After the 16th round of the league, Inter Milan started the Coppa Italia journey. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info

The Coppa Italia is a knockout football tournament hosted by the Italian Football Federation, which began in 1922 and is the highest level of football cup in Italy.

Prior to last season, the only teams competing in the Coppa Italia were Serie A, and last season the Italian FA was similar to the English FA Cup, allowing teams with good results in Serie C and Serie D to participate, although the top eight teams in Serie A did not start participating until the fifth round, which is the quarter-final.

Inter Milan have not had a good run in the Coppa Italia, winning just five titles, behind Juventus and Roma, and were knocked out by Sampdoria in the semi-finals last season.

Inter Milan is strong this season, and Mourinho naturally hopes to gain in the league and cup competitions and catch up with Mancini, who has been breaking blindly after class.

Facing the average strength of Livorno, Mourinho discharged a set of semi-main and semi-substitute lineups, and Gao Xiaodong was also put on the bench.

Inter Milan's strength is unrivaled, even if it is an ordinary substitute, it is difficult to play Livorno, and finally Inter Milan eliminated Livorno without shock to reach the quarterfinals of the Italian Cup.

In the quarter-finals, Inter Milan's opponent is old rival Juventus, and the game will be played after the winter break, and Inter Milan has the advantage of playing at home.

After the second day of recovery training, the players did not leave, and everyone came to the conference room with the coaches to watch the live broadcast of the draw for the quarter-finals.

The principle of the draw is the same as in the past, i.e. the team that wins the group stage plays the second place in any other group, and the team in the same group and the same football association initiates the avoidance principle. In addition, the team that finished second in the group will play home and away in the two-legged quarterfinals.

The top of the eight groups are: Bordeaux, Manchester United, Real Madrid, Chelsea, Fiorentina, Barcelona, Sevilla and Arsenal. The second-placed teams in the group are Bayern Munich, CSKA Moscow, AC Milan, Porto, Lyon, Inter Milan, Stuttgart and Olympiacos.

For Inter Milan, among the eight group winners, they will definitely not draw Barcelona and Fiorentina, and the remaining six first-place places are all possible.

In terms of strength, the strongest are Chelsea, Manchester United and Real Madrid, the weaker are Bordeaux, Arsenal, Sevilla and Arsenal, according to strength, playing style and form, Inter Milan wants to draw Bordeaux and Sevilla the most, or Arsenal, and the least wants to draw Manchester United and Chelsea.

Bordeaux and Sevilla are not weak, but the Champions League is a little worse, and Mourinho's team is not afraid of playing a pseudo-technical stream that is weaker than him, and what is most afraid of is Manchester United and Chelsea, which need muscles and muscles, skills and skills, and tenacious teams.

The first to be drawn by UEFA Secretary General Evantino was Group G runners-up Stuttgart, followed by his opponent Barcelona.

Although it has nothing to do with Inter Milan, the Inter players are still a little jealous of Barca's good fortune, Stankovic said: "It looks like Barcelona are going to be escorted to the final. ”

Eto'o said: "With the strength of the game, Barcelona can almost reach the final. ”

Materazzi said: "It's hard to say, it still depends on the ball. ”

The second pair to be drawn were Group H runners-up Olympiax and Group A top Bordeaux, much to the disappointment of Inter Milan's players, as Bordeaux was drawn out of the club, meaning they had a better chance of meeting the giants.

Inter Milan was drawn third, at this time everyone was nervous, and the TV camera also showed Figo and Moratti who represented Inter Milan to participate in the draw ceremony, these two people had serious expressions, and they were obviously very nervous, everyone knows that if you want to go far in the Champions League, you can't meet a strong team at the beginning.

To the disappointment of the Inter Milaners, however, it was Chelsea who were drawn next, the last opponents they wanted to meet.

The TV camera once again gave Figo and Blanca, Figo and Blanca looked at each other and smiled bitterly, looking very helpless, and they met Chelsea, which was the second odds to win the championship in the quarterfinals, which was simply a signing.

Figo and Blanca smiled wryly, and the camera was shown to Chelsea CEO Kenyon on the other side, who was also very helpless, he had worked with Mourinho for more than three years and knew how difficult Mourinho's team was.

Seeing Inter Milan being drawn against Chelsea, the conference room was in chaos, and everyone was surprised, disappointed and even a little angry.

Before the game, captain Zanetti told reporters that the last thing he wanted to meet was Chelsea, and now he saw that Chelsea was really drawn, Zanetti was dumbfounded, "This is too accurate, I really don't want to draw anyone, but I just draw someone." ”

Eto'o also smiled bitterly and said, "Why didn't the captain guess that it was Bordeaux and Sevilla." ”

Gao Xiaodong said: "I think it's a conspiracy, it's definitely a conspiracy, Chelsea vs. Inter Milan, Mourinho is back at Stamford Bridge, Carlo Ancelotti is playing Inter again, what a good point to watch." ”

Quaresma agrees with Gao Xiaodong's point of view, "That's right, UEFA is trying to attract attention and trap us. ”

Cambias said: "I had a hunch that it would be either Chelsea or Manchester United, and sure enough, it would be Chelsea. ”

Seeing that Bayern then drew Fiorentina, Real Madrid drew Lyon, and the players of Inter Milan were even more unhappy, feeling that their luck was too bad, and they felt that this was very suspicious of being designed by UEFA.

At this time, Mourinho, who had been calm and silent, spoke, "Don't talk, talk about it after reading it." ”

Everyone saw Mourinho angry, they all shut up, quietly watching the last two quarter-final opponents, and soon, the last two groups were also drawn, Arsenal played Porto, Manchester United played AC Milan.

At this time, the conference room was even more chaotic, almost everyone agreed with Gao Xiaodong's point of view, this draw is greasy, it is like it is arranged, Real Madrid and Leon two old enemies gathered, Manchester United revenge AC Milan, Xiaobei went home, Mourinho returned to Stamford Bridge to slap his face, Ancelotti played Inter Milan again, if it was not arranged, it would be too much of a coincidence.

When everyone had enough, Mourinho applauded and said: "Talk hard, protest hard, and see if UEFA can draw again." ”

Everyone listened and stopped talking, at this time, Mourinho said solemnly: "I want you to remember that the result of the draw can no longer be changed, whether we want to see such a result or not, now what we have to do is not to complain, but to find a way to defeat the opponent, in my dictionary there is no complaining, only fighting." ”

Mourinho's words were like a slap in the face, knocking the players awake, and everyone began to discuss Chelsea's weaknesses, at this time, Gao Xiaodong smiled: "What are you discussing, our coach has coached Chelsea for more than three years, this team is built by him, who will know their strengths and weaknesses better than our coach." ”

Mourinho thought to himself, this kid is really a ghost elf, but he still said with a calm face: "What is the use of knowing, we also know the advantages and disadvantages of Messi and Ronaldo, and we still can't watch it when we play." ”

Gao Xiaodong said with a smile: "After all, it has some effect." ”

Mourinho's face relaxed, and said: "I have the information of all the players of Chelsea, I will ask Coach Baresi to give you a copy of each of them, from today everyone will take it back and study it carefully, our opponents are very strong, we must go all out and prepare every detail, so that after two games, we can say with a clear conscience, we tried our best, no matter what the result we have no regrets." ”