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Chapter 116 Juventus takes the lead
"Italian Derby," the word "Derby", first originated in the British horse race, and was later borrowed by football in the past.In English football, there are also many "derbys." For example, the famous "London Derby," "Merseyside Derby," "Double Red Derby," "Manchester City Derby." and so on.

In the Apennines Peninsula, there are also famous Italian football such as the "Milan Derby," where the opponents are two giant teams in Milan, AC Milan and Inter Milan. The "Turin Derby" is naturally the two teams of Juventus and Turin who are also in Turin.

The "Italian Derby" is Juventus and AC Milan.In the sixth round of the 2011 Serie A season of the 2012 season, these two teams played in the newly moved stadium of Juventus.In fact, it is the Juventus Stadium transformed from the old Alpi Stadium.Clash again.

After the game started, the field captain of the "guest" AC Milan team, Dutch veteran Seedorf guessed the coin correctly.Let the team qualify for the kick-off.

But after the kick-off, because AC Milan's tactics were "simple and rude." After all, he left the "midfield metronome", and Andre Pirlo, who has played for AC Milan for nearly ten years.And now AC Milan's midfielder is no longer the one with the "four number ten" skills when Ancelotti was coaching.

Seedorf is quite skilled and can distribute the ball very well.However, the nickname "Wild Boar No. [-]", coupled with his strong body and dark complexion, made Seedorf look like a "sweeper" in the midfield. And the Dutchman next to him Marc van Bommel.There is also an Italian player, Nocerino, who was also a Juventus youth player.Plus the Ghanaian player Prince Boateng in front of him.

Well, the technical midfielder of the "four No. [-]s" has become the "Four No. [-]s" who can go up and down, have outstanding physical fitness, and have both offense and defense, but they just don't have the kind of technical football that can play pleasing to the eye. , "Sexy Football."

Therefore, with such a midfield combination, naturally the head coach of AC Milan, "Uncle Ji" Allegri's request is to quickly pass the football through the midfield.Then it was handed over to the Swedish player on the forward line, "Lu Bu," Zlatan Ibrahimovic.

And after the "Callgate" incident, during the few seasons when Inter Milan dominated Serie A.A typical tactical play of Inter Milan under the coach of Mancini is to hand the football to Zlatan Ibrahimovic on the front line.

After all, the Swede is not only tall and big, but also physically fit to fight any central defender in the world.In addition, his foot skills are also very good.When he first played for Ajax in the Netherlands, there was a wonderful scene of "shaking the camera".Please search for details.

However, this tactical coordination is in the arms of Juventus.In other words, the current head coach of Juventus, Antonio Conte, also expected this situation to happen.

So, 3 central defenders in 5-2-3, Bonucci, Barzagli and Chiellini.Bonucci, who looked the most frizzy now, immediately rushed up, and Barzagli made up for it in the back.Although Chiellini is concerned about the movement of other AC Milan players on the pitch.However, part of their attention was still cast on Zlatan Ibrahimovic who wanted to receive the football and Bonucci who wanted to push the football out.

With Bonucci's successful clearance, there is also Ibrahimovic's complaints about the danger of Bonucci's grab.Juventus immediately resolved AC Milan's first attack after the first half.Then the football was passed by the Juventus players to Andre Pirlo, who is now in the Juventus team and serves as the "brain" and "commander" of the Juventus midfielder.

In fact, it’s fun to say, the “Northern Big Three” of Italian football. Think about it, AC Milan and Inter Milan are the two powerful teams in Milan, and the game between AC Milan and Juventus is also called the “Italian Derby. "In addition, it is said that Inter Milan has always been very dissatisfied with the "holy alliance" formed by Juventus and AC Milan during the Moggi period.

However, this does not affect the transfer of players between these three teams.Now in Juventus' formation, midfielder Andre Pirlo has played for these three teams.And after playing for AC Milan for ten years, he moved to Juventus as a free agent.

And this does not affect the relationship and camaraderie between players.Not to mention that he also played for these three teams, and is now the top player on AC Milan's striker, Swedish player Ibrahimovic.Another example is Philip Inzaghi, who has played for Juventus and AC Milan.Abbiati, on loan to Juventus for a season.

If this were an English football club, it would be unimaginable.Can you imagine Liverpool striker Michael Owen going straight to Manchester United?Can you imagine that Manchester United's defenseman, the Englishman Rio Ferdinand, was taken by Abramovich to Stamford Bridge to form the club's national team partner with John Terry?
Therefore, this can be regarded as a "characteristic" that is absolutely different between Italian and English football.

However, the game on the court continued.After Juventus disintegrated AC Milan's offense.The football fell to the feet of Andre Pirlo.Juventus' offense also followed.After all, in a football game, the opening and closing five minutes of each half are known as the "dangerous five minutes." You never know if a goal will happen right away.

"Andre (Pirlo) controls the football, Milan's midfielders did not come up to press, they are very familiar with their 'old teammates'. Knowing that Andre's feet are very good, if you rush up, It is very likely that it is the fate of being passed over.

Andre passed the ball to Fabio (Groso) on the left, who dribbled along the left side of the pitch. AC Milan's right-back, Antonini came up to block after Grosso stepped into Milan's half.Milan's two full-backs, Antonini, who is the right back in this game, and Zambrotta, the left back.They all belong to the type of players who can be left or right.

Grosso found that there was no way to break through the defense of Antonini in front of him, so he passed the ball back to Pirlo's feet.Now Milan's players, Nocerino naturally came up to press.And Milan's Prince Boateng, who served as the midfielder in this game, is also preparing to come together to pinch Pirlo.

Pirlo passed the ball and received Marchisio, who was not far from him, to see how Marchisio would handle it.Pass it to Vidal immediately.Vidal dribbles in.

foul!Van Bommel was no longer able to break the football from the opponent's attacking player as cleanly as he did in Bayern Munich at this moment.Thus, Vidal was tripped by Van Bommel's defense.Van Bommel also extended his hand friendly and pulled Vidal up.

However, it seemed that Vidal was not so satisfied. Facing Van Bommel in front of him, he was still muttering something. "

Juventus won a free kick through Vidal's sudden jump.And this free kick is a bit far from the goal, about 35 to 40 meters away.That distance is, well, about the range of Andre Pirlo, who left for Juventus on a free transfer.

However, Pirlo still wants to ask the "old players" of Juventus. Although he is much younger than Pirlo, Victor, who has joined Juventus and is already in his third year this season, asked:
"Vito, are you going to take this free kick?"

And our Victor, the Victor who is currently "transforming".Victor who wants to change from a "nine and a half" player to a point-grabbing striker.Although he is afraid of physical confrontation now, Victor will immediately have a lot of psychological shadow on the tackle action of the opposing defensive player.

I am not afraid of taking free kicks that no one around me touches.But this time the free kick.Victor looked at the position and the distance from the goal.So he shook his head and said to Pirlo:
"No, Andre, you should take this free kick. For me, this distance is a bit far. And, I think you need this free kick more than I do."

Victor gave Pirlo the chance of a free kick, but he still stood in front of football.So, Pirlo, Victor, the two players stood together in front of the football.Gentili, who let the game act as a commentator, immediately said:
"Victor and Andre, I don't know who will take the free kick. Judging from the standing posture of these two people, Pirlo should still use his standard method, and Victor may use him and Real Madrid's Ronaldo took the penalty in the same way as Ronaldo. However, the Milan players, of course, seemed very nervous. Under Abbiati's command, they formed a wall of as many as six people.

Andre's run-up, could it be that Andre took the penalty.No, Victor is also ready to start! "

Just when Gentile was still guessing whether the free kick was taken by Pirlo or Victor, Andre Pirlo, who took the lead in the run-up, had already kicked the football.As for the wall formed by AC Milan, some people jumped up, while others were like Gentile.So no jump up.

"Pirlo!"

Gentili yelled in the commentary room, but the football drawn by Pirlo, although it drew an arc that Pirlo had practiced for countless times, went straight because of judging who was taking the penalty .Therefore, after seeing his "old teammate," Pirlo kicked the football out, Abbiati, who didn't react in time, walked away from the gate with his hand.

But, alas.Although Abbiati's save was not in time.But the football that was kicked out by Pirlo did not go behind the goal.Instead, it hit the crossbeam and made a "DUANG" sound.Fly off the bottom line.

"Milan escaped!" Abbiati, who felt terrified, asked for a football from the ball boy behind the goal, and then the kick-off was just a short pass to the defender Gentile.Opened his mouth and said:
"Pirlo's free kick is very beautiful, but it is a pity that he did not break through the ten fingers of his old teammate. Now I believe that Milan will not be like this. They will definitely launch a counterattack against Juventus."

(End of this chapter)