The Champions League final is about to begin, and in the stands of the stadium, the fans on both sides are enthusiastic, and the fans are naturally excited to compete for the "first in history", even if AC Milan has just failed to defend the league title, this cannot affect their desire for the Champions League title!

Players from both sides lined up to enter the stadium, and the opening ceremony of this special Champions League final will be a little more cumbersome, and it is also a big battle that UEFA uses as a signature.

This could well be a classic battle that will go down in history!

"The 2004-2005 Champions League final is about to begin, and the two teams that have reached the final are the absolute top teams in European football today, with five-time Champions League winners Millwall challenging six-time Champions League winners AC Milan! If AC Milan can win, it will become an unprecedented seven-time Champions League winner, and if Millwall wins, hehehe, the history of the Champions League will be magnificent! Millwall, AC Milan, and Real Madrid are tied for the most titles in the history of the Champions League with six Champions League titles! This year is the 50th anniversary of the establishment of the Champions League, and in half a century, AC Milan and Real Madrid have played an important role in the history of the Champions League. ”

"As the opening ceremony draws to a close, let's take a look at the starting line-ups for both sides.

Millwall, 433.

Goalkeeper: Bout.

Defenders: Schneider, Nesta, Thiago Silva, Lahm.

Midfielders: De Rossi, Alonso, Kaka.

Forward: Villa. Henry. Ronaldinho.

AC Milan 442.

Goalkeeper: Dida.

Defender: Cafu. Stam, Maldini, Karazew.

Midfielders: Gattuso, Pirlo, Seedorf, Rui Costa.

Forwards: Shevchenko, Crespo.

It is worth mentioning that no matter who wins the championship between the two teams. There will also be a Champions League player individual honour to be tied!

On Millwall's side, Bout, Schneider, Nedved and Larsson on the bench, they have won the Champions League five times, and if Millwall wins, they will equal Hento's record of six titles!

On AC Milan's side, Andrea Pirlo also has five Champions League titles, four of which have come with Millwall. If AC Milan win the title, Pirlo will also equal Hento's record for trophy lifting. One championship away from a new record!

There is no doubt that the players mentioned above are already legendary players in the history of the Champions League, and whether or not they can break Gento's record, they will be important historical figures in the history of the Champions League for a long time to come, well, this sentence may be a bit early, because Pirlo is only 26 years old. ”

Aldridge watched AC Milan's starting line-up from the sidelines, and it should be said that there was no big surprise.

Or the reason why AC Milan is considered to be the closest to Millwall's strength is because it is only the main lineup, but if Millwall and AC Milan are competing in the same league and competing for league competitiveness, then the gap between Millwall and AC Milan will be very obvious, because AC Milan's squad thickness is not enough to make their overall strength comparable to Millwall.

But in a 90-minute or 120-minute game, as long as you play your best cards, then the overall difference will not be too obvious.

AC Milan are a little bit worse than they were at the same time.

Because there is no Nesta at the back and no Kaka in the midfield position.

However, the situation should also be viewed rationally.

It's hard to say that Kaka and Rui Costa at this time are compared to Kaka definitely winning.

It's just that Rui Costa is 33 years old after all, Kaka is like the rising sun, representing the future, in the use of people to match the long-term construction of the team, it is natural to look to the future, so Nedved was put on the bench by Aldridge, and Nedved was on the bench, not that Nedved's strength is obviously not as good as Kaka, but a rational view of reality, Nedved can only play his residual heat in the future, and he can no longer give Millwall a golden decade, or even a peak five years, three years, it is impossible.

If AC Milan will give Aldridge any surprises, it will definitely be on the front line, at least AC Milan has a lot of reserves in the front line, Tomasson, Inzaghi, Shevchenko, Crespo.

It's a pity that Inzaghi has just recovered from a long-term injury, and his performance in the battle of Tianwang Mountain and Juventus was mediocre, so it is reasonable that he did not get the starting position today.

The battle of the pinnacle of the strong, first of all, must not make mistakes!

The players on both sides of the field also knew this, and before kick-off, the two sides looked at the other half, and the spirit of murder suddenly appeared!

AC Milan did not deliberately shift their focus and sacrifice the league for the Champions League, as they had not yet reached the final when they played Juventus in the title race, and Juventus had not yet reached the semi-finals of the Champions League.

It can only be said that the key battle was lost, and the situation changed dramatically.

But from another point of view, if AC Milan had won the battle at San Siro, they might not have come to Istanbul in the same fighting spirit, because Juventus were out of the Champions League and forced AC Milan to not make any mistakes in the league.

After unloading the burden of the league, in fact, the league lost the championship was also doomed in the previous round, so the league four days ago was just to kill the suspense in advance, a bit like self-ending, after all, it is too unrealistic to expect Juventus to collapse.

AC Milan, which does not have any worries, is very serious and full of preparation for this game, and may fall behind in physical fitness to Millwall, but the fighting spirit and psychological preparation will never be left behind.

Carlo Ancelotti was expressionless on the sidelines.

The whole world doesn't know what to do with Millwall.

Even if the whole world is studying Millwall.

To restrain Millwall is nothing more than two ways to start, the first is restriction!

Anything like Chelsea does, but Chelsea are a lesson for other teams to do the same.

AC Milan are not Chelsea and do not have the personnel profile of Chelsea, so it is naturally impossible to go down this path.

Then there is only one way left. That's suppression!

But to keep Millwall down. It's too hard.

Inside. You have to ask the players to go above and beyond.

Carlo Ancelotti still prepared a tactical style of play against Millwall.

If you can't succeed or not, you won't know until you fight!

When it comes to Istanbul night in 2005, most people will definitely think of AC Milan's momentum after the opening game.

But in fact, after the start of today's game, both teams on the field were a little conservative, looking restrained, but in fact safe. Avoid over-excitement or slow heat-up.

Millwall is not the Liverpool of the original history, AC Milan will not put themselves in a high-profile position, on the contrary, they should be low-key, low-key, more low-key!

In such a pinnacle battle, not only does it need the players' state to be stimulated, but also the rhythm of the whole team of 11 people needs to be synchronized and play at the same pace, otherwise. It would be a hidden danger for the game, which is why both sides were conservative after the opening.

It's not good to be too excited. Getting too excited is an imbalance of mindset!

In the first 10 minutes, Millwall and AC Milan both played a step-by-step attack, and there were no particularly exciting scenes, and the players of both teams were finding the rhythm of the whole team, and focused on the core players, keeping up with the pace and getting into the role.

In the 12th minute of the game, Millwall took the lead!

Millwall's attacking core, of course, is Xiao Luo, when he begins to break out, such as taking the initiative to pass, accelerating with the ball and breaking through, etc., it is a signal on the field!

Xiao Luo retreated very deep this time to get the ball, he slowly returned to the midfield, received Alonso's pass, stopped the ball and passed it was an action, directly rolled the ball forward, the ball rolled between Rui Costa's legs, Xiao Luo broke out after touching the ball, Rui Costa turned around, and was directly overtaken by Xiao Luo!

At this moment, Millwall's front-court offensive erupted!

Gattuso and Pirlo quickly retreated!

Yes, the two backs did not go up.

It's looking for death on top!

AC Milan's back line quickly retreated, and Gattuso stood in front of the big penalty line!

Pirlo is ready to intercept in the area in front of him, he will not take the initiative to press, just wait for the opponent's attack to come over and intercept, and cooperate with Gattuso to intercept!

One thing that must be taken into account is that AC Milan's back line is too old!

Cafu, who will be 35 years old next month.

Stam, in 50 days will be 33 years old.

Maldini, 37 years later in a month!

Kaladze is in his prime, 27 years old, but he's a full-back!

So the space in the penalty area, can't be given to Millwall!

Not even a little bit.

This is the reason why the AC Milan defence has retreated sharply.

If you really lose your position and make it up, can you still make it up? Is there still a chance to make up for it?

Xiao Luo took the ball all the way forward, like entering a no-man's land!

There are two points parallel to him that hit forward, Kaka on the right and Lahm on the left.

There are two points ahead, Henry and Villa.

Behind Ronaldo, Alonso is following forward.

The menacing Millwall boldly and presumptuously "invaded" AC Milan's territory!

On the way with the ball, Ronaldo watched the opposition defence, the magician on the pitch and a brilliant playmaker, who had in his head how to contain and tear apart AC Milan's defence.

In order to prevent Cafu from recklessly entering the box to strengthen the defense in the box, Ronaldo passed the ball when he came to Pirlo and passed it to Lahm on the left wing!

Lahm was the point of contact to highlight the attacking threat on the left flank, forcing Cafu to not return to the penalty area!

When Lahm dribbled forward to a parallel position on the line of the penalty area, he crossed the ball horizontally, apparently back to Ronaldo.

Ronaldo was physically confronted by Pirlo at this time, the ball was passed to the back position, and Pirlo could only steal unless he got rid of Ronaldo's physical confrontation, and Pirlo did not do this to be on the safe side.

When the ball rolled over, Ronaldo suddenly leaked the ball and he didn't touch it!

Pirlo's pupils shrank, and he didn't expect Xiao Luo to leak the ball!

And when Xiao Luo was thinking in his mind at the moment: Andrea, organizational ability, you are a master, one-on-one defense, how can you stop me?

Thinking of this, Ronaldo had already run quickly after the ball was leaked, and ran diagonally from Andrea Pirlo to the front right!

The missed ball was obtained by Kaka, AC Milan's back line, the alarm sounded, and Gattuso's scalp was numb! (To be continued......)