Chapter 159 Smiling Tiger
Sao Paulo dragged the game into a penalty shootout in the Copa Libertadores, and relied on the brave performance of captain Cheney to ascend to the championship throne, while Kaka rushed back to Italy without stopping to participate in the 13th round of Serie A AC Milan against Rome.
Roma is a typical example of weak matches when facing the weak matches when facing the strong matches when facing the strong matches when facing the weak matches. He lost to teams like Bologna and Modena, but tied the two league leaders Juventus and Inter Milan in succession.
This game has attracted much attention. In addition to being a strong match, it is also because this is Inzaghi's 200th Serie A game. What's more coincidentally, he has scored 99 Serie A goals. If he can break through Roma's goal in this game, he will usher in his 100 goals in Serie A.
Two games and one goal is so terrifying.
The San Siro Stadium was once again full, and the stands were filled with fans wearing AC Milan No. 9 jerseys, with the red and black flag "100" written on it, being held high by all the fans and being passed on continuously.
Last year, under pressure from Berlusconi, Ancelotti had to arrange for Shevchenko and Inzag to play together, but the effect was very painful. After creating a Christmas tree this season, Sheva and Jiuye have less and less time on the same stage. Just looking at the state and performance of the recent games, the starter should actually be Sheva, but in order to enable Inzag to complete the 100-ball career, Fatty An still put Inzag into the main lineup.
There have been many violent incidents in recent times. Naples and Messina have players who were attacked by fans and were injured. In order to express their protest, the Italian Players Association has launched a call and proposed that the kickoff time of all professional football matches in Italy, including Class A, Class B, C, and C2 will be postponed for fifteen minutes this weekend.
All teams responded positively, so the game was not only postponed for fifteen minutes, but before the game started, the captains of the two teams, Kafu and Maldini, also wore red vests and read out a statement protesting the violence.
"Torti did not make it to the roster. The ones appearing at the front of Roma are Montera and Casano, while the midfielders are Delas, Zebina, Samuel, Panucci, four defenders Cafo, Emerson, Lima and Bombacchini, and goalkeeper Antonio."
"AC Milan ships 4321, goalkeeper Abiati and Nesta returned from injury, partnered with Maldini with central defenders, Simici and Karaze on both sides, midfielders Ambrosini, Pirlo, Sidorf, Rui Costa and Kaka, forward Inzagi, it is worth mentioning that Redondo appeared on the bench."
With Corina's whistle whistle, the game officially began.
Roma launched a fast break as soon as it kicked off. After continuous passes, Kafu took the ball on the right and advanced. Carazze did not allow Roma's deputy to stop. Kafu passed the ball to the middle of the field more than five meters away from the center line.
Casano rushed over and pointed his toes, and the man ball broke through Ambrosini and passed the ball to Montera.
Montera hit the football directly.
Nesta jumped and blocked the ball with his back, but was half a step slower, and the football flew towards the goal while rubbing his jersey.
Abiati made a world-class save and pushed the ball towards Maldini.
Maldini passed the ball to Karaze, who passed it for a long pass by Seedorf.
"Beautiful shots and saves, Roma almost broke through AC Milan's goal at the beginning of the game. Let's see how AC Milan will respond next."
Sidorf gave the ball to Ambrosini.
Ambrosini directly gave the ball to Pirlo. After receiving the ball, Pirlo wiped over Zebina, dribbled the ball through the half and passed it to Rui Costa who came to pick up the ball.
Rui Costa scored a goal to Kaka.
Kaka turned sideways and pretended to receive the ball, but suddenly raised his foot when Samuel was grabbing it, and then gently strobes the ball from the outside of his right foot, strobes past Samuel's feet.
The second one to come up was Panucci. He chose the timing very cleverly, just when Kaka broke through Samuel. This was when Kaka was the farthest away from the ball, and it was also the best time to steal in theory.
But he also lost.
Kaka's movements were as fast as lightning, and he had to touch the ball first and poked his toes, which was also a crotch piercing.
These two consecutive passes were fleeting. By the time people realized that Kaka had already come from the midfield to the front of the penalty area of Roma, and then passed Emerson through a very small change in a direction.
Three people passed in a row.
The audience stood up.
Following Emerson was Bombachini. He and Lima were defending Inzagi, but at this time he didn't care about anything else and rushed over and reached out to intercept.
Kaka's ankle shook and the dragon swung its tail.
The football rushed over Bombachini's feet quickly.
Bombachini reached out and pulled it for a moment, barely touching the corner of Kaka's clothes.
At this time, Kafu, who had returned to defense, rushed over from the wing. He would be the fifth defensive player Kaka encountered.
Kaka + Inzagi VS Kafu + Lima + Antonio.
2 to 3.
Kaka did not hesitate at all and directly sent a direct pass to Inzaji.
Inzagi sprinted with all his might and pushed the bottom right corner.
Because of Lima's interference, the kick was very hard, it was not fast, there was no arc, and it was almost no threat. It was easily confiscated by Antonio.
The alarm was lifted and the Romans breathed a sigh of relief.
"Kaka gave Inzaji a straight pass after four people. To be honest, this is not a good choice, because Inzaji did not get rid of Lima's defense. We can understand Kaka's desire to help Inzaji score the 100th goal, but he could get a one-on-one chance as long as he passed the ball just now. Even if he shot directly, it was better than passing the ball..."
Ancelotti on the sidelines naturally saw this. He was very angry about Kaka's immature choice. He didn't care whether Kaka could listen or not, and shouted at him several times on the sidelines.
Inzaji stretched out his thumb to Kaka and gestured to him to pass it well.
Just two minutes into the game, both sides completed a shot, and everyone had a foreshadowing that this would be an offensive battle.
The competition has indeed developed in this way.
In the third minute, Roma's pass was blocked from the middle, and Ambrosini, who replaced Gatuso's starter, did play the role of Gatu's lock, intercepted Zebina's pass and handed it to Pirlo.
Pirlo made a long pass from Seedorf, and the Dutch made a little adjustment and pulled his feet and shot angrily.
Football was blocked by Emerson from the bottom line.
Costa took a corner kick from the right, Seedorf made a cross with his left foot, Kaka turned his back to the goal, and cleverly knocked his left heel 8 meters in front of the goal, and the football slightly went out of the left post.
"Kaka's heel shot! Antonio did not respond at all, but unfortunately the football still slightly missed the goal frame range. The goal followed the goal by only one centimeter, and Kaka almost created another classic goal."
Three shots in three minutes, this is just the beginning.
In the fifth minute, Costa made a diagonal pass from the right, and Inzagi headed near the free throw point, but unfortunately he pushed too straight, Antonioli didn't even have to move his foot. He stretched out his hands and held the ball in his arms.
In the eighth minute, Roma attacked in the middle, and after a series of short passes, the ball was given to Casano's feet, but the bad boy was knocked down by Simici before he could make an action, and Roma got a free kick opportunity on the right.
Both players squeezed into the penalty area, Kafu drove the ball out, Samuel beat Maldini near the back post and completed a very high-quality header. Abiati did not respond, but the football was also slightly off.
The pace of the game was breathless.
It's AC Milan's turn to attack.
It was Pirlo's long pass from the backcourt again. Kaka stopped the ball in a difficult situation and moved the ball to the left, then handed it to Rui Costa for a textbook pass.
Inzagi took the ball in the penalty area and made a rare move, but Emerson and Lima were not deceived by his poor fake moves. Emerson broke the ball as soon as he blocked it, but his foot was not very neat, and Inzagi fell to the ground at the same time.
Everyone looked at Corina.
Korina did not blew the whistle, neither swearing Emerson for a foul nor sent Inzaghi to fall, but just signaled Inzaghi to get up quickly.
Inzaji stood up obediently and protested.
Corina shook her head, "I can see clearly that he was playing the ball and didn't touch you."
"Inzaji is asking the referee for a penalty kick, let's look at slow motion, oh, Emerson kicked the ball, but Inzaji was making a change of direction at the time, and it was really not a foul..."
The game continued, and Roma significantly strengthened its defense. Although AC Milan had obvious advantages, it was difficult to penetrate into dangerous areas easily.
Both sides had offense and defense, but neither Kaka's long shot nor Montera's header could break the deadlock.
In the 21st minute, Seidorf suddenly sat down on the ground in a confrontation, as if his right foot was injured, and was helped by Kaka out of the field for treatment. Just as Ancelotti was about to ask Serginho to go out for warm-up, he walked back into the field.
Just eight minutes later, Panucci was injured in the middle of the competition with Ambrosini and was also helped off the court. Unlike Seedorf, he was unable to come back.
Roma was forced to substitution, and Sato made an emergency appearance.
This substitution seemed to have become a turning point in the game, and AC Milan's offensive in the midfield became smoother again.
In the 32nd minute of the game, Costa and Pirlo collided with each other and gave Kaka a straight pass that was more than 40 meters away.
Kaka faced the incoming ball and pressed the toes against the ground, picking the ball over Kafu's head.
But he was not able to complete the breakthrough.
Kafu suddenly inserted his right foot from the back side and stopped him in front of Kaka and put him to the ground.
The whistle sounded, AC Milan's free kick.
Kafu pulled Kaka up, patted him on the back, and said, "Is it okay."
"It's okay." Kaka looked at the captain of the national team who always smiled and couldn't get angry even if she wanted to get angry.
This guy is a famous smile-faced tiger in football. He has hardly seen anyone blush with him, but his defense is so fierce... whoever tastes it knows.
Chapter completed!