The first half ended with AC Milan leading Bayer Leverkusen 1-0 and players from both sides went into the dressing room. The score is good for Milan, but not necessarily bad for Bayer Leverkusen, although inferior to AC Milan in terms of strength, but if they can hold on to this result, then Bayer Leverkusen is still acceptable.

After the start of the second half, Leverkusen's attack strengthened, Milan slowed down the pace of attack a little, focusing on control and stability, Zhang Shujie also retreated deeply, and once returned to the center circle to assist Chen Zihua to stabilize the midfield.

Bayer Leverkusen launched two more threatening attacks in the 51st and 59th minutes, but neither Hernandez nor Brandt could get the ball into the way of AC Milan. AC Milan also had two attacks during this period, but Zhang Shujie and Suso both shot wide of goal.

In the first fifteen minutes, the two sides were generally more balanced in attack, but in terms of possession, AC Milan was far ahead, Chen Zihua in the middle and Zhang Shujie in front of them firmly held the control of the ball for AC Milan, and the Leverkusen players could barely grab their balls. Sometimes in the face of three-man encirclement, the two of them can also play smoothly.

The on-site commentator couldn't help but say: "Zhang Shujie and Chen Zihua's ball sense is really good, the former is gorgeous, the latter is delicate, the common point is that they never procrastinate, every time they dribble and control the ball, it is to push the opponent's goal." ”

In the 69th minute of the game, Chen Zihua sent the ball to the left side after shaking Kanpur and Havitz in a row, Desiglio stopped the ball and passed diagonally back to the big penalty area, at this time, Zhang Shujie, who had been running to the goal, suddenly withdrew a few steps, and when the ball reached him, he turned and pushed with his left foot, the ball passed through Toprak's raised right leg, against the lawn, rolled past Leno's feet, and rolled into the gate of Leverkusen.

2:0, AC Milan leads Bayer Leverkusen by two goals away.

Zhang Shujie scored his eighth Champions League goal of the season, bringing the total number of goals scored in all competitions to 47, making him the most goalscoring striker in Europe so far.

For a team like AC Milan, 2-0 is a safe score against Bayer Leverkusen, and it is still two away goals. However, Inzaghi has no intention of replacing Zhang Shujie and Chen Zihua and let them stay on the field.

He is planning to replace Romagnoli, and AC Milan's two centre-backs have been playing for a long time, the most of them except for the goalkeeper, and the more intense the field has become, they will play more time, and Inzaghi wants them to take turns to rest.

Romagnoli was substituted in the 75th minute, with Paletta coming on and Bayer Leverkusen also making substitutions, Schmidt replaced Brandt with Eric Bailly, and replaced a striker with a striker in order to strengthen the attack, and it looked like Schmidt still wanted to fight.

However, Bailly did not play much role after coming on the field, but was a little lost in the front court, of course, he can't be blamed for this, Bayer Leverkusen's midfield can't pass a good ball, and he doesn't get any chances.

"There's no difference between Bailly playing and not playing, you can't feel his presence. First, Leverkusen's organization is weak, and secondly, AC Milan's back line is also very tight, even if Romagnoli has been played, but Yan Tao is still there, and it is no problem to stabilize the defense. ”

As he was talking, Yan Tao cut off one of Bailly's dribbles, which was very clean and neat, so that Bailly had no temper at all.

Schmidt also knew that it would be difficult for Bailly to break through AC Milan's defense without continuing to send attackers, so he replaced Pochsjanpalo and Ferlander in one go, and removed Havertz and Bellabi.

Unfortunately, due to individual quality problems, this approach to the gathering of forwards did not effectively solve the fact that Leverkusen's attack was weak, and these strikers failed to score for the team until the end of the game, the score was still 0:2, and the "pharmaceutical factory" lost to the Rossoneri on their own turf.

After winning the first leg, AC Milan will have a much better time playing at home in the second leg, but Inzaghi will certainly not think about the second leg now, they will have to return to the league first, and they will not think about the second round of 16 after facing Sassuolo, Chievo and Juventus.

There is basically no suspense about Sassuolo, AC Milan won 2:0 against Sassuolo away with goals from Zhang Shujie and Bacca. It should be noted that Baca scored a penalty in this game, or in the presence of Zhang Shujie, the reason is that Zhang Shujie saw that Baca had not scored for a long time, so he gave the penalty he created to Baka, although the two are not friends, nor do they have any personal relationship, and they only nodded when they met on the training ground, but Zhang Shujie focused on the overall situation, and still handed over this precious penalty to Baka, and Baca did not live up to Zhang Shujie's kindness and scored the penalty.

Four days later, it was Italy, where AC Milan hosted Napoli, with Zhang Shujie, Chen Zihua and Deulofeu scoring a goal each to defeat Napoli and win the first leg of the semi-finals. After that, Milan didn't have much time to rest, and they were about to face Chievo again just three days later.

Prior to that, the match between Juventus and Udinese was played first, and Juventus broke the deadlock in the 60th minute by Leonardo Bonucci in the 60th minute and led until the end of normal time, but in three minutes of stoppage time, Udinese striker Zapata scored twice in the Juventus penalty area to put the score in the lead, and with less than 15 seconds remaining, Juventus could not have exceeded the score at all.

With Zapata's strike, Juventus failed to pick up a point at the Stadio Friuli and Juventus fans wailed and seemed to be able to predict what the outcome would be before the match between AC Milan and Chievo began.

'Obviously, after this week we will be five points behind AC Milan. Some fans said.

AC Milan will not let go of this opportunity to open up the difference, they are at home to meet the challenge of Chievo, the game AC Milan firepower, in the first half Zhang Shujie in the penalty area on the left and right sides of the two assists Bacca to score, Milan with a beautiful 2:0 to end the first half, in the statistics, AC Milan half of the shot is 11, Udinese only three, possession rate AC Milan is 61% Udinese only had 39 passes, and AC Milan had a third more passes, all of which proved that Milan won the game without a problem.

After the start of the second half of the game, AC Milan's offensive continued unabated, and under the shouts of the home fans, their attacking frenzy was wave after wave, especially Zhang Shujie and Chen Zihua's impact on Udinese's midfield was particularly strong, so that the away team could only be forced to defend.

However, the attacking AC Milan defense was obviously careless, and Udinese seized a counter-attacking opportunity to pull a goal back, temporarily rewriting the score to 1:2, still one goal behind Milan. But Milan fans are not worried, because Zhang Shujie has not opened yet.

(End of chapter)