1296 Attack and Defense Showdown
1296 Attack and Defense Showdown
When Zlatan Ibrahimovic and Robinho stood in the center circle and were ready to kick off, they looked towards Liverpool's half, and naturally they could see Qin Xiong standing in front of them on the right.
Ibrahimovic shrugged his shoulders towards Qin Xiong, seeming to express a kind of depression in a subtle way.
Since parting ways at Ajax, the two have regularly met in the Champions League, and then?Qin Xiong is always the winner.
This is the first time Qin Xiong and Robinho have met in the UEFA Champions League since their farewell to Real Madrid, and Robinho is also a little depressed.
Look at Qin Xiong, he has already won the Champions League on behalf of four clubs, which can be called a brilliant resume.
The referee blew the whistle and the game began. Ibrahimovic and Robinho put aside their distractions and devoted themselves to the game.
The formations of the two teams stretched out to start an offensive and defensive confrontation.
Today, Liverpool and AC Milan are head-to-head in the midfield. After AC Milan lacks Pirlo, the offense can only rely on Seedorf to thread the needle in the midfield.
However, the aging Dutchman's increasingly lazy state on the court is obviously not suitable for top-level confrontation.
When Gerrard, Alonso, Mascherano and a heavily invested defensive player, Dirk, aggressively run to form a zone, Seedorf puts a lot of pressure on the ball up front. It can even be said that he can't gain a foothold at all!
In the 5th minute of the game, Seedorf had just received Flamini's pass in the middle of the front court. Gerrard stretched out his foot from behind. Seedorf immediately turned the ball around based on his experience, but he just turned around. Someone stretched out a foot diagonally and poked the ball away.
Alonso!
It has been difficult for Seedorf to make continuous technical movements of ball possession and change of direction. He is old, just like the entire AC Milan team.
Liverpool quickly launched an offensive, and Johnson rushed forward from the wing to meet the pass and then passed the ball to the frontcourt.
In response to Antonini's defense, Dirk and Raul hit the wall, but Dirk did not go down, but cut inside!
After attracting Gattuso and Flamini to retreat to the middle of the penalty area, Didier Did not develop an offensive into the penalty area, but passed the ball diagonally back, and the football rolled to Gerrard's feet.
Gerrard kicked the ball without any delay, and passed it diagonally, and the football came in front of Qin Xiong, who was running inside.
Gattuso rushed over immediately, and it was an unexpected shovel destruction!
Qin Xiong will not be intimidated by Gattuso, no matter whether the opponent is a butcher or a villain, Qin Xiong is no longer a fledgling kid, he calmly kicked the ball with both feet and changed direction to avoid Gattuso's shovel, and then cut across to the middle Facing Flamini and then passing the ball diagonally to Raul.
Raul turned his back to the AC Milan penalty area in front of the penalty area, tapped the ball with his left foot, and seemed to stop and pass.
Qin Xiong rushed past Flamini's defense without stopping, and then rushed forward to touch the ball.
It is Qin Xiong's most normal habit to observe before touching the ball.
Qin Xiong, who originally planned to directly pass the ball into the penalty area according to his current way of playing football, suddenly changed his mind because he saw Nesta.
If you were any other guard, no matter how strong you were, you might be a little flustered, or pretend to be decisive, and go straight up!
But Nesta didn't. He was like a mountain, standing still in the most reasonable defensive position.
Even at the age of 35, the Roman king still made the most correct choice in defense with his rich experience.
It cannot be said that Qin Xiong was discouraged, but Qin Xiong thought that the success rate of hitting the ball into the penalty area would not be very high based on the situation in the penalty area.
Because Thiago Silva, who was arranged to play as a defensive midfielder, may have been caused by a defender's thinking. He retreated deeply in defense at the first time and returned directly to the penalty area. This also helped Nesta to a certain extent and made Qin Xiong The breakthrough space becomes smaller.
So Qin Xiong changed his original thinking and chose to volley directly when he touched the ball!
The football slammed into AC Milan's goal with a bang.
This long-range shot was quite satisfactory, and Abbiati moved the ball laterally into his arms.
Liverpool's first shot on goal did not test Abbiati.
AC Milan continued to attack. Antonini made an assist from the left. Robinho made a successful response from the back. Entangling, Ibrahimovic obliquely inserted into the space behind Skrtel, and Robinho saw the opportunity to send the ball under his feet.
Ibrahimovic found himself surrounded as soon as he stopped the ball in the penalty area.
Skrtel retreated to the bottom line and blocked the line between Ibrahimovic and the goal. Mascherano also returned to the defense in time to support the penalty area and blocked Ibrahimovic's right front.
At this time, Ibrahimovic quickly flicked the ball horizontally under his feet, followed by his calf and shot directly on the spot.
The football flew through the gap between Skrtel and Mascherano, but in the end it missed the goal!
Ibrahimovic played the characteristics of delicate skills at his feet, while Liverpool began to stage a style of opening and closing in the team's offense.
In the 13th minute of the game, Gerrard moved the ball forward in the middle. He broke through Flamini's defense during the change of direction. Gattuso's task today is obviously to keep a close eye on Qin Xiong, but his defense in the middle is unstable. With Flamini alone and Thiago Silva not having a strong sense of position, Gattuso could only grit his teeth and return to the center when there was a risk of losing the defense.
As soon as he returned to defense, Gerrard passed the ball diagonally to Qin Xiong's feet.
Qin Xiong had a one-on-one with Abate on the wing. He slammed the ball and made a breakthrough towards the bottom line. Abate just turned around and retreated. Qin Xiong stopped suddenly, and then he saw Gattuso galloping towards him. No more forced breakthroughs.
AC Milan's defensive pressure in the penalty area is extremely high.
Raul began to press hard in front of the goal in the penalty area, and Nesta couldn't ignore Gerrard's forward drive. At this time, Qin Xiong sent a cross from the spot.
The football went over the heads of the two central defenders and crashed into the rear of the penalty area.
I saw that Dirk Antonini took off and beat the header.
He deliberately presses down on the football in order to head the ball into the goal range.
Seeing that the football will fly into the near corner of the goal, Abbiati bravely threw a single punch and hit the ball out!
"Liverpool missed a great goal with a dangerous attack!
The quality of the header from the header from Dirk's response to Qin Xiong's cross was extremely high, but Abbiati staged a wonderful save at the critical moment!
Both teams were able to threaten the opponent's goal today, and the game was not as conservative as we expected. "
Yes, in the expectation of the outside world, AC Milan will decline, and will use the typical Italian team's fighting style to face Liverpool at home, and Liverpool is bound to be more cautious in the first game because they first go away and then host.
But the two teams are generally not conservative today.
Because AC Milan knew that their going to Anfield might be bad luck, so they could only pin their hopes of promotion on the home game in the first round. (To be continued~^~.)
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