In fact, it was also at halftime, when Mourinho asked the team to start attacking in the second half, Sampaoli told his team at halftime to resist the desire to come out of the nest at the beginning of the second half, and to stabilize the defense and play Milan's counterattack. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info

His theory is the same as Mourinho's - a one-goal lead is not a very safe score, then Mourinho will definitely let his team score early in the second half, so that 1:0 becomes 2:0, at that time is Manchester City's chance, as long as you play Milan's counterattack, the chance of scoring will always be played with Milan, right?

So after the start of the second half, Manchester City, including Sampaoli, up and down, were waiting for Milan to attack.

But when the second half really started, it was not what they expected.

The second half was a kick-off for Milan, and Sampaoli thought Milan would take advantage of the kick-off to launch a fierce attack on City's goal, and then it would be a great opportunity for City to counter-attack.

As a result, Milan's attack ended in a hurry, handing possession to Manchester City, and what about themselves?

Retract!

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Off the pitch, Milan's assistant coach Faria was surprised to see that Milan did not take advantage of the kick-off opportunity at all and put pressure on Manchester City's goal: "Why did you end the attack so quickly? It's too hasty! It's not in line with our arrangement......"

Mourinho, who was next to him, rubbed his chin and didn't say a word.

Of course, it doesn't match their arrangement, because it wasn't arranged by their coaching staff at all. He can see that this is Chen Long's "self-assertion" again.

It stands to reason that a player on the pitch completely ignores the manager's arrangement and makes his own decisions, which is something that will make the manager very angry. Because it's a challenge to the manager's authority.

But in the matter of Chen Long, Mourinho will not think so.

This is not the first time that Chen Long has adjusted his tactical arrangements in the game, but each time the effect is better than he expected.

In that case, what reason do you have to blame him?

There is a famous saying in football that "a win can overshadow everything".

If you can win, you don't have to change anything, winning is everything.

So if Chen's make-shift on the pitch can bring victory to the team, Mourinho is happy to see it.

Moreover, Chen Long is a player, he is closer to the first line than Mourinho as the head coach, he will know all the information on the field for the first time, he has first-hand information, he will draw the most intuitive judgment, and his decisions are often faster and more accurate than the head coach, which is also very normal.

Of course, not every player on the front line makes the right decision, and in the heat of the game, the players don't really have much time to think about the problem and analyze the situation with their brains. They often act only on instinct......

But Chen Long is an exception, Mourinho believes in the decisions he makes, so he is given the most power.

will be outside, and the king's order can not be accepted.

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Because Manchester City wanted Milan to attack, they were more backward in formation.

Milan didn't attack, and their formation was docked.

This creates a very strange situation on the field - both sides are in their own half of the court and do not press easily.

After Milan ended the attack and returned possession to Manchester City, Manchester City, who held the ball, did not dare to invest too many troops in the attack, for fear that after they pressed up, they would give Milan a chance to counterattack.

So the number of people who put Manchester City into the attack was pitiful, and they didn't bother to organize seriously, and after getting to the front, the football fell to the feet of Gabriel Jesus, and the Brazilian saw that there was no support around him, so he simply chose to do it himself.

He dribbled straight to the Milan goal. His lone heroic performance did not score for Manchester City, but easily conceded the ball under the guard of the Milan players.

However, there is no need to worry about Manchester City, as most of their players have not stepped forward at all, so there is no need to worry about the space behind them being used by Milan after conceding the goal.

After winning the ball, Milan quickly launched an attack and played the football to Manchester City's half. In the face of City's defence, they didn't seem to have much to do, and after a series of simple passes, it was finally Gross who fired a long-range shot from outside the box to end Milan's attack.

Milan's performance made Manchester City's side glad that they did not press too hard, but were on guard against Milan's onslaught from the beginning, because they were well prepared, and Milan's attack was able to return to nothing.

If you had pressed the attack hard just now, I was afraid that the goal would have been broken by now......

However, in the eyes of the fans, the period after the start of the second half of this game is really ...... It can be described as "ugly".

Both teams did not play very well in attack and showed little patience. Often, there will be no brilliant tactical combinations, and instead they will choose to end the attack with a simple and rough long-range shot or a wide cross.

Who likes to watch such a game?

But both teams played like that.

The commentator also saw that Li Yang said that both sides were surprisingly conservative and cautious after the start of the second half. The game during this period was not exciting enough, and it was really unfair to Chinese fans who stayed up late to watch the game......

Peta thinks Manchester City are not performing well at home, after all, they are the behind, but why are they not investing enough troops in attack?

Mark? Laurentian also thinks that Sampaoli's choice is not "brave" enough, and of course there can be tactical arrangements or something, but as a home team, should we also consider the momentum that we need to have as a home team?

In fact, this kind of game is not only unpopular with the audience, but also uncomfortable for the players to play by themselves.

Especially the players of the home team, Manchester City, who are at their home stadium and have a larger number of supporters, are they worthy of the Manchester City fans who support them on the spot?

Some Manchester City fans in the stands are already booing their frustration with the team playing like this - this is our home stadium, what are you afraid of?

The television broadcast gave Sampaoli a close-up of him standing on the sidelines, his brow furrowed.

At the beginning of the second half, Sampaoli felt that his adjustment was correct and effective, because when Milan counterattacked, in the face of the dense Manchester City defence, there was obviously no good way to do it, and they could only choose a very low-tech attacking method.

But now he felt that the situation was not what he had imagined - Milan probably did not have a good way to attack against the Manchester City defence, but did not think about attacking at all......

Milan was much more shameless than he thought, and he wanted to withstand a 1-0 lead!

It stands to reason that in this case, Manchester City should take the initiative to press, create some threats to Milan, and make them understand that they can't stand it.

But Sampaoli didn't want to do that.

Because he knows who is more patient than he is at this time.

He believes he should be more patient than his opponent.

But after another six minutes, Sampaoli let out a long sigh - he was sure that if he didn't put pressure on Milan, they would dare to just stay in their own half and play the game. They don't care if it's a good game or not, they're the leaders anyway, and they don't care about the boos in the stands because they're the away team and they don't have the pressure from the stands that the home team has to face.

Will Milan feel guilty for not playing well?

Of course not!

This is not a team that pursues "beautiful football" and the result is more important than anything else.

So if they can just win Manchester City, why don't they do it?

But Manchester City can't accept this result, so in the end, it is up to Manchester City to take the initiative to change the game.

So he waved his big hand, and Manchester City attacked.

In fact, Manchester City's players also want to attack, and they have already been on fire when they play aggrieved.

Now after seeing the referee's adjustment, one by one they pounced on Milan's goal like a tiger going down the mountain.

Seeing that Manchester City had clearly stepped up their attack, the number of people involved in the attack had increased, and the momentum had also come up, the Manchester City fans in the stands rejoiced and shouted cheers for their team.

For a while, in the cheers of the home fans, Manchester City's offensive was rapid, the whole team was like a rainbow, looking at that posture, it seemed that it could break through Milan's goal at any time, and the bright future of equalizing and then reversing to win is not far ahead!

The previous match between Manchester City and Milan reminded many old fans of the tacit goal between Sweden and Denmark in the 2004 European Championship in Portugal.

Before the final round of the group stage, Sweden had four points and a goal difference of five, Denmark four points and a goal difference of two, Italy two points and a goal difference of zero, while Bulgaria had zero points.

According to the rules, Denmark and Sweden can advance together as long as they play a draw like 2:23:3, but 1:1 will not work.

As a result, the game was really played 2:2, so no matter what the result of the Italian side was, they would be eliminated. After 2:2, the players of Sweden and Denmark played very conservatively, and in the final stage of the game, neither of them wanted to attack half the court, and they fell in their own backfield, and the opposing players did not come up to force the gun.

It's just that I'm worried about some accidents.

It was a bit similar to the one that Manchester City had played with Milan at the start of the second half.

But now it's okay, if the game continues like that, there will be boos.

Now, City have taken the initiative to make adjustments and changes, and their attack has become more threatening.

Manchester City fans in the stands also believe that the team is back on track and can expect the team to win at home.

But reality is brutal because it doesn't develop according to people's subjective wishes.

In the 69th minute when Manchester City pressed on the attack, Milan had an attacking chance.

Gabriel Jesus' shot was denied by Milan goalkeeper Stegen, who then did not kick the ball out of the way and threw his hand straight at Rugani just outside the box.

Rugani gently tapped the football to Chen Long with his head, and Chen Long directly passed the football sideways to the side.

On the side is the inserted fullback Cai Heng, although Schmelzer received the ball on the side, but he did not continue to carry the ball forward, in the face of the blocking of Manchester City players, he passed the football diagonally to the middle.

Receiving the ball was Gross in the middle.

Gross receives the ball with his back to the attack, but he doesn't have to think hard about how to turn, he just needs to pass the ball back.

The football fell to the feet of Chen Long.

Chen Long did not stop the ball, but kicked it directly to the ball from Gross, and the ball flew to the left wing, where Sanchez had already cut forward at high speed.

And it's also a void in the Manchester City defence!

Manchester City, in a series of indiscriminate bombardments around the Milan goal, forgot that their backline was incomplete, and now this gap has been seized by Chen Long.

Milan's rapid succession not only overwhelmed the fans in front of the TV and in the stands, but also left the City players on the pitch a little unresponsive. Milan's attack was first in the middle but was soon moved to the left wing.

After City's defensive focus shifted to this side, the ball was passed back to the middle.

So the Manchester City players turned their attention to the middle, who thought that Chen Long actually passed the football back to the left side - and before that, in order to prevent Cai Heng from moving forward with the ball, Manchester City's defense line on this side was relatively higher, anyway, compared to their left fullback, Manchester City's right fullback Zabaleta had already pressed over the middle line, he originally wanted to block Cai Heng, but Cai Heng did not take the ball to kill, but passed the football to the middle, and his attention also turned to the middle, ignoring for a while that there was actually space behind him.

But Chen Long didn't ignore it, and a very fast and accurate transfer passed the football to Zabaleta's back.

When Sanchez got the ball, the rest of City's defenders were still behind, so even though he was behind Zabaleta, he was not offside!

Strike! Sanchez!

Amid Peta's exclamations, Sanchez dribbled the ball into the Manchester City penalty area.

And there are still not too many Milan players who are involved in the attack, Gross and Rodriguez are rushing forward, and Chen Long is also running forward, but the speed is not very fast, and he does not intend to take the lead.

His actions naturally couldn't attract the attention of the Manchester City players, so the Manchester City players who kept returning to the defense accelerated past him, but no one turned their heads to look at him, and their eyes were firmly locked on Sanchez, who broke through with the ball

As a result, the distance between the slow running Chen Long and the fast Manchester City players was widened, and they were almost unmarked.

When Sanchez rushed to the 30-metre zone of Manchester City and found that there were no good targets to pass forward, he naturally chose to knock back and pass the ball to Chen Long.

At this time, people found out that no one watched Long Chen!

So the Manchester City players who had been defending Gross and Rodriguez near the penalty area turned and pounced on Chen Long.

Facing Garcia, who was the first to rush up, Chen Long made a feint of a long-range shot, and he jumped up and turned around to block it with his back.

But Chen Long just buttoned the football to the left, and then flashed past Garcia's side and dribbled the ball to Manchester City's penalty area!

Long Chen! Nice feint, he dribbles forward! Li Yang was very excited.

Chen Long, who got rid of Garcia, had a short space where he could shoot, but he didn't, and continued to rush forward with the ball.

He soon ran head-on into City's backline.

It was then that he picked up the ball in a very stealthy move on his run – a toe pick – and it went past the City defenders and fell behind them. At this time, Gross appeared behind them, and also appeared at the landing point of the football, and he gently padd the football with ****!

Although some Manchester City players raised their arms and signaled to the referee that Gross, who had received the ball, was offside, neither the referee nor the linesman said anything.

Especially the linesman, he can see clearly that at the moment of Chen Long's pass, in fact, Manchester City's back line did not remain unanimous, Klich was a little late, dragging at the back, and he also let Gross happen to be in a position that was not offside!

No offside! Strike! Gross! Petar yelled.

In his roar, Gross, who had stopped the ball, kicked directly at the football with his leg and shot a half-volley!

The ball slammed into the goal.

Due to the proximity and the great strength, even the Manchester City goalkeeper could not completely stop the ball, he took to the air, stretched out his hand, and blocked the football, but the football still stubbornly flew into the goal!

That's it!

2：0！

Milan take a two-goal lead!

Grose! Nice volley! Stopping the ball to shooting is really one go! Li Yang was also very happy, because of Chen Long's presence, he naturally supported Milan.

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After the goal, Gross beckoned Chen Long to come up and celebrate with him, and ran to the stands where Manchester City fans gathered, and then made a gesture to shut up.

It's a provocative celebration.

But Gross actually has no grievances with Manchester City fans, and when he picked up the ball in the game, he didn't hear the boos of Manchester City fans.

So why did he do it?

It's very simple, he is fighting for Long Chen!

He didn't boo when he took the ball, but Chen Long booed when he took the ball, and every time it was a deafening boo, which was the response of Manchester City fans to Chen Long kicking the ball before the game.

As a teammate and good partner, Gross will certainly have to stand up for Chen Long. Chen Long is a person that everyone likes in the team, he has been wronged, and others will naturally come out for him to fight for him.

So not only Gross, but also the other Milan players who came up to celebrate the goal also made a gesture to shut up.

This celebration may tell us how popular Chen Long is in the Milan team, ha! Li Yang laughed.

Although Manchester City has had Chinese player Sun Hai play again and has a group of fans in China, they are still far from popular compared to Milan, which has an active Chinese player. Therefore, Li Yang's ridicule will not cause too many people to be dissatisfied.

Of course, Chen Long's popularity is good, even if regardless of his personality, his good popularity is what he exchanged for selfless assists again and again. Not to mention, in the moment of crisis for the team, he used one goal after another to help the team win......

Who wouldn't love someone who can always provide nanny assists to their teammates and meet their needs when they need a goal the most?

There are some Chinese fans who always think that Chen Longlao assists others and scores few goals himself, and thinks that he is too virgin.