Chapter 15: Vengeful Milan
After the victory over Bergamo, the record of the Pavia junior football team has reached 4 wins, 3 draws and 3 losses, and they have quietly climbed to seventh place in the standings.
The seventh place seems to be remarkable, but if we look backwards, we see that they are still in the fourth from the bottom......
But with a three-game winning streak, the Pavia Juniors have played with passion.
Junior teams tend to be like that, when they play with confidence, they play unstoppable and often go above and beyond when they play.
Why are Inter and Milan so hard to lose in such a match? It's because they've developed confidence in winning and believing that no matter how down, they're better than the smaller teams that don't fall into the league at all.
So they are more confident on the pitch, more daring to make moves, and of course they play better.
This state is usually referred to as "domineering".
In Chengren's world, there is one team with such domineering, and that is Manchester United in the Premier League.
After the Class of 92 led by Lord Ferguson completely fell apart, everyone would think that Manchester United had come to the end of the dynasty. At that time, they brought in a playful little Ronaldo, but let go of England's captain Beshuai, and then brought in a failed Veron, who was forced to reuse mediocre players like Fletcher.
Their opponents include Arsenal, who won the title unbeaten in the 2003-2004 season, Chelsea, who is owned by Abu, a "super FIFA player", and Liverpool, who are aiming for a restoration.
Even the media believe that Manchester United will lose the Premier League hegemony in the next few years and then become a normal semi-final team.
But they ignore the confidence that United have built up over a long period of Premier League victory.
It's a unique temperament that ensures that the Reds will eventually complete the restoration of the dynasty even as the big stars in the team continue to leave and the players they bring in are becoming less and less famous.
After only four years of depression, Manchester United won the 2007, 2008, 2010 seasons and the 2010 Champions Cup, despite the fact that the team was clearly inferior to Chelsea's and other "oil giants".
This is the essence of the wealthy, and this is the "domineering" of the strong.
After winning three consecutive victories, Pavia has not yet cultivated such an invincible "domineering", but at least they have swept away the shadow of their previous continuous defeats, and thus began to become more confident.
So in the next game, under the leadership of Descartes, they began to win one victory after another.
Cremonese, Mantua, Brera (another football club in Milan, like Pavia, in the third division) and teams have been at the feet of the Lower Pavia teenagers, who have won an astonishing four consecutive games since the start of the second half of the season.
For a while, the Pavia junior team became the focus of attention in the Lombardy media, not only because of their excellent record, but also because of their number one star Descartes. Mondillo staged an extremely inspirational counterattack for all the fans.
The youngster, who had been judged by Milan FC before the start of the season as "not fit for the body required of a professional footballer", was then sadly abandoned by Juventus, and when everyone thought his football career was going to be over, he led a team of underdogs to a magnificent record.
Although they struggled in the league in the first half of the season, and even finished at the bottom of the table at one point, as in all inspirational TV series, the "disabled and strong" teenager led his army "over the Alps" with his "amazing courage" and became the brightest star in the second half of the season.
This is simply a realistic version of "The Last Free Throw" (a famous Italian inspirational competitive movie)!
As a result, more media began to emerge in the small city of Pavia, and began to pay attention to this once mediocre and little-known junior team.
In the face of the continued highlight-reliant performances of the Pavia Junior team during this period, the other team began to feel uncomfortable.
This is AC Milan Juniors.
Unlike their rivals Inter Milan, which have several junior teams, AC Milan have lacked attention to youth training in recent years, and the Vismara Sports Centre is their only junior team in Italy.
Although this team also gathers many outstanding football teenagers at home and abroad, they are still a little too thin compared to Inter's youth training scale of more than 30,000 people.
But even so, they shouldn't be comparable to an unknown club like Pavia?
However, in the first half of the season, they were the only strong team to lose to Pavia - they were beaten at home by Pavia Juniors, who were knocked to the ground by a score of 3:2!
The loss had already made the Milan teenagers feel depressed, but then Inter Milan killed Pavia on the Sbalbarro Road, and also made their number one star Descartes appear with a red card, which was simply flawless!
This made the Milan teenagers who were bent on competing with Inter Milan feel tormented, because through the comparison of the Pavia junior team, they felt as if they had been left behind by Inter.
As part of the Rossoneri, Milan's teenagers would never allow such a thing to happen!
So they all held their breath, and they must completely trample them under their feet in the next encounter with Pavia, and let them know how serious the consequences of offending the Milan Legion will be!
So even though the media has been touting the Pavia Juniors to the point of numbness during this time, the Milan juniors are still full of hunger for this game, and they must get up where they fell and step on the corpse of this little ant to prove that they are not losing to Inter.
It's not about life and death, but it's about the dignity of the two giants of Milan.
So when the match between Pavia Juniors and Milan Juniors began, they were stunned to find that what seemed to be a group of menacing wolves standing in front of them - they were red-eyed, and they were crazy to press Pavia Juniors like weaklings, and they used 12% of their strength to fight for every ball.
In the face of such a revenge-bent Milan youth team, Pavia's teenagers felt a lot of pressure. Although they tried to put up a desperate resistance in the first half, as Mankaard demanded, the bloody 3-0 scoreline on the scoreboard at the end of the first half told them the fact that the gap between Pavia and Milan was not a true reflection of the game they played in the first half of the season.
The frustration of not being able to defeat the enemy despite all their efforts made the Pavia teenagers feel powerless, and one by one they walked off the court with their heads bowed and like defeated captives.
At this time, even Descartes clearly felt the morale of the team low, and as the most important core and spiritual pillar of the team, he felt that he needed to stand up and say something.
So he gathered his friends together, clapped his hands and said to them: "Hey, listen to me, don't do this, you guys did a great job in the first half, and the score now only shows that they worked harder than us in the first half, you can't be discouraged, we still have 45 minutes to change the result." Believe me, I will fight with you in the second half, as long as we work harder than them, the victory will be ours! ”
There was a little spark of hope in the eyes of the teenagers, but it was not strong enough.
So Descartes clenched his fists again to cheer them on: "Don't lose faith, think about the last game, we were also behind in the first half, but didn't we come back in the second half?" We have to believe in ourselves, whether we are one goal behind or three goals, we are invincible Pavia and we will definitely win in the end! ”
These words reminded the teenagers of the sweet game of the first half of the season, when they returned to Pavia to be treated like heroes after the victory over AC Milan, and even their parents praised their performance at the dinner table, when they were simply the happiest people in the world.
That's it!
The eyes of the teenagers began to ignite a raging fire, they did not want to give up this game, they wanted to relive that happy time, their relatives and friends stood on the side of the court to cheer for them, this game, must not fail!
Descartes' words succeeded in arousing the fighting spirit of his teammates, and all this fell into the eyes of Mr. Mankald next to him, who nodded in satisfaction.
These things were supposed to be done by him as a coach, but Descartes overstepped his responsibilities and preemptively did them for him.
But Monsieur Mankaard was not at all annoyed, on the contrary, he was very happy with it, and Descartes was becoming more and more a leader and a more responsible person under his adjustment, which was the greatest consolation to his coaching achievements.
Mr. Mankaard was not a famous coach and he had never coached any famous stars in his life, and it would be a lifetime honour for Descartes to become a great player or even a superstar under his tutelage.
The second half of the game began quickly, and as Descartes stood on the court, he gave his teammates a thumbs up and said that he had left everything to him and nothing to worry about.
This action landed in the eyes of the Milanese teenagers, and they sneered in their hearts.
I knew that you were the number one star of Pavia, and you suffered in the first half of the season, so you still didn't prepare for it at all?
So Descartes once again enjoyed the same treatment he had enjoyed in the match against Inter.
Bag clip, resolute bag clip!
What kind of players are Milan known for? The "golden backline" of the 90s has certainly told you the answer.
A steady stream of excellent defenders is Milan's biggest specialty!
Therefore, the same tactics of bag clamping are adopted, and Milan's bag clamp is definitely stronger and tighter than Brescia's half-hung bag.
Descartes may have grown accustomed to this superstar treatment in recent games, but Milan's defensive quality should not be underestimated, and he ran on the pitch for fifteen minutes without even getting a decent chance.
And unlike in the game against Inter, when Inter only had a one-goal lead and needed to continue attacking to seal the win, Milan are now 3-0 up, and they just need to keep this tight defence until the end and they will be able to sit back and relax.
Even if Pavia scored two goals, they were the winners.
So they put 90 percent of their energy into defense.
When a youth team trained in professional football wants to defend with all their might, it is obviously difficult to break down the goal of an amateur team like Pavia.
That's when they need a shining player to step up and open the door to victory for them.
They need a hero!
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