Volume 1: Heroes Come and Go, People Pay Attention Chapter 53: The Feud Between Naples and Milan (Second Update Guaranteed)

Chapter 53: The feud between Naples and Milan (Second update guaranteed)

Mazzarri is leading the team towards his UEFA Cup goal, while Chen Yingxiong is heading towards his Champions League goal.

The two people have different goals, but they are walking on the same path.

While Chen Yingxiong worked hard towards his own goals, he also pushed the team forward. When the team was striving for a UEFA Cup goal, the whole team was able to work together to help Chen Yingxiong score a goal.

The relationship between the forward and the team should be like this. It's just that many people have forgotten this and only pursue personal honor. They simply and crudely distinguish and oppose personal honor and collective honor.

In the next month, Naples played five games. Except for the 0:1 away loss to Juventus, they achieved three wins and one draw in the other four games.

These include a 2:1 home victory over Bologna, a 2:0 home victory over Genoa, a 2:2 home draw with Lazio, and a 3:1 away victory over Reggina.

In these five games, Chen Yingxiong has four goals. He scored a goal in the 2:1 win over Bologna, a 2:0 home victory over Genoa, and a 2:2 draw with Lazio, scoring two goals, which was the key to the team's final point. figure.

As he showed before, after the game against Roma, Chen Yingxiong seemed to have woken up from hibernation and scored goals one after another. With ten rounds left in the league, he has already scored 17 goals, rising to fourth in the scorer list.

When many people turned their attention to the scorer list, they were surprised to find that Chen Yingxiong, who had been ignored before, had risen to fourth place!

In the scorer list, he surpassed AC Milan's star Kaka.

The giant northern bear from Russia has joined the competition for the Serie A Golden Boot. This season's top scorer list in the league will inevitably cause a bloody storm.

But Chen Yingxiong is still not satisfied with this because the team has not won a winning streak.

Especially the 0:1 loss to Juventus in the away game made him feel very aggrieved.

In the first half of the season, his condition was so bad that he helped the team defeat Juventus at home. Unexpectedly, in the second half of the season, when his condition improved, the team lost to Juventus on the road. He failed to score in this game.

His consecutive scoring record in Serie A also ended at six games.

But this time, his critics were much quieter. Only some people say that Chen Yingxiong can only pick weak persimmons and give up when he encounters strong teams. Against the top three in the north, he only scored one goal at home against Juventus in the first half of the season.

He did not score against Inter Milan and AC Milan.

From this point alone, he is not as good as Maradona, who he "looks down upon".

Chen Yingxiong ignored such voices. In the game against Lazio, he announced his return with a brace.

The team secured a draw thanks to his brace.

Next, he failed to score against Reggina. But no one doubts that he will fall into a scoring drought.

Chen Yingxiong has proven his ability with his seventeen league goals.

In his first season in Serie A, it is really rare to have such a high number of goals.

After these outstanding performances in these games, the team's ranking has returned from eighth to sixth.

If the season ends here, Mazzarri's goal will be accomplished, but Chen Yingxiong's goal is still early.

There are four places in Serie A. The top three will directly advance to the Champions League main game, and the fourth can participate in the Champions League qualifying rounds.

Therefore, Chen Yingxiong and the team must work hard if they want to qualify for the Champions League next season.

In the next round, the team will face a strong opponent - AC Milan, which has many experts and superstars!

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"Speaking of Milan, we still have grudges with them." Hamsik said to Chen Yingxiong.

"how?"

"You know Milan are playing in the UEFA Cup this season, right?"

Chen Yingxiong nodded.

"With their quality, they should have participated in the Champions League, but do you know why they went to the UEFA Cup?"

Chen Yingxiong shook his head.

"Haha, it's just because of us!"

Hamsik felt particularly proud when he said it.

Last season, the competition for the league's Champions League qualification was extremely fierce, with the final points difference from fourth to sixth place being only six points.

Before the penultimate round of the league, AC Milan accumulated 61 points and ranked fourth in the league. This position can qualify for the Champions League, even if it is only a qualifying match. Fiorentina is one point behind, ranking fifth with 60 points, and Sampdoria, sixth in the league, has 56 points. Sampdoria is as many as five points behind AC Milan, which is fourth in the league. With two rounds left in the league, the chance of participating in the Champions League is already very slim.

The main competition is between AC Milan and Fiorentina.

Judging from the points scored by the two teams at that time, AC Milan has the advantage. As long as they win two consecutive games in the last two rounds of the league, they will catch the last train of the Champions League.

Under such circumstances, they challenged Naples away from home.

At the same time, Napoli also need a victory because they are competing with Genoa and Atalanta to qualify for the International Toto Cup. According to the rules, the eighth place in Serie A can qualify for the Toto Cup. Through the Toto Cup, they can qualify for the UEFA Cup. To achieve the goal of “saving the country through curves”.

So this will definitely be a collision where no one will give way.

However, from an analysis of strength, everyone is generally optimistic about AC Milan playing away games.

At that time, AC Milan put together the strongest lineup they could. Inzaghi, Kaká, Seedorf, Pirlo, Ambrosini, Gattuso, Nesta... and other main players all played. .

The result was a shocking 3:1. The home team Naples gave AC Milan, who dreamed of participating in the Champions League next season, a head-on blow at their home court.

Moreover, Naples led by three goals until the 90th minute before AC Milan's Seedorf scored a goal, which somewhat saved the giant AC Milan some face.

Just because of the loss of this game, AC Milan went from leading to falling behind. Fiorentina defeated Parma 3:1 at home. While sending Parma into the relegation zone, they also ranked themselves fourth in the league.

In the last round of the league, even though AC Milan swept Udinese 4:1 at their home court, it was of no avail.

Fiorentina defeated Turin 1:0 in an away game and took away the tickets for the Champions League play-offs. AC Milan can only unfortunately participate in the UEFA Cup next season.

That's why Hamsik said that they have a grudge against AC Milan.

In that game, it was Hamsik who opened the scoring for the team and opened the door to victory.

To say that AC Milan is indifferent to this defeat would be a lie. A failure cost AC Milan at least 7.1 million euros in financial losses. This is not a small sum for AC Milan, whose boss is becoming more and more stingy about investment.

In the first half of this season, AC Milan defeated Naples 1:0 at their home court.

But how could a game avenge such a tragic defeat? What's more, the victory in this game was brought by the opponent's players - the goal that caused Naples to lose the game was their own own goal, which means that AC Milan did not take revenge personally.

AC Milan not only has to double beat Naples this season, but also has to win an undisputed victory, so that they can get rid of the bad breath in their hearts.

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Chen Yingxiong stood on the court and the game was about to begin. Opposite him were the AC Milan players, and he didn't find Kaka inside. This made him somewhat regretful.

He had already seen how powerful Kaka was when the two sides fought against each other for the first time. He originally wanted to compete with such a master in this game, but he never expected that Kaká would sit on the bench in this game...

Although Kaka is not scheduled to start, AC Milan's lineup is strong enough. Pato and Inzaghi partnered up front, with Seedorf, Pirlo, Flamini and Beckham in the midfield, and Gianluca Zambrotta, Favalli, Maldini and Kaladze in the back. . Guarding the goal for the team is former Brazil national goalkeeper Dida.

In addition to Kaka, there are also masters like Shevchenko and Ronaldinho sitting on the bench. But in terms of lineup strength, AC Milan is indeed much better than Naples. The only player in Naples who can compete with the opponent for fame may be Arshavin.

Of course, when it comes to competing for alternative popularity, Chen Yingxiong alone can completely overwhelm the superstars of AC Milan. All you need to do is ask, and AC Milan's superstars will have to bow down - "Can you cause riots in the entire city and be on the front pages of all Italian media with just one sentence?"

In the last match, AC Milan had the most intuitive understanding of Chen Yingxiong for the first time. But Chen Yingxiong's condition was not very good that time. The entire Naples team was in a very sluggish state that time, and Hamsik was also absent. The team eventually lost the game because of an own goal.

This is why AC Milan was very dissatisfied with the victory in that game - because they did not defeat Naples, the strongest team.

Now, they have a chance to fulfill their wish. Naples is in really good shape right now, and Chen Yingxiong is also in great shape.

Although there was no goal scored in the last round of the league, everyone knows that it is just adjusting the state, in order to leave the hottest state to AC Milan. Anyway, he didn't score in the game against Reggina, and the team also won 3:1, so he didn't need to add icing on the cake.

On the contrary, he did not score a goal in the game against Juventus. Then he scored twice against Lazio, which is worth reference...

But AC Milan also had their troubles in this game-Nesta and Senderos were injured, so Ancelotti only used Maldini and Kaladze to defend Chen Yingxiong.

These two people are seventy-one years old together. It may not be that easy to guard against the young and strong Chen Yingxiong...