Chapter 238: The pressure of the three defenders

The team song of AC Milan is simple, with a bright rhythm, and a sonorous and powerful singing, with extraordinary momentum.

Especially, when more than 50,000 fans sang in unison, the momentum was even more majestic, just like a loud charge horn, making people feel excited!

The passionate song of fans is like a shot of a heart-warming agent, making every AC Milan player immediately full of fighting spirit.

At the same time, the fans' singing also gave a warning to Sampdoria, who was playing away, and put huge pressure on them.

However, facing the oncoming pressure, Chu Jiang just smiled slightly.

he does not care a straw!

Warm training has already given him sufficient preparation.

As for the self-psychological adjustment before the game, Chu Jiang even adjusted his psychology to a state that was very suitable for the game.

Chu Jiang is a player with a big heart, and this has always been the case.

The huge stage will only become the driving force for his performance and will never become the pressure to stop his progress!

However, Palonbo was not aware of it.

Generally speaking, when young players encounter big scenes for the first time, they will be nervous, which will affect their performance on the field.

Especially players like Chu Jiang are young, have little experience, and are the first season of the Serie A. When they encounter a large scene where more than 50,000 people put pressure on them together, they are easily lost and over-tensioned.

At this time, as the captain of the team and a veteran of the arena, Palonbo should take the initiative to help them relieve their tension and let them relax as much as possible.

Therefore, Palonbo turned his head and wanted to help Chujiang relax his mood in the game.

However, when he saw Chu Jiang's real expression, Palonbo was shocked.

Chu Jiang is not nervous at all!

Judging from his expression, Chu Jiang looked calm and calm like a veteran who was used to big scenes. His demeanor was not only stronger than Desena (23 years old) and Vladimir Koeman (21 years old), but even veterans from some teams may not be better than him.

Seeing the captain looking over, Chu Jiang gave him a thumbs up, and then made a heartless face.

"This kid!"

Palonbo smiled.

He knew that Chu Jiang didn't need him to worry about it at all.

"Chu Zhen is a player born for football!"

Palonbo sighed in his heart.

After a simple warm-up, the players on both sides took their place.

The focus battle for the championship is about to break out!

“b—”

With the whistle of referee Celli, the game officially began!

Cavacin was lined up with a 352 formation today, with goalkeeper Chu Jiang from behind to front; three defenders Volta, Gastaldello, Martinez Vidal; five midfielders Desena, Tisone and Palonbo were in the center, Conan and Lotsko were on the two wings; the two centers were Pozi and Macarone respectively.

Interestingly, Sampdoria's pair of forwards, Macarone and Pochi, both came from AC Milan's youth training camp. In a sense, they also faced their old club this time.

AC Milan's coach Allegri still set out his usual 4312 formation to adapt to changes.

Starting goalkeeper Abiati; four defenders are Abat, Yepes, Thiago Silva and Zambrota; three back midfielders Gattuso and Sedov are separated on both sides, Van Bomer is in the center; the front midfielder is Ghanaian Boateng; the two forwards are exactly the same as the last time in Italy, namely Brazilian Pato and Robinho.

Ibrahimovic was sent off for insulting the referee just after he returned last round and was suspended from this round. Robinho replaced him and formed a forward line with Pato.

Nesta failed to enter the roster due to knee inflammation, and Yepez replaced Nesta and Thiago Silva to partner with central defender.

On the team's bench, Casano, who was a new father, returned to the ban and welcomed his old owner Sampdoria, but the "Barry Bad Boy" failed to get the starter.

Judging from the arrangement of troops, AC Milan sent all the main players. All the main players who could play were sent on the court by Allegri, and they were all good at playing.

This has changed a lot from the last time the two teams met.

Obviously, Allegri’s purpose is to score three points!

Starting from the referee's whistle, AC Milan immediately launched a powerful offensive, basically compressing Sampdoria's formation from 352 to a very flat 532.

In the face of the powerful AC Milan, Sampdoria was difficult to organize even a decent offensive, let alone threatening the gate guarded by Italian Abiati.

Compared with his leisurely Italian colleagues who can sit down and drink coffee, Chu Jiang is undoubtedly much more busy.

From time to time, he shouted loudly about his teammates' names and directed them to protect each other and not leave any room for AC Milan.

Chu Jiang knew clearly that when facing a powerful opponent like AC Milan, even a small gap could lead to the team's collapse of the entire game.

Because, the personal abilities of big-name stars such as AC Milan are really too strong!

Even if they don’t have the chance, they can create opportunities alone, not to mention the space that their opponents actively reveal.

Therefore, the task facing Chu Jiang in this game will be very difficult!

Just 15 seconds into the game, AC Milan won a corner kick.

After a tactical cooperation, Abate made a cross from the right and was pushed out of the bottom line by Gastaldello.

Another corner kick.

AC Milan took a corner kick again from the left. Thiago Silva shook away the defense of Sampdoria's defender and broke into the penalty area and passed the low pass.

However, his passing line was accurately predicted by Chu Jiang.

With a decisive attack that was lightning-thunderous, Chu Jiang easily confiscated Thiago Silva's cross, resolving the first threatening offensive in this game.

"It's a pity that Thiago Silva's cross was a little close to the goal area. Chu's attack was very decisive, resolving Milan's attack."

The commentator of AC Milan commented.

Sampdoria adopted a three-back formation in this game. How to say this formation? In today's football world, few teams will choose to use it.

Except for a few teams such as Naples, most teams will choose a more secure four-back style.

Because the three defenders often have a loose position when defending. The two central defenders on both sides must not only ensure the defense in the middle, but also take into account the protection of the wings, and the defense responsibilities are not very clear.

When you defend with all your might, this flaw is not easily exposed.

However, when the team turns from defense to offense, the gap between the three central defenders will be easily exposed to the opponent's offensive firepower, which will easily allow the opponent's forward to seize the opportunity and penetrate from the ribs into the penalty area, thus posing a direct threat to Chu Jiang's goal.

Under such circumstances, in order to avoid the team's defense line's unclear position and responsibilities, Chu Jiang must concentrate heavily, not only observe the opponent's offensive intentions, but also pay attention to the overall layout of his own defense line, loudly remind his teammates, so that they can stay vigilant at all times.

To be honest, such a heavy burden made Chu Jiang feel very tired.

However, after being tired, Chu Jiang has performed steadily and outstandingly so far.

Seeing Chu Jiang directing the schedule in front of Sampdoria's goal, even AC Milan's coach Allegri couldn't help but be amazed by his performance.

When an insider looks at the trick, Allegri knew that the tasks completed by Chu Jiang were definitely not as simple as they seemed. On Sampdoria's defense line, Chu Jiang was like a conductor and the absolute core figure in the team's defense.

A 17-year-old young man can actually play the main role in a Serie A team, and has also become a core figure, and is also a goalkeeper. Such a player is undoubtedly a promising genius!

Despite Chu Jiang's help, Sampdoria was unable to be at the disadvantage of overall strength with his own strength alone.

On the field, AC Milan firmly controlled the ball.

Under the patient command of Dutchman Seidorf and Ghana's midfielder Boateng, AC Milan was looking for opportunities to score on the court without any haste.

In the 13th minute, AC Milan made a wonderful pass in the frontcourt, Seedorf passed through the penalty area with his left rib, and Boateng hit Robinho with his heel, but the Brazilian striker failed to stop the ball well.

Chu Jiang quickly attacked and carried the ball into his arms.

His appropriate attack immediately won applause from Sampdoria fans at San Siro Stadium.

Of course, Sampdoria's attack would not have been gone at once.

In the 18th minute, Macarone broke into the penalty area from the left and passed the ball across the goal. Poli scored a volley under the interference of Jepez, but failed to master the footwork and knocked the ball away.

Not long after, an unexpected situation suddenly occurred on the field.

AC Milan's starting goalkeeper Abiatti suddenly walked to the sidelines and signaled to Allegri that he could not hold on.

There was no sign of Abiatti's injury this time, it was completely an injury without the ball.

Faced with such an emergency, AC Milan coach Allegri had to replace him with substitute goalkeeper Amelia.

Shortly after Abiatti got out, AC Milan got a very good opportunity.

Garner's midfielder Boateng dribbled forward from the left side of the frontcourt. Facing Volta's defense, he suddenly pushed the ball with his left foot outside his feet, then hit Volta's body and fell to the ground.

Facing Boateng, who was dribbling at high speed, Volta could not dodge and was directly hit by him from the front.

At this moment, the whistle of the referee Celli sounded.

AC Milan's frontcourt free kick!

Volta stepped forward and complained to Cheli, saying that he did not deliberately stop Boateng's actions because he had no time to avoid it.

However, the referee on duty, Celli ignored Volta's appeal.
Chapter completed!