In the middle of the two annual awards ceremonies, when playing against Fiorentina, the draw results for the European Champions Cup knockout round of 16 were also announced. AC Milan, who had been unlucky in the league, was once again drawn. Their opponent in the top 16 was
Scottish Celtic team.
It’s said to be a good sign, because there were no major upsets in the process of entering the top 16. If the defending champion Madibo was eliminated at the bottom of the group, it does not count. In the top 16, there are four places in the Premier League, and Italy and Spain each occupy three places.
, there are two seats in Ligue 1, Portugal and Portugal have one seat each, and only Bayern Munich is left in the Bundesliga.
Their strength should not be underestimated. They are all regulars over the years. Only the Celtics are considered newbies. In comparison, the top team in the Scottish Premiership is an opponent that the top eight teams want to meet. In the league, drinking cold water is too cold.
Teeth, but AC Milan's fortunes are clearly shining brightly in the Champions League.
The fall of Fort Madi has returned the Bundesliga to its previous miserable state. Bayern, the only remaining player, dare not breathe heavily because their opponent is Real Madrid.
Piggy Schweinsteiger was so angry that he complained loudly to the Six Musketeers brothers: I'm really a loser. It's like this every year. It's all you bastards every year. No.
The second brother is Scar, and after Scar is over, he is still the second brother. This year, I finally took advantage of the second brother. Butcher, are you interested? This fucking Champions Cup is specifically targeting me to draw lots...
Except for Butcher Jiang and Xiaozhu, the other four brothers are all lucky. Scar has no feelings for Porto, but Mourinho once again faces the old club that made him famous, and he doesn’t know whether his feelings are still there.
Ups and downs. My grandfather and his Manchester United met the Ligue 1 Lille who had just been destroyed by Zhuo Yang. It must not be difficult. They have a good recovery momentum this year.
The second brother is a little more difficult. I don't know what kind of disturbance Inter Milan and Valencia will create.
All in all, while the four brothers are betting on the Butcher and the Piglet separately, they are also ready to watch Barcelona and Liverpool fight to the death. Of course, this will all happen in February next year.
Serie A started very late this season, resulting in an extremely tight schedule. Zhuo Yang returned from Zurich, and AC Milan ushered in the 17th round of the league two days later, facing Catania at home.
Catania is a club that was established very early, but has always been floating between the second and third divisions. It occasionally appears in the first division and then quickly disappears from people's sight. Catania is a newly promoted team this year. However.
, there is something worth mentioning about this team.
Old TV viewers all know that Serie A has always had 18 teams in the early years and was determined not to blindly expand its ranks. This number is also very reasonable. There are many other events interspersed with the 34 rounds of the league. The "Little World Cup" period is such a scale but also exciting.
In order to match the scale of the top league, Serie B has always maintained the number of 20 teams. However, this stable league organizational structure was broken in 2003.
That year, Catania and Siena drew in a Serie B match. After the game, Catania complained that Siena used players who should have been suspended. Anyway, there were a lot of bullshit, so there is no need to
Let’s go into more detail.
The Italian Football Association first ruled in favor of Catania, but Siena appealed and changed the verdict to a draw. As a result, Catania filed a complaint and took the lawsuit to the court, which also broke the industry rules for settlement of football matters. The court ruled
Catania won, and this had legal consequences.
The Football Association's ruling was contrary to the court's decision. What was even more embarrassing was that Catania's three contracts involved the issue of whether Naples and Venice would be relegated. In the end, the Football Association was in trouble within its own circle, and Catania took the decision. If it reaches 3 points, the two teams will not be relegated. This year, no one will be relegated, and Serie B will be directly expanded to 24 teams.
The following year, Fiorentina, the second-tier team in the second division, jumped to replace Cosenza in the second division with the help of AC Milan. Coupled with the intensified competition for promotion after the expansion, this series of disturbances caused strong dissatisfaction among the second division clubs, and they began to plan a strike to protest. .
In order to appease everyone, the anxious Italian Football Association could only increase the number of places for promotion to Serie A, but it could not also increase the number of places for relegation from Serie A, which would completely upset the situation. So, it simply expanded the number of Serie A teams.
Since then, Serie A, which is known for its stability and prosperity, has grown to its current size of 20 teams. If it were not for this small club's troubles and the lazy and conservative work attitude and style of the Italian Football Association bureaucrats, it is estimated that Serie A will still have 18 teams in another hundred years.
Making his first appearance at home after the double awards ceremony, Zhuo Yang naturally wanted to show the Roseneris two trophies, one gold and one bronze. The whole Catania team was also very interested and lined up to express their admiration for Zhuo Yang. Respect.
There is no shortage of this stuff in the history of AC Milan, but who would find such glory so hot? The fans in the San Siro stands congratulated Zhuo Yang with loud cheers. No matter how strange it is, Zhuo Yang is also the current AC Milan team member. The club's top management attaches great importance to the fact that he is the only current European Footballer of the Year in China and has held a series of celebrations to cheer up the many unfavorable things that have happened since the Calciopoli.
Fame and wealth are not all clouds, but they are not the end of life. After showing off contentedly, we still have to fight hard for the games we have to face. Although Catania is a newly promoted team and was bullied by others at the beginning of the season, it has recently changed. Pretty decent. Milan has no wins, 3 draws and 5 losses in the past 8 rounds, while Catania has 4 wins, 4 draws and only one loss in the previous 9 rounds. Although the loss was a 7:0 massacre by Roma, even so, it looks better than Milan is more energetic.
However, perhaps because of the joy of the trophy, or perhaps because President Tu issued a military order that "two consecutive victories must be won before the winter break", all three armies of Milan fought bravely to kill the enemy, which was always frightening even in the past. Bonella has shown the style of Nesta.
Even Guitao Ladino scored again, AC Milan suffered its second defeat in the past 10 games, 4:0 to Catania.
You must have all the joy in life, and you cannot take all the good things. The European Golden Ball is extremely beautiful, but it failed to bring much luck to Zhuo Yang. He once again failed to score in front of the goal, but Kaká maintained his strong goal scoring performance. After scoring twice in a game, he scored a hat-trick in this game. The winter break is coming soon, and when Europeans are about to celebrate the New Year, Kaká is also killing the New Year pig.
Good things come in pairs, and you can't be happy with just one game. Just two days later, AC Milan defeated Udinese 3:0 in the away game. Perhaps it is age that causes people to treat holidays indifferently, and Kaladze's temporary partner is the central defender. Simic has turned into a concrete wall. The two new star strikers Iaquinta and Di Natale, who have been extremely vigorous this season, have been beaten to death in front of Simic and achieved nothing. The holidays have made young people impetuous.
Kaka opened the scoring for Milan and ended it, scoring twice again, while Oliveira, who was lagging behind in the competition with Guitaozi but failed to score, also blossomed. After scoring, he scored 7 goals in three games.
Kaka is excited.
Zhuoyang still didn't score a goal, not because he didn't want to, but because it was useless to think about it. However, in these two games with a total of 7 goals, he directly assisted 3 times and planned attacks 3 times.
Chapter completed!