The first leg of the Champions League round of 16, Dortmund vs AC Milan, the match was played at the West** Stadium.

In the first half of the game, the two sides played a 45-minute offensive battle, which was very exciting, but the score did not change at all, it was 0:0. In the second half, the two sides also attacked and defended each other in the first 20 minutes, but the score still did not change. Then, perhaps both sides were tired of fighting, the tempo slowed down a bit, and the offensive slowed down with it.

This period of time is simply a performance of the goalkeepers of both sides, all kinds of divine saves, all kinds of anti-sky saves, and the fans are addicted to watching. However, a goal that was even more enjoyable than that was not yet to come.

It wasn't until the 79th minute of the game that Zhang Shujie was tripped in front of the goal, and AC Milan won a well-placed free kick, 23 meters away from the goal. The whole Dortmund team was very nervous, and they all knew Zhang Shujie's ability to take set-pieces. Zhang Shujie has scored four free kicks this season, which is the most free kicks in Europe, and if Dortmund doesn't pay attention to it, Zhang Shujie's fifth free kick will be born.

Dortmund lined up the human wall, and Zhang Shujie got the referee's whistle instructions and ran the penalty kick. The ball went around the jumping wall and slammed into the goal. Bilki judged the right direction, made a sideways pounce, narrowly saved the ball, and pounced into the small penalty area.

Unfortunately, Andrea Silva was in that position. When Bilkey saw it, his heart suddenly cooled in half.

Unmarked, Andre Silva rushed to goal and stabbed the ball into the back of goal with a left-footed stab before Bilki made the second save. The score also became 1:0!

It was already the seventy-ninth minute of the game, and AC Milan led Dortmund 1-0 away. The 'Hornets' didn't have much time to equalize, and they couldn't afford to delay even a second. It's just that AC Milan's celebration made them a little unhappy, and Reus even complained to the referee, thinking that AC Milan was deliberately delaying time by celebrating for so long, but the referee ignored him.

Dortmund then stepped up their time to organise a counter-attack, but it didn't work much, 1: Milan beat the Hornets at West** Stadium and got an away goal. In the second leg at the San Siro, AC Milan undoubtedly had the upper hand.

Back in the league, AC Milan scored 1-0 with Andre Silva on the scoresheet. Zhang Shujie's performance in this game was average, and he also missed a penalty, but Silva's goal came from his assist, and thanks to this assist, otherwise he might not have been able to pass in the post-match ratings.

Among his two competitors in the scorer list, Immobile did not score, Dybala scored two goals, and his Serie A goal tally also came to 24, surpassing Immobile with 23 goals, and only one goal away from the first-ranked Zhang Shujie.

After the match, Dybala made clear his desire for the top scorer in Serie A in an interview: "Yes, I don't want to hide it. I'm sure any striker wants to be the top scorer in their career, and I hope I can wear the Serie A Golden Boot at the end of the season. ”

Dybala is under a lot of pressure to win the Golden Boot, and he is only one goal away from Zhang Shujie and Immobile. Overall, all three are likely to win this award.

Zhang Shujie was not scheduled to play in the next round of the Italian Cup, but he urgently needed to score after two consecutive games without scoring. Perhaps it is not a strange thing for other strikers not to score in two or three games in a row, but it is different for Zhang Shujie, the outside world will always expect more from him, even if he is 30 years old, but he is still in the peak of his career.

Therefore, in this round of the Italian Cup, Inzaghi decided to give Zhang Shujie an hour to get back to the feeling of scoring, even if he still didn't score, Inzaghi still had to replace him, compared to Serie A and the Champions League, the latter two are more important.

AC Milan's opponent in the Coppa Italia is Empoli and they are playing away from home. Zhang Shujie worked very hard in the game, and in the first five minutes, he completed two shots, both of which hit the frame of the goal, which was very threatening, but unfortunately he couldn't score. The commentators all said: "Zhang Shujie is trying to find the feeling of scoring goals in Empoli." ”

However, after these two attacks, Zhang Shujie did not have a single kick in the next 20 minutes, but there were several passes, and each time it was successful, including a single ride to pass Cutrone, but unfortunately Cutrone's shot was missed.

At the end of the first half, Zhang Shujie finally ushered in his third shot of the game, after receiving a pass from Cabraria at the left end of the penalty area, he turned and volleyed with his left foot, breaking Empoli's goal, and the score became 1:0. This is Zhang Shujie's first goal in the last three games, and it can be regarded as a small break of his own goal drought.

In the 54th minute of the second half, Zhang Shujie clashed with three players on the opposing side, and after entering the penalty area, he shook the opposing goalkeeper and smashed the ball into the empty goal. 2:0！

If he only scored one goal, he might not be able to feed Zhang Shujie, but with two goals in hand, he was finally satisfied. In the 60th minute of the game, Inzaghi really replaced Zhang Shujie and let his love have a good rest.

In the end, Cabraria's goal score was locked at 3:0, even if the second leg has not yet started, but the opponent was defeated by three goals away, which basically guaranteed to advance to the next round.

After returning to the league, Zhang Shujie, who only played for an hour in the Italian Cup, was obviously not enjoyable, and "only scored" two goals made him feel that it was not enough to relieve his hatred. In the next two rounds of the league, Zhang Shujie scored four goals, one of which scored a hat-trick, and completely regained the feeling of scoring goals. It's just that the only thing that makes him feel a little regretful is that he still didn't play the whole game in these two games, and he only played less than 150 minutes in total, which is an average of less than 75 minutes in a game.

"Milan Sport" believes that "if Zhang Shujie's playing time can be the same as last season, then his current number of goals is far more than 29, at least 35 or more." However, I believe that Zhang Shujie can also understand Inzaghi's decision, in the past four years, Zhang Shujie has played too many games, if he does not take a rest, Zhang Shujie will inevitably be tired in the long run, it can be seen that Inzaghi has done a very good job of protecting him. ”

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