The European Championship ended with the German team's clinking of cups, and at this time, the German media openly declared: "Kroos, Müller and Neuer are also eligible to compete for the Ballon d'Or." ”

As soon as this statement came out, there was a lot of discussion from the outside world, Zhang Shujie had an almost dominant performance in the league and the Champions League last season, but due to nationality, Zhang Shujie could not participate in the European Cup. Germany's victory at the European Championship has indeed added more weight to several key players in the squad, such as the aforementioned Kroos, Neuer, Thomas Müller and others.

However, most media are still optimistic about Zhang Shujie. "Milan Sports Newspaper" said: "The German team's European Cup championship is admittedly a performance of strength, but in fact they rely more on the team as a whole, no player has a very bright play, Kroos has always been steady, but lacks amazing; Muller's performance in the whole European Championship is not outstanding, but the goal in the final allows him to add some goodwill, but not too much; as for Neuer, the goalkeeper position in the Golden Ball Award is itself lacking some competitiveness." ”

Chen Hui also said: "It is really difficult for the players of the German team to snatch the Golden Ball Award that belongs to Zhang Shujie. Unless Zhang Shujie did not play at all in the second half of the year, this Golden Globe Award should belong to Zhang Shujie. ”

Soon after, the "Europe's Best Player" award seemed to confirm the views of Milan Sport and Chen Hui, and although the German star won the European Championship, the award was finally given to Zhang Shujie. No one seems to think it is unreasonable, as if in 2014, the world championship belonged to Germany, but the "best player in Europe" award still belongs to Cristiano Ronaldo, who broke the Champions League single-season scoring record.

Although he did not break the so-called record last season, he won the two top scorers with 43 league goals and 14 Champions League goals, won two important titles, the best player in the Champions League final, etc., Zhang Shujie can win this award.

After a summer break, the 2020/2021 season is about to begin, and AC Milan has also seen some changes in the squad, with Suso and Bonaventura leaving, but Milan have not bought too many players, just brought back Locatelli from the outside, and do not plan to make any reinforcements.

Inzaghi said: "AC Milan is in a virtuous circle, the team is running well, we already have a lot of people in the first team, we don't need to bring in any more reinforcements. ”

Some people say that Inzaghi is too arrogant, and that he has carried away a little bit with four consecutive league titles and three Champions League titles, but Inzaghi has not refuted anything, he just wants the game to come soon, so as to prove that he is right.

On August 10, the UEFA Super Cup kicked off, AC Milan played Sevilla, Zhang Shujie, Cutrone and Rodriguez scored one goal each, and the Rossoneri beat Sevilla 3-1. The win seemed to confirm that Inzaghi was right, and now this AC Milan team really doesn't need too many reinforcements.

On August 21, the new season of Serie A opened as scheduled, AC Milan faced Chievo at home in the first round, in addition to Chievo's die-hard fans, almost everyone is optimistic about AC Milan, half a month ago in the European Super Cup, they have absolutely strong strength to win the championship, in this league, they have no reason not to win.

In the first half, goals from Zhang Shujie and Xu Ziyi gave AC Milan an easy 2-0 lead, and the balance of victory was also tilting in their favor. But what they didn't expect was that Chievo scored two goals in the last ten minutes to take a point away at the San Siro Stadium.

It was a result that no one expected, especially when Milan were 80 minutes ahead. Think about it, who in today's football world can score two goals in 10 minutes against AC Milan? Even Real Madrid and Barcelona have never done it, but today, the little-known Chievo has done it.

Inzaghi explained the unexpected draw: "It was an accident. Indeed, being scored twice by the opponent in ten minutes can indeed be explained by "accident", after all, this kind of thing does not happen at any time, it can only be said to be an "unconventional operation". Maybe by the second round, everything will be back to normal.

Sure enough, in the second round of the league, AC Milan defeated Cagliari 4:0, Zhang Shujie scored a hat trick, and Calhanoglu who came on as a substitute was the icing on the cake, and Milan finally found itself with this hearty victory.

However, in the third round of the league, when AC Milan challenged Lazio at the Stadio Olimpic, it seemed that problems had arisen again.

In this game, Yan Tao was absent due to injury, Musacchio, Bonucci and Romagnoli formed the backline, and Musacchio, who had not played the main force for a long time, was full of holes in the game. He first missed Immobile in a free-kick and left the latter alone against Donnarumma and scored the ball to make it 1-0 for Lazio, and four minutes later, it was Mousacchio who was crotched by Immobile in defence to give his opponent a brace.

Milan were two goals down before the first half was over, meaning they had to keep a clean sheet and score at least three goals in the second half to win. Milan did play more in attack in the second half, with Chen Zihua's long-range shot pulling back a point for AC Milan, just seven minutes into the second half.

Milan fans saw hope of a comeback, but sadly, De Vrij's goal pushed AC Milan into the abyss. It was Musacchio's header that cleared the ball and gave De Vrij a chance to extend the score.

The on-site commentator said: "Musacchio's performance in this game was completely disastrous, and it can also be seen from here how fragile AC Milan's backline is without Yan Tao. In previous seasons, although Yan Tao also had a rotation break, but that was when AC Milan was far ahead in the standings and faced a weak team, and now Yan Tao is injured, AC Milan is facing a strong opponent like Lazio, and the problem of the back line has also been exposed. ”

In this game, AC Milan lost 1:3 away to Lazio, ushering in the first defeat of the season. According to Sport, "AC Milan's inaction in the summer window cost them the price against Lazio. This time it's the backline, maybe next time it's the midfield, then the attack, who knows?"

Inzaghi still stuck to his point: "It's just a defeat, it doesn't matter, the league has just started and we have a chance to catch up with the four teams in front of us. ”

In the fourth round, AC Milan hosted Torino, Zhang Shujie scored a free kick, and then, Berotti pulled the score to 1:1, which was also the final score of the game. Since then, AC Milan has only five points from one win, two draws and one loss in the first four rounds of Serie A, ranking sixth in the league.

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