Chapter 318: Strategy
Seeing Leon get up and walk around on the sidelines, the Inter Milan players immediately received this signal.
After finally deciding what tactics to adopt in this game, Leon repeatedly instilled tactical details in the minds of the players.
"When the first half starts, stay ground, don't rush to attack, there is only one goal, and that is not to concede goals. ”
'It's better to be able to give Manchester United a feeling that we're playing conservatively!'
'When the time is right, start to let go of the attack, attack the Manchester United goal and put them under a lot of pressure!'
"At some point, we will catch Manchester United off guard!"
As for when is the right time, it is up to Leon to make a judgment and give a signal.
Clearly, Leon thinks now is the right time!
At this time, on the field, Inter Milan tried to press forward after continuous passes in the midfield, but after half-time, Manchester United immediately came to press, and Ferguson's tactics were very direct, not giving Inter Milan the opportunity to pass easily in their own half.
Seeing this, the Inter Milan players did not choose to force the press, but chose to pass back.
Modric passes back to Carlos.
Carlos continued to pass back, and after Samuel got the ball, he took two steps forward, and the ball was at Carlos's feet again.
Everything looked the same as before, with Inter Milan putting their feet on their feet in their own half and making safety and not making mistakes as the first priority.
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Carlos dribbles forward.
At the top of the arc in the centre circle, he played the ball to Luka Modric.
In this position, Luka Modric was able to take the ball with ease, and the United did not come up to tackle and interfere.
Of course, if Luka Modric gets close to the box with the ball, he will inevitably be heavily defended by Manchester United's defenders.
Modric is the hub of Inter Milan's midfield, it can be said that Inter Milan's midfield metronome, Inter Milan's attack starts from him, not only that, Inter Milan's attacking rhythm is also controlled by Modric: when the team attacks, whether it is a fast attack, or a slow and methodical organization of the pass penetration, these are controlled by Modric according to the situation on the field.
Suffice it to say that in Leon's tactics, Modric is the most important link!
Of course, Modric is so important, once the hair is restricted, the latter is not playing well, and Inter Milan will be in trouble.
However, Modric has a good partner, Carlos, and with Carlos by his side, Modric can make the most of his attacking talents.
Italian coach Sacchi praised Leon's team, and he believes that Leon has brought out the characteristics of Carlos and Modric to the extreme, and the combination of these two players is simply wonderful.
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When Luka Modric received the ball, he watched the situation in front of him and saw Diego Milito suddenly cut forward.
Vacant!
Carrick, who was following Diego Milito, was out of touch at this moment!
Modric immediately passed the ball out!
Long passes!
"Vacancy!" Ferrari shouted.
"Ferdinand!" Lineker shouted.
Luka Modric's vision was very open, and Carrick was indeed unable to keep up with Diego Milito at that moment, but Ferdinand was very experienced, and when Diego Milito was running, he was clever enough to meet Carrick's position, and at the same time, directly headed the ball back.
Soccer ball in the air.
Hargreaves was trying to keep the ball under control and he saw Cristiano Ronaldo on the move, but the next second, the England international felt like a wall was squeezing in.
Adriano's strong body leaned over and stuck in front of Hargreaves as he stumbled, snatching the ball away.
"Idiot!" Ferguson scolded unpleasantly from the sidelines.
Hargreaves wasn't smart enough just now, and if it was Cristiano Ronaldo, he would have gone down and won a free-kick. This is not diving, because Adriano was indeed suspected of hitting someone and fouling at that moment, but it was just a reasonable use of the rules.
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Adriano pushed the ball back and David Silva won the ball and opted to continue the return pass, with Luka Modric coming up to meet it.
Leon sat in the dugout and glanced at the United dugout, as if the old Scottish man didn't realize anything.
Ferguson really didn't smell anything, just now Modric suddenly launched an attack with a long pass, which is nothing, this is a normal routine, Inter Milan has tried to directly find a long pass behind the defenders of Manchester United.
Therefore, the old lord did not feel that Inter Milan had changed anything.
Luka Modric takes the ball.
This time, Modric did not continue to pass back, and at the same time, the Manchester United side did not realize that Modric had stepped forward to receive it, and this position was very carefully chosen.
Leaning to the left, it even squeezes the space of the mata a little.
The Manchester United players kept in mind Ferguson's advice to cut off Modric's contact with the players in front of them, so they reacted immediately when they saw Modric deliberately approaching Mata, and the result was that Manchester United's defensive center of gravity immediately tilted to this side.
Sure enough, Modric saw that there was no good way to get the ball in front of him, and he made a gesture to come up and catch the ground.
Juan Mata immediately ran back to meet Luka Modric, who was joined by Manchester United midfielder Hargreaves.
Modric saw Hargreaves behind Juan Mata's butt and didn't actually pass the ball, but suddenly dribbled forward!
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Luka Modric sped up to the ball and he staggered past team-mate Juan Mata, who had come to pick him up.
This took Hargreaves by surprise and he quickly threw off Mata and turned to pounce on Modric.
And Modric waited for him, watching Hargreaves leave Mata, swept his right foot and tossed the ball to Mata diagonally behind!
This time, Modric managed to bring Hargreaves away.
Carrick was shocked and lunged at Mata.
Juan Mata reacted very quickly, he didn't stop the ball, but took advantage of the situation to send the ball forward!
When Carrick was about to turn around to intercept, he saw someone thrust forward at high speed from his side!
It's Evra!
The Inter Milan left-back, who had been holding on to the half since the start of the game, suddenly stepped forward frantically!
The commentators on the commentary seat who watched this scene were shocked and came to their senses.
The full-back presses, which has a special meaning in football, and which in many cases symbolizes the team's aggressive release: attacking presses!
"Hell!" Manchester United coach's box, Ferguson suddenly got up, the old man cursed in his mouth,
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