Pellegrini's so-called "can't lose the ball" is just an idea of his own, and no one can expect what will happen in the actual game, just like when the game reached the 24th minute, Manchester City's defense made a serious mistake, Montolivo broke the ball and passed it to Baca, who then passed Zhang Shujie diagonally, at this time Liang Xiran's defensive attention was mainly on Baca, and he had no time to take care of Zhang Shujie. Another defender, Kompany, stepped forward to intercept Montolivo, and when he turned back, Zhang Shujie was already facing Ma Junqiang single-handedly.

Ma Junqiang attacked, Zhang Shujie shook off, shook off Ma Dashuai, and gently pushed the ball into the empty goal with his left foot, and AC Milan got a 1:0 lead at home. The aggregate score was 2-2 and AC Milan had an away goal advantage in favour of the Rossoneri.

The fans chanted Zhang Shujie's name, this is Zhang Shujie's ninth Champions League goal this season, the numbers look beautiful, but if you want to compete for the Champions League Golden Boot, it may be an unlikely task, the first-ranked Ronaldo scored thirteen goals, and the second leg between Real Madrid and Chelsea has not yet started, although Zhang Shujie also has the possibility of continuing to score, but Ronaldo also has the possibility of continuing to expand his goals.

The backward Manchester City realized the seriousness of the problem, they can no longer defend so honestly, attack is the only option, Milan did not shrink the formation, Inzaghi clearly knows that this away goal can not be Milan's talisman, there is still more than an hour in the game, only more goals will be more secure.

In the last 20 minutes of the first half, Manchester City had a total of six shots on goal, but neither Aguero, De Bruyne, nor Silva could knock on Milan's goal, and the best chance was in the 33rd minute, Aguero got a single knife, he had already deceived Donnarumma, but he almost hit the ball on the post, and Pellegrini on the sidelines was so angry that he threw and stomped on the sidelines.

AC Milan also had a number of good chances, with Zhang Shujie's close-range header saved by Ma Junqiang and then his tackle from inside the six-yard box denied by Liang Xiran, while Bacca and Bonaventura also had two shots in the space of four minutes.

AC Milan ended the first half 1:0 with Zhang Shujie's goal. Manuel Pellegrini certainly couldn't accept such a scoreline, let alone a knock-out team, and he asked his team to play more aggressively in the second half. Inzaghi asked the team to defend the score and attack the Manchester City backfield to extend the score.

At the start of the second half, City picked up the tempo again, and AC Milan withstood the pressure of the previous waves before launching a very quick counter-attack. Yan Tao swam to the side, received Romagnoli's pass and rushed forward, relying on his speed and physical advantage, all the way across the halfway line, to Manchester City's back 40 meters.

Yan Tao gave the ball to Zhang Shujie in front, and moved horizontally to the middle, Zhang Shujie passed the ball diagonally to the front of the penalty area after going down, Baca grabbed the point and shot, Ma Junqiang saved; Yan Tao made up the shot, and Ma Junqiang saved again.

After two consecutive saves, Ma Junqiang completely fell in front of the goal, and it was impossible to stand up immediately, but the ball was still at the feet of the AC Milan player, this person was none other than the most dangerous person in the Rossoneri!

Zhang Shujie pulled the ball in front of him with his left foot, and with a shot with his right foot, the ball flew past Ma Junqiang and fell into the Manchester City goal, jumped in the goal, and bounced on the net.

2:0! AC Milan leads Manchester City 2:0 at home! Chen Hui in the press box smiled and applauded, and Yuan Qing, who was sitting next to him, was also laughing, but with a bitter smile.

For these Chinese reporters, although they have full-time players to arrange reporting, in their hearts, no matter who wins, they are actually the same happy. Even if AC Milan is eliminated today, Chen Hui will be happy for Ma Junqiang and Liang Xiran, and he will also feel sorry for Zhang Shujie and Yan Tao.

City began to make changes, with Manuel Pellegrini bringing on Raheem Sterling for the exhausted Yaya Toure and Nasri for Vincent Kompany three minutes later. At this point, the game was only 68 minutes into the game, and City used two substitutions, while Inzaghi only replaced Cherci with Bertolacci, and nothing else changed.

City are two goals down, but they are not desperate, and if they can score one more goal, they can send the game to extra-time. This is the basic requirement of Manchester City, once it goes to extra time, there are at least 30 minutes to fight for it, which is really not good, and there is a penalty shoot-out.

AC Milan were about to shift their focus to defence, Manchester City made a desperate bet and attacked with all their might, with Manuel Pellegrini shouting on the sidelines, telling his players to press forward and counter-attack if they conceded the ball. For a while, the players' movements were a little big, the referee kept pulling out the cards, and even the players on both sides had an argument. It's just that the emotions of the Manchester City players are a little uncontrollable, and they frequently cause some incidents.

Manchester City is on the verge of elimination, and it is normal for the players to be a little excited, and the AC Milan players did not say much to them, and even Yan Tao held back his temper. Manuel Pellegrini used the last substitution, bringing on Iheanacho for Keylor Navas, Milan and Inzaghi for Bonaventura with Mex, who kept a substitution in his hand to see what was going on before using it.

In the seventy-fifth minute, Manchester City was attacking, De Bruyne made a long shot from outside the penalty area, Donnarumma saved the ball out of the penalty area, Aguero wanted to receive a second point to make up for the shot, but Yan Tao took the first step to push the ball out, Montolivo cleared again, failed to kick far, kicked to the feet of Nasri, and Nasri passed the ball into the penalty area.

Sterling received the ball, so close to the distance, everyone thought he would shoot, but he knocked the ball to De Bruyne, "Tintin" at the penalty spot, swinging his legs on the spot, a volley, the angle is not very tricky, but the power is great, Donnarumma saved the ball with all his might, but failed to save the ball, the ball still bounced into the goal of AC Milan, and the score became 1:2.

It was a crucial goal, with the aggregate score now 3-3 for both teams and the same goal on the road, and if that were the final score, it would have gone to extra time.

Manuel Pellegrini was overjoyed and City had a glimmer of hope of qualifying. However, both sides were actually reluctant to play in this extra time, because it was too physically demanding, Pellegrini asked the players to win the game in 90 minutes, Inzaghi also wanted to settle the battle in regular time, so the last substitution was used, Suso replaced Abate, and Yan Tao moved from the middle to the right.

(End of chapter)