The final of the 2004-05 Europa season has finally reached a climax, as the finale of the Champions League is about to be played at the Ataturk Olympic Stadium, Blackburn Rovers from the English Premier League and AC Milan from Serie A will fight for the highest honors!

In this game, Mourinho's lineup was not unexpected by the outside world, and it was still the usual main lineup, after all, in this kind of stable and overwhelming final stage, the veteran players who have cooperated for a long time are naturally the first choice. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. ｂiquge。 ｉｎfo

Blackburn Rovers line-up (4-3-3):

Goalkeeper: Cech

Defenders: Ashley Cole, Stam, Carvalho, Finnan

Midfielders: Maronso, Makellele, Lampard

Forwards: Duff, Ibrahimovic, Cristiano Ronaldo

AC Milan's start came as no surprise, with Ancelotti opting for the Argentine between Crespo and Inzaghi.

AC Milan line-up (4-3-2-1):

Goalkeeper: Dida

Defenders: Cafu, Nesta, Maldini, Kaladze

Defenders: Gattuso, Pirlo, Seedorf

Forward: Kaka

Forwards: Crespo, Shevchenko

On the afternoon of the game, the Ataturk Olympic Stadium was really crowded, from the first fans to the last fans to sit down, the Atatükik Olympic Stadium has always been fluttering with enthusiastic singing, seeing the players of their own teams entering, they will give a burst of cheers, and the stadium commentators are constantly inciting the emotions of the fans in the stadium, the atmosphere of the Atatürk Olympic Stadium can be said to have reached the extreme.

The Ataturk Olympic Stadium is packed, and AC Milan fans account for more than half of the country, after all, whether it is the total number of AC Milan fans in Europe or the distance between the two countries to Turkey, AC Milan has a clear advantage.

However, there are at least 30% of Blackburn Rovers fans cheering on their team from the stands, but only in a corner, and even Arthur can't see the familiar team with large groups of blue and white jerseys when he looks down from the top box.

In this final, Arthur was not accompanied by a beautiful woman - because of the release of "Fantastic Four", Jessica Alba has returned to the United States to participate in the promotion of the movie.

In a match that would determine who would be the king of Europa football this season, AC Milan kicked off first and after a few passes, the ball quickly rolled to Pirlo's feet.

As soon as Sleepy Pi received the ball, a figure rushed in front of him and kicked him fiercely, Pirlodi's right leg flung back uncontrollably, but the center of gravity was finally stabilized in the panic, but the football only jumped up and down a few times before Lampard stopped and passed back to the back.

Blackburn, the defending champions, showed the AC Milan players from the start that they were ready to win this game!

The AC Milan players were stunned by Frank Lampard's tackle, but they quickly adjusted and waited for Blackburn Rovers to attack.

Frank Lampard grabbed the ball and played it to Cristiano Ronaldo on the right. At this time, the AC Milan team's defense was already in place.

As soon as Ronaldo received the ball here, the players of the AC Milan team over there had already followed. As a result, Ronaldo's speed could not get up, so he had to hand it over to Alonso, the midfield commander of this game, but this time the attack changed from a surprise attack to a positional battle, and Blackburn lost the best chance to sneak attack.

In terms of positional warfare propulsion alone, Blackburn does not have much advantage in front of mature AC Milan.

Alonso, who was suppressed by Vieira and Keane in the Premier League, has not been able to get the first place in the Premier League, but he has already been the top midfielder in Europe in terms of strength, and he is not inferior to Pirlo by half a point.

Ibrahimovic received the ball with his back on the line of the penalty area, and Nesta, the number one defender in football today, was behind him.

Ibrahimovic barely turned around and dodged Nesta's save, but he wasn't fast enough to hit the ball before Maldini slid a tackle, and the ball was easily held by Dida in front of goal.

If it wasn't Nesta's target for Ibrahimovic, but for a lower-level centre-back, maybe Ibrahimovic would have had more time to adjust his shot, and maybe the goal would have gone in.

Of course, nothing exists if.

The game went smoothly and the referee rarely honked his horn.

If it weren't for AC Milan's tight defense, the chain defense that Serie A teams rely on for their livelihood is worthy of, and with the talented cooperation between these frontcourt players of the Blackburn Rovers team, AC Milan's door would have been blasted open more than once or twice.

The Ataturk Olympic Stadium was filled with joyous English singing, and in the eyes of the Blackburn fans, it was only a matter of time before the team attacked so fiercely that it was only a matter of time before they scored, so they tirelessly sang praises for the team, encouraging their beloved team to win the "shrunken" AC Milan sooner.

But it turned out that Blake himself was just too optimistic!

AC Milan took a surprise lead in the 12th minute when Andrea Pirlo unleashed a long ball from midfield and Kaka fired a powerful shot from 25 yards out on the left. The ball was so heavy that Cech could only keep the ball out. When the Blackburn defenders were all focused on Shevchenko, Crespo struck out and fired into the net.

0:1！

This is a nightmare start for Blake himself!

Although it was a bit of a surprise that the team conceded so easily, neither Mourinho on the sidelines, Arthur in the grandstand box, nor the Blackburn players in the stadium were not too affected.

After all, in the competition against opponents of the level of AC Milan, it is their preparation to be the first to score by the opponent.

After opening the scoring, AC Milan's attack was fully opened, and they played better and better with a relaxed mentality, and Blackburn's backline immediately sounded the alarm.

With Shevchenko and Crespo in the hands of two of the world's top strikers, Kaka and Andrea Pirlo both got the chance to hit the back of the net, and they really succeeded once again -

AC Milan doubled their lead in the 17th minute when Kaka broke down the left side of the box to face Carvalho and Ashley Cole and sent in a through ball, but Stam's delay allowed Shevchenko to defy offside, and he slid past Cech and fired into the empty net.

0:2！

Seeing that two goals were scored in succession within 5 minutes, even the always calm Arthur clenched his fists, if he didn't have the only sanity left, he really wanted to rush to the sidelines, and shout at the players on the pitch like Mourinho at this time.

The course of the game was beyond everyone's expectations.

Before the game, Blackburn, AC Milan fans and neutrals all thought that this game would be a close game, and the two teams could even draw and go to extra time, or even penalties to decide the winner, but they didn't expect that AC Milan's two goals in 5 minutes almost killed the game, and it seemed that even AC Milan would easily win the Champions League this season.

Even Carlo Ancelotti was stunned, although from the beginning he was convinced that his team would win the final victory, but this victory seemed to come a little too easily?

After the goal, Shevchenko and his teammates such as Seedorf laughed and hugged each other, and the coach on the sidelines, Carlo Ancelotti, also clenched his fists and jumped up. They all know how huge the advantage is in this scoreline.

At this time, Blake was already standing on the edge of the cliff, there was no room for retreat, only crazy attacks and goals could keep them alive!

After another kick-off, Blackburn launched an all-out attack.

Blackburn, who are two goals down, are still very tenacious, Arthur and Mourinho have injected the team with the spirit of the iron and blood of the Blue Devils, Alonso and Makelele run tirelessly in midfield, Frank Lampard and Ibrahimovic have also caused great problems in the AC Milan backline, Cristiano Ronaldo and Duff have been a few times temporary, and the AC Milan full-backs are a little embarrassed.

Everything seemed to be going the way Blackburn had hoped, but before Blackburn could pull a point back, there was a result on the pitch that Blackburn supporters least wanted to see.

Although Kaka has not yet reached the peak of a team alone, his impact on the left side of the Blackburn Rovers collapsed, and Finnan, who was not very physical, was shaken down by Kaka in defence, and Kaka dribbled the ball into a no-man's land and easily broke through the penalty area.

In the face of Stam's forward defense, Kaka just feigned to shoot, and the deceived Stam raised his leg to block the angle, but he buckled with his right foot, and dodged the angle of Stam blocking, and successfully found a gap in the crowd to face the goal.

At this point, Makelele is completely desperate to rush towards Kaka, and it is completely a posture that if you dare to shoot, I will dare to break your leg.

However, what Makelle saw then was a pair of sly eyes - Kaka did not choose to shoot, but picked the ball behind Makelele.

At this time, Seedorf, who unknowingly entered the Blackburn penalty area, received Kaka's pass, he just hesitated slightly, and immediately shot with his feet, and when Stam did not catch up and Carvalho did not have time to turn around, Seedorf was a heavy bombardment in the big penalty area under one step unattended!

Seedorf's unflung leg was like a full bow, leaving all Blackburn Rovers fans in despair.

The next moment, Seedorf's shot hit the far post of Blackburn Rovers and Cech couldn't keep it out before the ball bounced off the back of the net.

"Beep!"

The referee's whistle sounded again, and Kaka was already celebrating on the sidelines with Seedorf, 0:3!

Blackburn Rovers won the 37th minute of the game with a disparity of 0:3, and in the eyes of almost everyone, Blackburn's hopes of defending the Champions League were also dashed at this moment.

"Blackburn Rovers didn't want to see the scene happen, AC Milan once again stretched the scoreline! 3：0！ The suspense of victory or defeat is really not big, and there is not much time left for Blackburn. ”

The on-site commentator was right, although the game was full and there were still more than 50 minutes to end, Blackburn had to score three goals at the moment, and he had to ensure that AC Milan would not score again to equalize.

Blackburn have been unable to score a single goal in the previous assault around AC Milan, so will they be able to complete the task in the next 50 minutes?

No one is optimistic!

In short, Blackburn has fallen into the most critical moment at this moment.

Arthur saw the excited performance of the AC Milan players after scoring a goal, which made Arthur, who was not very big-hearted, quite unhappy.

Arrogance what?

But then Arthur was also asking himself, is there really any hope for Blackburn in this game?

"Is this the curse of the reigning Champions League champions?" Arthur muttered to himself.

The moment the entire Ataturk Olympic Stadium flew across the goal line with Seedorf's shot, the Blackburn fans collectively lost their voices, and they concentrated on the silence that was terrifying!

There was also silence on Blackburn's bench. Mourinho was also very anxious watching from the sidelines, but it was useless for him to be anxious, and now there were less than 8 minutes before the end of the first half, and the adjustment at this time was of little significance.

Jose Mourinho is ready to make another adjustment at half-time and make a last-ditch effort!

But Mourinho soon regretted his decision.

Blackburn Rovers launched the final attack of the first half, and after falling behind by three goals, they had launched a reckless attack without reservation, and the defense was quite empty.

Frank Lampard saw a direct route to Ibrahimovic in the box in the middle of the ball and sent it away without much thought, only to be cut off by Nesta's outstretched foot.

After Nesta broke the ball at the back, he won the ball and played a long ball forward, and the ball flew so cleverly that it flew in front of Kaka, who swooped into the center circle.

Kaka got the ball, took advantage of the situation, and wanted to smash into the penalty area.

At the moment, Klose is only one defender away from goalkeeper Petr Cech, and if he can't stop Kaka, then Kaka will face the goalkeeper and score again is very likely.

Stam wanted to intercept Kaka head-on, but in the face of Kaka's galloping breakthrough, the aging Dutch veteran failed, and seeing that Kaka had a chance to go into the heads-up Cech, Stam could only make a reluctant decision......

Kaka, who was running at high speed, was knocked directly to the turf by Stam, who had already broken through, and immediately Stam drove the football out of the sideline.

But at the same time, the referee's whistle sounded at the same time!

Seeing this, even Arthur couldn't help but close his eyes, obviously he knew the result of Stam doing this.

Red!

Naturally, it's a red card!

The referee undoubtedly showed a red card to Stam!

Although the whole Blackburn team surrounded the referee and argued, it did not change the bad situation, and the referee still upheld the original decision. Frustrated, Stam accepts the comfort of his teammates and slowly walks off the court!

In fact, Stam's red card was not wronged, but Blackburn couldn't accept it at all, because now they are three goals behind, and they have lost their backbone in the back line - the team's central defender Stam.

In the last minutes of the first half, AC Milan attacked aggressively, trying to completely turn the second half into a playful time, and the ten-man Blackburn only barely parried, but fortunately, there were only two minutes left in the first half, and AC Milan did not score again.

The two teams entered the break with a disparity of 0:3.

Blackburn fled back to the dressing room with a frustrated look on his face when the referee's whistle blew at the end of the first half, and they all wanted to end the disastrous first half as soon as possible.

Is there any hope for Blackburn? (To be continued.) )