Chapter 266: He's Old

The goal was disallowed and Ricardo's yellow card sparked a deafening boo from the stands, with some radical fans even dropping fireworks, lighters and other items from the stands, and referee Merck had to temporarily suspend the game to allow staff and players on both sides to clean up the debris.

Taking advantage of the dead ball, Mancini stood on the sidelines and beckoned to Ricardo, who immediately ran over.

"If I have a replacement spot on hand right now, I'll replace you right away!" Mancini yelled, "Calm me down!" Now we have the advantage, keep this advantage up, and we will have the last laugh! But if you get sent off, it's all for naught! Damn, calm me down right now! ”

Ricardo looked at him innocently: "I've calmed down, Robert. Rather, don't you need to calm down? ”

Mancini took a deep breath, waved his hand and said, "Just calm down." Give me more action in the middle and help Emre cut off the link between Andrea Pirlo and the other AC Milan players, you have a good long-range shot, you can shoot when you have a chance. ”

"Understood." Ricardo nodded, and when Mancini had no other instructions, he ran back to the field.

With less than 30 minutes left in the game, and although Inter Milan have the overall advantage, anything can happen on the football field, and there is no room for relaxation.

After the restart, Ronaldo seemed to be playing chicken, and two consecutive breakthroughs were threatening, causing AC Milan to foul in the danger zone, but Mihajlovic did not take the opportunity and lived up to Mancini's expectations of letting him play.

It can be said that with him on the field, Inter Milan is like 10 and a half dozen 11 men, and Mancini values him for that free-kick kung fu.

Speaking to the media, he said: "With my age and form, I really couldn't have found a reason to play without this free-kick. ”

He did contribute some great free-kicks in past games, but he didn't get a couple of free-kicks in good positions today.

The clock crept to the 80th minute.

Inter Milan have stabilized and are no longer in a hurry to attack. After all, it's a draw now, and if neither side scores, then extra time can be played; According to the away goals rule, if AC Milan scores one more goal, Inter Milan will have to score two more goals to avoid elimination.

So for Inter Milan, the most important thing now is not to attack, but to defend solidly.

The two wing-backs, Favali and Zanetti, began to recover, Ricardo and Martins also retreated near midfield, and Inter Milan's formation changed from 343 to 541, leaving Ronaldo alone to burst up front.

AC Milan's formation is 451, which is not an attacking formation, but a bias towards control, and they are not in a hurry to attack after receiving the ball, but just patiently dip their feet in the midfield and look for opportunities.

It's like two peerless swordsmen are facing each other, under the traction of the qi machine, neither side dares to act rashly, because a move is likely to expose a flaw, and a small flaw may be caught by the other party, attracting a fatal blow.

The two sides were also more cautious in defence, because Pirlo and Mihajlovic were two great free-kick players, and neither side dared to give the opponent too good a free kick.

Looking at the position of the players on the field, in general, AC Milan's position is more compact, the distance between the three lines is very reasonable, and each player is in his own position; Inter Milan's three lines are not so far apart, with Cambiaso almost falling between the three centre-backs in front of the back five, and then Ricardo and Martins a little forward, roughly in a shallow saucer shape; As for Emre, Pirlo ran wherever he went, like Pirlo's shadow.

Ronaldo, on the other hand, appeared alone in the front court, with at least one person by his side at all times.

Even though he looked tired now, gasping for air, sweat soaking through his clothes and falling wet from his hair, no one dared to take him lightly. His very existence is a deterrent.

Shevchenko's nickname is "Ukrainian nuclear warhead", but Ronaldo is the real nuclear warhead and can give the other side a strategic threat.

Ricardo was already a little unable to run. Champions League matches are already much more intense than in the average league, and the average distance travelled by players is longer than in the league.

And he obeyed Mancini's arrangement today, and spared no effort to run at both ends of the pitch; And today we are playing against a group of world-class defenders, so the energy is depleted faster than usual.

However, he can still put pressure on the opposition defence with his own defense. Through a simple kick of the ball, he formed a tandem with Cambiaso and Emre, although it cannot be said that he completely confronted AC Milan's five-man midfield, but at least he played well and made AC Milan's defenders feel the pressure.

86th minute.

Kaka's long-range shot was too wide and was held by Toldo. Toldo then threw the ball in his hand and Favali handed it to Cambiaso.

Cambiaso passes to Ricardo, who immediately kicks the ball out of the ball and kicks it to Emre with a backheel, and he turns and runs past Seedorf. Emre did not delay and immediately knocked the ball back to Ricardo, who took the ball and brushed it past Ambrosini, looked up, and immediately got up to his feet, and the ball flew out against the turf and landed accurately at Ronaldo's feet.

At this time, Ronaldo was only Nesta alone on the defense, Nesta did not dare to step forward, in the face of Ronaldo, a superstar with both speed and skill, close defense is never a good idea, and if you are not careful, you will be passed. He slowly stepped back towards the penalty area, keeping a distance from Ronaldo.

It only took Ronaldo three steps to get up to speed. Nesta realized that something was wrong and quickly strode to squeeze Ronaldo away with his body, but to no avail, after a short but violent collision, Ronaldo stumbled, but the pace did not stop, still sprinting towards the AC Milan penalty area.

Nesta lost his center of gravity and almost fell, but he quickly steadied and desperately chased back.

Ronaldo has another obstacle in front of him, Maldini.

Ronaldo's left shoulder sank and his left foot stepped over the ball to start the pendulum prelude.

Maldini immediately got up to him and tried to use his body to force Ronaldo to relax his grip on the ball.

But Ronaldo had already made the next move, striding forward with his right foot, in order to use his absolute speed to eat Maldini raw.

Maldini reacted quickly, immediately half-turned, leaned on Ronaldo's shoulders, and tried to use his body wisely to disrupt the attack.

But after all, this is not the time for the 1997 Four Nations Championship...... Ronaldo is in his prime, and he's getting old.

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