The first leg between the two teams is at the San Siro Stadium in Milan, and AC Milan host Liverpool, with a home and away fixture schedule that will favour Liverpool, with the decisive match remaining at Anfield.

It's only the first round, but the first leg is also quite important.

Even if they keep talking and laughing, there are still many players who use last season's Istanbul miracle to ridicule AC Milan, but in fact, in the face of AC Milan, the hearts of Liverpool players are still heavy, and they know that this opponent is strong.

They made a miraculous three-goal comeback in Istanbul last season, but so what? That only shows that their table is amazing, the miracle of scoring three goals in six minutes is enough to make many people remember many people, maybe fifty years from now, there will be fans watching the video of this game, but they will never say, "Liverpool is stronger than AC Milan." ”

AC Milan's full-court pressing says a lot.

Liverpool can complete the comeback, relying on perseverance, the spirit of not admitting defeat and a lot of luck, they have these advantages, but one is also very important, that is, AC Milan's carelessness, no matter what point of view, that game can also prove that AC Milan's overall strength is much better than Liverpool.

That's what it feels like.

For the Liverpool players who participated in the game, it was also a deep memory, when they remembered the miracle they accomplished, they also remembered the feeling of the game, three goals in six minutes were good, but the most was that they could only defend passively, worrying about their own goals again and again.

Therefore, in the face of AC Milan, Liverpool does not have a psychological advantage.

The day before the game, the whole Liverpool team flew to Milan, Italy, a fashionable and trendy capital that is more prosperous than Liverpool. It was more tempting than Liverpool, but after the whole Liverpool team came to Milan City, they went straight to the hotel, and no one came out of the hotel.

No one goes out to hang out, no one admires this fashion capital.

Not only that, but there are still a few media outlets in the hotel that can enter. They were also able to film the whole Liverpool team eating and chatting in the hotel lobby, but no one of the Liverpool players took the initiative to give interviews or anything, they just did their own thing, as if they were here to relax and talk to friends, and at the same time it was very low-key.

The same is true for Zhang Tiehan.

When he came to Milan City, he was also full of sighs in his heart, compared to other teammates, he was actually more familiar with Milan City. He's been to this city more than once, all of them to play, against Inter Milan, against AC Milan, and he's been here a few times.

He actually wanted to go out and see again.

It is also possible to look back on the days in Rome, the last time I was here, and at the same time feel the charm of Milan, but he still didn't, not only the advice of coach Benitez. He also knows that going out there will be a lot of trouble.

The point is that he is by no means a man who is popular with Milan fans.

Whether it's an AC Milan fan. Even if he is not an Inter Milan fan, he will not be welcomed in any way, not to mention that he is now an opponent of AC Milan, even if he is not, the deep memory he left on AC Milan and Inter Milan last year, these Milan fans will not forget it so quickly.

Arguably. He is a person who is not welcome in the city of Milan.

Zhang Tiehan shook his head self-deprecatingly, maybe this is also an achievement, and what player will become a person who is not popular with fans of both teams in a city? He couldn't think of anything else but himself, even if he wasn't here to compete. Just to hang out here and be recognized by the Milan fans, if those extreme fans don't give him a good look, and now that he's here to play, he's here to play against AC Milan with his team-mates, then he's not going to be popular.

So Zhang Tiehan, like everyone else, didn't leave the hotel, they just talked to each other, resting and killing time in the hotel.

At night.

Everyone is crowded in Benitez's room, listening to the Spaniard's repeat tomorrow's tactics, this is not the first time, when he was at the club, Benitez has explained twice, but many details, he has to emphasize again and again, this is the difference between Espanyol and other coaches, he wants every player to be very clear about what they should do when and when, rather than giving a general tactic to let players play freely, especially in the face of a strong team like AC Milan, details are often the key factor in success or failure.

Everyone listened attentively.

No one wants to win.

Against AC Milan, maybe some people will be lucky to think that we won against them last year, maybe we will lose this year? But when the pre-match media says 'AC Milan will win', 'they deserve to win', etc., no one thinks about defeat anymore.

They all want to win! Be sure to win!

While those media supported AC Milan, what they didn't expect was that it would also make Liverpool's desire to win stronger.

'Remember, our goal for this leg is to take away away goals and also, to be solid defensively and concede as few goals as possible. Finally, Benitez emphasized.

It's a very realistic goal.

There is pressure on the players and coaches against AC Milan, but one thing they all know is that AC Milan are stronger than the team, AC Milan's players are very good, especially at the San Siro, it is too difficult for them to take away the victory, and the goal is to 'take away goals' and 'concede fewer goals', which is more realistic.

No one would find Benitez too conservative in his targeting.

They won't be arrogant because the team can eliminate Barcelona, AC Milan's strength and Barcelona's strength are not the same style, not to mention, they can eliminate Barcelona, but also by luck and strong performance, Zhang Tiehan scored five goals to make the team advance to the semifinals, so he can still score five with AC Milan? In short, it is really a bit unrealistic to count on this.

Zhang Tiehan also has a deep understanding of AC Milan's strength.

The strongest defense he's ever had so far was AC Milan, and this time last year, Roma played AC Milan in the league and he had to face defenders of the caliber of Nesta, Maldini and Ambrosicki, so it was really stressful.

After the tactical explanation, everyone was ready to go back to rest.

At this time, Alonso came over and hugged Zhang Tiehan's shoulder, and suddenly shouted loudly, "Zhang, you know AC Milan better than us, we have only played one game against them, but you were still playing in Rome last year, the coach has finished speaking, you can also talk about it?" ”

"Hahaha, yes, Zhang!"

"Zhang will explain to us tomorrow's play!"

Everyone else cheered.

Zhang Tiehan shook his head with a wry smile, but still nodded and said seriously, "I think we should pay attention to the other two people." ”

"Who."

"Pirlo and Kaka."

The teammates all looked at Zhang Tiehan, and even Benitez in the back was smiling and listening carefully, they all wanted to see what Zhang Tiehan would say, but they didn't expect Zhang Tiehan to really say something, and the angle of talking about the game was completely different from Benitez.

Zhang Tiehan is from the perspective of a player.

Benitez has always emphasized tactics, tactics when attacking, tactics when defending, what everyone should do in what situation, but he didn't talk about the opposing players, Zhang Tiehan directly said the names of the two players, and said, "You must watch these two guys, they are very threatening." ”

Everyone nodded, and they all fell into thought.

If they are asked to say, which player in AC Milan is the most threatening, the first thing they think of will be the 'Ukrainian nuclear warhead' Shepchenko, so far, Shepchenko has scored nine goals in the Champions League, and the number of goals is certainly not as good as Zhang Tiehan's fifteen, but it is also far ahead of other strikers.

Such a guy is definitely very threatening.

But the rest of AC Milan, whether in midfield or at the back, each is quite a famous star, Pirlo is outstanding, back in 2003, he and Gattuso were named the best midfield combination in the world, but in a club like AC Milan, Pirlo is actually not very conspicuous, after all, he is just a midfielder, even in Italy, Pirlo is called the 'master of the arts', but so what? He is not Zidane, he did not get that kind of honor and achievement.

Kaka, everyone also doesn't understand it.

They know that Zhang Tiehan is referring to the superstar of AC Milan's midfield, a brilliant young Brazilian man. Kaka has been doing quite well this season, scoring a hat-trick in both the league and the Champions League, and the Italian media claim that if Kaka can maintain his rising form, he will even be a strong contender for next year's World Footballer of the Year.

But in England, Kaka is actually not very famous.

He is just a twenty-two-year-old young man, perhaps this is also related to the Italian media's hype, now the whole world knows that Barcelona has a future big star 18-year-old boy Messi, of course, the world also knows that AC Milan has a young Kaka, but relatively speaking, Kaka is just an excellent boy in the hearts of the public fans.

There are too many such players in Europe.

Juventus, they have Swedish fantastic striker Zlatan Ibrahimovic, twenty-four; Real Madrid has the Brazilian genius Robinho, twenty-two years old; Barcelona have 'future superstar' Lionel Messi, who is 18 years old, Manchester United have Portugal's first-day talent Cristiano Ronaldo and England's talented striker Wayne Rooney, both 21 years old, and Arsenal have midfield talent Cesc Fabregas, 19 years old...... Zhang Tiehan, who is now the center of the crowd, is called 'the world's most efficient shooter' by the media, and is 21 years old.

Above.

Kaka, is it special?

Maybe his handsome face will make him have more female fans to support, but this has no effect on the Liverpool players, so in fact, in their minds, Pirlo may become a very dangerous person, but in their eyes, Kaka is just a young talent who occasionally stands out.

European football, there are so many geniuses!

However, as soon as Zhang Tiehan mentioned this, they all remembered it, and tomorrow they will see AC Milan's Andrea Pirlo, and how threatening this card is. (To be continued......)