Knocking out Chelsea in the quarterfinals of the Champions League, sweeping away the embarrassment of not beating the Premier League team in the knockout rounds in 45 years, and drawing the soft persimmon of CSKA Moscow in the quarterfinals, Inter Milan's morale is extremely high, and in the weekend away game against Palermo, Mourinho fielded a semi-main lineup, and the result is still a comfortable 3-1 victory. Pen % fun % Pavilion www.biquge.info

However, the spirit is not omnipotent, after playing Palermo, Inter Milan immediately welcomed Livorno at home in midweek, due to the tough game against Roma at the weekend, Inter Milan was a little distracted against Livorno, and was finally drawn 1:1 by Livorno.

Thanks to Roma's defeat to Bologna in this round, the gap between Inter Milan and second-placed Roma has narrowed to four points.

This is very unfavorable for Inter Milan, because Inter Milan is a three-tier battle, especially in the Champions League, which has a lot of energy for Inter Milan.

Roma, on the other hand, are only playing on two fronts in the league and the Coppa Italia, and they beat Udinese 2-0 in the first leg of the Coppa Italia semi-finals, which has little impact on their league promotion.

Prior to this, Inter Milan had won 4 Serie A titles, and Mourinho had also won once, but no one wanted to lose the league title, especially since Inter Milan was in such good form this season and was very hopeful of winning the first treble in Serie A history, Mourinho certainly did not want to give up this good opportunity to make history.

Although it is now the devil's schedule, with two matches in a row, Roma at the weekend, and CSKA Moscow in midweek, CSKA Moscow is still slightly inferior after all, and Mourinho is determined to prepare seriously for the game against Roma and consolidate the league advantage first.

Roma have been a bit of an offbeat this season.

Before the start of the season, Roma did nothing in the transfer market, and no one thought they had a chance to compete for the league title, with everyone believing that this season's league title would be decided between the northern trio of Inter Milan, AC Milan and Juventus.

After the start of the league, Roma's performance was indeed very sluggish, losing to Genoa and Juventus in the first two rounds of the league, the meritorious coach Spalletti voluntarily resigned, and Ranieri, a tinkerer from the Roma academy, became the firefighting coach.

At the moment, no one is optimistic about Roma, but in the absence of reinforcements, Ranie used Spalletti's original team to play a wave of 20 games unbeaten, leaving AC Milan and Juventus, chasing the points gap between Inter Milan to only 4 points, making the league championship suspense again, which is simply a miracle.

Jose Mourinho and Claudio Ranieri have a long history, at the beginning of 1999, when Mourinho was Van Gaal's translator and assistant, and their Barcelona faced Ranieri Valencia three times in half a month, and Ranieri won all three games, with the scores being two 4:2 and one 3:2.

Five years later, in 2004, Ranieri was already the head coach of Chelsea, Mourinho became the head coach of the Champions League champion Porto, and the Russian billionaire Abou, who bought Chelsea, fired Ranieri and appointed Mu Shuai as the head coach of Chelsea.

In the 2008 Emirates Cup, Ranieri's Juventus lost 3-0 to Hamburg. Speaking after the game, he told reporters: "I'm not like Jose Mourinho, I don't need to prove myself through results. ”

Mourinho, of course, couldn't bear it, and he retorted: "I think he's right, I've always demanded something from myself, I need a champion to confirm something. That's why I've won so many titles in my coaching career. Ranieri is a strong-willed man and he doesn't need a championship. ”

"He's almost 70. He's won the Super Cup and a few minor honours, and he's a bit older, so it's hard to change his mind. Yes, he's not small, but he hasn't won anything yet. I used to spend months learning Italian for five hours a day to make sure I could communicate with the players, the media and the fans. Ranieri has been in England for five years, but he has had a hard time saying 'good morning' and 'good afternoon'. ”

Then came the 12th round of the league, Inter Milan vs. Roma, when Inter Milan was fighting hard in the Champions League, Mourinho was not in the mood to have a war of words with Ranieri, and the two sides also drew 1:1 in the league.

Now, Roma has chased the points difference to 4 points and has become the number one rival for Inter Milan to win the league, and in the Coppa Italia, Inter Milan and Roma are also very likely to meet in the final, and the grim situation has pushed Mourinho and Ranieri to the forefront of the two famous coaches with deep feuds.

Belligerence is Mourinho's signature trait. In the Premier League, Ferguson and Arsene Wenger felt this first-hand, and now they have met old rivals, just so that the Champions League opponents are not so strong, Mourinho finally provoked Ranieri.

'I went to Chelsea in 2004 to replace Claudio Ranieri and it was obviously not my fault. It's just that the team told me they wanted to win and Ranieri couldn't let that happen. If people think he's a loser at Chelsea, you really can't blame me. Ranieri has been trying to prove himself this season, he has done a good job, his 20-game unbeaten record is only 10 fewer than ours, but I believe that Roma's unbeaten streak should end here, Ranieri doesn't dislike titles, and I am a person who wants to be beautiful. ”

The 59-year-old Ranieri is an old man who understands that Mourinho is provoking him and making him lose his cool, but Ranieri is not angry, he sneered: "If you deliberately create an atmosphere of fighting, it is indeed a simple way to motivate the team. But sport is an important part of Italian society, and Mourinho's approach is like planting a ticking time bomb. I'm a sports person and I love football. But I don't like Jose Mourinho's football, I'm not like him, I like to respect people, I want to respect people, and Mourinho is not. Is Mourinho phenomenal? It's just a media rendering. For me, he's just a good coach and I wouldn't add any other adjectives. ”

Mourinho then retorted: "If it's a simple motivation for the team, is there anything easier than Agnelli? he even asked the players to watch the movie Gladiator before an important match, the players are adults, not children, and if I let my team watch Gladiator together before the game, they will laugh or find a doctor for me to see if I am sick." And I'm going to watch at least ten of my opponents' recent fights before the big fights, hoping to spot their weaknesses. I spent more than a dozen hours on my computer running programs to help me with my work, which was much more complicated than watching a movie. ”

Ranieri said that football is not a simple game, not only material, tactical, but also mental, Mourinho's team is like robots, they only know how to fight, not art.

The two coaches have a war of words, of course, the media will not be idle, in Italy, a place where everyone will talk about tactics, Mourinho, a foreign coach, is destined to be an outsider, he has no support here, almost all the media support Ranieri, thinking that Mourinho is arrogant, sharp and mean, hoping that Ranieri's team can teach the madman a lesson and let him return to earth from heaven.