Speaking after the game, Inter Milan manager Jose Mourinho was unhappy with his team's performance, saying: "We just played a good half, in the first half we could have scored more goals, but the players wasted some chances, and in the second half we saw a real Fiorentina team, who showed a strong desire to survive, played a lot of good attacking combinations and equalised. ”

"Then I had to send Zheng Zhi and his coming on the court ended the game. Haha, I know what you're trying to say, but he's our trump card and we have to ask him to step up, and he did, we won the trophy, and that's the best story, the best fairy tale, isn't it? ”

"Did you notice that he was sleeping?"

"Yes, the king of Inter Milan is sleeping, but he has to put on his armor and fight for the team."

"He looked tired, but we had no choice."

'Now I need everyone to rest and get ready for the Serie A game in three days' time, the new season starts with the Super Cup, which is a good sign, after the first round of Serie A games, we have to fight Liverpool, I hope we can also win the UEFA Super Cup, so that in 2001 we will have four titles, plus the Toyota Cup at the end of the year, I think our goals for the second half of the year are still very challenging."

Italian media reported on the game against the backdrop of images of Zheng Zhi's goal celebration. Zheng Zhi was highly praised.

"Milan Sport" played the headline "Inter Milan won the Italian Super Cup", "Mourinho's team is still reaping the championship, the tactics are right, the overall fighting power is strong, the ball luck is also good, Inter Milan won the Super Cup, although Fiorentina is very close to the championship, but when the king on the bench woke up, it was over." ”

"Milan Sports Newspaper" believes that Inter Milan may be able to do without Vieri, Ronaldo, and no one, but Zheng Zhi must not be missing.

Finally, Milan Sport concluded that "Inter Milan had two major successes in this game: one was to always let the team play football confidently, and the other was to always pin their hopes on the Chinese at key moments. ”

Torino Sport newspaper reported that "The King Awakens and It Only Took 10 Minutes for Inter Milan to Lift the Italian Super Cup." ”

"Torino Sport" pointed out that Mancini's only mistake may be not to give Zheng Zhi a pillow to let him sleep well, if Zheng Zhi had woken up 10 minutes late, maybe Fiorentina might have won the penalty shootout, but unfortunately, the king woke up and they were killed.

Rome's La Repubblica: Zheng Zhi beat Fiorentina with a Barty-esque goal to lift Inter Milan's Super Cup. Even if Vieri and Ronaldo appear in the starting lineup at the same time, Inter Milan is not terrible, only when Zheng Zhi is there, Inter Milan is invincible and unbeatable!

After winning the Super Cup, Inter Milan didn't have much to celebrate, and this kind of chicken rib championship obviously didn't give them a reason to get excited.

Everyone's minds flew to the UEFA Super Cup, and even the first round of Serie A did not whet their appetite.

On the 25th, the Serie A league officially opened, and Inter Milan faced Perugia at home.

Jose Mourinho rotated Vieri and Ronaldo, sending on the forward combination of Toney and Recoba, the midfield was a combination of Zanetti, Di Biagio, Zheng Zhi and Pirlo, the back line was Panucci, Córdoba, Carvalho, Grosso, and the goalkeeper was Gianluigi Buffon.

This year's lineup is obviously much looser than last year's.

As a result, Inter Milan beat Perugia 4-1 at home to usher in a good start to the league, with goals scored by Toni, Recoba and Zanetti, of which Toni scored twice.

However, this score did not put them at the top of the table, only in second place.

Juventus' 4-0 was even brighter, with no goals conceded, and the strikers were in full swing, with Pierrot and Trezeguet scoring two goals each.

The other side of Milan City had a disadvantaged season, drawing 2-2 away at Baggio's Brescia.

Both Roma teams were also held to a 1-1 draw away from home.

Roma and Inter Milan last year, it looks like Juventus and Inter Milan are competing this year? Both teams showed their furious attacking prowess at the start of the season.

However, this is only the first round, and last year Roma was overtaken by Inter Milan until the second half of the season, and it is always the most consistent team that can win the league title.

While the Italians are talking about the opening round of Serie A, Inter Milan have already moved to Monaco to face Liverpool at the Estadio Louis II for the UEFA Super Cup.

Inter Milan arrived in Monaco Monte Carlo three days ahead of schedule to prepare for the game.

The next day, the entire Inter Milan squad attended the UEFA Awards Gala, and Inter Milan emerged as the biggest winners, as they were last season's Champions League winners.

UEFA's Most Valuable Player (MVP) was chosen between Zheng Zhi, Owen and Ronaldo, who eventually beat Zheng Zhi and Owen with a record of 18 goals.

It has to be said that in this award, the striker still has a greater advantage than the midfield. Isn't Zheng Zhi's performance outstanding? Even better than last year, but Ronaldo's goals are exaggerated, 37 in the league, 18 in the Champions League, and 55 goals for the season, which is the limit of what a striker can do, and the last time he scored 55 goals was another Brazilian player, Jadel, but he created it in the Portuguese league at the time.

However, Zheng Zhi was not disappointed, and he won the best midfielder award. In this field, neither Zidane nor Figo pose a threat this year. Liverpool's Steven Gerrard has a bit of hope, but only hope.

Other awards, best goalkeeper: Casillas, although Real Madrid lost, Casillas performed very well, if it weren't for him, Real Madrid wouldn't even be able to pass the Manchester United level.

Best defender: Blanco. He reached the peak again at the end of his career and now plays for Manchester United.

Best striker: Ronaldo. In this position, Raul and Owen are good enough.

Fair Play Award: Owen.

Poor Owen, he's amazing enough this year, but in the forward position, the League Cup top scorer is still not as good as the record Champions Cup top scorer, and the fair play award can only be a consolation.

And Inter Milan manager Jose Mourinho also defeated Liverpool's Holier to win the best coach.

Liverpool's generals are all tragic, they all lost to Inter Milan.

It's a lot of fun, the two teams have a UEFA Super Cup showdown on the second night, Jose Mourinho vs Houllier, Ronaldo vs Owen, and they can continue to split on the pitch.

However, Inter Milan did not win the best team award, and Alaves, the dark horse of the UEFA Cup, was voted the best team last season by UEFA, beating Inter Milan.

Alaves did a pretty good job, no worse than Inter Milan and they had a fantastic season.

In addition, Sanchez, the newly retired veteran captain of Real Madrid, was inducted into the European Football Hall of Fame along with the current captain of AC Milan Maldini and the former Inter Milan star Bergomi, and all three were also present.

Immediately after the award ceremony, the draw for the Champions Cup was held.

The 32 teams participating in the draw include defending champions Inter Milan, 15 teams that qualified directly for the group stage and 16 teams that qualified through the qualifying round.

According to UEFA's club points, these teams are divided into four brackets, with Inter Milan and the top seven teams in Pot 1, the next eight teams in Pot 2, and so on.

One team from each bracket will be drawn to form a group of eight, with the aim of ensuring that teams from the same league are not in the same group, and that their match dates and home and away matches are staggered as much as possible to facilitate viewing and broadcasting.

Inter Milan, the defending champions, are automatically seeded in Group A and have good luck, while the other three opponents are Galatasaray, PSV Eindhoven and Nantes, and there seems to be no problem at all in qualifying.

Only the other three teams are suffering as they can only fight for a promotion spot.

The results of the draw are as follows:

Group A: Inter Milan, Galatasaray, PSV Eindhoven, Nantes.

Group B: Liverpool, Borussia Dortmund, Dynamo Kyiv, Boavista.

Group C: Arsenal, Mallorca, Schalke 04, Panathinaikos.

Group D: Real Madrid, Roma, Lokomotiv Moscow, Anderlecht.

Group E: Juventus, Porto, Rosenborg, Celtic.

Group F: Barcelona, Lyon, Bayer Leverkusen, Fenerbahce.

Group G: Manchester United, Deportivo La Coruna, Olympiacos, Lille.

Group H: Bayern Munich, Spartak Moscow, Feyenoord, Spartak Prague.

Next year's final will be held on 15 May 2002 at Hampden Park in Glasgow.

After the draw, Mourinho was still worried that Inter Milan would not be able to win the team of the season.

Speaking to the media, he said: "I think it's incredible, we're the Champions League, we're Serie A, we're not the best team in Europe? ”

"Alaves certainly deserves the award, but I think Inter are better."

He shrugged, "Do we have to prove ourselves to be the best in the Champions Cup again?" ”

This remark immediately caused laughter from journalists.

"You mean, to be on top of Europe again?"

"Why not, every team that comes here for the Champions Cup wants to win the championship? It's hard, but Inter Milan will have to continue to be European champions if they want to be greater. ”

"And our starting point is to beat Liverpool tomorrow night!"

He was already hungry for this game.

"I think it's more appropriate to hold the awards after the UEFA Super Cup, so how can you ignore the UEFA Super Cup? Of course, perhaps the requirements are higher for us. ”

Before the game even started, he despised Liverpool.

'Liverpool are great, but it's only us who wins tomorrow night, and my players say that if they fail, they'll jump into the sea and swim all the way back to Italy, I know it's a bit of an exaggeration, but trust me, they really say that.'

'Inter Milan are not afraid of Premier League teams, we can beat Manchester United and Leeds United, and of course we can beat Liverpool. On top of that, this Liverpool team doesn't have much championship experience and they will be terrified against us. ”

"The Champions Cup, you won't lose to the UEFA Cup winners."

"If we lose, we'll swim back."

Boss, what are you doing so hard? Doesn't this leave everyone with no way out?

Zheng Zhi listened to it next to him, and he really broke out in a cold sweat.

Moreover, we haven't said such things, aren't you cheating us? He really wants to clarify it in front of the media......

However, there was silence.

As a result, the reporter asked Zheng Zhi.

"Zheng,"

"Is that so?"

Zheng Zhi was slightly stunned, then smiled, "Yes, if we lose, we will swim back." But the problem is that a lot of people can't swim and it's a problem that can't be solved, so we have to beat Liverpool and we have no way back. ”

"However, on the map of Europe, from Monaco to Italy, there is only a few centimeters of distance."

Hahahaha......

Upstream on the map, simple. It's not really jumping into the Mediterranean.

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Liverpool vs Inter Milan.

In the eyes of Chinese fans, it can also be a Chinese derby held in Europe, because Liverpool has Fan Zhiyi and Inter Milan has Zheng Zhi. This is another pinnacle of Chinese football.

32-year-old Fan Zhiyi and 21-year-old Zheng Zhi, who will win?

On Sina.com, Chinese fans are divided into two factions, expressing different views.

"Give it to Fan Zhiyi, and then you will win the five crowns, this result is so awesome, it has never been seen in history."

"The Super Cup is not interesting for Inter, the Toyota Cup is what Inter want."

", isn't Zheng Zhi also a quadruple champion if he wins it? The Toyota Cup can be a five-crown winner. ”

"Problem: The Toyota Cup hasn't been kicked yet!"

"Didn't you play the Super Cup?"

"Zheng Zhi lost to Ronaldo in Europe's Most Valuable Player and he will have to score more points in the final if he can come back from behind. It feels like Ronaldo is the most promising this year, and the two of them split the votes on the same team. ”

While the fans were arguing on the Internet, Zheng Zhi and Fan Zhiyi had dinner together in Monte Carlo, and they also talked about it.

"It's unbelievable that there was a quarrel on the Internet."

"This can be noisy, haha," Zheng Zhi remembered the fans of Ronaldo and Messi in later generations. But he definitely won't tell Fan Zhiyi, Fan Zhiyi doesn't know.

"I can't think of it, whoever wins will win the championship, how simple this truth is."

"They're going to have to assign it to us, haha." Fan Zhiyi laughed.

"But when the results come out, they won't quarrel anymore."

"Not necessarily, some fans are not so sensible, and sometimes they will surprise you......"