Chapter 31: Flying to the Away Side

"May I ask Mr. Ancelotti, what do you think of the performance of the new signing Zhang Qing in the team?"

"First of all, I'm very satisfied with Zhang Qing's performance, after all, this is his first appearance, which is his debut in Serie A, and he came on as a substitute. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. biquge。 infoOriginally, this game was our main striker Inzaghi who was injured, so Tomasson was called up in danger, and Zhang Qing was able to come off the bench in the end. ”

"Then may I ask, the next game is the group stage of the Champions League, will Zhang Qing play as the main striker?"

"It's a tricky question, because the Champions League group stage is really going to start, and AC Milan are in the same group as Panathinaikos, Ajax and Borussia Dortmund. It can be said that it is a relatively safe group, and there is basically no problem in qualifying, the only problem is how to distribute the players of the league and the Champions League.

After all, there is now one injured striker, and the team only has four positive strikers, and in the first half of the season, the priority is to get more points, so that in the second half of the cup and Champions League games are more intensive, they can free up their hands to distract from those two games.

Ancelotti was stunned for a moment, so he said: "For the Champions League group stage, although the opponent is the not too strong Greek powerhouse Panathinaikos, but we will still go all out, we will see the state of the team in the next few days, and then we will talk about it later, and we will fly to Greece tonight to prepare for the Champions League group stage in midweek." ”

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After the press conference, the players hurriedly packed their bags and prepared to go straight to the airport, because three days later, in the middle of the week, there will be the first Champions League group stage.

The Champions League group stage is a total of 32 teams, divided into eight groups on average, with a double round-robin match, and then the top two teams from each group will enter the knockout stage to determine the champion.

The format is relatively long, and it will continue until the end of the season, if you can make it to the knockout rounds.

And the Champions League games are played in midweek, and that creates a situation where there are two games a week.

This is a test of the physical strength, personnel distribution and so on of each team, and the depth of the bench is a test of whether the giants can achieve good results in the case of multi-front operations in the season.

Before leaving, Yang Qiongying came over to find Zhang Qing, and she said that she would also go together, because Greece was the place she had dreamed of, and after the game, she wanted to play with Zhang Qing once.

After all, the Aegean Sea symbolizes love, and for Chinese people, it is the most coveted place.

So Yang Qiongying set off with the AC Milan team.

The team travels to the land of romance, Greece.

Greece is a republican state located in the southeastern corner of Europe, at the southern tip of the Balkan Peninsula. The country consists of the Peloponnese Peninsula in the southern part of the peninsula and more than 3,000 islands in the Aegean Sea. As a strategic location connecting Europe, Asia and Africa, the mainland is bordered by Albania, Macedonia and Bulgaria from northwest to north, and borders Turkey in the northeast. It is bordered by the Aegean Sea, the Mediterranean Sea and the Ionian Sea from east to west.

Yang Qiongying was reading the history of Greece on the plane, and she really wanted to come over to play for a few weeks, but because Zhang Qing came to play, she had to play first, and the two of them went out to stroll through the streets of Athens in the interval after Zhang Qing's game.

Athens has a lot of fun to do, a lot of food, the Mediterranean Sea to the west, the Aegean Sea to the east, and a lot of North Africans come across the Mediterranean.

Yang Qiongying almost the itinerary of these two people.

Go first to the Acropolis and then to Syntagma Square......

On this side, Zhang Qing was chatting with Kaka. After all, the language of the two of them is still not up to par, the time they have come is too short, and the communication with other teammates is still limited to daily life.

After a short flight, the group arrived in Athens, Greece.

Their first opponent in the Champions League group stage, Panathinaikos, is a team based in the Greek capital of Athens. The team is mainly green, walking through the streets of Athens, there is no shortage of fans and some specialty stores.

Although the team has not achieved good results in the Champions League, they are a strong team in their home league, consistently topping, and are regular participants in the Champions League.

In the European Championship the previous year, the Greek team, as a dark horse, unexpectedly won the championship, which made too many people sigh, and the Greek myth spread.

This has also indirectly contributed to the development of football in Greece, and you can occasionally see people playing football on the streets.

It is relatively close to Turkey and can be reached by water in Istanbul, Turkey.

Therefore, the famous Turkish barbecue has spread to Greece, and many restaurants in Athens also have barbecue dishes.

As Chinese, Zhang Qing and Yang Qiongying are actually not used to eating European food. After all, it is full of sausages, cheese, cheese, barbecue, squid, beer and other high-calorie, high-protein objects, and it is okay to eat once or twice once in a while, but it is not good to eat it often.

And they are also good in Italy, what kind of pasta is often eaten in Italian meals, Zhang Qing and Kaka slowly got used to it.

Caroline was also brought to Athens by Kaka this time, she came with Yang Qiongying, and the two little sisters took advantage of their training to go around Athens first.

I went to many attractions and felt pretty good. They are eager to go to Santorini, the holy island that the people of the country are very passionate about.

When many people take wedding photos, the first choice is Greece, and in Greece, they have to choose the island, the first choice is Santorini, this island was originally named in Italian, and it is known as the city with the most beautiful sunset in the world.

Yang Qiongying and Caroline had already done their homework in advance, and they waited for their stars to go to the island for a night after the game, and their wish was fulfilled.

Kaka and Zhang Qing have been training with the team, from pre-game training and field training, both of them have shown a very positive performance, and Ancelotti is also very happy about their performance, after all, the new signings can play well, which is very important for the team to play a week and two matches in the future.

The first game of the Champions League group stage is an away game, so it is important to be able to pick up points quickly and ensure qualification for the group stage.

Before this game, Ancelotti had already thought about the main lineup at home, Shevchenko must play, and the trident will continue to use Kaka and Zhang Qing, who performed well in the last game.

Rui Costa and Tomasson will stay for the weekend's league fixture.

In this way, all the players have a simple rotation and everyone has time to rest and adjust. (To be continued.) )