Chapter 007 The first battle is the Champions Cup

More than two months ago, Zhuo Yang's last game in Madiburg was the European Champions Cup, and more than two months later, his first game for AC Milan was also the Champions Cup.

Because of the World Cup, the leagues of all countries started slightly later than usual, especially in Italy. Although the punishment results of the 'phonegate' incident have come out, the matter is far from settled, and several forces are still secretly competing and pulling each other's skin, resulting in a delay in the decision of the new season's schedule.

With Berlusconi's protection, AC Milan was not directly pushed down like Juventus, and was not even deprived of the Champions Cup, but it was still affected, and AC Milan will start from the qualifying round.

Home and away, the opponent in the Champions League qualifiers is the famous Red Star Belgrade.

It was an era of heroes, and it was also a time when football was not completely polluted by money. Red Star Belgrade pioneered the Eastern European Latin style of play, Yugovic, Prosineski, Mikhailovich, Pantsev, these names make people shudder.

However, with the increasing commercialization of football and the disappearance of Yugoslavia, Eastern European legends such as Red Star Belgrade could no longer retain their playing stars, and quickly sank into labor-intensive player processing enterprises in the five major leagues, and the second-rate and third-rate players declined all the way.

Today AC Milan welcomed their old friend, the former No. 10, Dejan Savčevic.

He spent seven years with the Rossoneri, during which he took up the gun of the 'Dutch trio' perfectly, and in the 1994 Champions League final Savicevic scored Barcelona's third goal, which was hailed as one of the best goals in the history of the Champions League final.

Someone as powerful as Robert Baggio, who had just arrived at AC Milan from Juventus, was forced to work as a substitute behind Savicevic for a year, and gave up the number 10 shirt he had always had. It wasn't until the arrival of George Weah that Baggio and these two formed the 'Milan Trident' that swept Serie A.

Savicevic visited the site as an official of the Red Star team, where he was a decorated player, and his former comrades-in-arms Maldini and Kostacuta all hugged Savicevic.

It was too early, of course, Zhuo Yang had heard of this person's famous name, but the only impression was that when AC Milan participated in the Toyota Cup in Tokyo more than ten years ago, Savicevic slapped the throat of the opposing player in the game, and then almost got beaten by the 'mad goal' Chilavert. In that game, AC Milan lost 0-2 to Sarsfield.

"You're both great, come on!" The 40-year-old Savicevic patted the shoulders of 21-year-old Zhuo Yang and 24-year-old Kaka respectively, and the seniors encouraged the juniors, and Zhuo Yang and Kaka looked at each other.

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In the first game of the season, the first home game, Carlo Ancelotti made a 4-4-2, or 4-2-2-2, at the San Siro, and only Zhuo Yang started among the new signings.

As the most ferocious goal-scoring machine in European football in the past two years, Zhuo Yang was deployed to partner Gilardino in the front line, with Kaka and Seedorf behind them, and then Andrea Pirlo and Gattuso. Due to minor injuries and other physical reasons, the AC Milan backline consisted of Kostacuta and Simic in the middle, Serginho on the left and Cafu on the right.

With Brazil international Dida behind them, these five form an age-old defence that is almost 180 years old, which is nothing short of appalling. The 31-year-old Simic was stunned inside, and it was completely a little fresh meat.

Zhuo Yang looked at the 'grandfathers' in the defense and muttered to himself: It was not until this year that the first 30-year-old veteran appeared in the main lineup, Rock Delas. And at AC Milan, 30 can still be called a young player.

Carlo Ancelotti is a very kind manager, he is not a scum uncle. In the tactical training a few days ago, he told Zhuo Yang in detail about the reasons and functions of arranging him in the forward line, Zhuo Yang of course has nothing to do with this, he is very familiar with the forward line, and has partnered with the troll Gomez for a year, which also makes Zhuo Yang quite experienced in how to echo with the center.

And the day before yesterday in the internal warm-up match in Milanello, Zhuo Yang partnered with Gilardino and scored a goal, AC Milan defeated the third division Lecco 4:0. In that game, Zhuo Yang only played 45 minutes, everyone was the same, Inzaghi, Kaka, and Borriello scored one goal each, which was very easy.

However, at the beginning of today's game, it was not the same at all.

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Zhuo Yang gave a diagonal pass to the ground at 45 degrees on the left side, Gilardino had his back against Bisevac in front of the arc, Zhuo Yang ran back to the other side to respond, the position was very good, as long as there was a ball at his feet, Zhuo Yang could immediately burst in to form a shot. However, Gilardino forced his way away from Bisevac and was tackled by Pantic and failed to hit the goal.

Five minutes later, Zhuo Yang picked up Kaka on the left flank, and then played a through ball to Kaka, who played his trademark dribbling and ran with the outside of his instep to Gilardino after being intercepted by the opposing defensive midfielder Kovacevic.

If Gilardino doesn't stop the ball at this time, he knocks it to Zhuo Yang, who cuts through the backline, it will be a foolproof single knife. Gilardino, however, opted to split the ball to Seedorf on the right touchline. When Seedorf passed the ball again, Zhuo Yang was already in an offside position.

This is the second thing that Zhuo Yang feels is very different from Madiborg at AC Milan – he can be recruited at any time, but football may not always come to him.

If it was replaced by Madiburg and Gomez, the two chances just now would have almost confirmed that Zhuo Yang would have rewritten the score to 2:0 for the team, but it could become AC Milan and Gilardino, but he didn't even have a chance to shoot.

After coming to AC Milan, Zhuo Yang no longer has undoubted possession of the ball, and no longer has the unscrupulous unlimited right to fire. This is not his small club Madiburg, which has high prestige, but AC Milan, a giant club that has long been familiar with all kinds of footballers and has won all kinds of honors.

Here, there is a large number of new world champions who were born just a month ago.

In fact, these things, Zhuo Yang could think of before he came, Milan's dispatch and distribution rights belong to Pirlo, although Zhuo Yang does not think Pirlo has any magical skills, but it has indeed been sleeping for so many years.

The end of the attack belongs to the front trident or quadrent, which has Zhuo Yang, but he will not be the only core, but has the same rights and obligations as the other three positions. There is nothing strange about this, previously Kaka, Shevchenko, Inzaghi, they were all like this, and there were no privileges.

In the first half, AC Milan completely controlled the tempo of the field, and even though Red Star Belgrade was still good, they only posed a handful of threats to AC Milan's grandfather defence, but this side did not bear fruit, and the two sides drew 0-0.

At halftime, Zhuo Yang was still comforting himself: It's good to adapt and adapt again, and if you find out the way, Lao Tzu will be out of control. But he didn't know that his few runs in the first half in the best position were not due to tactical reasons and his own integration, but because Gilardino was at fault.