It's no secret that AC Milan have problems.
Even at Milanello training base, everyone has reached a consensus on this.
In the first 14 rounds, the team lost a total of 15 goals, but in the last seven rounds, it lost 10. Obviously, with the deepening of the season, the performance of the team's defense has dropped sharply.
According to the current data, the team can only compete with Udinese, Palermo and other teams at most.
Inter and Juve?
I can't even catch up with you.
Everyone is thinking, what's wrong with AC Milan's defense?
The defensive line is basically not injured, Gattuso is as brave as ever, only Ambrosini is injured, and the Rossoneri keep an unbeaten record in the midfield of Milan.
Is it because of him?
Ancelotti doesn't think so. He thinks it's caused by many factors, especially the tactics of the team, the ups and downs of the players' state, especially the many veteran players in the team, which makes it difficult for the team to cope with multi line combat.
If it's just the back line, it's nothing, but now even the front line has gone wrong.
"Vieri told me just now that he is ready to play Inter, at least he wants to be a substitute
In Milanello's head coach's office, Ancelotti stood in front of Tassotti and other members of the coaching staff and sighed bitterly, "this is the second time he has asked me to play this week."
Vieri with ambition to join AC Milan, but the result in the Rossoneri, he is not valued.
There is no way. Shevchenko, Inzaghi and Gilardino are the forwards of AC Milan.
Even the golden boy Cassano, who has been transferred from Rome this season, has to retreat to the second line and is difficult to appear in the attack. As a result, the bad tempered Cassano is in a bad mood.
If other teams are worried about the lack of major general, Ancelotti's attack is full of troubles.
It's really an ancient poem. Zhumen's wine stinks, and the road is frozen to death.
"Pippo also called me, he also wanted to play Inter, and he said he had an advantage against Inter
When Ancelotti said that, he shook his head with a bitter smile.
As everyone knows, after joining Inter Milan, Gao Han adopted the strategy of massively pressing on the attack, which is really suitable for Inzaghi, who is good at anti offside, but the problem is that AC Milan have other forwards.
"After yesterday's training, Shevchenko and Gilardino said the same thing to me. They all want to play Inter. I don't know when Inter have become so hot Ancelotti has no choice but to smile bitterly.
If Vieri wants to play inter because of some personal grievances, it is obvious that Gilardino, Shevchenko and Inzaghi want to take the main position to prove their value in the team.
At the same time, they all want to break Inter's goal.
Since joining Inter Milan in the cold, the Azzurri have not only become the thorn in the eye of all the coaches in Serie A, but also the players are eager to fight with Inter Milan. Everyone knows that the outstanding performance against Inter Milan has attracted more attention than ten other league matches.
Especially for strikers who score goals.
"When a head coach, to be able to be so cold, there is really no one!" Ancelotti shook his head and grinned bitterly.
The rest of the people followed suit and laughed helplessly.
The attraction of Alpine is not only reflected in his cultivation and reuse of players, but also his opponents.
As far as this is concerned, no one else can match it.
"Tell me, what shall we do?" Asked Ancelotti, looking at his assistants.
Everyone looks at each other, which is really a big problem.
Just like in the game against Schalke 04, Shevchenko and Gilardino started. As a result, Inzaghi was sulky and angry on the bench. Finally, in the second half, he replaced Shevchenko. As a result, the Ukrainian nuclear warhead was angry and walked out of the game without expression. He even refused to say hello to Ancelotti.
At the end of the game, Inzaghi told the media that he was very angry that he couldn't play when he didn't retire, but he can still express reasonably now, but if it goes on like this, he doesn't know how long he can endure.
Everyone can hear that. It's a threat.
Shevchenko is more direct. The Ukrainian striker has been linked with Chelsea recently, complaining directly after the game that he did well against Schalke 04 and did not understand why the coach wanted to replace him.
The meaning is also very clear, to change, why not change the worse Gilardino?
Then he said: "he is the head coach, who plays and who doesn't play, the choice is with him, I have nothing to say, but I hope I can have my own choice."
The meaning is still very clear, it is also a threat, even that he has moved the idea of transfer.
But what did Gilardino say?
The Italian Center said, "I'm not used to rotation. Rotation is a strange word for me. I started every game in Parma and I'm used to this rhythm."
This season's most frequent appearance of the local center's meaning is also very clear, he must stand the main position.
Plus a Vieri who sits on the bench from time to time but becomes a minefield
The situation that Ancelotti is facing now, for anyone, can't help but feel big.
If several players compete for the main force and each other is in good condition, it doesn't matter. The big problem is that the three strikers are not in good condition recently.
Shevchenko has not been able to get back to form since he came back from injury. Although there was a single performance of four goals in the Champions League, it was just an outbreak and soon fell into a dead silence.
Gilardino has also failed to score in many games. Inzaghi is also intermittent and his performance is very unstable. As for Vieri, he has lost his main position for a long time and is not valued by Ancelotti.
In other words, several forwards of AC Milan are not in good condition, but it can also be said that they urgently need the stimulation of the game to get back the state of scoring, so they attach so much importance to a stable appearance.
"What to do?" Once again, Ancelotti asked his assistant team.
Now he felt that his head was as big as a fist, and he was really weak all over.
But none of the assistants could answer his question.
What's more, they all know that the weakness of the attack is only one of AC Milan's problems.
AC Milan are facing a more serious problem when they visit the meacha stadium to challenge Inter.
That's defense!
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It was also Thursday and morning when Ancelotti was at Milanello discussing with his assistants how to deal with Inter, Gao was also at pinetina studying AC Milan with his assistants.
Just yesterday, inter defeated Parma 1-0 away to win the first leg of the final 16 of the Coppa Italia, which is also the first win of this season's Coppa Italia.
The only goal came from Cruz.
This Argentine center is still very trustworthy. Although most of them play as rotation roles, he can perform in every start and substitute, which makes Gao Han trust him very much and let the team sign a new contract with him early.
Palermo has been in pursuit of Cruz, alpine is also in order to cut off the idea of Palermo early.
Cruz also has some opinions about his role in Inter Milan. He hopes to play more games. Gao also promises to arrange his appearance as much as possible. At the same time, he is very sure of his role and play in the team, which has successfully convinced the Argentinian to stay.
As soon as he renewed his contract, Cruz started and scored in the Coppa Italia.
This makes inter feel very satisfied up and down, but also for the next Milan derby more confident.
Because in the game against Parma, Gao Leng rotated six starting lineups, and even the goalkeeper arranged Toldo to start, just to save energy to play AC Milan.
"The most dangerous player for AC Milan is Kaka. I know him very well. He is the most stable and the most dangerous attacking player for AC Milan in the past. We have to block him
Gao's words were immediately recognized by the coaching staff.
"You're right. To freeze Kaka, you have to try not to let him have the space to sprint, or try to reduce his chances of holding the ball." Cantarello is also very familiar with Kaka, "we all know that once Kaka sprint, no one can stop."
High speed dribbling, which has become Kaka's signature action in La Liga and Serie A, is also his sharpest and most threatening weapon.
"But we can't ignore Kaka's skill in possession and assists Guardiola warned.
He has been a teammate with Kaka, and he knows Kaka very well, so he knows that Kaka can not only break through with the ball at high speed, but also has outstanding ability in passing, controlling and assisting. It's just that the weapon in front is too amazing, which greatly conceals the style of the latter weapon and is ignored.
Alpine nodded: "it's difficult for ordinary defense to completely limit Kaka. We need to fight as a team and rely on our midfield."
When they heard this, they all nodded.
Similar to Kaka, a player with outstanding personal ability, either has to arrange a special person to keep close watch, or has to arrange targeted tactics to control the local area, try to weaken the threat of Kaka, or even make a foul when he should.
Sometimes, foul is also a very effective tactic, which can not only delay the opponent, but also interrupt the rhythm of the opponent.
Of course, the premise is that the foul must be far away from the threat area.
"Cambiasso should be able to do it." Guardiola suggested.
Guardiola is very appreciative of the Argentine midfield player with the title of Redondo II. He even doubts why Real Madrid will give up this excellent midfield player?
Alpine also very agree with this, Cambiasso this season than last season's performance is more excellent, also more stable, although it is a single back, but offensive and defensive, very in line with his tactical requirements.
"This afternoon and tomorrow morning we'll have a two for three training." Gao Han said.
Two against three?
At first they were a little surprised, then they suddenly realized.
There is no secret about AC Milan's tactics. Ancelotti is famous for his invariability.
This Milan derby is definitely double forward partner Kaka, Pirlo's right side is Gattuso, if there is no accident on the left side, I'm afraid it will be Seedorf.
The high cold specially arranges 2 to 3, obviously is wants FIGO and Veron to suppress AC Milan's three midfielders.
Maybe even this move will be the winner of the Milan derby.