On January 14, AC Milan will play in the Coppa Italia, and the opponent is Calpi, this game Inzaghi did not arrange Zhang Shujie, let him sit on the bench. Despite the absence of the top scorer, AC Milan managed to win 2-1 against a weak Calpi side and advance to the next round thanks to goals from Baca and Niang.

Four days later, in the 20th round of Serie A, AC Milan hosted Fiorentina, Baca opened the scoring, Zhang Shujie assisted Boateng to score his first goal after returning to Milan, but Fiorentina also scored two goals in this game, and the two teams drew 2:2. Juventus beat Udinese 4-0 at the other stadium, with Zhao Wenkang and Huang Yu contributing at the same time to help Juventus narrow the gap between AC Milan to one point.

Six days later, AC Milan took on Empoli away, with the home side scoring twice in the first half, and Juventus were leading Roma 1-0 in the match between Juventus and Roma.

Inzaghi was under a lot of pressure, so in the second half, he asked the whole team to attack, and he advanced Yan Tao's position a lot, almost becoming a midfielder. However, this desperate approach got a good effect, Yan Tao scored a goal for AC Milan with a long shot from outside the penalty area, and Baca equalized the score in the tenth minute, and in the 87th minute, Zhang Shujie, who had missed the goal in the first four shots, finally broke the goal, and scored such a crucial goal to overtake the score.

In the 87th minute, the score of 3:2 was generally a certainty, and in stoppage time, Bonaventura scored another goal to lock the score at 4:2, and AC Milan returned to Milan with three points.

Juventus beat Roma 1-0 to keep up with AC Milan, while Napoli also locked up third place.

On January 27, it was the Coppa Italia again, AC Milan's opponent was Alexandri, Zhang Shujie also did not play, and the Rossoneri, who came on as a substitute, beat Alexandria 1-0 with a penalty from Balotelli. The second leg of the match between the two teams is not until March, which will take up to a month, and AC Milan will have to concentrate on the league and the upcoming Champions League.

On 1 February, AC Milan take on Inter Milan at the San Siro. In the match between Juventus and Chievo held a day earlier, the Bianconeri won 4-0, so Juve and Milan have the same points, but AC Milan has two less goal difference than Juventus and can only be in second place, so AC Milan cannot afford to lose in this round.

Zhang Shujie was strictly guarded by Inter Milan during the game, but he still scored the first goal in the 34th minute with a direct free kick created by himself to give AC Milan a 1-0 lead. In the second half, Alex and Bacca scored in succession, and AC Milan beat Inter Milan 3-0.

To be able to achieve such a victory, Inzaghi did not expect it at all before the game. Although Inter Milan's recent situation in recent years is not too good, it does not mean that they are easy to deal with, AC Milan's 3:0 can be said to win to convince the sworn enemies of the city.

In the 23rd round, AC Milan defeated Palermo 2:0, Zhang Shujie did not score, and the goals of Bacca and Niang helped the Rossoneri win all three points; In the 24th round, AC Milan defeated Udinese 2:1, Zhang Shujie gave an assist; In the 25th round, AC Milan swept ****** 5:1, Zhang Shujie scored two shots and one pass. Since then, AC Milan has won six consecutive games since the start of the second half of the league, Zhang Shujie has scored four goals in these six games, and the goal efficiency is a little worse than the 21 goals in the first half of the 19 games, but he has contributed three assists in six rounds, an average of one in two games, plus his four goals, he has created a total of seven direct goals, an average of one per game.

Juventus have also returned to form recently, winning consecutive games and catching up with AC Milan by three points, while Napoli have fallen behind, with only five points in the last three games, and the gap between the two teams has become wider.

AC Milan will face Napoli on 20 February, the same day Juventus face Bologna away, and the match between the two teams will be the first to be played.

Juventus, the mighty Juventus, didn't mind being away from home at all, and as soon as the game started, they suppressed Bologna in the second half with a watery attack, but they were never able to find the back of the net, whether it was Mandzukizi, Dybala or Morata, at least one chance to score, but either hit the post or was destroyed by the opposing defender on the goal line. There are also midfielders such as Zhao Wenkang, who also tried to shoot from outside the penalty area, but still couldn't rewrite the score.

Bologna also had two or three good chances to score, but Gianluigi Buffon did so well that the score was 0-0 at the end of the game, and Juventus had to slow down to catch up with AC Milan in the table.

Three hours later, the match between AC Milan and Napoli began, at the Sao Paulo Stadium, just six minutes into the game, AC Milan suffered a blow, Yan Tao was accidentally injured in the scramble with Hamsik, after the team doctor diagnosed, it was determined that the game could not continue, Inzaghi had to replace him with Mex.

AC Milan, who lost Yan Tao, inevitably tightened the backline, but fortunately, Zhang Shujie scored for Milan in the 32nd minute, which also reassured the fans, but near the end of the first half, Napoli's top scorer Higuain used his 22nd league goal to bring the two teams back to the same running line. In the second half, Kuczka and Montolivo scored in the 58th and 69th minutes respectively to give AC Milan a 3-1 lead.

This is a relatively safe score, Inzaghi considering that Zhang Shujie has always played the whole game recently, and in all the previous 25 rounds, Zhang Shujie was also replaced once, Inzaghi was worried that he was too tired, and planned to replace him early to rest. In three days, the Champions League knockout round will be held, and Inzaghi will have to let him rest well in order to ensure that Ai will have enough physical strength.

However, just after Zhang Shujie got off the field, the stadium changed, without Zhang Shujie, Napoli's backfield suddenly became a lot easier, the defenders had to attack the front court from time to time, giving the strikers the greatest support, and what was even more terrifying was that AC Milan's back line was not Yan Tao present, and the defensive pressure was very high, under this series of chain reactions, Napoli midfielder Hamsik turned the score into 2:3, only one goal behind Milan.

Zhang Shujie sat on the bench, looking at everything on the field, did not speak, Yan Tao was beside him, and somewhat blamed the defense for not giving it a chance, he thought that Hamsik should not have been given a chance to score just now.

If the conceded goal made Zhang Shujie and others still calm down, then a scene that happened in the 77th minute of the game made him rush from the bench to the sidelines.

De Jong received the second yellow card of the game for an unnecessary foul on Insigne in the center circle and was sent off the field by the referee!

(End of chapter)