Although December has been going on for more than a week and the Christmas holidays seem to be just around the corner, the three races leading up to the holiday season are not easy.

As the game progresses, the players are in a period of fatigue, both physically and mentally, not to mention that AC Milan have just come full circle between the two continents. In a sense, the winter season was the most difficult of all that would determine the outcome of the final season.

This is the biggest headache for Premier League managers, and the reason for the same confidence, because the Premier League's non-stop schedule makes Christmas and New Year even more brutal, so that whoever survives this period will be able to gain a positional advantage, even a psychological advantage, in the final battle.

AC Milan's first game back in Italy was away to Siena, a team that is only mid-to-mid in terms of quality, but midfielder Brazilian Tadei and veteran Chiesa in the forward line are both dangerous figures, and they will be brought down if they are not caught off guard.

This was followed by the second leg of the Cup, and with a two-goal advantage in the away game against Palermo, it was not too much of a problem to win steadily.

The final game before the winter break goes to the San Siro, where AC Milan will welcome Udinese, nicknamed "The Black Rooster" by Celestial fans.

Spalletti's side has always been a big part of the Serie A side that can influence the title race and European qualification, just look at the players hoarded in this squad right now, David Pizarro, Jankulovski, Muntari, Iaquinta, Jankel...... In terms of team strength, Udinese is not inferior even to a team at the top of the league like Parma.

Despite the home field, it was a real uphill battle!

What's more, after the winter break, AC Milan will go south to challenge the Red Wolves Roma...... This winter is not at all easy for rookie leaders.

But fatigue is a virus that you don't have to take sufficient precautions to avoid getting infected, because the players are human beings, not blessed paladins, and that's something that will inevitably happen after consecutive games.

As a result, Jiang Qi was soon knocked on the stick by the fatigue aura lurking in the team.

At Siena's home stadium, the Artemio Franci Stadium, the team currently ranked 17th in the league faced the leader of AC Milan, but it was like taking a transformation drug, from a pet cat to a tiger with teeth and claws......

Just seven minutes into the game, Siena's veteran Chiesa accelerated at the edge of the penalty area and fired a long-range shot from the edge of the penalty area, the ball literally burrowed into the top right corner of the goal like a cannonball, and the only reaction Dida could make was to turn his head and send the ball into the net.

Since then, the game has fallen into a stalemate, Siena's players are diligent enough, while AC Milan's players can't lift their spirits one by one, so that Jiang Qi can experience what it means to be sleepwalking.

In fact, it is a state in which the player's body, and even his mental state, is mired in a negative tendency to fatigue, unable to find a state that stimulates nervous excitement and activates the body's normal responses. But as far as the player himself is concerned, it feels more like a drowning man at this time, trying to struggle desperately but unable to change the situation.

Just when the rookie coach thought that he would return to the locker room for midfield adjustments with a score of 0:1 on his back, the problem caused by this fatigue completely exploded.

In the 43rd minute, Tadei scored in the midfield and then suddenly kicked a cold shot, this time Dida reacted quickly, hitting the ball out with both fists, but what he didn't expect was that AC Milan's back line was collectively distracted, and five players wearing Milan jerseys seemed to have stretched the reflex arc to three kilometers away at this moment, standing on the turf like a wooden carving, watching Ventola grab the ball and push it gently.

Before he could get up, Dida watched the ball into the net again weakly.

0:2！

And that's not even the worst!

Just one minute apart, Milan's back line made another mistake, and when the whole back line was offside, Lahm, who has always been described as "eye-catching" this season, became an "eye-catching" presence again, and his distraction for only two or three seconds made his teammates' plan to make offside fail, Chiesa formed a single knife after winning the ball and easily pushed the far corner of the goal.

Dida could only make a save, while watching the ball run past his fingertips for the third time.

The rookie coach finally couldn't hold back the anger in his heart for the first time on the sidelines, and kicked the drink bottle thrown by the player on the sideline away. Just like the feeling of the collapse of the last quarter when watching the Rockets game, what is even more powerless is that Jiang Qi, as a spectator at that time, was powerless, and now as the head coach, he is also helpless.

But reason tells him that anger should not be the main theme of his current state, every team will experience peaks and valleys, and as a head coach, it is precisely an incompetent reaction to only sacrifice the small universe to bombard the players, knowing that the players are people, not machines.

He took a deep breath, turned and walked back to the bench, picked up his T40, and walked into the tunnel without waiting for the whistle to blow at halftime.

When the AC Milan players walked into the dressing room with their heads bowed one by one, they found that they were drawing tactical maps, and their suit tops had long been taken off, wearing only a shirt with the button on the collar still unbuttoned, as if they were spending summer.

Putting down the marker, Jiang Qi turned around and glanced at the players one by one, while everyone on the defensive line was naturally avoiding his gaze.

"In the last few minutes when we conceded two goals in a row, there was a moment when I really wanted to use the angry little universe to kill you all, but then I thought that I had more responsibility to put you on the pitch without adjusting everyone's competitive condition to the right state." , the rookie head shook his head and said: "However, now that we are three goals behind, it is completely to discuss whose responsibility it is!" ”

"We need to attack! Offensive! Attack again! He slammed the tactics board.

"Since the defense is not good, then we will use the offense to make up for it!"

"Isn't it remarkable to score three goals in the first half? We're going to get it back in four, five! ”

'I remember last season at home to Atalanta and they scored three goals in half an hour but in the end we came back, so today we were able to replicate the legend as well! No! It's about creating another, even greater legend! ”

"Come on! Everybody look here! Jiang Qi slapped his face, "Siena's backline is actually very fragile, and we have a lot of loopholes to exploit......"

"Luca!" , Jiang Qi finally came to Tony, "The team needs to speed up in the second half, so you come down and rest first, how about it?" ”

"No problem." Tony replied very simply, at a time like this, everyone understands that the interests of the team come first.

"I hope that in the second half your passing will no longer be focused on your teammates up front, but on the gaps in the opposition defence that you see in that moment!" , the rookie head made the final explanation, "Leave the rest to our Super Pippo!" ”

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