Chapter 023: There is always a descendant to save the driver (1st update, asking for a monthly pass)
With a 2-0 win at home against Shakhtar Donetsk, Inter Milan has great hopes of qualifying, and in such a situation, Leon has increased the team's technical and tactical training. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. biqUgE。 info
The skill cards of [Bronze Wall] and [Eagle Wings] were used by him.
The Champions League qualifying match against Shakhtar Donetsk, as well as the three games against Brescia and Schalke 04, were edited by Leon's coaching staff as his instructional video.
Before starting training, Leon showed the whole team clips of the three games......
He told his players that in these games, there was a problem there, and what to do about it correctly.
If you use his LION tactics, how do you use them, how can you solve the problems that arise in the game?
After watching the well-edited video of the game, coupled with the detailed explanations of Leon and assistant coach Banderas, the players of Inter Milan began to have a more intuitive understanding of Leon's tactics.
Of these players, Carlos, Juan Mata and Luka Modric are the most familiar with this tactic, so these three players currently have an inherent advantage in the competition for the main position.
In addition, Ronaldo and Samuel, two former Real Madrid players, have played directly against Sporting Gijón and are well aware of the power of this tactic.
The second round of Champions League qualifying against Shakhtar Donetsk comes in two weeks, and these two weeks will be invaluable for Inter Milan, who must get used to the coach's tactics as soon as possible.
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Over the course of two weeks, Inter Milan played a warm-up match against Serie A side Siena, with the Nerazzurri winning 2-1.
Although they won, the performance of Inter Milan, who were still in the stage of tactical familiarization, did not satisfy Leon.
He and the coaching staff carefully edited the game and analysed it again for the players.
In this way, Li Ang gradually deepened the players' understanding and familiarity with his set of tactics.
The core of his tactics, one is to press all over the court, and the other is to emphasize ball control, which is different from the current Italian team's tactics of focusing on defense and emphasizing defensive counterattacks, and the players' familiarization and understanding requires a process.
Subsequently, Inter played a match against the team's reserves.
Playing against weaker opponents, the team faces less pressure and is able to be more confident and familiar with the tactics.
The first team eventually beat the reserves 6-0.
A player in Inter Milan's reserve team caught Leon's attention, this is the not yet eighteen-year-old Accafresca, born on September 11, 1987, Akquafresca showed his talent as a striker, he appeared calm in the penalty area, and his sense of smell in front of goal was very sensitive, if it weren't for the good performance of Cesar, who was the starting goalkeeper today, the reserve team might even have scored by Acquafresca, who is currently the main striker of the Italian U18 national youth team, in this star-studded national youth team, Acquafresca is regarded as Italy's most promising goalscorerThe youngster was signed by Inter Milan from Torino in May of that year, also thanks to the transfer maneuver of Oriari.
In addition, another young striker in the reserve team also caught the eye of Leon, and the eighteen-year-old Biabiani's speed was very fast, which made Materazzi, who was not very fast, a little embarrassed.
These two youngsters are good, but at the moment there are no places for them in the Inter Milan first team.
Subsequently, Leon asked Inter Milan general manager Oriari and the two youngsters to extend their contracts again, complete the contract extension, and then loan them out for training.
In order for Biabiani and Acquafresca to play, Inter Milan did not loan them to Serie A sides, opting for Serie B teams.
Biabiani has been loaned to Serie B side Atalanta.
Aquafresca has been loaned to Serie B side Brescia.
Knowing that in the original history, the two youngsters did not really become talents, and he hoped that this time they could be well trained, and he told the two youngsters that he would continue to monitor their performance during the loan period, which made Biabiani and Aquafreca very excited, and the manager's attention gave them a lot of motivation and gave them hope of playing in the first team of Inter Milan one day.
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On 24 August 2005, the second leg of the third round of the 2004/2005 UEFA Champions League qualifying round arrived.
In this match against Shakhtar Donetsk, Leon's Inter Milan used the tactics they are now practising in an official match for the first time.
After all, there is a clear difference between the official game and the warm-up, and Shakhtar Donetsk is also dreaming of a comeback.
Therefore, the overall performance of Inter Milan in the game was still not able to satisfy Leon, and of course, the team was still able to play what he asked for in certain periods of the game.
The goal scored by Inter Milan was a reflection of the fact that the players had executed their tactical demands well.
Inter Milan were so heavily inverted in midfield that Shakhtar Donetsk couldn't touch the ball for five or six minutes.
The anxious Shakhtar Donetsk pressed out to scramble, their defense line was empty in an instant, Modric sent a through ball, Figo and Ronaldo's tacit cooperation was brought into play, Figo did not stop the ball, swept directly to the middle, Ronaldo stopped slightly, followed by a shot, the football was saved by the goalkeeper of Shakhtar Donetsk, Adriano was blocked by the defender's goal line at close range, Mata's clever follow-up shot was successful!
It was the only goal of the game!
Thanks to the skill card of the [Bronze Iron Wall] used by Leon, as well as the defensive quality of the Italian team itself, they then withstood the crazy counterattack of Shakhtar Donetsk and kept the score 1-0 until the end of the game.
2-0 at home!
1-0 away!
Inter Milan, who did not play pretty, successfully qualified for the group stage of the Champions League with an aggregate score of 3-0.
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Four days later, the new Serie A season began.
Inter Milan beat promoted Matreviso 1-0 at home in the first round of the league.
In the whole game, Inter Milan had 70% possession, but only one goal was scored.
Luka Modric's long-range strike gave Inter the only goal of the game.
Leon's Inter stumbled, but still held strong to win.
And the players he brought in, especially from Sporting Gijon, Mata and Modric have always been able to perform well in key moments and succeed in saving the game.
This made the media and opponents who were waiting to see Li Ang's jokes unclear.
After playing against Treviso, Leon flew on owner Moratti's private jet to Monaco for the 2005/2006 UEFA Champions League group stage draw.
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