Chapter 842: The Best Player in Europe, Kill the UEFA Super Cup Again!
After the draw for this year's Champions Cup, UEFA first named the six best of last year's Champions League.
The award for best player was won by Zheng Zhi, the core of Inter Milan's midfield, who also won the title of best midfielder. Gianluigi Buffon and Jose Mourinho were voted best goalkeeper and best coach respectively at his club.
The best defender and best striker were taken by Carlos and Ronaldo of Real Madrid. If Ronaldo doesn't transfer, then it's Inter.
In addition, UEFA also named the "Dream 11" squad for the 10 years of the Champions League, they are: goalkeeper: Schmeichel (Manchester United); Defenders: Tassotti (AC Milan), Desailly (AC Milan), Baresi (AC Milan), Maldini (AC Milan); Midfielders: David Beckham (Manchester United), Rijkaard (AC Milan), Zinedine Zidane (Real Madrid), Zheng Zhi (Inter Milan); Forwards: Van Basten (AC Milan), Raul (Real Madrid).
Personally, Inter Milan emerged as the biggest winners, and for the club, AC Milan were the biggest winners.
Either way, Milan are now 'dominating' the Champions League, while century-old giants Real Madrid are making a strong comeback.
Zheng Zhi, who won the best player in Europe, is likely to compete for the Golden Ball Award and the World Footballer at the end of the year, but this year is the World Cup year, and the Golden Ball Award and the World Footballer will most likely only come out of the World Cup winning team, and the probability of him winning the award is actually not large.
But even if it's not big, he will at least enter the top three, or even the second place?
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8:45 a.m., Stade Louis II, Monaco.
Inter Milan and Feyenoord both wore their traditional shirts, with Inter Milan wearing blue and black and Feyenoord wearing red and white striped shirts. Feyenoord have not won the Super Cup before, while Inter Milan are aiming to defend their title.
Today Mourinho actually changed his team!
Almost to everyone's surprise, it was not 442, not 433, but 4231.
Gianluigi Buffon/Panucci, Materazzi, Stam, Gresco/Zanetti, Cambiasso/Ronaldo, Zheng Zhi, Robben/Vieri
Feyenoord lined up with 442: Zetbir/Gian, Raza, Van Wandren, Luhrin/Emerton, Bosvelt, Bowe, Shinji Ono/Kalou, Van Hujedonk.
Among them, Japan's new star Shinji Ono got the start.
This is the second time two Asian players have met in the final, with Zheng Zhi and Fan facing off against Inter Milan and Liverpool in the UEFA Super Cup last year, and Zheng Zhi and Shinji Ono this year.
Sky Sports pundit Adani was also full of praise for Mourinho's line-up, "Jose Mourinho looks determined to put Arjen Robben and Ronaldo in the position, and the TIM Cup gives him a lot of confidence. Defeating Juventus and AC Milan made him even more bullish on the two youngsters. ”
"If you can beat Feyenoord today, I believe they will be used for a long time in the future, and we saw it today, he adjusted the formation slightly, when playing AC Milan, the 433 formation lacked defensive depth, he changed the formation to 4231, although the attack was slightly weakened, but the defense was stronger, the attack was 433, and the retreat was 4231 or 451."
Once the game began, Inter dominated possession and tried to open gaps from the flanks, while Feyenoord played a more conservative and steady style.
In the 4th minute, Inter Milan had the first shot on goal. Zheng Zhi wanted to pass Xiao Xiaoluo, but the ball was cleared by the opponent's defender's header, Zheng Zhi got the ball again and got up 20 meters away, and goalkeeper Zetbil fell to the ground to get the ball. One minute later, there was confusion at the Inter defence when Feyenoord won the first corner, Emerton crossed the ball to the middle and striker Kalou headed wide at the near post.
Inter Milan are resolute in attack, Feyenoord is not tight defensively, and Inter can find space up front. In the 6th minute, Inter Milan successfully countered offside, Zheng Zhi took the ball in the middle and pedaled the bicycle to shake off Bao Wei and sent a kick over the top to pick up the pass, but it was a pity that Vieri's run was still half a beat slower, and Feyenoord goalkeeper Zetbiel attacked to pick up the high ball.
After that, Zetbier saved another small Ronaldo diagonal shot.
Inter Milan attacked into the tide, wave after wave, even Zanetti, who played in the back, kept pressing, and in the 10th minute, he cut in from the right side to the ball of Xiao Xiaoluo and burst a kick on the right side of the penalty area, but the ball was blocked by Feyenoord defender Van Wandelen.
Zheng Zhi took a tactical corner, and the ball was passed to Zanetti's feet again, Zanetti wanted to dunk Bowe, but was cut off by Bowe!
Feyenoord played a quick counter-attack and Japan international Shinji Ono played a long pass into the Inter box, but Lurlin and Van Hujedonk couldn't capitalise on their chances in the box, and Van Hujedonk deflected the ball wide under fellow Dutchman Stam interference.
After the sneak attack, Inter Milan slowed down the pace of attack a little, and also gave Feyenoord more chances, and then Zanetti fouled Laza, free kick expert Van Hujedonk had another chance to perform, but the ball could not go over the wall, the ball hit Cambiaso and bounced!
Zheng Zhi rushed up quickly, and after hitting the wall with Robben on the left, he handed the ball to Xiao Xiao Luo near the center circle, Xiao Xiao Luo and Panucci who rushed up also played a one-two and rushed to near Feyenoord's bottom line, and then Xiao Xiao Luo pumped the ball into the Feyenoord penalty area, Vieri stood up, but he couldn't get up, he could only knock the ball to Robben on the left, and Robben pumped the ball into the small penalty area again.
In the confusion, Bowie blocked the ball into his own goal!
“goal!”
“goal!”
“goooooooooooooooooooooooooooal!”
"Own goal!"
"Bowe blocked the ball in his own door and gave Inter a big gift."
'Inter's stormy attack left Feyenoord's players scrambling and it turned out to be a big mistake.
'But it's inevitable that they will concede, it's not an own goal or Inter Milan's goal.'
Feyenoord had to step up their attack after conceding the goal, but Van Hujjdonk was isolated up front, with Inter Milan controlling the situation with tacit cooperation. In the 19th minute, Xiao Xiao Luo continued to pedal on the right side and shook Laza, burst into the penalty area and knocked back to Robben who was cruising to the middle, but Robben shot wide from 18 meters away!
Three minutes later, Zheng Zhi instigated the attack again, he fed the ball to Robben in the middle, Robben dashingly passed the ball with his heel to the inserted Gresco, Gresco cut into the box from the side, and pulled out the curling ball with his right foot! The ball went into the net, and the goalkeeper couldn't reach it!
“goal!”
“gooooooooooooooooooooooooooal!”
"Gresco!"
“2:0,”
"The game is completely in favor of Inter."
"Feyenoord can't stop Inter's attack at all."
Inter Milan led 2-0.
After that, Inter Milan deliberately slowed down the tempo, and Feyenoord's attack gradually intensified. Zheng Zhi was violated by Lu Erlin, he quickly took a free kick and passed straight to Xiao Xiaoluo, the opposing defender rushed out of the bottom line, Zheng Zhi took a corner kick and sent the ball to the far goal, Gresco rushed to the position and volleyed directly into the goal.
Feyenoord didn't have a good chance to shoot until the 32nd minute, when Bowe fired low from 20 yards to force Buffon to make his first save. After that, Kalou's shot was blocked from a tight angle.
For more than half an hour, Robben and Little Luo were basically performing, while Vieri's state was a little sluggish, and he rarely had a chance to get the ball.
Feyenoord then had another good chance to shoot when Lurin broke through the defence of Panucci and Zanetti and went close to firing from the edge of the box, but Buffon made another good save to slot the ball out of the box.
Just after 45 minutes, the referee blew the whistle to end the first half without extra time. Inter Milan still have a two-goal lead over Feyenoord and don't look too much of an obstacle.
At half-time, Mourinho didn't say much, only emphasizing the need to continue to keep Feyenoord under pressure on both flanks.
However, what they didn't expect was that at the beginning of the second half, Feyenoord launched a big attack, they took the lead in getting the shot, Shinji Ono suddenly poked the ball into Luerlin on the left, and Luerlin's volley from the edge of the box did not stump Buffon.
An astonishing scene occurred on the court, Zheng Zhi took the ball and tried to launch a fast attack, but he was overturned on the turf by Bao Wei from a rough shovel and rolled several laps in a row.
"This Powe,"
"Deserve a red card! It's so rough! It's even rougher than Davis! ”
By the time Adani made the accusation, Mourinho had already gone to the fourth official to protest.
However, the referee only gave Bowyer a yellow card, and Zheng Zhi went off the field to receive treatment.
Taking advantage of Zheng Zhi's absence, Feyenoord's formation pressed quite high, and as a result, Vieri lost the ball in the front court, and Shinji Ono immediately passed the ball diagonally to the right front to Kalu, who broke through the defensive cross of 2 players on the right side, Bosvelt shot high at the edge of the penalty area, but he was violated by Stam when he shot, and Feyenoord got a free kick in a good position!
It was Van Woojjdonk who came to take the free-kick, but he hit the ball directly from 25 yards, the ball flew over the wall and into the left side of the goal, Buffon could not do anything about the goal, and Feyenoord made it 1:2.
“goal!”
"Van Woojedonk, free-kick technique is still okay."
"The goal was too depressed, Zheng was not there, they played a small wave of attacks, and they scored a goal."
"Now that Zheng is back, his face looks grim, probably because the foul and the ball just now annoyed him!"
After recovering a point, Feyenoord seemed to overtake Inter in momentum, and even Shinji Ono tried to shoot at goal, and his subsequent long-range shot went just wide of the right post.
But Inter immediately regained their two-goal advantage. In the 60th minute, Cambiaso broke the ball in the backfield and quickly handed the ball to Zheng Zhi, Zheng Zhi kept the ball with his left foot and stuffed Robben in front of the left, Robben took the ball on the left side and suddenly went to the left side of the penalty area, Vieri pulled the defense in the middle, Robben suddenly had a flash of inspiration and shot directly!
The ball suddenly went over the head of goalkeeper Zetbir!
Zetbier couldn't stop the ball even if he stretched out his left arm, but the ball was very slow, and Bowe chased back frantically, and still had a chance to destroy the ball, but there was a guy behind him who rushed up quickly and overtook him in an instant!
Ronaldo eventually got ahead of him and slotted home an empty net at the back post.
“goal!”
“gooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooal!”
"Cristiano Ronaldo! He scored the 3rd goal! ”
Feyenoord still paid a heavy price for their defensive negligence, and the morale of the players plummeted.
In the 76th minute, Feyenoord's defense was leaky again, and the unmarked Robben received a pass from Zheng Zhi and shot 10 meters in front of the goal......
"Robben,"
'The breakthrough and dribbling techniques are sharp, but the shooting skills are terrible.
"He should practice his archery skills well, and the kick at the door is too uncalm, either he is off or can't hold it down."
Inter started to play possession and Feyenoord launched the final attack. Shinji Ono volleyed hard from the edge of the box and Buffon tipped the ball away. Van Hujedonk then took a free-kick from 30 yards out, which went over the wall and headed straight to the left, but Buffon couldn't let it go.
Jose Mourinho replaced Vieri with Adriano, who spent almost nothing on the pitch.
As soon as Adriano came up, Cambiaso stuffed the ball at Adriano's feet, Adriano shook his body, quickly shook the defender staring at him away, and then took a step forward, immediately bending the bow and shooting.
From 28 meters away, his left foot drew a powerful arc and the ball hung straight into the top left corner of the goal!
4:1!
The goalkeeper was unresponsive.
Adriano finished with his first shot.
“goal!”
“gooooooooooooooooooooooooooooal!”
"Ade!"
"If this continues, Vieri really has to worry about his main position, I originally thought that Ronaldo left, he is the absolute main force of the striker, but I didn't expect Adriano, who was going to leave, to rise strongly, and there is a faint possibility of replacing his position. Maybe Mourinho gave Vieri time at the start of the season, but if he doesn't score? Then Adriano may be the right choice for the center! ”
So far
The dust has settled.
Mourinho also continued to make substitutions, replacing Robben with Di Biagio, who had a stunning performance but poor shooting skills.
PSV Eindhoven had no intention of fighting, but the little Ronaldo on the right still ravaged them like crazy.
In the 85th minute, his in-cut was brought to the ground by Japanese Shinji Ono to win a set-piece on the right side of the box for Inter. Zheng Zhi stood in front of the penalty spot, and blasted a curling ball with the instep of his left foot, and the ball hung straight into the top right corner of the goal, and the Feyenoord goalkeeper was also powerless.
The score was rewritten to 5:1!
Feyenoord was still slaughtered, and the UEFA Cup winners are still vulnerable in front of the Champions Cup winners!
“5:1。”
"The score told the whole of Europe, Inter Milan is still the king of Europe, want to pull them off the throne? You have to show 10 times more strength than Feyenoord! ”
'They defended the UEFA Super Cup.'
"Now, their next target is definitely the Italian Super Cup! Opponent Parma simply could not stop them! ”
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