Giroud (left) and Tonali celebrate the victory.
With only four rounds of Serie A remaining, the championship suspense was further revealed this morning.
TOP AC Milan and Inter Milan, in a dialogue with Roma City, completed a double-header to lead 3rd napoli by 7 and 5 points respectively, basically allowing the Serie A champions to stay at Milan City for the second consecutive year.
In the past 10 years, the two males who can only rely on Juventus's sniffles have never raised their eyebrows so much, especially after many rounds of owners changing owners.
However, compared with the particularly bleak external performance of Serie A, Milan's "outside must be first inside", also has a little more helpless taste.
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Ibrahimovic, the fight is the elite
Who was the first contributor to the resurgence of the Rossoneri in three years? Ibrahimovic, who will turn 41 this fall, is undoubtedly the "man" who opened the turning point in Milan.
However, no matter how godly the "Divine Tower" is, it cannot resist the invasion of time. The Swedish centre-forward has made just 11 starts this season, averaging just 49 minutes per game, eight goals and three assists, the lowest point in the same period of the year since moving to Milan.
But despite injuries, Ibrahimovic's appearance has always turned decay into magic: the Swedes have scored in just four games in the second half of the league, against Roma, Inter Milan, Napoli and Lazio – "playing is elite".
The completion of the assist Tonali in the face of Lazio allowed him to surpass Totti and become the oldest assist in Serie A history.
Ibrahimovic assisted Tonali in the kill.
But given the annual salary and status, after wearing a red and black shirt to score 92 goals and deliver 35 assists, Ibrahimovic and Milan broke up peacefully this summer, and the two sides have tacitly agreed. Without the "self-contained system" of Ibrahimovic, Milan under Pioli picked up another magic weapon of the Rossoneri: chain defense.
A often overlooked fact is that despite the recent slowdown in Milan's momentum for points, from February 27 until the second leg of the Coppa Italia semi-finals lost to Inter, the team maintained seven games on all fronts without conceding a goal, and in the case of near exhaustion of offensive creativity, Milan, which can guarantee at least one point, tenaciously dragged out the entire month of April.
In the absence of Ibrahimovic, the teammates who have relied on the Swedes for several years to "technical poverty alleviation" have also completed the relay in the "passing help".
Giroud, who is only 5 years younger than Ibrahimovic, has become the team's top scorer; Leon, who has been criticized for being reckless and hairy since joining Milan, has finally cashed in on his physical endowment and technical potential; and even the inspirational Gomesiaz, who has been loaned from Crotone, can complete the output in time.
Unlike the "old people's home" that was highly dependent on visa-free veterans, Milan today has more potential in terms of personnel reserves: the main left-back Teo Hernandez is 24 years old, Calabria, who is already one of the captains, is 25 years old, Sal marquez, who is among the Belgium internationals, is 22 years old, the midfield core Tonelli is 21 years old, and Daniel Maldini is only 20 years old...
After beating Lazio, Milan, who scored 74 points, mathematically completely locked up the qualification for next season's Champions League. Just a year ago, Milan lost 3-0 at the Olimpico Stadium, and the Champions League qualification was in jeopardy, and only escaped from the Bergamo Stadium in the final round.
Nowadays, AC Milan, who has lifted the Big Ear Cup 7 times, finally no longer has a long night, playing in the Champions League with a second-gear or even a first-tier seeded team, avoiding the early exit of the group that is deeply involved in death this season, which is the "treatment" that Milan should have in European competition.
Strike later, blue and black?
Which team is in the best form in Europe in April? Fans will unthinkingly report the Premier League title races for Manchester City and Liverpool, but Inter Milan deserves a name.
Throughout April, Inzaghi Jr.'s side won five straight, sweeping away the obscurity of March's Champions League exit and Serie A draws. Considering that the opponents include Juventus, AC Milan and Roma, the actual gold content of the record is far above the score.
In the football world, the birth of new coaches often steps on the shoulders of old coaches. On Sunday, 3-1, Roma were beaten, with the 46-year-old Junior Super manager winning all three times this season against Jose Mourinho.
Before the Start of the Coppa Italia, the two talked for 45 minutes, which was almost tantamount to identifying with "Xiaoyin" as his own person, for Mourinho, who has far more enemies than friends.
Lautaro has played 3 consecutive games.
Relying only on the endorsement of his predecessors, it is obvious that he underestimated the ability of little Inzaghi to adjust.
Although Conte is left behind by the championship team, in the context of open source and throttling, the combat effectiveness of many positions of the Nerazzurri this season has dropped significantly compared with last season, and the production of the sharp knife Lautaro Martinez has dropped sharply, which has made the Nerazzurri extremely weak.
This also made Inter suffer the embarrassment of scoring only 7 points in 7 games, almost watching AC Milan reach the top.
The away win over Liverpool in the second leg of the Champions League quarter-finals, with the national derbilik Juventus, is an important turning point in inter's second half: the victory at Anfield, although there is no change in the team's fate, but the players see that sticking to themselves can also make the best teams in Europe helpless, and the confidence that was once lost in the first leg is gradually restored.
Winning the national derby not only basically shattered Juventus' dream of winning the championship, but also deterred other opponents. Di Carlo, deputy editor of The Milano Sport, made a figurative analogy: "The victory in the national derby is like a bottle of champagne, which completely releases Inter Milan in the previous seven games and 7 points." ”
Brozovic has scored in two consecutive games.
In the sprint stage of the league title race, Inter will collectively regain the confidence of the champion:
Brozovic, who has not scored in the whole season, has scored in two consecutive games in the last two games; Lautaro has achieved three consecutive games for the first time since November 2020, and the Argentine has also scored 20 goals of the season; Char khanoglu has made two cakes through sports battles and corner kicks, and the assists report card has reached double digits...
Unlike Milan, which has finished the April schedule, Inter still has to play a make-up match with Bologna, if the Nerazzurri continues the winning streak and surpasses their opponents in the same city by 1 point, the opponents in the closing schedule are weaker and have a greater chance of winning.
Of course, compared with the Serie A title battle, the final of the Coppa Italia and Juventus on May 11 is also an important goal for Inter.
Once the Nerazzurri win two consecutive civil war titles in May, the team will win all the top competitions in Italy this season, even at Mourinho's lonely Inter, who have not achieved this goal.
Little Inzaghi on the sidelines.
Only an acquisition can stop the two males?
After juventus' long nine-game winning streak, the Serie A landscape will enter an era of competition in the eyes of most people, but after only two seasons, the authority seems to have returned to Milan City.
However, the biggest uncertainty about the revival of Milan's duo may still be the change of owners of the team.
On the same day that AC Milan beat Genoa to return to the top of the list, the capitalist Elliott offered 1 billion euros to transfer the team to the Bahrain fund Investcorp, and for the Americans who are better at capital operation than team operation, they have been waiting for the high point to realize since taking over the market that year.
However, Investcorp is not an Abu Dhabi Development Group and Qatar Sovereign Fund, and for many years they have focused their business on government projects in the Middle East, and they are pure and pure rookies in the sports world.
The capital may give the fans a few surprises at the beginning of the ownership, but it is difficult to expect to burn money like Manchester City and Paris without blinking.
A similar situation occurred on the Inter side. Since the end of last year, the Nerazzurri, which is seeking sellers, has approached the Saudi fund PIF and the US consortium led by Strauss, but in the end they have not been able to reach an agreement due to differences in quotations.
With the approval of the construction plan for the new stadium by the Serie A federation and the city of Milan, Inter's operating space will be further tightened, with the issuance of bonds totaling 415 million euros, assessed as B+, which also means that the Nerazzurri is looking for more cash flow.
This also means that next season, the Milan duo will most likely not get more space financially because of the excellent performance of the league. After all, the objective reality of Serie A's loss of players over the years, as well as weak revenue streams, have limited the expansion of both teams.
Deep roots such as Juventus, but also after barely eating C Ronaldo quickly encountered regurgitation, still can not change the breath.
What's more, the strength of Milan is based on abandoning foreign wars and specializing in domestic research - looking at the entire Serie A, the three cups have played the quarter-finals, leaving only Roma in the lowest level of the European Cup, and even less than the Ligue 1 that has been at the bottom of the five major leagues for many years.
The domestic scenery is good, the foreign clouds are miserable, and the revival of Milan is certainly a long-lost event in Serie A, but compared with the giant group that was still sitting together 20 years ago, such progress is really too worrying. (Supine Braces/Yang Jian)
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