Chapter 45: Routines within routines
No one noticed when Zambrotta appeared here.
It seems that by the time Thiago Silva got the ball, he was already starting to kick in.
Now, Zambrotta swept past Salah, caught up with the ball, took two steps in the direction of the penalty area, and then crossed with his right foot.
In the box, Juventus' Barzagli and Leonardo Bonucci were clinging to Ibrahimovic.
Everyone knows that Ibrahimovic, a strong high school striker, is the world's top in both heading and trickling.
Although AC Milan rarely crosses, if they do, they often have to find Ibrahimovic.
Therefore, the two Juventus central defenders are trying their best to keep an eye on the Swedish striker and not give him a direct header on the goal, or even a chance to hit the goal with a barb or a scorpion swinging tail.
But what they didn't expect was that Zambrotta's cross was fast and curled, and it flew directly over the heads of everyone in the middle and flew to the back post.
Barzagli and Bonucci looked up at the ball flying over their heads, and only one word came to mind:
Worst!
But it's too late.
Following the trajectory of the ball, Bonucci saw that at the left post, left winger Mane had already slapped the horse like a ghost.
Beside him, there is not a single Juventus defender.
In such a situation, Mane didn't even jump, just poked his head forward and headed the ball into the left side of the Juventus goal.
At this time, the Juventus goalkeeper Buffon was moving quickly from the other end of the goalpost in a hurry, and he hadn't even stood firm yet, where could he still have time to save?
"The ball is in! Entered, entered, entered! Duan Xuan shouted excitedly, "AC Milan broke the deadlock on the field and rewrote the score to 1:0!" Milan are ahead of Juventus on the road! ”
Zhang Lu: "This goal is indeed a bit unexpected for us. originally thought that Juventus was going to start a counterattack, but unexpectedly, Milan seized the opportunity and came with a bottom cross. Juve's left side of the defence is completely broken, which shouldn't be. We'll take a look at the slow-motion replay and see how the goal goes......"
Most of the Juventus Arena is now quiet.
Juventus fans were speechless and could only watch the small stretch of AC Milan fans cheering and shouting in the away stands.
After Mane scored, he also turned around excitedly and rushed out of the stadium, rushing all the way to the Milan fan stands, expressing his inner excitement to the fans who came from afar.
Of course, there are no special celebratory moves.
Sadio Mane scored a lot of goals, but the post-goal celebrations were always at the community level – unless some team-mates could help him out.
Behind Sadio Mane, the Milan players rushed forward one after another to celebrate the goal with him.
In front of the bench of the visiting team, Allegri also clenched his fists in a daze, screaming excitedly, and he didn't know where he was thrown away from his previous calm appearance.
Pan Yi jumped up even higher, waving his arms vigorously in the air, looking extremely excited and excited.
Then, the coaches also hugged each other tightly.
Allegri patted Pan Yi's head lightly and shouted: "Pan Yi, our tactics have succeeded again!" ”
This scene was also captured by the live camera and presented to all the fans around the world who watched the live broadcast of the game.
Everyone can feel the excitement of the Milan coaches at the moment, and they can also feel the special status of Pan Yi, the assistant coach, in the Milan team.
And on the other side.
Conte was staring blankly at his peers who were celebrating in disbelief.
Obviously everything is under his control, why did Milan suddenly score?
The development of this ball is also too ...... Suddenly!
AC Milan played a strong attack in the middle for nearly 30 minutes, why did they suddenly come to a wide burst and then make a bottom cross?
If nothing else, since Milan used Sadio Mane and Salah's two inside forwards, they have rarely played the bottom.
And this time, the bottom also regarded the center forward Ibrahimovic as a feint, but the main attack was Mane at the back post.
You know, this Senegalese striker is fast and dribbles well, but headers are not what he is best at.
So one after another, I didn't expect to completely stunned Conte.
After sitting back on the bench, Conte watched the replay of the broadcast footage again before slowly recovering a little.
All of this seems to be ...... It's all a well-planned conspiracy from Milan!
And this conspiracy has been laid out from the very beginning of the game.
No, not even before the game started.
Zambrotta, who crossed from the bottom, has actually faded out of Milan's main lineup this season.
However, with no injury reports and no rotation in several of Milan's former main full-backs, Milan let him start the game.
At first, Conte simply thought that the Milan coaching staff might have thought that the 18-year-old Desiglio was too young to resist the pressure of such an important game, so the 33-year-old veteran was fielded.
But looking at it now, Zambrotta's sudden forward and accurate low cross were the key to the goal.
This is exactly what Zambrotta made famous for when he was younger.
And the reason why Zambrotta was able to kick such a comfortable cross without hindrance was because Juve's defense was empty all the way at that time.
Both Andrea Pirlo and De Celli went to guard against Dick and were too late to get back into position, which led to a long pass from Thiago Silva.
And the reason why De Celli needs to help Pirlo with two people to defend one Van Dijk is because in the first 30 minutes of the first half, Milan have been attacking the middle, which has consumed a lot of Pirlo's physical energy and forced him to move to that side.
This is a ......
It's all a routine!
When Thiago Silva took the ball and played a long ball, Salah had already started, and Zambrotta behind him did not hesitate to run along the touchline.
Zambrotta's cross after getting the ball did not take into account Ibrahimovic's feint attack in the middle, but directly found Mane at the back post.
This shows that these are all routines that Milan has practiced in advance in training!
A routine within a routine!
The more Conte pondered, the more he shook his head.
He's really fooled! Fall into the trap of Milan!
In a fit of rage, he clapped his hands hard and sat up suddenly, but accidentally hit his head on the ceiling on the bench, and the pain was so painful that he couldn't help but hiss.
This also caught the attention of the visiting bench.
Conte couldn't help but glance over there as well.
I saw Pan Yi looking at Conte with his prestige, and at the same time with a sly smile.
Conte touched his head, seemed to understand something, and couldn't help but think:
"Is it another tactic he devised again?"
"This 25-year-old junior can think about tactics so thoroughly?"
"Seeing that he is so arrogant, he must be secretly happy because he calculated me."
"Looks like I'm going to have to give him some color to see......"