body and fell in the penalty area, the referee's whistle also sounded, and pointed to the penalty spot.

(End of chapter)