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No one thought that Milan's first goal would come so fast and so suddenly.

There was hardly any warning. In just 1 minute of the opening, Milan had already scored a goal through a free kick.

How is this possible...

Liverpool fans feel a little incredible.

It only started less than 1 minute! [

"In the opening 52 seconds, Maldini received a free kick from Pirlo and scored successfully." After the passion passed, Martin Taylor's voice was a little dry when he spoke.He thought about it, Liverpool is worse than Milan, and it is indeed possible to lose, but such a loss is something he never thought about.

Liverpool would still concede goals like this before the New Year, but since Christmas, their tacit understanding has greatly increased. In the Champions League, they have never fallen behind by even 1 minute.

The two games against Leverkusen were accidents at the end.The conceded goal against Juventus was also a counterattack by the opponent after leading by two goals.And since that home game, Liverpool haven't conceded a goal in three Champions League games. No matter how you look at it, it's already an excellent defense. However, it's less than a minute since the start of the game, and Liverpool has conceded a goal.

Maldini hugs his teammates and celebrates the goal.This goal was too unexpected, not only beyond Liverpool's expectations, but also beyond his expectations.It is really perfect that the opening of the factory started so smoothly.

But at this time, Maldini was still worried about his teammates, because this goal caused underestimation of the enemy, and he did not celebrate wildly. Instead, he kept encouraging his teammates to restrain themselves and continue to play well.

"This is the seventh time that Maldini has participated in the Champions League final. He has already won four Champions League titles. If he wins this one, his total number of Champions League titles will reach five, second only to Real Madrid's Gento. Before this season, there were rumors that he may choose to retire and leave football after the end of this season, but judging from his current state, leaving football is very unnecessary."

While Martin Taylor was still explaining the situation, Liverpool was already preparing to counterattack.

"It's just a loss, cheer up. It's not impossible to reverse the game." Zhao Yaning shouted at his teammates twice.Although behind, but he is still very optimistic.The self-confidence along the way, but he felt that this was just a small setback.

Then, Liverpool and Milan began to play the offensive and defensive battle kings in the midfield.

The first point of Liverpool's attack was naturally Zhao Yaning.After the kick-off in the middle circle, after a few passes, Zhao Yaning slammed to the left after receiving the ball.And obviously, Milan has long had a defense against his breakthrough, and Gattuso immediately posted it, but he just relied on the defense to prevent him from cutting inside, and at the same time hindered him from accelerating, but he did not stretch out his foot to steal .And Cafu and Pirlo also guarded their positions, and the three of them immediately formed a situation of encircling Zhao Yaning, trying to grab the ball at Zhao Yaning’s feet.

Soon, Zhao Yaning's breakthrough backfired.In order to avoid the siege, Zhao Yaning had to slow down, and at this time, Gattuso bumped into Zhao Yaning first, and when he couldn’t knock him down, Gattuso immediately chose a tackle—this action was Gattuso’s. The choice was not to shovel the ball directly at Zhao Yaning’s feet, but to put his body across Zhao Yaning’s breakthrough line, and at the same time, he did not forget to roll immediately, blocking his body on Zhao Yaning’s breakthrough line .

Zhao Yaning has jumped up several times when facing tackles. Gattuso obviously thought of this way of playing.The reason why he rolled was to make Zhao Yaning dare not jump up in order to avoid being trampled.

Faced with his playing style, Zhao Yaning could only turn around on the spot while smashing the ball, trying to bypass him, but at this time, Stam, who was filling in, had already ran up, and the two directly wrapped Zhao Yaning to death. Yes, and Gattuso also didn't even care to stand up at this time, so he stretched out his foot and kicked the ball away from Zhao Yaning's feet.

Gattuso's defense caused Zhao Yaning a lot of trouble.His defensive strategy is obviously very good. Such a strategy of sticking but not grabbing has greatly affected Zhao Yaning's every step of passing.His role is not to break Zhao Yaning’s ball, but to slow down Zhao Yaning’s speed, and he has scruples in his movements so that he can’t break through better.

The role of breakthrough is not only several, one is to advance quickly, and the other is to cut into the opponent's intensive defense.Ancelotti asked Gattuso to defend Zhao Yaning, which basically cut off Zhao Yaning’s ability to advance quickly.After all, Gatusu's explosive power and physical confrontation are very good, and his defensive actions are also very good. If Zhao Yaning wants to speed up, he can use constant physical impact to speed up Zhao Yaning’s method.He can keep up with Zhao Yaning’s footsteps and is even stronger in terms of strength. Although it is difficult to expect him to steal Zhao Yaning, he can do his best if he only interferes with Zhao Yaning.

If you want to run fast with the ball, you must have a good relative environment.Always being entangled by people, constantly thinking about how to change the offensive line, and bumping into opponents from time to time, such a breakthrough will naturally not be fast.

And his other task is to use Gattuso's close defense to force Zhao Yaning's technical deformation, so that he cannot complete a breakthrough in a small area.

Ancelotti started to observe Zhao Yaning’s football, and quickly came to the conclusion: this person, relying on defense alone, is difficult to defend.Offense depends on the individual, defense depends on the system, and Ancelotti has also deployed an extremely strict defensive system on the back line. He firmly believes that with Stam, Nesta, Cafu, Maldini, Gattuso and others The complete defensive system was absolutely impossible for Zhao Yaning.

Of course, the breakthrough with the ball has a third function, which is to attract the attention of the opponent, and then pass the ball to the teammates for the teammates to solve.Although this method is good, it must have enough good teammates.And Liverpool's lineup, except for Zhao Yaning, basically has no ball ability.This is why Ancelotti dared to boldly arrange this style of play: he believes that even if Zhao Yaning can attract all the attention, Liverpool players still cannot deal with Milan's defense. [

Shifting speed, shaking, then accelerating, passing people... After Zhao Yaning tried it twice, he felt a headache.Of course he passed Gattuso, in fact, it was not difficult for him to pass Gattuso.But the problem is that behind Gattuso, within five meters, there must be a Milan player who is preparing to defend, and neither Stam nor Cafu can easily pass by Zhao Yaning. Gattuso turned around and chased him back.

Exhaustive defense, endless confrontation.Milan's defense line has played the defense to the extreme, and their chasing and interception made it impossible for Zhao Yaning to make an effective breakthrough for a while.

It was a legendary backline, the most fearsome backline of this era.But now, Zhao Yaning needs to rely on his own skills to fight against them.

This made Zhao Yaning slightly excited.When he was a child, he watched Maldini play.When he was learning to play, people said the names of Nesta and Stam.When he entered the football world, Cafu became famous and won everything. They were the defensive country girls who Zhao Yaning had always admired.

But now, what Zhao Yaning has to do is to confront them.

But in the other half, Milan's attack on Liverpool played extremely smoothly.

Pirlo dispatches, Seedorf controls the acceleration, Kaka is responsible for the assault, Shevchenko is responsible for the coordination and support of the frontcourt, and the arrangement of Crespo as the main striker Ancelotti can be said to be perfect.And the reason why this arrangement is perfect is because every executor of this arrangement is the best player.

Super-class players, organized super-class lineup.Such Milan can be said to be the closest to perfection in the entire football world.

Soon, an attack from Milan made Liverpool panic.Seedorf's corner kick was headed towards the goal by Gattuso. He hit the dead corner, which also made it impossible for Dudek to defend successfully.But Garcia blocked the ball on the line.

With such a ball, Carragher started to shout and command the defense line with his broken voice early.

But this attack, after all, is still an offensive and defensive battle of set kicks.Although Liverpool lost the ball because of set-pieces as soon as they came up, Liverpool's set-piece defense is still good after all.There is still no way to break through an attack like Milan's.

At this time, Dudek, who got the ball, had already opened the ball.He kicked the ball with a big kick and drove the ball to Stam. Stam kicked the ball to Seedorf, but Seedorf casually controlled the ball when he turned around, but was caught by Alonso. The foot broke the ball.

Alonso immediately made a through pass, Zhao Yaning caught up with the ball and rushed into the penalty area with one step. On the edge of the penalty area, without giving Zhao Yaning any breakthrough, he drove him to the sideline. Zhao Yaning could do nothing about such an interception. But this time, Zhao Yaning did not choose to break through by himself, but kicked a pass and kicked the ball to the goal.

He can see that the opponent's defense on the front of his penalty area is very tight, but in the wing position, the opponent has a blind spot.

The point where the ball landed was about halfway between the goal and the penalty spot, less than six yards away from the goal. This position caused Dida to jump out, but the arc of the ball was obviously beyond Dida's judgment, and it was a bit erratic. There was a problem with the save of the ball by Dida. He stretched out his hand, but instead of being caught by him, he slapped the ball and jumped up!

Milito came up to meet him and was about to shoot, but at this moment, Nesta, who rushed up from behind Milito, immediately made a sliding shovel movement, but his movement was not a tackle, but a kick. , picked the ball into the air.

"No! In the opening 12 minutes, Liverpool made the most possible attempt. Zhao Yaning's cross created an excellent opportunity, but Milito failed to grasp it."

Nice defense.

Zhao Yaning could only think so.With that kick, he deliberately controlled the footwork of passing the ball. Dida's release was expected, and Nesta's defense is also very likely to cause an own goal.But this beautiful pick made his efforts come to naught.

No wonder the opponent doesn't care about the wing. Such a central defender makes crossing more difficult.It seems that I still have to think of a different way.

The corner kick was taken, but Stam managed to head the ball out of the penalty area.Alonso, who got the ball, did not choose to shoot, but passed the ball to Riise beside him.Riise kicked the ball to Kewell on the wing.

At this time, Zhao Yaning had already turned around, ready to attack again after catching the ball, but when he turned around, what he saw was the scene he least wanted to see. [

Kewell fell to the ground, his fourth injury of the season.Moreover, this time the injured game is still a crucial Champions League final.Everything that Zhao Yaning had just thought about had to be reversed.

The disaster has just begun.