Recently, the team has played a lot of games, and the schedule is also very tight, Inzaghi is worried about every game he plays, although he has also made appropriate rotations, but some players cannot be replaced at all, such as Zhang Shujie and Chen Zihua, who can replace their positions? None of them can be found, the back line is okay to say, when facing the weak team, you can consider letting Romagnoli and Yan Tao take a break, but Zhang Shujie and Chen Zihua made Inzaghi dare not put them on the bench casually.

However, with Milan playing a lot of big scores lately, Inzaghi was able to replace them earlier. For example, in the last round of the Champions League, Zhang Shujie only played 60 minutes, and after giving Suso an assist, Zhang Shujie went down to rest. Chen Zihua also played for 75 minutes before going to the bench.

In this round of Serie A with Empoli, Inzaghi planned to put out the strongest squad in order to grab points and goal difference in the league, but the day before the game, Chen Zihua felt a little unwell, and after the team doctor confirmed, he would not be able to play, and Inzaghi had to exclude him from the 18-man squad. In fact, this is not a good thing, Empoli is not a strong team, and it is not impossible to take this opportunity to let Chen Zihua rest for a round.

Inzaghi is just hoping that the rest of the midfielders can afford to support the team's attack and defence, even in this game.

AC Milan were playing at home, with Zhang Shujie giving his side a 1-0 lead in the first half, but Empoli equalised early in the second half. Inzaghi then sent all his attacking players and in the 72nd minute, Lapadula gave Milan the lead again, only to be levelled again by Empoli seven minutes later.

Seeing that the game was about to enter injury time, Zhang Shujie stood up at this critical moment, he used his personal skills, dribbled the ball 40 meters in the front court, tore apart Empoli's defense, and fired a low left-footed shot into the net in the penalty area, and the score became 3:2! At this time, the regular time of 90 minutes had just arrived, and there were three minutes of stoppage time. With three minutes remaining, AC Milan defended with all their might, holding the score 3-2 until the end of the game.

The following day, Juventus beat ****** 4-0 at home to close the goal difference gap on AC Milan, but they were still in second place.

Four days later, the 34th round of Serie A, AC Milan vs Crotone and Juventus vs Atalanta will be played at the same time. Before the game, "Milan Sport" and "Torino Sport" both declared: "The competition for the Serie A title has reached a fever pitch, and whoever dares to make a mistake at this stage will mean that they will not win the Serie A title." ”

The CEOs of both teams also came out to boost the morale of the teams. Fasone said: "I believe that our Milan players are the best and I believe that they can continue to win the final trophy. ”

Marotta said: "Juventus is the best in Serie A, it was, it is and it will be, we are not afraid of any opponent, we are not only winning this game, but also winning the league title. ”

The words of the two are good, but the game between the two teams is a big surprise, AC Milan drew 2:2 away from Crotone, Zhang Shujie and Yan Tao each scored a goal, Chen Zihua provided an assist, and Juventus, who also sent the strongest team, also played a 2:2 away game with Atalanta, such a game made the top two in the standings unchanged.

Faso's breath of relief when he saw such a result, Marotta was furious and called Allegri to the office to talk, like this situation where only one win can overtake Milan has occurred more than once this season, but Juventus got a draw, which is simply infuriating.

"Milan Sports Newspaper" couldn't laugh and cry: "This season's Serie A championship is probably the most dramatic in the past two decades, whether it is Juventus or AC Milan, in fact, there are mistakes on the way to the championship, but the other team has never seized the opportunity, if it continues like this, Juventus is afraid it will be difficult to win this championship." ”

"Torino Sport" is even more blunt: "If the championship trophy reaches Milan City, it can only be said to be 'fate'." ”

AC Milan remain firmly at the top of the table, and they will be able to sit in this position for at least another week, of course, this is not to say that Milan will have nothing to do in this week, they will have a Champions League game against Real Madrid, who are in full swing!

In the draw matchup for the semi-finals, the other three teams actually want to draw Monaco, Milan and Real Madrid have become the teams that have won the Champions League the most times in the semi-finals, and the duel between Zhang Shujie and Ronaldo will also become the biggest attraction.

In the 2013/2014 season, Zhang Shujie, who was still in Bayern Munich, lost 0:4 to Real Madrid led by Ronaldo, and the twenty-three-year-old Zhang Shujie just won the FIFA Golden Ball Award at the beginning of the year.

That was the first time Zhang Shujie won this award, and now, when the two meet again, it can be said that they are very angry.

If you want to ask who the media is most optimistic about? Naturally, Real Madrid, even if Ronaldo and Zhang Shujie are excluded, Real Madrid's forward group still has Benzema, Morata and a bunch of good players, AC Milan is a lot worse, Lapadula, Baka, these players are not up to grade on the Champions League stage; in the midfield position, AC Milan only has Chen Zihua on the table, maybe Bonaventura can barely fight, Real Madrid has Kroos, Modric, Casemiro, and Isco, Vazquez, Asensio and other emerging forces, and then look at the backline, Yan Tao's strength is outstanding, and with a young and promising powerful student Romagnoli, such a central defender partner looks very good, comparable to Real Madrid......

Ramos, Raphael, Marcelo, Carvajal, these are all today's top defenders, in addition to Pepe, Nacho and others, AC Milan really can't watch.

The goalkeeper position is also dominated by Real Madrid, although Navas has not been as solid this season as last season, but this is also related to the injury he suffered at the beginning of the season. Moreover, the fact that Navas has conceded a lot of goals this year is not unrelated to the fact that Real Madrid defenders like to drive backwards, but if you watch Navas's games carefully, you can find that Navas rarely makes technical mistakes, and many of the goals conceded are not actually responsible for him. As for Donnarumma, it can only be said that the potential is huge, and it is difficult to say what heights he can reach in the future. If he can pass the Real Madrid hurdle, it will be of great help to his future growth.

In addition, Zhang Shujie once had a direct confrontation with Navas, and in the World Cup in Brazil, China eliminated Costa Rica and advanced to the quarterfinals with Zhang Shujie's brace, but unfortunately lost at the feet of the Dutch team. Now, Zhang Shujie will talk to Keylor Navas again, and he will also hope to penetrate the Costa Rican goalkeeper again!

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