Chapter 569: Waiting to be slaughtered!
1 May 2007, Evening at the Calderón Stadium in Madrid, Spain. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info
After returning to his home turf after returning to his home turf, Heynckes once again set up a strong attacking formation, while also targeting the weakness of Chelsea's defensive weakness on the right flank, and also played his due role in the game.
Villa, David Silva and Jankulovski formed the most powerful side of Atletico Madrid's attack, threatening Chelsea's right side of the defence with a number of killings.
But Mourinho was clearly well prepared for this flank, with John Terry and Claude Makelele focusing on Paolo Ferreira on the right and Andrade blocking Torres.
Again, as in the first leg, Atletico Madrid dominated and repeatedly created kills on the left, but they were never able to convert attacking chances into goals, especially as the game progressed into the second half, and the Sheets began to suffer from the lack of experience of young players, a little too rash and impatient.
Heynckes also realized the problem, frequently appealed to the players on the sidelines to stay calm, and cooled the players' heads by making substitutions, but in the end it did not stop the frenzy of the players on the field.
With the 83rd minute played, Atletico Madrid were unable to find a flaw and Chelsea seized the opportunity to counter-attack, with Frank Lampard receiving a pass from Ballack and slotting it diagonally down the right.
Substitute Nicolas Anelka received the ball on the right side of the penalty area, shook off Jankulovski, who was hurrying back to the defense, and then rushed ahead of Carvalho before he suddenly got up and hit the goal.
Anelka's powerful shot was saved by goalkeeper Petr Cech, but Drogba, who was cut in behind, blocked Ramos with his body and volleyed into the net from close range 12 yards out.
The entire Calderón stadium fell into a dead silence!
No one could have imagined that Chelsea would suddenly seize such an opportunity towards the end of the game, play a counter-attack and score a crucial goal, which was completely unexpected by everyone.
0-1, Atletico Madrid has been cornered.
Heynckes made a quick decision, made one last substitution adjustment, and decisively strengthened the attack.
The Atletico Madrid players on the pitch also frantically stormed the Chelsea defence, but were never able to break through the Blues' defence.
In the end, the game ended 0-1.
Chelsea eliminated Atletico Madrid 1-0 on aggregate to advance to the final.
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Pinettina training base, Milan, Italy.
According to the Champions League schedule, Inter Milan will play the first leg a day earlier than Chelsea, but the second leg will be played a day later.
Although he will play against Liverpool tomorrow, Gao Han and the coaching staff still stay in the training base to watch this key game.
When they saw that Atletico Madrid had not been able to break through the Chelsea goal until the end of the game, they were full of embarrassment when they saw the likes of Torres, Villa, David Silva and Ramos all crawling on the grass and crying.
They are all from Atletico Madrid, they have a deep affection for the Sheets Army, and they were still hesitating if they met Atletico Madrid in the final, whether they could get it, but they didn't expect Chelsea to take the initiative to go to Inter Milan for this heart disease, but it made them feel very uncomfortable.
"You guessed it. Guardiola turned his head to look at Gao Han, his eyes were very admiring, but he was not happy.
"Anelka is really his wonder man, he didn't play in the first leg, but after coming off the bench in this round, the performance was too eye-catching, almost every time he got the ball, he could cause a counterattack, Mourinho probably had all this planned. ”
Although he guessed correctly, Gao Han was not happy at all.
Atletico Madrid is indeed stronger, but he is not happy to be eliminated, and from the current situation, Chelsea is even more difficult than Atletico Madrid.
As for why Mourinho didn't use Anelka at home, Gao Han has no way of knowing, perhaps because he felt that letting him come on as a substitute in the first leg might not have a chance to sneak up on Atletico Madrid, so he simply stayed away.
But there is no doubt that Mourinho's line-up and on-the-spot command in these two legs are classics.
I believe that even as an opponent, Heynckes may have to lose convincingly.
'Judging by the performance in this game, the right side is still the weakness of Chelsea's defence. Cantarero pointed out the problem.
Paulo Ferreira was brought to Chelsea by Gao Han, he knows the Portuguese player very well, he is decent, hardworking, and has a high level of tactical execution, but he has always been relatively mediocre, so Mourinho is not particularly happy with him, which is why he wants to bring in Ivanovic and Maika Richards.
But in the Champions League, Mourinho obviously didn't dare to promote newcomers casually, so he still reused Paulo Ferreira.
'Atletico Madrid was attacking in the right direction in this game, but they couldn't convert their chances into goals, and they couldn't get into a mess for a long time, which gave Chelsea a chance to sneak up, so I think we should look at that in the future. ”
As the chief assistant coach by Gao Han's side, Cantarero is very reasonable in his analysis.
'We didn't have much of a problem attacking on the left, I'm sure Cristiano Ronaldo won't let us down, and with Patrice Evra, I'm sure we won't lose to Atletico Madrid on the left. ”
For the ability of his team, Gao Han has a very strong self-confidence.
When it comes to attacking from the left, Inter Milan can't afford to lose to any team.
"In the middle, we have Ibrahimovic and Adriano and Yaya Toure in the second echelon, and we have to be more attacking and sharper than Atletico Madrid from every point of view. ”
Inter Milan's biggest shock in European football was the team's outstanding attacking prowess.
The trident of Cristiano Ronaldo, Zlatan Ibrahimovic and Adriano is one of the most dominant in attack, and no team in European football can match Inter Milan.
So far, no team has been able to hold back Inter's attack.
"It's just ......" Gao Han closed his eyes and sighed lightly, "I'm a little worried, what kind of targeted defensive tactics will Mourinho use to freeze us?"
As the saying goes, knowing oneself and knowing one's opponent is invincible.
Guessing the opponent's targeted tactics is also one of the lessons that the manager prepares before the game.
The characteristics of the players are different, resulting in different attacking characteristics of Atletico Madrid and Inter Milan, and the attacking areas that the two teams are good at, so Mourinho's targeted tactics will definitely be different.
What exactly he will arrange, Gao Han and his assistants have no way of knowing.
It can only be said that the soldiers will block, and the water will cover the earth.
With Inter Milan's current strength, there is no need to guess too much about the opponent, but should think about how to play to their own level, as long as they can play normally, no team can stop Inter Milan.
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2 May 2007, Evening at the Estadio Meazza in Milan.
When the whistle blew at the end of the game, the entire Meazza stadium was completely boiling.
More than 60,000 fans rose from their seats in unison to sing the praises of the players in the stadium.
2-0, Inter Milan beat Liverpool without danger.
Interestingly, as in the first leg, it was goals from Zlatan Ibrahimovic and Adriano.
Although Liverpool's right-back Arbeloa was absent in this game, Finnan's starting still did not give Cristiano Ronaldo too many opportunities to perform, and the Portuguese was once again frozen on the left and was replaced by Gao Han early.
But that didn't detract from the excitement of Inter fans.
2-0, 4-1 on aggregate, Inter Milan successfully advanced to the final.
This is also the fifth time in the history of the Champions League that the Nerazzurri have reached the final, the first four were in the 63-64 season, and the 64-65 season, Inter Milan defeated Real Madrid and Benfica 3-1 and 1-0 respectively to win the Champions League for the second consecutive season.
Among them, the second time was at the Meazza Stadium in Milan, winning the cup at home.
After that, Inter Milan reached the Champions League final twice in the 66-67 season and the 71-72 season, but lost 1-2 to Celtic and 0-2 to Ajax, both times missing the championship.
After more than 30 years of absence, Inter Milan reached the Champions League final again, and this time as the top favourite, which undoubtedly made the fans at the Meazza stadium full of expectations for the team to win the cup.
Even in the stands, there were already fans who couldn't wait to shout the slogan of reclaiming the third St. Bride Cup.
Standing in front of the home team's coach's box at the Meaza Stadium, Gao Han heard the voices of the fans shouting for him, which made him feel very proud, and made him secretly swear in his heart that he would lead the team back from Greece to the championship trophy no matter what.
But it won't be easy.
In the past few years, the Premier League teams have continuously introduced high-level players with strong financial support, and the overall level has improved greatly, and Mourinho's Chelsea is one of the best.
Especially during the winter break, more than 70 million euros were spent to smash into powerful stars such as Anelka and Andrade.
Although Quaresma's performances were not as good as they could have been, Nicolas Anelka and Andrade were creditable for their European help.
Among them, Anelka used a sudden shot in the crucial game of the semi-finals to cause Atletico Madrid goalkeeper Petr Cech to get out of his hands, which allowed Drogba to pick up the missed shot.
Gao Han himself did not expect that the first matchup between him and Mourinho would be in the Champions League final.
At the beginning, he said in front of the media that he would wait for Mourinho in the Champions League final, which was originally just a joke, but he didn't expect it to become a reality.
As soon as he thought of this, Gao Han felt funny, it was really fate.
However, Gao Han is not Heynckes, Inter Milan will not be Atletico Madrid, and he will not give Mourinho any chance.
"How's it going, do you have anything you want me to convey for you?" Benitez walked over to Gao Han at some point, looking in a good mood and unaffected by the loss.
Perhaps it should be said that this defeat was expected by him.
Liverpool take on Chelsea at Anfield this weekend, so Rafael Benitez is happy to be a communicator.
Gao Han knew that this Spanish fat man just wanted to sit on the mountain and watch the tiger fight, but he didn't mind satisfying his interest.
"Then you tell Mourinho for me, tell him to wash his neck and wait to be slaughtered!"