Chapter 31: The Dull Game

Inter Milan fielded their strongest squad of the season in this game, completely treating the quarter-finals of the small Coppa Italia as if they were the Champions League. Pen | fun | pavilion www. biquge。 infoNikolai, who appeared last in the last game? Berti and Alessandro? Bianchi was the first to stand on the pitch, and if he loses to Prato again, I am afraid that even if the club can tolerate Bagnoli, the fans will not let him go.

Prato still continued the main lineup of the last game, and the tactics used were also the more successful full-court pressing tactics in the second half, and there is a saying in the football circle "When your tactics are successfully implemented, don't change him easily, the first to make changes should be your opponent!" Even Tsoko has been training this tactic for the past two weeks to make it look more organized.

However, Inter Milan were not at all intimidated by the frantic pressing of their opponents after the opening, and they calmly fell to their feet and passed each other to avoid the ferocious siege of the Prato players. Obviously, the Inter stars are mentally prepared this time, and when they are not panicking, their outstanding technical ability is fully reflected.

The ball spends almost entirely at the feet of the Inter players, and unless the Inter players take the initiative to shoot, the Prato players rarely even touch the ball. This can be seen from the post-match statistics of possession, Inter Milan had 68.7% of the possession time in the game, and Prato only had a little more than 30%.

However, the Prato team's crazy pressing at the expense of physical strength, or interfered with Inter Milan's offensive order, Inter players can hardly carry the ball, otherwise they will be immediately tackled or collided by Prato players, even if it is a foul, Prato players will not let them pass, although with their outstanding technical ability to ensure the ball, but the offensive rhythm is inevitably contained, coupled with the pressing. The difficulty of passing the ball has increased considerably, which has greatly reduced Inter's chances of reaching within 30 metres of the front of the Prato penalty area.

The game was cut to pieces by the occasional whistle, but that's exactly what Prato wanted to see, and if they were attacking with pressing in the last game, they were defending with pressing tactics in this game. Inter Milan's superstars were overwhelmed by them and failed to form a single effective shot in the opening ten minutes.

However, on the sidelines, Bagnoli, who has always been known for his fiery temper, was surprisingly calm, and the ugly scene did not make the usually picky Inter Milan fans rebel. They even took advantage of the quiet break of the game to chat with each other. Most of the Inter Milan fans present were old fans who had watched the game for many years and had somewhat developed some vision. In football, it is not unheard of for a small ball like Prato to use the mad dog tactic of full-court pressing when playing against a giant club, but as long as the giant club does not panic at the beginning and stabilizes the scene, as the game progresses, the physical strength of the players will gradually decline and affect the frequency of running, and this mad dog pressing once the frequency and speed of running will be full of loopholes. Therefore, the Inter fans are all old gods, and they don't take the scene in front of them to heart, no matter how they say it, they are also fans of several giants in Europe, how can they not reflect some chaotic demeanor. Inter Milan only needed to score one goal in this game to eliminate Prato by virtue of the advantage of more away goals, and they did not believe that Prato could defend Inter Milan in Meazza for a whole game.

However, ten minutes have passed, twenty minutes have passed, thirty minutes have passed, and even the first half is over, the score is still 0:0, the scene has not changed in the slightest, and even Inter Milan was stealing in the backfield, giving Yang Chen a beautiful single goal, if it were not for ******. Zeng Jia was old and strong, and he was brave, and blocked the ball with his feet at the last moment, and Inter was completely passive.

The Inter fans who broke out in a cold sweat finally began to sit upright, but the situation in the second half did not change at all, Prato's players were like perpetual motion machines, and there was no sign of stopping to rest, the whole team was like a flowing river, stormy waves, rushing endlessly, and Inter Milan was like a boat struggling in this big river, from time to time players fell to the ground or complained to the referee for fouls, which made the momentum of the two sides completely not on the same level.

Tsoko's tactics do give full play to the only advantage of the Prato players, in the Prato team, the two forwards, Vieri and Yang Chen are extremely good physical fitness, although they are not full-time defenders, but with their extraordinary strength and speed, the back line of Inter is also a kind of pressure, and several people in the midfield, Gianni Keda needless to say, the sapper midfielder who can't die, the right forward Doni has created an iron man record in history that has not fallen for six years, which shows that the physical strength is good, and Veron is also born in the back, Although the defensive ability is not outstanding, but it is not lagging behind, at this time Veron is not the "Bei Shuai" who defended by his eyes in Manchester United later, the thick black hair Veron is still a young man full of vigor and momentum, as for Ma Minyu, in the eyes of many Chinese fans, slow speed and poor confrontation ability are his characteristics, but Ma Minyu really impressed most fans when he was in the national team during the 02 South Korea-Japan World Cup, when Ma Minyu was in his thirties, he had already passed his prime, Ma Minyu, who is really at his peak, has a tough style of football, has sufficient physical strength, can't run to death, plays football very wildly, and has the nickname of "Little Pony", you must know that he can subdue Hao Haidong and Fan Zhiyi, two unique bigwigs in the national team, and serve as the captain of the national team, how can it be without a little strength.

On the Prato backline, in addition to the old captain Piertini, the rest is counted as one, Materazzi, Fan Zhiyi, and Pesoto, which is not the type with outstanding physical conditions and can't run to death. Pexoto went up and down every game, running on the left wing for almost the entire game, and Fan Zhiyi's range of activities even included the forward line when he was in Shanghai.

So seeing that the time passed little by little, and the running intensity of the Prato team did not decrease at all, the Inter Milan players finally couldn't hold their breath, they accelerated the pace of the attack, and the feet that were originally pacing finally ran at the expense of physical strength, and there was a seriousness in their eyes. Sousa also seemed to put aside his conflict with Bergkamp for the time being, giving him two good passes.

This left Toldo busy in front of goal for a while, but Prato's youngsters seemed to be aroused to be wild, and in the face of Inter's pressing momentum, they were completely pressed back with the momentum of the needle, and their running speed was even faster. Eighty minutes into the game, Inter still did not have the upper hand, and in the face of this situation, the entire Inter Milan fans at the Meazza Stadium fell silent, and some fans even folded their hands and began to pray.

Only Prato's coach Tsoko frowned deeply, in the face of such a strong Inter Milan, he had no other way, maybe let him coach for a few years, and when these young people really grew up, he would not be afraid of this Inter Milan, but at the moment they are far from mature, whether it is mental or technical. This tactic of full-court pressing is actually a crazy tactic, no team can really do it, otherwise you don't need an opponent, you will collapse first, Cuoko is gambling, he bets that Prato's young people are in full shape, can hold on to a whole game like this, bet that Prato will not be sent off by the referee because of too many fouls, bet on ...... There are too many unknowns, but there are many ways for the opponent to take out Prato, and there is only one way for him to go.

In fact, he knew that the Prato players were exhausted, and by half-time, Pitini's calf had cramped, but he held on until he played for another ten minutes, and now Corvesi, who replaced Pitini, was already gasping for air.

At this time, Peron also fell to the grass with his leg in his arms, and Tsoko had to replace Veron with Padeira. Although Veron has played little defensive role on the field, as long as he is on the field, his long passes are a threat, and now he has to defend with all his might.

With a whistle blowing, Materazzi raised his hand innocently after pushing down Bergkamp, and the referee ran over and pulled out a yellow card from his pocket, which was already the seventh yellow card Prato received in the game. But the Inter fans were not satisfied, they thought that the foul should be given a red card, so they shouted "boo".

At this time, Materazzi was slowly retreating, delaying the time for Inter Milan's penalty kick, and suddenly the boos were even louder. With time running out, Inter fans can no longer maintain their "demeanor".

However, Berti's free-kick in front of the goal was doomed to Inter Milan in vain. The clock was in stoppage time, and every Prato player was like being fished out of the water, with beads of sweat that wet their eyebrows and kept flowing into their eyes, making them have to wipe their sweat with their sleeves while running. But their expressions became more and more excited.

Distant China is already more than 11 o'clock in the middle of the night at this time, but there are still thousands of families who can't sleep, and the Chinese fans sitting in front of the TV don't care about the 0:0 score at all. No one even switched the intermittent commercials, and everyone's hearts were nervous with every movement of the ball, and the feeling of scratching their hearts and wishing that the game would end immediately made them keep their eyes fixed on the timer on the TV, waiting for the final whistle to blow.

"Toot!" The referee blew the whistle, but his hand was on the penalty spot. In stoppage time, in the 92nd minute, Ruben . Sosa received a pass from the midfield and burst into the penalty area, Fan Zhiyi and Materazzi, who was in place, closed the ball and broke the ball cleanly. Sosa, however, fell to the ground with her legs on her hands with an exaggerated expression......

A minute later, Reuben. Sosa got up from the ground and stood up in front of the penalty spot as if nothing happened, and it was all over the place. Inter Milan beat Prato 1-0!