Chapter 229: Second Round
Leon had a headache, and he regretted that he hadn't listened to Cassano's review in advance.
At the Pinenati base, Cassano apologized to the whole team and made a review.
'Barry Bad Boy' said a lot of things, but looking at his hippie smiley face, you can know the facts of this review, Cassano said a lot, and it can be summed up in one center: I am wrong, I am guilty, I have not controlled my temper, but I am so happy......
This girl is a joke.
Li Ang couldn't cry and laugh, both angry and helpless, he could only warn Cassano with a straight face to regulate his behavior in the future, and he really didn't have much to do, of course, if Cassano really caused trouble in the future, he would definitely not show mercy.
Juventus' match in this league game follows the end of the match between Inter Milan and Roma, which is a Turin derby.
In the end, Juventus were held to a 0-0 draw at home by Torino, and the Bianconeri were once again further widened by Inter Milan.
A few days later, in the 27th round of Serie A, Inter Milan defeated Reggina 2-0 at home, with Balotelli and Sergio Aguero scoring for Inter.
In the last round of the league, they lost 0-4 to Roma at the feet of Inter Milan, and this round of the league abused Parma with the same score, 4-0, and the Red Wolves' ability to abuse vegetables is still very good.
Juventus, who were forced to draw by Torino in the last round of the Turin derby, lost 2-3 at home to Fiorentina in this round of the league.
Two consecutive rounds of league games without winning, Juventus and Inter Milan points difference has been stretched to 33 points, what is this concept, this is 11 games of victory! Now the league has only been played 26 rounds, according to this point difference, as long as Inter Milan wins the next round of the league, Juventus will also bid farewell to the league championship from the theory mountain, of course, in this situation, people have long believed that Juventus is still capable of threatening Inter Milan's defense of the title.
"Juventus bid farewell to the Serie A ......championship in advance," Torino Sport said sadly after the game.
As for Inter Milan's local rivals AC Milan, the team that had been left behind in the first half of the league had a good performance after the winter break, and have been unbeaten in many league games, gradually catching up, they are only four points away from Juventus, one point behind Fiorentina, who beat Juventus in this round of the league, and rekindle the hope of Champions League qualification.
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This league game will be followed by the second leg of the Champions League quarter-finals.
Inter Milan hosts Liverpool, AC Milan hosts Arsenal, and Milan plays against Premier League giants.
Roma travel to Madrid to face Galacticos Real Madrid at the Bernabeu Stadium.
In the first leg of the match between the two sides, AC Milan and Arsenal played a 0-0 draw, and the second leg was at home, AC Milan is the defending champion, and the media is still more optimistic about AC Milan to advance.
In addition, although Roma won Real Madrid 2-1 at home in the first leg, given that Real Madrid only lost by one goal and scored an away goal, the media is still optimistic that Real Madrid will advance to the quarterfinals in the second leg at the Bernabeu Stadium.
Of the three Serie A teams, Inter Milan are the favourites to beat Liverpool 5-1 at Anfield in the first leg of their away game, and it is widely believed that Leon's Inter Milan have basically secured a place in the last eight.
Inter fans are optimistic, as are the Italian media, believing that the second leg of Inter Milan is just a routine.
However, on the English side, the English media cheered Liverpool again, they said that Liverpool is a tenacious team, although there is little hope of promotion in this situation, but it is entirely possible for Liverpool to explode and stage a Jedi escape - 'because they are Liverpool!'
Liverpool's official take the 2004/2005 UEFA Champions League final 'Istanbul Night' as an example, they were able to reverse in the Champions League final after falling behind three goals at half-time, so at the Meazza Stadium, there are a full 90 minutes, four goals behind, why is it impossible for Liverpool to work a miracle again?!
In response, the Italian media ridiculed the Liverpudlians for not even counting the beatings in the first leg: if Liverpool want to advance, they must beat Inter Milan 5-0 in the second leg.
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Leon didn't get carried away with his 5-1 win at Liverpool. A player can be proud and happy about the first leg victory, but, as a manager, as the soul of this team, he has to force himself to calm down and treat the second leg as if it were a 0-0 start, it has nothing to do with confidence, calmness and rigor or not, which is a must for a good manager.
For the second leg of the match with Liverpool, Leon made it clear in the pre-match meeting that Inter Milan should strive to score early and completely destroy the fighting spirit of the Liverpool people with goals!
The first leg was 5-1, and in the second leg, the Liverpudlians wanted to advance, which was a hellish difficult mode, and they had to score five goals against Inter Milan and not concede a goal yet.
Once Inter Milan score early, it will be a heavy blow to the Liverpudlians.
If they can break the fighting spirit of the Liverpudlian people early, this game will be a lot easier for Inter Milan, which is important in the case of playing on the third line.
So, after the second leg of the match between Inter Milan and Liverpool started at the Meazza Stadium, people were surprised to find that the home team Inter Milan launched a frenzied onslaught on Liverpool, and they seemed to completely ignore the huge five-to-one lead, and I was extremely hungry for attack.
"Inter Milan are showing great hunger!" Ferrari exclaimed, "this is Leon's team, this is why they can dominate Europe!
"Although Leon also rotated to a certain extent in the game, their fierce attack was no less than at Anfield!" said Rossi.
Leon sat in the dugout and watched with interest as his team laid siege to Liverpool's goal.
He made some rotation in this game, and compared to the first leg between the two sides, Balotelli replaced Sergio Aguero, however, Adriano also started in place of Diego Milito, and the combination of Balotelli and Adriano is hardly weaker than the combination of Aguero and Diego Milito.
In midfield, David Silva replaced Arshavin, but Silva came in on the left and Muntari on the right.
At the back, Leonardo Bonucci replaced Samuel and McCone replaced Zanetti.
However, even with the rotation, with Inter Milan's starting lineup today (Cesar McCone, Bonucci, Zivo, Evra, Modric, Carlos, Muntari, David Silva, Adriano Balotelli), the strength is still strong, except for Balotelli and Muntari and Bonucci, the other eight starters can be said to be the main force in the first line.
It can also be seen from here that the current lineup of Leon's Inter Milan team is very good.