Chapter 1300
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When Ibrahimovic and Robinho stood in the center circle ready to kick off, the two men looked at Liverpool's half of the field and could naturally see Qin Xiong standing in front of them on the right.
Ibrahimovic shrugged at Qin Xiong, as if to vaguely express a depressed mood.
Since they parted ways at Ajax, the two often met in the Champions League. And then? Qin Xiong was always the winner.
This was the first time Qin Xiong and Robinho met in the Champions League since they parted ways at Real Madrid. Robinho was also a little depressed.
Look at Qin Xiong, who had already won the Champions League on behalf of four clubs. He had a brilliant resume.
The referee blew the whistle and the game began. Ibrahimovic and Robinho put aside their distracting thoughts and focused on the game.
The two team formations opened up to attack and defend against each other.
Today, Liverpool and AC Milan went head-to-head in the midfield. Without Pirlo, AC Milan's offense could only rely on Seedorf to thread the needle in the middle of the field.
However, the old Dutchman's increasingly lazy state on the field was obviously not used to top-level confrontations.
When Gerard, Alonso, Mascherano, and Kuyt, who had invested a lot in defense, actively ran to form a joint defense, it put a lot of pressure on Seedorf to control the ball in the front field. It could even be said that he could not gain a foothold at all!
In the fifth minute of the game, Seedorf had just received Flamini's pass in the middle of the front field when Gerard stretched out his leg from behind. Seedorf immediately turned the ball around based on his experience. But as soon as he turned around, someone stretched out his leg diagonally and poked the ball away.
Alonso!
Seedorf had difficulty continuously making technical moves to control the ball and change direction. He was old, just like the entire AC Milan team was old.
Liverpool quickly launched an attack. Johnson rushed forward from the side to receive the pass and passed the ball to Kuyt in the front field.
In response to Antonini's defense, Kuyt and Raúl completed the wall combination, but Kuyt did not go to the bottom, but cut inside!
After attracting Gattuso and Flamini to retreat back to the middle of the penalty area, Kuyt did not develop the offense into the penalty area. Instead, he diagonally passed the ball back and the football rolled to Gerard's feet.
Gerard did not hesitate at all. He directly kicked the ball and a diagonal pass. The football came in front of Qin Xiong, who ran into position and cut inside.
Gattuso immediately sprinted over. Furthermore, he did so with a shovel that no one had expected!
...... was no longer a rookie.. he calmly dodged Gattuso........................ he calmly.. he changed to avoid Gattuso's tackle........................
.. Raúl stood in front of the penalty area with his back to AC Milan's penalty area. He gently kicked the ball with his left foot.
Qin Xiong continued to rush past Flamini's defense and then rushed forward to touch the ball.
It was Qin Xiong's most normal habit to observe before touching the ball.
Qin Xiong, who had planned to directly dribble the ball into the penalty area according to his current playing style, suddenly changed his mind because he saw Nesta.
If it were any other defender, no matter how strong they were, they might be a little flustered or pretend to be decisive and go directly for the ball!
But Nesta didn't. He was like a mountain, standing in the most reasonable defensive position without being moved by the wind.
Even at the advanced age of 35, the Roman king still made the most correct choice in defense with his rich experience.
It could not be said that Qin Xiong was scared, but Qin Xiong combined the situation in the penalty area and believed that the success rate of dribbling the ball into the penalty area was not very high.
Tiago Silva, who was arranged to play as the defensive midfielder, may have had the mindset of a defender. He retreated very deep in the first moment of defense and directly returned to the penalty area. This also helped Nesta to a certain extent and made Qin Xiong's space to break through smaller.
So, Qin Xiong changed his original idea and directly chose to volley the ball when he touched the ball!
The football flew towards AC Milan's goal with a bang.
The long shot was well executed. Abbiati moved laterally and received the ball into his arms.
Liverpool's first shot on goal did not test Abbiati.
AC Milan continued to launch their offense. Antonini assisted on the left flank and Robinho successfully received after pulling the side. He began to dribble the ball and cut inside on the left flank. Using his skillful footwork, Robinho successfully got rid of Johnson's entanglement. Ibrahimovic slanted into the space behind Skrtel and Robinho saw the opportunity to send the ball out.
Ibrahimovic found himself surrounded as soon as he stopped the ball in the penalty area.
Skrtel retreated in the direction of the end line to block the route between Ibrahimovic and the goal. Mascherano also returned in time to support the penalty area and blocked in front of Ibrahimovic's right side.
At this time, Ibrahimovic quickly flicked the ball horizontally with his foot and then directly shot on the spot with his calf.
The football flew through the gap between Skrtel and Mascherano, but in the end, it still deviated from the goal!
Ibrahimovic showed the characteristics of his exquisite footwork. Liverpool's side began to perform the style of a team's open and wide offense.
In the 13th minute of the game, Gerard dribbled the ball forward in the middle. He broke through Flamini's defense in the change of direction. Gattuso's task today was obviously to mark Qin Xiong, but the defense in the middle was unstable. Flamini was alone and Tiago Silva did not have a strong positional sense. Once there was a risk of losing the middle, Gattuso could only grit his teeth and return to the middle to defend.
As soon as he returned to defend, Gerard passed the ball diagonally to Qin Xiong's feet.
Qin Xiong was one-on-one with Abate on the flank. He dribbled the ball and looked like he was going to break through in the direction of the end line. Abate had just turned and retreated when Qin Xiong suddenly stopped. Then he saw Gattuso dashing over and did not force a breakthrough.
AC Milan's defensive pressure in the penalty area was great.
Raúl began to press in the penalty area and Nesta could not ignore Gerard plugging in from the back. At this time, Qin Xiong sent out a pass on the spot.
The football passed over the heads of the two center backs and fell rapidly into the back of the penalty area.
Kuyt could be seen pressing Antonini and jumped to head the ball.
He deliberately pressed the football down to head the ball into the goal range.
Seeing that the football was about to fly into the near corner of the goal, he did not expect Abbiati to bravely pounce and punch the ball out!
"Liverpool missed a good chance to score with a threatening attack on the goal!
Kuyt received Qin Xiong's pass with a high quality header, but Abbiati made a wonderful save at the crucial moment!
Both teams were able to threaten each other's goal today. The game is not as conservative as we expected. "
Yes, in the outside world's expectations, AC Milan would be on the decline and play a typical Italian team at home against Liverpool. Liverpool was bound to be more cautious in the first game because they were the away team and then the home team.
But both teams were not conservative in general today.
Because AC Milan knew that they would be doomed if they went to Anfield, they could only pin their hopes of promotion on the home game in the first round.
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