Chapter 496: The Great War Begins

The knockout rounds are a do-or-die battle, and the losing side will be eliminated from the Champions League and lose hope of moving forward.

The second leg of the Champions League semi-finals is a life-and-death battle in a life-and-death battle, where one game determines which team will enter the final, and the team that enters the final will definitely be ecstatic, on the contrary, the eliminated team can only leave with regrets.

Regardless of the outcome, only one of the two teams can advance to the final, and the brutality of professional football is vividly reflected in the rules.

The situation for AC Milan is very unfavorable.

AC Milan are two goals down in the first leg and an away goal is not an advantage, and they will have to play at home to play an absolute advantage if they want to advance.

Millwall's situation is much better.

Although the Italian media keeps talking, "AC Milan only need 2-0 to eliminate Millwall", how can 2-0 be so easy? Millwall only need to defend all the time, and AC Milan need to score two goals, so it will take all the effort and the element of luck.

It's a football game after all, and it's hard to score goals.

As strong as AC Milan, a game that scores two more goals than the opponent is still relatively rare, not to mention, the premise is that Millwall cannot score, otherwise AC Milan will have to score four goals to beat Millwall safely.

AC Milan manager Galliani had something to say about the scoreline situation between the two teams against AC Milan, who believes that AC Milan have a better chance of advancing than Millwall, "The game was at the San Siro. We have to admit that the last game was affected by the away factor and the memories at Neil Stadium were not good, but back at home our players were able to get back into form. As long as you play normally, it is not difficult to catch up and overtake. ”

"It's not an exaggeration, it's a trust in the quality and form of the team."

When Galliani said this, he showed full confidence.

Some British media retorted angrily, "You said you were going to beat Millwall in the last game!" ”

Galliani did not answer this.

The rest of the media will probably be surprised by Galliani's attitude and wonder why he is so confident, but the Italian media have long been accustomed to Galliani being the 'spokesperson' of AC Milan, and he will stand up and boost their morale whenever AC Milan is at a disadvantage.

Just like AC Milan in the league, behind Inter Milan and Roma in the standings, Galliani has said more than once that AC Milan will play well in the next games and 'certainly' be able to overtake the points, of course, it has not been achieved so far, AC Milan is still ranked third in the league.

But in any case, Galliani always trusts AC Milan and trusts the attitude of all players, which may also increase his personality charm, and many players choose to join AC Milan because of Galliani.

The current AC Milan is also single-handedly created by Galliani, thinking that the Lazio dynasty fell apart, AC Milan became the biggest beneficiary, last year's 'phonegate' scandal, Juventus was forced to be relegated, AC Milan was also fined, penalty points, but under the operation of Galliani, AC Milan not only did not suffer much, successfully survived, but also played a good result in the Champions League.

Galliani's contribution to AC Milan has been immense, and he is also one of the biggest names in Italian football.

Even if there are many morale-boosting words, they will not achieve the goal in the end, and few Italian media will criticize Galliani, and the Italian media also believe that AC Milan sitting at the San Siro Stadium will be a team with excellent fighting spirit and form, and also believe that AC Milan has great hopes that it can achieve a home reversal, successfully eliminate Millwall, and enter the final again after two years.

Of course, the media of other countries do not understand.

Of course, the British media are in favor of Millwall, they believe that Millwall's hope of winning is very high, one is that Millwall is full of fighting spirit, they have just won the league title in advance, and without any pressure, they can focus on the Champions League, and the other is that Millwall has a goal advantage.

In every respect, Millwall is more promising.

The last leg of the game also gave confidence to the British media, before they all thought that there was a gap between Millwall and AC Milan, but after the Neil Stadium game, they found that Millwall is not much worse than AC Milan, super high goalmouth efficiency, ensuring Millwall's performance, even if the game is played away, they will be more confident.

Under the coverage of the national media on both sides, the pre-match atmosphere has been stirred up.

AC Milan from the players to the coach, have continued to show confidence, Millwall did the opposite, did not say anything before the game, just focused on preparation.

It's a flamboyant strategy.

With a two-goal advantage, Millwall didn't need to fight AC Milan with a war of words, and if they did, they fell into the trap of their opponents.

AC Milan just don't want Millwall to be ready for the game, because a well-prepared Millwall will greatly reduce their winning rate, and they want to meet a proud Millwall, a Millwall who is not in shape, and a Millwall who does not perform well on the field.

Zhang Yang will not let the team pay attention to the opponent's provocation.

All you need to do before the game is to prepare, let each player adjust their physical condition, and let the whole team fully prepare to adapt to all changes without giving the opponent any chance.

It doesn't matter what the other party does.

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The game is fast approaching.

The San Siro Stadium, located in the San Siro district of Milan, Italy, was already full early.

Also known as Stadio Giuseppe Meazza, the stadium is a shared stadium between two of Milan's biggest teams, AC Milan and Inter Milan, and is owned by the Municipality of Milan and is a UEFA five-star football stadium.

The five-star football stadium rated by UEFA, the audience capacity will certainly not be less, the San Siro Stadium alone has 80,000 seats, which can accommodate the number of fans, up to 90,000, 100,000, the average team certainly does not have these many fans, but AC Milan is different, they are one of the best teams in Italy, whenever there is an important game, the stadium will be packed, in addition to the fans of the team, there are many visitors to Milan City, will come to the scene to watch the game, enjoy the passion and joy of football together.

Today's game is very important.

AC Milan supporters alone came to the scene with more than 60,000 people, as well as nearly 20,000 fans from other teams and neutral fans, and almost 5,000 Millwall fans.

Five thousand, which is already quite a lot.

The number of fan members of Millwall Club has not exceeded 100,000, and the Neal Stadium has just been filled up for home games, and the number of fans who can come to Milan with the team to watch the game has reached 5,000, which is definitely the peak of a hundred years of history.

This may also be the gap between small clubs and giants.

Even the 5,000 fans who came were not all pure Millwall supporters, most of them were fans in the London area, but some of them were Chelsea supporters, as well as Fulham supporters, including supporters of North London Arsenal and Tottenham Hotspur, they came to support Millwall, partly because of the national football confrontation, the confrontation between English and Italian football is an old topic of European football confrontation, and they will naturally support Millwall to beat AC Milan.

In addition, part of the reason is attributed to Zhang Yang.

Zhang Yang's 'fan group' still has a certain strength, and the members of the fan group are not limited to Millwall fans, and there are also many fans from other teams who support Zhang Yang, so they come to support Millwall on the spot.

This is the driving effect of celebrities.

Even if Millwall supports more fans, it can't catch up with the home team AC Milan at all, and even can't catch up with one-tenth of the home team's fans, so the shouts on the scene are basically support for AC Milan, and the fan atmosphere is naturally very beneficial to AC Milan.

The game is about to start and the players from both teams are already on the field.

The atmosphere in the stadium was mobilized, and the shouts of the fans were everywhere, and the shouts rose by an order of magnitude as the broadcast of the players in the audience was introduced.

In this atmosphere, Zhang Yang walked to the coach's bench to do a good job, he glanced at the entire stadium with a faint smile on his face.

AC Milan coach Carlo Ancelotti also walked to Milan's coach's box, and the old coach glanced to this side.

The two looked at each other and nodded to each other.

Then, with the referee's whistle, AC Milan's home game against Millwall officially began.

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