Chapter 79: Eat Milan Directly

On the evening of March 28.

Today's San Siro Stadium is undoubtedly full again.

Not to mention that tonight is an important Champions League quarter-final match, and the opponent is a giant like Real Madrid, in fact, every home game of Milan this season is like this.

Good results, beautiful play, of course loved by the fans.

In addition, there is Pan Yi, a young coach who is highly valued by Dragon Country fans, and has also attracted countless Dragon Country people to come on pilgrimage.

So whenever there is a game in Milan, the inside and outside of the San Siro stadium is flooded.

Pan Yi has long been accustomed to this atmosphere in San Siro.

He followed Allegri and walked onto the pitch amid a tidal cheer from the fans to shake hands with the opposition coaching staff.

When he shook Mourinho's hand, Pan Yi obviously felt the madman's hand squeeze heavily.

Pan Yi looked up and saw Mourinho showing a strange smile, but he didn't speak.

Pan Yi smiled at him, and then returned to the home team's bench.

This is also part of Mourinho's psychological warfare, right?

It's a pity that for Pan Yi, who has opened God's perspective, it is useless at all.

He only knows one thing: Mourinho today definitely wants to kill Milan very much, and in a Milanese way!

But Pan Yi also thinks the same.

He was already sitting in his seat, looking at the starting line-ups of both teams on the field.

Mourinho's 4231, the center forward at the front, is still French striker Benzema.

Behind him are striker Kaka, as well as two wingers, Cristiano Ronaldo and Angel Di Maria.

A back-two of Alonso and Khedira.

In the back line are Marcelo, Ramos, Pepe, Arbeloa.

Goalkeeper Casillas.

It's basically the same as Pan Yi's prediction.

In fact, from the employment of the left-back position, you can see Mourinho's attitude today.

He used the attacking Brazilian defender Marcelo instead of the more balanced Portuguese defender Coentrão.

In this way, Pan Yi's targeted tactics before the game can have a better effect.

Of course, the formation on AC Milan's side is still 433, and the lineup is also the regular main force:

Forwards: Mane, Ibrahimovic, Salah.

Midfielders: N'Golo Kante, Boateng, Gattuso.

Defenders: Zambrotta, Thiago Silva, Van Dijk, Abate.

Goalkeeper: Edson.

Also at left-back, the coaching staff opted for veteran Zambrotta.

The main thing is that the young Desiglio's recent form has been a bit up and down, which may also be related to the emotional turmoil caused by him playing in the Milan main team at such a young age.

In addition, Zambrotta has also played for Barcelona and participated in the Spanish national derby, so he is no stranger to Real Madrid, and he can get into the game faster.

So in such an important game, I still let Zambrotta play to avoid any accidents.

……

The live TV cut to a bird's-eye view of the whole stadium, and Benzema and Kaka could be seen standing in the centre circle ready to kick off.

Cristiano Ronaldo and Angel Di Maria stood on opposite sides of the pitch, ready to run to Milan's half.

"The focus of this Champions League quarter-final is about to begin."

Zhan Jun's commentary also sounded:

"Judging from the value of the two teams, Real Madrid is definitely much higher than Milan."

"Just the two top names of Real Madrid, Cristiano Ronaldo spent 80 million pounds on Real Madrid when he transferred from Manchester United. And Kaka's value has also reached 65 million euros. ”

"On Milan's side, even Ibrahimovic's worth is only 24 million euros, and other main players like Salah, Mane, Kante, Van Dijk, including the Brazilian goalkeeper Ederson, who just joined in the winter window, are all like bought from Taobao, and their value can be almost negligible."

"But this is the kind of low-priced team that has played well this season. They sit top of the Serie A table with an unbeaten record of 24 wins and four draws, and have all but bagged the Serie A title. ”

"Of course, Real Madrid's performance in La Liga is not far behind, after 30 rounds of league games, they have also achieved an excellent record of 25 wins, 3 draws and 2 losses, beating their rival Barcelona to occupy the top of the standings."

"Now, these two teams with the best performances in the two leagues have met in the knockout round."

"Before the game, the coaches of the two teams also had a battle of words, and now I just don't know who can be better on the field......

on the field.

With a crisp whistle, the game officially kicked off amid the cheers and shouts of the Milan fans in the stadium.

Benzema kicked the ball to Kaka, who immediately passed it back to his own midfielder.

Milan's trident crossed the halfway line for the first time and charged towards Real Madrid's half, putting pressure on their two midfielders.

Alonso stopped the ball sideways and played the ball to the right.

There was Arbeloa, who had come up in front.

Sadio Mane immediately went up to press and Arbeloa handed the ball down the touchline to right winger Cristiano Ronaldo.

Unlike Milan's two wingers who are both backfoots, Real Madrid's bilateral forwards are both playing in a smooth way.

Cristiano Ronaldo plays right winger with his right foot and Di Maria plays left winger with his left foot.

This is because in Mourinho's 4231 tactical system, the distance between the midfield defense and the back line will be widened, and he will also ask to limit the ability of the opposing full-back to adduct and protect the middle, so he will ask his two wingers and two wingbacks to pull the side.

In this case, both the wingers and full-backs are on the line and can better execute Mourinho's tactical intentions.

Moreover, when the winger is on the wing, Mourinho also gives his players more freedom to decide whether he wants to cross or cut inside, or switch places with the winger on the other side.

Doing so can make Real Madrid's frontcourt more flexible and not be limited to death by opponents.

In addition, Real Madrid's several "forward-winger-forward" triangle positions with outstanding anti-offside ability also make the opponent's back line unable to press forward, and it is difficult to maintain the relative position distance relationship with the midfielders.

In this way, a wide open area in the middle of Real Madrid's midfield has been created, and the "central defender-forward midfielder" is directly connected and quickly through the midfield mode to appear more and more in Real Madrid's games this season.

Jose Mourinho's attacking midfield push can maximise the potential of attacking players and form a five-man attacking group to suppress the opposition in a short period of time.

Now on the field, when Ronaldo got the ball, Real Madrid's closest teammates Benzema and Kaka also leaned towards him, ready to play with him.

Sure enough, when N'Golo Kante was about to grab the ball from Cristiano Ronaldo, Roma handed the ball to Kaka and then stepped forward without hesitation.

Kaka didn't stick to the ball either, giving it to Benzema with a snort.

Although Benzema took the ball with his back, he raised his leg directly to the right side as if he had eyes on the back of his head.

The ball is back at Ronaldo's feet.

But unlike just now, after such a simple pass of two feet, Real Madrid's battle line has advanced more than 20 meters.

Milan left-back Zambrotta didn't dare to slack off, and without waiting for Ronaldo to get up, he directly fell to the ground and tackled, shoveled the ball out of bounds, and also tackled Ronaldo, which can be regarded as barely stopping the attack.

In just ten seconds of the opening game, Real Madrid had already put on a posture of wanting to eat Milan directly!