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The influence of the AC Milan team in China is very huge, even if Chu Zhongtian is not a fan of this team, he knows the history of this team and the names of its stars, and the era of the Dutch Three Musketeers has influenced a generation of Chinese fans. Pen | fun | pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

And this week, Hoffenheim will welcome such a team.

The main reason why this group is called the "strongest group of deaths in history" is that AC Milan in the first tier and Real Madrid in the second tier are the two teams with the most Champions League wins in Europe, with Real Madrid having nine and AC Milan winning the Champions League seven. The two teams have combined for 16 times, the most in Europe. In terms of past history, they are extremely brilliant, and they can be regarded as the most powerful of the riches.

However, in the past few years, both teams have gone downhill together, proving that no matter how brilliant the past is, it is useless. Real Madrid's decline is due to the constant change of coaches, the players do not have a perfect tactical system, the players are also very mobile, and there is no idea at all, which is particularly unsuccessful compared with Barcelona. Especially in 2009, their rivals Barcelona won the six crowns, dwarfing Real Madrid. Unlike Real Madrid, Barcelona have adhered to a style of football since the Cruyff era, and they have persisted for more than two decades to get to where they are today.

AC Milan's problem is that the players are seriously aging, and the owner Silvio Berlusconi is getting more and more picky, and there is no money to invest in the club, and the team has no money to buy people, and even if they do, they are all those older players who are cheaper. AC Milan fans themselves joke that we Milan don't look down on a 29-year-old player because they are too young. Coupled with Berlusconi's recent scandal-ridden affair and political enemies rushing to attack him, he really doesn't have the heart to care about his team.

But the emaciated camel is bigger than the horse, and no matter how downtrodden these two teams are, they are well-deserved giants for Hoffenheim. They have already experienced this at the Santiago Bernabeu. Therefore, for AC Milan, Hoffenheim's head coach Rangnick still attaches great importance to it. As soon as the match against Cologne was over, the team immediately started preparing for the match against AC Milan.

"You have to play against AC Milan as if it were against Real Madrid, even though it's our home stadium, you have to play as if it were an away game!" Rangnick said this to the assembled players at the training ground on Saturday afternoon.

The sixth round of the league was played against the home team in Cologne last night, and the team rushed back to Hoffenheim overnight, and after giving the players a half-day rest, Rangnick was anxious for the team to assemble on Saturday afternoon and start training. The home game against AC Milan will take place on Tuesday evening. They were the first German team to make their appearance on the day, and the German Football Federation took this issue into account and brought forward the match between Hoffenheim and Cologne to Friday.

"Our goal is not to win with fewer losses, not to draw, I want you to win this game! If we lose two games in a row, it's a big problem to get out of the group. So in order to qualify from the group, we have to win this home game! ”

Before training, the head coach makes a routine speech. Rangnick is cheering the players on.

He considered that it would be difficult to win at the San Siro Stadium to play AC Milan, after all, it was someone's home stadium, and even if AC Milan was in a bad situation recently, it would not fall to the point of letting others bully him at his home stadium. This time last season, which was also the bottom of AC Milan, they had a poor performance in the league, and many people were not optimistic about them before the Champions League away to Real Madrid, but they came back to win against Real Madrid at the Bernabeu and returned to their home stadium to draw with Real Madrid. A team like Real Madrid can only be a draw, and Hoffenheim can't expect anything as good as an away win over AC Milan.

Since it is difficult to win away from home and get three points, it is natural to try to score points at your home stadium in order to ensure qualification. One point will only satisfy the other party, but it cannot satisfy oneself, and the most satisfying is three points.

Now Hoffenheim is in the first round of the group stage, only zero points, but two goals, so it ranks third in the group, and the fourth in the group is Auxerre led by Chu Zhongtian's mentor Fernandes, they lost 0:2 to AC Milan in the first round, because they did not score, so they are behind Hoffenheim, who also lost the game.

In Rangnick's plan, Auxerre is the target of points, whether it is home or away, as long as they play Auxerre, they must try to win, otherwise they will have a hard time qualifying in this group, and in the end they can only be reduced to the foil of the two giants of Real Madrid and AC Milan.

Judging from Real Madrid's performance this season, it should not be a problem for them to beat Ousterre home and away, playing AC Milan in their home stadium, the chance of getting three points is also very high, as long as they go to the away stadium to get one point, as long as they get enough points with AC Milan and Auxerre, it doesn't matter what the result of the away game with Hoffenheim is, but in terms of their strength, they are unlikely to lose.

As for AC Milan, even if they lose to Real Madrid away, as long as they can win back at home, even if they can't win, it's not bad to get a point. Playing in the fourth bracket, AJJ Auxerre is also the key, winning home and away, which is six points, plus a point from the home draw with Real Madrid, seven points is already very good. If Hoffenheim are beaten by AC Milan at their home stadium, they will be giving them three points and their points will be at risk because it will be very difficult to get points at the San Siro. If you don't get a single point against AC Milan, relying only on six points against Auxerre, it is impossible to qualify from the group. They have already lost to Real Madrid once and must not lose again to AC Milan.

So this game is crucial for Hoffenheim.

If this opportunity for a home game is not seized, it will be difficult to qualify from the group.

The players are well aware of that, so everyone is taking the AC Milan game very seriously.

There is no need for anyone to supervise, and the quality of the training is very high. The current Hoffenheim players are not interested in the Bundesliga, but the Champions League can make their blood boil and full of fighting spirit.

The match between Real Madrid and Hoffenheim allowed the media to hype up the feud between Chu Zhongtian and Jose Mourinho.

And the AC Milan vs Hoffenheim match has something to hype up about. When Chu Zhongtian was still in Metz, he led Metz to win the UEFA Cup and qualified for the UEFA Super Cup at the beginning of the new season. Chu Zhongtian played very well in that game, he came off the bench to help the team come back to win the UEFA Super Cup. He also had a one-on-one with Kaka in the game, Kaka ran long distance with the football, and Chu Zhongtian chased closely behind, catching up with Kaka in front of the goal line and blocking the opponent's shot from the bottom line.

It was after that game that AC Milan recognised Chu Zhongtian's excellence and they applied for a transfer to Metz during the subsequent winter break, but it was not approved. Chu Zhongtian vetoed the transfer deal. He doesn't want to go to San Siro to be a substitute for Pirlo, he is not a ten-year-old young man, he can wait, he can't wait, no matter where he goes, he has to make sure that he plays the game and is the core, and these requirements at that time AC Milan could not meet him. AC Milan reuses the tradition of veterans, don't look at Pirlo's age, but at AC Milan, it is estimated that he can play until he is 36 years old to make the bench hot. Chu Zhongtian didn't have the patience and demeanor to waste, he knew that he would not be able to steal the scenery of Pirlo, Seedorf and Ronaldinho and others when he went to AC Milan, so he simply didn't go.

Later, during the summer transfer period, AC Milan sent another invitation to Hoffenheim, but Chu Zhongtian continued to refuse.

The media is now hyping up these old stories.

Before the match between Hoffenheim and AC Milan, "Milan Sports Newspaper" took the lead in turning over the old accounts and led everyone to relive the grievances and hatreds between Chu Zhongtian and AC Milan. Another Italian media claimed that AC Milan's observation of Chu Zhongtian has never stopped, and they are likely to bring Chu Zhongtian from Hoffenheim to San Siro next summer, and some tabloids are even more unreliable, they even say that AC Milan will complete the transfer during the winter break, and they don't want to think about the use of buying a ball that cannot participate in the Champions League during the winter break...... Obviously, the Italian media did this in the hope of disrupting Hoffenheim's key player Chu Zhongtian before the game.

However, such interference did not work at all for Chu Zhongtian.

After training, he was asked by a reporter how he reacted to the reports of the Italian media, and Chu Zhongtian shrugged: "Everyone knows what the past was like. I don't need to explain it anymore. And...... I'm in Hoffenheim now, not AC Milan, so that means in that game, AC Milan was the loser and Hoffenheim was the winner. ”

He made a pun on the fact that AC Milan would be the losers of the game and Hoffenheim would be the winners.

As can be seen from the fact that he is still in the mood to play this kind of wordplay, he is in a good mood at the moment and has not been disturbed by the Italian media.

He's in a good mood, of course, with the work of building a new team and a film going well, and Wimbledon turning professional again and hopefully advancing to the professional league, which is one step closer to their original goal.

These good things appeared continuously, Chu Zhongtian was of course in a good mood, and he even woke up every day with a smile on his face.

He is not afraid of AC Milan because he won against AC Milan in the past, and Milan at that time was not much different from Milan now. He has the experience of playing against Milan and that will help the team as well. In the past two days of training, Rangnick asked Chu Zhongtian to tell everyone about Milan's football style and what needs to be paid attention to.

Of course, the core of AC Milan is still Pirlo, but even with age, Pirlo's form has also been up and down, and after Seedorf is old, his performance in the midfield is not as good as before, he is not active in running, and his mistakes are also increasing. Ronaldinho occasionally had some performances that made the whole audience cheer, but more often than not, he was just running blindly, he could no longer return to his peak self, his body began to bless, his running began to decrease, his explosiveness began to decline, his speed of running with the ball began to slow down, except for the accuracy of passing, all other aspects of his ability have regressed to varying degrees.

Inzaghi is very powerful, he is in response to the old Chinese saying "ginger is still old and spicy", and his sense of smell in front of the door is still very sensitive. But manager Allegri always pulled Inzaghi, a typical centre-forward, to the right. A player like Inzaghi, who is more dangerous the closer he gets to goal, pulls to the right to play for Patoce, and is like a toothless tiger. Rangnick is a little afraid of Inzaghi, because Hoffenheim's backline is used to creating offsides, and Inzaghi is a striker born on the offside line, maybe he was offside ten times in the whole game, but just one time for him to seize the opportunity to counter offside, it is enough to kill.

Fortunately, he is too old now and has not played much, so he may not be able to start a game like the Champions League. At present, AC Milan's main forward partners are Pato and Ibrahimovic "Swedish Tower".

Pato is now AC Milan's full hope and number one star in the team. This is enough to explain Milan's predicament. Pato's problem is that he was already famous at a young age, and he was still Brazilian. Another reason is that AC Milan's Brazilian circle, Kaka, a person who makes most Brazilians feel bored, left the San Siro and went to Real Madrid, but the Brazilian circle did not sink, although Kaka left, but there is also Ronaldinho, Xiao Luo was the first in the world, but in the end he was decisively given up by Barcelona, because he liked nightlife too much, he couldn't restrain himself off the field, and his competitive state began to decline, Barcelona was keenly aware of this, so he sold him, In addition, in order to make room for Messi, the new core of the team, after all, one mountain cannot tolerate two tigers. This summer, AC Milan bought another Brazilian Robinho from Manchester City who likes to play, Robinho was once photographed playing a friendly match in London in Brazil, and he also recruited prostitutes with his national team teammate Alves, and he bought forty condoms alone!

With these two vigorous senior brothers, Pato's nightlife in Milan must be quite full and colorful, and perhaps there are traces of their brothers in Milan's nightclubs.

If you can't restrain yourself off the field, your performance on the field will naturally fluctuate. Pato's performances this season have been good and bad, with the media and fans cheering and singing praises at the good times, and the media disappointed and criticized when the performance was bad, and the fans were silent. At this time, AC Milan fans must miss Kaka, who suffered from injuries at Real Madrid, right?

What about Ibrahimovic...... There is no doubt about his personal ability, but his performance in the Champions League has not been very good, and his psychological quality is not strong when he plays hard. As long as he cuts off the Milan midfielder and his practice, he is no threat.

Speaking of AC Milan's backline, Nesta was once the world's No. 1 centre-back and is now world-class, but if he wasn't always injured, he could still be the world's No. 1 centre-back...... There are more injuries as he gets older, but Nesta's experience and awareness are there, and the centre-back combination he and Silva are still reassuring.

Thiago. Silva is a rising star among young defenders, although he is only 26 years old, he already has the composure and composure of an old central defender, and he also has the speed that Nesta does not have, his presence has made AC Milan's defense much more solid, and also made Nesta feel a lot more at ease.

The centre-back duo is perhaps the strongest pair for AC Milan. As for the fullbacks, Zambrotta is old, the assists are not as sharp as before, and there is a lot less shuttle up and down the wing, Antonini's ability is average, Odor is injured, basically from the previous league games, the main defenders of AC Milan are these people.

AC Milan's problem is that it is too slow as it ages. This is great news for Hoffenheim, because the characteristics of the two teams are so compatible - Hoffenheim's speed is the slowness of AC Milan.

There are more older players and the overall pace of the team is slow, so as long as Hoffenheim can maintain their fast and direct characteristics, they can break down the slow AC Milan.

It's a double-edged sword, though. Although the players of the slow AC Milan are old, they are all old fritters, and they have a lot of experience on the pitch. Last season's AC Milan away game against Real Madrid could provide Hoffenheim with a reference. Before that game, AC Milan was also in poor form recently, and everyone was generally optimistic that Real Madrid could easily beat AC Milan on their home turf, and Real Madrid players and coaches also thought so, but what was the result? Real Madrid scored a goal at the beginning, but the slow-burning AC Milan dragged Real Madrid into the quagmire with their slow rhythm. In the end, AC Milan, who were not favored, came back from behind to win away from home and win against Real Madrid.

Hoffenheim will also have to be wary of this situation, and if their fast football can't break down AC Milan's slow but old backline, they will have to be careful of the holes in their backline that they can catch. Because once the quick attack is ineffective, it is easy for players to fall into impatience, and the seasoned AC Milan can seize this opportunity to use their impatience to counter-attack, one hit at a time, and as long as they take the lead, the game will enter the familiar track.

Rangnick took a closer look at the footage of AC Milan's away game against Real Madrid a year ago and asked the team to focus on these aspects. He also showed the players footage of the game and reminded them of what to look out for.

'The key is that we want to score first and score as soon as possible. Otherwise, if we are still 0-0 in the first half, the game will go into a familiar rhythm for them. They can calmly play our defensive counter-attacks. That has to be avoided, so in the first 25 minutes we had to try to score as soon as possible. Use our speed to break down their defenses! ”

Rangnick said to the players during the tactical lesson.

So how do you use your speed to break down AC Milan's defence?

Of course, it's the fast pass and the fast run, and the striker starts to press from the front. "If their defenders pass back, the strikers have to keep pressing in front of goal!" Rangnick paddled across the tactical board. "Use aggressive pressing up front to create chances, and if their players make mistakes, that's our chance!"

(To be continued)