In the tenth round of Serie A, there will be a peak showdown, and one of the protagonists of this peak showdown is the defending champion Milan, and the other protagonist is the old hegemon who was pulled down by Milan last season, Juventus. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info

Since the peak duel since ancient times, the atmosphere before the game has become extremely hot, and the duel between Milan and Juventus is no exception.

Whether it is Milan fans or Juventus fans, everyone is waiting for the showdown to be staged in anticipation and bickering.

A week later, the tenth round of Serie A was in full swing, and the showdown between Milan and Juventus was about to start.

A day before the start of this game, Mourinho announced the starting line-up, and apart from the change in Rugani Ventura's position, everything else is the strongest main line-up. In this match, Mourinho abandoned Ventura in favor of the younger Rugani.

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In the away dressing room at the San Siro Stadium, Italian coach Allegri is making the final mobilization for the Juventus players who have just returned from a warm-up.

“… Milan ditched Ventula in favor of Rugani. We don't know much about this player, but it doesn't matter. He certainly won't be the main character. Milan's most dangerous player right now is Chen Long. Although they are now a combination of Jackie Chan and Gross, I think everyone should understand in their hearts that Jackie Chan is important to Milan, and this game must be firmly focused on Chen ......"

Chen Long's name was written on the tip board by Allegri, and it was big and very eye-catching.

It can be seen that Chen Long is the most threatening player in Milan in Allegri's heart, and as for the other Milan stars, they are not as good as Chen Long.

For Allegri, last season, the reason why his Juventus lost to Milan on the way to the championship, Jackie Chan played a big role in this, because in the second leg of the competition between the two sides, it was also a key moment in the championship race, and almost Jackie Chan alone destroyed the entire Juventus backline, so he was particularly impressed by Chen Long.........

Although it was a little surprising that Mourinho chose Rugani instead of Ventura for this game, the Milan fans in the stands were also acceptable, after all, Rugani's strength was not weak with Ventura, so when the players of the home team played in the players' tunnel, the Milan fans in the stands erupted in warm cheers and applause.

They want to see a good win at home - the so-called fans are the ones who have been objectively analysed before that their team is not favored, and they still hope that the team will win. This kind of support is subjective, and since it is subjective, it must be irrational and dispassionate, and there is no reason.

Ten minutes later, the pre-match ceremonies ended and the game officially began.

When the game started, Chen Long was really defended by Juventus.

Juventus' starting midfielder, Patrick Vieira, was almost inseparable from Chen Long.

In this game, in order to completely curb Chen Long's play, Allegri did not hesitate to sacrifice Vieira's offensive ability, so he let him defend full-time.

Vieira did not express any dissatisfaction with such an arrangement. Everyone knows how good Chen Long is now, and he has become one of the best young players emerging in European football, like Barcelona's Dirk, if not stronger than Dirk.

Therefore, playing against such a player is not an insult to Vieira's prestige.

Vieira defended very seriously in the game, and did not have any contempt for Chen Long just because he was experienced in a hundred battles.

Vieira, who is tall and long-legged, defends Chen Long in close quarters, like a maggot on a tarsal bone.

And his long legs are one of his strengths, and he is very good at using this advantage flexibly.

In the game, although he will be stuck in position by Chen Long, he will be stuck behind him.

But he could use his long legs to stretch out his foot directly from behind and poke the football that Chen Long was about to receive away

For the first time, Chen Long suffered this loss, and he didn't expect Vieira to be able to touch the football through his body, so Vieira directly broke the ball.

The second time Chen was prepared, but Vieira still got the first touch of football. Of course, Chen Long's second reaction was fast enough, and when he saw that the football was stabbed by Vieira, he immediately rushed out to grab the ball again. Although he managed to keep the ball at his feet in the end, he was further away from the Juventus goal, and there was still no way to turn around and shoot or break through. So Vieira's defense was successful again.

"Vieira is still the formidable world-class midfielder who has defended twice in a row," the Juventus commentator cheered for Vieira.

"It looks like Chen Long is in trouble and is being targeted by Vieira, which is not a good thing......" Zhan Jun, the Chinese commentator, worries about Chen Long. Although he was asked to play neutral when commentating on the game, he is a Chinese and is naturally emotionally on the side of the Chinese players.

"Vieira defended very tightly and it wasn't that easy for Chen Long to get rid of him. Allegri has a lot of ideas, and the most dangerous player in the Milan team right now is Chen Long. As long as Chen Long can be frozen, it can paralyze Milan's attack...... It's only been ten minutes since the game, but we're already seeing signs of that...............

Milan commentator Peta gushed and analyzed, as a long-time commentator on Milan games, he obviously knows Milan the deepest...

The televised footage was given to Allegri first and then to Jose Mourinho.

Naturally, Allegri is because Juventus have a slight advantage on the field at the moment, and it is completely impossible to see that they are playing away. This is naturally due to Patrick Vieira's successful defense against Chen Long.

Of course, the contribution of other Juventus players is not small, they basically freeze Chen Long and Gross, and Rugani is a little more immature under the target defense of the veteran Juventus manager Italian Allegri.

The Italians did a very good job of defending overall, they were world famous, well, Allegri was the best of them again, and naturally, Milan were in trouble.

It was given to Mourinho because of the current situation on the field, which is not good for Milan.

If Milan lose to Juventus in this home league game, then the goal of defending the title this season will not be so easy. Especially this season, Milan's focus is on the Champions League, which means that the league cannot afford to go wrong, at home against Juventus, although Juventus are strong, this is also a game that Milan must win.

Jose Mourinho seemed to know this, and as he stood on the sidelines, his brow furrowed, and he often paced back and forth, looking very agitated.

This is already the best card he can play, and the offense has no mature ideas, and some of them mean to play anywhere.

He set his sights on Long Chen.

In the last season, Chen Long saved the team many times by himself, and the overall strength of Milan last season was at most able to win the league championship, and Jackie Chan's credit is indestructible.

Since Chen Long was able to save the Lord repeatedly last season, can he replicate the miracle now?

Mourinho pinned all his hopes on Chen Long. This is not what a good manager should do, but Milan is indeed suffering from the pain of transformation today, because to a certain extent, for a strong opponent like Juventus, it is very likely that the "CG combination" will not be so effective, after all, this is a "CG combination" that has just been tacitly understood, rather than a mature run-in.

Chen Long was cut off twice in a row by Vieira, which was just a more prominent scene. In fact, in these ten minutes of the game, Chen Long was almost marked by Vieira.

He decided to move back and move closer to his midfield, closer to Rodriguez and Alexis Sanchez, to be able to form an effective link with them.

But soon he found himself doing so in vain.

Because Vieira's big black man followed

Isn't he afraid of losing his defensive position after him?

Chen Long glanced back, only to find that after he withdrew, there was a Gross in the front, if Gross wanted to retreat and take advantage of the vacancy he pulled out, Juventus's central defender was not a vegetarian, so he would naturally follow up as soon as possible. They are not at all worried about the void behind them being exploited, as Milan no player has been able to reach that deep into the area.

Gross is the top player in the Milan squad.

If he had a striker by his side at this time, it would have been fine. But now that's an unrealistic assumption.

Vieira knew why Chen Long wanted to retreat, didn't he just want to get rid of himself?

He thought he had retreated, and he didn't dare to come up......

It's naïve

I'm not one of those centre-backs who don't dare to go beyond the thunder pool

I'm a midfielder at the back

It's my territory from this forbidden area to that forbidden area, how can there be a place I dare not go?

Unless you, Chen Long, retreat to your own forbidden area...... But in that case, what threat can you have away from our goal? My defense was still successful.

Vieira thought so in his heart, but he did not relax his defense against Chen Long at all.

As an experienced veteran, there is no such thing as him making mistakes by belittling a player like Chen Long.

He quickly used a foul to stop Chen Long's turnaround in the midfield.

The timing and location of the foul were very perfect, and the action was neat, it was a tactical foul, and there were no other superfluous actions, just preventing Chen Long's breakthrough, but it did not cause Chen Long's damage.

So the referee didn't even pull out the yellow card, but only verbally warned Vieira.

Patrick Vieira was also very good in the face of the referee's verbal warnings. He even pulled Chen Long up from the ground with a smile on his face to show his friendliness.

Although Chen Long was very depressed because the attack was blocked, seeing that Vieira's attitude was so good, he had no place to get angry, so he could only let Vieira pull up in frustration.

After more than ten minutes of play, Chen Long found that Vieira was very strict with his defense, especially when the football was passed to him.

But what if you're just cutting into position?

Patrick Vieira doesn't defend himself like he catches the ball.

So if you want to get rid of Vieira's defense, you have to use your brains in the running position.

He thought of the offensive tactics he had trained with Rodriguez and Gross.

It's time to give it a try.

So Long Chen found Rodriguez.

"Let's get started. Plug when you have the chance."

Rodriguez nodded, he was even a little excited, wanting to see if his hard training with Chen Long and Gross on the training ground really had a chance to be realized in the game.

After saying it to Rodriguez, Long Chen directly squeezed his eyes at Gross from a long distance.

They didn't need verbal communication, and Gross knew what that meant. Although the two still lack some tactical cooperation, these basic training are still very tacit.

It's time to get started

The show is about to begin

When Chen Long fell into Vieira's close guard, he lacked a person to support him. Gross had a mediocre performance in the ten-minute game and did not give Chen Long much support. And he himself could not directly threaten the goal guarded by Juventus goalkeeper Michigan...... He was alone in the box and caught up in the dense defense of Juventus..."

Peta commented.

Other commentators also felt that Gross's performance was lackluster after a dozen minutes of play. He only had one shot on goal and it wasn't in the woodwork.

There is no doubt that there have been no bright spots in Gross's performance during this period.

While the commentators were frantically complaining and criticizing Gross's performance, on the pitch, Gross was working to break the deadlock.

Or rather, he worked hard with Chen Long and Rodriguez.

The rest of the Milan players have largely fallen into Juventus' chain defence, lacking the means to break the chains.

In fact, Chen Long and Gross also fell into chain defense, but ...... They have a way to break the chains, and they can try it.

When Rodriguez got the ball up front, he was immediately defended and disturbed by the Juventus defenders.

He still passed the football.

A straight stopper.

It's just that under the disturbance, this through ball is a little outrageous, and I don't know who he passed it to...... It doesn't seem to be for Gross, and it can't be passed on to Long Chen.

Rodriguez made an apologetic gesture to Chen Long, who was running, and let him run for nothing, wasting his physical strength.

Chen Long gave him a thumbs up and said a word.

Because the distance is too far, Rodriguez can't hear the sound, but looking at the lip shape, it should be "one more time".

Rodriguez had heard this sentence many times in his previous training, and he was very familiar with this mouth shape at will.

Failed, it doesn't matter, do it again

If it doesn't pass on, it doesn't matter, do it again

I just came back again and again, and finally found the feeling.

Now Rodriguez needs to pick that feeling up again.

He believes he can do it

In fact, this is not only a match for Gross to prove himself, but also a match for him Rodriguez to prove himself? The Colombian has not played well in the league rounds before Milan this season, so there are some doubts.

"Rodriguez sent a straight plug again, this time it seems to be a little anxious, whether it is Chen Long or Gross, they can't run to the position......"

"Rodriguez...... It's a beautiful turn around, I'm in a hurry."

"Straight but cut off by Bathura around the front of the defence"

"Rodriguez has made three straight stops in a row in just a few minutes, and whenever the ball falls at his feet in Milan's attack, it ends in a through ball...... This seems to be the performance of Milan's more and more urgency after not scoring any goals in attack...... As the team's playmaker in midfield, Rodriguez should be a little calmer......"

"During this time, Milan played a lot of through balls in the attack, I don't know if this is Mourinho's intentional arrangement and adjustment......"

Assistant coach Faria turned his head to look at Mourinho.

Mourinho spread his hands: "Don't look at me, I didn't make such a decision. ”

With that, he got up from the dugout again and walked to the sidelines.

It's not his decision, it's the player's autonomous behavior.

He didn't quite understand why Rodriguez did this, and there were times when it was clear that there was no need for a straight stop, so he should slow down and organize the attack slowly.

But Rodriguez is like a hot potato with the football under his feet, and he can't wait to pass the football out, completely ignoring the situation on the field.

While a through ball is one of the most dangerous forms of passing, if successful, it creates a one-on-one chance for the striker to face the opposition goalkeeper.

Starting with a through ball is also the lowest success rate of passing, and two out of 10 can be considered good.

Especially against a dense defence like Juventus, a through ball is often not a good option. The only way to do this is to send the football directly to the opponent's feet again and again, and then let the opponent attack.

Juventus' strikers are very individual, which is very similar to Chen Long. They boast Argentine top striker Dybala, as well as experienced Uruguayan veteran Luis Suarez.

A single flash of light from either of these two people could break the deadlock.

That's what Mourinho fears the most.

Mourinho, who walked to the sidelines, waved his arms and roared at Rodriguez in the field: "Slow down, slow down the tempo, don't be in a hurry, pass less through balls like that"

Rodriguez saw the manager's movements and heard the manager's words, and of course he knew that he was saying it to himself.

But...... He found that he and Chen Long and Gross had gradually found their senses, if they gave up halfway at this time...... Isn't all the effort you've made so far in vain?

Perhaps many people can't see that in his seemingly impatient through passes, the course is being corrected little by little.

and Chen Long and Gross's running position is also becoming a little bit compatible.

It's like polishing a gear, and when it finally gets stuck in the groove, it has to be stopped?

Rodriguez hesitated for a moment, then looked at Long Chen and Gross.

Long Chen was gesturing to Gross and communicating.

If we stop at this time, then we will not only waste the hard work of this time in the game, but also the efforts of that evening, right?

Rodriguez made a decision in his heart.

He decided to defy the manager's dictates and put Mourinho's rant behind him and continue to polish his passes.

He firmly believes that Chen Long and Gross will succeed.

And all he has to do is send the ball over at the right time.