The AI ​​​​of simulated football taught me to be a coach

Chapter 227 Conte's Milan

Milan is the second largest city in Italy and the most developed city in Italy.If we talk about famous historical and cultural cities in Italy, there are many places that can be listed.But in terms of important cities, Milan is definitely the most advanced city.

In Milan, there are 2 very famous football clubs - AC Milan and Inter Milan. After a century of ups and downs, AC Milan and Inter Milan have developed into the top football giants in the world. The Milan Derby is also the most well-established and most exciting city derby in the world.

Today, the friendly match at the San Siro Stadium is not a Milan city derby, but a match between Juventus and AC Milan, which is comparable to the derby.

As the helm of AC Milan, Antonio Conte also has proud capital.If you read his resume, you will understand why he is so arrogant.

The player era is a model. After becoming the head coach, he brought teams like Barry and Siena to Serie A, and achieved the Juventus Serie A championship three consecutive times while coaching Juventus. He served as the head coach of the Italian national team in 2014, but lost to Germany in the quarter-finals of the European Cup in 16, ending the national team tour.

After that, he came to Chelsea and helped Chelsea win the league championship and the FA Cup, but in the end the relationship with the players and the club got stalemate and he was forced to leave.

When Conte heard that Juventus' meritorious coach Allegri resigned, his idea of ​​coming back became stronger, and he finally chose to continue his coaching career.And he has already determined that he is his favorite Juventus.

One is because he contributed light and heat to Juventus during his player days, and he can be regarded as a symbol of Juventus, where there are all the people and things he is familiar with.

The second is that I once led Juventus to win three consecutive Serie A championships, and my coaching career at Juventus is also perfect.

It can be said that no one is more suitable for this job.

Just when Conte asked his agent to convey the meaning of his comeback to Juventus chairman Agnelli, the feedback from Juventus said that Juventus already had a heart.

This hit Conte hard and felt that he had been abandoned by Juventus, which made it difficult for him to accept.He is very eager for Juventus to change his mind, but he was not completely selfish until Juventus officially announced Wu Haowen as the coach.

Just when he was full of anger, AC Milan threw an olive branch to him.

During the coaching period of AC Milan's famous Gennaro Gattuso, Milan's ranking has been hovering between 4-6, which made the club's chairman Paolo Scaloni very unhappy.

Friendship belongs to friendship. During the Gattuso era, AC Milan's progress is obvious to all.But if these advances are not comparable to those of competitors, it is a step backward.It has been 12 years since Milan won their last league title, which is a long time.

How many 12 years are there in a lifetime?The children born on the night of winning the championship are now competing in the youth training camp.So the end of the Gattuso era was predictable.Chairman Scaloni was very impressed by Conte's successful experience at Juventus, so under various chances and coincidences, Conte finally chose Milan.

Conte's first move after joining the job was to issue a letter of challenge to Wu Haowen, and there was such a wonderful pre-season friendly match between Milan and Juventus in Serie A.

Of course, such a game is happy for Italian fans during the offseason.It is equivalent to watching one more game between Juventus and Milan this season.

Originally for this game, Wu Haowen prepared with the mentality of winning.But when he glanced at the competitive status prompted by Xiao Ai, his heart sank.

Yes!Due to the coaching change at the beginning of the season, and Allegri took away most of the coaching staff.The assistant coach in charge of the friendly match schedule also left, so naturally no one would do such a job.

Although Wang Zi fulfilled his duties as an assistant coach, he did not understand the environment of Serie A after all.It also missed the best time for the arrangement of the friendly match, and started preparations after receiving the invitation from Milan.At this time, I found that there is no team that you can arrange.

Everything that needs to be arranged has been arranged in place, and the remaining teams don't have the meaning of any friendly matches.Suffering from boredom, Wu Haowen had no choice but to do so.

Originally, he planned to let Xiao Ai come forward to achieve the goal of winning, but finally gave up after thinking about it.Because Juventus is not Crystal Palace, if you still rely on Xiao Ai to achieve the championship, you will lose the fun and meaning of coaching.

And Wu Haowen firmly believes that with such a strong lineup, it is easy to win the league championship.The role of Xiao Ai may be used in some championship games, and the pre-match simulation can let Wu Haowen know the result of the game in advance. In any case, the team with this lineup can use Xiao Ai as little as possible.

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At 7 p.m. on July 24th, at the San Siro Stadium in Milan, the much-watched friendly match officially began.And the TV station also conducted a live TV broadcast specifically for this game, which allowed more fans to watch the live game through the live broadcast.

The first signing of this season was the former head coach Allegri signed Arthur from Barcelona for 5400 million euros, the second signing was from the Mexican Tigers for free Jurgen Damm, whose contract had expired, and the third signing was Zhang Yuning after Wu Haowen took over.

In this game, Wu Haowen made all three new players start to accept the baptism of Serie A.Although it is not the first show in Serie A, at least it feels right to play and find out.

In the 15th minute of the game, Cancelo of Juventus received a pass from Arthur and took the ball to the intersection of the sideline and the bottom line of the penalty area on the right. Taking advantage of the opportunity of the Milan defenders not blocking the cross, he immediately passed the ball to the penalty area in front of the goal.

At this time, the world-class striker Cristiano Ronaldo keenly captured the point of the ball, and before the defending Milan player Mattia Caldara, on the sideline of the small penalty area, he scored a close-range header with a Tarzan-style close-range header to give Juventus the lead.

In the 43rd minute, Juventus took a left corner kick.Dybala hoisted the ball into the penalty area, Ronaldo grabbed the ball from the front before Caldara, and pushed the ball to the right.

At this moment, Federico Bernardeschi volleyed directly next to the right goalpost and shot the ball into the right net.Juventus leads Milan 2:0.

The lead in the first half made the fans of Juventus very excited. After all, no matter who they are, they hope that the team they support will have the last laugh. Even the players in the Juventus team think that they will easily win this game.

Only Wu Haowen looked serious.

At the beginning of the second half, Wu Haowen changed several players randomly.Borja Mayoral replaced Zhang Yuning, Mario Pasalic replaced Bruno Fernandez, Sergi Gomez replaced Dybala and Miralem Pjanic replaced Arthur.

This wave of substitutions by Wu Haowen made the fans incomprehensible.

If the fans want to win, they need the performance of core players like Dybala.But Wu Haowen needs a warm-up, and the nature of this game is also a warm-up match before the game.Juventus has no time to go to the warm-up match, it can only be done through this game.So a wide range of rotation is necessary.

In the 55th minute of the second half, Milan's Raoul Bellanova intercepted Juve's frontcourt pass and kicked it directly to Alberto Grassi in front of him from the backcourt.Grassi made a mid-range pass to Patrick Cutrone near midfield, who dribbled forward to attack.

Ran to the outside of the free throw arc, randomly kicked the ball with his left foot into the penalty area on the right, and handed it to Grassi who had already rushed to the front. Grassi made a slight adjustment and shot directly.

Juventus goalkeeper Wojciech Szczesny immediately made a save, but failed to save the ball, and could only watch helplessly as the ball hit the post and bounced back into the net.Milan 1:2 Juventus, tenaciously recovered a goal.

Conte kept clapping his hands on the sidelines to encourage his players, even if he had pulled back a goal, he still couldn't satisfy his appetite.He hopes to win Juventus at home in San Siro, although after watching the performance in the first half, he feels that this is a bit difficult.

In the 61st minute, Milan took a free kick in the frontcourt.Jordi Alba kicked hard and hoisted the ball over the wall into the left side of the penalty area.

Caldara jumped up from the edge of the small penalty area on the left, facing the ball with his head.The ball was pushed into the right goal, and Szczesny had nothing to do.Milan tied the score tenaciously, which made the San Siro stadium boil.

Seeing that Milan will overtake and achieve a big reversal!

But the reality is cruel.Although Juventus' offense can't get in, the defense can't be blocked.Wu Haowen was unmoved in the slightest, and continued to rotate players in his own way, only to blame that there were too few rotation spots for friendly matches.

In the end, Juventus drew with their opponents at home in Milan.The pre-match game is over, and the start of Serie A is about to begin.And this game, as a Milan fan is happy.Because in the game, they could clearly feel that Juventus did not do their best, and the tie in the second half seemed to save enough face for Milan.

Conte's heart is quite uncomfortable!

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