Chapter 52 Tickets

Chapter 52 Tickets

AC Milan defeated Manchester United 3:0, and joined forces with Liverpool in Athens in the European Champions Cup final this season. This result was probably not expected by anyone before the game, but AC Milan really did it. About Italian football and AC Milan The debate can finally subside now. The significance of AC Milan's victory is not only in the promotion to the final itself. For AC Milan and Italian football, this victory has immeasurable significance.

"We have won dignity for Serie A." This is what Kaka said in an interview after the game. The gentle Brazilian handsome guy also showed such a domineering side for the first time when facing the media.

"AC Milan is the name of Italian football! "

This is the headline on the front page of Gazzetta dello Sport after the game. Once Serie A dominated the Champions League semi-finals, it has long been a thing of the past. After the outbreak of the call time, the decline of Serie A is inevitable.

Especially this season, when the situation of "the top three in the Premier League encircling Milan" was formed, when Inter Milan, which had won 17 consecutive victories in Serie A, was eliminated in the Champions League, and when Manchester United played against Rome in Old Trafford. At the beginning of the massacre, almost no one could have foreseen the result today. The two biggest favorites Manchester United and Chelsea fell one after another. AC Milan and Liverpool joined forces in the semi-finals of the Champions League. Italian football, which is in a trough, did not lose to anyone.

Perhaps a World Cup is not enough to prove the level of the league. After Inter Milan's success, facing Valencia's exit, many people once again doubted Italian football. , Juventus' relegation, some fake teams exist in Serie A. This season's Serie A, to put it bluntly, is indeed the worst Serie A in recent years.

However, it would be too biased to use Rome's 1:7 against Manchester United and Valencia's elimination of Inter Milan, which can be said to dominate Italian football, as a yardstick for measuring the gap between Serie A, the Premier League and La Liga.

"The proper score for that game should be 1:3, and I can't play this score a hundred times over."

This is Totti's evaluation of the 1:7 game by the flag player of Rome. There is always a chance in the game. If the runner-up of Serie A loses 6 to the champion of the Premier League, then AC Milan's score of 3:0 against Manchester United How to explain it? ?? Stadium Maniac 52

This score is definitely not a reflection of the normal strength of the two teams.

The decline of Serie A is an indisputable fact, but the level of decline is more reflected in the middle and lower teams. The European Champions Cup final match between England and Italy has re-justified the name of Italian football.

In fact, in recent years, no matter what the domestic record is, AC Milan has always been the Serie A team with the best record in the European competition. How stupid it is to be qualified for the Champions League. If this is the case, Serie A's record in the Champions League this season will end with a 1:7 score between Rome and Manchester United. I am afraid that it will be a heavy blow to Serie A in the next few seasons.

Although this season's record in the domestic battlefield is not good, until now AC Milan's Champions League seat for next season has not yet been finalized, but the characteristics of AC Milan's specialization in the Champions Cup have not been lost this season.

As the only team that has reached the quarter-finals of the Champions League every year in the past five years, AC Milan's results are not accidental.

Ancelotti explained after the game: "I think there are indeed some teams that will perform better in the cup. These games require higher rhythm, determination and concentration than the league. I once said, There is no second team in the world that can prepare for the Champions League like AC Milan, we try to create the best conditions to show our best in the Champions League."

This is indeed the case. Milan Lab's annual winter training plan aims to adjust the team's state to the best before the quarter-finals of the Champions League. In addition, the rich experience accumulated by the team's old players in the Champions League time after time is the team's wealth that increases every season.

On the contrary, although Inter Milan's overall strength is outstanding and they have accumulated a large number of stars in various positions, Moratti obviously values ​​the domestic league more. Inter Milan has missed the league championship for 18 years. Moratti's desire for the league championship exceeds In addition to everything, before the start of this season, the club set the first goal on the league championship. During the long season, it is unlikely that the team can maintain a consistent rhythm and state, and can be on the front line of the first goal. It is not easy to maintain the best form all the time. Inter Milan's exit in the Champions League is understandable and has nothing to do with strength. And Moratti has adjusted the primary goal of next season to the Champions League. I believe that the Nerazzurri will also have a lot to watch in next year's Champions Cup.

Roma lost due to inexperience and being too young. They were full of confidence when they went to Old Trafford, but when adversity came suddenly, they were insufficiently prepared and accepted it. In contrast, in the Champions League, the Serie A team had to come up with For the results, it still depends on AC Milan and Juventus.

A 3:0, AC Milan has won the respect of the whole Italian football for the whole world. From the Calciopoli incident to the march to Athens, it is not easy for AC Milan to achieve today's results in such a season.

The World Cup year itself has a short summer break. Due to unexpected events, many AC Milan players had to give up their summer vacation to play in the Champions League qualifiers. Summer preparations were also forced to be cancelled, which affected AC Milan for half the season. Despite this, in the first half of the league, AC Milan still put all their energy into the Champions Cup, qualifying for the group stage one round ahead of schedule, paving the way for the current results.

It has to be said that this also benefited from AC Milan's good signing. The opponents in the group stage were indeed not strong. The first opponent in the knockout round was the Celtics. When they met Manchester United, the team's state also adjusted Come out, sitting on the sky, AC Milan is destined to enter Athens.

Without summer training, they suffered a psychological blow from penalty points. At one time, their top four goals in the league were threatened. Under such circumstances, AC Milan can tenaciously get out of the predicament and enter Athens, which should be respected by the world.

Ferguson called AC Milan a "wonderful winner" after the game, Spain's "Aspen" called AC Milan "a great team that knows the key to victory", and "Kicker" believed that "AC Milan's final against Liverpool is a The perfect ending." ?? Stadium Maniac 52

The team got out of the predicament of physical condition, and also successfully overcome the psychological difficulties. This is not something that all teams can do. Now it seems that AC Milan has a lot to score in the top four or even the top three in the league. Big possibility.

In the Champions Cup, AC Milan is still one step away from winning the final cup. Regardless of whether the last step can be taken, in this "dark season", AC Milan's achievements can be regarded as extremely successful.

Recalling the terrible outbreak of the Italian team last summer when the negative news plagued the situation, perhaps this is the spirit and true meaning of Italian football full of heritage.

Ancelotti is full of confidence to complete the goal of this season and achieve a major breakthrough in the Champions League: "Istanbul night will not happen here. The game two years ago is still haunting me all the time. For us, but that bad game will not become our burden, it will only become our motivation, of course, the battle of Athens cannot be called revenge, it should be called a battle of rectification!"

For Ancelotti, it should be said that he is very lucky. He reached the finals for three consecutive seasons. If the first time can still be said to be the real strength of AC Milan, then the remaining two times can only be said to be auspicious. I don't know if Ancelotti is a lucky man, but Tiantian is indeed on his side in the Champions League for two consecutive years.

In last year's Champions League, when Ancelotti encountered a crisis of confidence, Degan stood up. Starting from the match against Bayern Munich, his consecutive goals and a hat-trick in the final made AC Milan finally win the championship trophy. This season, when AC Milan suffered heavy losses and Ancelotti's coaching position was also unstable, Kaka became his savior again.

Ancelotti should indeed be proud. He led the team to the Champions League final three times in a row.

However, the Champions League is going smoothly, but in the league, AC Milan still has to face a lot of challenges. Although there is still hope for the top three in theory, there are still four rounds left in the league. With a gap of five points between them, it is only a hope to strive for the top three.

The top three in the league are basically hopeless, and the current fourth place is also threatened by Fiorentina all the time. The current points gap between the two teams is only two points.

In the last four rounds of the league, AC Milan's competitors are Catania, Udinese and Empoli. It is not once or twice that Dines acted as the spoiler of the league. Even Inter Milan dare not say that they will win when they encounter Wuji. There is also Empoli, the super dark horse in the first half of the Serie A season. It is starting to fade, but there is still hope for the UEFA Cup tickets, and they will definitely not give up this game easily.

What about Florence?

They have to face Cagliari, Messina and Palermo respectively. Among them, Cagliari also has no desires, no worries about relegation, and no hope of advancing to the European arena. Messina is definitely relegated, and Palermo is locked. Even if they won the UEFA Cup seat, they will not be very excited about this game.

The key is the last round of the league, the direct dialogue between the two teams. Basically, it can be said that this game will finally determine the general trend of Serie A next season.

"There is no problem with the tickets for the Champions League. I will complete the tasks assigned by the club. The top four in the league is our minimum goal. Fiorentina think they have a chance, then they are really wrong!"

Why is Ancelotti so confident?

People don't know!

Presumably he was infected by Zlatan Ibrahimovic.

If AC Milan's final league ranking is surpassed by Fiorentina, even if they win the Champions League, what will be the final result?

In 2000, such a situation once appeared in Spain. At that time, Real Madrid won the Champions League, but ranked fifth in the league. In the end, Real Madrid launched all public relations strategies, and even the Spanish royal family came forward. Zaragoza had no choice but to choose to compromise, and gave up the hard-won Champions League seat, only to play in the UEFA Cup, and was eliminated by penalties in the first round.

In the 04/05 season, the loopholes in the rules were once again exposed. Liverpool reversed Milan and won the Champions League, while they were only fifth in the league and began to seek special cases.

UEFA kicked the ball to the FA as usual, but the British strongly stated that "Everton will definitely participate in the Champions League as the fourth place in the Premier League", and at the same time exerted pressure to give Liverpool a wild card. UEFA compromised.

Liverpool is treated as a special case and won the wild card of next season's Champions League. However, UEFA has also set up several obstacles: 1. It needs to start from the first round of the qualifiers, which means that the team's preparations will arrive earlier than other teams Two months 2. There is no "national protection", which guarantees that clubs from the same member state will not meet before the knockout round.

I don't know whether it was God's will or man-made, but Liverpool and Chelsea, who passed the qualifiers, were indeed placed in the same group.

Now it seems that such a situation may appear in AC Milan again, but if Fiorentina wants to give up the Champions League seat to AC Milan, everyone knows that this situation is absolutely impossible to happen. , Digan will not agree.

"Ancelotti is very confident? This is good, but I hope that when we face off, he still has this confidence. At that time, I will attack San Siro, and AC Milan don't expect us to give alms. Champions League The seat of Fiorentina is about to be booked! Of course Berlusconi's "chairman" can threaten not to broadcast the Serie A, let's see if we will bow our heads!"

Before the start of the thirty-fifth round of the league match, Degan spoke with sarcasm when he was interviewed by the media.

In the thirty-fifth round of the league, Fiorentina faced Cagliari at home. The game had just started seven minutes ago. Degan took a free kick and hit the wall and bounced into the air. Pacini grabbed the header before the goalkeeper Chimenti A lob shot, although the Cagliari defender chased back to make a clearance, the ball bounced into the net.

In the 15th minute, Degan dribbled the ball in the middle. After passing the opponent's three defenders in a row, he pushed the far corner of the goal and made another victory. While expanding the score to 2:0, he also made his own goal. The number of goals this season has expanded to thirty-eight!

After the start of the second half, Degan once again smashed the football into Cagliari's goal when he took a corner kick.

3:0!

In the end, Fiorentina won an away game, and Degan was only one short of 40 goals in a single season!

Ibrahimovic also scored in this round of the game, but no one cares about his goal now. Everyone knows that by the end of the season, the Swede will definitely perform on the streets of Florence. Naked show, just take the camera and it's ok!

AC Milan also won the game. With the goals of Kaka and Inzaghi, AC Milan defeated Catania at home and continued to maintain a two-point lead over Fiorentina.

In the thirty-sixth round of the league, Fiorentina played at home against Siena, who came to challenge. After losing many main players this season, Siena's combat effectiveness has almost dropped to freezing point, ranking last in the league. They want If you stand up, you can only hope for the birth of a miracle.

In this game, although Siena worked very hard, the difference in strength between the two sides still made the game decided early. Before the first half was over, Digan had already completed two passes and one shot. 』Scored the goal and assisted Cavinaghi and Motta to score respectively. In the second half, Siena, who was completely demoralized, lost the will to resist. In the end, Cavinaghi made another victory and locked the score at 4. :0!

Although Degan only scored one goal, he completed a hat-trick of assists. I believe that no one will say that Degan is selfish anymore.

Zlatan Ibrahimovic scored twice in this round. Judging by his performance on the field, it seems that he has not given up hope. However, the gap of eight goals is really not good if he wants to catch up in a short time. easy thing.

AC Milan also won the game. This time it was Kaka who stood out. He scored two shots and one pass during the game. He scored two points and assisted Ronaldo to score a goal.

The competition for Champions League tickets between Fiorentina and AC Milan has gradually turned into a duel between the Wright Brothers.

In the thirty-seventh round of the league, Fiorentina won again in the match against Palermo. This time Degan did not score, but contributed three more assists. In the second half of the season, he gradually recovered and began to integrate into the team's card Vinaghi scored his first hat-trick after joining Fiorentina in this game.

Digan died down, and Ibrahimovic was also sidelined due to injury in this round. According to the latest news released by Inter Milan, the Swede has a groin muscle strain. There is only one round of the league left this season, and he is destined to be unable to participate. The competition for the top scorer between Degan and Ibrahimovic has come to an end.

The only remaining suspense in Serie A this season is the competition between Fiorentina and AC Milan for the Champions League tickets for next season.

In the final round of the league, the two teams will end this suspense at San Siro. At that time, Degan will return to San Siro for the first time after leaving AC Milan, and the return of many former Milan players in Fiorentina will undoubtedly become the biggest attraction.

But before that, a move by AC Milan caught Fiorentina by surprise. Galliani, the executive "chairman" of AC Milan, actually asked to postpone the final round of the league until after the Champions League final.