Chapter 442: Breaking the Spell
Facchetti's words are naturally not despising the team led by Dick, he is just sending out his blessings, expecting Inter Milan led by Dick to surpass Inter Milan in the most glorious period - during that time, Inter Milan won two league championships, two Champions Cup championships, two Intercontinental Cup championships, Facchetti sent such a blessing, naturally hoping that Inter Milan can achieve more honors under Dick's leadership!
"Thank you, Mr. President, for your encouragement, and I hope to usher in a new era at Inter Milan." Dick replied to Fachetti in an interview: "Of course, the first thing we have to do is to win the league title this season. ”
That being said, but in midweek, Inter's first goal is to reach the semi-finals of the Coppa Italia......
Playing to this point, Inter Milan will naturally not give up the hope of winning three championships at the same time, not to mention that in the Italian Cup, Juventus and AC Milan, the two biggest opponents, have been out, and the opponent in the semi-finals is the mid-range team Cagliari, although they are not up or down in the league, it is the time to impact the cup championship, but in terms of strength, Inter Milan is still above them!
The midweek game also proved that.
After sending a large number of substitutes, Inter Milan still beat Cagliari 2-1 away from home, Martins and Di Natale scored a goal each, and after the away victory, Inter Milan is also only one step away from the final!
For this match, Inter Milan fans did not seem to be too agitated, and instead focused all their attention on midweek.
On May 15, at the Meazza Stadium, in the 36th round of Serie A, Inter Milan hosted Livorno.
For Inter fans, this is the match they are waiting for, and although it is not a classic game in terms of itself, it has a different meaning!
Winning is the fourteenth championship in the history of Inter Milan, and after 16 years, Inter Milan has once again lifted the league championship trophy!
For this moment, Inter fans have been looking forward to it for a long, long time.
The attendance of the Meazza Stadium in this game once again set a new record!
Nearly 80,000 Inter fans poured into the Meazza Stadium, turning the entire stadium into a sea of blue and black!
At this time, what they want is nothing else, no heartbeat, no stimulation, just the team wins in this round, so that their hearts are completely in their stomachs!
"The league title has to be ours, so let's not dwell on it too much...... Win this game and then we'll be eligible to pursue some icing on the cake! ”
Dick said it very simply in the dressing room - the league title is now almost a certainty, and for Inter Milan's players, they are looking for more than just a league title, but more records and glory!
In Serie A, only one team has done it before, and that is AC Milan, who are unbeaten in 58 games, and they set a record of 34 games unbeaten in the 91-92 season, and what Inter Milan are now doing is pursuing such a record.
No one has ever been able to do this in all of their official matches in a single season, at least none of the teams in the top five leagues that have played in European competitions have done so.
Another is the small treble - although it is not the triple crown including the Champions Cup, but the triple crown, including the League Cup, is also very worthy of pursuit, for Dick, Mourinho has created such a result in Porto, so if he also creates such a result in Serie A, there is no doubt that the results achieved by Mourinho are more valuable than Mourinho......
He always remembered the task he gave him - to defeat all Western coaches, so Mourinho must also be within the range of his defeat.
The Coppa Italia squad had a break in midweek, so it's time for them to play their game.
For Livorno, they have been relegated this season, and in the last round, their centre-forward Lucarelli scored twice against Siena, and now the league goal tally has reached 22, although there is still a four-goal gap with Adriano, but with his form of six goals in the last two rounds, it seems that he is not without a fight.
Adriano, who has now scored 26 goals, hopes that he can score four goals in the remaining three league games and bring his league goal tally to 30 – which is also a top record!
Livorno sent all the main players, Dick also sent all the main players, and when the players of both sides entered, the entire Meazza stadium resounded with an incomparably huge cheer from the Inter Milan fans!
Today's Meazza belongs completely to Inter Milan! Knowing that this match had no impact on their team, not even a single fan from the Livorno side came to Milan to cheer for their team, and the shouts of 80,000 Inter Milan fans almost pierced the sky, so many people's shouts were enough to make all opponents tremble!
It's just that for Livorno, who don't have any pressure, they don't feel anything to fear, it's just a good performance on the pitch - although the relationship between the two clubs is not bad, but at this time, they also have to show their style.
Dick naturally won't let the Inter Milan club negotiate with the other party to let the other party kick casually, such honors and championships, Dick still doesn't bother to take them, not to mention that he knows that the phone door may break out in more than a year, why let himself be involved in this kind of thing? It's something that only a fool would do.
Livorno, as a promoted horse this season, they can have the current excellent performance, in addition to Lucarelli's wonderful performance, there are also Lucarelli Jr., the old striker Prootti - the old striker who once won the top scorer in Serie A in Bari was the hero of Livorno's promotion last season, and this season he has begun to become Lucarelli's assistant, although he has only five goals so far, but he has created a lot of opportunities for Lucarelli, Lucarelli can score so many goals, and Protti is also a great contributor.
Dick is still very important to defense, and the two top central defenders under him are just the best candidates to deal with these two strikers, Lucarelli is a standard center, but Materazzi is not afraid of such a center, and he often faces Tony in training, and Lucarelli, who is still much less deterrent than Tony, naturally will not let him worry.
Cannavaro is in charge of dealing with Proti, and Livorno has now scored a total of 46 goals, nearly two-thirds of which are scored by these two strikers, and staring at these two will paralyze Livorno's offensive firepower.
There were easier ways to win, and Dick never minded using one.
Lock up the opponent's offensive line, the next step is to solve the problem of their own goals, Livorno has conceded 56 goals so far this season, which proves that they are not a team that relies on defense, in fact, they are more attacking in the game, creating opportunities for the two forwards in the front, such a positive style of play has also created a lot of victories for them this season.
Against such a team, Dick has no pressure.
In the cheers of the Inter fans, Inter Milan from the beginning of the game, with a tidal wave of attacks looking for opportunities to score, Adriano is particularly positive, you must know that at this time, he also has something to pursue.
Dick didn't have a special tactic for Adriano to score, such a tactic is easier to be targeted, and now the team wants nothing more than victory.
Adriano knows that, but he's more active, his team-mates have more chances, and when his team-mates score, he seems to score a little bit more.
Livorno's defense of Adriano is also very tight, they don't care about winning or losing, but they don't want Adriano to set a record on their own.
In such a tight defense, Adriano did not get many chances, but because Dick did not deliberately let Adriano be the main attacker in this game, other Inter Milan players got a lot more opportunities.
In the 31st minute, after waiting for half an hour for the Inter fans, the Meazza Stadium finally ushered in the biggest cheer!
Stankovic dribbled the ball on the flank and walked to the middle, attracting the attention of the opponent and passing the ball to Pandev, Adriano moved towards the middle to attract the attention of two defenders, but Pandev passed the ball diagonally to Perrotta on the left!
Perrotta wiped into the penalty area and scored in the face of the attacking goalkeeper, 1-0!
Perrotta and his team-mates hugged each other as they cheered on the Inter fans, and for Perrotta, he made the right decision in the summer, moving to his favourite team and becoming a regular and claiming his first heavyweight title this season......
What could be more wonderful than that?
For Inter fans, there is no happier day than today, and now that Inter Milan are ahead, then Juventus will not care anymore no matter how they play!
Win and they're champions!
Livorno didn't suffer too much, they were still playing as usual, but Lucarelli was targeted by Materazzi, which caused a lot of setbacks in their attack, and they also stared Adriano with a vengeance - as long as they didn't let him score!
Under this tactic, Inter Milan soon extended their lead before the end of the first half, and after Adriano attracted the attention of the opposing defenders, Pandev easily burst into the box from the middle and fired a shot against the attacking goalkeeper to score the second goal for Inter!
At halftime, Dick praised Adriano's performance, and in the second half, although he made three substitutions, successively replaced Toney, Pandev and Zanetti, but still did not replace Adriano, but unfortunately, sometimes the more you want to score, the more you can't score, in the second half, Adriano missed two good chances, but Martins relied on a counterattack before the end to lock the score at 3-0!
When the referee blew the whistle for the end of the match, the entire Meazza stadium had become a sea of joy!
"We are champions!" There was a huge cheer from the fans of Inter Milan, and now, they can finally put their minds at ease, Inter Milan, who did not fall to the finish line again, broke the curse of 16 years without winning the championship and became the well-deserved Serie A champion this season!
Adriano also smiled heartily and hugged his team-mates, and although he didn't score, his top scorer position was almost impossible to shake......