Chapter 666: Killing Tactics

The Coppa Italia winner is the smallest of the trophies to be contested, but that doesn't mean the game is easy to play.

Needless to say, Inter Milan is definitely stronger than Roma, but Roma also has an advantage, and this advantage is that they will play at home, and there will be nearly 70,000 Roma fans cheering for them, and Inter Milan has less than 30,000 fans.

If in previous seasons, a Coppa Italia final, there were only 50,000 fans watching the game, even if the top three in the north, Milan and Juventus reached the final, the number of people would not exceed 70,000.

But this time with the exception, this season's Roma and Inter Milan can be said to be the best Roma and Inter Milan since the phone gate, Inter Milan won the league title three rounds in advance with an unbeaten record, and reached the Coppa Italia and Champions League finals. Roma also reached the Coppa Italia final, only to lose the league from a poor start, with Ranieri unbeaten in 20 games after his arrival second only to Inter Milan.

With Roma losing the battle with Inter Milan for the league, the Coppa Italia final became a revenge battle for the Romans.

Strong dialogue, revenge battle, Inter Milan's treble dream, these have become the focus of fans' attention, it can be said that this game is the final battle and the pinnacle of Italian football, and it is normal to attract 100,000 fans to watch.

There are still more than two hours before the start of the game, and the fans have already begun to enter the stadium one after another.

Inter Milan fans and Roma fans are not fuel-efficient lamps, and riot police are on standby around the stadium and at the entrance to prevent fan disturbances, and there are twice as many security and riot police in the stadium as usual in the league.

Even if there are so many security guards and police, the fans on both sides are not honest, and the situation of provoking and scolding each other happens from time to time, and there are serious things that invest in each other and fireworks, but they are all stopped by the police.

With half an hour left before the game, the commentators on the commentary bench were in place and began to introduce fans to the squads, starting line-ups and referees of both sides.

"Let's take a look at Roma's starting line-up: 27-Sergio/29-Burdisso, 5-Mex, 4-Juan, 17-Risser/10-Totti, 16-De Rossi/11-Tadei, 20-Perrotta, 9-Vucinic/30-Toni......"

Every time the commentator said a name, there was a frantic round of applause and cheers, which silenced all the boos from the Inter fans.

When the applause subsided, the commentator began to introduce Inter Milan's starting XI again: 12-Cesar/13-McConn, 23-Materazzi, 25-Samuel, 26-Zivo/19-Cambiasso, 8-Motta, 10-Gao Xiaodong/9-Eto'o, 45-Balotelli, 20-Sneijder......"

Every Inter Milan player was booed by Roma fans, especially Gao Xiaodong, who scored twice in the league to give Roma a black four minutes, ending Roma's dream of winning the league, and he also received the most violent boos and scolding from Roma fans.

The on-site commentators were surprised by Inter's starting line-up," This is not the starting lineup commonly used by Inter Milan recently, this is a 433 or 4213 formation, what is surprising is that Materazzi and Balotelli, who have been absent for many rounds, appeared in the starting lineup, Materazzi is easy to understand when he starts, this is to hope that Lucio will take a break and have the energy to play in the Champions League final, but Balotelli has been blocked by Mourinho for so long, why will he start in such an important game, is this to make Balotelli a wonder soldier, or is Balotelli and Mourinho reconciled?

Not only were the commentators surprised, but the fans at the scene also wondered, everyone knew that Balotelli and Inter Milan clubs, Mourinho, and even Inter fans were very stiff, and it was normal to block until the end of the season, so there must be something strange about him playing in the Italian Cup final, but no one knew where the strangeness was.

In fact, even the person in question, Balotelli, didn't know why, he didn't think about why, as long as there was a game to play, he didn't have to train with the kids in the youth team, he was happy.

Mourinho certainly knows why, it's just a fight in the transfer market, after the experience and celebration goal, shirt goal, change of agent, Balotelli can no longer stay at Inter Milan, his agent Raiola has also found a new club for him, that is Manchester City.

Balotelli wants to go, Inter Milan doesn't want to stay, the key is naturally the transfer fee, the player's transfer value is inseparable from the performance on the field, Balotelli stays in the second team, the price will definitely not go up, so the manager Blanca hopes that Mourinho will give Balotelli a little playing time to perform, and Mourinho just wants the main force to rest, but lacks a strong striker, so they hit it off and gave Balotelli the opportunity to start.

Glancing at Balotelli, who was holding Gao Xiaodong and smirking heartlessly, Mourinho showed a contemptuous smile, and said in his heart, maybe this genius idiot didn't know that he had been sold to Manchester City by his agent, but then Mourinho sighed again, because if Gao Xiaodong was the same as Ba Shen, he and Mendes would not have to rack their brains to get Gao Xiaodong to Real Madrid, even now, he was not sure that Gao Xiaodong would definitely go with him.

At this time, the whistle of the referee Rizzoli sounded outside, which was to let the players go out and assemble, and the game was about to start.

Mourinho calmed down, cut off thoughts that had nothing to do with the game, and made a final mobilization to the players, "The game is about to start! This is our second trophy to compete for this season, it is not a chicken trophy, it is one of the trebles, a perfect season cannot be separated from this Coppa Italia trophy!" If you just want to be one of the many double champions of Serie A, then we can not take it to heart, if we want to be the only one of Serie A, if we want to transcend the era of the big international and make history, go and take this trophy!

Jose Mourinho was definitely an agitator, and his short words immediately lifted the morale of the players, and before he could finish his words, the players roared out of the dressing room and walked onto the pitch under the guidance of the referee.

Captain Zanetti sat on the bench today, and first captain Materazzi wore the captain's armband, and he and Totti exchanged the team flag and emblem to pick the edges, and the game officially kicked off.

It was Inter Milan who kicked off first, and after Balotelli and Samuel Eto'o kicked off in the centre circle, the ball returned to the feet of the striker Gao Xiaodong.

Gao Xiaodong continued to pass back, and after the front court players of the Roma team forced the back line, the ball returned to Gao Xiaodong's feet again.

Gao Xiaodong has players around him to mark the defense, and now no team dares to let Gao Xiaodong go empty, but the players of Inter Milan still trust Gao Xiaodong very much, even if Gao Xiaodong is marked, they still pass the ball to Gao Xiaodong.

After playing Barcelona, Inter Milan's teammates have absolute trust in Gao Xiaodong, and they believe that Gao Xiaodong can control the ball, at least not lose the ball, even if he loses it, Gao Xiaodong has the ability to pull it back.

After Gao Xiaodong upgraded, he had a certain amount of creativity in handling the ball, no longer relying entirely on his body, facing Perrotta's marking, Gao Xiaodong quickly met the ball, but did not stop the ball at the moment of touching the ball, but stepped on it slightly, let the ball slow down and roll, and then turned 180 degrees to chase the ball.

Gao Xiaodong's agility and flexibility are average, after this feint is done, it is not very fast to turn around and chase the ball, but this ball is very deceptive, and the last time he played against Roma, he was still an A-level player, and now his level has improved a lot, Perrotta never imagined that he would deal with it like this, and when Gao Xiaodong turned around, he just stopped his body.

Gao Xiaodong began to accelerate, and Perrotta turned around, knowing that he couldn't catch up with Gao Xiaodong, but he didn't give up, and kicked Gao Xiaodong's foot and neck hard.

This is one of Roma's tactics today, which is to deter Inter Milan with ferocious fouls, because Inter Milan still has the Champions League final, and they will definitely not dare to fight Roma hard.

But Perrotta miscalculated again, Gao Xiaodong had a super ankle pad, this time he kicked Gao Xiaodong to a stumbling moment, but he was not injured, Gao Xiaodong continued to accelerate, caught up with the ball, and immediately made a 30-meter diagonal long pass to accurately find the left forward forward Sneijder.

Sneijder grabbed the ball before former Inter Milan defender Burdisso, he stopped on his chest, swung the ball towards the baseline with the outside instep, and quickly passed the ball and forced Burdisso to swoop in.

Sneijder's flurry of moves was so coherent that it was too late for Burdisso to turn and chase back.

Seeing that Sneijder was about to break through, Burdisso decisively killed the players of his old club, and he crouched down and kicked Sneijder in the calf.

Sneijder was sprinting with all his might, where to dodge this wide range of sweeping legs, which happened to be swept to the calf, and Sneijder rolled on the turf with a scream.