AC Milan are currently top of Serie A and despite their poor performance in the Champions League group stage, they are still doing well in the league. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 Info That's why Klopp doesn't dare to underestimate this team.

Despite sending Kaka away, AC Milan have signed Zlatan Ibrahimovic on loan from Barcelona. Sweden's outstanding performance helped AC Milan to top the league.

It's not an easy team to play against.

Anyway, it was more difficult to deal with than Inter Milan, who was discouraged at the time......

Zhou Yi has fully understood this in the simulation battle so many days before the game.

It's difficult to win against AC Milan away from home.

When the actual game started, the situation was similar to what Zhou Yi simulated in the virtual space.

AC Milan are very solid defensively as an Italian team, and they have the monster of Ibrahimovic in attack, so it will be difficult for Dortmund to play.

Defensively, they struggled to cope with Zlatan Ibrahimovic and it was not easy to break down Thiago Silva's defence.

Throughout the first half, Dortmund could not break through the AC Milan goal, but the AC Milan side frequently threatened the goal guarded by Weidenfeller.

And in terms of chances, Dortmund didn't get more chances than AC Milan, after all, it was away from home, and from the beginning of the game, it was AC Milan who dominated.

However, AC Milan were unable to open the scoring for Borussia Dortmund in the first 45 minutes.

Because Dortmund's defensive line is also playing very well.

After 21 rounds of the Bundesliga, Dortmund's defence has conceded only seventeen goals, the fewest in the Bundesliga so far. It is also the only team to concede less than twenty goals.

In the end, the two sides exchanged blanks in the first half.

Marcel Leif's analysis at half-time suggested that after AC Milan did not score in the first half, they would have been extremely attacking in the second half, and as long as Dortmund had enough patience, it was their chance. Because AC Milan, who play first at home, cannot win this game, the second leg will become difficult to play, they will have to score away from home, and at least draw their opponents. What is the atmosphere at Dortmund's home stadium, and even Inter Milan are there to lose without resistance...... How can Allegri pin his hopes of qualifying on the second leg away?

So the key is that Dortmund don't rush, even if they go back with a 0-0 draw in the end.

Composure is important for Borussia Dortmund and it is one of the key experiences in the Champions League.

There are many teams that have performed like newborn calves in the group stage, who are not afraid of tigers, are very motivated, and perform very well. As a result, after the knockout round, it became a raw melon egg, and it was played by experienced opponents.

Because the group stage is not a knockout round, there is no need to decide the winner or loser in one or two games, and the full six games can be played, and the error tolerance rate is higher.

However, after entering the knockout round, there are only two games in each stage of the knockout round, one away and one home, and the error tolerance rate is greatly reduced, and making mistakes in one game may lead to irreparable consequences. At this time, momentum is no longer important, but stable performance and rich experience.

That's why the group stage and the knockout stage are two completely different competitions.

Borussia Dortmund's team lacks the experience of elimination, and if they rush too hard, they are afraid of falling into the knockout round, especially if the opponent is a scheming and experienced Champions League giant like AC Milan.

Marcel Leif was worried about Klopp, who also admonished his players to be patient at half-time.

'It's AC Milan's home stadium and it's them who want to win the game, not us. Of course I'm not saying we don't have to win, but we can have more patience than them because even if it is a draw, we have 90 minutes to go back at home. So don't rush, defend solidly in the second half and then look for opportunities. If the opportunity is not good enough, don't rush up, don't have a situation where there are only a few people left in the backfield......"

The players listened attentively and nodded their heads.

Unlike Jurgen Klopp, who only used his mouth to keep his players calm, in the AC Milan dressing room, Allegri almost filled the tactical blackboard.

He's giving his players a detailed task for each of them, down to the specific ones of how to move......

This is perhaps the characteristic of the Italian managers, who talk a lot about tactics.

However, it can also be seen that Allegri is a little nervous.

In their own home stadium, with the right time and place, and not scoring for 45 minutes in the first half, what psychological impact and hints will this bring to their own players and opposing players?

That's all Allegri has to think about.

He hopes to get on the scoring as soon as possible in the second half, otherwise the later the time will be worse for them.

So he is very meticulous and cumbersome, and would rather stuff all his players like a duck, rather than want to miss anything.

About Zhou Yi, he said the most.

Because he's the heart of this team.

The footage of Borussia Dortmund and Inter Milan's two group stage matches has been analysed repeatedly by Allegri. He believes that without Zhou Yi, Dortmund may be able to qualify from the group, but it is definitely difficult to qualify as the group leader so easily.

To defeat Dortmund's play, we must first curb Zhou Yi's play, as long as Zhou Yi can't play, Dortmund's offensive effect will be greatly reduced.

In the first half, his players were quite restrained by Zhou Yi, so Dortmund did not have any too threatening attacks.

However, it was not without a price, midfielder Flamini received a yellow card for a foul on Zhou Yi, which made AC Milan's second half a hidden danger.

Secondly, another midfielder Gattuso is thirty-three years old, after all, he is old after all, in order to limit Zhou Yi in the first half, he kept running with Zhou Yi, many of which were sprinting up and down, which made his physical fitness a great loss. At halftime, Gattuso had been doing a massage to relax his muscles.

Whether Zhou Yi can be contained in the second half, Allegri does not dare to pack tickets now. He feels that the more important thing than containing Zhou Yi is to score as soon as possible in the second half, as long as the goal is scored, AC Milan at home will have an unstoppable momentum.

In the face of such a general trend, whether it is Zhou Yi or Dortmund, the team will be unstoppable.

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After the start of the second half, AC Milan significantly stepped up their attack in the hope of scoring in the shortest possible time.

And Dortmund has also been prepared for a long time, first of all, to stabilize the defense.

At the same time, when he can get the ball, even if there is no good offensive opportunity, Zhou Yi will send the football forward, and then control the football through the cooperation between two or three people to the foot, and recompress the AC Milan formation back to keep them away from the Dortmund penalty area.

The purpose of defense is achieved through control and offense.

This is actually the decision Klopp made through half a season's repeated analysis and comparison of Zhou Yi's presence and absence.

That is, although Zhou Yi is not good at defense, this does not mean that he does not contribute much to defense. On the contrary, his contribution is significant.

Directly with the opposing player, hand-to-hand combat, and then break the ball, this may not be the defensive way that Zhou Yi is good at.

His defensive style is to keep the football at his feet and at the feet of the whole team. In control, keep the ball away from the danger zone while consuming time and draining the opponent's fighting spirit.

Cutting the ball straight is the first half of the defense, but what happens when the ball is broken?

Many teams choose a big foot to drive out and get the football out of the danger zone. This is certainly an option, but it is not the best because the ball will soon return to the feet of the attackers, who will continue to attack the defenders without diminishing the pressure. Klopp thinks it's a passive defence, a desperate move.

With Zhou Yi, it means that Dortmund can choose to take the initiative to defend.

After breaking the ball, hand over the football to Zhou Yi and let Zhou Yi deal with the next things. It's as if humans are handing over computing to supercomputers, which is a major advancement in technology.

Dortmund are enjoying this progress right now.

Zhou Yi's brain is simply a supercomputer on the field.

With the help of this supercomputer, Dortmund withstood the most rapid attack of AC Milan.

In the case that Zhou Yi didn't need to think about how to send a fatal pass, but just took the football out of the danger area and delivered it forward, Zhou Yi's super fast thinking ability and passing ability were brought into full play.

Unless you don't let him catch the ball, knock him down before he catches it, but then it's a foul. Otherwise, as long as the football can reach his feet, he will always quickly pass the football to where it should go, in fact, it is just a pass to a teammate, which does not involve any subtle running, scalpel-like straight plugging technology.

So it was very easy, but it also gave AC Milan's defenders a headache.

After they pounced on Zhou Yi, the ball was gone, which was really a very frustrating result for the defenders and a big demoralization for them.

They wanted to break the ball, but the ball was gone, so what was the use of pressing Zhou Yi to the ground?

In this way, the second half of the game was almost halfway through, and in the blink of an eye, the score was still 0:0 in the 65th minute, and AC Milan was not able to break through Dortmund's goal.

Borussia Dortmund certainly won't be unhappy with this situation, but AC Milan will.

Through constant observation, Zhou Yi noticed the subtle emotional changes shown by the AC Milan players, and they became ...... More impatient.