Chapter 54: Face to Face with the Legends (First Update)

From the very beginning of this game, Napoli showed amazing momentum, and at first glance, I thought that it was Napoli who were eager for revenge......

Napoli are on the rise, and Chen Yingying will naturally get a lot of shots on goal ().

But he wasn't up against your average centre-back.

When Chen Yingying faced Maldini and planned to force the ball to break through, the ball at his feet was shoveled down by Maldini and did not foul!

Chen Yingying wanted to bully Maldini at first, he was old, he turned slowly, and his movements were not flexible enough. How do you think that although people are older, their experience is still there, the card position is extremely accurate, and the prediction is also extremely accurate (). Chen Yingying pouted his ass, he knew what he was going to do, he was stuck on the road in advance, waiting for Chen Yingying to hit him head-on, and then he used his superb tackle skills to destroy the football.

This ball shovel is clean!

Chen Yingying's footsteps staggered, and the man rushed out by inertia, but the ball remained at Maldini's feet.

Fortunately, he reacted quickly enough to see that the ball was lost, and his first reaction was not to hold his head with his hands and swing the annoyed pe, but to turn around and pounce again.

Maldini had planned to get up and control the ball and pass the ball again.

Unexpectedly, he suddenly had a dangerous intuition, so he decisively gave up his original plan, fell to the ground and stretched out his legs to sweep the football to Karazek next to him.

Just as he had done this, a gust of wind passed by his ears, and the big man struck him.

It's dangerous!

Maldini screamed inwardly, but his face didn't show anything. A forty-year-old veteran has long learned to hide his inner activities.

What surprised Maldini was not that his ball was almost broken, but that such a big man was so flexible...... is more than 1.9 meters tall, but after just being cut off the ball, he quickly turned around and was able to grab back immediately, such agile skills are amazing.

Just like grabbing a circle and teasing a monkey during training, Chen Yingying turned around and grabbed back, but he pounced. He also secretly exclaimed in his heart - the forty-year-old guy was still so powerful, he really didn't expect it at all. Let's not talk about the tackle, but the sweeping pass that fell to the ground is enough to show his experience and intuition......

In fact, Chen Yingying initially despised Maldini, because Maldini's age was almost the same as his father. Can a forty-year-old be compared to his twenty-year-old self? He has this mentality.

No matter how experienced you are, no matter how good your skills are, your body alone is enough to blow up the other party.

When he got to the game, he realized that it wasn't like that at all.

As the former best defender in the world, Maldini is really tough to deal with......

He can always get stuck in a position that makes him feel very uncomfortable, so that he doesn't need to fight desperately with Chen Yingxing, nor does he need to compare speed and body with Chen Yingying, he just needs to make suitable defensive moves in this position, and that's it.

But Chen Yingying is uncomfortable, if Chen Yingying is compared to a healthy and strong adult, then Maldini is a small but tough fish bone, which happens to be stuck in the throat of Chen Yingying, an adult. I can't cough it out, I can't swallow it.

After coming to Italy, Chen Yingying has met a lot of first-class defenders, but Maldini is the top person he has encountered. It was the first time he had collided with Maldini, who had not even been included in the squad when the two sides met in the first half of the season. It will also be the last time, as Maldini will retire at the end of the season. This is the last season of his career.

When Chen Yingying was stopped by Maldini one after another, he did not get angry, did not burst into a rage, on the contrary, a smile appeared on his face.

Maldini's last season, he caught up with it, what a blessing! Be able to play against legendary figures once in your career...... I'm not in vain!

Chen Yingying thinks so.

Maldini was already active in Serie A before he was born, and by the time he started playing, he had already made a name for himself. So it was really not easy to meet such a living fossil-like character when I started playing in the professional league.

Chen Yingying cherishes the opportunity to compete with the masters, because he knows that it is an effective way to improve himself. Moreover...... He also wants to use this match to get a good feel for Maldini's strength, and then maybe he can show it perfectly in the dungeon......

Ever since he discovered that the dungeon could perfectly simulate everything on the football field, he had the idea that wouldn't it be more helpful for him to grow his strength by training with the masters regularly?

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"The hero jumped ()! He competes for the top! It's a pity - under Maldini's interference, he went off the rails! ”

After Chen Yingying landed, he waved his hand with some annoyance. This time, I was in front of Maldini and stuck in the position, I thought it would be a goal, but I didn't think ...... Maldini was behind him and deflected.

Maldini could feel that every time he fought Chen Yingying, this kid tried his best, and it felt as if he was going to knock himself out.

So don't look at the confrontation between the two, he hasn't let him score yet, it seems that he has the upper hand, but in fact he is also very hard.

Looking at the angular muscles under Chen Yingying's tight jersey, he couldn't help but sigh at his old age. If I could be ten years younger, I wouldn't have worked as hard as I have today......

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The collision between Chen Yingying and Maldini here has attracted the attention of many people. One is a star of hope who has just landed in Serie A this year and is expected to be highly, and the other is a legendary veteran who is about to retire. It seems to mean the end of an old era and the dawn of a new era.

This kind of symbolic duel is the most eye-catching and the most inspiring to the literati.

But football is not a one-on-one heads-up. On the other battlefield, there are also wonderful performances.

When Chen Yingying and Maldini were fighting, the score on the field had changed.

Napoli, playing at home, took the lead in the 21st minute. The person who scored the goal was not Chen Yingying, but Chen Yingying played a restraining role for this goal, he single-handedly contained Maldini and Kaladze, the two Milan central defenders, allowing Hamsik to assist Arshavin successfully, and the captain of the Russian national team, who shone in the European Cup, burst into the penalty area and calmed down, and the football rolled from Dida's finger into the goal ().

The São Paulo Stadium was full of jubilation.

Quite a few people chanted Arshavin's nickname: "Shava! Shawr! Shawr! The sound even gave Arshavin the illusion that "this is St. Petersburg, this is the Petrovsky Stadium."

Because the voice is only heard there.

"It looks like Arshavin is quickly getting a hit with the fans here! The situation with his best friend is really different...... the narrator lamented.

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Trailing AC Milan launched a frantic counter-attack, during which time Napoli's attack weakened and most of them retreated to participate in the defence.

Chen Yingying had much less support, so he didn't talk to Maldini as often as he used to.

Napoli's defence was successful, and they failed to allow the mighty AC Milan to equalise until half-time, and the two sides went into the break with a 1-0 scoreline.

With Arshavin's goal as the dividing line, Chen Yingxing's performance was also divided into two different situations. Prior to Arshavin's goal, Napoli were in full swing and Chen was given plenty of chances, making frequent appearances on television. And when Arshavin scored, AC Milan's offensive came up, Napoli could only temporarily avoid the edge and choose to recycle the defense, Chen Yingying, as a center forward who relies heavily on midfield support, has fewer opportunities, and naturally has less time to appear in front of TV audiences.

Mazzarri now faces a choice - to continue defending in the second half? Or go on the offensive?

They are now leading by one goal, but the lead by one goal is simply insignificant (). Napoli originally played a back three, the defensive strength is weak, if they continue to press out to attack, it is inevitable that ACMI will not find a chance to equalize. You must know that there are three superstars sitting on the bench at AC Milan, and any one of them has the ability to change the outcome of the game on their own.

But what about defense?

Defending from the second half, will it be too early?

Mazari struggled inwardly for a while, and finally made a decision - defend!

So at half-time, he sent this message to his team-mates.

Chen Yingying's brow furrowed when he heard that the team was going to continue to defend in the second half. He certainly knows what it means to him. It means that there are fewer attacking opportunities and fewer opportunities for him to score.

He felt the manager was a little too cautious.

But after all, the other party is the head coach, and he can't stand up in the locker room directly to accuse the head coach of being tactically conservative, right? Then he doesn't want to mess around...... Look at Ravitch, that's what happens against the manager.

Since the manager doesn't plan to invest too much in attack, it means that more often than not, he has to rely on himself.

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Mazzari believes that the team should be able to withstand AC Milan's defense by shrinking the defense, after all, when it shrinks, Napoli is equivalent to playing a 541 formation. Three centre-backs, two full-backs, four midfielders, one striker.

Only five minutes into the second half, their goal was pierced by Inzaghi......

No one expected Inzaghi to be in that position, but he was there, and with his foot he touched the ball lightly, and the ball flew into the goal......

After the goal, Inzaghi was so excited that he spread his arms, waved, roared, and rushed to the sidelines.

Inzaghi, who has always been handsome and dashing, was so ecstatic that even his face was distorted after scoring a goal, looking at his excitement, he looked like a teenager who scored a goal on his first appearance. That's probably why Inzaghi continues to score goals at the age of 35 – every game is like his first career for him, with a constant hunger and crazy passion for football, for the game, for goals, and he never stops chasing goals. While some people see "eternal youth" as a wish, Inzaghi has been practicing it for 18 seasons.

As Inzaghi raced around the pitch to celebrate, the Napoli crowd fell silent. They're frustrated by the equaliser.

And what about Chen Yingying? His eyes have been on Inzaghi's celebratory run, and the goalscorer who has been famous since he started playing is now in front of his eyes. Chen Yingying felt that he had made the right choice to come to Italy, because he always met and played against legends who had previously only been able to watch on television, and became an opponent that they had to work hard to beat.

"Can you imagine him being thirty-six in a few months?" Hamsik, who was standing next to him, said suddenly.

Chen Yingying shook his head.

"He is a true immortal legend!" Even as an opponent, even if his team has just been equalized, Hamsik makes no secret of his respect and admiration for this big man.

Looking at Inzaghi's running back, Chen Yingying suddenly said: "I want to be a legend too!" ”

Hamsik was stunned for a moment, then turned his head to look at Chen Yingying, and there was no banter on his face.

He patted Chen Yingying on the back: "Come on!" (To be continued.)

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