Chapter 087 State Ups and Downs
On November 7, 2007, the fourth match day of Group D of the 2007/2008 Champions League group stage. In the game, AC Milan beat Shakhtar Donetsk 3-1 away.
Zhang Yang scored a goal in the first game. While raising the number of goals scored in the Champions League this season to eight, he also humiliated the Ukrainian giants again. Zhang Yang scored five goals in the two rounds against Shakhtar Donetsk.
The media once again praised Zhang Yang, praising him as comparable to Basten in those years.
However, in the twelfth round of Serie A a few days later, AC Milan lost to Atlanta com. Zhang Yang played average in the game. It was Ambrosini who scored for AC Milan. It was also the media that were praising Zhang Yang a few days ago. As soon as the trend changed, they began to criticize Zhang Yang, believing that his recent state had fluctuated. After the crazy goal in the early season, now, the teams in Serie A have also begun to slowly adapt to the characteristics of Zhang Yang. Zhang Yang wants to continue to perform crazily. It's very difficult.
In this round of the league, Ibrahimovic scored a goal to help Inter Milan beat Lazio 3-0 at home. The media began to praise Ibrahimovic again, saying that Ibrahimovic's stability is not available now. This season's Serie A golden boots, Ibrahimovic Qi is more advantageous than Zhang Yang.
After the match with Atlanta, there is a league break of more than ten days, which is the national team's game day.
AC Milan's international players once again went to their respective national teams to participate in the competition. However, Zhang Yang did not stay in Milan. He returned to China to speak for a domestic brand.
Ancelotti was a little dissatisfied with Zhang Yang's long journey back to China from the Apennine Peninsula to participate in business activities. He was worried that going back and forth would affect Zhang Yang's state and physical fitness, and then affect AC Milan's performance. However, he can't help it, because the brand endorsed by Zhang Yang this time is not only his own business activities, but also the shadow of AC Milan Club. Galliani, vice chairman of AC Milan Club, also attended Zhang Yang's endorsement press conference.
Ancelotti's worries are not unreasonable. This more than ten-day interval affected the state of AC Milan. However, the biggest impact was not Zhang Yang, but the international players participating in the national team.
In the thirteenth round of Serie A after the national team's match, AC Milan lost 0-1 to Cagliari away and suffered two consecutive defeats in the league. Zhang Yang created a penalty for AC Milan at the beginning of the first half of the game, but he was also replaced due to injury. Kaka hit the penalty kick to help AC Milan lead Cagliari 1-0. However, the recent two-week double matches in Serie A and the Champions League, as well as the long run of the national team, obviously affected the state and physical strength of AC Milan's stars. In the second half of the game, AC Milan encountered a physical crisis, and Cagliari, who had almost no international players in the team, took the opportunity to launch. A burst of offense and stunned everyone was that they scored two goals in a row in five minutes, which was also the final score. Cagliari won AC Milan 2-1 at home, which was also the biggest surprise in this round of the league.
The team lost, and Zhang Yang was injured and left the field. Suddenly, AC Milan's whole team was cloudy.
The only good news is that Zhang Yang's injury is fine and will not affect the Champions League with Benfica in the middle of next week.
In addition, for Zhang Yang, the bad news is that Ibrahimovic scored in this round of the league. Inter Milan won Atlanta 2-1 at home, and Ibrahimovic scored twice. In this way, Ibrahimovic scored 16 goals in the league. Zhang Yang is three goals ahead. The good news is that Ibrahimovic was sent off with a red card by the referee for slapping Atlanta player Doni in the game, and may be banned from the game, which also gave Zhang Yang a chance to catch up with Ibrahimovic.
Three days later, on the fifth match day of Group D of the 2007/2008 Champions League group stage, AC Milan played away one-to-one Fika. Rui Costa's direct free kick helped Benfica take the lead, and Zhang Yang then headed the ball to help AC Milan equalize the score. Gilardino, who came back from injury and came on as a substitute, scored a goal, but was awarded a foul first and the goal was invalid. The slow motion showed that this was the right penalty. Gilardino did push down the Benfica player who defended himself before shooting.
After playing the game with Benfica, the eyes of the whole Apennine Peninsula focused on the game three days later.
AC Milan's home game against Juventus. This is also the most important game in this round of Serie A.
On the day of the game, the San Siro Stadium was full, and AC Milan's recent situation was not good. Although the fans were a little dissatisfied with the team's performance, at this time, many fans still came to the stadium to support the team. Besides, the fans certainly did not want to miss such an important game with Juventus. After the phone door, a year later, the two teams of the Holy League met again in Serie A.
Zhang Yang did not appear in the starting list. In this game, Ancelotti's choice on the front line was Ronaldo to be the single arrow. Inzaghi caught a cold and did not appear on the team's list today. The substitute strikers on the bench are Zhang Yang and Gilardino.
In the pre-season match of this season, AC Milan lost 0-1 at home to Juventus at San Siro Stadium, which made the European champion AC Milan very disgrace. Now, AC Milan's recent situation is not good, which also gives Juventus great excitement. Juventus vowed to defeat AC Milan at San Siro. After defeating AC Milan in the warm-up match before the season, the Turin people shouted the return of the King of Juventus. However, the Milanese said that the warm-up matches were not counted, which made Juventus very unhappy. They vowed to kill AC Milan today to prove that they were still a rich family.
The match between AC Milan and Juventus is an absolute match between Mars hitting the earth. This game is also the focus of this round. Coupled with the quarrel between Zhang Yang and Buffon before the game, it also detonated the game.
When Zhang Yang and Ibrahimovic had a war with each other before, "Torino Sport" came out to make trouble and criticized Zhang Yang. The quarrel between Zhang Yang and Turin, the media also affected Juventus. Buffon came out to accuse Zhang Yang. At that time, Zhang Yang did not have time to respond. Before the war, some media found Zhang Yang, and the old story was mentioned again. Zhang Yang really lived up to the expectations of the media. He said, "Buffon is a good goalkeeper and one of the top goalkeepers on the planet. Therefore, I am very excited to let Buffon pick up the ball from the net, which must be very successful."
Obviously, Buffon criticized Zhang Yang, which made Zhang Yang very unhappy. He was fighting back, and at the same time, he did not save face for the Italian state at all.
Buffon was also angry and said directly, "I'm looking forward to seeing him depressed (because he didn't score) after the game."
This game is the most important game in this round of Serie A and even in the European national leagues this weekend. This game is broadcast live in no less than 100 countries and regions around the world, and the reporters who came to the scene have set a record in recent seasons at San Siro Stadium. Among them, Chinese reporters have contributed a lot of strength. This is the most powerful opponent Zhang Yang has met in the league after landing in Serie A. Juventus and AC Mira are the super giants of Serie A and have many fans in China, and the sports channel of Central Sports Channel has already bombarded this game. Rumor has it that he was worried that Zhang Yang would not play in the game due to injury, but it was later confirmed from Ancelotti that although Zhang Yang would not start, he would appear, so the media also waited early in front of the TV.
A large number of Juventus fans also went to Milan to cheer for the team. The game has not yet started. The fans of both sides have been scolding each other in the stadium. The atmosphere of the stadium is extremely tense. Although the number of Juventus fans in the stadium is small, they are still very tough. A Juventus fan tried to run through the police wall. In AC Milan's stands, this caused a small range of riots, and the police, who had been waiting for a long time, quickly took the fan away...
There are also two helicopters hovering over the stadium, one of which is a plane rented by the Italian National Sports Channel, which began to report on the focus game before the game, and the other is a police helicopter of the Milan police to observe the situation in the stadium at any time to avoid riots...
According to the plan of the Milan police, although AC Milan and Juventus are not absolute sworn enemies, now that the two teams have fought after a year, the warmth of those years may have long been gone. Coupled with the war of words between Zhang Yang and Buffon, it is difficult to imagine what will happen. Therefore, the Milan police also Raise the security level of this game to the orange level, which is second only to terrorist attacks...
Zhang Yang sat on the bench and waited for the starter to play with other substitutes. He was talking about Broki beside him. Zhang Yang's Italian progress was not bad, and the two could basically communicate more skillfully.
At this time, the list of starting players from both sides has been played on the big screen of the stadium---
AC Milan (4-5-1):
The goalkeeper: Dida;
The defensive line: Odo, Nesta, Kaladze, Serginho;
Midfielders: Gattuso, Ambrosini, Sedorf, Kaka, Pirlo;
Forward: Ronaldo;
Juventus (4-4-2):
Gatekeeper: Buffon;
The defensive line: Zebina, Lerotale, Chiellini, Molinaro;
Middlefielder: Nedvid, Nocherino, Salihamidzic, Zanetti;
Forward: Piero, Iaquinta;
The players have not yet played. At this time, the whole stadium was boiling, and the AC Milan fans stood up and shouted a person's name----
"Van...Basten!"
"Van...Basten!!!"
Zhang Yang opened his mouth. He didn't know that Basten appeared in the stands in this game. In fact, Milan fans didn't know before. It was Basten's appearance in the stands and was discovered by the fans, which caused a sensation in the whole stadium. This is the fans using their way to show the most Salute to the great shooter.
Zhang Yang is also excited on the bench. As a player, when he left the team for more than ten years, he only appeared in the stands to watch the ball, and he could get such courtesy as the fans---
Such a career is worth it!!
The fans called Basten's name over and over again. Basten suddenly appeared in San Siro today, which was definitely a great surprise for AC Milan fans.
PS: The second update.