After signing with AC Milan, I will be the king of football!

”Bastard!!!”

Kaka was the fastest to charge up.

The other Milan players also reacted quickly.

The Villarreal players were a half-beat slower, Riquelme was already surrounded by the Milan players.

”The Milan players are agitated, but they still managed to restrain themselves, and both teams confronted each other at midfield.”

”Riquelme shouldn’t have committed that retaliatory foul,”

”Huang Kaiwen’s foul was aimed at the ball, and it was a foul in the offensive field, the referee made his decision, Riquelme got a red card!”

”There’s no doubt about the red card, the push from Riquelme that hit Huang Kaiwen’s face, so there’s no question about the red card.”

”Down to ten men now, Villarreal is going to have a tough game.”

Huang Kaiwen got up with the help of Pirlo’s hand.

The stadium erupted into boos and curses.

Huang Kaiwen simply waved at the stands, further stirring up the emotions of the Villarreal fans.

These fans are quite interesting.

Senna was guarding him closely, they didn’t talk.

He, Huang Kai, just pressed Riquelme without any provocation, just a normal press, and Riquelme turned to shield the ball and got hit, retaliated, and got booked, and you can’t take it?

If only today’s ”experience card” weren’t slightly off.

Huang Kaiwen really wanted to show them what provocative dribbling is in their own stadium.

But the straight red was indeed an unexpected gift.

Riquelme is truly strong.

He has the dribbling, the physicality, and importantly, his own scoring ability is also very strong, he can pass and shoot well.

With Riquelme off the field, you could say the difficulty of this match just halved.

Ancelotti looked serious from the sidelines.

If you looked closely, you could see his lips curve upwards.

This duel between the Divine Artist and the Engineer, in the end, he had the last laugh.

Pellegrini has a civil engineering certificate.

Thus, he is known as the Engineer.

Pellegrini, the engineer with many ideas, consoled Riquelme briefly, then started to get a headache looking at the field.

The team’s offensive and defensive core had been sent off.

He didn’t even know how to adjust.

In the tactics Pellegrini built at Villarreal, the central route is very important, but the flanks are equally crucial.

Early on, those teams that relied on star players would experience a dip in performance if the big names were off form.

Pellegrini still learned some lessons.

In Villarreal, he constructed tactics with rich layers.

Sorin and Senna not only had defensive duties; on the offensive end, they also contributed, along with two full-backs pushing up to assist, which could form a midfield numerical advantage to create a dimensional attack.

Defensively, with Senna, Sorin, and the holding midfielder Josico, they built a tactically balanced team.

But Riquelme’s individual skills are not to be underestimated.

Riquelme could attract the defense with his own dribbling, his passes had great creativity, and he could shoot on his own during critical moments. His absence is indeed substantial, and even if Pellegrini didn’t want to rely on star players, he couldn’t deny that Riquelme was a crucial part of the team.

After agonizing for a while,

Pellegrini had made a decision.

Defense!

To hold onto the aggregate lead.

The match was 30 minutes in.

Pellegrini took the opportunity to call Senna to the sidelines.

He instructed them to start pulling back.

As long as they could hold on to the 2:1 aggregate score, they could still advance to the final.

If the defensive tactics worked,

they could yield good results.

The Villarreal defenders commanded a large area.

Riquelme didn’t really participate much in defense,

so his absence didn’t much impact the defense.

After Villarreal pulled back,

Milan’s formation pressed forward, besieging Villarreal’s goal.

Huang Kaiwen noticed while moving around in the offensive field that the opponent’s formation was loose on the outside and tight on the inside, centralizing their defense in front of the large box.

Milan, however, couldn’t find any good opportunities.

Most of the time, they resorted to long shots from outside the box.

There were 4 minutes of stoppage time in the first half.

In the 47th minute, Kaka took a long shot from outside the box, which was blocked by Alvarez.

Villarreal launched a quick counterattack.

With most of Milan’s players attacking in the opposing half, Villarreal’s counter faced little resistance.

Gattuso fouled intentionally in midfield,

trying to disrupt the opponent’s counterattack.

Sorin had already passed the ball before being brought down; the referee, adhering to the advantage rule, did not whistle.

Senna advanced with the ball down the right flank.

Huang Kaiwen and Maldini had already chased back to the midfield.

Even though [Van de Beek]’s pace was just average, Huang Kaiwen ran faster than the frequently injured Maldini.

On Villarreal’s side, Senna made an arcing pass with one kick.

Fran intentionally hesitated to let the ball roll in front of him to the left flank to find Franco.

”You press him; I’ll watch them,”

Stam gritted his teeth and yelled.

Having three against two in the backfield was dangerous.

Now they were outnumbered two to three.

In this situation, they couldn’t delay; they had to be decisive.

Cafu charged forward and kicked at the ball.

Franco dodged with the ball, and when Cafu kicked again, Franco dribbled towards the box.

Dida had positioned himself against Franco, ready to save at the first opportunity.

Franco suddenly performed a lob pass, and the ball flew quickly toward the right side within the large box.

Dida turned in horror, only to see Senna had already reached the right side of the large box and was about to kick.

The next second, Dida’s eyes widened.

Rushing into the box, Huang Kaiwen, fearing he couldn’t keep up, leapt sideways in the small box to block the poke shot.

After hitting Huang Kaiwen, the ball still flew toward the goal.

As it looked about to cross the line along with Huang Kaiwen,

Huang Kaiwen, falling toward the goal, swung his leg for a bicycle kick at the goal line, dramatically clearing the ball over the crossbar.