After returning to Italy from London, Zhang Shujie and others began to prepare for Christmas, this year they decided to spend the holiday at Chen Zihua's house, and at the same time, everyone invited Chen Hui and Cao Weilin, who had not yet returned to China, and Feng Kai's family, as well as Xu Zhixin in Germany, Tang Ling from Spain also came, only those few people in the Premier League could not come, and the Premier League did not have a winter break.

This year's Christmas is much more lively than last year's.

Christmas in Europe, like the Chinese New Year, is a very solemn holiday, although the cultural background is different, but there is one thing in common, and that is ...... The content is pretty much the same every year. These Chinese players in other places have the habit of eating dumplings at Christmas, because they usually play games during the Spring Festival, let alone get together with their families, and it is difficult to get together with their compatriots in a foreign country.

Therefore, they also took advantage of this festival to pass the Spring Festival in advance.

After Christmas, the players rested for a few days before the teams regrouped for pre-match training. This winter's transfer market has attracted more attention than ever, starting with Chelsea's Brazilian star Oscar coming to Shanghai SIPG for a sky-high price of 60 million euros, setting a Chinese Super League transfer record and shocking Chinese football and even world football.

Not to mention whether Oscar, who lost his main position at Chelsea, is worth so much money, his ability is undoubted, and in his three and a half years at Chelsea, he has scored 38 goals in 203 appearances for the team, which is actually very good as a midfielder. In addition, SIPG can buy Oscar at such a high price, which also shows that there are indeed too many local tyrants in the Chinese Super League.

In addition to Oscar, German supernova Draxler also moved from Wolfsburg to French giants Paris Saint-Germain for a transfer fee of 40 million euros. Draxler has long wanted to leave Wolfsburg and has made several statements, a move that angered the club and was once suspended by the team, he has only made 14 appearances this season, provided two assists and failed to score, and the young Draxler is so talented that he played for Germany at the 2014 World Cup and Euro 2016, and it is not known if he will be able to show his former majesty after finding another career.

In addition, Manchester City's fancy Jesus and Milan's eyed Deulofeu are also in negotiations, and the two are very likely to leave their original club and join their new club.

Chinese players are also fluid, and within the Chinese Super League aside, two Chinese teams went abroad during this period: Yuan Chengye and Qin Tianzhu. Among them, Yuan Chengye went to Standard Liege, Belgium, and Qin Tianzhu went to Besiktas, Turkey.

Yuan Chengye is a very pure fullback, fast, strong attack, can also withdraw the defense in time, in An Rong's tactical system, he is Tang Ling's first stand-in, is an important flag in the side corridor; Qin Tianzhu is a defensive player, once stared at the South Korean genius Gu Zizhe in the World Cup qualifiers, his offensive ability is very weak, ten years of career, his number of goals is only a pitiful 16, this number can not even be compared with many defenders, and because of this, he can not only be qualified as a defensive back, but also a cameo as a central defender, An Rong has tried this style of play in the qualifying round of the World Preliminaries, the effect is good, sometimes Qin Tianzhu will also play center back in the club, among domestic players, his defensive ability is considered top-notch.

Chinese fans are also very pleased to see so many Chinese players playing abroad, although they are not playing in the big five leagues, and in terms of age, they are unlikely to become superstars like Zhang Shujie and Li Mu, but for the Chinese national team, it is a good complement, after all, their position in the national team is originally a substitute.

On January 9, 2017, after a winter break, the Serie A was rekindled, AC Milan hosted Cagliari, Inzaghi sent all the main players, and Zhang Shujie scored a goal in each half to score twice. But in the 84th minute, Zhang Shujie was kicked by the opponent's defender, although it was no big deal, even if he insisted on playing, there was no problem, but Inzaghi replaced him for the sake of insurance, anyway, it was 2:0, and there was not much time, and AC Milan's victory was a certainty.

In the 89th minute, Chen Zihua was tripped in the Cagliari penalty area, and the referee decisively blew a penalty, and Chen Zihua personally took the penalty to lock the final score at 3:0.

A day later, AC Milan came to report on the first day of the winter transfer period, and this person was Cagliari's goalkeeper Storari, for the past game, Storari said: "It's not a shame to lose to AC Milan, and it's not a shame to be broken by top players like Zhang Shujie and Chen Zihua!"

Another day, AC Milan's first person to leave the team this year was confirmed, the same goalkeeper, Gary Bouel had almost no chance to play, so he had to choose to leave Milan, and the team he went to was Cagliari.

Of course, the two goalkeepers are not an exchange, Storari is on transfer to Milan, and Gary Bouel is on loan, which is completely different in nature.

On January 13, the Coppa Italia kicked off, AC Milan faced Torino at the San Siro Stadium, Torino striker Berotti opened the scoring in the 27th minute, Zhang Shujie equalized for Milan 11 minutes later, Kuczka and Bonaventura assisted each other to score in the second half, AC Milan defeated Torino 3-1 and successfully advanced to the next round.

Four days later, AC Milan face Torino again in the 19th round of Serie A, who were eliminated by Milan in the Coppa Italia, and they will want to save face in the league, especially since Torino will play at home, and there will be some psychological advantages. However, most of the media are not very optimistic about them, and almost all of them believe that AC Milan have a good chance of winning all three points on the road. Coupled with Zhang Shujie's full firepower after the winter break, scoring five goals and one assist in three games, the media couldn't find a reason why Milan didn't win.

In the game, although Milan was stronger, Torino did cause a lot of trouble to AC Milan, but in the 33rd minute of the game, AC Milan still scored first, Zhang Shujie assisted Baca to score, and AC Milan took a 1:0 lead, but the Rossoneri's advantage did not last long, and in the 40th minute, Berotti equalized the score for Torino with the fourteenth goal of the season.

In the second half, the two sides changed sides and fought again, Zhang Shujie, who helped his teammates score in the first 45 minutes, finally scored himself, he received Yan Tao's cross, **** stopped the ball and pushed it with his right foot, which exceeded the score for Milan again.

The 2-1 score remained unchanged until the 86th minute, but at the 88th minute, Torino midfielder Falco played a clever pass to Benasi, who scored the equalizer to prevent AC Milan from taking the three points from the Stadio Olimpic.

Juventus were jubilant when they learned that Milan had failed to win, they are only two points clear of AC Milan and if they can beat Fiorentina in a few hours' time, they will be able to overtake Milan in the table.

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