On August 23, 2007, Inter Milan took a family photo of the new season at the Pinenati training base.

Leon and the coaching staff sat in front, and behind them were the Inter Milan stars, pictured with a faintly confident smile on the face of the Inter manager.

The newspaper Sport Milan published a family photo of Inter Milan with the headline 'Leon's Inter Milan III'.

Inter Milan 2007/2008 family photo.

Goalkeepers: 1 Francisco Toldo, 12 Giulio Cesar, 22 Paulo Orlandoni;

Defenders: 2 Iván Córdoba, 3 Nicolás Andres Burdisso, 25 Walter Samuel, 26 Christian Zivo, 23 Marco Materazzi, 24 Leonardo Bonucci, 4 Javier Zanetti, 3 Patrice Evra, 13 McConn, 17 Andrade Maxwell;

Midfielders: 5 - Dejan Stankovic, 8 Luka Modric, 6 Juan Carlos, 18 Claudio Marchisio, 7 Juan Mata, 14 David Silva, 20 Sulaij Muntari;

Forwards: 10 - Adriano, 16 Aguero, 22 Diego Milito, 99 Antonio Cassano;

Among them, the most eye-catching is Juan Mata and Silva and Modric three players, after Figo left, Mata wore the number seven shirt, while Modric wore the number eight shirt belonging to Mata, David Silva wore Modric's original number 14 shirt, the Italian media joked that several young players of Inter Milan seemed to be playing a relay game.

On 25 August 2007, the 2007/2008 Serie A season officially kicked off.

The league opener was played between defending champions Inter Milan and Udinese.

After Di Natale joined Udinese from Sporting Gijón, the Black Roosters have been in good form in the past two seasons, finishing 10th in Serie A last season, but they are not much apart from sixth place and are just a little bit of luck away from European competition.

When predicting the prospects of the Serie A teams in the new season, the Italian media are generally optimistic about Udinese, believing that this team may be called a surprise in the new season.

The morale of the entire Udinese squad is also good, and their players have expressed their confidence in achieving a good ranking in the new season.

However, in the first game of the season, they unfortunately faced Leon's Inter Milan.

There are two highlights of this match, one is the midfielder of Inter Milan Muntari against his old club, and the other is the duel between Udinese's number one star Di Natale and his mentor Leon.

After the transfer to Udinese, Di Natale has maintained a good goalscoring form in both seasons, and the Italian striker has also expressed his gratitude to Leon many times in media interviews.

In this game, Li Ang played his main force, and the team vowed to get a good start to the new season.

Most notably, in the forward line, Leon fielded a forward combination of Adriano and Sergio Aguero, and after Ronaldo's departure, it was widely predicted in the media that the combination of Adriano and Aguero would most likely be called Inter's preferred forward configuration.

In the pre-season warm-up matches, Leon practiced the most between Adriano, Aguero and Diego Milito.

In the opening game of the new league season, Leon finally chose the forward combination of Adriano and Aguero, who have been relatively tacit in the past two seasons.

Sergio Aguero has speed and technique, Adriano is in just the right form and full of impact.

Udinese struggled against Inter's frenzied attack, and although they managed to hold on to a 0-0 score in the first half, Adriano blasted Udinese's header wide of the net shortly after the start of the second half.

Sergio Aguero then set up Luka Modric for the second goal.

In the end, Inter Milan defeated Udinese 2-0 in the opening game to win the first game of the new season.

At a press conference after the game, Leon made a high-profile statement that Inter Milan's goal was to defend the league title and achieve the great cause of three consecutive Serie A titles.

"I know humility is a virtue, but it's shameful to lie and be insincere, we're strong, we're still hungry, we want to defend the league title and we believe we can do it! Because we have this strength, a team, a championship team, we must have the courage to shout such a slogan, the courage to express our confidence!"

No one expected that after the end of the first round of the league, Li Ang shouted the slogan of defending the league title, and Li Ang's words were not modest at all, and could even be said to be quite arrogant.

However, even in the face of Leon's arrogant face, the media did not even say too much about his arrogance in addition to criticizing him for his lack of respect for the main opponents of the league, because in the current Serie A field, Leon's Inter Milan is indeed very powerful, in the words of the Italian media, although Leon's words are very angry, this is very arrogant, but Inter Milan and Leon have arrogant capital, including AC Milan and other teams including Roma and Juventus, need to take all their strength to contain Inter Milan, in order to prevent 2007/The 2008 Serie A season was once again reduced to Inter Milan's one-man show!

If you are strong enough, you will have enough arrogance capital!

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This is Leon's third season at Inter Milan.

In the first season, Leon led Inter Milan to win the Serie A, Coppa Italia and UEFA Champions League, achieving the treble!

In the following season, Inter Milan successfully defended their title in Serie A and also successfully defended their title in the Coppa Italia, achieving a double.

Inter Milan's strength in Serie A is evident!

Now, his team lineup is becoming more and more mature, although Ronaldo has left, and Diego Milito has arrived, Leon's favorite player in Sporting Gijón has a thorough understanding of Leon's tactics and can almost seamlessly connect with the team, so Inter Milan's strength has not been affected, and the team's tactics are tacitly compatible. Such a team is confident enough to say that they are going to defend the league title again.

If Li Ang pretends that Inter Milan's title defense is difficult, the media and fans will feel tired and uncomfortable.

Of course, Leon's words will indeed make some people unhappy, especially Inter Milan's rival AC Milan, AC Milan is the Champions League champion last season, is the king of Europe, they are now very high-spirited, AC Milan owner Berlusconi said that this season, AC Milan will regain lost ground in the league.

Therefore, listening to Li Ang's arrogant words, Berlusconi was very unhappy, the former Italian prime minister said in an interview with the media that Li Ang was too fluttering, AC Milan would teach Li Ang and Inter Milan a lesson, and tell Inter Milan who is the greatest football club in Italy and who is the king of Italy.

In this regard, Li Ang did not respond at all, he now has enough arrogance and confidence, and everything depends on his results.

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After the first round of the league, on August 30, Leon went to Monaco to participate in the draw for the 2007/2008 Champions League.

The 2007 UEFA Super Cup kicked off before the draw for the group stage of the Champions League began.

Leon watched the UEFA Super Cup match between reigning Champions League champions AC Milan and defending Europa League champions Sevilla from the stands.

Because of Puerta's unexpected death, the UEFA Super Cup has not been rescheduled, but it is shrouded in an atmosphere of mourning.

In Sevilla's 4-1 victory over Getafe in La Liga on the 25th, Puerta suddenly had a heart attack and passed out on the pitch, and was awakened by emergency and then fell into a coma after returning to the lounge. On the 27th, the 22-year-old Spanish international, who had only played one international match, was pronounced dead by the hospital.

AC Milan's Italy international Andrea Pirlo said after the game that playing the game on the weekend of Puerta's death was a heavy blow for everyone

Before the game, the audience observed a minute of silence for Puerta, with both players donning black armbands and burning his name on their shirts as a sign of remembrance.

In the stands where Sevilla fans gathered, fans held up banners that read "Puerta, you are with us" and "Puerta, we will not forget you", and in the stands of AC Milan fans, a banner reading "Glory to Puerta", which was presented to Sevilla fans at half-time.

As the players warmed up, the fans chanted Puerta's name rhythmically, while the players on the pitch applauded. There was a mournful and friendly atmosphere.

In this pinnacle clash between last season's Champions League winner and UEFA Cup winners, it was Sevilla FC who scored first

of Renato. In the 15th minute, after the header went into the net, the Sevilla players gathered and pointed to the sky with both hands to console the dead of their former team-mates.

However, from the 10th minute of the second half, AC Milan staged a big comeback, starting with an equaliser by Inzaghi with a header in the 55th minute, and then by Jankulovski and Kaka netting in the 62nd and 86th minutes respectively.

AC Milan won the UEFA Super Cup, and after the game, AC Milan club vice president Galliani was very proud, and he even boasted that Inter Milan won the Italian Super Cup, but AC Milan won the UEFA Super Cup, which is the difference between the two sides.

In his opinion, the 2007 UEFA Champions League championship is actually not a good thing for AC Milan, AC Milan with a serious aging lineup, could have changed blood early, but this Champions League champion made AC Milan play chicken blood all of a sudden, from fans to the team to the club's top management, suddenly immersed in the glory of the European champion, thinking that they are still one of the strongest teams in Europe, so that AC Milan's renewal has stalled all of a sudden.

For the new season of Serie A and the UEFA Champions League, Leon never thought that the reigning Champions League champion AC Milan would be one of Inter's opponents.

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The UEFA Super Cup was followed by the draw for the group stage of the 2007/2008 UEFA Champions League.

The results of the draw for each group came out one after another, and the global media began to discuss it:

Group A, Liverpool, Porto, Marseille, Besiktas;

All the media believe that Liverpool can easily qualify after winning the draw this time. Porto and Marseille will compete for the other qualifying spot. Marseille had a bad start to the league after leaving Ribery, and may focus on the league, of course, it is possible to give up the league to attack European competitions, but this possibility is not large, after all, the French hegemon Lyon has also changed personnel this season, and Marseille will definitely not let go of this opportunity to compete for the league title, and the Champions League is too far away for Marseille. So Porto have a good chance of qualifying.

Group B, Chelsea, Valencia, Schalke 04, Rosenborg;

This group is where three teams compete for two spots. Chelsea's group qualification should not be a problem, Valencia were wiped out 3-0 at the start of this year's La Liga season, but with their consistent European performances, if they get points from Chelsea, they should be able to beat Schalke 04 to win another qualifying spot.

Group C, Real Madrid, Bremen, Lazio, Olympiacos;

Real Madrid will be sorry if they can't qualify from the group after a big summer campaign, and Bremen without Klose and Lazio without the ability to fight on two fronts should not be able to stop them. On the contrary, I think Olympiacos has a good chance of getting out of the game.

Group D, AC Milan, Benfica, Celtic, Shakhtar Donetsk;

The defending champions should be able to qualify easily, while Celtic can fight for another qualifying spot if they lose Simao's Benfica, and Shakhtar are still far from being able to qualify.

Group E, Barcelona, Lyon, Stuttgart, Glasgow Rangers;

The media generally considered this group to be a veritable group of death, and although Lyon sold many big names, they were able to cope with the start of the league in stride. Neither Bundesliga champions Stuttgart nor Scotland's powerhouses are to be messed with, and as Barcelona continue to build up, the key factor in their ability to qualify from the group is a key factor in their ability to qualify from the group.

Group F, Manchester United, Roma, Sporting Lisbon, Dynamo Kyiv;

Manchester United had a bad start to the league and injured Wayne Rooney, but the media believe that Roma and Sporting Lisbon could not prevent them from qualifying from the group, and the revenge-hungry Roma should also be able to enter the round of 16 smoothly, and they may even be the top of the group.

Group G, Inter Milan, PSV Eindhoven, CSKA Moscow, Fenerbach;

The media generally believes that Leon's team has drawn a sign, and Inter should not be able to worry, whether it is PSV Eindhoven, Russian team or Turkish team, there will be no threat or test to Leon's team.