The 2021/2022 Serie A season also kicked off in mid-August, with defending champions AC Milan on their way to their goals for the new season. In the first ten rounds, AC Milan are unbeaten with nine wins and one draw, scoring a total of 30 goals and conceding only four. Among them, Zhang Shujie scored 12 goals, Andre Silva scored 5 goals, Cutrone scored 4 goals, Chen Zihua and Xu Ziyi scored two goals each, and Yan Tao, Leonardo Bonucci, Calhanoglu and Conte also scored one goal each.

This result puts AC Milan at the top of the Serie A table, followed by Napoli in second, Inter Milan in third and Roma in fourth, and somewhat surprisingly, Juventus are fifth with just five wins, two draws and three defeats in these 10 rounds.

Although Juventus did not enter the Champions League zone, in the eyes of all AC Milan personnel, this is only temporary, as Inzaghi said: "Now that the season has just begun, you can't deny Juventus for this reason, you must know that Juventus has always been one of the top teams in Serie A and even Europe, and they can fight back at any time." ”

Inzaghi is not just a polite talker, Juventus have picked up the pace of catching up since the 11th round, and Juventus are unbeaten in the rest of the first half, especially in their 2-2 draw away from AC Milan, where Huang Yu scored a whistle-blowing kick to help the team get a valuable point at the San Siro.

It was thanks to this performance that Juventus finally finished second in the table after the last league game of the year, with a five-point gap to AC Milan and a return to title contention with halfway through the season.

After the halfway point, the Serie A duo are in the top two of the standings, and in the scorer list, Zhang Shuming scored 20 goals in 17 games, temporarily ranking first in the scorer list, Immobile scored 15 goals, ranked second, and in third place was Juventus striker Dybala with 13 goals.

In the Champions League, AC Milan accumulated 13 points with four wins, one draw and one loss, and advanced to the knockout stage as the group leader. Their opponents in the round of 16 are Premier League giants Liverpool.

Speaking of Liverpool, I am afraid that many AC Milan fans have a very complicated "feeling" in it, they will never forget the Istanbul tragedy in 2005, but they prefer to remember the night of Athens in 2007. If it weren't for Inzaghi's counterattack in Athens, I am afraid that what happened that night in Istanbul would have nailed AC Milan to the pillar of shame forever.

However, after many years, many AC Milan fans no longer talk about what happened more than ten years ago, and now Milan is far better than Liverpool in terms of strength, although Liverpool has Salah, but the teammates around "Egyptian Messi" are too far behind him, and he alone can not drag Liverpool, making Liverpool unable to win a championship for so many years.

AC Milan definitely want to beat Liverpool, and Liverpool also want to beat AC Milan, and we will have to wait until February next year to find out.

This year's Ballon d'Or and World Footballer of the Year were won by Brazilian star Neymar, and although he faces Zhang Shujie's biggest rival, he helped Paris Saint-Germain to their first ever Champions League trophy last season, so he deserves both titles.

At two different award ceremonies, Neymar was so excited that he shed tears, judging from his personal ability alone, he should have clinked glasses a long time ago, but there was Messi Ronaldo in front of him, and Zhang Shujie and Li Mu in the back, all four of them have won the Golden Ball Award, resulting in Neymar not until this year, relying on this Champions League champion to touch these two super individual trophies.

Neymar's clinking glasses is certainly commendable, but there is another person that cannot be ignored, and that person is Real Madrid's crown prince Asensio. As Cristiano Ronaldo gets older, the Portuguese king has faded out of Real Madrid's main team, and Asensio has taken his gun. In the first half of the season he scored 21 goals for Real Madrid in all competitions, including 17 in the league and four in the Champions League, and last season he scored 33 goals for Real Madrid. Asensio is ranked fourth in both this year's Ballon d'Or and World Footballer of the Year screen, and if he can maintain this performance, Asensio will win the Ballon d'Or sooner or later.

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Now that the Serie A has canceled its winter break, after New Year's Day, the second half of Serie A has begun, and the title battle between AC Milan and Juventus has kicked off again. Before the Champions League round of 16, Juventus narrowed the gap between themselves and AC Milan to two points, and the suspense of the Serie A title was further expanded.

Chen Hui wrote in the report: "I don't know if AC Milan's desire for the league championship has become smaller and smaller after five consecutive championships, so it will make the Serie A championship have a lot of suspense in the past two years." You know, in the first three years or so, at the two-thirds mark of the season, the Rossoneri were almost certain to win the title. But whatever their real thoughts are, their biggest goal, is the Champions League. ”

AC Milan's first knockout game was away from home and they haven't played at Anfield for a long time. But it doesn't matter, the AC Milan gang are used to seeing big scenes, and even when they get to a new place, they can adapt quickly.

Liverpool, who were playing at home, took advantage of the cheers of the fans and launched a fierce attack on Milan from the beginning, and Milan used a lot of runs to fight against Liverpool, making Liverpool's passing and receiving play very poorly, and the ball was often broken. Although neither side scored in the first half, AC Milan ran more aggressively and had a slight advantage on the field. Statistics show that in the first half, the AC Milan team ran five kilometers more than the Liverpool team, and this is still only the data of the half.

In the league, AC Milan have run two or three kilometres less than their opponents in almost every game. Obviously, they are more proactive in the Champions League, and perhaps this is exactly what Chen Hui guessed, Milan are now far more committed to the Champions League than to the league.

In the second half, a lot of running of the AC Milan team finally got a goal, Zhang Shujie received a long pass from Conte in the front court, and passed diagonally to the goal near the bottom line in the big penalty area, Xu Ziyi pushed the ball into the empty goal four meters from the goal, and Milan led 1:0 away!

It was Xu Zi's first Champions League goal of the season, and his fifth goal for Milan in all competitions. If you just look at his status as a midfielder, this number is not very impressive, but it is already very good. But for Xu Ziyi, people will have higher requirements for him, and they all think that it seems that five goals are a little less. You must know that now Chen Zihua has scored nine goals, and there will be no problem in continuing to play doubles this season.

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