Chen Hui sat in the press booth early, his expectations for this game are no less than the players and fans, the reorganized AC Milan has met a good opponent, compared with last season, the strength of the Rossoneri has improved by at least one grade, but compared with Barcelona, Milan is strong or not, mainly depends on Zhang Shujie, followed by Yan Tao; Barcelona is strong or not, there are too many people to watch, not to mention a Messi.

More media are still optimistic about Barcelona, which is also an objective issue, over the years, Barcelona is indeed very strong, and there are very few teams that can wrestle with them.

The referee blows the whistle and the game begins. In the first half, AC Milan, who was playing away, kicked off first, Zhang Shujie knocked the ball to Bacca, and Bacca passed back to Bonaventura.

AC Milan formed 442 in this game, goalkeeper López, defenders Desiglio, Yan Tao, Romagnoli and Abate, midfielders Bonaventura, Montolivo, De Jong and Bertolacchi, and forwards Zhang Shujie and Baka.

Barcelona are in a formation of 433, with goalkeeper Ter Stegen, defenders Mathieu, Mascherano, Pique and Alves, three midfielders Andres Iniesta, Sergio Busquets and Rakitic, and forwards Neymar, Suarez and Messi.

Looking at the lineup of the two sides, on the offensive line, only Zhang Shujie can fight with Barcelona, and only Yan Tao can handle the backline, maybe Romagnoli can also do it one day in the future, but he is still too young, and the other players are not at the same level as Barcelona at all, and the midfield is the biggest gap, and there is no one in charge.

In the opening game, AC Milan shrank back and focused on defense. Inzaghi's tactical thinking is correct, lower your profile, don't attack against Barcelona, stabilize the backfield first, don't concede goals, and then think about goals.

In the first few minutes, Barcelona was not very high, so although AC Milan put on a "I want to defend" appearance, it did not collect too hard, and the personnel were not very dense.

For this reason, AC Milan tried to push the ball forward, but after crossing the middle line, especially after the center circle, it was difficult for the ball to hit the front again, and Zhang Shujie had to retreat a little bit in order to get more opportunities to control the ball and help AC Milan stabilize its position in the front court.

However, Barcelona did not attack, but were very patient with AC Milan. The on-site commentator said: "Barcelona should still be tentative, they are not in a hurry at all, and the AC Milan players are relatively calm. ”

De Jong made a mistake in a pass, and his pass to Zhang Shujie in front of him was intercepted by Rakitic, who immediately played it to Busquets, who immediately transferred it to Iniesta.

De Jong immediately stuck to it, and Iniesta shook De Jong away with a light wipe and flick, but De Jong squeezed forward and tripped Iniesta with his thigh, and the referee decisively blew his foul.

De Jong was verbally warned by the referee that if it hadn't been for the fact that the game had just started and the foul was far from the penalty area, De Jong would probably have been carded.

Free kick Iniesta took the penalty, he chose to take the free kick quickly, taking advantage of the Milan back line was a little distracted, and quickly kicked the ball to Messi, Messi dialed four times horizontally, moved from the right side to a place close to the middle, and brought Yan Tao, Romagnoli, and De Jong to his side, and then, he saw the right time, a pick-up pass, and the ball passed to Neymar on the left.

The ball was passed beautifully, hitting the back of the AC Milan defence, and even the commentator couldn't help but praise the pass as impeccable!

Neymar **** unloaded the ball, Abate rushed over, Neymar glanced at him, gently picked the ball with his right foot, and jumped over the top of Abate's head, and then Neymar quickly bypassed him, Suarez in the middle began to intersperse the running position, Yan Tao hurriedly followed him, almost everyone thought he would pass the ball to Suarez, but Neymar flicked the ball with the outside of his right foot and passed it to the big penalty area.

Messi appeared in this position. He swept the ball with his left foot and it went through Romagnoli's legs and straight into the Milan goal.

López was in a good position, fell to the ground and saved, but the ball was still in the AC Milan penalty area, Barcelona still had two chances to attack, Suarez stepped forward twice, shot in front of the goal, and kicked the ball into the door of AC Milan.

Suarez ran to celebrate, but at this time, the referee's whistle sounded, Suarez out of the instinct of a striker, glanced at the linesman, only to see the linesman raise the small flag in his hand, pointing to the place where Suarez shot, it turned out that the ball was offside.

Suarez shook his hand and shook his head, but he couldn't change the meaning of the left and right referees. Inzaghi, who was on the sidelines, shouted to the players: "Be careful, pay more attention!

It can be seen that Inzaghi is still very nervous, no matter how strong the opponent is, the game is too important, Inzaghi does not want to be beaten 0:1 by his team in the opening ten minutes.

"Although Suarez's goal was offside, we can see that Barcelona has indeed reached the peak in terms of passing and control, starting from the moment when Rakitic passed the ball just now, and then Suarez's supplementary shot. Everyone knows that anti-counter tactics can restrain passing and control, but this also has a lot to do with the overall strength of the team, AC Milan's defense line is still worse than Real Madrid Bayern, the barrier in the midfield is not enough to protect the backfield, and a Yan Tao can't solve all the problems. ”

From the perspective of a bystander, after watching Barcelona's overall passing process, Milan was lucky to escape, but if there is such a loophole in the subsequent games, then Barcelona will still get a good chance to score.

Zhang Shujie retreated deeper up front because AC Milan's midfielder was poor in possession – of course, this "poor" was compared to Barcelona. Maybe it's not fair to this comparison to this Milan team that is still revival, but Barcelona is their opponent, if they don't compete with them, will they go to compete with Real Madrid Juventus?

Montolivo can win the ball, but the gap is too big for Iniesta, and Bonaventura can also win the ball, but in terms of long pass scheduling and transfer, he is much worse than Barcelona's midfield maestro. However, in Zhang Shujie's view, Bonaventura and Montolivo are the two best people in the Milan midfield now, if someone can bring "Bo Yi", with his current age of 26, he should be able to increase the penalty quotient in the midfield.

After receiving Yan Tao's pass, Montolivo avoided the dense defense in the middle and passed to the left, Bonaventura unloaded the ball, took two steps horizontally, and evaded Busquets's steal and passed the ball to Zhang Shujie.

(End of chapter)