Chapter 369: Win back a game first
Wednesday, September 23, autumnal equinox.
CCTV made a rare midweek night show of a match between Italian teams.
As early as many years ago, CCTV won the broadcast rights of Serie A. But it was this summer that the terms of the broadcast were negotiated with a single club.
Being able to cooperate with the most watched channel in China is also a key point for Milan to consider buying Ou Chuliang. In this way, CCTV's live broadcast of Serie A football every weekend has become a match in Milan. This is even more welcomed by the fans, because although Ouchulian moved to Napoli last season, CCTV regularly broadcasts other Serie A matches. If you want to know Napoli's results, you have to buy a sports weekly.
Now that CCTV and Milan have reached an agreement, domestic fans are very happy. You can watch both Serie A and Ou Chuliang, why not?
The league had not yet started in the first Coppa Italia, so it was not broadcast domestically. In the first two Serie A games, Acchulian was a substitute for Milan, and fans only saw Acchulian from afar when the cameras occasionally slapped to the bench.
In this regard, some fans can't wait.
When will Ou Chuliang be able to play?
Countless domestic football celebrities have made predictions in their columns, and with the deepening of the Serie A game, it has completely become a topic of conversation among domestic fans.
That night, Xiao Liang broadcast the TV to the sports channel after finishing his homework.
Every day's morning newspaper will list all the TV stations broadcast on the day in the newspaper, and in the CCAV5 column, Xiao Liang found out that there was a Coppa Italia match broadcast tonight, and it was also an AC Milan game.
Xiao Liang was excited about this all day, and he couldn't even eat after school, so he buried himself in his homework, in order to finish all his homework before the game was broadcast.
After Huang Jianxiang's figure and voice appeared on the screen, Xiao Liang almost suffocated with happiness in an instant.
“... According to the latest starting list of this game from the satellite, Ou Chuliang's name is impressively listed. ”
"Hehe, that is to say, AC Milan is going to send Ou Chuliang to start today!" Zhang Lu also had a smile familiar to the audience on her face.
In this era, CCTV could only receive a fax of the starting lists of both sides less than 30 minutes before the broadcast, and it was all in foreign languages. The staff needs to look it up one by one according to the dictionary, translate it, and then write the translated name on the list and hand it to the broadcaster.
Because of this, many foreign stars' names are pointed out by fans as mistranslations after being called for a while, and then changed them.
But this time, the staff of Milan's starting goalkeeper column swept their eyes, and they immediately saw that it was Ou Chuliang's name, because Ou Chuliang's name was in pinyin!
The names of all the players in Milan this season have already been translated by CCTV, and there is a manuscript for the last game against Torino, so this time the staff translated it quickly, and it was written and handed over almost as soon as it was sent.
Huang Jianxiang and Zhang Lu also announced the good news to the fans as soon as possible, for fear that the fans would change the channel or simply turn off the TV if they saw that there was no Ou Chuliang.
After saying Ou Chuliang's name, the backstage staff quickly found that the ratings of CCTV 5 rose sharply, and it rose by 1 percentage point in less than a while.
After a while, the double anti-reverse team members entered the room.
The San Siro stands were filled with red and black fans who were willing to pay to enter and cheer on the home team even for a Coppa Italia game.
"You can see that the home team AC Milan is attacking from left to right in the red and black jersey on the screen."
"Zaccheroni still arranged the 343 formation today, and the starting goalkeeper is No. 20 Ouchuliang!"
"This is the first time Ou Chuliang has represented Milan in a regular match since joining Milan!"
"Let's wish her the best of luck!"
"Milan's back three are Ngoti, Costa Curta and captain Maldini. This time Maldini did not appear in his familiar left-back position, but instead played as Milan's right-back. ”
The four midfielders are Ibrahim. Ba, Boban, Albertini and Helweig. ”
"The three forwards, from left to right, are Georges Weah, Bierhoff and Ganzi."
"Today's match is the second leg of the second round of the Coppa Italia and in the last away game, AC Milan lost 2-0 to Torino.
"After the game, there were many media reports that Milan had to strategically give up the Coppa Italia in order to win the title this season and go all out to win the Serie A title."
"So don't look at the start of the game today, it seems to us that it is a sign of Milan's trust in him. But in fact, the Italian media still generally believes that Milan is using this unimportant cup competition to continue experimenting with new lineups, allowing the team to adapt to the new style of play of 343 more quickly. ”
"Director Huang is right." Zhang Lu responded on the side, in order to increase the credibility of Huang Jianxiang's introduction, "This game will definitely attack with all their might for Milan, because if they don't score, it means losing the game." ”
"So in order not to let the fans attack the team on the grounds of negative play, Milan will definitely attack today. As a result, Milan, who only have a back three, will certainly face more pressure in defence, and hopefully Acchulian will have a good performance today. ”
The point stopped, and Zhang Huang didn't say anything deeper.
They will only hope that Milan can score two goals in the front line today at least as forcefully as they did in the previous two league games. In this way, no matter what happens later, at least the fans will not think that it is Ou Chuliang's start that affects the team's overall attack.
After the start of the game, Milan really pressed the whole team as Zhang Lu said, and with one more striker, he repeatedly tested the depth of the Torino defense.
"It's Torino attacking from right to left, it's a Serie B team."
'Torino have not managed well in recent years and had some debt at the end of last season, which led to not buying players heavily this summer.
"Torino played a 442 formation in this game, the same as in the last game."
"Huh! Milan's attack! ”
"Albertini straight stopper."
"Weah deliberately missed it..."
"Bierhoff!"
"Bierhoff fell in the box!"
"Is it a penalty?"
Under Huang Jianxiang's excited voice, the referee from Iceland directly blew the whistle in his mouth.
"Penalty!"
"Milan were lucky to get a penalty on the first attack!"
For this match, only 2,000 Torino fans came to San Siro with the team. But for the huge Milan fans, it's simply a drizzle.
Amid the roar of 70,000 Milan fans, Bierhoff took the penalty spot.
After a few seconds, "Wow"!
Seeing the white waves of the ball on the net, 70,000 Milan fans chanted in unison.
"1 to 0!"
"What a fantastic start!"
"AC Milan took a one-goal lead as soon as they started!"
"This ball is simply given away by the opponent for nothing!"
"Now the gap between Milan and Torino is only one goal, and as long as the Milan players work hard, they can beat Torino to advance!"
Huang Jianxiang and Zhang Lu are both happy, no matter what, it is good to have a goal.
As long as Milan wins this game, Ou Chuliang will hand in a qualified answer sheet today.
Half a minute later, the Torino players kicked off in midfield.
"Run, run, don't let him pass easily!" Zaccheroni shouted from the sidelines.
Zaccheroni has been shouting like this in the past few games, his 343 is not just adding an extra offensive player to the attack, but actually putting a player who was originally in the backfield defense in the front court!
343, 3 chains, defending from the front.
If the three strikers work well together, the opponent's attack will struggle from the back. When it came to halftime, it was almost "panicked". When it came to the back, Milan's back three could easily cut the ball off.
That's the essence of Zaccheroni's formation!
But in the previous few games, the players subconsciously put the first line of defense in the midfield, and when the opponent broke through here, the striker immediately lost his covering role. With the defense of the central defenders and defenders alone, it is easy to make trouble.
Zaccheroni has spoken to the players many times about this, and although the players understand it, it is often the case when it comes to operating on the pitch.
In this regard, Zaccheroni has always believed that the tacit understanding between the strikers is not enough, and the fighting is not active enough, resulting in chaos and chaos.
Torino's habit of passing back to the back after kick-off is the perfect time for strikers to defend. Zaccheroni desperately shouted that the three strikers could start here and lead the team to implement his tactical philosophy.
It had just started, and the players were full of energy.
Coupled with the excitement of scoring a goal just now, the three Milan strikers are indeed desperately trying to open their legs and press towards the Torino defender.
For this reason, the four midfielders also subconsciously advanced under the command of Zaccheroni, and the four were almost attached to the halfway line.
Coupled with the three defenders who kept their distance from the central defenders, Torino had to squeeze between the Milan defenders and the two forwards, and even two close to Costacuta, ready to sprint against offside.
In the face of the rush of Milan's three strikers, the Torino defender hurriedly fell to the side a few times and quickly pulled the side, which was organized by the wide players.
But when the Torino full-back received the ball on the flank, Milan's three chains were already close.
Looking up at the Milan central defender in front of him, and then glancing at the Milan striker who was rushing behind him, the Torino fullback flew up and hung directly behind Costacuta.
This is Milan's weakness!
If the three parallel lines are too far forward, it will eventually lead to a void in the rear.
In this way, once the opponent's long ball is completed, it will pose a fatal threat to the Milan goal.
Costacuta had expected this, but due to the manager's tactical demands, he had to move forward with the team.
Now seeing the Torino fullback picking up the pass, Costa Kuta is chasing back while praying in his heart.
With his ability and experience, he is confident that he can destroy such a hanging pass before the opposing striker.
But he is a man, not a god, and he can destroy it once, twice, or even three or four times, but what if he doesn't deal with it again? What should I do if my teammates didn't have time to make up for the defense that I didn't handle well? What if the opponent's striker takes the opportunity to break out of the encirclement and win the ball?
There are so many variables!
With three defenders with poor forgiveness, it's no wonder Costacuta has so many ideas.
But just then, Costacuta suddenly heard a familiar voice.
"Here!"
A simple sentence made Costa Kuta instantly feel at ease.
For a defender, most of the security comes from another team-mate not far behind him.
Time flashed on the pitch as Costa Curta struggled to face the ball in the air, rubbing his head deeper into his own half as the Torino striker was two steps away from running into place.
It wasn't until after landing that Costa Kuta remembered to look up at who his teammate was, whether it was the new Frenchman Ngotti or his old comrade-in-arms Maldini.
When he saw a dark green figure in front of him, Costa Kuta was startled.
"How could it be his ????"
At this time, Ou Chuliang was standing six or seven meters behind Costacuta, and his two feet were worthy of stepping on the big penalty area.
Facing the ball from Costacuta, Acchulian stood on the ground with his left foot facing the right rear side and raised his right foot at the same time.
The ball that flew over just hit the arch of Ou Chuliang's right foot, and then it was like sticking to his fiery red football boots, and it stopped firmly at Ou Chuliang's feet with Ou Chuliang's right foot.
By this time, the Torino striker had already rushed past Costacuta, but when he saw the ball stopped by Ouchulian's skilful foot, he subconsciously slowed down.
If the goalkeeper hadn't missed the ball, he would never have grabbed the ball. In the face of Ou Chuliang's stoppage, he felt that it was not too much to give 100 points.
"Pull the edge !!"
Ou Chulian shouted again, not only took a step to the left, but then reached out and commanded Costacuta to move sideways from the line he was standing with the Torino striker.
Costacuta moved almost laterally, not because he was under the direction of Acchulian or Zaccheroni's new formation, but because he had years of experience playing as a defender.
But whether it was spontaneous or not, he was more like he was "controlled" by Ou Chuliang in the eyes of others at this moment.
Although the Torino striker also moved his body as much as he could, standing between Ouchulian and Costacuta again, Ouchulian did not pass the ball back to him, but pushed with his right foot and passed the ball to Ngoti, who was pulled to the left side near the touchline.
In this way, the crisis at the back of Milan was immediately resolved, and the Torino striker's up-and-coming became useless.
"Beautiful!"
Zaccheroni snapped his fingers on the sidelines, playing very well on every line and fully fulfilling his role in defence.
Especially Ou Chuliang, at the critical moment, he did not abandon the defender and returned to the goal alone, but kept hanging not far behind the central defender. Such a defensive position, such a "goalkeeper to participate in the game", is exactly what he asks for in this set of 343.
Zaccheroni is well aware that although Costacuta's return pass to the goalkeeper looks a little dangerous. But if the players play according to his tactics, the goal just now is almost zero threat for Milan!
The Torino striker was too far away from the goalkeeper and even further away from the wing-back. If the players themselves do not make mistakes, the opponent will not create a crisis for the Milan gate even if he plays like this countless times.
"I hope he's not blinded!"
As soon as Zaccheroni's words fell, he saw that Acchulian did not retreat like Abbiati or Rossi and others. Instead, he continued to move to the left, and when he almost reached the top left corner of the penalty area, and saw Ngotti pass the ball to his teammate who came to meet in the middle, Oculliang ran back to the middle and continued to hang behind Costacuta.
"Oh my God, he's really not blinded?"
After Zaccheroni finished speaking, he glanced at Hawke, who was cheering on the sidelines, and there was a hint of doubt in his eyes.
Milan took advantage of this defense and defused Torino's attack several times in the opening 20 minutes.
The return goalkeeper is just a microcosm of Milan's backline, and when there are more options, whether it's Costacuta, N'Gotti or Maldini, there are more options to choose from.
When the Torino striker thought they were going to pass back to Ouchulian, they found that Maldini turned around and spared a circle from the other side to avoid himself and take the ball forward; And when the Torino striker wants to cut off N'Gotti's dribbling route, N'Gotti will push the ball flat and play a one-two with Costacuta. In short, Ouchuliang's position is more like the scavengers of Serie A decades ago, helping the three centre-backs wipe their butts.
And the "scavenger" did not "carry" offside attributes, and the Torino striker tried to sprint early several times, but was signaled offside by the linesman.
As a result, although Acchulian had a number of touches in the first half, Torino never actually threatened the Milan goal.
"Involve the goalkeeper in the game", Zaccheroni finally has a chance to live up to the "big words" he released before the season.
In the 37th minute, Milan, who played smoothly, pressed again.
Helwig shook off his opponent in front of the court and stabbed the ball to Albertini's side with a light poke of his toe.
Due to Helwig's breakthrough caused the Torino players to lose position, the ball passed smoothly.
Albertini kept the ball straight and Ganzi sprinted down the flank to get his hands on the ball before the Torino defender. After the Torino defender tapped the ball across the middle before the defender intercepted, Albertini and his team-mates made a brilliant one-two.
Albertini did not continue to push forward after receiving the return pass, but stepped on the ball on the line of the penalty area. Just as the Torino defender was guessing what his next move would be, Albertini took a pause and toe the ball over the Torino defender's head.
Suddenly, a black figure struck the vacuum between the Turin defender and the goalkeeper.
Weah slammed the ball into the Turin net again.
"Brush!"
Seeing the white waves of the nets being set off, the Milan fans fell into jubilation again.
Good fellow, Zaccheroni has given us a trick!
Lost 0-2 away and then won back at home?
How dare you think about it!
But looking at the score, it seems to be true.
Zaccheroni still had two strikes, scoring two goals to equalize before the end of the first half, well-mmmm, commendable!
Riding on momentum and a temporarily carefree backfield, Milan continued to attack in the second half.
It was originally an away game, but now the home team has scored two goals, coupled with the Milan fans all over the sky, Torino can only struggle to support for a while.
Their long passes don't work at all, and short passes are intercepted by Milan's three "chains".
After losing the threat of a counter-attack, Milan finally scored a goal in the 80th minute through Hellwig.
3-0, Milan won at home and won their first hearty victory since the new season.
After the game, only cheers remained on the San Siro pitch.
The fans were cheering for a beautiful home win and rejoicing that the team did not come up and gave up the Coppa Italia as the media had claimed.
"We are Milan and we are the best team in Italy! We're not going to give up the cup for the league! That's the behavior of the weak! ”
Looking at the fans waving red and black flags, Zaccheroni wiped the sweat from his forehead.
"Whew, although it's a Serie B team, it's finally got back a game!"
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