Chapter 798 - Worry-free qualification
Serie A has been played for ten rounds, AC Milan and Juventus are chasing me, whoever makes a mistake, then the top two places may be exchanged, and third-placed Napoli, six points behind AC Milan, three points behind Juventus, and fourth-placed Roma is five points behind Napoli.
The top three teams can basically be judged as the first group in Serie A, and these three teams are not only the favourites to win the title, but also the most likely to qualify for next season's Champions League. As for Roma in fourth, Lazio in fifth and Inter Milan in sixth, it can only be the second group.
In the scorer list, Zhang Shujie leads the pack with 13 goals, he has scored a full five goals more than second-placed Dzeko, and he is the only striker in Serie A who has averaged one goal per game, and no one else can match him. In the five major leagues, La Liga has Messi, Ronaldo, Neymar compete with each other, the Bundesliga has Lewandowski and Aubameyang, the Premier League should have been Li Mu's standout, the first two seasons of his league goals were 43 and 45 respectively, creating a single season of the Premier League goal record, but this season Harry Gaine has risen and become Li Mu's opponent in the scorer list, Li Mu has scored 14 goals in the current eleven rounds of the league, Kane has scored 11 goals, and the two are the top two scorers.
Ligue 1 is the big Parisian Cavani, but the overall level of Ligue 1 is relatively low, as can be seen from the goal points, the Premier League, La Liga, Serie A and Bundesliga all score two points, Ligue 1 only 1.5 points.
Seeing Zhang Shujie's efficiency in Serie A, it is no wonder that Li Yonghong will praise him: "In Serie A, no striker can become Zhang Shujie's competitor." β
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On October 30, AC Milan hosted visiting Pescara, and Zhang Shujie opened the scoring with an assist from Chen Zihua in the 41st minute, helping the Rossoneri to take a 1-0 lead in the first half. Just four minutes into the second half, Chen Zihua provided another assist to help Bonaventura score, 2:0! Seven minutes later, AC Milan won a free kick at the top of the penalty area, about 18 meters from the goal, relatively close.
This type of free kick AC Milan has practiced, Chen Zihua and Yan Tao are very few punishers, Zhang Shujie is not very suitable, if you can be far away, his curve ball can play a powerful role.
Chen Zihua and Yan Tao are both standing in front of the ball, Suso is standing on the edge of the human wall, and the second from right to left is him.
After the referee blew the whistle, Chen Zihua shook a shot, Yan Tao followed up with a shot, Suso instantly lay down, and the ball flew out of the exposed human slit and rushed towards the goal. Yan Tao's shot was very powerful, the ball speed was very fast, and before the goalkeeper could react, he saw the ball set off the net.
The score became 3:0. This is Yan Tao's second league goal this season, and three goals in the Champions Cup, he is currently the defender with the most goals in Serie A, and is tied for first place with Atalanta defender Antonio Conte.
Pescara, who was three goals behind, completely lost his fighting spirit, and in the 74th minute, Chen Zihua's long-range shot was saved by the opponent's goalkeeper, and Zhang Shujie followed up with a header to lock the score at 4:0!
After finishing this round of the league with a big win, AC Milan is back in the Champions League, after three games AC Milan won two and drew one to accumulate seven points, temporarily top Group D, and in the fourth round they will travel to Istanbul, Turkey, to challenge Besiktas.
Istanbul is a sensitive area for many AC Milan fans, as the 2005 Champions League final, the worst defeat in AC Milan's history, is destined to go down in the history of world football, even though the Milan players never want to remember the day.
If it hadn't been for the night in Athens two years later, AC Milan would have been nailed to the pillar of shame forever because of the Istanbul massacre, but fortunately, on May 24, 2007, the goddess of victory finally returned the trophy that should have belonged to Milan. And the man who sat in the stands two years ago saw his beloved team go from leading, to equalizing, to losing, and two years later, this man returned to the pitch and completed one of the great revenge in football history with two golden goals.
This game can also be written into football history!
This man is none other than the current AC Milan manager: Filip Inzaghi.
He's the only person in the squad who witnessed those two Champions League games in person, and although he's now in the dugout in a suit, he's still filled with emotion when he's here.
So, in this game, AC Milan must win in this sad place!
And this new AC Milan team did not disappoint the manager. Zhang Shujie opened the door to victory for the Rossoneri with his sixth Champions League goal of the season, but the biggest protagonist of this game was not Zhang Shujie, it was Chen Zihua, who controlled the entire midfield alone, and directed Zhang Shujie's goal, and then assisted Suso to extend the score, and then he used a clever pass with a back-heel to help Montolivo score the team's last goal.
Chen Zihua's coverage in this game is very large, and all six dribbles were successful, and the success rate is the same as Zhang Shujie, but Zhang Shujie only has four times. All 103 passes were successful, without a single mistake! Thirty-seven of them passed the ball into the opponent's 30-meter area, and nine times passed the ball to the penalty area, and every pass was accurate! In addition, Chen Zihua also made five steals and three interceptions, with a success rate of 100 percent!
He Wei, the CCTV commentator of this game, couldn't help but praise: "In front of Chen Zihua, Besiktas's midfielder is as amateurish as a group of high school students. β
Besiktas head coach GΓΌneΕ also had to admit: "Our midfielders are not on the same level as AC Milan, I am not talking about all Milan midfielders, only Chen Zihua." β
Inzaghi exclaimed: "He is a combination of Rui Costa, Pirlo and Gattuso!"
Chen Hui said: "Mr. 70 million is worth 100 million!"
To say that Chen Zihua only has a little imperfection in this game, that is, he failed to score, he shot three times, all within the goal frame, the first two were saved by the goalkeeper, and the third goalkeeper had raised the white flag, but was cleared by the defender on the goal line. However, Chen Zihua said in an interview after the game: "It's a bit of a pity that I didn't score, especially since I was very close to scoring, but in the end it was still a little bit short. I don't think too much about it, I'm not a striker, I'm a midfielder, my first responsibility is to organise my own attack and disrupt the opposition's attack, followed by goals, and I'm sure my second Champions League goal in Milan will come soon! β
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