Chapter 022: The Debut (4th Update, Tang Da Hammer Hammer Hammer's 30,000 Reward 3/3)
On August 11, 2005, at the Meazza Stadium, Inter Milan hosted Ukrainian Premier League giants Shakhtar Donetsk in the third round of the Champions League qualifying round. Pen, fun, and www.biquge.info
This is a game that the whole of Italy is watching.
Italians are xenophobic.
For a Chinese to be the head coach of Inter Milan, many people do not like it.
And Inter Milan underwent a major purge and a major change of blood this summer. In the eyes of many media, the current Inter Milan is in chaos, the Inter Milan that has changed most of the teams, facing the Ukrainian giants Shakhtar Donetsk, if they are eliminated in the Champions League, it will be fun......
A lot of people are waiting to see Inter Milan and see Leon's jokes.
Li Ang naturally also knew that many people were waiting to see him unlucky, waiting to see his jokes, and he would not let these people succeed.
Leon fielded the starting line-up for his first real competitive game in charge of Inter Milan.
In the goalkeeper position, the veteran Toldo got the start.
In the backline, from right to left, there are captain Zanetti, Argentine Samuel, Italian Materazzi and Frenchman Patrice Evra.
In midfield, Leon fielded Carlos, Stankovic, Figo and Juan Mata as starters.
Up front is the partnership of Adriano and Ronaldo.
Speaking of Ronaldo, Leon is still using acupuncture to condition Ronaldo's body, and he has not yet used Ronaldo's skill card for rejuvenation.
On the one hand, in order to be more realistic, a curative process is needed, and on the other hand, Leon has to wait for a while before using the skill card for Ronaldo, at that time, Ronaldo After a relatively 'long' wait, Ronaldo can feel the joy of a healthy self the most, so that he can cherish it more, of course, he will be more grateful to Leon, and what he gets easily is always less cherished and grateful.
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Donetsk is the industrial center of the former Soviet Union and was a famous coal city back in the Soviet era. In May 1936, the Donetsk miners were officially formed, initially under the name of Stakhanovets, the name of a miner. The team initially competed in the Soviet Champions League, and after the war in Ukraine began to participate in the Ukrainian domestic league. However, the historical Shakhtars could only be regarded as unknown until 1996, when billionaire Akmetov took over.
Akhmetov is a wealthy man on par with Chelsea owner Roman Abramovich, but he has a different personality than Abu in that he "will never invest in foreign teams" and sees Shakhtar Donetsk as the only one in his heart. Having become the boss of the Donetsk miners, Akhmetov invested large sums of money in the miners. The club opened a new academy with modern facilities and built a new Donbas Arena, the team's new home, at a cost of $400 million. Under Akhmetov's management, Shakhtar began to break the monopoly of Dynamo Kiev in the country and gradually became the best club in Ukraine in the new millennium.
Shakhtar Donetsk is characterised by a number of Brazilian players in the squad, which has also served as a springboard for many South American players to enter Europe's top five leagues.
The youngster of Shakhtar Donetsk is the most dangerous player in the current Shakhtar Donetsk squad, with Fernandinho coming through Brazilian side Atlético Paranaense and scoring 14 goals in 72 appearances at a young age. Shakhtar Donetsk has the foresight to bring the 20-year-old Fernandinho to Donetsk for €8 million this summer.
Leon did not send Cambiasso to play today, but sent Carlos, because although Carlos does not have Cambiaso's organizational and scheduling ability, Carlos's defense, interception and stealing ability is stronger than Cambiaso's.
This Inter Milan team has just completed the blood change, the team is still in the most basic run-in period, Leon's LION tactics, this Inter Milan can play a third of the effect thank God.
In this case, Leon has high hopes for Carlos, who wants to dismember Shakhtar Donetsk from midfield.
And Stankovic, Leon still arranged defensive midfield tactics for him today!
Suffice it to say, today Inter Milan is using a simplified version of the LION tactics that Leon used in the early days of Sporting Gijón, and the core is: scramble!
Since the team has not yet kneaded into a form, then, use as simple a tactic as possible.
He is not the kind of rigid person who does not know how to adapt, knowing that the team's tactics have just begun to be kneaded, and still uses them in a rigid way.
If it is in Serie A, Leon does not mind the team's mistakes to gradually understand his tactics, but this is a two-legged knockout round, so he will successfully cross the knockout stage and enter the group stage of the Champions League. Later in Serie A, he had time to gradually pinch the team.
So, what people saw in this game was that Inter Milan and Shakhtar Donetsk got strangled in the midfield, and in the words of Torino Sport after the game, both teams played in a very undisciplined and very ugly way.
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It's really ugly.
However, Leon achieved the desired result.
In the first half, after Carlos made a steal in the midfield, he played Shakhtar Donetsk a counterattack, Figo passed the ball over the top, Adriano headed back to the point, and Mata, who followed up, scored with a low shot!
1-0, Inter Milan took a 1-0 lead!
This goal was the only bright spot for Inter Milan in the entire first half!
In the second half, Leon replaced Ronaldo, who was average.
Argentine youngster Sergio Aguero came off the bench.
In the 71st minute of the game, Aguero was pulled to the ground by the opponent with the ball in front.
Stankovic took a direct free-kick, it was a powerful low shot, the football rolled under the jumping wall, the blocked view of the Shakhtar Donetsk goalkeeper could not save, the football into the net!
Two to zero!
A counterattack!
A set-piece score!
Inter Milan, who didn't look good on the pitch, won 2-0 at home to Shakhtar Donetsk.
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Although it was not good-looking, and even a little embarrassed at some moments in the game, Inter Milan won the game, and his brother Juan Mata scored, it was Carlos who broke the ball and launched a counterattack, and it was the veteran Figo who was introduced by Li Ang to instigate the attack on the side, and Aguero, who came on as a substitute, created a free kick scored by Stankovic.
The results were good, and several of the players handpicked by Li Ang performed well.
The performance of Inter Milan after this big change is ugly or something, it is nothing.
The media who waited to see the joke held back their words and waited to laugh at Li Ang, but they didn't get the chance......
This hurt a lot of the media.
"Torino Sport" and other media ridiculed Inter Milan's chaotic play, but can only say that this is not Inter Milan playing well, but Shakhtar Donetsk playing too badly.
Only Sport praised Leon's performances with several signings, notably Carlos, the Spaniard nicknamed Gattuso Jr., who made Shakhtar Donetsk's midfield completely unable to organise a decent attack.
In short, Leon's first game was not ideal, but the result was ideal, his team won the first leg and did not allow their opponents to score away goals, and the prospects of qualifying for the group stage of the Champions League were bright.
Those who waited to see his joke were disappointed and could only continue to wait.
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