After a short break at the hotel in the morning, at 3 o'clock in the afternoon, Manchester United took a bus to the Meazza Stadium to acclimatize to the venue.

At the moment, the atmosphere of the tournament is already very strong, the road is full of souvenir vendors and nera wearing blue and black jerseys, and there are many Manchester United fans wearing red jerseys, but compared to Inter fans, it is like an oasis in the desert.

Gao Xiaodong looked at the familiar scenes outside the window, his mood was very complicated, he didn't know how many times he walked this road, it can be regarded as his road of honor, every time he went to Meacha, there were fans to send him off, and when he came back from victory, there were more fans to greet him.

But now, the fans are still the same, and there are many wearing the number 10 blue and black jersey, but I don't know whose fans it is.

Knowing that Manchester United's players have to adapt to the venue, there are already many Manchester United fans who came to Milan in advance in the stands of Meazza, and there are also many local Chinese fans, some of them are wearing Inter shirts, some are wearing Manchester United jerseys, but without exception they are all No. 10 shirts.

Seeing Gao Xiaodong's appearance, the stands cheered.

"Hello, Xiaodong!"

"See me!

"Welcome back!"

"Don't show mercy. ”

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Seeing that some Inter fans are also so enthusiastic about Gao Xiaodong, Rooney smiled: "Gao, if you play well in tomorrow's game, will there be Inter fans who will support us?"

Gao Xiaodong said: "You think too much, Inter fans will not defect even if they quit, do you watch the game too easily, no matter how bad Inter Milan is, it is also the treble of last season." ”

Wayne Rooney: "Last season without you, the Champions League would have been Manchester United. ”

When Ferguson heard this, he reprimanded: "Don't talk nonsense, did Inter win the championship by one person? ”

The old man was not happy, Rooney didn't dare to say any more, packed up his equipment and prepared for training.

An adaptive training with fans in the stands, journalists, and maybe even Scouts from Inter Milan, Ferguson certainly doesn't really train tactics, just simple running laps, passing the ball, and practicing shooting is over.

Back at the hotel, take a shower and eat, and then watch the four matches of the first match day of the round of 16 knockout round of 16 together in the studio.

The Champions League, the most technically and tactically advanced competition in the world, leads the development of world football to a certain extent, and even if there are no potential opponents of Manchester United in the other four games, it is worth watching.

As a team aiming to win the title, Manchester United will surely watch another big game against Arsenal at home to Barcelona.

Among the Champions League powers, Barcelona, Real Madrid, Inter Milan, Bayern, and Chelsea can compete with Manchester United.

The game was exciting and intense, with Barcelona scoring a goal from Villa and Arsenal scoring twice in five minutes to beat Barcelona 2-1 at home.

However, because Barcelona scored a goal away from home, with Barcelona's strength and Arsenal's defensive ability, the hope of advancing at Camp Nou is no more than fifty percent.

Arsenal is inferior to Barcelona, and the bookmakers are not optimistic about Arsenal winning before the game, but football matches are like this, strong teams do not necessarily win, and weak teams do not necessarily lose.

Luck and form are sometimes more important than strength.

After watching the game, the players were discussing enthusiastically, substituting Manchester United into the position of Arsenal or Barcelona, speculating on the outcome of the game.

After Ferguson and other players discussed for a while, he said seriously: "See no, this is the Champions League, don't think Inter Milan is not in good shape, the new coach has just taken office and is young and easy to play, the game is not over, no one dares to say that it is a stable victory, just like when we played Bayern in the Champions League final, Milan played Liverpool in 05, and we played a penalty shootout with Chelsea in 08, so if we want to complete revenge in Meazza, we must go all out and be careful." ”

Hearing Ferguson mention the old yellow calendar again, many old players of Manchester United secretly laughed in their hearts, these allusions, the old man doesn't know how many times he said it, and the new players are a little tired of hearing it, but they only dare to laugh in their hearts, no one dares to show it, and the nickname of the old man's hair dryer is not called casually.

When Manchester United players watched the Champions League game, Inter Milan players also watched it, and they also watched Arsenal and Barcelona.

Manchester United is aiming for the title, Inter Milan also has the title of defending the Champions League as their first goal, and Serie A has won five consecutive titles, but it is not so concerned.

After the Arsenal-Barcelona match, Leonardo felt it was a good time to boost the morale and confidence of his players.

"The game is very exciting, everyone has seen it, the Cosmos team Barcelona is not invincible, last season, Inter eliminated Barcelona with defense, and now Arsenal beat Barcelona with attack, no one is invincible, don't look at Manchester United unbeaten in the league and the Champions League for 33 games, but we are the defending champions, Meazza is our turf, no team can easily get points here......"

Leonardo has just taken office, and before he coached Inter Milan's sworn enemy AC Milan, in addition to the Brazilian gang led by Lucio, Inter's other bigwigs were not convinced by him, listening to Leonardo say this, Inter Milan's players secretly sneered, and said in their hearts, Meazza's undefeated glory is Mourinho's, Benitez can't hold it, can you keep it?

Leonardo said confidently: "Gao Xiaodong is very versatile, but after all, he is only one person, and he can't be used by two people, don't worry, we have prepared a way to deal with Gao Xiaodong, Gao Xiaodong's goals alone account for half of Manchester United, as long as we freeze Gao Xiaodong, Manchester United will not be afraid." ”

The old players of Inter Milan were speechless, and said in their hearts, you led AC Milan to be played by Gao Xiaodong by the largest score in history, and Gao Xiaodong also scored a hat trick, why didn't you have a way to deal with Gao Xiaodong at that time, and now you have to come up with a way to Inter, Gao Xiaodong is really so good at freezing, and he won't score so many goals in the Premier League.

Captain Zanetti coughed and said: "Manchester United has always played as a whole, Scholes, Ryan Giggs are old, Berbatov and Rooney also have the ability to decide the game, we can't just think about Gao Xiaodong." ”

Lucio, of course, spoke for his compatriots, saying, "Berbatov is slow, Rooney is skilled, they don't pose a threat." ”

"Ferguson is an old fox, the formation is eclectic, the coach should be careful. ”

Leonardo said: "Don't worry, I have studied Ferguson for a long time, and I have designed a lot of plans for this game, I believe that Ferguson's tactical arrangement cannot be compared with my calculations, in terms of tactics alone, the English coach cannot be compared with the Italian coach." ”

In order to encourage the players who have been demoralized recently, Leonardo deliberately said it very easily, but the more relaxed he said, the more the Inter bigwigs felt that the coach invited by Daddy Mo was unreliable, and they all felt that if Mourinho said this, it would still have a certain degree of convincing, after all, Mourinho is a famous coach who can be compared with Ferguson, but what does Leonardo have, he dares not to take Ferguson to heart, I really don't know how "death" is written.

Leonardo didn't continue to talk when he saw that the response from everyone other than the Brazilian players was not enthusiastic, and he left the coaching staff to discuss tactics and let the players go home to rest.