Golden Greenery

At 22 seconds into the game, captain Maldini received a knock from Zhuoyang. This was his first time touching the ball. With just such a simple and ordinary stoppage, the 70,000-person crowd at San Siro burst into cheers. This is Maldini's 645th Serie A game and his 901st official game on behalf of AC Milan.

This is Maldini's last home game, and it may even be his last Serie A game. If Roma can be successfully defeated in this game, AC Milan will win the 2008-09 Serie A championship one round ahead of schedule. In the last round of the away game against Florence, the Cavaliers will not participate.

Italian Football Federation President Abbate offered to host a farewell match for Maldini, but he refused. Maldini said: "My retirement game will be in Rome on May 27." That day was the Champions League final.

This summer, several heavyweight stars will retire. Among the people Zhuo Yang knows are Figo, Nedved, and the Bundesliga's Bowman and Schneider. But only Maldini can use a highest-level Champions League final as a farewell performance. This is a great show and pride.

If he can successfully win the championship today, Maldini will concentrate on preparing for the final ten days later. The team's main players, including Zhuoyang, Kaká, Inzaghi and others, will also miss the final round of the league with Florence. Of course, the premise is to win today.

Three days ago, Ancelotti accidentally sent an "all-ocean" lineup to win the FA Cup, creating a miracle in world football. Perhaps An Pang was worried and consciously overcorrected. He tried his best to send Italian local players on the field in this game, especially the defense line, which was an "all-Italian team" from the Colts, Bonera, Gianluca Zambrotta and Favalli.

Midfielders Zhuo Yang, Kaka, Pirlo, Ambrosini, forwards Inzaghi and Pato. Dida is very lucky. This season he and Abbiati have a clear division of labor. Abbiati is in charge of the league and he is dedicated to the two cup competitions. But as the season came to an end, Abbiati was injured due to a collision with Favalli in training. Therefore, Dida prepared to harvest the league championship in person with joy.

Milan failed to get what they wanted in the last round, and they are working hard to win the championship today, but their opponent Roma also has many ideas.

After 36 rounds of Serie A, AC Milan ranks first with 83 points with 24 wins, 11 draws and one loss, followed by Inter Milan with 79 points. Juventus has 66 points, Fiorentina has 62 points, and Roma has 60 points.

Roma is currently fifth, and their only goal now is to replace Fiorentina as fourth and qualify for next season's Champions League. In the last round, Udinese broke AC Milan's 76-game unbeaten streak, which gave the Romans great courage, because the terrifying Milan is no longer an invincible team.

And once Milan loses its undefeated halo, Roma will even have a certain psychological advantage. Because in Milan's splendid journey of 76 games between young and old, only Roma remained undefeated against Milan, and all three meetings between the two teams ended in a 2:2 draw. Looking back further, in the past three seasons, including the FA Cup, Roma faced AC Milan in 6 games, won 1 and drew 5. It was on this field that Roma defeated AC Milan in the 2006-07 season. After the game, the Roma team There was a channel fight with Zhuo Yang. In other words, Roma is the only team that Zhuo Yang has not defeated since his victory in Apennines.

If they can defeat AC Milan in this game, not only will Roma gain points, but they will also force Milan to fight to the death with Fiorentina in the next game for the championship. Roma's last round will be at home against the relegated Torino. . This form is very interesting, and Roma has a lot of hope of overtaking Viola.

So, even though Totti expressed high respect to Maldini before the game started, he still has to beat AC Milan today. Compared with Milan, only two main players, Nesta and Abbiati, are missing due to minor injuries. Roma has five goalkeepers, Doni, De Rossi, Aquilani, Cicinho, and Tonetto, who are unable to play due to various reasons. Go to war.

Only 3 minutes into the game, Taddei broke into the penalty area and received a wonderful pass from Vuzini and shot from a small angle. Dida blocked the ball from the baseline.

In the 5th minute, Zambrotta made a mistake in making a clearance. The ball did not go far and fell to Totti's feet. The Wolf King volleyed over the crossbar from 20 yards. In the 9th minute, Matteo Bridge, who replaced Aquilani in the starting lineup, shot a long shot from outside the penalty area and flew out of the post.

The Romans were not generally aggressive. The Romans tore off their pre-game hypocrisy and exposed their bloody fangs. AC Milan didn't have its first shot until the 14th minute. Kaka's long-range shot was saved by Roma substitute goalkeeper Artur Morais.

The 28-year-old Arthur is a Brazilian-Italian who started his goalkeeping career in Brazil. Among Brazilian goalkeepers, Roma No. 1 Mendoni and Inter Milan's Cesar are European-style, not much different from other outstanding goalkeepers in Italy, but Arthur is a traditional type, the same as Dida, relying on talent and quick reactions. All a little neurotic.

After the 25th minute, Totti made two consecutive shots from the right rib. After both shots posed a great threat to AC Milan, Maldini couldn't stand it anymore. He called Zhuo Yang: "Take it back a little bit. Be careful to protect the lower front."

Today, Milan is the same as Roma. The formation is similar to 4-4-2. Zhuo Yang is almost equivalent to the right midfielder. In front of him, he is mainly tossing Taddei, who is ugly and good. At the end of last year, "The Sun" selected the top ten ugly stars in football today. In Serie A, Taddei and Camoranesi were on the list, and Taddei ranked first. Scar Ribery was only ranked sixth, so one can imagine how ugly Taddei is.

Perhaps because he was submerged among the beautiful men in Milan, Ronaldinho miraculously did not appear on this list.

After receiving Maldini's order, Zhuoyang moved slightly to the middle and sealed the gap in front of his right rib, just like Mr. Guan guarding Huarong Road. Totti hid behind Vucinic and played as a shadow forward. Pirlo was a little helpless with him, but Zhuoyang would never catch Cao.

Pizarro passed the ball diagonally. Totti fiddled with his feet while thinking about how to deal with Zhuoyang in front of him. Unexpectedly, the second-hand guy on the opposite side hit him with a 'whoosh'. The unprepared Totti was shocked with stars in his eyes. , the ball was also lost and was swept to Pirlo by Zhuoyang.

After finding some free time, Totti called Zhuoyang and said to him: "I found that you have regressed defensively and are becoming less and less technical."

Zhuoyang suppressed his laughter and pretended to be sad and said: "Who says it's not the case? Alas -" He felt that His Majesty Totti had not made any progress in the past three years, and his provoking skills were still as bad as ever.

"Have you analyzed the reasons? You should think more about it. This is not good for your career prospects. You should pay attention to correcting it during the game."

"Why should I correct it? Franco, don't forget that I am a striker who has scored 33 goals. Are you trying to figure out how to defend me?"

Totti: "..."

"Hey, Franco, you should have entered more than 20 this year, right? I didn't count. Congratulations, you are much better than last year."

Totti regretted getting together to quarrel with Zhuoyang. After losing to Kaka by one goal in the competition for the top scorer the year before last, he only scored 13 goals in the league last year. With only the last two rounds left this season, Totti scored exactly 10 goals.