aspirations football

Chapter 54 The Fight With Liverpool
The hearty victory against Roma put the entire Inter Milan team in a good mood.

And on the land of China, thousands of miles away, those fans who checked the news on their mobile phones on Monday morning were even more excited.

In less than a year, Jingxuan went from being unknown to being born, and then soaring into the sky, and has become a sports idol in China.

When former international footballer Ma Minyu commented on Jingxuan's performance, he said:
"Jingxuan's physique surpasses people's perception of East Asian players in the past, and he has delicate skills, balanced left and right feet, and a strong ability to read the game on the court."

Therefore, the biggest gap between East Asians and European and American players is physical fitness. The difference in physical fitness makes it difficult for East Asian players to have top players in the world, and the emergence of Jingxuan broke this law.

On the third day after the match against Roma, Inter Milan ushered in their opponent Naples in the 26th round of Serie A.

Jingxuan, who has played consecutive games, has a rest in this game, and Zlatan Ibrahimovic is still injured.

Inter Milan, who played with a semi-main lineup, was completely defeated in the away game, and the Roma team pulled back the points gap with Inter Milan.

In the 3th round of Serie A on March 9, Inter Milan faced Reggina at home. This was Inter Milan's last game before the Champions League second leg against Liverpool.

Jingxuan and Zlatan Ibrahimovic, who came back from injury, all sat on the bench. In the 78th minute of the game, Zlatan Ibrahimovic received a wonderful pass from Stankovic, leaned on the opponent's central defender, and made a beautiful turn Volley, hit the ball into the corner,
Inter Milan took a 1:0 lead.

After only 3 minutes, Stankovic broke into the penalty area and fell, and the referee decisively pointed to the penalty spot.

Zlatan Ibrahimovic made a penalty kick and scored twice in this game to help Inter Milan beat Reggina 2:0.

Ibrahimovic's good condition makes the Inter Milan team more confident before the game against Liverpool.

But after the game, some media pointed out: Ibrahimovic will only abuse food, and will squeeze the living space of other strikers in the middle.

If Inter Milan wants to go further in the Champions League, it must win Ibrahimovic in key games and help Jingxuan.

For these bad media reports, the Inter Milan team will naturally not take it to heart, and only regard it as an outside move by competitors to alienate themselves.

In the early morning of March 2008, 3, BJ time, Inter Milan ushered in the life-and-death battle of this season's Champions League knockout round.

Although they lost to Liverpool 1:2 in the away game, but they have a valuable away goal, Inter Milan still has great hopes of making a comeback at home today.

Judging from the starting list of this game, Mancini did show the courage to break the boat.

Zlatan Ibrahimovic and Jingxuan formed a double center combination. This is the first time that both sides have started at the same time as centers this season.

Considering the excellent performance of Ibrahimovic and Jingxuan playing double centers in the last stage of the last game of the two teams, it is not surprising that Mancini arranged such a risky combination in this game.

When he walked out of the player tunnel and stepped onto the stadium, Jingxuan felt the enthusiastic atmosphere of nearly [-] fans.

This is a battle of life and death, and it is also a battle of proof for the Serie A league. If the Serie A champion loses to the fourth place in the Premier League, it will really hurt self-esteem.

Inter Milan's hidden worry in this game is mainly at the center line. After all, the three major central defenders Materazzi, Cordoba and Samuel are unable to play. Unable to play.

Inter Milan can only arrange full-back Chivu in the middle, and start the central defender combination with Argentine panacea Burdisso.The replacement for Maxwell was Colombian international Nelson Rivas.

In terms of midfield, Inter Milan has the strongest lineup, Zanetti-Vieira-Cambiaso's midfield combination is still solid, and Stankovic has two nuclear weapons in Jingxuan and Zlatan Ibrahimovic. Look for opportunities behind you.

For Liverpool, the right back Finnan, who performed well in the last game, did not start the game, and Carragher replaced him as the right back.

Skrtel and Hyypia partnered in the central defender combination, and Aurelio continued to serve as the starting left back.

Due to Harvey Alonso's unhealed injury, Liverpool's midfield in this game is still the same as the previous game.

Mascherano and Lucas are partnered in the backcourt, while Babel, Gerrard and Dirk Drive are in the frontcourt.

Torres is at the top as a single arrow.

At the beginning of the first half, Inter Milan launched a fierce offensive.

In the 2nd minute of the game, Vieira passed a long pass to Ibrahimovic from the backcourt. Ibrahimovic stopped the ball and faced Hyypia's defense, unable to turn around effectively.

At this time, Stankovic moved forward and Ibrahimovic passed the ball.

As Jingxuan's presence on the left penalty line took away the defense of Skrtel and Lucas, Stankovic had a smooth road ahead.

He made a slight adjustment, hit the goal with his right foot, and the ball bounced off Reina.

Hyypia cleared the ball out of the sideline with a big kick, and the crisis in front of Liverpool's goal was finally lifted.

Looking back at the offensive process of the ball, although Jingxuan didn't get the ball, his involvement was too great.

Because he was in the penalty area, Skrtel did not dare to relax on him, which caused Jingxuan to attract a lot of defensive power.

In the 6th minute of the game, it was Vieira's backcourt pass again. This time Ibrahimovic directly passed the ball to Jingxuan.

Jingxuan took the ball and broke through the penalty area, which once again attracted the defensive double-teaming of the two.

I saw his left foot suddenly knocked the ball diagonally to the rear, followed by the unmarked Stankovic and got another chance to kick in front of the penalty area.

However, his luck was a bit unlucky, and the shot he aimed at was higher than the upper right corner of the goal.

Inter Milan's two threatening shots in the opening minutes put considerable pressure on Liverpool, forcing Liverpool to change their defensive strategy.

Benitez blew a whistle on the sidelines and made a few gestures, and Liverpool's defense quickly advanced.

Everyone understands that this is an offside tactic. It is too difficult to mark Jingxuan alone, and it is easy to create opportunities for other Inter Milan players when defending him with two players. Then we can only use the offside tactic, but if the offside fails, Liverpool is likely to face God's punishment.

In the 9th minute of the game, Cambiasso made a long pass from the back court to find Ibrahimovic. After Ibrahimovic stopped the ball in the chest, he returned to Stankovic who was plugging in.

As soon as Stankovic stopped the ball, he directly rubbed and hung behind the Liverpool central defender, trying to find Jingxuan who was plugging in.

Jingxuan understood, but as soon as he started, the linesman raised the flag and he was offside.

As for anti-offside skills, Jingxuan, who has just started playing as a striker, naturally does not have it.

It has to be said that Liverpool's offside tactics were successful. In the first 20 minutes of the first half, Jingxuan had fallen into the opponent's offside trap three times.Under the marking of Hyypia, Ibrahimovic was unable to take the ball calmly in the penalty area. Ibrahimovic, who was far away from the penalty area, was greatly reduced in power.

Inter Milan's offensive seems to be very vigorous, but the thunder is loud and the rain is little, and often they can only threaten the opponent's goal through long-range shots.

In the 25th minute of the game, Liverpool took a corner kick. Lucas nodded and then rubbed the ball. In the melee in the middle, Dirk Drivet stretched out his foot and poked the ball into the goal of Inter Milan. The score on the field became 0:1. The score is 1:3 behind.

At the moment, the Meazza stadium fell into silence. After all, if they want to popularize, Inter Milan must score at least three goals.

Due to being trapped in the opponent's offside trap for a long time, Jingxuan had to withdraw his position.

In the 35th minute of the game, Jingxuan retreated to catch Zlatan Ibrahimovic's cross. Instead of stopping the ball, he made a rubbing pass.
Stankovic, who went forward at high speed, succeeded in anti-offside. After stopping the ball with his chest, he brought it into the penalty area. Facing Reina's attack, he chose to calmly push the ball into the far corner of the goal.

This goal fully demonstrates the flexibility of Inter Milan's trident cooperation in the frontcourt.

When Ibrahimovic was marked to death and Jingxuan was forced to a position away from the goal, Stankovic's forward drive became Inter Milan's offensive weapon.

In the 39th minute of the game, Inter Milan repeated the old trick, but this time Jingxuan did not choose to pass the ball. His long shot from 30 meters away directly hit the upper right corner of the goal and bounced out. Zlatan Ibrahimovic The supplementary shot from 12 yards in front of the goal was powerful and smashed into the dead corner of the goal.

Inter Milan overtook the score 2:1.

This goal was only 4 minutes after the last goal, which fully shows that the defensive characteristics of the Premier League team are confrontation and strong marking, but the choice of defensive position and the use of tactics are still not the top.

Of course, Ibrahimovic's goal is very beautiful. After all, when he shoots, the ball is at least one meter high from the ground, and ordinary players simply cannot choose to shoot directly.

Only a tall Taekwondo black master like Ibrahimovic can make a free and easy shot in this situation.

Although Inter Milan's offensive combination obviously restrained Liverpool's defense line, making Liverpool dare not press too much, which affected their offensive quality, but Liverpool is obviously unwilling to lose to Inter Milan like this.

In the 45th minute of the first half, Liverpool sent another corner kick. Dirk Dirk nodded forward to ferry the ball. Chivu in the middle was pushed by Torres behind, which affected the take-off height and failed to reach the ball.

Babel, who was lying in ambush at the back point, faced the ball with a low shot. The ball hit Burdisso's ankle and flew into the net. Julio Cesar looked at the ball and had nothing to do.

Although Chivu angrily protested to the referee that Torres pushed the man first, the referee ignored it and still ruled that the goal was valid.

As a result, the balance of victory has turned to Liverpool.

After all, Liverpool scored two away goals. If Inter Milan wants to popularize, they must score at least two more goals in the second half, and at the same time must ensure that they will not concede again.

With the whistle of the referee, the first half of the game ended.

For Inter Milan in the first half, there were surprises and surprises.

You must know that Inter Milan has rarely been able to play such a mercury-like half-court offense in recent years. If it were not for a loophole in the defense, it should be said to be a perfect first half.

During the intermission, coach Mancini didn't say much, after all, he has completely put Bao on the new striker in this game.

If Jingxuan and Ibrahimovic can't reverse the situation in the second half, then he has no other way.

In the second half, both sides did not make substitution adjustments. In the 51st minute of the game, Lucas made a pass error in the backcourt. After Cambiasso stole the ball, he crossed the ball to Jingxuan.Jingxuan moved horizontally along the front of Liverpool's penalty area, shaking off the defenses of Lucas, Mascherano and Skrtel one after another.

Just when everyone thought he was going to shoot, Jingxuan passed the ball with a backheel, and the ground ball advanced into the penalty area. Ibrahimovic was not offside, but he did not start and missed an excellent goal. single chance.

"This fucking dribbler looks a bit like Messi!"

Carragher sighed.

"Yeah, although the frequency under the feet is not as fast as Messi's, but the rhythm is good and the pace is very steady, especially the last pass, full of imagination, fortunately Ibrahimovic did not run, otherwise the entire defense line will be pierced .”

Skrtel next to him added.

Ibrahimovic gave Jingxuan a thumbs up, which was a sign of his missed opportunity.

In the 57th minute of the game, Liverpool played a wonderful cooperation in the frontcourt. Babel inserted obliquely into the Inter Milan penalty area and made an inverted triangle pass. Lucas did not stop the ball and directly passed the ball to the right. The instep volleyed, the ball was hit hard and hit the post and bounced out, Julio Cesar broke out in a cold sweat.

The Liverpool team then strengthened the marking of Jingxuan receiving the ball, which made it difficult for Jingxuan to get the ball in the middle, so Jingxuan gradually moved closer to the side.

In the 63rd minute of the game, Jingxuan received a pass from Rivas on the left, deliberately missed his foot, turned around and passed Carragher with speed, and then dribbled the ball diagonally into the Liverpool penalty area.

Mascherano, who was defending from the right, has come to Jingxuan's side at this moment. Jingxuan's left foot gently touches to the right, piercing Mascherano's crotch. Toe poked and shot.

Although the power of this shot is not great, the victory lies in the suddenness and speed of the ball.

Reina stretched out his arm subconsciously to block the ball, followed by Cambiasso with a shovel shot, and shoveled the ball into the goal.

Inter Milan once again exceeded the score!
From the start to the end of this goal, Jingxuan should take most of the credit.

Liverpool's defensive players can't limit Jingxuan in one-on-one situations, but it is easy to miss other Inter Milan offensive players when assisting in defense. This is the value of Jingxuan.

In the 70th minute of the game, Inter Milan's offensive became stronger and there was a great chance to score another goal.

But God always seems to like to joke with Inter Milan.

In the 71st minute of the game, Ibrahimovic's powerful shot was blocked by Skrtel. After getting the ball, Gerrard quickly initiated a long pass transfer.

Benayoun, who just came on from the left, broke through Maicon's defense and swept the ball into the middle of the penalty area.

Torres' follow-up shot hit the arm of the fallen Burdisso.

The Inter Milan central defender was sent off with a red card, and the referee awarded Liverpool a penalty.

At this moment, the Inter Milan players surrounded the referee, indicating that Burdisso did not intend to handball, and his arms were not open.

However, the referee still upheld the penalty kick based on the principle of affecting goals.

This time Torres stood in front of the penalty spot, perhaps because of the boos of more than 6 Inter fans at the scene.

Torres looked unconfident before the free throw, and saw that although his shot tricked Cesar, it hit the post and bounced out.

Maicon immediately tackled the ball out of the penalty area and Inter escaped unharmed.

At the moment the score on the field is 3:2, with Inter Milan leading by one goal.Only by scoring another goal can Inter Milan eliminate their opponents and advance to the next round.But at this time, Inter Milan has one less player to fight, and the situation is extremely difficult.

In the 75th minute of the game, Vieira cut off Lucas's ball in the backcourt and drove the ball straight into the frontcourt.

Mascherano gave up his defense against Jingxuan in order to block him.

Vieira used his strong body to protect the ball, stretched his legs and poked the ball to Ibrahimovic in front right.

Relying on the defense of Aurelio and Hyypia, Ibrahimovic broke into the penalty area, forced a right-footed shot and was hit by goalkeeper Reina with both palms.

Jingxuan, who was keeping up with him, snatched the ball, stepped on a bicycle under his feet, and swung Skrtel away. Facing a single-handed opportunity, he made a fake shot and made a real buckle, and then swung away Haipi who fell to the ground to block the angle of the shot. Ya, and finally passed the ball to Ibrahimovic on the side.

Ibrahimovic faced an empty goal at the moment, but he slipped on the sole of his foot, and the shot missed the ball, and he lost the chance to score this time.

The fans at the scene all got up and covered their heads, they couldn't believe that such a good lore opportunity would be missed.

Ibrahimovic lowered his head, slurring his words, and didn't dare to look up at his teammates. Presumably, such an arrogant person like him couldn't allow himself to make such a low-level mistake.

(End of this chapter)