Chapter 038: The Belgian Crossroads

Zhuo Yang has returned to Brussels, Belgium, last time at the beginning of the year to attend the knighthood ceremony of his little sister Midel, this time to play the Champions League with AC Milan, and in the third round of the 2006-07 Champions League group stage, away to Anderlecht.

Belgium is known as the crossroads of Europe, and anyone who wants to do something has to pass through here. Anyway, whenever there is a war in Europe, no matter who fights with whom, both sides will press the intersection of Belgium to the ground by the way.

Belgium is really like a crossroads, a little schizophrenic, the land area of 30,000 square kilometers is not as large as a prefecture-level city in China, but it is divided into three regions with a total of six governments, and these six governments are all not birds, the king is purely a mascot. There are Dutch-speaking, French-speaking, and German-speaking people in this country, and there is no language called Belgian, the official language is French, Dutch, German, and English.

Dutch speakers never say they are Belgians, they call themselves Flemish, while French-speaking people always look down on Flemish in their bones, and as for German-speakers, they consider themselves Germans in their hearts. Therefore, Belgians do not have a sense of national pride and national identity, and are a country that loves to catch up with fashion and follow the trend to make a fight.

It's just such a thing, when the Eight-Nation Coalition Army couldn't send a single soldier to the east, it jumped out after winning the battle, and cut 10 million taels of silver from the Qing Dynasty, who do you talk to?

The Belgians' tangled character is also reflected in their football, which has been historically known as the 'Red Devils', but is far less sporadic than the infighting within their national team. In terms of fighting in the nest, Belgium and the Netherlands are really a pair of wings.

Unlike the Dutch, who fought with each other, the Belgians were divided between Flemish and French-speaking communities, neither of whom bought anyone's account, neither of whom carried anyone's sedan chair and demolished each other's platforms, and their main job as a head coach was not technical and tactical at all, but pacifying and balancing.

Belgian football has been closely following Germany, the Germans have been playing tough, they have also split their heads and faces to do punching, the Germans seriously reflect and begin to pay attention to the technology of youth training, and the Belgians have also studied the European Latin school in the same way. All in all, the strength is still there, but the presence of Belgian football is not strong.

The last few years have been a low ebb for Belgian football, with Belgium failing to make it to the 2004 and 2006 tournaments since they were the hosts in the group stage of Euro 2000. Therefore, even if Anderlecht is the same existence as Bayern in Belgium, it is not on the same level as AC Milan in terms of strength.

Zhuo Yang and Inzaghi appeared on the front line, and he was much more comfortable looking at Jiu Ye's face than looking at Ji Taozi. Inzaghi is also very comfortable looking at Zhuo Yang, why do you think he is in the open fire within the Knights of the Round Table to endorse Zhuo Yang? It's not because Zhuo Yang can pass the ball, and he can pass the ball. There is no love for no reason in this world, and people do not destroy heaven and earth for themselves.

There are many veterans in the team, there is a bad side, the ability to fight continuously is not strong when they are older, and there are always people whose physical conditions are not up to standard, and Maldini and Cafu sat on the bench for this reason in this game. But the old team also has a good side, the player reserve is abundant, and whoever pulls it up can work, and Kaladze and Bonella will start the defense in place of the horse team and Kasang.

Italian teams are generally slow to heat up, and this is especially true of the old Milan led by the slim Ancelotti. Tactically, he basically does not engage in three-board axes, but relies on his strong area control ability to slowly push mushrooms, patiently adjust the opponent, and play you obediently and then suddenly the blade flashes, and the 1:0 doctrine will flourish for a long time.

Pirlo firmly controlled the rhythm in the center of the midfield, and Gattuso, who wore the captain's armband, rushed left and right in the strategic area with the sleeping skin, pinching the opponent's seven inches, so that Anderlecht's attack and defense could not be smooth.

When Madiburg's vice-captain 'Mad Dog' Karl Lander just made his debut in the Bundesliga, he was hailed by the media as 'Little Gattuso'. However, when it comes to the realm of sweeping in the midfield, Mad Dog is 108,000 miles away, after all, he basically can't do anything other than dare to play with his life and teleportation that even he can't understand. Kejia Baye has completely reached the peak in the dog midfield, and he is the master of this type of player, Master Zu. Whether it is interception or stuck, in-situ or rushing, the overall situation or strategic vision, plus the eighth master is the top. Aside from basically not helping with goals, Gattuso has nothing wrong with it.

AC Milan is like a martial arts league leader with a prominent status and respect, if you compete with him with a move and a routine, you don't know how to die, and you are so dismembered that you don't even know it. The whole world knows that when playing with AC Milan, you can only beat the master to death with random punches, and win in chaos with speed and hardness, Milanese are stunned by this, Super Laco and Liverpool are famous in this way.

Anderlecht naturally knows that their current style of football is relatively rough, so it is understandable that they are trying to scare AC Milan from the beginning.

In just 3 minutes, the 22-year-old Congolese striker Mohamed Chite was stuck behind Nesta and had no chance to get the ball at all, but the stunned boy forced his leg and kicked it directly on Neme's calf, and Nesta was lifted down at that time. Fortunately, there was no major problem after the team doctor's examination, but it just hurt hard, and I ran up again after spraying. Then there were Seedorf and Inzaghi, who were unceremoniously cut down by the Anderlechts.

Not to mention Zhuo Yang and Kaka, it feels like the Belgians have no intention of letting them go back to Milan alive. Because Anderlecht uses a three-centre-back formation, it is their full-back Argentine Lucas Biglia who is often entangled with Zhuoyang.

Last year's World Junior Championship champion Argentine Leo Messi was a blockbuster, and in addition to him, two other Argentine youngsters have also received great attention from Europe, one is Gago, who was recruited by Real Madrid this summer, and the other is this Biglia.

Biglia is only less than half a year younger than Zhuo Yang, in fact, he is not a pure full-back, he is better at the back, and the growth template is AC Milan's Andrea Pirlo. Placing him on the wing today is to use his rather good technique and flexible movements at his feet to limit Zhuo Yang's play.

What kind of plaster Zhuo Yang has seen, no matter how difficult it is for Biglia Zhuo Yang to treat him as a green onion, however, not to mention the defensive ability, I didn't expect this guy to be a broken mouth.

"Zhuo Yang, I don't think you have anything to do." Sitting and moving with his hands at his feet, Biglia's mouth was not idle. "You see, your ex-girlfriend is a supermodel, and my ex-girlfriend is also a supermodel."

Zhuo Yang wanted to laugh, knowing that he was referring to Beverly Deng, and this brother's way of talking was too strange.