In the first leg of the Champions Cup semifinals, AC Milan's situation should be said to be very good, although Digan is suspended, but Dida, Maldini, Jankulovski, Ambrosini and others have returned from injury, and now Milan's injury list is only Shevchenko and Karachi.

It's just that it was cruel at first, and when the game ended, the Milan soldiers could only accept the result of losing 0:1 to Barcelona at home, so that AC Milan had to win the opponent at Camp Nou to advance to the Champions League final.

Although he lost the game, Ancelotti did not seem to be too disappointed in the post-match press conference, and was still cheering for his team, believing that the team created a lot of chances in this game, and the only thing lacking was to seize the chances, and if it was played like this, there would be nothing impossible in the second leg.

Ancelotti commented on the course of the game: "I think it was a close game, AC Milan tried to get the fire to the opposition half, Barcelona tried to slow down the game with possession, we had a couple of good chances but we couldn't make good use of them, it was a bad result, but it wasn't enough to kill our hopes of reaching the final, in the second leg anything could happen. ”

In fact, after taking a 1-0 lead, Barcelona had a number of chances, with Carlo Ancelotti explaining: "Barcelona created chances almost always on the counter-attack, especially after their goal, because we had to press and give them some space at the back. We have to believe that if we play like tonight, we can succeed, we did well, we just didn't take our chances, that's the only problem we have, it is. ”

Looking ahead to the second leg, Carlo Ancelotti did not hide his attacking thoughts: "On the other hand, this result will allow us to have no scruples in the second leg and go all out, and I believe Barcelona will recover some of them at Camp Nou. ”

When asked what he thought of Barcelona, Carlo Ancelotti said: "I wasn't particularly impressed by their performance today, they just tried to slow down and control the tempo. ”

Carlo Ancelotti also explained a couple of substitutions in his game, saying: "I tried to make some changes in the midfield because we had some problems with counter-attacks at the time, so I changed our midfield and the opposition made changes with it. Barcelona did a very good job of possession, so it's hard to break that, but in terms of absolute chances we created a lot and we believe we can still do that at Camp Nou. ”

Seedorf also summed up after the game: "We should have won this one, maybe after being 1-0 down we didn't do very well in possession, but in terms of chances at the whole time we created a lot and Zuihou didn't take it, but it gave us the confidence and hope to turn the tables at Camp Nou, we still need to have a good performance away from home and we know how to do that." ”

Kaka, who had a good performance in this game, thought that although the team lost, there were still positive aspects of the performance: "The details determine the game, in the first half they didn't create real chances, but in the second half they played better and better, we always had chances to score, through this game we should gain confidence, we should believe in ourselves, everything is not over before the second leg is played, from an individual point of view, I played more difficult in the first half because Edmilson defended against me, But I was in good shape in the second half and I'm sure we can win the next fight because then Rod will be back! ”

AC Milan is full of confidence, and it is true that as they said, AC Milan is not without chances to score, but although AC Milan also has a lot of opportunities from the game scene, although Ancelotti also emphasized after the game that "we did a good job, but we didn't grasp the opportunity", but it cannot be denied that Barcelona tonight is not the most Haode Barcelona, and Barcelona's main lineup is missing Deco, Xavi, Messi three important corners, in addition to Larsson such an important substitute.

On the contrary, AC Milan's performance is already quite good, and the main lineup is basically complete except for Degan, maybe AC Milan can really turn around at Camp Nou and advance to the final, but even so, the current AC Milan is really missing something compared to Barcelona.

The two teams are both top giants in Europe, but in fact, the club's investment in the team is different, how much has Barcelona invested in the team in the past three years?

25 million euros for Ronaldo, 23 million euros for Eto'o, in addition, Edmilson 11 million euros, Deco 12 million euros, Marcos 12 million euros, Giuli 10 million, Maxi. López 7 million, not counting Rustu, Qualesma and others who came and left.

In the past three years, Barcelona has invested about 100 million euros in the transfer market, especially in 2004 with 60 million euros, which has also made a qualitative leap in the strength of the team.

What about AC Milan?

The introduction of Kaka in the 02/03 season was the biggest one, but in fact it only cost 8 million euros, in the 03/04 season the introduction of Stamm was 10.5 million euros, in the 04/05 season it cost 24 million euros to bring in Gilardino, plus 8.5 million euros in Jankulovski, and others such as Digan, Cafu, Vieri, Carracci, Dorasu, etc. were brought in for free.

In three years, AC Milan have spent just €51 million on the transfer market, just over half of Barcelona's.

Except for individual special circumstances, generally speaking, the investment of a healthy team in the transfer market should be proportional to the strength and performance of the team, which is also reflected in AC Milan and Barcelona, AC Milan's largest investment in the team was in the summers of 2001 and 2002, Inzaghi, Rui Costa, Seedorf, Pirlo, Tomasson, Nesta, Rivaldo joined the team at that time, so that the overall quality of the team went up a notch, and then followed. 02/03 Champions Cup, Italian Cup, UEFA Super Cup, 03/04 season league champions, Italian Super Cup, AC Milan won a total of 5 titles, and in the following summers, AC Milan's introduction was basically based on the addition of the existing position, did not make the team's strength really improved, Kaka is to replace Rivaldo, Gilardino replaced Crespo, in the changed position, the level has improved, but not a qualitative leap, and some other positions, due to the aging of the players, However, it has shown a downward trend, such as Cafu, Maldini, and Dida, and overall, in the past three years, the strength of the team has not improved substantially.

In fact, Ancelotti has done a pretty good job in digging potential internally, the original substitute left-back Karadze changed to a central defender and became an unshakable main force, and the original Rui Costa's substitute Pirlo changed to a midfielder, which made the latter's career almost rise two steps, but the work that can be done to dig the potential inside is limited after all, and the change of the position of the team's 24 people in the center can compare to the resources brought by the vast transfer market? But it requires the investment of the club, which AC Milan have not done for at least the last three seasons.

Another problem is reflected in the youth system, Barcelona's youth team can bring the team such a surprise as Messi, and the captain of the Mexican youth team Dos Santos is also growing rapidly, such a self-hematopoietic function is incomparable to AC Milan's youth team. Without the talent assembly line of the youth team, it is always difficult to buy people from the transfer market alone, not to mention that AC Milan does not invest much in transfers.

AC Milan did not have scouts to bring Martins and Toure from Africa, and even if such players were brought in, utilitarian Italian football would not have time for them to accumulate experience on the field like Arsenal's young people, Slovenia's "prodigy" Broadek already had experience in the Champions League, but after coming to AC Milan's youth team, he survived in this team until he was 20 years old, although he became the team's third scorer as a defensive midfielder.

Leonardo has developed a lot of young players in Brazil, but none of them can be used by AC Milan because it is not the focus of the club, Obama Young is still playing in the youth team at the age of 22, and rookies like Piazza who have risen through the youth team are now rare.

Barcelona is stronger than AC Milan, it is now an indisputable fact, on the surface it is strong in a small Ronaldo, but in fact it is stronger than Iniesta, Marcos, Edmilson, and Deco, Xavi, Messi who did not play, without their Barcelona, they can still put out a team that is enough to compete with AC Milan and can win away from home, such a talent pool and bench depth alone is incomparable to AC Milan.

Anything can happen on the football field, and AC Milan may also achieve a comeback at Camp Nou as Ancelotti said, but the current Barcelona squad and strength are already stronger than AC Milan, but it is not a fact.

Another reason for AC Milan's defeat was in terms of energy reserves, and after the Milan derby, Carlo Ancelotti said: "We have plenty of time to recover. ”

Indeed, due to the early start of the Milan derby, AC Milan has four days to recover, which is said to be enough for the team's physical strength, but the team needs to recover not only physical strength, but also "mental energy".

Participating in the tense game of continuous strong dialogue is certainly a test for the physical strength of the players, but the greater test is psychological. How long can the nerves be tensed, will there be war weariness under high pressure, especially with the Milan derby win essentially locking up the league runners-up, will the relaxed mentality of the team be tense immediately before the game against Barcelona four days later?

These are all questions that come with the continuous use of the main lineup.

In fact, it is very difficult to keep the same squad at the same level in two key games in a row, such as last season's sleepwalking defeat to Juventus at home after knocking out PSV Eindhoven.

So should Carlo Ancelotti play in the Milan derby as a substitute in order to reserve fitness for the game against Barcelona?

Again, the answer is no.

Because once they lose the Milan derby, then AC Milan cannot guarantee that they will be able to win Barcelona in 4 days with a strong main lineup, even if they win this one, the Champions League is a 180-minute game, and there are still great variables when returning to Camp Nou. And if they lose both the league runner-up and the Champions Cup, and have to play the Champions Cup qualification after the Shijie Cup in the second season, it will undoubtedly be a huge defeat for AC Milan.

On the contrary, if the Champions Cup is out and the league is runner-up, AC Milan can be regarded as completing its "bottom line results", even if it is not as good as last year's results, but the specific process is different, Barcelona is really strong in the Champions Cup, and Juventus's points grabbing rate in the first half of the league is indeed terrifying, AC Milan did what they should do, and there are no undue mistakes. It would be unwise to abandon the Milan derby, which could have sealed the league runners-up with a single blow, and instead aim for a Champions Cup, which is fraught with more uncertainties.

Although the problem is not with the Milan derby lineup, it must be said that Ancelotti still has the problem of "overuse" in the use of individual key players, while other useful players are not fully used.

There is no doubt that all the main players in the Milan derby will play, and even Chievo can be guaranteed to win with the main force, but it is unbelievable to let Pirlo appear in the game against Lecce, Pirlo himself is not a physical player, the problem of "overdraft Pirlo" in the second half of last season directly caused the team's zuihou stage of the landslide, the same thing happened again this season, this game Pirlo was replaced halfway due to physical exhaustion, in fact, from the first leg against Lyon, Andrea Pirlo never got a respite, and against Lecce, the ball was lost, and although some of the players were rested, those who really needed it more were tired.

Next, Ancelotti will face a new choice, the league is only 5 points away from Juventus, and the Champions League seems to have a sharp decline in hopes of qualifying.

If Juventus defeat Lazio at the same time and finally close to winning the title, then AC Milan's scheming will be in vain.

On the bench, once Juventus misses and the main squad can't turn the tables at Camp Nou, will there be a repeat of the regret in Lecce?

Maybe it's a gamble, but gamblers are afraid to look ahead, in any case, AC Milan needs to have a focus, it needs to play two games with two sets of lineups, if you insist on using the main lineup fatigue, Zuihou's result can only be the same as last season.

Another strange phenomenon in this game is that Dida, who has just returned to the team and is still in an unknown state, actually appeared in the position of the main goalkeeper, and the previous main player Fiori returned to the bench.

At the press conference before the match against Barcelona, a reporter asked Ancelotti if he was comfortable with Dida, and Ancelotti replied: "I want him to have nothing to do in the game, of course, I have complete trust in him. ”

Dida at the beginning of the game, and did repay Ancelotti's trust with a performance of sè, in the first half Eto'o's far shè was firmly held by him, Xiao Luo gave Giuli a through pass, he rushed out to press under him, Kaladze's header back passed too small, Dida also hit in time to get the ball, and in the second half, Inniesta's far shè was also blocked by him, 99% of the time in this game, Dida is an excellent goalkeeper, of course, because the performance of the back line is stable, Dida's performance chances were not as good as the opposing goalkeeper Valdésdo.

But as a good goalkeeper, it's not enough to be perfect 99 per cent of the time, a moment of negligence can make or break the game. And the goal scored by Barcelona, in addition to Ronaldinho's beautiful pass, Gyuli's incredible starting speed, Dida's hesitation also gave the other party a chance.

The reason why "Milan Sports News" said after the game that "Dida is to blame for this goal" is because when Xiao Luo passed the ball, Dida originally wanted to attack and interfere with Gyuli to get the ball, but halfway through, it seemed that he saw that Gyuli's speed was too fast, and he made a decision in an instant to give up the attack, or saw that Kaladze had followed, believing that the opponent did not have a chance to play the ball immediately, Dida suddenly stopped and retreated to the goal, at this moment, there was a goalkeeper's most taboo "half-cut goal", And Gyuli seized such a fleeting opportunity, did not adjust at all, and pumped his left foot directly into the near corner, Dida couldn't save, and the ball went in.

If Dida insists on attacking decisively, perhaps Jiuli will still choose the left-footed hanging door, but will be interfered with by Dida; If Dida had opted to hold in front of goal, Gyuli wouldn't have even had a chance to get up and hit the back of the net, but between hesitations, Dida made the worst choice, and worse, his mistake was caught by his opponent.

The goalkeeper is such a high-risk position, there is no room for mistakes, and a small mistake can be fatal if caught by the opponent.

Dida's form has declined sharply this season, and the "Milan Sports Newspaper" has been emphasizing that it was the fireworks in last season's Champions League Milan derby that caused the psychological shadow, and said that Dida can't save the ball now, in fact, it is not, Dida still has several magical saves this season, such as against Siena and Treviso, he has saved the must-score, his real problem is that the number of undeserved errors has risen sharply.

The main contributor to the European Champions Cup final three years ago has now become a "ticking time bomb" on the team's defence. In addition to the famous first-half Milan derby, at home to Sampdoria, he let Gasbaroni's hard shot fly into the net on his arm, and at home to Parma, he picked up a simple high ball, but it was just at the feet of Marchioni.

Although AC Milan have not conceded too many goals this season, such a dense number of low-level mistakes has not been seen in Dida's nearly three-year career. Maybe it wasn't the fireworks that put a lot of pressure on him, but the vicious circle caused by the accumulation of successive mistakes, a mistake added a little pressure, and under the pressure it is easy to make mistakes, and the result accumulates more and more.

On top of that, Dida is heading for a dangerous misunderstanding, and in this match, Dida made several inexplicable strikes to light up the empty goal to the opponent.

After the game, Carlo Ancelotti defended his protégé: "He is at least trying to expand his range of activities, haven't you always criticized him for not attacking in the past? ”

But Dida itself is not a goalkeeper who is good at attacking, and Dida who is good at goal-line jishu is indeed accustomed to being preemptive, not good at taking the initiative, and forcibly changing his style to expand the range of activities, the result is to increase the possibility of mistakes, which is like Kaladze, who has not changed to a central defender some time ago, once tried to strengthen the assist in the left-back position, but there were many mistakes in defense.

In any case, Dida had no chance next, his injury was not completely healed in the first place, and he was even injured in this game, but after the game, his shoulder injury worsened, which is completely reimbursed for the season.

A wrong choice, AC Milan lost at home in the first leg of the semi-finals, Dida's injury worsened, and Ancelotti's cronyism is to blame.

Dida's mistake allowed AC Milan to concede a fatal goal, while Gilardino's poor form in European competition deprived Milan of the opportunity to equalize and even overtake.

In his eighth appearance in the European Champions League, Gilardino's "European goal drought" continues, although this time he is only a few centimetres away from breaking his own goal drought.

Dugan was suspended due to accumulated yellow cards, and Gilardino happened to be doing well in the league, so Ancelotti easily completed a multiple-choice question.

Before the game, the "Milan Sports Newspaper" had put forward the consideration of the Christmas tree, on Rui Costa, play possession, but this is just wishful thinking, Ancelotti still lined up a 4-3-1-2 formation, before the game, some reporters were worried about Gilardino's "European goal drought", Ancelotti said: "He has no problem with his form, what is lacking is just luck, I believe he will score against Barcelona and help the team win." ”

But it turns out that Gilardino is a helpless player in the European arena, and if Gilardino had taken one of the two chances in the thirteenth minute of the first half and the fifth minute of the second half, it might have been a completely different game.

In the thirteenth minute of the first half, Serginho threw a throw-in in the front court, Marcos hesitated slightly to take the ball in the penalty area, Gilardino next to him seized the opportunity and completed a terrible steal, and then led with his right foot, and pulled out a strong blow from a small angle with his left foot, Valdés pounced to the left, and the ball hit his right side, and he was about to score, and with a "dang" sound, the ball hit the post and bounced out.

In its post-match commentary, Sport said: "Gilardino hits the post at an incredible angle. ”

In fact, the miss of this opportunity cannot be counted on Gilardino, because it is not an absolute opportunity in itself, it is Gilardino's own active steal that caused this opportunity, and in the grasp of Zuihoushè door handling, it is not bad, but it is unlucky.

But the second time was different, in the fifth minute of the second half, Inzaggira passed the ball to Kaka on the periphery, Kaka formed a one-on-one with Valdés, and suddenly picked the ball horizontally to Gilardino, under the pressure of Marcos, Gilardino lost his center of gravity and hit the goal wide, and he himself had an incredible expression after getting up.

Pacheco, the editor-in-chief of "Milan Sports Newspaper", also sold a cute, and said in surprise: "The empty goal at 2 meters in front of the goal is actually missed!" ”

It was indeed an undeserved mistake, and Gyuli's goal came exactly five minutes later.

After Giuli's goal, the TV cameras focused on Gilardino again, intentionally or unintentionally, and he still did not break his curse.

Gilardino has maintained a high goal rate in the league, the national team, and even the past European Youth Championships and Olympic Games, but only the European Champions Cup can not break through the door, European competitions and domestic leagues do have rhythms and atmospheres, regrettably, because Parma used the first set of lineups to relegate last season, and the second set of teams played the League Cup, although the team entered the League Cup semi-finals, Gilardino did not appear in Europe, and his European experience is even inferior to his younger brothers Ruopolo and Sorrentino!

In the interview, Gilardino tried to avoid the problem, saying: "It's true that my goals in the Champions League haven't arrived yet, but it doesn't mean that the league goals are not important. ”

The media continues to hype up the problem of "European goal drought", and the more Gilardino wants to prove that he can score goals in Europe, but he can't do it quickly. "European goal drought" has become a heart disease, a curse, and a set of evil cycles.

In fact, as far as this game is concerned, Gilardino did a decent job, his shè goal has increased, he has not had a single shè in the game against Lyon and PSV Eindhoven, and he has completed at least two threatening shè goals in this game.

However, when a series of coincidences form a "curse", it is not so easy to break, because it requires some psychological adjustment of its own, Gilardino needs to score in the Champions Cup, but at this critical moment, AC Milan can no longer shiyan, the next game, Digan will end the suspension, he will almost certainly appear in the starting lineup, and what Gilardino needs to do is to share the pressure of playing in the league as much as possible.

This game once again exposed Ancelotti's lack of immediacy response, and at the beginning of the game, Ancelotti and Rijkaard both coincidentally chose the strategy of controlling the midfield.

The Milanese wanted to control and push and win safely, while Rijkaard wanted to try not to concede the ball and then expect Ronaldo's flash of inspiration.

The only difference is that Rijkaard, with his patience and confidence, waited for Ronaldo's kick in front of the goal, while Ancelotti was unlucky, and when he was behind, he immediately changed his strategy, from controlling the midfield to attacking sharply, but failed to recover the score, but allowed Barcelona to play a happy defensive counterattack.

Carlo Ancelotti's Milan defeat was a classic example of three classic cases, one was Laco's big turnaround, and in Ilulletta's own words, they had planned a quick attack on Milan's right space before the game. It can be said that this is Milan's death fast. The second is that about a year ago in Istanbul, Gerard led the Red Army to break out in a Jedi counterattack, which can be said to be Milan's death from slackness. The third time, it was this Tai Chi push with Barcelona, originally in the stalemate in the midfield, Milan had a slight advantage, but after not seizing the opportunity, he died of Xiao Luo's genius. It can be said that it was Milan who died of genius.

In the past 20 years, Milan has created three typical teams for the world, Sacchi's attacking pressure, Capello's defensive xingxing, Ancelotti's jishuxing, and even Cruyff, who has always hated Italian football, said that Ancelotti's Milan is an alternative to Italian football. But any form of football has its fatal flaws, with Milan classically dying three times and exposing three of their own goals. Died of Laco, the whole game was ignorant, died of Liverpool, only played half a good game, but died of Barcelona, but basically played a good game, and finally died of a genius.

Conceding a goal at home, Milan's hope of entering the final has been slim, it is too difficult to beat Xiao Luo, besides, a Barcelona that has always been an attacking star has now learned to compress the backfield space like Chelsea and stabilize the side defense, which is what Milan needs to reflect, Barcelona can change, Weishenme Milan can't change?

Ancelotti has been in Milan for five years, Milan is almost the same, but his junior brother Rijkaard has been in Barcelona for three years, and Barcelona is maturing year by year, and the use of Ronaldo is getting better and better year by year.

With his full performance at his normal level, Ancelotti's defeat may be the end of his own fate. If you choose the whole, you must face Xiao Luo. Even that kick is enough for Ancelotti to think about it for a whole life.

The game is over, it's useless to say anything more, maybe Ancelotti should be in the situation, Degan is only suspended for one game, and he will be back soon. Ancelotti probably never imagined that one day, he would have to rely on Degan to survive.

'It's disappointing to lose but the good thing is that the semi-final is two legs and we still have a chance, at Camp Nou we will do everything we can, but there is one thing that makes me happy, we lost at home, maybe Mr. Carlo Ancelotti, when he gets to Camp Nou, he won't be asking us to give it his all.'

Everyone can hear it, Degan's sarcasm of Ancelotti in his words, and the contradictions between him and Ancelotti have also been exposed, and there is no problem with the relationship between the two in private, the contradictions between them are all focused on tactics, Degan hopes that the team can actively attack and strive for victory, but Ancelotti is obviously too conservative.

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