The days of playing football with Da Luo

Chapter 191 Toyota Cup ([-])
When Pirlo made his debut, he was in the front midfielder. He was once considered to be Baggio's successor, with excellent footwork and elegant style.However, after transferring to Inter Milan, due to the abundance of talents in the midfield, he did not get many opportunities.

Moreover, his speed is not fast, his confrontation ability is weak, his style of play is soft, and he is not suitable for the role of a modern midfielder.A modern attacking midfielder is like Kaka, who has speed and certain confrontation ability. He can not only organize the offense but also end the game by himself, which can enrich the team's tactical play.

In his few opportunities to play, Pirlo did not show an amazing performance, so he was given up by Inter Milan.

After moving to AC Milan, Ancelotti completely transformed him, retreating his position and letting him play as a midfielder.

In the position of the midfielder, Pirlo finally blossomed.His defensive ability is not strong, and his confrontation ability has not been fundamentally improved, but his excellent technique, overall situation view and excellent long and short pass ability make him a unique defensive midfielder, a player who does not rely on defense, but relies on organizational ability to win lower back.

With him, AC Milan can firmly control the ball in the midfield, and let him control the rhythm: whether to continue to slowly pass the ball to control the ball, or to suddenly attack with a long pass.

The traditional term "lower midfielder" can no longer define him, he is by no means a midfielder in the general sense.So the Italian media named his tactical role: the metronome (regista).

If you simply describe his role positioning, then he is a classic midfielder who appears in the midfielder position.

In front of him, there needs to be a strong and aggressive midfielder.In AC Milan, Gattuso is such a role.

It can be said that without Shevchenko, Kaka, and Maldini, AC Milan might still be able to win the championship.But without these two, AC Milan would lose most of its competitiveness.

It is not an exaggeration to pay attention to a player like Pirlo. In the first 30 minutes, Rojas arranged for Ricardinho and Antonio to siege Pirlo. It was the right choice.

However, it may be because the players' physical strength is declining too quickly, and at the same time, the entire defense line of Sao Paulo is retreating. In order to ensure that the three lines are not out of touch, Rojas asked Ricardinho and Antonio to stop sieging Pirlo.

In Riccardo's opinion, this might deal a heavy blow to Sao Paulo!

Pirlo walked to the corner flag area and took the corner kick.With a strong rotation of the football, it flew to the middle of the penalty area. Fabiano and Costacurta, who returned to the penalty area to participate in the defense, took off at the same time. He touched the ball first and the football popped out.Licado chased after him, and at this moment, Kafu also rushed up, raising his leg aggressively.Riccardo took the lead and picked the ball behind Cafu, who was kicked squarely by Cafu.

"Beep!" Ivanov whistled in time and gave Cafu a yellow card.Ricardo grinned his teeth in pain, and it took him a long time to recover.Cafu extended his hand to him friendly, patted his head, and said kindly in Portuguese: "It's all right, little guy, sorry, I didn't close my feet in time just now."

Ricardo grabbed his hand and stood up, shaking his head and said: "It's okay, I know you didn't mean it."

Cafu didn't shine the studs, it wasn't an intentional injury, it was just that Ricardo picked the ball too fast and was kicked down by him.

But Riccardo is also a pity, just now is actually a good opportunity to counterattack, AC Milan's backcourt is already empty.If Cafu doesn't kick him down, he will take the ball and transfer it to Ricko on the right, and he will rush forward quickly to create a 2 on 2 situation.

Sao Paulo's goalkeeper Cheney took a free kick and passed it to the frontcourt to Fabiano, but in the fight with Costacurta, Fabiano lost, and AC Milan will compete for the top ball Hand it over to Pirlo and organize the attack again.

After a few inversions, Pirlo found a chance, and suddenly made a long diagonal pass to Cafu who was plugging in at high speed.

Ricardo quickly approached, Cafu did not entangle with him, he passed the ball to Kaka and then continued to run forward, Kaka then passed the ball back to Cafu.This is a two over one cooperation.

Riccardo continued to chase back and restricted Cafu together with Gustavo Neri. In desperation, Cafu passed the ball back to Pirlo who responded.

Pirlo evaded Ricardinho's pounce and immediately passed the ball diagonally. The football passed through the gaps of several Sao Paulo players and rolled accurately to Shevchenko's feet. The ball swayed away from Lugano and passed to Thomason. This time Thomason didn't waste the opportunity. He kicked a low shot from 8 meters in front of the goal and pierced through Cheney's ten fingers.

"Thomasson shoots! Goal!"

"Through a series of wonderful cooperation, AC Milan scored a goal from Thomason and equalized the score. Although Shevchenko made the last pass, it has to be said that the biggest contributor to this goal was Pirlo. Excellent midfield movement disrupted Sao Paulo's defense and created this chance."

Ricardo couldn't help feeling a little frustrated.This is the gap between Sao Paulo and the real top teams. AC Milan is not chaotic at all when it is behind, can firmly control the rhythm, and control the game as it pleases.

Perhaps Sao Paulo can do as well as AC Milan when playing with the tailwind.But in the face of adversity, Sao Paulo is indeed far inferior to AC Milan.

The difference lies in the "strong team temperament".

With excellent players as the foundation, excellent traditions as the background, and a large number of victories as the source of self-confidence, the "strong team temperament" is finally smelted.

When in the lead, you can stay focused and consolidate your victory; when you are behind, you can have a calm mind, believe that you can equalize or even reverse, and the whole team has a unified mind and adheres to tactical play.

Sao Paulo does not yet have such a temperament.

When watching Inter Milan and AC Milan in the semi-finals of the Champions League, Ricardo still felt that AC Milan was nothing more than that.But when I was really on the scene and became an opponent with AC Milan, I realized how powerful the opponent was.

His own previous goals had a certain element of luck and may not be able to be replicated.And AC Milan's goal is a very clear attack with reproducibility. If AC Milan does it again, Sao Paulo may not be able to defend it.

Sure enough, after the game restarted, AC Milan continued to suppress Sao Paulo, and Pirlo used his scheduling to give AC Milan a firm advantage.

In the 43rd minute, his pass once again tore through the Sao Paulo defense. Shevchenko broke into the penalty area and fired a strong shot. Fortunately, Lugano reacted in time and blocked the ball.But Kaka swung his foot to keep up, and the football hit the post like a cannonball and popped out of the baseline, scaring the Sao Paulo players into cold sweat.

(End of this chapter)