Chapter Seventy-Six: Milan
Although the attack did not break through the AC Milan goal, the 35,000 Lille fans at the Felix Borral Stadium gave Reaves a round of applause for his performance. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. biquge。 info
"How?" Cabaye rushed up and put his right hand on Reeves' shoulder, knowing that Reeves' dream was to play against top defenders, "It's not going to be easy to deal with." ”
"It's really strong." Reeves pushed away the gloating Cabaye, and the disadvantage didn't affect him, "but that's what makes it interesting." ”
Lille's offensive came in waves.
'Lille sent in a long ball from midfield, Derbihi on the right cut inside and crossed back to the middle, Cabaye met the ball and fired a low shot that was touched by Nesta and hit the post.
Puel stood up to applaud the attack, and he was happy with the current situation on the pitch, which was only a matter of time before the goal was scored. He waved his hand and gestured to continue the attack.
Shooting from the middle has been a common attack for Lille this season.
Lille's focus has always been on the centre, and Reeves is not the main attacker in this line, but it does not prevent him from getting shots on his own.
"Reeves received the ball and flickered and flickered and shook off Kaladze, beautiful, he got into the box! Shot! Oh! Unfortunately, it was blocked by Nesta again, and the ball grazed the right post and slid out. ”
"Mâcon sent a long ball into the box from the midfield position, Kaladze was not far away, and Reeves got the ball on the right side of the box and volleyed it just wide of the far corner."
"Reeves dribbled the ball in the middle, went all the way under the entanglement of Kaladze, took a look at Dida's position, and creatively came to shoot at the top of the arc outside the penalty area, and Dida flew back to lift the ball off the crossbar, very threatening!"
"During this time, Reves was not willing to be lonely, and he made the back of AC Milan tremble."
In the first 20 minutes, the Lille team completely pressed AC Milan to play, which was completely different from the outside world's pre-match expectations, even in Ligue 1, the Lille team rarely had such an advantageous scene.
"It's definitely not a reflection of the strength of both sides."
"Serie A giants are definitely not of such strength, it is certain that Carlo Ancelotti took the initiative to hand over possession to the opponent after the opening."
"AC Milan in the Champions League and AC Milan in Serie A play are completely different, in the first few Serie A games, it has always been AC Milan who controlled the pace of the game, and this game, from the first 20 minutes, Ancelotti obviously thinks differently."
With the commentary, the broadcast camera once again showed Ancelotti who was sitting on the sidelines.
In the camera, Ancelotti, who was in a straight suit, was just chewing the gum in his mouth, very calm, as if he didn't feel that the situation on the field was very bad.
The AC Milan fans in front of the TV were not as calm as Carlo Ancelotti, eager to swap the gum in the mouth of the heavy smoker for a bomb, and the situation on the pitch made them uncomfortable with Ancelotti's unhurried performance.
Not only are the fans anxious, but so is the assistant coach Mauro Tasotti sitting next to him, who is the best right-back in Milan's history. In his 17-year career with Milan, he made 424 appearances for Milan, scored eight goals and won many honors, and was an indispensable member of the "Milan Defence" that once shocked world football; Baresi is a free man, Costacuta is a manned centre-back, Maldini is a left-back, and the corresponding right-back is Tarsottti, who is the right-back of the 50-year dream team of the UEFA Champions League, and his right half with Donadoni is a dream corridor for Milan to attack. After retiring in 1997, he did not leave Milan and has been working as an assistant coach of the Milan club's first team.
On the field, Reeves burst into the penalty area with two people in a row, but fortunately, Nesta broke the bottom line in time, and Tasotti finally couldn't sit still.
"Carllo, it's not okay to go on like this."
Ancelotti stopped chewing gum when he heard this, Tasotti was his former teammate, but his other identity made Ancelotti very suspicious, he was a member and one of the founders of the first generation of knights in Milan during the Sachi era.
"No one likes this team more than the Cavaliers, and unlike the mercenaries who have been paid for a lot of money, they have the power to control this team, as I realized a few days after I arrived. ”
These are the words of Desailly's autobiography, the French legend who played for Milan for five seasons and was one of only two foreign players to be able to play on the Cavaliers' table.
The Milan Knights Table, formed in dynastic Milan, was originally composed of Baresi, Maldini, Costa Curta and Tasotti the four legendary veterans of the Rossoneri, in the Milan team that pays great attention to tradition, the Knights table means absolute authority, the Knights table has the absolute right to speak in the Rossoneri dressing room, and can openly ask the club to bring in strong reinforcements to supplement which position.
The original composition of the Knights' table happened to be the four iron guards of the Milan era of the dynasty, Maldini on the left, Tasotti on the right, Baresi and Costacuta on the right, and the core force of the Rossoneri who won five league titles and three Champions League titles at the turn of the eighties and nineties of the last century.
After the retirement of Baresi and Tasotti, only Maldini and Costa Curta remained in the first generation of knights' table, although there were only two people left, they could still play a role in stabilizing the morale of the army and carrying forward the spirit of Milan, and then developed Albertini, Ambrosini, Nesta, Gattuso and others.
(Sheva was denied entry because of his relationship with the horse team, and Pirlo was unable to enter because Anfat drove Demi away at that time, which completely offended the top of the knights' table, so Pirlo, as a replacement, was also unfortunately not able to enter.) )
Milan is Berlusconi's team, but in fact, the actual head of the club is Galliani, Galliani is a person with a strong desire for power, and the strong influence of the knight's table makes him very uncomfortable, Galliani prefers to manage the ancient club of Milan with a modern corporate model, and does not want to retain the ancient power class, so he naturally picked up the butcher's knife.
It's just that the first butcher's knife picked up was not sharp enough, and the Turkish "emperor" Trim invited by Galliani was forced into the palace by the knights' table, and the newcomer Inzaghi sent the Turks out of Italy with an anti-aircraft gun penalty.
However, Galliani did not give up meddling in the dressing room order that has continued since Baresi, so he brought in Ancelotti, who has Milanese roots but has no affection for the knights' table.
As a player, Carlo Ancelotti was Milan's meritorious midfielder, one of the four major midfielders of the Sacchi era (Gullit, Rijkaard, Ancelotti, Donadoni), but he was not a member of the knight's table, because he was not a Milanese with strong roots, he only played for five years, and in his career, there are more traces of Roma City.
And Ancelotti has a deep grudge against the knights' table, and was robbed of the main position by Albertini, the second prince of the knights' table, and retired directly to the youth team as a coach the next year.
But Ancelotti and Galliani are not of the same mind, he has his own demands, he is here for results, not to make Milan turbulent, although he came with the task of cleaning up the knights' table, but Ancelotti only cooperated with Galliani to send away Albertini, the core of the second-generation knight's table, and did not clean up anyone else.
Ancelotti's move is to find out the mind of Berlusconi, the real owner of Milan, the current situation of the team is what Mr. Bei wants to see, and the results are not bad, the two factions check and balance each other, and the general manager Galliani will not be able to monopolize the power if he does not completely kill the knight table, and the knight table will not continue to grow to affect Mr. Bei's control of the club.
In recent years, Ancelotti can be said to have been torn between three parties.
Against Berlusconi, Ancelotti has solidified his position in the heart of President Bei with consistent results and several championships.
For Galliani, Ancelotti never interfered with the business of buying people, and the general manager did not make excessive demands on who he used to buy whom.
For the Cavaliers' table, Ancelotti reused Costa Curta and Ambrosini, and the defensive training was also handed over to Tassotti.
Therefore, Tassoti's position in the team is very stable, and it is impossible for Ancenotti, who is seeking stability on three sides, to ignore the other party's doubts, turn his head to look at Tasotti who is full of anxiety, and say slowly: "Why not? Actually, that's good. ”
"But if it goes on like this, it's hard for us to guarantee that we won't concede a goal, and the opponent has too many chances."
"And what do you think, Mauro?"
"Reno and Massimo should be allowed to run more, sweep the midfield, protect Andre and let Andre be in charge of the ball. And then fight for control of the midfield. "This is a common tactic for AC Milan, with Massimo Ambrosini and Rino Gattuso in the back three in charge of sweeping and Andre Pirlo in the middle.
Ancelotti was noncommittal, but asked an irrelevant word.
"What do you think of the strength of the two sides?"
"Naturally, we are far stronger than each other."
'How do you think the opposition would react if we took control of the midfield?'
"Uh..... Let's defend with all our might. ”
"Where do you think our biggest weakness is right now?"
“.......”
"Say whatever comes to mind."
Tasotti remembered the last game against Livorno, "Breaking the dense defense? ”
"Well, that's why I always say Mauro you can try to coach a team."
"No, AC Milan is all I have, and if I can't coach AC Milan, I'll be the same everywhere."
"Haha, are you forcing me to abdicate and make way for Xian?" Anchenotti said with a smirk as he looked at Tassotti.
Carlo Ancelotti knew that his coaching position was the result of a wrestling between Galliani and the Cavaliers' table, at that time Galliani was the choice of himself, and the Cavaliers were the former teammate in front of him, and it was Galliani who won the victory, but Ancelotti believed that the Cavaliers would not give up on putting their own people in the head coach position. (In reality, after Ancelotti left Milan, the Cavaliers' Table forces and Galliani's many battles for the head coach position ended in failure, and Tassoti has been assisting Anfat's last four head coaches as an assistant coach, but with the continuous wielding of the total butcher's knife, the Cavaliers' Table power gradually collapsed, and the members either retired or were purged, and Tassoti finally left the team in 2016 where he had worked for 37 years.) )
"No, that's not what I meant, I'm self-aware, I don't have the ability yet."
"Mauro, you and I have known each other for so many years, and you still have no sense of humor, so you can't tell that I'm joking." Anchenotti shook his eyebrows, he just took the opportunity to complain, he couldn't tear his face, put aside the factional relationship, he had a good personal relationship with Tasottti, and continued with a smile, "Let's get down to business, compared to dense defense, I prefer this kind of team that opens up the formation to attack us." ”
'They like to attack, so give them chances and let them enjoy the thrill of attacking and I'm not worried at all that we're going to concede because we have Alejandro Nesta.'
"Alessandro is the best defender in the world, and if he is going to be defeated like this, then God must have abandoned us."