i want to be king

Chapter 395 Absurd Start
"Viewers in front of the TV, welcome to the [-]-[-] season, the final of the UEFA Champions League!"

"This is the Ataturk Stadium in Istanbul, Turkey."

"The two teams tonight are full of superstars, AC Milan from Serie A and Barcelona from La Liga."

"These two teams are among the top giants in world football today."

"AC Milan participated in the UEFA Champions League final for the tenth time and won six championships. Barcelona participated in the UEFA Champions League final for the fifth time and only won the UEFA Champions League once in the past history."

"It can be said that both teams are European giants, but in terms of experience in the Champions League final, AC Milan is even better."

"It is worth mentioning that the last time Barcelona reached the Champions League final was in Athens in [-], and the opponent at that time was AC Milan. The Rossoneri coached by Capello defeated Cruyff's dream team [-]-[-]."

"Since then, Barcelona has fallen into decline and has not been able to return to the stage of the Champions League final for 11 years."

"On the contrary, AC Milan, just two years ago at Old Trafford in Manchester, defeated Juventus and won the Champions League with the final penalty shootout. Therefore, Ancelotti repeatedly emphasized before the game. Their experience in the Champions League final is very rich, and they are not even afraid of penalty shootouts."

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"The Turkish side specially prepared a compact and wonderful large-scale song and dance performance."

"But tonight's protagonist is still the St. Blair Cup and the two participating teams."

"From the live footage, we can see that players from both teams have appeared in the player tunnel and are ready to play at any time."

"AC Milan is wearing a white jersey, which is their favorite color in the Champions League final, because when wearing this jersey, they all won the championship, so they are very happy."

"Barcelona are wearing their home jersey."

"Now, we've got the starting lineups for both teams."

"Introduce AC Milan first."

"The goalkeeper is Dida, and the defense line is Maltinho, Nesta, Stam and Cafu. This should be the top defense line in world football today, and Cafu said before the game that AC Milan will definitely win, because as long as he wins this game, Cafu will win a career grand slam."

"The midfielders are Seedorf, Pirlo and Gattuso, the Brazilian teenager Kaka comes forward, and the double forwards are Shevchenko and Crespo."

"This is Ancelotti, the coach of AC Milan."

"Ancelotti said harshly before the game that he wanted to break Barcelona's goal within 3 minutes. Now we are all looking forward to it. We want to know if he has really done enough preparations and can really break through Barcelona's goal within 3 minutes?"

"Barcelona's starting XI is the traditional four-three-three formation."

"The goalkeeper is Valdes, the defense is Van Bronckhorst, Oleg, Puyol and Belletti, the midfielder is Marcos, Deco and Harvey are in the middle, and the front trident is a combination of Ronaldinho, Su Dong and Giuly."

"From Rijkaard's formation, it is not difficult to see that he still focuses on stability in such an important final. Iniesta, who was very popular before the game, did not appear in the starting lineup, but sat on the bench."

"In addition, Edmilson, who returned from injury, also did not play. It is obvious that Rijkaard is not at ease with them."

"After all, this is the Champions League final!"

"Players from both teams shook hands and went to the sidelines to take photos with each other."

"The game is about to start. The captains of the two teams, Puyol and Maldini, went to guess the side."

"We saw that it was Puyol who took the lead and got the serve."

"Barcelona are obviously keen to have the ball too, they like to have the ball."

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When Puyol guessed the right to serve and walked back, he waved his fist at his teammates and at the same time greeted everyone and formed a circle.

Competing for the right to serve is definitely good news for Barcelona, ​​which is good at handling the ball.

"After the opening game, we have to stabilize the rhythm, hold our breath, and fight with the opponent slowly. Don't worry. After we get familiar with the rhythm and pressure of the game, we will exert our strength. Understand?" Puyol asked loudly.

"Understood!" The players answered in unison.

"Come on, let's call one!"

After speaking, Puyol stretched out his hand.

The Barcelona players also stretched out their hands one after another, joined Puyol, and shouted one, two, three, "Come on!"

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The two teams each retreated to the half court and put on a formation.

Su Dong and Jiuli stood in the middle circle and prepared to serve.

Everyone on both sides of the enemy is facing the enemy, and no one dares to be careless.

Su Dong is actually very worried about the start, because Barcelona's defense, especially the start defense, is always very bad.

Against Bayern, against Chelsea, almost all conceded goals in the opening 10 minutes or so.

This time Ancelotti shouted before the game that he wanted to score in 3 minutes. It must be an exaggeration, but it is also a kind of psychological warfare.

More importantly, Barcelona's defense is really not good.

Rijkaard explained to the players before the game that Edmilson was not in ideal form in the game against Villarreal, and it might even be counterproductive to let him play in the final, so Oleg continued to start.

It's not that Rijkaard is unwilling to change, but that there is no one to change!

"Wait a while, let's run more, grab more, and put more pressure on their defense." Su Dong said to Jiuli.

The French winger kept nodding, obviously not having much trust in the fragile defense.

Sudong turned his head and looked at AC Milan's half. Shevchenko and Crespo stood on both sides of the center circle. Sudong was facing Kaka. This Brazilian teenager played quite well in AC Milan this season. When he saw Sudong, he grinned and nodded with a smile, feeling very sunny.

Reaching out and not hitting the smiling man, even though Su Dong really wanted to beat this guy until he couldn't play the game, at this moment he could only nod and smile.

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With a clear whistle, the referee quickly blew the whistle to start the game.

Su Dong quickly kicked the ball to Jiuli, turned around and ran forward.

Giuly passed the ball back to Marcos, allowing Barcelona to get the ball in the midfield, and he also rushed forward quickly.

AC Milan began to press aggressively. Shevchenko, Crespo, Kaka and others rushed into Barcelona's half at the first time, forming an oppression and encirclement of Barcelona in the midfield.

After Van Bronckhorst got the ball from the left, he felt the pressure of two nearby AC Milan players, and immediately passed the ball forward with a big kick, wanting to go directly to Su Dong.

But this pass was not good, and the strength was a little light, and Gattuso took the ball down first.

Kaka retreated to the organization and handed the ball to Kafu, who kicked a pass and directly gave it to Shevchenko in the frontcourt.

After the Ukrainian chest stopped the ball, he tried to cut the ball inside, but Marcos, who was delayed by the Barcelona midfielder, intercepted the ball.

Pirlo grabbed the ball and gave it to Seedorf.

Seedorf has just stopped the ball, and Barcelona's defense has quickly settled down.

The Dutch midfielder transferred the ball to Kaka on the right side of the center. After Kaka stopped the ball and turned around, he quickly sprinted to the front right with the ball. The speed of the ball was extremely fast, and he threw away Ronaldinho who was following him.

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"Kaka's speed is really fast, and his ability to drive the ball is extremely strong."

"AC Milan attaches great importance to this free kick attack. The position is very good and it is very threatening."

"The tall players like Stam, Nesta and Maltinho all came up."

"We have said before that there is a very obvious gap between Barcelona and AC Milan in terms of the average height of players. Set-piece tactics and high balls will definitely be the focus of AC Milan."

"Look at the free kick this time, Pirlo took it out quickly, and there was some confusion in the penalty area."

"Mardini!"

"The ball went in!!!!!!"

"My God, only 52 seconds into the game, AC Milan used a free kick in the front court, and captain Maldini broke through Barcelona's goal, only 52 seconds!"

"Barcelona's free kick defensive marking error!"

"They must have thought that Pirlo was going to take a high free throw to find Stam and Nesta, but they didn't expect that Pirlo directly made a low free throw. Barcelona's defensive players didn't even notice Maldini."

"One to zero!"

"This is definitely a dream start!"

"Maldini opens the scoring for AC Milan!"

"This goal also makes him the oldest scorer in the history of a Champions League final."

"We have to admire Ancelotti now. He said he would break through Barcelona's goal in 3 minutes, but in fact, it didn't take 3 minutes at all, just 52 seconds, and they fulfilled their promise."

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Conceding the goal at the beginning, although Barcelona was shocked, it was not completely unprepared.

Head coach Rijkaard and captain Puyol both spoke out one after another to stabilize the team, hoping that the players can calm down and stabilize their position.

Before the game, it was not that Barcelona did not conduct deduction and plans for conceding the ball first, but they just did not expect to concede so quickly.

The player quickly stabilized his mind and was not in a hurry. He still wanted to control the ball.

AC Milan obviously puts the focus of grabbing the ball on the center line. They are not keen on the ball. They hope to quickly launch a counterattack after grabbing the ball, and the weapons are long passes and Kaka.

In the 3rd minute, after AC Milan grabbed the ball again, Seedorf transferred the ball with a diagonal long pass and sent the ball to the right side of the Barcelona penalty area.

Crespo blocked Puyol with his body, stopped the ball in front of the bottom line outside the penalty area on the right, turned around and made a cross, hit the ball out of the bottom line, and earned a corner kick.

Seedorf was in charge of taking the corner kick and sent the ball precisely to the front point.

Crespo suddenly jumped from the front of the goal to the front point, before Deco, and shook his head at the goal from close range.

The ball hit Crespo's head and quickly got into the right side of Barcelona's goal.

Two to zero!
In an instant, two completely different faces appeared on the court.

On one side is AC Milan, whose players and fans are almost crazy with excitement.

On the other side is the beaten Barcelona.

Before the game, everyone felt that Ancelotti was bragging. They all felt that even if Barcelona's defense was unreliable, could it still allow you to score in 3 minutes?

But things in the world are so absurd.

Barcelona not only conceded the ball within 3 minutes, but also conceded two consecutive goals in one breath!
It's all set balls!
(End of this chapter)