Chapter 708: Ranieri Makes a Flurry

At the end of April and the beginning of May, the Serie A league deliberately set aside about ten days of respite in the schedule, allowing the 20 princes to adjust their strength a little and then fight for the last few games, which is also convenient for some teams with European aspirations to kill the enemy. But at this juncture of the season, only AC Milan is still maintaining the dignity of Serie A in Europe, and the other seven teams have been eliminated in the Champions League and League Cup.

Speaking of this year's UEFA Cup, it is also quite interesting, the semi-finals became the respective civil wars of Ukraine and Germany, Dynamo Kyiv vs Shakhtar Donetsk, Hamburg vs Werder Bremen.

AC Milan not only reached the semi-finals of the Champions League, but also reached the semi-finals of the Italian FA Cup. As a result, in the interval between the Serie A giants' breathing schedule, Milan still had to relax in the slightest, but there were two tough games waiting for them, a Champions League semi-final and an FA Cup. The first was the second leg of the Italian FA Cup semi-final against Juventus.

In the new format of the FA Cup, only the semi-finals will be eliminated over two legs, home and away, and all other rounds, including the final, will be decided by a winner. In a wild seven-game winning streak last month, a hat-trick led Milan to a 3-2 win over Juventus in the first leg at the Stadio Alpi. During that time, the schedule was very intensive, basically three days, and AC Milan had to bite Inter Milan in the league and not let go, and Juventus also needed to compete with Fiorentina and Roma for the third position in every square inch, so both of them twisted and pinched out a semi-main and substitute-based lineup, and Milan won in Zhuo Yang to bully the small.

AC Milan's goal this season is already very clear. The Champions Cup is always the favorite of the giants, and it is always the arena where Milan will go all out. The Serie A title has not been touched for five years, and has been ridden by neighbors for the past three years, and last season it was because of Zhuo Yang's absence and missed a good opportunity in the last two rounds. With four rounds left in the season, AC Milan's five-point lead is already in the dust, and this title is a must.

Relatively speaking, the FA Cup is naturally the most chicken competition among the three major fronts, not only AC Milan, but also several giants in Serie A are also playing casually in the first few rounds, and they are lucky to reach the semi-finals before paying a little attention to it, such as Juventus and Milan. The two teams played a game in the center of the first leg with two sets of lineups, and Milan's 3:2 score did not make the situation clear, so this game still has to be played.

The last time AC Milan won the Coppa Italia was back in the 02-03 season, when a German side called Madiborg won the DFB Cup. After a long time, this time I have seen the hazy shadow of the trophy again, and Milan undoubtedly has an idea. But the schedule was so difficult, with the Champions League semi-final coming up in three days, and the team had to have enough power to keep it up, so AC Milan prepared for the game in accordance with the usual domestic cup competitions of the big clubs.

At the beginning of the season, the big five league teams ranked the importance of the domestic cup competition last, and let the substitute second tier or even the echelon go up to play, which point to the other. Once the team is lucky enough to survive at the end of the season and see the light of day, the team will not let the main squad pick the fruit, but will continue to trust the substitutes and echelon players who have performed well in the previous games, and then add some of the main players to form a mixed squad and let them complete their campaign.

If they can win the championship in the end, everyone will be happy, and the trophy is a reward for those second-tier players, but if they end up, it will not hurt.

According to the physical report given by the Milan laboratory, Zhuo Yang, Xiao Luo, and Peng Peng led the game, plus Flamini, Bonella, Duck, and Dida, the four main rotations, and the rest of the starting four are all dead sets for this season's substitutes. Dalmien, Senderos, Caldasio, Emerson.

Duck Pato is proud of the spring breeze under the nourishment of lust and 'love', and has become a flower in the past few days, and he is just as relaxed and happy as Zhuo Yang.

Finally clarified Barbara's entanglement, the sword hanging above his head finally disappeared, and Zhuo Yang was undoubtedly more confident when he went to tell Kou Kokou to express his loyalty. And in the continuous tracking of his physical condition in the Milan laboratory, his stats are the best in the team, so it is natural to wear the captain's armband again to play in the lineup.

Because of the dispute with Buffon last year, Zhuo Yang and Juventus had a slight disagreement, but they converged on both sides and did not cause any more trouble. Recently, however, Zhuo Yang has fired at Juventus again, not at Gianluigi Buffon, but at their head coach 'tinker' Ranieri.

A week ago, in the 33rd round of the league, Juventus unexpectedly lost 2-3 away to Genoa, and the whole game was spread out with one red and six yellows. After the game, a stressed Ranieri pointed the finger at the referee, slamming his unfair decision that led to Juve's defeat. Let's not talk about right and wrong, but Ranieri said such a sentence that caused an uproar and provoked Zhuo Yang.

"The referee looks like a Chinese and always gives us yellow cards."

The phrase 'like a Chinese' is sometimes a mantra in Italy and Europe, but the semantics are basically positive, meaning hardworking, busy, rigorous person, generally saying that a person is overworking or serious about studying, etc. If a person works hard in the company and often works overtime, everyone will say that he is 'like a Chinese'.

But Ranieri's words at the moment did not mean this at all, but took advantage of the media hot spot to make a pun, scolding both the referee and China.

Zhuo Yang's 'royal memory' Cheng Hao stepped forward in the first half of last year to uncover the shady curtain of 'fake and ugly' in Chinese football, which not only set off a huge wave in China, but also became a focus of attention in world football. To this day, the domestic anti-crime and anti-counterfeiting is still in full swing, many ghosts and ghosts have been arrested in their original form, and the mainstream media in Europe still follow up and report from time to time.

The mouth is two skins, and the pros and cons of the words are said by people, and the 'Spring and Autumn Brushwork' is applicable to the world. You can make the public feel that Chinese football is as dirty as garbage in the report, and you can also make the audience admire China's determination and courage to resolutely punish evil and promote good without tolerance.

However, the Italian media reported that the anti-crime in Chinese football is quite modest, and most of them are based on facts, not because of how noble they are, but because they actually have no face. The aftermath of the 'phone gate' has not dissipated, and he ridicules Chinese football in this regard as nothing more than a competition to show its ugliness, and the Italians are also empty-minded.

Ranieri was clever enough to vent his frustration with a pun, but he was attacked by all over Italy for being extremely rude. Although China's strong rise has made Europeans generally have a sour grapes mentality, coupled with the long-standing smear and prejudice, people here are happy to see and hear that someone is smashing China, but that is private, and it is against political correctness to do so in newspapers and media. Those who rub the heat, pretend to be the Virgin, and the sanctimonious, have singled out Ranieri to accuse him of being vulgar and rude.

Europeans are quite hypocritical!

Juventus FC was also very annoyed, they were the first protagonists of the phone gate, how dare they set themselves on fire. Besides, the Chinese market and fans are the object of competition for the Serie A giants.

The Juventus hierarchy slapped Ranieri directly on the table and gave him an ultimatum.