Pre-match press conference.

AC Milan coach Leonardo looked very elegant, sitting in front of many reporters with a smile on his face.

However, in fact, he was not as relaxed as it seemed on the surface. Although he was confident of winning the game, there was still one game on the weekend that was concerned about him.

Currently, AC Milan is in the second position after the 25th round of the Serie A League, and the first one is of course Inter Milan, with only two points in the points gap between the two teams.

Coincidentally, just in the 26th round of the league on the weekend, they will challenge the league No. 1 Inter Milan on this same stadium.

This is also the Milan City Derby that will attract the attention of the whole world.

Similarly, Inter Milan's schedule is actually more difficult, and they are going to play Stamford Bridge away.

"We don't have time to consider the Milan derby on the weekend. I'm now focusing on the Champions League knockout round. Let's consider it after this game." The reporters at the scene will naturally pay great attention to the Milan derby on the weekend, but Leonardo regards the Donetsk miners as their strong rival.

After the Champions League draw, he began to study this team from Ukraine.

After watching several games with the Donetsk Miners, Leonardo also found that it was not unreasonable for the Donetsk Miners to win the first place in the group.

This team has a lot of talented frontcourts and very strong offensive ability, so he didn't consider slipping because of the weekend's league derby.

In the Champions League, if you don’t give your all, you will definitely be killed.

In contrast to AC Milan's close schedule, the Donetsk miners have not started their league in Ukraine, so they only have the Champions League to play now.

This situation may not be a good thing. It seems that the physical fitness has been maintained, but the game state is difficult to continue.

In terms of schedule, both teams have some difficulties.

At the press conference, the reporters continued to ask the questions they wanted to ask.

"Mr. Leonardo, at the end of last year, Pato of the team just won the Golden Boy Award, and one of his opponents was Xu Qi of the Donetsk Miners. However, in the Champions League, Xu Qi scored six goals and tied for the top scorer list with Ronaldo. Do you think the Italian media's judgment is unfair?" The reporter asked this question comes from the British Daily Mail. They came to interview a game that has nothing to do with the English team, so they naturally wanted to cause some trouble for Leonardo.

However, Leonardo said that you should ask Milan Sports News for this question. In his opinion, Xu Qi and Pato are both excellent young players, and they all have great futures.

"Competition is something the media likes to do, and the player's task is to win games."

Leonardo had something in his words, and his meaning seemed to be that as long as Milan won, it means that Pato was stronger than Xu Qi.

After the press conference in AC Milan ends.

The media waited for Lucescu and Xu Qi again.

This time, Lucescu brought Xu Qi to the press conference specifically. Obviously, he felt that Xu Qi had a very strong say in the team, and he was very steady and knew what to say and what not to say.

At the beginning of the press conference, Lucescu and Xu Qi both praised AC Milan with questions from reporters.

After all, this is AC Milan's home court, and the opponent is indeed a team with very high achievements in the Champions League.

They have seven Champions League titles, which is an amazing result.

The seven-time Champions League championship result is second only to Real Madrid's nine times, but Real Madrid won five consecutive championships in the early stages of the Champions League, so there is still some debate on which of the two teams achieved the highest level in the Champions League.

However, after complimenting the opponent, Lucescu and Xu Qi unanimously stated that although it was a away game, they hoped to take away the victory.

Their goal is not to win away goals or score away goals. They clearly informed the reporters that they would win a away game.

However, whether they will do this on the court or whether they can do it is what the reporters are going to discuss.

At the same time, the opponents in AC Milan this time include Pato, Ronaldinho and Thiago Silva, all participated in the 2008 Beijing Olympics and fought with Xu Qi in the group stage.

Of course, Xu Qi was very impressed by these three people. At that time, Thiago Silva was still playing football in Brazil, and Xu Qi was relatively not familiar with him.

But on the court, Xu Qi knew that Thiago Silva had very strong defensive ability.

Of course, there are more than these three opponents in this game, and the opponent's players are very famous.

Regarding the Golden Boy Award, the reporter naturally did not let Xu Qi go, after all, Xu Qi was still sitting here to attend the press conference.

Xu Qi was naturally not fooled, and directly stated that he didn't care about that, he only cared about the next game.

He has been looking forward to the game against AC Milan for more than two months.

Now, it's finally about to begin.

Rome time on the 23rd is 20:45, which is 03:45 on the 24th Beijing time.

The highly anticipated first leg of the Champions League quarterfinals finally started.

Both sides have indeed sent out the strongest lineups they can send, and they are bound to win this battle.

For AC Milan, Dida is the starting goalkeeper, and Abiati can only sit on the bench due to previous injuries.

In the back line, Antonini and Bonela are separated from each other, while the central defender is the partner of Nesta and Thiago Silva.

In the midfield, Ambrosini and Pirlo were slightly behind, while Beckham was on the right, Ronaldinho played as the front midfielder, and Hunterlaal and Pato were the partner of the forward line.

In addition to the star-shining starter, there are also Abiati, Gattuso, Abhat, Favali, Framini, Inzaghi and Seedov, the number nine and the number ten.

The Donetsk miners start with goalkeeper Piatov.

The defense line is as always Serner, Kuchel, Rakitsky and Rat.

Midfielders Fernantinho, Hubuschman, Xu Qi, Judson, William.

On the front line is Adriano.

Douglas Costa appeared on the bench, after all, his opponent was AC Milan, and there were too many masters in their formation.

Whether it is Pirlo, Ronaldo or Seedorf on the bench, they all have strong creativity. Lucescu is really uneasy to not be able to play with the double midfielder.

The starting roster was released. After the players from both sides made their last mobilization in the locker room, they finally walked out of the locker room and entered the player channel of San Siro.

Xu Qi finally stepped onto this world-famous stadium for the first time.

The stadium was originally named San Siro, and it is also the holy place for AC Milan fans. At the same time, the stadium is also the home stadium of Inter Milan.

Later, the stadium was officially named Meaccha Stadium, which was also to commemorate the famous Italian player Giuseppe Meaccha in the 1940s.

The opening overture of the Champions League finally remembered that people's minds were also moved, and the surging feeling in their hearts finally arises.
Chapter completed!