Chapter 362 The only representative of Italian football (67/134)
There are a lot of games in the Champions League quarter-finals, so the games are divided into two weeks.
First of all, this week, there are four Champions League quarter-finals.
There are four more shows next week.
Lazio, as the defending champion, will only play next week.
This week we have two other Serie A teams, AC Milan and Inter Milan.
The Milan duo made their debut at the same time.
AC Milan's away game against Tottenham Hotspur left many people feeling that there was no suspense.
Although Tottenham Hotspur finally reached the knockout stage as second place in Lazio's group, their opponent was the experienced AC Milan. Don't look at AC Milan beating Lazio in the domestic League Cup, but
It's okay for them to go out and teach other teams a lesson.
Especially for a team like Tottenham Hotspur, which has entered the Champions League for the first time in more than 40 years, it is no different from bullying a newcomer.
After AC Milan drew Tottenham Hotspur, many AC Milan fans or commentators were very optimistic about AC Milan advancing to the quarterfinals.
Because in terms of strength and experience, AC Milan has the upper hand.
Tottenham's lack of experience is their biggest weakness.
As the second team in the group, the schedule is not very favorable to them.
Playing at home first and then away means that you have to adjust your condition to the best in the first round and try to kill the suspense of the two rounds at home.
The problem with playing home games first and then away games is that once you encounter an accident at home, you will push yourself into a dead end. You will only have to go to the away game to fight with your opponent in the second round.
That's exactly Tottenham's problem.
So everyone is very optimistic about AC Milan's emergence and promotion.
Their performance in the group stage was quite good. They were on the same point as Real Madrid, and they surpassed Real Madrid in terms of victory and defeat, ranking first in the group. This is the outstanding performance of this last season, which allowed Allegri to win
Winning the favor and support of Milan’s senior management.
AC Milan's away game against Tottenham Hotspur is also the first game of the Champions League quarter-finals this season.
There was no suspense in this game. Even though it was an away game, everyone believed that AC Milan could win.
Even if you can't win, it's still a draw.
Moreover, AC Milan will definitely score goals. If there are a few away goals in hand, Tottenham Hotspur will be in a situation of being "forced into a desperate situation".
At that time, AC Milan will eliminate Tottenham Hotspur at their home court.
But the final result is surprising!
Tottenham Hotspur, playing at home, relied on Giroud's header and Bale's solo pass to defeat AC Milan 2:0!
The first Champions League quarter-finals was an upset!
Originally, Nesta was determined to turn to Lazio after the end of the season, which was a blow to the team's morale. Now they were defeated by Tottenham Hotspur in the away game with two goals.
Before the game, everyone thought that the only suspense about this game was that it might be how many goals AC Milan could win away from home.
If we can defeat Tottenham Hotspur with a big score away from home, we can completely eliminate the suspense of the second round in the first round.
So at the beginning of the game, AC Milan launched a fierce attack on Tottenham Hotspur's goal, wave after wave.
Then their defense was riddled with holes and was completely destroyed by Bale and Lennon.
The two used their speed to break through AC Milan's defense. Due to Nesta's injury, there was only one Thiago Silva who could be of great use at the center back position.
But when facing the powerful center Giroud, he couldn't gain the upper hand.
When Giroud was still at Lazio, he played against Thiago Silva of AC Milan.
His method of dealing with Silva was very simple, which was to use his own body. It was unreasonable, but the effect was very good. This was what Chang Sheng once asked him to do.
Finally he scored a header in the game.
AC Milan's failure in this game was not a fluke. Judging from the scene, if it weren't for their good luck, they would not have lost only two goals.
This was especially true for the goal conceded against Bale.
When AC Milan wanted to attack and score goals, Tottenham Hotspur hit AC Milan with a quick counterattack.
Bell took the ball from the middle and backcourt and rushed forward with the ball.
Throughout the process, he relied on speed to break through all the AC Milan players who came up to defend him.
Especially when he used his speed to break through Thiago Silva at the front of the penalty area, and then sent the football into the goal guarded by Abbiati.
During the entire process, not one AC Milan player touched the ball.
Bale simply ran for the ball vigorously and then chased it. With such a simple breakthrough, he defeated the entire defense of AC Milan.
The failure of this game seemed to make many AC Milan fans even more unhappy with Allegri.
There were calls for Allegri to be dismissed from get out of class.
But this time, Galliani chose to side with Allegri.
He came forward to express that the club has great trust in Allegri and they believe that Allegri can bring a bright future to the team.
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AC Milan's local rival Inter Milan also failed in this round of the Champions League.
They faced Shakhtar Donetsk at home and lost 2:3.
They lost at home and allowed their opponents to score three away goals.
Inter Milan's promotion future is in jeopardy.
At this time, some people began to miss Mourinho. I think back then, Mourinho's Inter Milan could still reach the semi-finals of the Champions League.
Now in the quarter-finals, Eastern European teams can be bullied like this.
After Mourinho was kicked out by them, they cheered and celebrated.
Now they are beginning to miss Mourinho again.
So, people, what is lost is the most precious. Without loss, you will never know how to cherish.
But the sad thing is that even if they know how to cherish now, after a while, they will forget this again and still repeat the bloody drama routine of "not cherishing after you get it, regretting after losing it".
But this is human nature.
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Lazio's Champions League match is next week.
However, looking at this trend, they are likely to be the only Italian team in the Champions League this season.
No matter how much the Italian media blackmails Lazio, it cannot change the fact that in the Champions League in recent years, Lazio is the Italian team that has given them the most encouragement. It is they who are defending the dignity and glory of Italian football and for Italian football.
Strive for benefits.
Although Lazio did not have a Champions League game in the middle of the week, they still played one game, which was a make-up match in the seventeenth round of the league.
In the first half of the season, because Lazio had to go to Qatar to play the Club World Cup in the last two rounds of the league, the sixteenth and seventeenth rounds of the league were rescheduled.
The sixteenth round of the league has been made up, and the seventeenth round of the league is only being made up now.
Lazio plays Udinese at home.
Taking into account the continuous double-match week - the previous week was also a double-match week, although there was no Champions League - during this period, there was an average of one game every three days.
So Chang Sheng continues to rotate.
The game against Udinese, although it was at home, was a winning team but did not have the strongest lineup.
Lazio played very relaxedly in this game, but a little too relaxed.
Allowed Udinese to score two goals on the road.
Fortunately, Lazio scored four goals in the end and won the game without any danger.
Chang Sheng was not satisfied with the team's performance after the game.
"I would rather lose this game, maybe it will make my players more awake." He said seriously at the post-match press conference.
The media all expressed that they understood why Chang Sheng was so serious.
Because this game was the one in which Lazio conceded the most goals in half a season, why would it be so unpleasant to win so often?
But if you say this, it will definitely make other teams very unhappy - if you concede two goals in a game, is that the most you have conceded?
How do you want our teams to mess around?
But this is the fact. After twenty-five rounds of the league, Lazio scored sixty-five goals and only conceded nine.
They have conceded one goal in seven games, which are also the seven games in which Lazio has conceded the most goals this season - one goal is the most conceded, which fully illustrates how strong Lazio's defense is.
By the time of this game, Lazio finally conceded two goals.
This also made Udinese the first team in Serie A this season to score two goals against Lazio in one game.
They are also the second team in Europe to be able to do this.
The first team is Atletico Madrid. In the European Super Cup before the start of the season, Atletico Madrid scored two goals against Lazio and ultimately lost 2:3.
Lazio's defense is indeed very strong this season. They have not conceded a goal in the Champions League group stage!
With such an outstanding performance, Chang Sheng certainly has reason to be dissatisfied with the team's performance of conceding two goals in this game.
This is really not hypocritical.
If possible, I would like to win a season without conceding a single goal.
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In the twenty-sixth round of the weekend league, Lazio faced Bari at home.
In this game, Lazio continued to rotate, but instead of using a relatively weak lineup, they used a relatively strong lineup.
Against a team like Barry, using this lineup will inevitably give people the feeling of overkill.
Chang Sheng doesn't seem to care that there is a Champions League match next week.
Of course, he didn't send this lineup because he looked down on Bayern Munich and felt that Bayern Munich, his defeated team, was not as important as Barry.
He did this just to punish the players who played in the previous game.
All the players who started the game in the previous game were on the bench for this game, or were not on the roster at all.
Because their attitude towards the game is not serious.
Chang Sheng told them that since they didn't cherish the opportunity to compete so much, then they shouldn't compete.
So in this game, none of them started.
And it's not just this game.
Chang Sheng plans not to give them a chance to play in the next Champions League game against Bayern Munich.
We won't stop until these players reflect on themselves.
Facing the underdog Bari, Lazio used a stronger lineup and won easily.
5:0, a complete one-sided massacre.
After this game, Lazio has to go to Munich, Germany, to challenge Bayern Munich at the Allianz Arena. (To be continued. Please search Piaotian Literature, the novel will be better and updated faster!)
