The Champions League group stage has all ended, and the top 16 teams have all been released, namely Manchester United and Benfica in Group A, Bayern Munich and Paris Saint-Germain in Group B, Chelsea and Atletico Madrid in Group C, AC Milan and Barcelona in Group D, Sevilla and Liverpool in Group E, Manchester City and Juventus in Group F, Porto and Besiktas in Group G, Real Madrid and Dortmund in Group H.

The round of 16 is Benfica vs Paris Saint-Germain, Manchester United vs Bayern Munich, Chelsea vs Barcelona, AC Milan vs Atletico Madrid, Sevilla vs Manchester City, Liverpool vs Juventus, Porto vs Borussia Dortmund, Real Madrid vs Besiktas.

In the scorer list, AC Milan striker Zhang Shujie ranked first with 10 goals, Li Mu and Ronaldo ranked second with 8 goals, and Messi scored 7 goals and ranked third. On the assist list, Chen Zihua ranked first with four assists, Kroos and Xu Ziyi each had three assists, and Zhao Wenkang, Xu Zhixin, Deulofeu, Hazard and other players each had two assists.

There are a lot of highlights in the top 16, and there are many strong dialogues, such as Chelsea and Barcelona, and the duel between Li Mu and Messi is definitely the most eye-catching in the top 16. Next is AC Milan and Atletico Madrid, the Champions League Chinese derby will be staged again, Sevilla and Manchester City, Liverpool and Juventus, these are all heavyweight matches.

Zhang Shujie was voted the best player in the Champions League group stage, and he played all six games, scoring 10 goals and providing one assist, the most directly involved of any player, surpassing Li Mu (8 goals, 2 assists), Cristiano Ronaldo (8 goals, 2 assists) and Messi (7 goals, 3 assists).

After the group stage, there are still the last four league games to end halfway, in general, AC Milan's four opponents are not very strong, only Fiorentina is slightly stronger, but the gap with AC Milan is still relatively obvious. The rest of the teams like Bologna, Verona, Atalanta and others are very good to deal with.

AC Milan will not be able to play the entire first half of the season for the time being, and they will have to travel to Japan for the Club World Cup. As Champions League champions, they will start their game in the semi-finals, against the same opponent as last year, Mexico America, AC Milan beat their opponents 4-0, Xu Ziyi scored a hat-trick, Chen Zihua also scored a goal, and the Rossoneri successfully qualified. In the final, AC Milan defeated Boca Juniors 4-1, Zhang Shujie scored two goals, and Milan won the Club World Cup as they wished.

In the meantime, Serie A has already been played once, and AC Milan will make up for this round at the end of the month. In this way, AC Milan will have a very dense schedule before 2018, which makes the team a little unhappy. The winter break was canceled, so why do you have to schedule it like this?

However, this is not only the case in Serie A, the Premier League team Chelsea was also arranged by the Football Association after winning the Champions League. Anyway, it is necessary to finish all the half-time nineteen games by December 31.

In the sixteenth round, AC Milan first faced Bologna at home, Zhang Shujie scored a goal in 11 consecutive games, Chen Zihua and Silva also scored a goal each, and the Rossoneri defeated Bologna 3:0;

In the eighteenth round, AC Milan ushered in the challenge of Atalanta at home, in the case of conceding a goal first, Zhang Shujie scored twice, Locatelli expanded the score, Chen Zihua scored another goal one minute before the end, AC Milan defeated the opponent 4:1.

Juventus's opponent in this round is Roma, Juventus, who played at home, performed very generally in this game, Dybala, who was sharp at the beginning of the season, has not scored in three consecutive games, and this game he is still very sluggish, the shot can not find the bull's-eye, Mandzukic's condition is not good, and Higuain, who was later replaced, was lost in the Roma penalty area.

In the 76th minute, Roma striker El Shaarawy got a great opportunity in front of goal, De Rossi's pass allowed El Shaarawy to face Buffon alone, and Shaarawy did not waste the captain's goodwill and scored the ball easily, and Roma led Juventus 1-0 away.

It was El Shaarawy's eighth league goal of the season and the team's second-highest scorer, behind Dzeko's ten. The little pharaoh has been in good form in the last two years, and if this development continues, he is very likely to go to the World Cup with the Italian national team next year.

El Shaarawy's goal was the only goal of the game as Juventus lost at home and left them six points clear on AC Milan in the table.

Since Juventus gave such a big gift, AC Milan naturally received it with a smile, but AC Milan participated in the Club World Cup, one less round, and Serie A had to demand that the half of the league must be completed on the eve of the New Year.

However, the players seemed to be very excited, and there was not much fatigue. Zhang Shujie scored a goal in the opening six minutes, and Milan Jiuhao scored in 14 consecutive league games, setting a new goal record in Serie A. The on-site commentator praised: "It's incredible, how many records does he have to break? Is he going for Messi's 21 consecutive goals?"

Messi scored in 21 consecutive games in the 2011/2012 season, and that year Mei Tianwang scored a crazy 91 goals, setting a Guinness World Record. Now there is still some distance between Zhang Shujie and Messi's records, at least whether he is going for this, it is still difficult to say.

Just when everyone thought AC Milan were going to put on another goalscoring show, they couldn't score again for the rest of the day, no matter what they tried to do, they couldn't find the back of the net. Instead, it was Fiorentina's youngster Chiesa who seized the opportunity and equalised for Fiorentina.

AC Milan then attacked with all their might, but could not score again, and the score remained 1:1 until the end of the game. Juventus are yet to play and will play Hellas Verona the following day.

Despite AC Milan's failure to win, Zhang Shujie's fourteen consecutive goals made headlines in the media, a new Serie A record, after scoring in thirteen consecutive games last season and breaking his own record this year.

"Milan Sport" said: "A draw is not what AC Milan wants most, but Zhang Shujie still performs well, and the '14 games' consecutive goal record is the only consolation for AC Milan in this game." ”

AC Milan failed to get the three points, and Juventus were the happiest. Juventus' failure to pick up points at Roma in the last round widened the gap between the team and AC Milan, and in the final round of the winter break, AC Milan, who played early, only picked up one point at the Stadio Franqui, Juventus are of course hoping to take all three points in this game, so that the gap between them and AC Milan can be reduced to four points.

Verona are not strong, and since AC Milan can beat them a few days ago, Allegri believes that Juventus can too. After the start of the game, Juventus attacked aggressively, relying on strong strength to oppose the away team, firmly suppressing Verona in the half and unable to cross the halfway. Juventus didn't take long to get the effect they wanted, and Zhao Wenkang's long-range shot from outside the box gave Juventus a 1-0 lead.

This is the Chinese midfielder's third league goal of the season, even if it comes very well, it is also important, after the one-goal lead, the Juventus players have become more relaxed, the pace of the game is getting better and better, before the end of the first half, it was Zhao Wenkang, he scored another goal, for the team to expand the score to 2:0!

Zhao Wenkang scored twice for the first time this season, and even in his entire career, he has not scored twice many times, only five times in total, Juventus twice, Benfica once, Porto once, and the national team once. Compared with Chen Zihua and Xu Ziyi, who are also midfielders, Zhao Wenkang's goal efficiency is not as good as that of the previous two, and only two league goals in a single season have reached double digits, which is too much worse than the "twins" (four times each). And the twins are only twenty-five years old, and Zhao Wenkang is already twenty-eight years old.

However, Zhao Wenkang also has his own tactical position, otherwise he would not have occupied the main position in Juventus and the national team for so long. In a way, it's hard to even replace him in his place.

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