Chapter 1216 The league and the Champions League are all over
If you want to ask Chinese fans what they want to play the most, it is natural that AC Milan and Chelsea should not meet, because they want to see Zhang Shujie and Li Mu meet in the final. These two of the best players in Chinese football have only met twice in the Champions League, with one win and one loss, and the winning side has won the Champions League that season.
The fans' wishes eventually came true, with AC Milan facing Bayern Munich in the semi-finals and Chelsea meeting Real Madrid. Chinese fans chanted: "Finally, I have another chance to see Zhang Shujie and Li Mu in the final." However, there are also reasonable fans who say that it is normal for these four teams to advance no matter who can advance, so don't be too happy.
It's just one thing for sure is that three of the four teams have Chinese players, so it's bound to be at least one Chinese player in the final, but since China won the world championship, it's not unusual.
In the next two rounds of the league, Inzaghi deliberately made some rotations for AC Milan, especially in the game with the relegation team Palermo, Zhang Shujie, Chen Zihua, Xu Ziyi did not play, Yan Tao only played 60 minutes, but AC Milan still 2He scored a goal for AC Milan in his 39th league goal of the season after being substituted in the 65th minute against Udinese, and he only played 20 games to win the top scorer.
In the first leg of the Champions League semifinals, AC Milan went to the Allianz Arena to challenge Bayern Munich, Zhang Shujie and Yan Tao returned to Allianz, and they were also welcomed by many fans, but there are still many fans who don't like them very much.
Heynckes admires Zhang Shujie very much, and has publicly stated many times that "Zhang is the best player in the world, and no one can compare to him". Zhang Shujie also became a superstar under Heynckes, and the two are also mentors and friends. But friendship is friendship, and on the pitch, neither side will be kind.
After the start of the game, Bayern Munich, which was fighting at home, took the lead in attacking AC Milan with the cheers of tens of thousands of fans in the stadium. So the two giant teams played against each other on the field and played happily.
Both teams like to play fast and don't like to stick the ball to their feet for long periods of time, and they both want to hit the ball in front of the opposition goal in the shortest possible time and then send the ball into the goal. Therefore, the two teams switched between attack and defense very quickly, and after holding the opponent's wave of attacks, they immediately counterattacked, and the game looked very exciting.
The commentator said: "The two sides are playing so fast, this is a contest between the top teams, and it is not an exaggeration to say that this is the level of the final. β
The team can give a wonderful game, the enthusiasm of the fans will naturally be very high, the cheers of the fans have hardly stopped, at this time everyone knows very well that the two sides play this way of exerting great physical strength, if anyone can not support it at the earliest, then it is very likely that they will concede the goal first.
In the 27th minute of the game, Zhang Shujie received a cross from Conte in the penalty area, grabbed between Boateng on the edge of the small penalty area, and scored with a header from a small angle, rewriting the score to 1:0! This is also the thirteenth goal scored by Zhang Shujie in the Champions League, ranking first in the scorer list and a favorable contender for the top scorer.
It's just a pity that Zhang Shujie's goal didn't give AC Milan a long lead, and in the 36th minute, Bayern Munich equalized the score with a corner kick opportunity and a header from Lewandowski. The Polish striker scored his ninth goal of the tournament and finished fourth on the scorers' list, with little chance of claiming the top scorer.
First half both sides 1: 1 draw, in the second half, perhaps because the first half of the offensive war consumption is too much, the two sides in the offensive rhythm is a lot slower, AC Milan gradually changed from fast attack to control, Bayern Munich is not good at this kind of passing and control play, so it put on a defensive counterattack posture, this move did receive some effect, especially in the 67th and 71st minutes of the two counterattacks almost knocked on the door of AC Milan, if it were not for Donnarumma's god-level save and Yan Tao's quick chase, maybe Bayern would have exceeded the score at homeγ
In the 76th minute, Zhang Shujie won a set-piece for AC Milan in the front, Chen Zihua drove the ball to the goal, Yan Tao smashed the ball with a header, AC Milan exceeded the score 2:1, and the situation tilted towards the Serie A giants.
The backward Bayern Munich invested almost all their forces in the attack, and Heynckes also replaced all the strikers who could be replaced, but this did not bring Bayern a goal, but in the 84th minute, Romagnoli fired a long-range shot from the edge of the penalty area, and the ball hit Hummels with a change of direction, so that Neuer made a mistake and could only watch the ball go into the net. AC Milan beat Bayern Munich away.
Achieving such a score at the Allianz Arena will undoubtedly give AC Milan a huge advantage in the second leg, and Bayern's prospects are not so rosy, as they must score at least three goals at the San Siro to reach the final and have to guarantee not to concede. But if you want to get out of the San Siro stadium, I'm afraid it's not that simple.
"I knew AC Milan were strong but I didn't expect us to lose 3-1 at home. I can guess that a lot of people don't think about us anymore and I know that Bayern don't have a good future, but anything can happen on the football pitch and we will give it our all in the second leg. β
In fact, Bayern is not completely without a chance, they have already won the league championship, it can be said that there is no desire, their goal is now only the Champions League, Milan is different, the Rossoneri have to win the Champions League at the same time as the league title. With four games left in Serie A, they are only three points ahead of Juventus in the standings, and they must not afford to make any mistakes.
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