Chapter 262: AC Milan's Achilles' Wound

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While Carlo Ancelotti was studying Atletico Madrid at Milanello, Gao Han and his coaching staff were also meeting in Mahada Enda to discuss their UEFA Cup final opponents.

Alpin's chief assistant coach Cantarero is analysing the situation at AC Milan.

"Since the 98-99 season, AC Milan won the Serie A championship, the aging of the Rossoneri began to be exposed, and the results also fell all the way, only third in the league in 00, and sixth in the league in 01. ”

With that said, Cantarero switched the slides on the screen, showing the ups and downs of the average age of the AC Milan squad over the past few seasons, as well as the age of the team's signings.

"Football and politics are very closely linked in Italy, and in June '01, Silvio Berlusconi was elected Prime Minister of Italy, with AC Milan playing a driving role, and he made good on his promise to invest heavily in bringing in a number of stars including Rui Costa and Inzaghi last summer. ”

When Cantarero said this, he suddenly smiled, "It is said that they have invested more than 100 million dollars. ”

When everyone in the conference room heard this, they all laughed in unison.

This is one of the big jokes of the Atletico Madrid coaching staff, who like to make fun of their opponents' input.

In Gao Han's words, no matter how much you invest, it's not as little as I am anyway.

"Although the investment is huge, there are hidden dangers, that is, too much concentration in the midfield, and the weak backline has not brought in strong reinforcements, which also lays a hidden danger for AC Milan, plus the problem of the manager. ”

Cantarero switches the slideshow again, and an unfamiliar photo appears.

"This is the Turkish emperor Trim, who became famous in Galatasaray but shone in Fiorentina, with a 4-0 thrashing of AC Milan and was named to a number of teams, including Barcelona, last summer. ”

Suddenly, Cantarero smirked, "But he's not AC Milan's first choice. ”

"It is reported that Berlusconi and Galliani are the first to consider Juventus' Carlo Ancelotti, although the manager's defensive style is questioned, but he has a very good appetite for AC Milan, from Sacchi to Capello and now Ancelotti, it can be said that it is in the same vein. ”

However, Ancelotti was still at Juventus at the time, and obviously could not agree to AC Milan, so he finally chose Trim, but the conflict between the management and Trim can be seen from the two sides' plans to rebuild the team, and the latter's radical, especially attacking style, was not accepted by the management. ”

In the end, after ten rounds, AC Milan finished fifth, and coupled with the conflict with the management and the dressing room, Trim was sacked and Carlo Ancelotti temporarily put out the fire and took over the Rossoneri. ”

Cantarero switched another slide to a comparison of Carlo Ancelotti's results before and after he came to power.

"Through comparison, we can see that after Ancelotti came to power, the team's results have not improved much, and they are currently in sixth place, one place behind Triem, and the attack is much inferior, but the defense is a lot more solid. ”

"In terms of the team's formation and style of play, Ancelotti once tried the four-four-two formation that Juventus is used to, but AC Milan lacked two wings, so the results were not satisfactory, and it became Triem's four-three-one-two formation. ”

"The midfield has three midfielders, Rui Costa plays in the front, Pirlo is a substitute from Inter Milan this season, and the two strikers are Shevchenko and Inzaghi, but such a luxurious attacking formation has not been able to bring attacking power to AC Milan. ”

"Looking at the situation this season, AC Milan's problem is not Trim or Ancelotti, but the team's backline is too weak, so in recent times, Galliani has also made it clear that he will bring in a strong defender in the summer, and there is news that Nesta and Cannavaro have been divided between Milan. ”

Gao Han has also heard this rumor, and it is said that Inter Milan have already taken care of Nesta, but there is no official announcement yet.

However, there are also Spanish media who say that Real Madrid intervened in Nesta's transfer, who knows?

After Cantarero finished talking about the situation at AC Milan this season, analyst Sergio Garcia took the stage.

He is an expert in data analysis in the Alpine coaching team, so everything depends on the data to speak.

"We counted AC Milan's record this season, and if you rank it at home, out of the 18 teams in Serie A, they can only finish 10th, in the middle and lower reaches, but if you are ranked on the road, they are in fourth place, which is pretty good. ”

'AC Milan should be ranked seventh in terms of scoring ability, which is completely out of match with their superstar-studded attacking line-up, averaging just 1.3 goals per game, but if you count the goals conceded, they are the third-fewest teams in Serie A, conceding one goal per game. ”

At this point, Sergio Garcia did not forget to add.

"On top of AC Milan, Roma concedes an average of 0.7 goals per game, Juventus is 0.68, and the defense of Serie A is indeed quite good, but compared with us, there is still a gap. ”

The crowd burst into laughter at his words.

This season's Atletico Madrid is indeed too amazing, both offensive and defensive, it is the best in La Liga, and even in Europe.

Gao Han coughed heavily, reminding everyone present not to get too carried away.

Then he looked at Sergio Garcia, "Don't mess with that mess, you kid, come with some real dry goods." ”

"Of course, of course. Sergio Garcia quickly reined in.

"From the home and away stats and goals scored and conceded by AC Milan, it is not difficult to see that this team is very problematic in attack, although they are star-studded, but they lack attacking means, so when they come against teams that are more defensive, the results are not ideal. ”

Everyone nodded in agreement.

Everyone knows that the away team is always more conservative and the home team is more proactive.

"In addition, we have analysed all the goals scored and conceded by AC Milan this season, and we found a very interesting phenomenon, which is that the Rossoneri have conceded half of the goals in the second half, the difference is not very large, but most of the goals conceded in the first half are concentrated in the first 20 minutes, or even the first 10 minutes. ”

"And a lot of the goals conceded in the second half were concentrated after 75 minutes, between 20 minutes and 75 minutes, they didn't concede a goal, but in terms of proportion, there were not many, which became the U-shape shown on the chart. ”

Everyone looked at the slides on the screen, and it was clear at a glance that all the data was clear and very organized.

"So, dare I say it's a team that's slow to heat up, not good at opening and has a lot of fitness problems. ”

When Sergio Garcia said this, everyone present already knew it.

The answers given by the analysis team are clearly consistent with Cantarero's previous judgment, and at the same time more in-depth and detailed.

So, after listening to Sergio García's judgment, Cantarero smiled.

"They're slow to heat up and aren't good at opening, but we're famous, we're the best at stealing starts, isn't that right?"

The room burst into laughter again.

But Sergio Garcia clearly had more to offer than that, and it wasn't until everyone had laughed that the guy slowly switched to the next slide.

"This is the Achilles wound of AC Milan!"

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Through analysis and research, to find the opponent's fatal weakness, the next step is to arrange targeted training.

Gao Han's team has long been familiar with all this, and they are also methodical.

While Atletico Madrid is actively preparing for the final of the League Cup, La Liga is also progressing step by step.

In the 34th round of La Liga, Atletico Madrid, which won consecutive games, defeated Tenerife 2-1 away.

The latter is fighting for relegation and is very tenacious at his home turf, causing Atletico Madrid a lot of problems.

This also made many Atletico Madrid fans feel proud.

Tenerife is also a promoted team, but Atletico Madrid won the championship ahead of schedule.

It was also after this match that Gao Han held a meeting with the club's management and finally decided that the team would further increase the prize money for winning the League Cup, which also made the team very excited.

A week later, in the 35th round of La Liga, Atletico Madrid sat at the Calderón Stadium and defeated Real Sociedad 3-0.

Interestingly, the three goals came in the 12th, 16th and 29th minutes.

But the media didn't notice anything, just exclaimed that Atletico Madrid ended the game early in half an hour, and the attack was outstanding.

However, what is even more interesting is that Real Sociedad, who had just netted three goals at the Calderón Stadium, returned to their home stadium and beat Real Madrid by three goals.

The two teams in the same city, the two rounds of matches that followed, the results were very different, which has also become a big joke in the Spanish media.

Atletico Madrid defeated Real Mallorca 3-1 away in the 36th round of La Liga.

Against Aragonés' steely defence, Atletico Madrid opened the scoring in the eighth minute, but then failed to open the scoring until the second half.

Real Mallorca also scored a face-saving goal by Luke at the last moment, and Eto'o, who Aragonés is very optimistic about, continued to slump and did not improve.

However, with the same defensive formation, Real Mallorca drew 0-0 with the star-studded Real Madrid at the Bernabeu a week later, sending Benitez's Valencia to the second place in the league.

Atletico Madrid beat Deportivo La Coruna 3-0 at home, scoring in the 18th minute of the first half and in the 78th and 80th minutes of the second half.

What's more interesting is that in the final round of La Liga, facing Real Madrid, which is aiming to compete for the league runner-up, Deportivo La Coruna unceremoniously vented all the dissatisfaction and resentment at Calderón Stadium on the Galaxy Battleship.

Three to zero, Super Laco gave a hard steam out on Real Madrid.

Now Irueta is finally enjoying it!

Atletico Madrid beat Valencia 1-0 away.

Rafael Benitez's side held out until the end, but were unable to prevent Atletico Madrid's goal.

With all 38 rounds of victories, Atletico Madrid created a great feat unprecedented in the history of La Liga, which made all the Sheets fans go crazy, and even attracted the whole of Europe to marvel.

At the same time, it also made everyone's eyes fall on the League Cup final three days later.

It's just that...... Will Carlo Ancelotti's AC Milan be able to stop this crazy Sheets Army? )