The closure of the transfer market symbolizes the arrival of a new season.

Other teams have already started preparations for European qualifiers and other competitions, with Lazio also beating Juventus 2-1 in the Italian Super Cup. But AC Milan is still shrinking to its own sports center, grinding in the tactics of the new season.

"Nope! You should run and rush forward! ”

"Wasn't that ball pass better?"

"Don't run right away, fight back, and buy time for your teammates behind!"

"Oh my God, where have you been? There must not be so much space between the goalkeeper and the centre-back! ”

Zaccheroni shouted over and over again, almost every time he shouted "new tricks".

This situation is a danger signal, meaning that the Milan players did not have a high level of understanding in many areas of the game, and they were far from meeting the requirements when it came to executing the manager's tactics. Even Zaccheroni didn't know where to change if he wanted to improve, because there were too many problems. As soon as this loophole was closed, the problem leaked out again.

Xiao Liang, who lives in Lanzhou, is a junior high school sophomore student who has never dared to surf the Internet at home since he spent 500 yuan a month on the Internet by his father, and he no longer dares to surf the Internet at home.

For a junior high school student, the only channels to get information about the Serie A team are radio, CCTV live broadcasts and broadcasts, news, Internet cafes and sports weekly newspapers.

As long as CCTV broadcasts Milan's game on weekend nights, Xiaoliang will be beautiful all week; If he didn't broadcast it, he had to run home from class at noon the next day to watch the sports news at noon, because there was no sports news in the morning. If Serie A had already been reported when Xiao Liang went home, he could only ask his mother, who had already asked his mother to help him watch the score. If even her mother misses it, Xiao Liang will wait for Tuesday to buy the sports weekly, which at this time is a weekly issue and sold on Tuesday, a piece of two, black and white newspapers. If he misses even the newspaper, Xiao Liang has to find time to go to the Internet café.

Because of his penchant for red and black, Xiao Liang naturally became a natural Milan fan.

Although Milan only finished 10th last season, Xiao Liang's red and black heart has not been extinguished.

Especially this season, it broke out that Ou Chuliang joined Milan, and the excited Xiao Liang couldn't sleep every day during the holiday, just waiting for Ou Chuliang to play for Milan and kill all sides.

As for how the goalkeeper can help the team win the game, he has not yet thought about it.

As the holiday season draws to a close, so does the new Serie A fixture.

Xiao Liang used the pocket money he saved to copy all the Serie A materials published by Jianghu-Football Network to the computer in the Internet café, printed them out with pictures, bound them into a booklet with a stapler, and went home to study them over and over again. In this way, the owner of the Internet café who bought the printer also made money, and Xiao Liang's prestige in the school skyrocketed, and even some male teachers would ask him about the latest situation in Serie A during the end of class.

In this year when computers are not yet popular, Xiao Liang has become the "Serie A Little Expert" of Lanzhou 18th Middle School with the latest Serie A battle report updated by Jianghu-Football Network!

"Brother Liang, who are you most optimistic about this season?"

As the opening match of Serie A, last season's Coppa Italia champions Lazio won 2-1 against league champions Juventus.

The classmates have been arguing since they learned about it from Xiao Liang, and they shouted at Xiao Liang one by one to predict whether the Serie A champion this season will be Juventus.

Even though Xiao Liang is a Milan fan, he always thinks from a neutral point of view when evaluating the game, which is why everyone believes in him.

Recalling the data and latest information released by Jianghu-Football Network, Xiao Liang shook his head.

"Judging by the cards, Lazio still have a good chance this season!" Trabeculae from shallow to deep channels.

Berlusconi has only invested less than 10 million euros in the transfer market this season, compared to Lazio who is "calling the wind and rain" in the transfer market in the same period, this amount of money is simply not enough!

The Blue Eagles not only bought a number of well-known figures such as Vieri and Mihajlovic who shone in the World Cup, Yugoslavia's rising rookie Stankovic, one of the "Chilean Double Sa", Salas, and Almeida, who shot amazingly from a distance, but also bought the national names Nesta, Favali, Negro and Pancaro, which can be described as a "bumper harvest".

How can such a club that accommodates countless talents not be eligible to win the championship?

Xiao Liang sighed, picked up the soda of the Eight Kings Temple in front of him, poured it hard, and wiped his mouth with the back of his hand.

When the friends around saw Xiao Liang's appearance, they instantly closed their mouths, and they didn't dare to gasp. Everyone knows that Xiao Liang likes to use the momentum of carbonic acid to talk to everyone.

"If you want me to say, there are seven teams that have the ability to win the championship this season! These seven teams have been called the 'Seven Sisters of Serie A' by me! Xiao Liang's face was not red and his heart was not beating, and he directly recited the information on the Jianghu-Football Network one by one.

Although the "Serie A Seven Sisters" had a prototype as early as the early 90s, it really spread in China at the end of the 90s. And with the departure of Maradona and the slump of Samp, the new "Seven Sisters of Serie A" has long been replaced by the other two teams.

"The seven teams are AC Milan, Inter Milan, Juventus, Roma, Lazio, Parma and Fiorentina."

"Everyone knows AC Milan, it's the team that the European international transfer to! In addition to Ouchulian, there are also African Footballer of the Year Georgio Weah, the winner of the last Serie A scorer list Bierhoff, Milan meritorious Maldini, and Albertini and Costa Curta and others to lead! ”

"What about Inter, there are aliens Ronaldo, Zamorano, Djokaef and Bergomi! And, importantly, Baggio has also joined Inter this season. In addition, there are the likes of Sosa, Recoba and Pagliuca, whose strength should not be underestimated. ”

"The last Serie A champion Juventus has the zebra prince Piero, Inzaghi, the World Cup champions Zinedine Zidane and Deschamps, as well as Montero, Conte, Iuliano, Pesoto and Peruzzi, no matter which of these people is singled out, they are the core of our A!"

"Roma have Totti, Del Vecchio, Cafu, Candela and Aldair."

"Needless to say, Lazio is enough for Vieri alone to give other opponents a headache."

"Parma have also had a great season, buying Argentine white wizard Veron, and Crespo to build a terrifying frontline, while Chiesa and Cannavaro are both Italian internationals."

"Fiorentina have the Argentine god Batistuta, the Portuguese midfielder Rui Costa, and the likes of Edmundo, Torricelli and Toldo, and they have enough quality against any of these teams."

"In addition to these seven teams, the other mid-table teams in Serie A should not be underestimated."

"Like Udinese, who has Amoruso and Locateri; Sampdoria with Montella and Ortega; Perugia, who owns Materazzi and Hidetoshi Nakata; Barry, who owns Zambrotta and De Asentis; Bologna with Signori and Ingleson; Salernita with Di Michele, Di Vaio, and many more are eligible to snipe any team that wins the championship in the league! ”

"It can be said that this season in Serie A has definitely been turbulent and unpredictable. It would be nonsense to guess which team will win the championship based on the stars and players alone! ”

"So don't look at what I said before to give you an analysis from the cards, but in fact, if you only look at the cards, then it's called not knowing how to pretend to understand!"

As for the taste, none of the seven sisters of Serie A has entered the sainthood, and they are almost all the same. Everyone has the ability to win the championship, and the probability of who wins the championship is not very high. ”

"It's even possible to play until the last game to decide the winner, just like last season!"

After Xiao Liang finished speaking, he picked up the glass bottle again and poured a big sip of "tons and tons", and burped.

At this time, the surrounding friends listened to it straight, just like Mr. Storyteller taking stock of Liangshan's one hundred orders and eight generals, one by one they listened energetically, and countless stars with swords, guns, swords, halberds, axes, hooks and forks flashed in their heads, playing together on the court.

When every name that everyone is familiar with appears, everyone will gasp, estimating the "force value" he can bring to the team; When a name that everyone thinks is familiar, but not very familiar with is heard, they will whisper and ask where this person comes from; When a name that most people have never heard of, and only one or two people know, the children do not look down on each other because they are not familiar with each other. On the contrary, students who know the origin of this person will be regarded as a master of "erudition and strong knowledge", and the attention is second only to "Xiaoliang Know-it-all".

In fact, compared with a super squad like Parmarazio that has spent more than 100 million yuan, the final evaluation given by Jianghu-Football Network is that Milan's best ranking this season is sixth.

Sixth, for Milan they moved up four places and also got the chance to play in Europe.

This is a "good" season for Milan, where the lineup and formation are adjusting.

But Xiao Liang couldn't say it, he didn't want to put the word "sixth" out of his mouth. Even if he sees such an "authoritative" official data evaluation as Jianghu-Football Network, he is still unwilling to accept such a fact.

"We have Bierhoff in attack and Ochulian in defense, can't we win the championship?"

Indeed, in the eyes of others, it is indeed difficult for Milan to win the championship at this level.

And there is another important point, after the evaluation of various media outlets, they all believe that Milan's goal this season is European competition. Conversely, Milan have the advantage of competing with the rest of the teams in the league because Milan have not played European games this season. Compared to other teams fighting on the third line, Milan has an advantage in the second line.

This is also something that Xiao Liang can't bear.

It's just an insult!

Being able to play in multiple competitions is proof of a strong team, when do we in Milan need such mercy?

Not only will we win the title, but we will also go straight to the Champions League and then win the treble next season!

That's the sentiment of most Milan fans, but they also know that if they say it, they will definitely be ridiculed by others.

Looking at the classmates who were talking to each other, Xiao Liang silently walked out of the crowd and came to the corner alone to think.

Zaccheroni does have a bit of a level, and it will not be easy for him to convince Berlusconi, who prefers 442, to accept 343.

I really hope Milan can adapt to the new formation as soon as possible!

......

On 8 September, Zaccheroni led his team to Turin for the first regular match of the 98-99 season. It's just that this game is not the first round of Serie A, but the first leg of the second round of the Coppa Italia.

The most feared scene for Milan fans has happened.

In the 12th minute, Torino striker Ferrante took advantage of the gap between Rossi and Costacuta to quickly cut in and take advantage of the opportunity to score a goal.

And in the following time, Milan not only did not play the attacking ability of the front three, but played in a scorched and scrambling defensive end.

Until this moment, Milan fans who like naïve fantasies are beginning to feel the problems of the Rossoneri clearly.

From the pre-season warm-up game to the present, although the Milan formation has been fixed, the lineup is still adjusting. Skipping the doubt, captain Maldini alone didn't play, with the armband tied to Costacuta's arm, who is the centre-back of the day.

Georges Weah, Bierhoff and Maurigio. The three-man front line of Gunz has little to no co-ordination, and all rely on the central defenders to feed the ball. And throughout the first half, Milan didn't even have a shot on goal!

It's zero shots!

In the second half, Zaccheroni still did not change the situation on the field.

In the 56th minute, right-back Sala even gave another penalty.

Ferrante came from behind to give Milan two goals down on the road and eventually held the score until the end.

The next day, according to the score, "Milan Sports Newspaper" threatened: "Milan has completely given up the Italian Cup!" ”

"Milan are going to break the boat and put all their chips on the league!"

For a while, the people of Milan City were panicked, and some fans felt that Milan was a little big, and it was not good to do so. The Serie A title has been so tough this season that it would not be bad to win a Coppa Italia first. Another group of fans shouted that the home team was doing well, that the Coppa Italia was just a consolation prize anyway, and that if the team really put their heart and soul into the league, they would support it no matter what the result was.

But everyone knows if Milan really give up the Coppa Italia prematurely and then don't play well in the league. Then what awaits the team will be the boundless anger and saliva of the fans.

After another 3 days, Milan finally ushered in the first round of Serie A.

Despite a 2-1 win at home, Milan's victory did not come easily.

In this game, Zaccheroni deployed his troops, and the back line lined up three completely different people from the previous game.

Left-back captain Maldini, centre-back Ayala, right-back Ngotti, goalkeeper is still veteran Rossi.

In the 65th minute, Zaccheroni replaced Hellwig and sent a defensive signal to the whole team.

By this time, the score had become 2-0, and Bierhoff scored twice to give the home team a temporary lead with a header and a penalty.

After the substitution, the players subconsciously stayed in the midfield, and the strikers did not get too involved in the defense.

Just a few minutes later, Koryvanov scored and the score was leveled at 2-1.

At this time, the Milan defenders were a little panicked, because many people did not know where the ball came from in the box and who scored it in what way.

In fact, Bologna's goal was simple, with a quick 45-degree cross and then Koryvanov in the crowd with a header and the goal was scored.

But the whole process Milan's three-panel strikers did not see it at all, because they were neither involved in the defense nor actively running, but all stood near the halfway line, waiting for their teammates to clear the ball.

It's not the striker's responsibility because the area Zaccheroni has given them to defend is not in their own half. At this time, there was no ball in the midfield and the opponent's half, so they naturally ended up idle.

After the score changed again, the fans and players were nervous. With just one more goal, Milan's three points could become one.

It wasn't until the end that San Siro had a thrilling eight minutes.

First, Signori broke through Ayala's defense and entered the penalty area, and in the face of the attacking Rossi, the ball crossed in front of the empty goal, and Bologna no one stepped forward to pick up the leak; The visitors then won three corners in quick succession before Marrocchi volleyed in from close range at the far post, which was brilliantly blocked by Rossi.

Then, Rinaldi, who provided the assist, got a chance to cross it, Signori headed a ball at the back post, and Rossi was able to keep the ball out on the edge of the post!

Bologna were awarded a free-kick and a corner after that, and even centre-back Biya rushed in front of Milan in hopes of helping his side to a point before the break. It's a pity that the god of luck didn't favor again this time, and it was Rossi who hit the ball first.

In the final eight minutes, Bologna won four corners and four shots on goal, two of which were great chances, but unfortunately they woke up too late.

After the game, even Silvio Berlusconi admitted: "The final moments of the game were breathtaking. The Italian media also claimed that Korivanov's goal had rekindled Bologna's hopes in the final moments, but they were slightly unlucky.

After the game, the media reported on the game while not from the perspective of the home team that won the game.

Most of the media took Bologna as the protagonist, playing a desperate comeback in the final minutes of the game.

On the contrary, everything that comes to Milan is labelled as fragile defence and "fluke" wins.

Even "Sports Daily" said: "If it weren't for the veteran Rossi, Milan might still not be able to win in the new season!" ”

"The honor of winning should belong to Rossi!"

Such statements are pervasive in Milan City, and even fans complain that this Milan team is even worse than last season's!

Last season's Rossi dragged Milan back with his "Butter Hand", but this season he is also Rossi the Butter Hand, but he has become the hero of the team!

What does this mean?

This shows that the quality of the team has dropped more than one notch!

In all fairness, Rossi was still not at his best in this game, or he will never return to the best form that fans remember.

A number of undifficult crosses were not picked up but were smashed with two or one punches, which also provided Bologna with three corners in the second half.

However, in practice, Rossi's "hammer clearance" on the high ball did not provide the opponent with too good a second chance to attack, and if he blindly picked up the cross when handling the cross, then once there was a butter hand mistake to give the opponent a chance in front of goal, the consequences would be unimaginable.

As a veteran, Rossi has done the right thing for his age. It even made people see Koepke in the 96 European Championships, hitting left and right again and again to keep the opponent's air raids out of the country.

A veteran is so desperate to give his spare heat, what are those new stars doing?

Rossi was naturally the target of media chase after the game, saying in an interview: "As long as I am in the team, I will try to do something for my comrades." ”

"Although the fans didn't have a good impression of me in the past two seasons, I was gradually losing my main position. But even so, I'm wearing Milan's number 1 shirt and I'm going to do everything I can to help my team-mates quietly at the back. ”

"It's a long time ago to catch up with the people who came before me and win the championship. Now, every time I stand on the pitch, I can't help but think that the team that has worked together to succeed has come back today. Even my teammates I trust unconditionally even with strangers, and I can't live up to their trust. ”

Rossi's words were beautiful and touching.

Yes, when the invincible Milan disappeared into the long river of history, only the scattered veterans who remained in Milan were still exerting their residual heat.

So is Costacuta, so is Maldini, so is Rossi.

For a time, Milan City even set off a "wave of veterans returning", fans strongly recommended that Zaccheroni send those veterans who remained in Milan to play, and some even demanded the restoration of 442.

After the press conference, Zaccheroni returned to his residence alone.

He looked at the small blackboard hanging on the central wall in the living room, and the magnet chess pieces representing the players, and his mind was all about today's game - he had been standing on the sidelines, shouting at the players all the time, reminding this to do and that to do.

If he can't make a difference to the team, what's the difference between him and his predecessor Fabio Capello?

But if you bring a new face to the team, what is the situation today?

What went wrong?