The Atletico Madrid players have worked very hard, and even their movements on the pitch have become so big that even Yan Tao was almost kicked and injured. If he hadn't been born strong, he would have been carried out on a stretcher.

Atletico still failed to score, and when the game ended, the score was set at 2:0 and the aggregate score was 3:2, AC Milan successfully eliminated Atletico Madrid, avenging the defeat to their opponents in the Champions League last year.

Simeone didn't think the defeat was a tactical problem, saying: "I've defended to the max – of course it's not like I'm putting the bus in the air. And we did suppress AC Milan's attack in the first half, but Zhang Shujie's two goals ended the game, I don't know how to defend him, if any team knows how to defend him, I hope I can tell everyone. ”

Although Simeone's words are exaggerated, they are also an objective fact. Inzaghi said: "Zhang Shujie's performance was perfect, Atletico Madrid's resistance was very tenacious, but fortunately we still won this game. I'm not going to focus on who we're going to meet in the quarter-finals, we're going to turn our attention to the league now. ”

In the 31st round of Serie A, AC Milan will challenge Juventus away, which will be a highlight. With a seven-point gap in the table, Milan can win the 22nd league title in their history, but if they lose this game, the Serie A title battle will be renewed.

Both coaches attach great importance to this game, Inzaghi and Allegri can be described as old enemies, Inzaghi retired from AC Milan, more or less related to Allegri, so every time the two lead the team to meet on the field, it will always cause heated discussions in the media. But in fact, after many years, the two have long forgotten the previous unpleasantness, and they are not children, they know what their responsibilities are.

Juventus, who played at home in this campaign, insisted on attacking the left side of AC Milan, in fact, this method has been used by teams before, and everyone knows that the left side of AC Milan is a small weakness. However, few teams can guarantee that every minute of the game is played from this side with a high degree of concentration, and often before it can be successful, AC may score first.

However, Juventus's attitude to play Milan's left side today is very resolute, Rodriguez is still an old problem, and he can't come back when he attacks, Chen Zihua and Xu Ziyi take turns to make up for him, but at the end of the first half, Juventus still relied on Dybala's goal to give the team the lead, and the Bianconeri were able to go to the dressing room with a score of 1:0.

At half-time, the two teams did not make any changes to the players who came on in the second half, and AC Milan did not seem to be worried about the disadvantage of this one goal, and Milan have not fallen behind over the years, but they were mostly able to turn the game around. Even Milan fans are not in any hurry, and everyone thinks that a team as strong as the Rossoneri can beat all clubs in Europe with full personnel.

However, it was only when Dybala scored the second goal in the 64th minute that AC Milan realized the seriousness of the problem: it seemed that the Juventus players were doing better! Inzaghi also sensed that something was wrong, and he especially felt that Zhang Shujie's form in this game was not as good as before, playing for more than an hour, he only had one breakthrough, two interceptions, and all three shots on goal. But Inzaghi didn't dare to replace him, and what the "Nine Masters" could do was to send all the forwards who could play in the team and strive to get a draw at the New Alpine Stadium.

But the final result disappointed Milan fans, as Juventus beat AC Milan 2-0 to close the gap in the table to four points, and Juventus also saw hope of regaining the Serie A after three years.

Speaking after the game, Allegri said: "It's not easy to beat AC Milan because they are strong but we can get three points against them and it shows that we are very strong as well. Our goal is to regain the league title that belongs to us, three years ago and now three years later. ”

Inzaghi said: "The score was a bit of a surprise to me. Of course, I'm not saying that we will win every battle, in fact, victory and defeat are a common thing. I just think we should have got three points, at least a draw, but in the end we were defeated, but I'm not going to be discouraged because we're still top of the table and we're going to fight for a fourth in a row. ”

The next day, Torino Sport reported: "Juventus were clearly the better side of the game, and although they were not as good as AC Milan in terms of possession, they took the only two chances that allowed them to win." The suspense of the Serie A title has been reopened. ”

"Milan Sport" also has this opinion: "Obviously, AC Milan's players are a little out of shape, Zhang Shujie is one of them, he seems to have forgotten his shooting boots at home, in addition, he only passed once in this game, and was cut off twice, perhaps because of this, AC Milan could not score." ”

Chen Hui also said helplessly: "This is Zhang Shujie's rare game without state. ”

Zhang Shujie also admitted that he was in some poor form in the game against Juventus, but he himself said: "I won't dwell too much on this matter, AC Milan is still at the top of the standings and has a four-point advantage, and I am still in the top scorer list, what we have to do now is to play well in the next games." ”

Zhang Shujie really did what he said, in the 32nd round of the match with Napoli, he scored a hat-trick to help AC Milan beat Napoli 5:1 at home, and three goals were wonderful. A few days ago, the media that said that Zhang Shujie was in a bad state immediately changed the direction of the wind and shouted "Zhang Shujie's state is back"!

In the next Italian Cup, Zhang Shujie did not play, but AC Milan still defeated Lazio 2:1 and successfully advanced to the next round.

In the 33rd round of Serie A, AC Milan challenged Chievo away, and Zhang Shujie, who did not play in the Coppa Italia in midweek, maintained enough energy to break the deadlock on the field with a brilliant free-kick in the sixth minute of the game. However, Inzaghi may have taken into account the reasons for the next Champions League quarterfinals, and did not let the players pounce too hard in this game, but used a relatively conservative way to focus on stability, so in this game with a relative disparity in strength, there was no big score as people imagined, and the score of 1:0 was maintained until the end of the game.

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