aspirations football

Chapter 36 The Stuck Situation

During the intermission, the Inter Milan players were dumbfounded. There was no hot water in the visiting team's locker room, and there was sufficient air conditioning.

"Zlatan, don't the visiting locker rooms at the Alpi Stadium always have hot water?"

Maicon couldn't control his mouth, and began to complain to Zlatan Ibrahimovic again.

Ibrahimovic shook his head and sighed with a depressed expression, and then bluntly yelled at Maicon:

"Why are you asking me again? I told you I don't know, who the hell came to the visiting team's locker room?!"

"Okay, okay!"

Coach Mancini stood up, made a voice-repressing gesture, and then said:

"Have you seen this kind of off-the-market tricks? But maybe the water is really cut off."

Ibrahimovic didn't want to continue this topic, turned his face away, and ignored everyone's discussion.

"Zlatan, you have to concentrate in the second half. A goal is the best response to the opponent's provocation!"

Facing Mancini's Chicken Soup for the Soul, Zlatan Ibrahimovic continued to choose silence. He raised his legs and wiped the sweat from his forehead with a towel, ignoring Mancini at all.

Seeing that Zlatan Ibrahimovic didn't care about himself, Mancini decided to get back some sense of authority from Jingxuan.

So he turned to Jingxuan and said:

"Jing, is your heel okay? In the first half, I saw you running a little awkwardly."

"It's okay, I can still hold on."

"Oh, that's good, but pay attention in the second half, try to get the ball out as quickly as possible, and reduce confrontation. And you have a yellow card, so you must be calm in the second half."

Jingxuan nodded with a wry smile. You know, he didn't take the initiative to find a confrontation, but it's not the style of this game not to be knocked down while dribbling.

Otherwise, why did Figo cry when he was shoveled?He is still being treated in the medical room next door.

At this time, Cambiasso put his hand on Jingxuan's shoulder and encouraged him:

"Jing, you played boldly in the second half. The yellow card is not a big deal. Didn't Nedved also have a yellow card? If they get you out, we'll get him out!"

Speaking of this, Cambiasso's eyes were full of sternness, and his fingertips pinched Jingxuan's shoulder fiercely.

"what!"

"Sorry, sorry!"

Jingxuan rubbed his shoulders, looked at Cambiasso's big bald head, and sighed in Chinese:
"You can do it as you say, it all depends on your acting skills!"

At this time the team doctor came in, he told Mancini, Figo has been unable to persist in the game.

Mancini shook his head helplessly, and had no choice but to shout to Burdisso who was playing with his mobile phone in the corner:

"Andres, you go in the second half!"

With Inter Milan leading the score, Mancini played conservative routines again in the second half, and the team returned to the 4-3-1-2 formation.

Burdisso played instead of Figo, and Zanetti, Cambiasso formed a three midfielder.

Jingxuan was promoted to the front position as the single midfielder, and the striker combination of Ibrahimovic and Cruise has not changed for the time being.

In the second half, the Juventus team did not make substitutions and adjustments. As soon as the game started, the Juventus team pressed forward as a whole to start the game.

In the 48th minute of the game, Nedved made a pass from the right, and Trezeguet nodded the ball back to the center.

Piero's left-footed volley hook shot 14 meters in front of the goal was blocked by Cordoba, and Inter Milan escaped.

Two minutes later, Juventus made a comeback, Molinaro broke through Maicon's defense from the left, fell to the ground and shoveled the ball into the middle of the penalty area,

The ball bounced a bit, and Trezeguet volleyed with his left foot from 12 meters in front of the goal, but it went flying!
At the 55th point of the game, Nedved broke through Cambiasso's interception in the middle and volleyed from the instep of his right foot from 28 meters away from the goal.

The ball bounced off the goal crossbar like a cannonball, and Samuel immediately cleared and kicked the ball out of the touchline.

In the first 10 minutes of the second half, Inter Milan was completely suppressed by Juventus, and it was difficult to pass the half.

If it weren't for Juve's bad luck, the score would have been rewritten.

In the 57th minute of the game, Nedved made a mistake with the ball, and Cambiasso passed the ball to Jingxuan.

Jingxuan, who got the ball in the back court, sought a chance to counterattack quickly. He took two steps, made an emergency stop, threw away Nocerino in front of him, crossed the ball to Cruise on the penalty area line, and at the same time quickly inserted, I want to cooperate with Cruise to play two and one against the wall.

Reluctantly, Cruise was slow, Chiellini destroyed the ball, and Inter Milan's fast break was interrupted.

In the 60th minute of the game, Inter Milan repeated the old trick. Jingxuan dribbled the ball and advanced quickly in the midfield, and distributed the ball to Zlatan Ibrahimovic in the frontcourt.

Ibrahimovic held the ball firmly, but he couldn't turn around in the face of Chiellini's defense.

At this moment, no one in the Inter Milan team except Jingxuan crossed the half, and Ibrahimovic had no choice but to cross the ball to Jingxuan.

Jingxuan wanted to break into the penalty area after receiving the ball, but was brought down by Grigera, and the heel of his injured right foot was twisted again.

I saw him fall to the ground in pain, rubbing his heels with both hands, and he limped up after a while.

At this moment, Mancini couldn't sit still on the sidelines anymore. Juventus' frantic press at no expense in the second half caused a great impact on Inter Milan's defense.

However, Inter Milan's frontcourt counterattack points are not enough, and Ibrahimovic and Kruse's speed is too slow. It is really difficult for them to expect two standing forwards to play fast counterattacks without enough teammates to support them.

After inquiring about Jingxuan's injury, Mancini decisively replaced Cruz with David Suazo, hoping that the former could use his speed to contain Juventus' defense and share the offensive burden for Jingxuan.

In the 65th minute of the game, the old captain Zanetti cut off Molinaro's ball in the backcourt and passed it to Zlatan Ibrahimovic in the frontcourt. After receiving the ball, Ibrahimovic hit his heel and passed the ball. Jingxuan not far away.

Jingxuan broke through with the ball, waded through Zanetti with speed, and reached the Juventus penalty area.

Facing the open door, Jingxuan wanted to hit the door with his right foot, but the pain in his heel made him give up.

Jingxuan glanced away and saw the blurred figure of David Suazo on the left, so he gave him the ball.

Suazo was left unmarked after he got the ball, and at the moment he shot from a wide angle in the penalty area.

When everyone thought he was going to make a big shot, he chose to smash the ball.

Su Yazuo dunked the ball with his left foot, swayed Lero Tallie, and crossed the ball to the penalty spot in the middle.

Zlatan Ibrahimovic, who was following up, made a big explosive move, but he missed the shot. The ball stuck to the right post and rolled out of the baseline under the watchful eyes of Juventus goalkeeper Buffon.

"Depend on!"

Jingxuan complained that he no longer remembered how many times Ibrahimovic wasted today.

He seriously suspected that Ibrahimovic bought the ball or simply didn't bring his shooting boots.

The shot missed at close range, Ibrahimovic was inevitably ridiculed by the Juventus fans at the scene,
Immediately there was a polite "boo" from the fans.

Ibrahimovic put his head in his hands and kicked towards the grass angrily. Unexpectedly, Chiellini shouted to him:
"Hey, motherfucker, do you have a cramp in your foot?"

Ibrahimovic stopped and sprayed at Chiellini:
"Son of a bitch."

The fragrant greetings between the two finally came to an end under the intervention of the referee, but Jingxuan felt resentful,
At this moment, his heel was getting more and more painful, and it was obvious that he couldn't hold on anymore.

But he was not willing to leave the field like this. Juventus may equalize the score at any time depending on the situation on the field.

(End of this chapter)