"Found it!"

At Chelsea's Harrington training ground, Jose Mourinho's assistant coach Villas-Boas walked briskly into the manager's office and excitedly shouted to Jose Mourinho, who was sitting behind his desk computer. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info

Mourinho, whose hair was a little gray, raised his head and looked at the approaching right-hand man, but his brow furrowed.

It took him three days to get the answer he wanted, which was too inefficient.

"Where?" Mourinho asked in a deep voice.

"A golf club dozens of kilometers away from the suburbs of Athens, Greece, I heard that they chartered the entire clubhouse, and they arrived in Athens four days in advance. ”

Mourinho's brows tightened, "I went to Athens four days early." ”

That's not a good sign.

Back on 12 May, Chelsea played their final round of the Premier League, which means that the Blues had 10 days to prepare for the Premier League and everything they could, from the Premier League to the Champions League final.

Inter Milan, by contrast, are in a much less favourable position, with at least they having to be distracted by the Serie A and Coppa Italia final against Roma, so Chelsea are slightly ahead in terms of preparation.

But that's only one aspect, and conversely, it's easier for Inter to stay in shape and adjust.

There was no match for 10 days, which was also a big test for Mourinho and the coaching staff, so during the preparation period, Mourinho secretly organized an internal game, which was a real 90-minute regular game.

Mourinho did almost everything he could think of before the game, but just as he was planning to go to Athens, two days ago, it was suddenly revealed by the media that Inter Milan's Pinettina training base was already empty, and there was not even a single first-team player.

This sparked a shock in the media and fans throughout Europe, and around the world.

Inter Milan officials quickly gave a reply, and the team set off ahead of schedule to the training camp.

But where exactly is the training camp, Inter Milan did not give a specific statement.

The pervasive media reporters immediately dug into the ground to dig out the hiding place of Inter Milan, but they never found it, which surprised Mourinho, who was far away in London, and couldn't help but be a little apprehensive.

The big war is imminent, but the opponent suddenly gives you such a hand, and everyone will be uneasy.

What's more, this time his opponent is still Gao Han.

"My guess is that they should have gotten acquainted with Athens in advance, and there was less back and forth. Boas guessed.

Mourinho nodded, it's not hard to guess.

In fact, he had thought about it before, and he had communicated with the club, on the one hand, to avoid reporters and concentrate on preparing for the game, and on the other hand, because the facilities at Harrington's training ground were really not good enough.

The location he chose was a coastal city in southern Spain, close to Athens.

However, the management eventually considered the budget and considered the team to be very expensive for the 10-day overseas training camp, and finally rejected Mourinho's proposal, believing that it would be more practical to concentrate on staying in London to prepare for the game.

What's more, Mourinho also needs to play an internal game in the middle of the training camp.

Thinking of this, Mourinho sighed secretly, erased all the troubles in his heart, and looked at Boas again.

"The media reporter has received the news, has anyone gone to investigate?"

"How could it be?" Boas smiled, media reporters were everywhere, "However, all of them were blocked by the security guards of the golf clubhouse, and I heard that some reporters tried to sneak in, and they were arrested and taken to the police station." ”

Mourinho could fully imagine the tricks of those reporters, and he could also imagine the scene of them being turned into the police station, and he sneered with disdain in his heart, he simply looked down on those reporters who made trouble.

But Gao Han and Inter Milan specially chose such a place to prepare for the game, but they had to attract his attention.

For Chelsea, whether it is playing Inter Milan or Atletico Madrid, there is only one way to go, and that is to press the circle, because physical and physical confrontation are Chelsea's strengths and opponents' disadvantages.

There should be no one in the world who is stupid enough to use their weakness to collide with the opponent's advantage, right?

But playing Inter Milan is completely different from playing Atletico Madrid.

Heynckes is more conservative than Gao Han in his bones, more balanced in attack and defense, Gao Han seems to be very balanced, but in fact he is extremely obsessed with attack, he belongs to the kind of head coach who wants to hold the initiative firmly in his hands.

What's even more terrifying is that he is always able to crush his opponents with his attacks.

Therefore, in the past period, Chelsea's focus on defensive tactics is not like when playing Atletico Madrid, but more attention is paid to the compactness of the overall formation, and even preferring to give up attacking for the sake of defense.

People outside want to scold him for being conservative or saying that he is anti-football, but as a professional head coach, he knows very well that this is the only way to beat Gao Han, and he will not hesitate to insist.

"In the first leg of the semi-finals, Gao Han and Pep Guardiola were in the stands, and if I'm not mistaken, he should have seen our tactics as well, and in the second leg, they will definitely learn from Atletico Madrid's targeted tactics. ”

Everyone is well aware of the close relationship between Alpine and Atletico Madrid, and Villas-Boas has no doubt that they will exchange news.

"I'm afraid they're going to make a fuss about Makelele, especially Yaya Toure. ”

At the mention of Yaya Toure, Mourinho's eyes flashed with a hint of discoloration.

That player is also the type he admires very much, but he was put to good use by Gao Han.

This season, Gao Han has reused Yaya Toure as the team's midfielder, but his position is more flexible, often adjusting according to the opponent's opponent, but he generally plays the opponent's midfield, and even goes forward to get the ball at the edge of the penalty area when attacking.

At the top of the arc, Yaya Toure's ability to handle and make the ball is quite good.

Playing AC Milan and Manchester United, Yaya Toure has taken on the burden of suppressing the opponent's organizational midfield, and Pirlo and Carrick both hate him, so Gao Han arranged Yaya Toure to play Makelele, Mourinho has no doubt.

'Then we're going to shrink the formation and let Ballack and Frank Lampard drop in to protect Claude Makelle. ”

Makelele's importance to Chelsea is extraordinary.

Back then, after Jose Mourinho took charge of the Blues, he moved a lot of players, but there were only four players he didn't dare to move.

Goalkeeper Van der Sar is the backbone of the team's defense, he does not dare to move, John Terry and Frank Lampard are the homegrown core of the team, the big man in the dressing room, Mourinho does not dare to move, and the last one is Claude Makelele.

However, in the last two or three years, Van der Sar's performances have been no longer reassuring, Mourinho had already moved the idea of replacing him in the summer transfer, and the Dutchman himself was interested in leaving Chelsea but delayed it for various reasons.

But in any case, protecting Makelele is Mourinho's only option.

At the very least, Mikel is nowhere near to replace Makelele.

'I didn't pay much attention to the midfield, I was most worried about the right-back. ”

"Paolo Ferreira?"

"Well, he can't stop Cristiano Ronaldo. ”

"But Cristiano Ronaldo's form hasn't been terrible lately, and the media and fans are about to scold him to death, do you think he can adjust for a while?" asked Boas, puzzled.

Mourinho looked at his assistant and shook his head and smiled, in the end, he was still inexperienced.

"I'll tell you, Cristiano Ronaldo's form is not bad, but he can be said to be the best in the Inter Milan team, but he was heavily targeted by opponents in the game, and he likes to take the ball too much, so he seems to make frequent mistakes and is not in good shape. ”

Speaking of which, Mourinho reminded his assistant, "Think about it, what happened to the red cards of Arbeloa and Panucci?

Boas was speechless.

Woken up to Mourinho and he really found that things didn't seem to be as the media and fans said.

They just focus on goals and assists, but in the game, Cristiano Ronaldo's possession and breakthrough caused the impact and harassment of the opposition defence, which is not simply a statistic.

Finnan is a Premier League player, Panucci is also an experienced veteran, and it goes without saying what the quality of these two is.

Arbeloa is the least famous of the three, but he completely targeted Robben's right-back in Liverpool's game against Chelsea, and it is difficult for Boas to ignore his defensive ability.

But these three players can probably only be regarded as decent in front of Cristiano Ronaldo, but they still inevitably received red cards, which shows how good the strength of the Portuguese is.

"It's not just Cristiano Ronaldo, but Ibrahimovic, Adriano and Yaya Toure, Inter Milan is a club of freaks. Mourinho scolded indignantly.

These four players have to be skilled, they have to have a body, they have to have an impact, they don't have to be too fierce.

Let's put it this way, these four guys are hard and soft and hard.

"To defend against them, you can only rely on the whole, you can't fight alone, and Ferreira can't defend Cristiano Ronaldo. ”

Boas was taken aback, "What then?"

Mourinho's eyes narrowed, and he looked firmly ahead, he already had a solution.

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Athens, Greece, 23 May 2007.

This legendary city has returned to the eyes of the world because of this Champions League final.

Over the past two days, more than 60,000 fans have poured into Athens and taken over the streets of Athens.

Especially on the 23rd, all the fans were in place, the big battle was about to start, the fans of the two teams were also tense, and the whole city was filled with a tense and exciting atmosphere of the final.

A bus painted in the colours of the Inter Milan team sped down the road to the Olympic Stadium on the outskirts, with flags representing the two finalists reversing as the stars of Inter Milan and Chelsea took to the streets, with the urge not to look back.

As the bus pulled out of the viaduct and into the street leading to the Olympic Stadium, countless fans rushed up as if they had come out of the ground, shouting the names of the manager and the players through the windows, and shouting slogans of encouragement to the team.

The closer you get to the Olympic Stadium, the more fans there are and the slower the car will be.

It's so slow that everyone inside the car can make eye contact with the fans outside the car.

Tonight, everyone, whether it's the fans or the players, has only one goal.

Leave Athens with victory!