Chapter 661: Serie A debut
Although he failed to lead the team to defeat Xiang G, the legendary coach Lippi, who was previously "worshipped as a god", attracted the scolding of Chinese fans for the first time, but in the game against the Maldives on September 8, he still stubbornly did not use the Asian Cup silver boot Wu Lei.
Fortunately, in this game, the Chinese team did not repeat the mistake of being forced to draw by the Xiang G team, with Yu Dabao's brace in the first half, and Zhang Linpeng's breakthrough in the opening stage of the second half defeated the Maldives 3-0.
However, due to the Qatar team's 3-2 away victory over Xiang G, the Chinese team with two wins and one draw has been opened up by the Qatar team that has won all three games by 2 points.
Although the match between China and Qatar has not yet been played, since they can be forced to draw by the Xiang G team at their home stadium, in the face of Qatar that defeated Xiang G, the Chinese team's chances of winning are not lower?
Although even if it can't defeat Qatar to regain the top spot in the group, it can still advance to the round of 12 with the four best group runners-up, but in the case of being forced to draw by Xiang G at home, it may be difficult for the Chinese team to stand on the cheap in comparison with the second place in the other groups.
In order to avoid the tragic situation of the Chinese team missing the final stage of the World Cup qualifiers for the fourth consecutive time, the arrogant Lippi finally decided to call up Feng Quan to participate in the away game against Qatar on October 9.
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After a week-long hiatus, the 2015-2016 Serie A season is back in action.
Due to the relationship between the national team and the first few matches on September 12, many "giant" teams with many international players from various countries did not perform very well in this round.
In particular, Juventus, which broke into the Champions League final last season, even continued the embarrassing situation of winless in the league.
The departure of Pirlo, Tevez and Vidal, although it has a great impact on Juventus, but the addition of powerful players such as Dybala, Alex Sandro and Khedira has not reduced the overall strength of Juventus, but further enhanced the depth of the team's squad.
However, the drastic changes in the team's main framework finally made Juventus taste the consequences of the lack of tacit understanding at the beginning of the season.
Juventus' performance was even worse than AC Milan's one win and one defeat in the previous two rounds, and it was not until a 1-1 draw at home to Chievo that they picked up their first points of the season.
Because AC Milan's main squad except for Romagnoli and goalkeeper Diego López all participated in the national team games, so many media and fans who were not optimistic about the prospects of AC Milan derby decided that Inter Milan would become the winner of the "Milan derby" when Juventus still failed to get the first win of the season. After all, AC Milan's current situation has a lot in common with Juventus.
However, these guys who are bearish on AC Milan obviously ignore an extremely important factor - Feng Quanquan will make his Serie A debut in the "Milan Derby".
Because of his participation in the World Athletics Championships, although he missed the summer preparation period for AC Milan, it was difficult for him to show his full strength in a short period of time even if he participated. But don't forget that Mandzukic, the striker partner of Feng Quan during his time at Atletico Madrid, and Felipe Luiz, the solid backing behind him, are also the absolute main force of this AC Milan team today.
Although Mandzukic and Felipe Luiz are not yet fully integrated into the team, the trio who lifted the Champions League trophy together in June after Feng Quan returned to the team for joint training soon found the chemistry they had formed during their time at Atletico Madrid.
In terms of coaching ability, Mihajlovich, who is in charge of the whip of a giant team for the first time, is obviously still far from world famous coaches such as Guardiola and Mourinho, but his point is that he knows how to be flexible and can make the most reasonable tactical arrangements according to the actual situation of the team.
Admittedly, the absence of the entire summer training camp has nothing to do with most of his team-mates, but his status as the club's owner and the team's number one star is unlikely to be left on the bench even if he is as tough as Jose Mourinho.
Since Feng Quan, who has excellent personal ability, can often change the situation of the game by himself, so when Feng Quan has not yet formed a tacit understanding with other teammates, Mihajlovic asks the midfielder to pass the ball to Feng Quan's feet as soon as Feng Quan runs out of the air, or when the marking against him is not very tight.
Then quickly take away the defenders around Feng Quan, or quickly insert into the opponent's defense and wait for Feng Quan's pass.
Although Mihajlovich's tactical arrangement is somewhat similar to the singles tactics of superstars in the NBA, it can be regarded as the right medicine when Feng Quan has not yet integrated into the team.
In fact, in addition to Mandzukic and Felipe Luiz, Pjanic, who also joined AC Milan in the summer and quickly became the team's midfield commander, also formed a certain tacit understanding with Feng Quan after a few days of joint training before the game. Whenever Feng Quan ran out of space in a training match, or when there was a gap nearby, Pjanic was able to accurately deliver the ball over to help Feng Quan create a killing chance.
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Although most media and fans are not optimistic about AC Milan's derby prospects, Mancini, who led Inter Milan to two consecutive wins in the opening game, is not blindly optimistic that his team will easily win the opening three consecutive victories.
In Mancini's view, although this "Milan derby" is Feng Quan's Serie A debut, but Feng Quan's superior personal ability will add great variables to this game, even if it is difficult for Feng Quan and his teammates to form a tacit understanding, it is not impossible for other teammates to find a way to pass the ball to Feng Quan's feet.
Even if Mancini thinks his team has a better chance of winning, he still deliberately told the defenders before the game to keep a close eye on them wherever they are.
In addition, Mancini's trio of Guarin, Melo and Kondogbia in the midfield also have good defensive ability.
However, even though Mancini had paid enough attention to Feng Quan's threat, and even if Feng Quan and most of his teammates had difficulty forming a tacit understanding, after the game began, the Inter Milan backline really experienced how terrifying the power of "stadium nuclear weapons" was.
Five minutes into the game, Nigel de Jong made a tackle at the back and then handed the ball to Pjanic on the flank.
Pjanic received the ball and crossed the halfway line before sending a through ball towards the space on the left side of the pitch.
At the same time, the wind, which had been cruising near the touchline, was just a simple acceleration, leaving Thornton, who was marking him, far behind, and after getting the ball, he first pretended to break through to the bottom line, but when Murillo, who had come to make up for it, moved his center of gravity, he suddenly used his right foot to flick the ball sideways to complete the inward cut to the middle.
At the same time, Mandzukic and Keisuke Honda in the middle stepped into the penalty area and the right side of the front court respectively in order to open up the middle for Feng Quan.
Due to the involvement of Mandzukic and Keisuke Honda, the only thing that stands in the way of the wind is only midfielder Kondogbia and central defender Medel.
In the face of Medel and Kondogbia's sandwich, Feng Quan first crossed with his right foot twice in a row to distance himself from Medel who was on the left, and when Kondogbia followed him, Feng Quan suddenly knocked the ball to the left with the inside of his right foot, and then when Medel was about to step forward to break the ball, he quickly knocked the ball forward with his left foot, and then suddenly accelerated and passed through the gap between the two opponents.
The next moment, Handanovic, who abandoned the goal, Feng Quan once again paid tribute to his idol and shook the opponent with a pendulum pass, and easily sent the ball into the unguarded goal.
Once upon a time, "alien" Ronaldo often used such actions to tease opponents, causing countless Inter fans to scream.
But today, it is the minority in the stadium that screams and cheers, the AC Milan fans, and the small number of Inter Milan fans, who have an absolute advantage, can only use boos to vent their frustrations.