Greenery on the back

Chapter 433 Milan's Weakness

Although AC Milan's back line is terrible, but relying on a good goalkeeper, they repeatedly resisted Empoli's offense and took the opportunity to launch several counterattacks.

Luka, the core of the defense, hurriedly directed Thomas to press on Mionic, preventing the opponent from passing the ball easily, while he himself devoted his energy to helping Simon defend Philip.

In this way, Empoli's defense line was stabilized again, and the two sides fought back and forth a few more times, and fell into a stalemate again.

Seeing this, Griezmann's melancholy eyes suddenly flashed, and then he retreated quickly, directly to the center circle.

AC Milan's attack line also retreated accordingly, Yue Feng didn't know what kind of medicine was sold in the opponent's gourd, so he hurriedly followed.

But as soon as Griezmann retreated to the midfield, Mionic passed the ball, and the French running back suddenly kicked up before Yue Feng came up to press, and kicked the ball into the Empoli penalty area with a long-distance pass. .

As AC Milan retreated just now, Luca and others also pressed up, trying to use the offside trap to force the opponent's striker into the midfield.

At this time, there has been a certain distance between the back line and the goalkeeper.

"Not good!" Yue Feng yelled secretly, he was too familiar with this style of play, the opponent wanted to use Philip to fight offside.

At the same moment when Griezmann sent the ball, Philippe also started quickly with lightning speed.

He left all three central defenders including Luka behind, and successfully received a long pass from his teammates.

Immediately, Philippe went straight, swayed the attacking goalkeeper Abeto, and hit the ball into Empoli's gate again.

"Offside! He's offside!"

Captain Luca hurried forward to argue with the referee. Just now Philip rushed out in front of him, and he must have been offside.

The referee was a little bit inaccurate, and turned to ask the line referee for his opinion, but the line referee didn't see it too clearly, so he had to go to the sidelines and call out VAR.

The final video showed that Philippe was exactly level with the last Empoli defender when attacking, which was not considered offside.

2-0!After more than 40 minutes in the first half, AC Milan took an absolute advantage with a two-goal lead.

During the intermission, Ranocchia held his forehead, looking helpless.

Attack, they can't break through the goal behind the opponent Mazzarope.

Defense, but also unable to withstand the attack line of AC Milan led by Griezmann.

It was only two goals behind in the first half. It seems that today at the San Siro it is impossible to get out of the whole body.

Ranocchia couldn't help but recall that when he was playing for Inter Milan, he followed the Nerazzurri in Meazza and won one victory after another.

But now as a coach, he couldn't lead his team to win here, and Ranocchia felt a bit of embarrassment in his heart.

"Coach, what's the plan for the second half?" Yue Feng's words interrupted Ranocchia's thoughts and brought him back to the locker room.

"Arrangement? Oh, let's play according to the tactics just now. Thomas, you keep an eye on that Mionic, and Luka pays attention to controlling the position of the defense line, and don't let the opponent go offside again..."

Ranocchia's tactics were nothing new, Yue Feng frowned after hearing this.

If things go on like this, the team will continue to lose goals in the second half. Thinking of this, he stepped forward: "Coach, I have some tactical ideas."

"Oh? What's your idea?" Ranocchia, who had been battered and battered, cheered up instantly after hearing Yue Feng's words.

"AC Milan has many advantages, but at the same time it also has many weaknesses. As long as we seize the opponent's weaknesses and hit hard, we will definitely be able to reverse the opponent." Yue Feng said firmly.

"Weaknesses? You mean their defense? Although their defenders are poor, their goalkeepers are very good. They are not easy to deal with." Ranocchia shook his head.

"No, what I want to talk about is their physical fitness. Except for Mazzarope and Philippe, the players on the AC Milan field are all veterans in their 30s. We have an advantage in this regard."

39岁的格列兹曼、29岁的马尔蒂尼，就连稍微年轻点儿的米奥尼奇也有28了，其他球员24、5岁的一个没有，全都是30+的年龄。

"Hey, who said that our veteran's physical fitness is not enough?" Mateucci was the first to stand up and retort.

"I'm not talking about us, but them." Yue Feng smiled and waved his hand, motioning for the other party to sit down.

"Although they are all veterans over 30 years old, the opponent is different from us. I remember the coach you said before the game that AC Milan played two league games in the past half month..."

"Yes, they played against Atlanta four days ago." Ranocchia then remembered that he had encouraged the players before the game, saying that although they were playing away games, they were actually waiting for work.

Empoli, who has no league to play in, has been preparing for half a month before the game. This aspect is much better than AC Milan, at least better than the opponent in terms of physical reserves.

Seeing that the head coach understood what he meant, Yue Feng continued: "At the end of the first half, I felt that Griezmann's physical strength had dropped a lot. In the second half, we can take advantage of this advantage and play high-position pressing tactics."

"Their striker Philip and goalkeeper Mazzarope, I have played against them in the youth league, and I know how to restrain them." Yue Feng smiled confidently.

When everyone heard this, their hopes of winning were rekindled in their hearts.

If Griezmann, Philip and Mazzarope can be solved, then AC Milan is not invincible.

Ranocchia even swept away the haze on his face before, and rearranged his tactics according to Yue Feng's suggestion.

At the beginning of the second half, Empoli pressed crazily towards the opponent, and at the same time continued to increase physical contact, increasing the opponent's physical energy consumption.

This trick really worked. Except for Thomas on the left who was responsible for marking Mionic, Mateucci, Stefano, Ricky, Uchida Centaur and others all aggressively pushed up and pressed the opponent at a high position.

AC Milan's backcourt was rotten. Facing high pressure, their players frequently made mistakes in passing and receiving the ball.

Empoli won the ball in a high position, so the counter-attack was also quick.

In less than 10 minutes of the second half, Stefano and others got several consecutive shots.

If it weren't for the stability of the opponent's goalkeeper Mazzarope, they would have already broken through the opponent's gate.

The game lasted for nearly 70 minutes. Under the fierce confrontation with Yue Feng, Griezmann gradually showed fatigue.

His physical condition is not as good as the other party's, and his 39-year-old age makes him even more disadvantaged.

"It's not good to be old!" Griezmann sighed secretly, with a hint of sadness in his melancholy eyes.

In the past, I ran [-] meters against the wind, but now I can't walk with my shoes against the wind.

AC Milan's two forwards were also closely watched, especially Philippe. Not only was there someone watching him closely, even his teammates who passed the ball to him were repeatedly cornered, and they couldn't pass the ball at all.

Now Empoli is gaining momentum, and they are just short of scoring the last goal.

(End of this chapter)