Chapter 175: Immediate Effect(1/2)
Seeing Chu Zhongtian appear, Pirlo made a gesture to Gattuso and signaled him to defend.
Gattuso waved his hand: "I get it."
Not long after the game began, when Metz was in possession of the ball, the football was quickly passed to Chu Zhongtian's feet.
When two seasons ago, Chu Zhongtian often needed to keep waving and shouting to get his teammates to pass the ball to him. Now he doesn't need to make any prompts. As long as he runs to the position, his teammates will naturally send the football over.
Chu Zhongtian received the ball relatively backward, and Gattuso did not pounce, he was waiting behind.
Chu Zhongtian did not drive the ball forward by himself. He quickly passed the football out again, without crossing it forward, but passed it to the central defender Traore behind him. As an Italian team, AC Milan did a very good defense, which gave Chu Zhongtian no more chances. He could only pass the football backward, causing AC Milan's formation to press outward.
Although Gatuso is too far away and cannot grab Chu Zhongtian's ball as soon as possible, AC Milan is not only Gatuso.
Kaka observed for a few minutes and found that if there was a ball under the feet of the Metz player, he would pass the ball to the No. 8. No. 8 has been active in the second half. Gatuso is too far away and cannot come up to defend. If he can unexpectedly go forward to grab the ball, he can launch a counterattack on the spot after breaking it... After making up his mind, he leaned up from behind while Chu Zhongtian was catching the ball with his back on his back.
Chu Zhongtian did not stop the football at his feet. He tweeted the football to the right and then turned around. He happened to collide with Kaka.
Chu Zhongtian did not expect Kaka to appear behind him suddenly. The two people collided, and the ball under his feet was stabbed off by Kaka's toes.
The opportunity is here!
Kaka was delighted, and he grabbed Chu Zhongtian's shoulder with one hand, and twisted his body and wanted to overtake the ball from behind Chu Zhongtian.
As a midfielder, he concedes the ball at this position, and the opponent faces the back line directly.
Chu Zhongtian knew very well what it meant to conceal the ball at this time. Almost at the same time he found out that he had already turned around.
So when Kaka planned to surpass Chu Zhongtian to grab the ball, he found that Chu Zhongtian was standing in front of him again. He had to brake suddenly to avoid colliding with Chu Zhongtian.
Chu Zhongtian used his super fast reaction and agility to protect the football. Then he stopped hesitating and swept the football to Proman not far away.
It seems that I can't play the ball calmly in the backcourt. No matter how tight the AC Milan's defense is, they must pass the football forward.
After passing the football to Proman, he turned around and ran forward.
Of course, he hadn't forgotten to look back at Kaka who broke his ball.
The Brazilian was still waving his hand because he did not cut off his ball. He didn't expect that Metz-8's reaction was so fast that he turned around almost while conceding the ball.
※※※After throwing away Kaka who was still upset, Chu Zhongtian received the ball from Proman. This time he did not pass by anyone, but rushed forward with the ball.
Soon, he entered AC Milan's territory.
Gattuso ran up and stood in front of Chu Zhongtian, preventing him from continuing to break through.
Chu Zhongtian had no intention of fighting Gattuso alone. He passed the football to Oblaniak on the left. Oblaniak planned to break through, but Odo and Pirlo joined forces to break the ball.
Chu Zhongtian did not turn around and run back immediately, but rushed straight to Kaka.
He observed the half-time game from the court. As the commander of AC Milan, Pirlo controlled the choice of the ball. In AC Milan's midfield, there were ten players with the "No. 10" talents, namely Pirlo, Siddorf and Kaka. Pirlo could pass the ball to anyone, but there was a difference. After Chu Zhongtian observed the half-time, he found that if he wanted to counterattack, Pirlo would probably pass the football to Kaka, because Kaka had speed and was best at changing directions and passing balls in high-speed dribbling. Siddorf was not as fast as Kaka and was more suitable for a steady position battle.
As expected, Pirlo passed the football to Kaka.
Kaka also has another characteristic: he is good at catching the ball with his back and then turning around. Many defensive players are directly caught by him and turned around and are swayed by him.
So dealing with Kaka can't let him turn around easily.
Another way is to make him turn around and not let him speed up easily.
Once Kaka can't get up, his threat will be much smaller.
Chu Zhongtian did not defend Kaka closely, so Kaka turned around and passed him. He was three meters away from Kaka, and Kaka turned around and happened to face him.
Seeing Chu Zhongtian standing in front of him, Kaka pushed the football to the left and prepared to accelerate!
This is the most useful method for Kaka. It is simple and direct, but very effective.
When Chu Zhongtian saw him trolling the ball, he also leaned forward.
Generally speaking, as long as Kaka accelerates again at this time, he can get rid of the defensive players. Because his speed of running on the ball is currently the best in the world.
But today he met Chu Zhongtian, who is very good at blocking the position.
Chu Zhongtian knew that he could not catch up with Kaka by speed alone, and once he let him slip away from his eyes, there was no possibility of recovering it. So he had only one solution to the problem, that is, let Kaka be stopped by himself before starting it. So he leaned against Kaka.
When Kaka wanted to speed up again, she felt her body sinking and the speed suddenly stopped.
Taking advantage of Kaka's speed to slow down, Chu Zhongtian suddenly stepped down and tackled!
It is not enough to just slow down Kaka's speed, because if two people continue to get entangled, they will probably end up with their own foul. It is not enough to regain the ball's rights.
Just as Chu Zhongtian was tackled, Kaka suddenly felt familiar. He seemed not in the European Super Cup, but in Milanello's training base. They were playing an in-team practice game. The person who was defending him was not Metz's No. 8, but Milan's No. 8 Gattuso... After a little lost, the ball under his feet was tackled by Chu Zhongtian.
"Chu Duan got Kaka's ball!" The French commentator shouted excitedly.
"Beautiful defense! No one in Metz could defend this wind-like Brazilian in the entire first half. And Chu Zhongtian did it shortly after he came on the court!"
"I've said it a long time ago. Chu and Pyanic are more comprehensive. He can not only contribute assists to the team in offense and instigate offense, but also help the team to curb the opponent's arrow characters in defense. From the position point of view, Chu and Kaka are just in the right position, and now there is a glimpse..."
Chu Zhongtian shoveled Kaka's ball, Kaka ran forward, but heard nothing, and he waved his hand helplessly.
On the other side, Proman received a kick from Chu Zhongtian's retreat. Inzaji forced him up. Proman quickly passed the football to full-back Ibrahimovic Kabo.
Metz regained possession.
※※※ Chu Zhongtian must now adapt to one thing - he has to adapt to playing without Ribery. In the past, as long as he got the ball, he would always habitually look for Ribery's position first, using Ribery as the reference coordinate, and after finding Ribery, he would find the positions of other teammates, and then launch an attack.
His cooperation with Ribery is the key to Metz's ability to achieve good results.
But now whenever he wants to pass the football to the right, the people who appear in front of him are Obetan, not Ribery. Obetan and Ribery have different styles of playing football, and he cannot cooperate with Obetan according to the idea of cooperating with Ribery.
Although this is not the first time Obetan has played with Chu Zhongtian, compared to Ribery, his tacit understanding with Chu Zhongtian is not enough.
Chu Zhongtian saw a gap on the right side, and he passed the ball without hesitation. However, Obetan only started running after seeing Chu Zhongtian pass. When he ran to the place where Chu Zhongtian saw before, the football had already flew directly out of the sideline.
Obetan gave Chu Zhongtian a thumbs up, knowing that he hadn't done it well.
Chu Zhongtian just shook his head gently and decided not to pass the ball so much in advance next time. No one except Ribery could catch it.
Since he decided to stay with Mets for another season, Chu Zhongtian has made such preparations - he led Mets and Ribery to help. The "Three Musketeers" in the media have left one person and become incomplete. In the past, everyone always thought that Mets was the "Three Musketeers", and if no one is missing, it is not a complete team. Now Chu Zhongtian must prove to the outside world under such circumstances that Mets is not anyone's Mets, and if Ribery is missing, it is not a doomsday.
※※According to the lead of two goals, AC Milan is a little slackened. Metz has not yet obtained any decent chances and can threaten the goal guarded by Dida.
Metz began to gain more offensive opportunities.
Gattuso found that his goal was not as he had before, but would only crouch in the second half for a long pass, and he began to run more forwards and appeared at the front of the penalty area.
This sticks to the front of his body to defend, and the opponent passes the ball out, as if he is afraid of contact with his body.
One of the principles of defense: We must do whatever our opponent is afraid of.
So Gattuso strengthened his pressing against Chu Zhongtian, rushing against the opponent again and again. On several occasions, he even used a dangerous flying shovel.
Pirlo was watching his teammates kicking Chu Zhongtian like cutting a tree, and his ankles seemed to be aching faintly.
It seems that the head coach is right. Metz's No. 8 playing style is similar to himself, but there are many differences, such as his body is much stronger than himself. Every time he is knocked down to the ground by Gatuso, he can always get up immediately, and it doesn't look like he had just completed a body collision with Gatuso.
As a teammate, Pirlo believes that Gattuso's defensive actions must be very clean, but it will not have any impact at all, right?
Under Gattuso's tight defense, Chu Zhongtian's position began to retreat, not as close to AC Milan's penalty area as before.
Gattuso was very proud of this. Whether it was Pjanic or Chu Zhongtian, he could only bow down and surrender in front of him!
He forced Chu Zhongtian to follow him out, without realizing that he had gone out, a small space appeared behind him.
When Promón passed the ball to Chu Zhongtian again, according to his previous actions, either immediately transferred it to his teammates on the other side, or was entangled by Gattuso, and then the attack ended here.
This time, when Gattuso planned to rush forward to defend with his body as usual, he did not expect that Chu Zhongtian did not stop the ball and did not transfer the ball to the other side. He turned his back to the offensive direction and knocked the ball out directly with his heel!
The football rolled past Gattuso's feet, but he was powerless and could only watch the football rolled past him and rolled behind him, and there was a space where no one could take care of the midfielder or the defender!
Menez suddenly retreated and received the ball, then turned around and made a stance to shoot.
AC Milan's central defender Nesta rushed out to prevent Menez's long shot. Unexpectedly, Menez's ankle shook and his long shot turned into a direct pass!
After receiving a pass from Menez in the penalty area, Ibisevic leaned against another central defender Karaze and then shot with his foot!
Although Dida tried hard to save the ball, Ibisekic shot very trickyly, almost rolling into the goal against the post, and he could do nothing!
"The ball is in! The ball is in! The Metz team scored a goal back!!"
"Ibisevic! This is his second goal this season!"
"Chu Zhongtian showed us his ability, kept retreating and pulled out Gatuso, creating space for Menez to catch the ball! It's so beautiful! Compared with Pjanic, Chu Zhongtian has the ability to control the football under Gatuso's close pressing, so that he can organize the offense... If the ball control is lost, what else can he talk about organizing the offense?"
In fact, when the football slipped away from him, Gattuso knew that he was fooled by Chu Zhongtian. But could he not force it out at that time? Not pushing it out means allowing the opponent to easily get the ball outside the 30-meter area. Since Ancelotti said that Chu Zhongtian is similar to Pirlo, can you allow Pirlo to easily get the ball without being guarded?
Ibissevic reported to Menez, who assisted him, but Menez took Ibissevic to run towards Chu Zhongtian, and the three of them were quickly submerged by their teammates.
"Beautiful job, Chu! I knew you were OK!"
"Haha, I saw you retreat just now, so I paid attention to the position of myself and the defender. In the end, the football was indeed passed!" Ibisevic said with some smugness.
"That's not what I passed on? When I saw Chu running back, I knew he was going to pull out Gattuso, sure enough!" Menetz gave himself a thumbs up.
A group of people burst into laughter.
Chu Zhongtian held Menez with his left hand and Ibisevic with his right hand, and he remembered it.
Even without Frank Ribery, he still has a group of excellent teammates.
※※※This concealment allowed AC Milan to strengthen his defense against Chu Zhongtian, and he often faced the clamping defense of two people. In addition to Gatuso's fixed follower, Kaka, Pirlo and Ambrosini will appear by his side. He can no longer easily get the ball, and then pass the ball to organize the offense. Sometimes he will lose the ball under the clamping defense of two people on the other side, and sometimes he will be shoveled by Gatuso and Ambrosini to bite the shit.
But facing such a defense, Chu Zhongtian did not retreat. On the contrary, he felt very excited - this was the game he wanted and the opponent he wanted. It was strong enough and strong enough!
To be continued...