Chapter 339: Ride the Tiger Forward!
The next day, Milan Sports Newspaper commented on last night's game: Before yesterday afternoon, Milan's 22-game winning streak was undoubtedly magnificent, and any team wanted to be the terminator of Milan's winning streak. Yesterday afternoon, Livorno wanted to play the finisher, and they started with a defensive posture, and in the face of dense defense, Milan's frantic attacks came to naught.
Milan had a total of 12 shots on goal in the first half, five of which hit the woodwork, while Livorno did not have a single shot on goal in the first half. With the stats dominant, Milan failed to find the back of the net against Livorno.
Milan have been attacking wildly, but in front of a tenacious Livorno, neither Ronnie's low shot, Inzaghi's snatch, nor Kaka's long-range shot could break the opposition's goal.
In the 38th minute of the second half, Livorno dealt Milan a heavy blow, and they used a quick defensive counterattack to successfully sneak up. 1-0, Livorno leads at the San Siro. With stoppage time, there are only ten minutes left for Milan. If this match ends with this scoreline, then Milan's winning streak will come to an abrupt end, and Milan's unbeaten golden body will not be guaranteed.
At this time, the match between Inter and Chievo was also coming to an end, and Inter led 2-0 away. If Milan lose this game at home, the gap between them and Inter Milan will widen to nine points. According to the strength shown by Inter at this stage, the Serie A title is in their bag.
In this way, Milan not only came to an abrupt end to the winning streak and broke its unbeaten streak, but also lost the opportunity to compete for the Serie A title, and the situation was extremely grim. Before the start of the season. Don shouted a bold word: he wants to win the Serie A and Champions League.
But at the time many people thought it was a joke. If Milan had lost yesterday afternoon's game, Don's rhetoric would have been a real joke. Don didn't want to be a joke on anyone's lips, so he won a direct free-kick five minutes later and kicked the ball into Livorno's goal himself.
The equaliser boosted Milan's morale, and in the first minute of stoppage time, Kaka fired from distance, Amelia saved the ball back, and Ronnie made a successful follow-up shot. Milan managed to turn the score around!
Ronnie saved Milan in the last moments!
In this way, the horror trio exerted its strength. Help Milan to a 2-1 scoreline. Thrilling victory. The heroic Milan has won 23 consecutive victories!
After the game, Carlo Ancelotti admitted at a press conference that the victory was not easy to come by. At the same time, he also took the responsibility of falling behind. He said: "It was I who asked the players to take the lead early in the first half. So the players were in a hurry to break down Livorno's goal. only to cause the rear air defense to be weak, so that the opponent counterattack is successful. β
Maldini also said: "Today's game was a lesson, we were too impatient. Too hungry for victory. In the future, we will adjust our mentality and face every opponent calmly. β
After 23 rounds, Milan achieved the greatest winning streak in history, 23 consecutive wins, and they still bit Inter. Inter are equally impressive, winning 14 in a row and sitting at the top of the table. There is still suspense about the Serie A champion, and it is unknown who will kill the deer.
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Back in Milan, Carlo Ancelotti announced a two-day break and the players shouted "Hooray!" βγ Yes, they have been too tired lately, and the winning streak is indeed gorgeous, but the mental consumption of the players is too great. Every streak is a step forward on the tightrope, and each step forward accumulates one step of fear.
In front of the wire rope were the Serie A champions, who didn't want to stop, they didn't want to fall, so they moved forward in fear. However, walking on a wire rope is too mentally exhausting. Ancelotti didn't know where they would go, stop, or even fall.
The only thing he can do is give the players two days of rest, relax and then take another step forward.
Alice knows that Tang is hard, it is hard. In these two days, he changed his appetite in different ways. Tang Jue had a good night's sleep in the past two days, relaxing his tense nerves. Even people like Ronnie didn't go out to spend their days drinking during the two-day break.
On 17 February, 24 rounds of Serie A matches will begin, and Milan will take on Siena away from home. After this game, they will fly to Scotland immediately, and will play the first game of the first knockout round of the Champions League against Celtic on the 20th.
Will Carlo Ancelotti give up the Champions League for Serie A? Will Carlo Ancelotti give up the Champions League for a 25-game winning streak?
The team newspaper believes that Carlo Ancelotti may do this, and in the away game against Celtic on the 20th, Milan can fight for a draw, or lose less, as long as they return to their home stadium to win against their opponents, they can also qualify. After all, Milan are now on a 23-game winning streak, a once-in-a-century opportunity, and Ancelotti may not have such an opportunity in his lifetime if he misses this one.
The winning streak is a tiger, and Ancelotti sits on it. It's hard to ride a tiger, so you can only ride a tiger to keep going!
Marca newspaper sticks to its point that Milan have surpassed Celtic's winning streak. So they don't think Carlo Ancelotti will send his full squad to play Siena. They analyzed that when Milan played Livorno, Don did not start, and Ancelotti was thinking about the match against Siena at that time. So against Siena, Don deserves to start.
Carlo Ancelotti will put most of his main force on the bench for the Champions League. Whether Milan can continue its winning streak in this game should depend on Tang Jue's form.
At half past three in the afternoon of the 17th, the media got the starting lists of both sides. The Marca newspaper reporter nodded triumphantly, they won, and Ancelotti put Pirlo, Ronnie, Gattuso, Maldini, Gattuso on the bench. And Tang Jue is the only striker.
Almost half of the main force is on the bench, so to speak, Ancelotti's purpose in this game is not necessarily to defeat the opponent!
Artemio? Stade FranciΓ³n, home of Siena. At this point, Artemio? At the Francie Stadium, in the away dressing room, Carlo Ancelotti has just announced his starting line-up.
Gattuso exhaled and nodded slightly, this arrangement made sense. The last game consumed too much. The main players should be given more rest time to prepare for the knockout rounds of the Champions League.
Ronnie closed his eyes, and no one knew what he was thinking. Kaka's face was solemn, he was Tang Jue's staunchest supporter. Tang Jue frowned, rubbed his eyebrows, and looked at his toes.
Carlo Ancelotti looked at Tang Jue and said: "At the beginning of the season, I said that once there is a conflict between Serie A and the Champions League, the Champions League is the first thing we think about. β
'We played away from home and our tactics were to defend and counter-attack. In the case of a solid defense. Seize the moment to fight back. β
Since several main forces are placed on the bench. Of course, it is impossible to raise the banner of assault. There was not a single problem with Carlo Ancelotti's tactical arrangement. There is another reason for this, Milan are playing away tonight. Siena will certainly be determined to hold off Milan and they will certainly want to be the terminator of Milan's winning streak.
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Walking out of the dressing room, the starters stand in the tunnel of the players. Kaka shook his head. patted Tang Jue's shoulder and said, "The coach is still not enthusiastic enough. βγ After speaking. He pouted helplessly.
Tang Jue raised his head and looked at Kaka and said, "The coach may not be wrong, coach, of course, you have to consider the overall situation." β
Kaka shook his head. looked at Tang Jue strangely. Could it be that this guy just accepted this ending? Is he willing to let the winning streak come to an abrupt end?
Tang Jue's eyes suddenly changed, becoming extremely firm. He looked at Kaka firmly and said, "We can both win this game!" β
Kaka found that not only was Tang Jue's eyes firm, but his voice was also unusually firm.
"Yes!" Kaka thought for a moment, nodded firmly, and said, "The two of us can win this game together!" β
Two young men made a declaration of battle!
The two of them and Ronnie, known as the "horror trio", are missing Ronnie, and they want to prove to everyone that the two of us are still terrifying and can still bring Milan victory!
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At four o'clock in the afternoon, the game started on time. From the very beginning, Milan followed Ancelotti's arrangement, on the basis of doing a good job of defense, and played counter-attacks. Siena took advantage of the home advantage and launched a ferocious attack on Milan. Half an hour before the game, if you look at it only from the offensive point of view, one would think that it was Siena wearing the white jersey.
Tang Jue has been patiently looking for an opportunity to shoot. In the thirty-fifth minute of the first half, Milan looked for an opportunity to quickly defend and counterattack, Kaka dribbled the ball near the center circle, and Tang's words before the game were still stirring in his mind!
"We can both win this game!"
Kaka flicked two Siena defenders all the way to the hinterland, where Don met him on the left side. Facing the pinching attack of the other two, Kaka passed the ball to Tang Jue!
Taking a step forward, Tang Jue is outside the penalty area and controls the football at his feet!
Siena centre-back Negro stands in front of him on the right!
Suddenly, as if without warning, Tang Jue began to accelerate!
Two steps, Tang Jue only took two steps to leave Siena central defender Negro on the right behind. Tang never used a feint, he purely used his speed advantage to break into the Siena penalty area!
Tang Jue is strong!
Single Knife!
Tang will never hack Siena to death with a single knife in his hand!
No one can stop Milan's winning streak!
The next moment, Tang Jue bypassed Manninger and easily sent the football into the goal!
Milan leads 1-0 away!
Tang Jue pointed at Kaka, then jumped on top of him and shouted, "The two of us can win the game equally!" β
Kaka smiled happily, and Ronnie, Pirlo and others sitting on the bench laughed happily. Ancelotti didn't laugh, the game wasn't over yet.
In the 42nd minute of the first half, Kaka hit a heavy shot from outside the penalty area and blasted open the door guarded by Manninger!
Milan leads 2-0!
In the second half, the side changed sides again, and in the second minute, the tenacious Siena pulled a goal back with a header from striker Corvia. How could Tang Jue and Kaka let the victory slip away, so the two scored a goal in the fifteenth and twenty-fifth minutes of the second half respectively.
Milan leads 4-1!
Carlo Ancelotti began to make substitutions, bringing on Gattuso, Inzaghi and Andrea Pirlo. Siena launched a fierce attack on Milan in the following game and scored another goal in the 32nd minute of the second half. However, Milan were a strong team and under Pirlo's control, Milan won the game 4-2 after the game.
Tang Jue and Kaka helped Milan to victory, and Milan continued to ride the tiger forward! (To be continued......)