Football: Starting from the 05 World Youth Championship

Chapter 321 Inter Milan's Dual Core System

“Goal!!!”

"Ronaldo! With an incredible goal, he once again proved that he is still one of the best forwards on the planet!"

"Injuries may affect him, but they will never defeat him!"

"Inter Milan's former player staged a counterattack, and AC Milan, playing away, unexpectedly took the lead!"

The commentators of foreign TV stations were very excited after seeing Ronaldo use his signature pendulum dribbling move to break through and score a goal.

This is not only because many of them are fans of Ronaldo, but also because seeing the alien score such a wonderful goal in the game again awakened many good memories for them.

It is also because of Ronaldo’s identity - he used to be an Inter Milan player!

Except for Inter Milan fans, everyone else likes to watch this kind of drama of turning against the former club!
What's even better is that Ronaldo's goal is likely to muddy the waters in Serie A and give Inter Milan's pursuers hope again.

"Oops, there was a mistake in the coordination between Inter Milan's two central defenders. When Samuel went up to steal the ball, Barzagli should have been protecting and supporting him from behind, but the two obviously didn't think of doing it together. This is a problem of lack of tacit understanding!"

Zhang Lu did not feel embarrassed or ashamed because of being slapped in the face, and continued to analyze seriously.

However, to many fans, this seemed to be his excuse to clear himself.

"Teacher Zhang, please stop explaining. Explanation is covering up, and covering up is a disguised admission of the facts!"

"Haha, I love seeing Coach Zhang get slapped in the face!"

"To be honest, I don't think it's Mr. Zhang's fault. After all, the alien's goal was really beautiful. If someone else had come in, it might not have been possible!"

In a luxurious box, Inter Milan owner Moratti had a very complicated expression on his face when he saw Ronaldo score a goal.

The aliens were once his favorite and most admired player.

Back then, he spared no expense and provided the best treatment to bring Ronaldo to the Meazza, and he placed extremely high expectations on Ronaldo.

However, things did not go as planned. Due to injuries and various reasons, Ronaldo's experience at Inter Milan was not successful, and he was not able to lead Inter Milan to a revival as he had expected.

But when Ronaldo transferred to Real Madrid, he left Inter Milan a considerable transfer fee, so it can be considered a peaceful breakup!

When Real Madrid wanted to get rid of Ronaldo last summer, the alien asked his agent to contact Inter Milan, trying to return to the team he once played for.

However, after careful consideration, Moratti declined the offer.

Unexpectedly, Ronaldo went to AC Milan in anger, which completely deteriorated the relationship between the two sides.

Although players are free to decide how to transfer, there are many invisible rules in football.

Once you are labeled as a team, you need to think carefully before transferring to another rival team.

For example, Figo, who moved from Barcelona to Real Madrid, was thrown a pig's head by Barcelona's extreme fans during the game.

The relationship between Inter Milan and AC Milan is not as bad as that between Barcelona and Real Madrid, but it is definitely not good either.

If the relationship between the two teams was really so harmonious, there wouldn't be such a hot Milan derby!

Fans may not care too much about the transfer of ordinary players.

But for a player like Ronaldo who has status, position and great influence, the fans' tolerance is relatively low.

When Inter Milan's legendary striker Vieri transferred to AC Milan two years ago, it caused dissatisfaction among Inter Milan fans.

Although Ronaldo did not transfer directly from Inter Milan to AC Milan, he still has the Inter Milan label and is regarded as one of the legends of their team by Inter Milan fans.

Such a player transferred to the team of the same city's arch-rival and scored a goal against his former club.

This made Moratti and the majority of Inter Milan fans feel complicated. They just hope that the team can score a goal as soon as possible to get rid of this complicated and uncomfortable mood!
The ball was lost shortly after the start of the game, which caught Mancini a little off guard.

But fortunately, he warned the players before the game not to be impatient, to keep calm and play slowly.

The Milan derby is never calm, so don’t be surprised by anything that happens!
Losing a goal is nothing. The last time these two teams met, AC Milan scored three goals against them!
So what? Didn’t Inter Milan win in the end?
So after the game resumed, Inter Milan did not launch a desperate and crazy attack.

Instead, he continued to kick at his own pace, leisurely, as if the goal just now did not exist at all.

From a mentality point of view, Inter Milan certainly wants to win this game in order to consolidate its leading position in Serie A.

However, due to the huge lead, Inter Milan players are very confident and know that they have huge room for error, so they are not in a hurry.

After taking the lead, AC Milan subconsciously contracted their formation in preparation for the opponent's crazy counterattack.

However, the expected counterattack did not occur. Inter Milan only tried several times from the flanks and did not invest too much manpower in the frontcourt to launch a large-scale attack on them.

On the contrary, Inter Milan has been accumulating troops in the middle, trying to seize the dominance of the midfield.

Today AC Milan played in a 4-4-1-1 formation. Ancelotti placed Ambrosini next to Pirlo, and the two acted as double defensive midfielders.

In addition, Kaka often retreats to participate in defense, which makes Milan accumulate a large number of troops in the midfield, sometimes there are three or four, and sometimes there are five or six.

Looking around, it seemed that most of the players from both sides were gathered in the midfield.

However, Inter's formation is very flexible. Once they really attack the frontcourt, Zanetti and Stankovic will immediately change positions, one appears on the right and the other on the left, together with Maicon and Grosso who come up to assist, further magnifying the advantage of the wing.

As for Beckham, after Zanetti attacked, he had to move inside to the middle and act as a defensive midfielder, using his broad vision and accurate long passes to choose the side of the opponent's weak defense to launch an attack.

At the beginning, no one in AC Milan, including Ancelotti, saw anything special about Inter Milan's approach.

But as they fought, they realized something was wrong.

Didn’t Inter Milan have a large number of troops stationed in the middle?
Why does it feel like the pressure on the wing is so great?

Because Cruz has a great height advantage, Inter Milan's two wingers made crazy crosses from the bottom today, which hit him on the head with a bang.

Although Cruz has not scored a goal yet, AC Milan can no longer sit still as they see his success rate in headers getting higher and higher and his headers getting more and more accurate.

We must strengthen the defense on the flanks and not give the opponent the opportunity to cross the ball so easily.

But once they sent troops to strengthen the defense on the wing, the center immediately faced a defensive emergency. This made Ancelotti unable to sit still:
With the same eleven players, how did the opponent manage to be so threatening both on the flanks and in the middle?
This question is not difficult to guess. With Ancelotti's level, he quickly found the clue!
It turns out that Inter Milan played with two cores in the midfield today.

The core of the frontcourt is naturally Lin Feng. As for the core of the backcourt, he initially thought it was Vieira who often advanced to participate in the attack. Later, after a careful look, he felt something was wrong. It should be Shellham who has fewer touches of the ball but a very high pass success rate, and most of his passes are accurate long passes!
The division of labor between the two was very clear, with Beckham using the safer space in the backcourt to fully observe and initiate attacks.

After the ball was transferred to the frontcourt, Inter Milan chose different offensive strategies based on the opponent's response.

If the opponent's defense on the wing is not strong enough, then cross the ball from the bottom.

If the opponent sends people to strengthen the wing defense, Lin Feng will step out to take over the ball, and use the gaps left by the opponent's personnel movement to assist his teammates in scoring with his expertise in passing.

At this time, Inter Milan's two wingers will suddenly advance from the flank area and catch AC Milan's defense off guard.

Using this method, Inter Milan quickly launched several extremely threatening attacks.

In the 22nd minute of the first half, after mobilizing the opponent's full-back's defense, Lin Feng made a diagonal pass to the left side of the penalty area. Torres broke into the penalty area and shot the ball, but the ball slipped past the goal.

A few minutes later, Beckham passed the ball to the right, and Maicon dribbled the ball to the bottom and made a cross.

Cruz in the penalty area passed the ball to Lin Feng who was making a forward run. Lin Feng chested the ball and then volleyed it from a small angle, but was blocked by Dida.

During this period, the situation on the field obviously began to become less favorable for AC Milan. Inter Milan's mobile offensive was very effective, and the offensive methods changed too quickly, and they were a little unable to keep up with the opponent's rhythm.

On the other hand, AC Milan did not fall into a disadvantage in the midfield and were still able to organize effective counterattacks.

But Inter Milan's defensive strategy was very targeted. They blocked Kaka in the frontcourt and kept a close eye on AC Milan's commander Pirlo in the backcourt.

As long as these two players are not given the opportunity to pass the ball, AC Milan's counterattack threat will be greatly reduced.

At the same time, Inter Milan players on the field returned to defense very quickly.

Once Inter Milan's formation was recovered, AC Milan, lacking a center forward, had no voice in the positional battle.

No matter how good Ronaldo is, he can't get past an entire line of defense by himself!

No matter how sharp Inzaghi's sense of smell is, he can't do anything if his teammates can't pass the ball to him!
"Overall, Inter Milan's defense is quite good. The previous goal was probably an accident!"

Zhang Lu breathed a sigh of relief when he saw that Inter Milan had stabilized the situation.

See, my previous comment was correct, it was really just an accident!

Although Barzagli did not start many times after transferring to Inter Milan.

But today his central defender combination with Samuel performed well, especially Barzagli.

He was in excellent form today, and his ability in positioning, assisting defense, and one-on-one defense were all outstanding.

In Zhang Lu's heart, he even felt that Barzagli was the best player on Inter Milan's side in the first half, even overshadowing Lin Feng.

The fans have eyes that are not blind and can naturally tell who performs well and who performs poorly.

So at this time, the majority of fans gradually agreed with his statement, and began to feel that Inter Milan's defense today was really something.

It seems that AC Milan has no solution in positional warfare, and they still have to rely on mobile warfare if they want to score goals.

On the other hand, Inter Milan's attack, whether it was positional warfare or mobile warfare, was very effective.

And the game is getting more and more frightening. If they were AC Milan fans, they would probably be unable to sit still now!
If they keep playing like this, it’s only a matter of time before Inter Milan scores!

However, unlike the outstanding performance of the defense, Inter Milan's forward line's performance today was not actually outstanding.

Cruz had the height advantage but was unable to score a goal.

Torres had already completed three shots, but not a single one of them hit the goal frame.

This is obviously not the true level of the two players, and both are suspected of performing poorly.

It's normal for Cruz's condition to decline because he hasn't played a game for a long time.

As for Torres, he looked very tired.

It seems that he has not fully recovered from the intense exhaustion of the Champions League?

I wonder if Mancini will make substitutions during the half-time break?

Mancini was also thinking about this problem, but he was not thinking about changing the striker, but simply pushing Lin Feng up, letting him play as a shadow striker and giving him more firing rights!

If Totti can play like that in Roma, it’s not impossible for Inter Milan to copy the opponent’s tactics.

Anyway, Mancini has always been open to all kinds of advanced things worth learning and drawing lessons from. Anyway, he doesn't think of himself as a master who has founded a school of thought and has to create his own unique set of tactics and playing style.

As a 'new' coach, it's understandable to learn the ideas of other famous coaches!
Torres seemed to realize that his condition today was not very good, so he quickly adjusted his tactics.

Since I have no shooting condition at all, I might as well not shoot and instead assist my teammates!

In the 38th minute of the first half, Inter Milan's attack hit the left.

After Torres received the pass from his teammate in the penalty area, he did not choose to shoot himself.

Instead, he knocked the ball across the middle of the penalty area, a choice that was beyond the expectations of Milan's defenders.

They were all prepared to block Torres' shot, but unexpectedly the opponent didn't shoot!

Maldini blocked Cruz's position tightly, not giving the opponent any chance to get the ball, and goalkeeper Dida also chose to stand close to Cruz's side.

Almost all Milan players in the penalty area thought that Torres passed the ball to another Inter striker!

However, Torres did not pass the ball to Cruz, but to his teammate in the middle!

I saw a blue figure passing the defender and suddenly rushing in from outside the penalty area. Before the defender could destroy the ball, he fell to the ground and shot the ball into the goal of AC Milan!
After more than twenty minutes of unremitting efforts, Inter Milan finally equalized the score before the end of the first half.

The player who scored for them was Inter Milan’s number eight player - Lin Feng!
Inter Milan fans, who have been holding back for dozens of minutes, can finally shout out loud and freely at this moment!

(End of this chapter)