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Chapter 1871 - 497: The Holy Roman Empire’s Great Crisis
Deschamps looked somewhat resentful at Guardiola in front of the Milan coaching bench.
Is this the legendary heir of Cruyff, the successor of total football?
Playing with three defensive midfielders can be considered total football, so doesn’t that mean his double defensive midfielders don’t need to defend?
He also realized a problem now.
That is, Eto’o isn’t as effective as last year, and with Pandev never being a top-level player, Inter Milan’s wingers lack enough threat.
Otherwise, the match wouldn’t be this tough.
However, on the field, Inter Milan gradually found their footing.
Huang Kaiwen put more effort into defense, allowing Inter Milan to attack with confidence.
Although Torres’s counterattacks were sharp, they were still not as good compared to Huang Kaiwen.
In the 20th minute, Sneijder passed the ball to the right front.
Gattuso hurried over to intercept.
But Maicon was faster, he nudged the ball forward in front of Gattuso.
Zambrotta quickly went over from the penalty area to cover, at this moment Maicon immediately kicked the ball to Pandev in the box.
Pandev turned and lobbed, but Buffon caught it directly.
"This ball was given too close to the goal."
"Yeah, Buffon’s height is right there, you absolutely can’t place a high ball in front of the goal, otherwise, it’s giving it directly to Buffon."
Buffon swung his arm, a hand throw directly sent the ball to the front field.
Ramos was still not quite used to seeing Buffon like this.
Even Real Madrid’s Casillas would shout at teammates when they made mistakes.
Let alone Chelsea’s Cech.
But this time Zambrotta and Thiago Silva let people in without any concern, and Buffon still didn’t react.
Such a calm goalkeeper, even though it’s been more than half a season.
Ramos still felt uneasy.
He had a good impression of Buffon because Buffon always actively responded to Huang Kaiwen’s words.
But he was particularly curious about when Buffon would ever scold someone.
When Torres was dribbling at the front, Ibrahimovic had already been marked by the rushing Zivo.
The retreating Maicon also gave Torres a lot of pressure, Maicon at his peak was still good in both offense and defense.
Without Huang Kaiwen at the front, Torres realized why playing felt easy recently, it was because number ten took on a great deal of the pressure.
He and Maicon were running forward, due to the confrontation, neither had steady centers of gravity.
Torres felt it wouldn’t work out like this, he hesitated for a second then suddenly stopped, turned around to pass, but didn’t expect Maicon’s physical condition was outrageous, although he didn’t anticipate it, he still forcibly stopped his foot and blocked his pass.
The ball bounced off Maicon’s foot towards the sideline.
Just as the ball was about to go out of bounds, Ranocchia ran over and hooked the ball back with his foot.
Before Torres could rush over, Maicon already blocked him one step ahead.
Taking the opportunity, Ranocchia made a big kick to the front field.
"Inter Milan’s counterattack!"
"This time AC Milan was pressed quite forward, mainly because Torres hadn’t shaken off Maicon, so even Gattuso and Zambrotta went up to assist."
"Yes, Pazzini sprints fast, Huang Kaiwen rushed up, who can get the ball first? Huang Kaiwen! Huang Kaiwen stretched his foot first, Pazzini hit hard this time."
In order to clear the ball early, Huang Kaiwen twisted and stretched his foot, lowering his body.
Pazzini sprinted too fast and couldn’t adjust, crashing onto Huang Kaiwen’s right shoulder, spinning 360 degrees in mid-air before heavily hitting the turf.
"Kevin!"
"Kevin!"
"Kevin!"
The Rossoneri didn’t expect to see such passionate defense.
The left side was completely open, Huang Kaiwen not only neutralized the threat, but also made the opponent look quite pathetic.
Seeing Huang Kaiwen pass the ball out.
Nesta looked somewhat pitifully at Pazzini, this kid fell heavily.
But this defense from Huang Kaiwen also gave him a scare, if it were him he’d likely get injured.
But for someone as injury-prone as Huang Kaiwen, this move was probably not easy either.
Seeing Huang Kaiwen return to the backfield, Nesta said: "It’s not even the UEFA Champions League final, you don’t have to fight so hard!"
"To me, every match is a UEFA Champions League final!"
Huang Kaiwen said with a smile.
Nesta said with annoyance: "Save that line for the media."
"But today is the Milan Derby!"
Huang Kaiwen said.
The Milan Derby holds great significance.
He couldn’t afford not to give it his all.
In the past, Inter Milan always fell short, so they played casually.
But now Inter Milan had the strength to make it to the UEFA Champions League final, against opponents of this level, they couldn’t relax defensively at any moment.
A few minutes later, Inter Milan launched another attack.
Sneijder received Eto’o’s return pass on the left, immediately passed horizontally to Pandev.
Pandev stretched his foot to pass the ball back, Sneijder faced the ball and shot.
This shot had significant power, and with no interference, Buffon could only block it with both palms, then quickly got up to catch the ball.
Buffon shouted: "Pay attention to defense, don’t leave the right side all to Kevin!"
Seeing Huang Kaiwen come back, Buffon immediately threw the ball to Huang Kaiwen.
Huang Kaiwen just took a simple glance and turned away.
This move made Sneijder, who was preparing to steal, unsure about the ball’s direction, reacting a beat too slow.
Huang Kaiwen slightly lowered his head, and the ball bounced off his back onto the ground in front of him.
Seeing Huang Kaiwen get the ball, almost all the Inter Milan players on the front field started to rush towards Huang Kaiwen simultaneously.
Huang Kaiwen dribbled slowly forward, with no intention of shaking off Sneijder.