447 Mixed blessings
For Chen Long, they are still very jealous. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info
So even if Chen Long kept taking the ball outside the penalty area, no one came up to grab him. They think that as long as there are no holes in their defense, even if Chen Long is allowed to take the ball, he can't do anything.
This is the right thing to do, especially if the venue is bad. Even if Chen Long or other Milan players wanted to break through with the ball and only be in the air, it would be difficult to achieve it on such a bad field. In a situation where you can only pass the ball to organize the attack, there are very few paths to attack, which will also make it easier for the defender to defend.
There is one exception.
There are no absolutes in anything.
There are always loopholes in tight defenses, and it is impossible to really splash water without entering.
Long Chen's head turned around like a radar antenna, taking in the situation around him, and then forming a bird's-eye view in his mind.
On the bird's-eye view, the distribution of players on both sides is clear, and Chen Long carefully searched in this bird's-eye view, looking for a channel that could form an opportunity.
He searched and searched, and he really let him find one!
A very hidden pathway, but it does exist. As long as it can be exploited, it can be a threat.
But the problem is that if he sees it, it doesn't work if no one else sees it, because if no one plugs in and runs to the right place, even if he passes the football, it's useless. No one can receive the ball, so how can you threaten the opponent's goal?
He needs someone to cooperate with him, but time does not allow him to inform others, after all, the situation on the court is changing rapidly, and if there is a slight delay, this access may be gone.
Besides, if the signal is too obvious, it will only increase the vigilance of the other party.
So Chen Long can only hope that someone in his team will also see this passage now. He can't wait for a sure pass before passing, he's going to pass the ball right now and hope someone gets in the space to catch the ball.
It's like a door that's closing, and a little later, the door will be completely closed.
Thinking of this, Long Chen raised his arm to ask Sanchez for the ball.
Sanchez was picking up the ball on the side, and when he saw Chen Long raise his hand to ask, he hurriedly passed the football over.
In order to avoid affecting the trajectory of the football rolling on the muddy field, Sanchez kicked the football up, and the football flew low and flew towards Chen Long.
Chen Long ran up to the football, but did not stop the ball, but directly stretched out his right foot and rubbed the flying football into the penalty area with the outside instep of his right foot.
The football drew an arc and changed direction to fly to the penalty area!
This kick was a bit unexpected by the players of Shakhtar Donetsk, none of them expected that Chen Long would pass the ball directly without stopping the ball, but rubbed such an arc with the outside instep!
All the Shakhtar Donetsk players were caught off guard as the ball flew over their heads and into the far corner behind them......
Someone looked back and saw that the football did not fly directly towards the goal, but turned around in the air.
Flying almost parallel to the goal, it flew behind the defensive line, where a blue-black figure struck out like lightning!
"Ventura!" At Peta's exclamation, Ventura leaped high in the middle of the sprint and made a powerful dash to the top of the football!
The ball was hit by a solid forehead and flew into the far corner of the goal!
The goalkeeper of Shakhtar Donetsk, Pyatov, who had just turned and pounced, was powerless in the face of this football that was pushing behind him, and he could not turn around and pounce again, which would be against the laws of physics.
Inertia froze him in place, and he could only turn his head and watch the ball fly into the goal......
"Ahh Peta screamed excitedly. "Beautiful! Pretty! Ventura! He equalized for the team! With two away goals, Milan can go back to Italy with this result! ”
"Ventura!!" Zhan Jun also shouted. "The final goal! He equalized Bife for Milan! This goal came from Chen Long's imaginative assist! ”
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After the goal, Ventura ran to Chen Long to celebrate the goal after landing on the ground, but before he could run to Chen Long, he was stopped by Gross and hugged by the waist, and then overturned to the ground.
Next, Niang pressed up, Chen Long ran over and stacked on top of Niang, Sanchez jumped up again, and more Milan players swarmed and completely crushed Ventura into the mud......
The Milan players were a little unacceptable to the frantic celebrations of the Milan players - they were about to win the game, and it was already the 87th minute of the game when Ventura scored...... Resulted in a goal conceded! Not only was the score equalised, but Milan also had two away goals!
This is simply the second worst result after a home loss.
Milan coach Jose Mourinho on the sidelines saw this result, his face was smiling, and he did not hide his inner joy, and came to a slippery kneeling on the slippery field.
The frantic celebration of the whole Milan team finally ended with the intervention of the referee, and everyone returned to their positions, after all, the game was not over.
Chen Long and Ventura ran back to the Milan half side by side, and Chen Long asked Ventura: "How did you come up with the forward cut for that ball just now?" ”
"I think that's going to be a big deal for you, Long Chen, and you're probably going to pass the football, so I tried to go up......," Ventura explained.
Chen Long happily patted Ventura on the shoulder, sure enough, Ventura knew him best, although Ventura hadn't played for a long time, this tacit understanding between them has always been there.
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The TV broadcast gave Ventura a close-up, although the ball was passed by Chen Long beautifully, but it was Ventura who scored the goal after all, so Ventura was the focus of everyone's attention.
"Ventura has been in good form since he returned from injury, but Milan has so many attackers up front that Ventura can only be used as a substitute," Peta said. However, despite being a substitute, Ventura has been very good, which I think is a good thing for Mourinho, because Milan have been using a rotation strategy to deal with the two-line play this season, he needs more depth on the bench, and Ventura's performance has made him more confident in rotation. ”
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With three minutes left in regulation time and about six or seven minutes of stoppage time, is that enough time for both sides to score another goal?
It was an acceptable result for Milan, but not for Shakhtar Donetsk.
So after the restart, Shakhtar Donetsk launched a fierce attack on the Milan goal, hoping to take the lead again in the final moments of the game.
In the face of Shakhtar Donetsk's onslaught, Milan contracted to play defense, passed forward when they had the opportunity, and destroyed the opponent's attack with a big foot if they didn't have the opportunity.
The game could have ended in this case.
But in the 92nd minute, something unexpected happened on the pitch - Milan won the ball and launched a quick counter-attack. Chen Long made a long pass to find Ventura, who was left in front. Because Ventura was the last to play, his physical fitness was relatively better, so when he counterattacked, he was the only one at the front.
When Ventura saw the ball coming, she sped up and ran to chase it.
But while Ventura was chasing the ball, he suddenly stopped and watched as the football in front of him was snatched away by Shakhtar Donetsk defenders.
"Hey, what's going on?" Peta was a little surprised, and didn't understand why Ventura had stopped.
But then he knew why......
Ventura, who stopped, covered the muscles behind her right thigh with her hand, her expression a little pained. Then he simply sat down, rubbing the muscles on the back of his thighs with his hands.
"Looks like there's something wrong with Ventura's muscles...... This ...... "Peta didn't even know what to say.
Chen Long saw that Ventura was in a situation, and hurriedly raised his hand to signal that the players of the Donetsk Shakhtar team kicked the football out of bounds.
But the Donetsk Shakhtars will not let go of the opportunity to continue the siege of Milan, ignoring Chen Long's gestures, only as if Chen Long, who is waving his arms, is a ball of air, and continues to attack.
Seeing this, Chen Long didn't continue to signal, rushed forward, and directly hugged the Donetsk Shakhtar players with the ball with both hands, preventing the other party from continuing to dribble the ball.
It was a clear foul and the referee finally blew the whistle and stopped playing.
Now Ventura can get the team doctor on the field for treatment.
And Chen Long, because of this deliberate foul, received a yellow card.
However, Chen Long didn't care, he threw down the referee who showed him a yellow card, and the very dissatisfied Shakhtar Donetsk players, as well as teammates who defended him, and ran straight to Ventura in front.
"How?" He asked, a little anxiously.
"Muscle strain......" Ventura heard Long Chen's voice and turned back to Long Chen, still with a smile on his face, but this smile seemed a little bitter to Long Chen.
"!" Chen Long scolded in his native language.
Milan's team doctor, Dr. Braun, came on the field, and when he was treating Chen Long, Chen Long was standing next to him, and the other Milan players also ran over one after another.
Ventura has a good popularity in the team, on the one hand, he is from a pure South Stand, and on the other hand, he is low-key and kind, does not cause trouble, and has a good personality, so naturally no one will be unhappy with him.
His injury also touched the hearts of many people.
Goalkeeper Stegen did not step forward, but stayed behind to protest to the referee about Shakhtar Donetsk's lack of sportsmanship just now, believing that after Ventura's injury, Shakhtar Donetsk players should voluntarily kick the football out and cause a dead-ball situation so that the Milan team doctor can enter the field to treat Ventura.
But Shakhtar Donetsk didn't do this, Chen Long was forced to go directly to his waist, so the referee shouldn't be so strict with Chen Long and gave Chen Long a yellow card.
Chen Long didn't take the yellow card to heart at all, and he stood beside Ventura with a frown, worried that the situation would be bad.
Ventura has just returned from a serious injury for more than a year, and if he is about to suffer another injury, Chen Long is very worried about Ventura's future.
Unexpectedly, Ventura's mood was normal, and seeing Long Chen's frowning appearance, he smiled at Long Chen and said, "Are you saying goodbye to my body?" ”
Long Chen was surprised, he didn't expect Ventura to be able to tell jokes
"It's just a muscle strain, I know very well, Long Chen, it's not a big deal."
After he finished speaking, Dr. Braun, who was examining next to him, also gave the answer: "Well, muscle strain." But it's not easy. ”
Hearing this, Ventura shrugged her shoulders.
Long Chen looked at Ventura in a daze, unable to understand why Ventura was so calm.
The referee came up and asked Dr. Braun if he needed a stretcher, and Dr. Braun wanted to nod, but Ventura said, "No, I can walk on my own, I just walk slowly." ”
Braun looked at him, and said, "Then I'll help you down." ”
Ventura then got up from the ground with some difficulty, limped off the court with Dr. Brian's help.
With Milan having used up all three substitutions and Ventura unable to return to the pitch, Milan were left with 11 out of 10, but the good news was that time was running out and Shakhtar Donetsk were unable to take advantage of the opportunity to score another goal.
When the referee blew the whistle at full-time, Milan held Shakhtar Donetsk to a 2-2 draw away from home, and they picked up two away goals and had a good chance of progressing at home.
However, the result did not please Milan supporters, who had expected to beat Shakhtar Donetsk away from home. Now not only are there no wins away from home, but there are also players injured.
Ventura's injury was probably Milan's biggest loss in this game.
In his post-match press conference, Mourinho also answered questions about Ventura's injury: "We can't say for sure how serious his injury is yet, we won't know until we get to Milan. I hope it's not serious."
Mourinho was haggard when he talked about the problem, and he must have known more or less about the specific injury, but in front of the news media, he couldn't say it too clearly.
But the reporters are not stupid, and when they see his expression, they know that Ventura's injuries may not be too light
Sure enough, after arriving in Milan, the Milan club officially announced that Ventura suffered a thigh muscle strain in the game against Shakhtar Donetsk and will miss at least a month.
Missing a month of games may seem short compared to Ventura's previous year of serious injury, but considering that Ventura has been on the rise since returning from injury, this month's absence can be seen as a pour of cold water on his head.
The injury is likely to interrupt his form, and it also raises concerns about whether Ventura, who has experienced a serious injury before, will become prone to habitual injuries from now on?
Muscle strains are easy to turn into stubborn diseases, but what is more terrible than muscle strains is that other injuries will also come to Ventura, and eventually make him a "glass man" who professional players talk about.
The local media in Milan are talking about Ventura's injury, and compared to Ventura's injury, Milan's failure to win against Shakhtar Donetsk on the road is not a problem at all.
As a local player in Milan, Italy, he is very popular among Milan fans. Milan fans are hoping that Ventura can succeed in Dortmund, and he has the expectations of countless Milan fans in the South Stand.
So when he was seriously injured for a year, many fans were sad and wept.
I finally came back from injury, I scored goals when I came back, and then I was in good shape, although it wasn't a game, but I performed very well, and I scored goals one after another.
Just when everyone was expecting him to be back on the road, injuries hit him again.
This kind of thing really broke the hearts of many Ventura fans.
Many feared that Ventura would be depressed after such a series of blows.
Chen Long also had this idea, so before he came to Ventura's house, he prepared a stomach full of words to enlighten Ventura. And the name "Deisler" must not be mentioned.
But when he knocked on Ventura's door, to his surprise, it was Ventura himself who had come to open the door for him!
"Huh?" He stood dumbfounded in the doorway, looking at Ventura. "Why are you here?"
"Isn't that what I should have said to you?"
"Uh, no, I mean, why are you here to open the door? Can you walk on the ground? ”
"With the help of crutches, yes." Ventura took out the hand he had left behind the door, holding a cane on it.
Chen Long didn't dare to let Ventura stand for a long time, so he hurriedly entered the house and sat down to talk.
"I'm really surprised, it was you who came to open the door for me" After entering the house, Chen Long was still sighing.
Chen Long's mother, Mrs. Ventura, said next to her, "Originally, I was going to open the door for you, but he preferred to come by himself."
Ventura laughed, "I just don't want you to see me lying on the bed with my eyes blank, do you think you're going to see that?" ”
Chen Long scratched his head, it was difficult to answer, but he did have a picture like this in his heart: in the room with the curtains drawn, Ventura was lying on the bed, unresponsive to his arrival, his head tilted to the side, the dim light could not illuminate his face, and the air in the room seemed to be frozen, which was depressing and desperate.
But when he came, Ventura's house was brightly lit, and Ventura was sitting in the chair opposite him in his home clothes, with a smile on his face, and if it weren't for the crutches he had at hand, he wouldn't have been able to tell that this was a man who had just been out for a month due to injury.
"I had a lot of words to prepare to enlighten you, Ventura. But now I don't think I need it," Chen Long spread his hands.
"yes, I missed a year due to injury, and now it's just a month off, so I don't think it's a big deal!" At this, Ventura laughed.
Long Chen paid attention to his expression, but he couldn't tell if Ventura was forcing a smile or if he was really so relaxed.
So in the end, Chen Long didn't say anything he had prepared, and he didn't continue to ask Ventura about his injury, he had lunch at Ventura's house, and played a football game with Ventura in his room for a while in the afternoon.
Then at four o'clock in the afternoon he said goodbye to the Ventura family.
Sitting in the car at home, he was still carefully remembering Ventura's performance that day, and he really couldn't find any trace of Ventura's forced smile.
He hoped that Ventura would be open-minded in the face of some setbacks in life, but when Ventura was really so open-minded, he was a little incomprehensible, and he couldn't figure out how Ventura was relieved and open-minded on his own, and this hairpin bend was really so good?
Or maybe it's a muscle strain and a month off, it's really not a big deal, don't worry too much?
When he got to the apartment, Chen Long didn't see Lin Lei come until he went to sleep, thinking that she should have come directly to himself after getting off the plane...