Chapter 40: Fate and Strength
Looking at the celebration of Ibrahimovic and others, everyone in Liverpool was also helpless. Pen % fun % Pavilion www.biquge.info
First of all, it's the home of the people, and secondly, Ibrahimovic is in great shape.
This kind of thing is unlucky, after all, so far in the Champions League, Ibrahimovic has only scored four goals and two assists, and this game has one goal and one assist.
However, this also proves from the side that whether it is Robinho or Inzaghi, they are no longer in line with the status quo of AC, and only Cassano can bring a strong containment force and liberate Ibrahimovic.
If Cassano had been at AC Milan at the beginning of the season and had integrated into the system, it would have been really difficult to deal with, but Cassano only arrived at AC last week.
In the middle of the half, Liverpool's players were discussing with each other how to deal with each other.
Wang Zhen proposed a desperate plan.
It's too ruthless to say this, in fact, it is a conspiracy, allowing the midfielder to vacate a way, forcing or indulging Cassano, so that Ibrahimovic can't attack with the ball smoothly.
If there was an opportunity for Cassano to attack directly, AC Milan would certainly have sent the ball over rather than giving it to Ibrahimovic through a difficult and dangerous way.
However, although it is ruthless, it is a matter of killing 1,000 enemies and causing 800 self-damage.
If Cassano could really score alone, it would be a big loss.
In the next game, AC Milan suddenly found that Liverpool's midfielders always stayed in a line, not horizontally, but vertically.
It's a good way to push forward on offense, but on defense, it's not a good idea.
As a result, the ball was always found to be delivered to Cassano after it was passed between AC's midfielders.
Carragher also let go, grabbed Cassano, and thought: "If you have the ability, you will send it to the feet of Ibrahimovic, I am afraid that you will not shoot!" ”
Cassano is not an unknown person, is there a chance that he will not attack?
So, in the last 30 minutes of the game, it evolved that Liverpool's attack advanced, blocked, AC pushed back, and Cassano shot.
It goes back and forth.
However, Cassano is new to the game, and he is not very tacit with his teammates, and can attack alone, but he can't deliver good passes, and the threat is extremely reduced.
"AC Milan suffered, Liverpool's defensive pattern changed to prevent Ibrahimovic from taking the ball and letting Cassano attack at will, so Ibrahimovic's good form in this game was in vain. But it's also worth AC Milan to gamble, first of all, Cassano still has a chance to score, as long as he scores, it is equivalent to a turnaround, secondly, Cassano's continuous attack, AC also has a chance to suppress Liverpool's possession, so that Liverpool itself does not have too many offensive opportunities. ”
"So, from the perspective of the situation, Liverpool has been here to seek a draw from the very beginning, two away goals, and they have already earned, that is, Liverpool has entered defensive mode."
Defense is defense, but not stubborn defense, Wang Zhen is still nailed to the middle line, ready to counterattack and score at any time.
In this way, AC's offense will not be too open-minded, and in this way, they are less likely to score goals.
Ibrahimovic was also annoyed, but it was still a draw and he couldn't get angry.
On the one hand, Cassano is a newcomer, and he is still a very popular player in Italy, so he should also give face to the ball situation.
But on the other hand, a department that doesn't ask for the ball too much, and finally attacked in a game, and was divided into 30 minutes, which seems unreasonable.
At this point, it's time for the AC to react, but the adjustment that the AC made is definitely something that no one expected.
Inzaghi up, Ibrahimovic down!
Allegri felt that Cassano had just arrived, and no matter what, he had to let him play for 30 minutes, so there was no need for Ibrahimovic to be on the pitch and not take a break.
Ibrahimovic's character, if he can make concessions, is already on the face of millions of fans, and has nothing to do with the face of the head coach and the chairman.
In Ibrahim's own opinion, even if Lao Tzu is not the best striker, he is the second in the world, right?
However, there is also a reason for replacing Ibrahimovic and bringing on Inzaghi.
On November 4, 2010, in the Champions League group stage, AC Milan played Real Madrid at home, and Inzaghi came off the bench in the second half, scoring twice and scoring 70 European goals, surpassing Gerd Muller to become the top scorer in Europe. Meanwhile, the two goals also take Inzaghi's tally to 125 for AC Milan, surpassing the 124 of another legendary goalscorer, Marco van Basten.
This was not so long ago, that is, Inzaghi is the top scorer in Europe so far, and Raul, who is second, needs to find a chance to surpass him, and it may be a matter of the next round.
Allegri is betting that Inzaghi could break out again.
Perhaps, Inzaghi is indeed one of the best goalscorers in European history, but that is already old history, how old is Inzaghi now?
What's more, with the current Champions League three-star, that is, the trend of the three Mero kings, it is a sure thing to surpass the older generation, for four consecutive seasons, Wang Zhen's lowest European goal is eight goals in 08, in addition, each season must pass ten goals, four seasons combined, it is close to the fifty goal mark (not counting the qualifier goals), in addition to Wang Zhen, Messi Ronaldo's data is also climbing year by year.
Not to mention this, just to say that Inzaghi's current state is going to play better than Ibrahimovic, which is basically a fool's dream.
Allegri was right to choose the big picture, but for this game, it was basically an act of giving up the victory to the draw.
Sure enough, as soon as Inzaghi came on the field to replace Ibrahimovic, he directly liberated the Liverpool midfield, and Cassano could no longer get the ball easily.
However, Inzaghi, who had just come on the field, completed two good attacks in a row, but there was still a distance from the goal.
In terms of strength, if AC gives up Ibrahimovic, it loses the capital to win.
In the last 30 minutes of the game, it was dull and the game was played without waves.
"At the end of the game, the two sides drawn, and in this game, Ibrahimovic and Wang Zhen received the same rating, and the battle between the two will continue into next season."
After the game, Wang Zhen found Inzaghi to change his jersey, and he was going to change his jersey with Ibrahimovic.
However, Wang Zhen did not expect that this would be the only time in his life that he played with Ibrahimovic as an opponent on a formal occasion, and throughout his career, he was known as one and the same, and the two super strikers with a similarity of more than eighty percent would never have the opportunity to change their jerseys in official games.
This is the so-called fate.
However, at this moment, neither Ibu nor Wang Zhen realized this.
If he could have predicted the future, with Ibrahimovic's temper, he would have blocked Allegri in the dressing room and beaten up 100 percent.
Ten years later, when Ibrahimovic published his last autobiography "My Football", he mentioned: "At that time, no one expected that this would be our last official match, and in this respect, I played a draw with Wang Zhen, but I also fought with him in the days when I was coached by him as a player, and as for the result, no one will ever know." ”
'Similar height, similar weight, technical aspects, extremely similar, even their hairstyles are the same, the two of them are the same in this game, at the home of AC, the two teams are drawn, and the suspense will remain until the second half at Anfield on March 9.
(To be continued.) )