Chapter 148: Battle of Milan
In the last game of the triangle, Guangzhou Sun God Club played AC Milan FC, and Milan adjusted the lineup, changing the lineup from double midfielders to the standard 4-4-2 play style of diamond position:
Goalkeeper: Taibi
Defenders: Maldini, Cruz, Kostecuta, Zig
Midfielders: Desailly, Ibrahim. Ba, Donadoni, Boban
Forwards: Kluivert, Weah
The Guangzhou Suns also made changes to the lineup:
Goalkeeper: Huang Hongtao
Three central defenders: Li Wei, Li Boen, Huang Qiqi
Left and right wingbacks: Wu Chengying, Xie Feng
Double midfielders: Ballack, Gattuso
Double forward midfield: Peng Weijun, Zhang Xiaorui
Forward: Trezeguet
Such a arrangement, while the side attack continues to maintain pressure, for Milan's single back and forward midfield, the Sun God team is two people to deal with, Peng Weijun and Zhang Xiaorui can also press forward at any time when attacking, and there are two people available on the front line. Obviously, this is to use the number of people to break the opponent's personal ability advantage.
This is also the intentional arrangement of the teenager, Boban's technique and passing are indeed very good, but he has an obvious characteristic is slow, Li Bern knows that before the new century is the last spring of this type of player, after 2000, including Serie A, European leagues have significantly improved the rhythm of the game, you can look at the choice of players in the forward position of those giants, such as Boban, Riquelme and other players slowly lost the market. It is most obvious from Riquelme's career, it is a pity that the best time did not play in Europe, until 2002 from Boca came to Barcelona, Riquelme only scored 3 goals in 30 games that season, Barcelona was only 6th in the standings, the second year of the arrival of Ronaldo, the club directly sold the Argentines who spent a lot of money last season to the yellow submarine, not to mention the 4-on-2 counterattack of Argentina against Germany in the World Cup was dragged into a 4-on-5 situation by Riquelme.
Lee Bern absolutely believes that Gattuso, the future Milan meritorious player, can bring some deep memories to Boban, not to mention that Gattuso has a tall Ballack next to him to help defend. As for the arrangement of the double front waist, the main thing is that Peng Weijun and Desailly are still much worse when they fight alone, plus Zhang Xiaorui, who dares to pass on the field and has outstanding skills, presumably Desailly will also be exhausted.
In short, AC Milan's current squad is indeed full of problems, and it is no wonder that it has hovered around 10th in the table for two consecutive seasons. Cruz and Ziggy on the back line often make some mistakes, Ziggy is better, another free kick and an assist, that Cruz is serious about nothing. Ibrahim in midfield. Bapo has a bit of the style of the French winger Koeman that Bayern introduced later, which is really nothing, and it is definitely a big failure for the club's recruitment.
Kluivert is indeed a strong finisher up front, but unfortunately after Baggio left, his coexistence with Weah was a little repetitive, two scoring machines, one playing in the upper three lanes and the other playing in the lower three lanes, the two of them stood in front, and no one fed the ball. In the previous season of '97, Kluivert scored 9 goals in 33 games, in fact only 6 goals in the league, Weah was a little better at his feet, scoring 10. Let's take a look at Ronaldo, who is also a top striker, who has played 32 league games for Inter Milan and scored 25 goals, even Piero has scored 21 goals, and has scored 18 goals in 31 games, so you say that Milan is ranked 10th this season. After Baggio left, Boban occupied the main position, scoring 2 goals and less than 10 assists in a single season. In fact, including in the Croatian national team, Boban is not very conspicuous, Boksic and Suker are the thighs. However, this product is also quite good, and later it was even mixed into the FIFA vice bamboo seat, which has to be admired for the kung fu of lying down.
Such a Milan team met Mr. Capello, who played utilitarian football and pursued 1:0 pragmatism, and was doomed to failure. If Capello has a stronger player in midfield and defence, then his pragmatic football still has a lot to offer in Milan, just like the previous Champions League final 4-0 win against Barcelona, which is based on the situation that can hold on first, and the midfielder can seize the opportunity to feed the forward line in the counterattack. Now Milan, a toothless tiger.
The biggest beneficiary of this duel with Guangzhou Sun God is the Frenchman Trezeguet, who joined Serie A three seasons earlier after facing Milan's brace after this season, but unlike the previous life, the start of the French baguette Serie A career began in Rome.
The result of this match proved that Leeburn's arrangement was reasonable, and in the end, Guangzhou Suns added injury time to win 2-1 against AC Milan in just 48 minutes.
After a season and a half plus the run-in of various competitions, the players of this Guangzhou team now have a very tacit understanding with each other. In the central axis, he made full use of the advantage of more people than the opponent, in the 9th minute of the first half, Ballack made a long pass to Trezeguet in front of the penalty area, and the latter's header was given to Peng Er in the front position, Peng Weijun received the ball and passed directly to Zhang Xiaorui on the right side of the penalty area, Xiao Zhang, who had the best skills in the 4 Little Swans, still boldly deceived the opponent with feints in the face of Costacuta, and then passed the ball to the left behind Zigge, 1.87 meters Zig himself was a little reluctant to serve as a right-back, plus the shortcomings of slow turning, Let Wu Chengying easily rush past the side, Xiao Wu on the side of the left foot with the footwork of the shot flat into the penalty area, Trezeguet grabbed in front of Cruz to shovel the shot, Guangzhou 1 goal ahead of Milan.
Guangzhou, who led by one goal, began to tighten their control in the midfield, and the numerical advantage allowed them to calmly fall to their feet in the face of Milan's defense, and played very patiently. Then in the 21st minute of the game, the Guangzhou team suddenly picked up, the ball passed in the middle of the road a few feet to avoid Desaily's defense, and then went to the right side to insert the foot of Xie Feng, facing the old horse in front of him. In the case of Ba defense, Xie Feng directly passed the half-high ball back to the feet of De Ballack in the center circle. The German received the ball and seemed to pass it back to the central defender to continue to maintain possession, and suddenly half-turned and passed the ball to the feet of Zhang Xiaorui in the front court, who pretended to pass to Desailly, but in fact it was a right-footed pass to the left foot, and then took advantage of the situation to pull himself to Milan's penalty area, while the old horse had just returned to the corner of the penalty area, Zhang Xiaorui grabbed the weak point of Cruz and sent a straight plug to the penalty area, Trezeguet slowed down to protect the ball while Costacuta was close to his left side, Taking advantage of the opponent's unpreparedness, he suddenly started to open less than half of his body, just like that, the baguette scored with a close volley, and the Guangzhou team 2:0 Milan. It was this goal that made scouts from many teams in Serie A see the potential of Trezeguet, after all, Costacuta's ability is not just any striker who can face him to complete such a shot, what is the talent? These scouts don't eat dry food with high salaries.