Chapter 42: A Serious Contest
After the start of the second half, Zhang Shu stuck to Pirlo unrelentingly. Pen, fun, and www.biquge.info
"Sleep, sleep, why don't you look happy? whysoserious? He laughed and sang the song over and over again in a nursery rhyme style, constantly teasing Pirlo.
But Pirlo, who finally figured it out at half-time, was able to calmly face his harassment.
"Don't fool me with these little tricks anymore. Sheet. Pirlo replied with a smile. I'll admit that I was distracted by your apparent lack of seriousness, but I won't be fooled by you again in the second half. ”
Zhang Shu was stunned for a moment, and then his expression changed, putting away the kind of cheap smile that made people want to beat him at a glance, he crossed his waist and sighed.
"Alas~~~~ I found out so quickly, wouldn't it be good for the two of us to finish this game in an easy way?" He shook his head as he spoke, as if disappointed in Pirlo. "You're the one who made me get serious."
"You've always been serious. Serious enough to keep disguising your seriousness with a foolish attitude, so that I don't find out what you're trying to do. Pirlo looked at him with a smile. If you want to win more than anyone else, don't make such an expression that you don't care about the outcome. ”
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The game finally returned to a more normal rhythm. Zhang Shu gave up his plan to interfere with Pirlo with words, the other party had already seen through his plan, and it was pointless to continue. Pirlo was finally able to calm down and use his brain to control the tempo of Milan's attack.
Brescia's tactics in the second half were to defend the whole team, leaving Baggio alone in the front court to intimidate Milan's defenders and make them worry when they pressed. Zhang Shu continued to harass Pirlo, who organized the attack, near the center circle, and the others returned to the vicinity of the penalty area. In the face of a dense defense like Brescia, the Milan players launched a siege.
Pirlo stepped on the football and leaned back against Zhang Shu. Since Zhang Shu stopped mentally attacking him, he felt that the other party was even more difficult. Whenever a teammate passed the ball to him, Zhang Shu would cling to prevent him from turning to face the attack, and most of the time he had to pass the ball back to his teammates again.
He wanted to use the running position to shake off Zhang Shu, but Zhang Shu's reaction was too fast, often stopping with him when he just stopped urgently, and then when he changed direction again to speed up and change direction, he would also follow him to speed up and change direction, still following him closely. When the teammates saw this situation, they couldn't pass the ball over again, so they had to choose other offensive directions.
"Did you play as a defender before?" Now it was Pirlo who took the initiative to speak, and he was really curious about this Chinese teenager. He had never seen a frontcourt player mark so strongly.
"Nope." Zhang Shu glanced back at the direction of the football, and immediately turned his gaze back to Pirlo, who lived in the belly of a gentleman with the heart of a villain, and ran away at any time worried that Pirlo would deliberately distract himself by speaking. "Not at all." Confirming that Pirlo was still with him, he stressed again.
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It wasn't until the 66th minute that Milan finally got their first good chance. Seedorf dribbled forward and tripped 37 yards from the Brescia goal to win a free-kick for Milan. Andrea Pirlo was finally able to make an undisturbed pass.
Pirlo's free-kick was of very high quality, the ball crossed an arc and found Shevchenko in the penalty area, between the two Brescia defenders, Shevchenko jumped high and shook his head to the goal, Sereni was almost desperate in the face of this close header, but unfortunately the ball flew off the right post and flew off the bottom line, AC Milan missed a great opportunity to score.
Shevchenko, who had been watching the direction of the football flight in the air, watched the football fly out of the bottom line and covered his face with his hands regretfully. He had a couple of chances today, and on several occasions he had already made the goalkeeper surrender, but he couldn't get on the woodwork. Half a season of full attendance has used up almost all his physical strength, and he is in very bad form in this game.
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Milan's attack was slow to bear fruit, and Pirlo was a little anxious, and he decided to attack a little bolder.
In the next attack, Pirlo stepped forward to the centre circle, and although Zhang Shu was still following him closely, he still raised his hand to signal the pass to his team-mate.
Seeing Pirlo so insistent, Gattuso thought about it and passed the ball to him anyway. In order to avoid Zhang Shu, the advance of this pass was relatively large, and Pirlo took Zhang Shu and ran towards the football at high speed.
The ball rolled forward as fast as it could, the constant friction finally slowing it down a bit, and Pirlo ran to catch the ball before Zhang Shu. He stuck Zhang Shu behind him, faced the ball rolling in front of him, and made a gesture to stop the ball.
Seeing such a situation, Zhang Shu decisively posted it. As with the previous defensive style, when Pirlo can't be stopped from receiving the ball, then stick to him and don't let him turn. Fortunately, Pirlo is not a player known for his strength, and if he were replaced by Gattusosidov, his small body that had only undergone 4 months of professional training would have been squeezed aside.
However, even with Pirlo's physical condition, Zhang Shu still had to exert all his strength. He puffed up his chest and pressed it forward against Pirlo's back, his hands resting on his shoulders instead of free.
Pirlo felt the power of Zhang Shu coming from behind, watched the football fly in, and silently calculated the time. When the football was about to fly to his feet, he did not stop the ball, but directly raised his right foot that stopped the ball, let the football pass under his feet, and then he turned around and bypassed Zhang Shu's left.
With his experience of fighting against Zhang Shu for so long, he knew that Zhang Shu's reaction speed was very fast, and when he felt that he was turning to the left, he would definitely turn around with him, and the football would roll past where he was originally standing. In that moment, no player has time to think about why he wants to turn around, everything is muscle memory formed after a long period of training, and human thinking time is too late to stop this instinctive reaction.