Chapter 601: Three Consecutive Flats
The Champions League clash against Chelsea had a big impact on Inter Milan. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info
After this game, the physical consumption of Inter Milan players was serious, and after the big game, the spirit was suddenly relaxed, coupled with the old age of goalkeeper Toldo, the weekend away game against Udinese, Inter Milan performed very poorly, and finally barely relied on the goals of Pandev and Gao Xiaodong, and forced a 2:2 draw with the black chicken.
After this game, the energetic Roma team quietly caught up, and they were only eight points away from Inter Milan, and the suspense of the league title was raised again.
However, in the scorer list, Gao Xiaodong scored 21 goals, 3 goals ahead of the second place Milito, and continued to expand his advantage.
After this battle, the national team competition opened, although it was only a warm-up game, but in order to prepare for the World Cup in South Africa, the major national teams were very serious, and the national team players of the major clubs did not dare to be absent in order to be able to play in the Summer World Cup, let alone slack off.
Inter Milan's first and second team combined have 13 internationals returning to China to participate in the game, and Gao Xiaodong, who is the most famous and popular, is the only player in Inter Milan's main squad who does not have a national team match task.
Gao Xiaodong is still not a member of the national team, of course, this is not Gao Xiaodong's strength is not enough, now Gao Xiaodong is a star on the same level as Park Ji-sung in Asia, and he is still too strong in terms of strength and popularity, but he lacks a Champions League title than Park Ji-sung.
Gao Xiaodong failed to be selected for the national team, mainly because now China's domestic football is carrying out a vigorous anti-counterfeiting and anti-crime special operation, the two chairman and two vice chairmen have been arrested, the former chairman has been investigated, more than a dozen senior officials of the Football Association, football bosses, several well-known referees, including the Huaguo Golden Whistle Army, seven or eight international players, including the heroes who entered the 02 World Cup, have all been arrested, and even the national team head coach Gao Bo is also being investigated。
There is no need to participate in the national team competition, which is a good thing for Gao Xiaodong and Inter Milan, Inter Milan is now tense, Gao Xiaodong avoids the FIFA virus and keeps his fitness, and Inter Milan's midweek league is guaranteed, and Gao Xiaodong, who is popular and has rising commercial value, does not need to wade into the troubled waters of domestic football at this time, which is not a good thing.
After returning from the national team game, Inter Milan immediately faced the eighth-place Genoa at home, in this game, Inter Milan was in no state, and Gao Xiaodong alone was unable to support it, and was finally forced to draw 0:0 by Genoa.
It was also the first 0-0 score of the season for Inter Milan, but fortunately Roma and Milan drew in this round, and Inter Milan was able to maintain an eight-point lead.
The team has drawn two in a row, although it is because it is sandwiched between the Champions League and the national team match, but the impact on morale is not small, Inter Milan's senior management and coaching staff are racking their brains on how to play the league well, and at the same time prepare for the Champions League life and death match with Chelsea.
It turned out that after being forced to draw by Genoa, Balotelli, who was blocked by Mourinho, actually sang Milan's team song when he was interviewed by reporters, and also cheered for AC Milan in the battle with Roma on his Twitter, but soon Balotelli deleted the words of cheering.
This is like a stone that stirs up a thousand waves, Inter Milan fans have accused Balotelli, and Inter Milan players also think that Balotelli's actions at this time are tantamount to betrayal.
On the eve of the Chelsea game, Balotelli was so annoyed that Moratti, the president of Inter Milan, told reporters, "This [singing the Milan anthem, cheering for Milan] is intolerable, Mario has to get back on the right track, it's dangerous for him to do so." ”
How to get back on track, how to avoid danger? In fact, Moratti wants Balotelli to apologize and get his attitude right. Moratti still has a high regard for Balotelli and Thornton, and hopes to give Balotelli a chance to make amends.
But when Balotelli did it at the crucial moment of the team's sprint, Mourinho's attitude was very harsh, saying: "If Balotelli can't make fundamental changes, Inter Milan will no longer have his place." ”
Seeing that things were a bit big, then Balotelli's brother and agent Corrado explained: This is the reporter misleading Ba Shen to sing AC Milan's team song, as for cheering for Milan on Twitter, it is because Milan has fewer points than Roma, and Balotelli is actually cheering for Inter Milan on the side.
However, Corrado's words were not too convincing, and he was not able to get forgiveness from the fans and Mourinho, on the forum, some racist Inter Milan fans began to attack Balotelli frantically, thinking that Balotelli is a black sheep, a rotten apple, rat, Inter Milan is not short of people in the front line now, and Mourinho should immediately throw Balotelli to the reserve team.
When Balotelli was about to change agents, Gao Xiaodong and his team were also ready to get Balotelli to their own agency, but after this incident, Gao Xiaodong and others also retreated, it is not easy to wipe the ass for a brainless man like Balotelli, not to mention their influence and power, even Raiola and Mendes are estimated to be useless, who knows what Balotelli can do in the future.
Moratti does not want such a situation to occur, in his mind, Balotelli and Thornton are the future of Inter Milan, Mourinho is the present of Inter Milan, he still hopes that Balotelli can continue to play for the team, especially in the sprint stage of the season, so Moratti and technical manager Blanca personally mediated between Balotelli and Mourinho, but in the face of the two protagonists who are extremely stubborn, Moratti's mediation did not work.
Jose Mourinho still excluded Balotelli from the 18-man squad for the weekend's game against Catania, the last game before the midweek clash with Chelsea, Inter Milan have been winless lately, there is still a lot of off-field news, and they have to save for the Champions Cup in midweek, the game played very badly, and finally relied on an own goal to draw 1-1 with Catania.
After the game, Mourinho admitted that the best team did not win the game, and Catania should get three points, but Mourinho said that Inter Milan must not perform like the league in the Champions League, otherwise Inter Milan may waste the first leg Gao Xiaodong's efforts.
Compared to Inter Milan, Chelsea's form in the last three games has been much better, although after the Champions League game against Inter Milan, Chelsea did not recover from returning to the league, losing 2-4 to Manchester City. But then Chelsea swept Portsmouth 5-0 and beat the axe 4-1 to help West Ham United, and the attack was very scary.
However, to the Chelsea side's headache, their backup left-back Zhirkov is back, but the substitute goalkeeper Hilario is injured again, and Chelsea can only field their third goalkeeper, 24-year-old Turnbull, in the big game with Inter Milan.
In the first leg, Inter Milan was injured in one and sent off in the second, 20-year-old Gao Xiaodong made a cameo appearance as goalkeeper to carry the whole game, and now Chelsea is also going to play his three, can the 24-year-old Turnbull keep a clean sheet against Inter Milan?