Green Dragon

Chapter 742 Sorry, Buffon

Gianluigi Buffon is 38 years and 3 months old.

Since he completed his club's senior team debut in November 1995, his career has lasted for nearly 11 years and 21 months.

After transferring to Juventus with the most expensive goalkeeper in history in 2001, he has always been one of the best players in the goalkeeper position.

After 2006, he experienced the relegation incident of "Telephone Gate" with the Bianconeri. Although he soon returned to Serie A, the old woman who was seriously injured was at the bottom of several seasons. For two seasons, the former Serie A overlord even ranked seventh in the league in a row, and missed European competitions for a long time. Buffon's figure also faded out of the sight of most fans.

When Juventus finally completed the reconstruction and recovery and appeared in the Champions League again, Buffon was already 34 years old, and Casillas, who was younger than him, had even stepped down to the top. Lian Po is old, but he slapped them with clean sheets one after another and brave saves that are not inferior to the young people!

Buffon is definitely a champion player:
As early as in Parma, which was not strong, he won the Italian Super Cup and the UEFA Cup with the team. After joining Juventus, the Serie A championship, the Italian Cup, and the Italian Super Cup came like money.

In the national team, he won the 2006 World Cup with the Azzurri and won the Yashin Award for the best goalkeeper in the World Cup.

In terms of personal honors, in addition to the Yashin Award, he has also been selected by FIFA and UEFA for the best team of the year, the Italian footballer, the best goalkeeper in Serie A, and even won the Golden Globe Award in 2006. Good grades for No.2.

If there is a regret in his career, it is that he failed to win a Champions League trophy.

Buffon had reached the Champions League final with the two teams in 2003 and 2015, but unfortunately lost to AC Milan and Real Madrid and failed to win the final trophy.

The 38-year-old and 3-month-old Buffon is extremely eager to touch this silver cup, but he deeply knows that this dream... may not be realized this season.

Juventus Champions League four consecutive victories?
Unbeaten in the Champions League this season?
Buffon didn't concede a goal in 351 minutes?

Conceded only 8 goals in 2 Champions League games?
These results seem to have no effect on the upcoming competition.

Because...he met the scariest lunatic in football history!

He even heard the opponent's declaration of victory in advance:

"Sorry, Ji An, I took this victory away!"
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Long Shute will turn 40 in 27 days.

From the point of view of a professional player, he is not considered young.

His career is full of legends, championship trophies and personal honors are his best footnotes.

Since his debut at Ajax, he has never found himself empty-handed at the end of a season.

Eredivisie, Dutch Cup, Dutch Super Cup.

Bundesliga, German Cup, German Super Cup.

Serie A, Coppa Italia (no Italian Super Cup).

Premier League, FA Cup, League Cup, Community Shield.

UEFA Cup, UEFA Champions League, UEFA Super Cup, Club World Cup.

At the national team level, he also has intercontinental champions such as the Asian Cup and the Confederations Cup.

But in his laurels, a heavy trophy has long been missing:

That is the World Cup champion.

From this perspective, he is not as good as Buffon.

Since he is not as good as Buffon, why should he sympathize with his opponent? ! -
"As the referee Blüch from Germany blew his whistle, the coaching of the first round of the Champions League quarter-finals officially began. Let's take a look at the starting lineups of both sides."

Zhan Tianjun, who has been warming up for half an hour, finally officially started his work tonight:
"For the home team Juventus, the goalkeeper is captain Buffon, the four defenders are Alves, Bonucci, Chiellini and Alex Sandro, and the two deep midfielders are Marchisio. With Khedira and Pjanic sitting in the middle, Dybala, Mandzukic and Higuain form an offensive trident, Zhang Zhi, from the analysis of the cards, Allegri does not seem to be conservative in his home court?"

Zhang Lu responded:
"Yes, Juve's lineup is indeed a little surprising. I thought he would pay more attention to defense, such as sending Lichtsteiner, Barzagli or Asamoah and other players with strong bodies and defensive hardness. Allegri started Dybala and Pjanic, technical players who are obviously not good at defending..."

Zhan Tianjun nodded:
"Juve's starting 11 players are all players we are familiar with, but they have a problem that cannot be ignored: the average age of these 11 players has reached 30.4 years old, and only Dybala is a player under the age of 25!"

Zhang Lu raised his eyebrows:
"Juve's lineup...is indeed no longer young. Facing Liverpool, which is known for its active running, these old guys will definitely encounter physical problems."

Zhan Tianjun continued to introduce calmly:

"Liverpool's starting lineup: the goalkeeper is still Mignolet, the four defenders from left to right are Milner, Van Dijk, Lovren, and Klein, and the midfielders are Longster, Gerrard, Henderson's configuration, Mane and Salah are two fast horses separated on the left and right, and Firmino is at the front alone, this is the strongest lineup that Liverpool can arrange at present, right?"

In the first half of this season, Lallana, Benteke and others could still get a relatively stable starting position in the midfield, but as Gerrard's physical condition gradually recovered, Firmino's role became more and more important. The more important, Mane and Salah gradually integrated into the team, Lallana, Benteke and other players can only become a rotation lineup, but Milner, who switched to left back, has a second spring.

As a professional player, no one hopes that he can only serve as a substitute in key battles, but the starting lineup can only send 11 people, and someone will always sit on the bench.

This is a very helpless thing, even Long Shute can't solve this problem perfectly.

However, he can at least do one thing...

That is...to end the suspense in the first round of the two-round match, and then...in the second round, let the rotation lineup have a sense of presence!
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In the 13-14 season, Long Shute once led AC Milan to double-kill Juventus in Serie A. He scored a total of three goals in two rounds of confrontation.

At that time, Long Shute was at the peak of his career, but the overall strength of AC Milan was not ideal. Apart from Kaka, few people could help him share the pressure, which directly caused him to often fall into Juventus in the strong dialogue. The siege carefully constructed by Tus...

Liverpool today is much stronger than AC Milan three years ago.

In addition to Long Shute, Gerrard with nine successes, Egyptian Messi Salah, African supercar Mane, plus a Brazilian non-traditional striker Firmino, these teammates have the ability to rewrite the battle situation , not to mention... The captain of the Red Army in the 2016-17 season is more terrifying than any previous season!
Only 5 minutes into the game, the red figure of No. 95 got rid of Khedira and Marchisio's left and right pincers, and completed the first shot before Chiellini and Bonucci made it up!
"Oh!"

Buffon jumped up immediately, and his big hands stretched to the extreme, which can block almost all angles.

But... what's the use of it? !

Long Shute's shot hit the goal a second ago!

1-0!

Sorry, Buffon!
(End of this chapter)