Chapter 224: Enjoy the Process

Deco is no longer eligible to play for Inter Milan in the UEFA Champions League because he has played for Barcelona in the Champions League before.

This is also the reason why Adecco's value is slightly lower than the 'market price'.

However, this is not a bad thing in Leon's plan, as he will bring in more Deco in the league, which would give Arshavin or David Silva or even Juan Mata or Luka Modric more time to rest.

Leon gave Deco instructions to intensify his pressing of Pizarro.

The order is conveyed to Deco, however, the executor is not Deco, Carlos is the right person, and Deco is responsible for the most important follow-up action, instigating the counterattack!

Juan Mata was on the ball in front of him, he was interfered with by De Rossi, and then opted to pass the ball, Deco received the ball and tried to pass it over the top, but the ball was picked up by goalkeeper Doni after the ball was tipped over by Panucci.

Doni looked ahead, and he threw the ball to Mex, who faced the pounced Mata and quickly passed the ball to Pizarro, who came to pick it up.

This should have been an opportunity for the Roma team to counterattack, however, in view of the previous few quick counterattacks, they were terminated by Inter Milan's tough interception, but because of the large pressure in the counterattack, Inter Milan almost seized the opportunity to play a counter-attack, Spalletti was apprehensive, and ordered the Roma team to slow down the tempo, especially asking Pizarro, the offensive organizer, to control the ball more after taking the ball and sort it out.

In fact, this is a not-so-clever tweak, if not a bit of a bad adjustment.

In fact, on-the-spot command has never been Spalletti's forte, he has rarely reversed the decline on the field through substitutions, and on-the-spot tactical adjustments are rarely seen to have immediate results.

This time, Spalletti's adjustment has not yet played a role, and it was seen through by Leon, and then there is a highly targeted cracking technique!

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Pizarro took the ball, he dribbled forward, and the Chilean wanted to sort out the rhythm of the game with his dribbling and possession, while observing what was going on in front of him.

Carlos came up and intercepted.

Pizarro hesitated slightly, this opponent has extremely strong interception ability, and is the 'steal king' of Serie A for two consecutive seasons.

Pizarro was confident in his footwork, and in the end he made a choice: he decided to get past Carlos, then observe what was going on in front of him and wait for an opportunity to pass the ball again.

But in the next second, he realized how stupid his idea was.

Carlos pounced so quickly that his opponent didn't give him time to play his footwork.

Pizarro had a lot of experience, and despite his surprise, he responded by keeping the football in front of him, thus keeping Carlos out of his back.

Pizarro's response cannot be said to be wrong, if he was facing a normal interceptor, it would be right, however, he was facing Carlos.

Pizarro thought he could defend the ball, but he didn't expect Carlos to be so fast: when Carlos's body came sideways, his feet moved quickly, and he suddenly reached out from the side - he stabbed the football!

Then, without slowing down, Carlos went straight past Pizarro and caught up with the football.

Pizarro was so frightened that he was about to catch up with him, when he felt like he had hit a wall.

While Carlos caught up with the football, he blocked Pizarro behind him with his body, and then he didn't hesitate and passed the football directly to Deco, who had been preparing to answer for a long time!

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It was a half-time break for Roma, who were just about to counter-attack when their formation was about to be pressed out.

On the side of Inter Milan, they still maintain the offensive posture just now, with a total of as many as five players still in the attacking position.

Deco gracefully turned the ball over and looked up at the situation ahead.

If he can deliver a penetrating pass, he could go straight into the Roma penalty area!

Seeing this scene, Roma goalkeeper Doni was shocked, and he immediately shouted in front of the goal: "Press out!

In an instant, the players of the Roma team pressed forward in panic, like a tide, for fear that someone would slow down and drag behind to create offside.

Deco passed the ball out.

A diagonal pass with one foot on the ground!

Adriano is on the running line of football.

A Roma player raised his hand to signal that Adriano was offside, but the linesman and referee were unmoved: because Adriano did not make a move to catch the ball!

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Adriano let the ball roll past him without even looking at it, he knew he was offside and the referee would blow the whistle if he touched the ball.

"Right !!," Roma goalkeeper Doni shouted in panic.

On the left flank, Juan Mata slotted forward at high speed, and the small and fast Spaniard star was sprinting off the ball.

Then, everyone saw that Mata almost passed by Tonetto, and then did not slow down, and received the football in the high-speed run, not offside!

Mata's back cut in made the Roma defence suddenly chaotic: they failed to make an offside position!

A number of players pounced on Juan Mata desperately, and they couldn't let the Inter player cut inside the box, and it was a one-on-one shot!

It was not only the defenders who pounced on Mata, but Roma's goalkeeper Doni also attacked, he was worried that the defenders would not be able to stop the extremely fast Mata, he went straight to the side, as long as he attacked and blocked in time, he was able to block Mata's shot angle to the maximum!

From the stands, Juan Mata looked like a big magnet at this point, attracting a flock of Roma defenders and goalkeepers, and he looked like he was about to be rounded.

Then, people saw that the football rolled out of the cracks.

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Mata faced the encirclement of the Romans, and of course knew what that meant!

He didn't look at the people who pounced on them, and with a push of his foot, the football passed out before the encirclement of these people tightened.

Adriano appears at the drop point of football!

When Deco passed the ball before, Adriano was offside, he didn't touch the ball, at this time, Mata's pass, Adriano was naturally not offside!

Facing the rolling football, the Brazilian volleys directly with his left foot!

As soon as the ball flew off the ground, it plunged headlong into the net......

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“Gooooooooooooooooooooooaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaal!”

"Adriano!! Inter Milan finally broke the deadlock!!!

There were loud cheers from the stands at the Meazza Stadium.

Inter fans had waited too long for this goal, and they had been expecting a goal from the first minute.

However, although Inter Milan took the initiative on the field and attacked like a tide, they were unable to break through the Roma goal.

Now that the goal has finally arrived, they can finally cheer and celebrate!

Leon waved his right arm slightly on the sidelines, and now the goal and win against Roma did not make him too excited, and despite being second in the league, the team has never really posed a threat to Inter.

There was a smug smile on the corner of his mouth, Spalletti's adjustment was a wrong move, and he was immediately keenly seen through, and then decisively seized the opportunity, which made him slightly proud.

What he is enjoying now is the process.