In addition to Arsenal's upset 2:1 defeat to Barcelona at home, Roma lost 2:3 at home to Shakhtar Donetsk, the old giant AC Milan lost 0:1 at home to Tottenham, and Champions League regulars Valencia were also forced to draw by Schalke 04 at their home stadium, and were also taken away by the opponent with an away goal.

This result made the four home teams on matchday two gasp, especially Inter Milan, who were the closest in strength to Manchester United in the four games on matchday, Manchester United were in better form, Inter Milan had the advantage of playing at home, and if the advantage of home did not exist, it would be more difficult for Inter Milan to win.

Coach Leonardo is a little superstitious, yesterday he also made the decision to take the initiative, but today seeing that the home team did not play well on the first matchday, he changed his mind and decided to demand stability, defensive counterattack, first try not to let Manchester United get away goals, and then consider winning.

Inter Milan's players are speechless and helpless about this, although Leonardo is a 42-year-old young coach with only one year of coaching experience, and he cannot be compared with Mourinho, but Mancini was also very young when he coached Inter, but he did not change his order like Leonardo.

Before the game, Inter Milan boss Cambiaso quipped on his Twitter, "Our coach is a genius, don't say Ferguson can't guess his tactics, we can't guess ourselves." ”

At 8:45 p.m. on the 23rd, after a week-long warm-up, the focus of Manchester United and Inter Milan finally kicked off at the Meazza Stadium.

In addition to the game between Arsenal and Barcelona, the match between Manchester United and Inter Milan is the most topical, whether it is Manchester United's revenge or Gao Xiaodong's homecoming, it can arouse the enthusiasm of countless Inter fans and Manchester United fans.

In order to watch this game, many fans from outside Italy came to Milan three or four days in advance, and many fans who did not buy tickets also came to Milan to try their luck and see if they could buy refunds.

Due to Inter Milan's poor results this season, Meazza has not been full for a long time, but in today's match against Manchester United, the stands were full an hour ago, and many local Italian celebrities also came to Meazza to cheer on the big game.

Inter Milan president Moratti naturally did not miss such a game, and he also came to the box of the stadium early, and sat with him with Manchester United's young club Joel. Glazer.

Players from both sides walked out of the locker room, and the stands erupted in bursts of cheers.

"Eto'o!"

"Zanetti!"

"Cesar!"

“……”

Inter fans chanted their idol's name in unison.

However, when the players of the two teams walked to the stadium to shake hands, the fans found that Manchester United's captain's armband was actually worn on the arm of the vice-captain Gao Xiaodong, and they immediately stopped calling for their players in surprise and began to discuss.

"Gao Xiaodong put on the captain's armband?"

"What's going on? Vidic is here. ”

"Even if there is no Vidic, Gao Xiaodong will not be able to wear the captain's armband!"

"What do you mean by Ferguson?

……

Not only the fans discussed, but the commentators from all over the world were also very surprised, they knew that Manchester United had a team committee, and the vice-captains took turns on duty, but in recent times, Manchester United's captain's armband is mainly worn on Vidic's arm, and occasionally Ferdinand will wear it, but Gao Xiaodong and Rooney have never worn the captain's armband.

Huaguo commentator He Hui was surprised: "I really didn't expect that in such a world-renowned game, Lord Fu actually asked the 21-year-old Gao Xiaodong to wear the captain's armband, it is obvious that Lord Fu is playing psychological warfare with Inter Milan." He just let the fans, players, coaches and chairmen of Inter Milan see that Gao Xiaodong has a good life at Manchester United and is very important, but Lord Fu's courage is too fat, I don't know if he has taken into account Xiaodong's feelings and pressure, this is Xiaodong's first time to return to Meacha to play, he can't treat it like an ordinary game, he will definitely have pressure, the captain's armband is then worn on his arm, and I, a middle-aged man in my forties, feel a little unbearable. ”

In the VIP box, Moratti also saw Gao Xiaodong wearing the captain's armband, Moratti was already a little serious, but now it has become more gloomy.

Ferguson, Ferguson, are you demonstrating to me? You snatched Gao Xiaodong from me.

actually put the captain's armband on Gao Xiaodong's body in such a game, what do you mean, do you mean that I don't dare to use it, or I won't use Gao Xiaodong.

Ferguson, you want revenge, wait, Inter Milan is not as weak as you think, Meaza is not a place for you to go wild.

Manchester United's young club Joel didn't expect Ferguson to let Gao Xiaodong wear the captain's armband, he showed a smile on his face, and said in his heart, although the old man is 70 years old, this heart is not old, but what the effect is, I'm afraid it will have to wait for the game to see.

on the field

Zanetti smiled and shook hands with Gao Xiaodong, and hugged him, "Gao, congratulations, you have become the captain." ”

Gao Xiaodong said with a smile: "Take turns on duty, be a good time." ”

Zanetti handed the team flag and emblem to Gao Xiaodong and said: "This is to train you as a reserve captain, otherwise why don't you let Rooney wear it." ”

Gao Xiaodong smiled: "This is the old man who is afraid that I will not behave well and put pressure on me." ”

Perform well, Zanetti is in his heart, he knows Gao Xiaodong's power, and he said in his heart, Gao Xiaodong is the captain today, he must exert his strength, we must say hello to our teammates, guard against death, and can't give him a chance, especially not let him easily get up and shoot from a distance, and now Cesar's state is not very good.

The captains of the two sides exchanged team flags and emblems, and the commentators also began to introduce the starting lineup of the double peak to the fans.

Although Manchester United is playing away today, Ferguson is not conservative at all, and the formation is a 4-3-3, goalkeeper 1-Van der Sar, four backs 3-Evra, 15-Vidic, 12-Smalling, 22-O'Shea, three midfielders 18-Scholes, 10-Gao Xiaodong, 24-Fletcher, three strikers 17-Nani, 9-Berbatov, 7-Rooney

Obviously, Ferguson is going to get revenge today, to get a win in Meazza and at least to get away goals, so that he can play back at home.

Inter Milan temporarily changed the formation today, it turned out that in training, Leonardo prepared three sets of tactics and began to choose the offensive 4213 formation, but seeing that the main game on the first match day was not good, he temporarily changed the formation to 451, focusing on defense.

Inter Milan's starting goalkeeper is still 1-Cesar, defenders: 13-McConn, 15-Ranozia (14-Halgia 73'), 5-Lucio, 26-Zivo, midfielders: 4-Zanetti, 19-Cambiasso, 8-Motta, 10-Sneijder, 5-Stankovic, forwards: 9-Eto'o