Super Marshal

After the management made the final decision, Chinatown officially responded to Atletico Madrid, who immediately arranged for a negotiation team headed by Hill Jr. to contact Armando Marcos to discuss Schneiderlin's transfer.

At the same time, technical director Carlos Cantarero has also begun to launch a winter break transfer signing plan, striving to win the number one signing target before Christmas, so that he can come to the team in advance to participate in training preparations, faster Integrate into the team.

All of this was done without the knowledge of the outside world, except for the parties involved.

Since there is no game in the middle of the week, everyone has set their sights on the twelfth round of La Liga at the weekend.

Chinatown will host Valencia at home, which will also be a tough battle.

The Bat Corps' lineup this season is not very strong, but under Emery's training, the results are quite good. In this game, they are visiting Butak Stadium to challenge their younger brother Pochettino. Emery is undoubtedly under a lot of pressure.

Both teams were carefully prepared and played cautiously at the start, but Chinatown was still young and made mistakes early.

In the 21st minute, Valencia's Joaquín on the right opened up Chinatown's left wing with a breakthrough from the wing. After passing the ball, Aduris took the lead and scored.

After that, the two teams completely entered a fast-paced offensive and defensive battle. Chinatown suppressed Valencia, but was still unable to pry open the Bat Legion's goal. It was not until the 73rd minute of the second half, Marcos Senna's assist, that Let Aubameyang equalize the score.

In the end, the two sides fought to a one-to-one draw.

Michu, Chinatown's top scorer, was closely guarded by Valencia in this game. His performance was mediocre and he failed to perform very well. He also failed to score by the end of the game.

On the contrary, in another game, Barcelona defeated Villarreal 5-2 in an away game. Messi scored a hat trick and contributed two assists, helping Barcelona defeat the home team and win precious three points.

With three goals, Messi also successfully reversed Michu and topped the La Liga scorer list.

After leading the rankings for two or three months, Michu finally stepped down from the top scorer list.

In another game, Real Madrid defeated Athletic Bilbao 5-1 at home. Diego Costa and Higuain both scored twice, especially Higuain, who is constantly getting closer to himself and Michu. The gap in the scorer list.

But for this local Spanish scorer, the media and fans also have very high evaluations. They believe that Michu has proven his strength and characteristics to be able to perform like this in Chinatown. He lost to a superstar like Messi. There should be no shame at all, but pride in the performance at the start of the season.

However, within Chinatown, especially Gao Han, he has mentioned before that as the season progresses, all La Liga teams will pay more and more attention to Michu's defense, which will make Michu's goals more and more difficult. The more difficult it is, so the coaching staff needs to fully consider the situation faced by Michu and provide help when formulating tactics.

Pochettino also discovered this problem, especially after Michu's sudden success, his scoring efficiency has dropped significantly in recent rounds. This proves that La Liga teams are getting more and more experienced in Michu's defense. If Chinatown wants to To continue to keep this sharp knife sharp, appropriate adjustments must be made.

While Chinatown drew 1-1 with Valencia at home, Manchester City, led by Gao Han, also traveled south to challenge Fulham on the weekend after a week's rest.

This is the fourteenth round of the Premier League.

Since he had to face AC Milan at home in the middle of the week to prepare for qualifying for the top spot in the group, Gao Han made a rotation in this game. Zabaleta, who was entrusted with the important task by him, started instead of Xabi Alonso, but scored a goal Cristiano Ronaldo, who has extremely strong desire, continues to lead the starting lineup.

As a result, just six minutes into the game, Cristiano Ronaldo received an assist from Modric and scored the first goal.

In the 32nd minute, Zabaleta scored a goal to expand the score again.

Three minutes later, Adam Lallana scored another victory, 3-0.

After changing sides in the second half, Cristiano Ronaldo received an assist from Zabaleta in the 53rd minute and scored again, expanding the score to 4-0.

The Portuguese has shown a recent crazy scoring momentum, not losing to Spain's Messi.

Sixty minutes later, Gao Han replaced many players, including the Portuguese superstar, for the midweek Champions League match. Fulham also took the opportunity to launch a counterattack and scored a sneak attack in the 70th minute.

In the end, Manchester City beat Fulham 4-1 away from home and once again scored three points.

Media reporters and fans have long been accustomed to Manchester City's goal victory. Instead, everyone is more concerned about the goal battle between Cristiano Ronaldo and Messi, and who of the two has a better chance of winning the first international tournament. Football Association Ballon d'Or.

The two players seemed to have a vague intention of fighting for this. Decibel sounded the clarion call for goal battles in both La Liga and the Premier League. Messi scored a hat trick and contributed two assists in this round, but Cristiano Ronaldo was not bad either, scoring twice and assisting once. The battle between the two superstars attracted the attention of fans around the world.

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It was drizzling in Manchester and the temperature dropped very low.

Allegri, the head coach of AC Milan, stood in front of the visiting team's bench at the City Stadium, wearing thick gloves on his hands, but he still felt a chill all over his body, making him want to fight. A shiver.

This is the fifth round of the Champions League group stage, and it is also a life and death battle for AC Milan.

Everyone can see that it is difficult for the Rossoneri to break out of the group stage this season. That is only a theoretical possibility, but in real life, no one is willing or dares. Go puncture that last layer of window paper.

More than 2,000 AC Milan fans followed the team to the away game. Their only wish was to see the team use their last courage to fight Manchester City to the end. Even if they could not defeat their opponents, at least they would take away the victory. The dignity of the team.

But the reality is often very cruel. Just as more than 2,000 visiting team fans were quickly submerged in a sea of ​​tens of thousands of home team fans, AC Milan was soon submerged in the violent storm of Manchester City.

Only six minutes into the game, Sanchez faced Jankulovski one-on-one on the right. He easily broke through the opponent's defense with a change of direction and accelerated, and easily passed the ball to the back point without anyone defending him. The same thing happened. Cristiano Ronaldo, who was unmarked, easily scored in front of the goal.

One to zero, Manchester City opened the scoring!

This goal put AC Milan in a dilemma. Allegri's team began to launch a crazy counterattack, but the cunning Gao Han began to defend the counterattack and frequently seized opportunities to create threats.

Especially in the 34th minute, another high-speed start from Sanchez on the right side once again got rid of Jankulovski's defense. Facing Thiago Silva, who was quickly filling in, the Chilean winger He cleverly passed the ball and left the Italian central defender behind, completely defeating AC Milan's defense.

But this beautiful attack failed to create a threat. After Sanchez sent the ball into the penalty area, Benzema grabbed the first point. He wanted to control the ball, adjust it and start again, but Nesta was no longer at his peak. In good condition, he had excellent defensive awareness and took the ball away in time, destroying another Manchester City attack.

Just four minutes later, another killing opportunity came from the right. This time Sanchez failed to successfully break through Jankulovski, but passed it back to Mascherano. The Argentinian directly passed the ball to the left side of the penalty area. Cristia Ronaldo overpowered Nesta and headed the ball back to the center. Benzema deliberately missed it and Modric behind him grabbed the ball.

With almost no one defending, the Croatian midfielder stopped the ball with his right foot, raised his left foot, and fired a curved ball directly into the AC Milan goal, two to zero!

Being two goals behind was a huge blow to AC Milan, especially since the team's defense encountered considerable problems.

However, Allegri did not make substitution adjustments during the halftime break. Instead, he went all out in the second half, trying to score a goal, but the end result was that Manchester City broke into the penalty area again and again.

In the 54th minute, Sanchez suddenly entered the penalty area and was pulled down by AC Milan's defensive midfielder Seedorf. However, the referee did not award a penalty kick and AC Milan escaped.

But in the 79th minute, after Modric intercepted the ball in the middle, David Silva launched a counterattack and passed behind the defense. Benzema went to the left to receive the ball and used his speed to break through Ness. Tower, pick up the pass and then click.

Sanchez surged forward from the right, grabbed the ball in front of the baseline and passed it across the middle. Cristiano Ronaldo followed up and shot directly into the net, changing the score to 3-0!

Continuous goals made AC Milan completely confused.

But Allegri stood on the sidelines with an unusually clear mind.

Although his skills were not as good as others, when he played against Manchester City and Real Madrid before, he did not arrange Pirlo to play. As a result, he brought overwhelming criticism, so in this game he simply listened to the opinions of the outside world and let Pirlo play. , Seedorf, Gattuso, Ambrosini and Boateng and other players played at the same time, but what was the result?

Single forward Pato was inactive and made no contribution throughout the game. Five players gathered in the midfield. It seemed like there were many people, but in fact it had no effect at all. The front edge of the penalty area could not be defended at all.

Professional football seems very complicated, but in fact it is very simple. Strength speaks for itself.

In the past, AC Milan during Ancelotti's era was able to play Pirlo because the team had a group of outstanding players from front to back, including players such as Gattuso, Ambrosini and Seedorf. At their peak, there were stars in the frontcourt such as Kaká, Inzaghi and Shevchenko who made other defenders fearful.

But what about now?

Rely on the young and immature Pato? Or the aging Gattuso, Seedorf, Jankulovski, Nesta and others?

On the other hand, Manchester City on the opposite side has superstars like Cristiano Ronaldo, Benzema, Sanchez and Kaka sitting in the frontcourt. These players do not need to do anything at all. They only need to stand on the court. The opponent must leave at least five players. Defending in the backcourt and even the entire game has to be on tenterhooks.

Therefore, Gao Han's midfielder can arrange a combination of David Silva, Modric and Xavi Alonso.

But can other teams do it?

If there are not these players with outstanding personal abilities in the frontcourt, can Gao Han form such a combination in the midfield?

On the court, the outcome of the game was decided, but Allegri had an inexplicable sense of revenge in his heart.

He just wanted to show everyone whether it was him or AC Milan's lineup that was not good.

Of course, he also knew that if he lost this game, he would definitely receive overwhelming criticism after the game, but he really had no choice, his skills were inferior to others, and he had tried his best.