Chapter 472: Preparing for the Milan Derby
After making their Serie A debut, Inter Milan quickly entered derby time. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info
From the fans to the players, from the coaches to the staff, everyone's attention and energy is focused on next week's Milan derby.
AC Milan, formerly known as the Milan Football and Cricket Club, was founded in 1899 by English expatriates Herbert Gilpin and Alfred Edwards.
The team rose to prominence at the beginning of its creation and became one of the best teams in Italy and quickly achieved success. However, in 1908, just ten years after the club's founding, there was a split within the team. Due to disagreements over the introduction of foreign players, a group of splitters broke away from the club and founded Inter Milan. The Milan derby was born, and the battle raged endlessly. To this day, Inter Milan was founded with the idea of bringing in foreign players, while AC Milan has retained its policy of nurturing homegrown players.
After parting ways, both teams began to consolidate and perpetuate their very different identities. Inter Milan quickly became a club for the middle class and wealthy businessmen, while AC Milan's supporters were more of the working class. In urban derbies around the world, it is not uncommon to see one club representing the elite of society and the other carrying the cry of the working class. This division is reflected in a social problem on which there are many different opinions - class differences and their impact on society. The Milan derby was no exception, and the inherent gap between the fans of both sides was one of the reasons for the excitement of the game.
The first meeting between Inter Milan and AC Milan took place on January 10, 1909, when AC Milan beat Inter Milan 3-2, and in the 100 years between then and August 2009, Milan played a total of 270 derby matches, with AC Milan having a slight advantage with 105 wins, 72 draws and 93 defeats, while in Serie A the two sides had 150 previous meetings, AC Milan had 47 wins, 49 draws and 54 defeats, scoring 199 goals and conceding 209 goals.
Last season, Inter Milan and AC Milan drew in the league, AC Milan beat Inter Milan 1-0 at home, Inter Milan beat AC Milan 2-1 at home, Mourinho's Milan derby can only be said to be passing, definitely not excellent.
Obviously, apart from winning the Champions League and retaining his position, the Milan derby is the game Mourinho wants to win the most.
In the warm-up matches of this summer, Inter Milan and AC Milan have played each other twice, with Inter Milan winning one and drawing one, but the warm-up matches are completely different from the official competitions, and no one dares to say that they can easily beat their opponents in the league at the weekend.
In preparation for the Milan derby, Inter Milan once again conducted a closed training session, not only closed to fans, but also refused to be open to journalists, and even reporters from the Inter Milan channel were not allowed to visit the training ground.
Mourinho's performance of pretending to be a ghost makes Inter Milan fans very dissatisfied, they believe that the current AC Milan has taken away the head coach Ancelotti, removed the core Kaka, and has not supplemented the same strength stars like Inter Milan, the strength can be said to be declining, for such AC Milan, Mourinho is hiding his head and tail and can't get the confidence to win, how can he snatch the Champions League trophy from the hands of the Anglo-Spanish giants.
Jose Mourinho was dismissive of what fans and journalists said, and through the two derbies last season, he had a clear understanding of the Milan derby, which is more than a hundred years old, and the victory or defeat is definitely not entirely determined by strength.
In terms of strength alone, since the phone gate, Inter Milan has far surpassed AC Milan, and has indeed won four consecutive league titles, but in the Milan derby, Inter Milan has no upper hand at all.
This season, AC Milan has gone Ancelotti and World Footballer Kaka, and there is no doubt that the strength has declined, and nominally speaking, Inter Milan has taken Ibrahimovic, Eto'o and Milito, although the reputation is a little worse, but these two are indeed the top Ibrahimovic.
In the midfield, Inter Milan finally has the forward midfielder Gao Xiaodong that Mourinho wants, and another unexpected joy is that 8 million Lucio was brought in from Bayern, and Inter Milan's strength on paper is stronger than last season.
In the hearts of pseudo-fans, Inter Milan's strength should be much stronger than AC Milan.
However, Mourinho knows better that the strength on paper and the real combat effectiveness are not the same thing at all, just like the first round of Serie A just past, on paper, Gao Xiaodong, Eto'o, McCone and any other person is worth more than the whole Barry team, but everyone who has watched the game knows that if Gao Xiaodong does not take the lead in scoring goals, it is not easy for Inter Milan to win the promoted Barry team.
What Inter Milan lacks is the run-in, whether it is the players and the players, or the players and the coach, they have not yet run in well.
When Mourinho was at Chelsea and Porto, it was absolutely forbidden, and no one dared to disobey the tactical record, and there would never be a case of Milito and Eto'o grabbing a penalty in the last game, let alone not passing the ball to a teammate because he couldn't get used to it.
These things show that Mourinho is not in control of the team enough, and these may seem like the details, but in a major tournament like the Milan derby, it is the small details that can make the difference between victory and defeat.
After the game against Bari, Mourinho gave his players a day off and when he returned to training, Mourinho immediately held a tactical meeting to reiterate his team's right to take penalties from set-pieces and penalties.
"The first penalty taker is Milito, the second is Eto'o, the third is Gao Xiaodong, when Milito is no longer on the field, or when you don't want to take a penalty, Eto'o, you can take the penalty, and then Gao Xiaodong, if all three of you are not there, let the captain decide who will take the penalty. ”
As soon as Mourinho finished speaking, Gao Xiaodong whispered to Balotelli, "This is not appropriate, if Milito misses penalties in a row, what if you don't want to let it? Milito's compatriot Palermo has missed three penalties in one game, alas, this is not easy for me to say, I said, the coach still thinks I want to take a penalty." ”
Gao Xiaodong is clearly fanning the flames with Balotelli, Materazzi sitting next to Balotelli heard it very clearly, but pretended not to hear anything, as the boss of the local gang, Materazzi actually hoped that Balotelli would come out to scare the Argentine gang, and Balotelli has always been childish, and if he says it, others will not really be angry with him.
Hearing that Gao Xiaodong didn't dare to speak, Balotelli immediately stood up and said Gao Xiaodong's words in public.
Milito was very unhappy when he heard this: "I'm not stupid, I will continue to punish if I lose consecutive penalties." ”
Milito is not stupid, everyone knows it, but everyone has selfish intentions, and it is difficult to say whether they will continue to be punished after they are punished, it has nothing to do with whether they are stupid or not.
Mourinho didn't know what Balotelli meant by interjection, and frowned: "Mario, then what do you say to do?"
Where did Balotelli think about what to do, he just felt that what Gao Xiaodong said made sense, so he stood up and said, Mourinho asked like this, he thought about it, and said: "Whoever can be punished will be punished, and those who can't be punished will stand aside." ”
Hearing Balotelli say this, it seemed that Balotelli wanted to fight for the penalty, Zanetti took the lead in speaking in support of his compatriot Milito, saying: "Mario, do you want the whole team to take turns to go up and try the penalty? It's just nonsense." ”
Materazzi, the deputy of the team, also had a penalty, but now he has become a substitute, and the penalty has been cancelled, he smiled: "What Mario said is not unreasonable, whoever scores a penalty will continue to be punished, and if the penalty can't be scored, he will be replaced." ”
Materazzi's statement made Mourinho's eyes light up, and he said in his heart, this is a good idea, he waved his hand to Balotelli, asked him to sit down, and said: "What Mario said makes sense, but the whole team can't go up to take penalties, just like that, I will correct the penalty just now, the order is still Milito, Eto'o and Gao Xiaodong, but whoever misses a penalty, the next penalty will be replaced, if it can be penalized, continue to penalize until the penalty is missed." ”
This arrangement is more reasonable, whether you can guarantee your penalty rights depends on your own ability, not the coach's arrangement, Milito, Eto'o and Gao Xiaodong have no objections, this arrangement is determined.