Chapter 541: Towards the Goal

When Dick saw the players returning from holiday, he felt more confident about the upcoming games.

It is clear that despite winning the Champions League last season, Inter Milan's players are still hungry for glory, both before and later. After the medical examination, the physical condition of the players is basically the same as before, and after the rest, they have recovered to their best physical condition and are in the best condition for the second half of the season.

The first game after the new year was not the league, but the first leg of the Coppa Italia, and Dick did not field a regular in this game, but sent a large number of substitutes, still beating Empoli by two goals away from home, and was only one step away from the last four.

In the next match against Torino in the 19th round, Inter's three tall players scored a goal each in the game - Toney took the lead, Ibrahimovic extended the score shortly after the start of the second half, Materazzi scored the third goal from the penalty spot just before the end of the game, and Inter beat Torino 3-1 away to make it 11 consecutive league wins, tying their own streak last season!

"Because of the postponement of a league game, Inter's winning streak should not count unless they can continue to win in the rematch and win in the re-finals, so that the winning streak can be linked ......"

Some media commented on Inter Milan's current winning streak, but Dick smiled and did not answer, and he really didn't look at this winning streak now.

In the second leg of the Coppa Italia quarter-finals in midweek, Dick sent all the substitutes again, and then the substitutes beat Empoli again at home to a 2-0, 4-0 over two legs to enter the semi-finals, in other games, the strong teams won one after another, Sampdoria, Roma and AC Milan also entered the semi-finals, Inter Milan was lucky in the semi-final draw, and Sampdoria were in the semi-finals, and in the other semi-zone, AC Milan will be in the same half as Roma......

"It's a shame we didn't finish in the semi-finals with AC Milan...... That way we'll have a chance to complete four kills. I sincerely hope that AC Milan will knock out Roma and meet us in the final. Dick said with a smile in an interview.

Moggie has now disappeared, waiting for the court to punish him, Dick feels that he has to find an opponent to fight to be interesting, but his words make AC Milan fans feel very depressed, isn't it just a loss to you? Four kills, if you really have to meet four times, you can't tell who will kill whom!

After Turin, Fiorentina was also killed by Inter Milan at home - although Pazzini scored a goal in the game, but Inter Milan's flood of attacks opened the door of Fiorentina three times, Toni and Ibrahimovic's cooperation became more and more tacit, and this game was a goal scored by these two high school forwards each, plus Stankovic's goal, Inter Milan won 12 consecutive Serie A victories, although there was one less game in the middle and was not recognized, but their advantage in the standings was real, Roma were held to a draw by the underdogs in both league games after the winter break, and they now have eight points behind Inter Milan, who have played a game in hand.

In the following week, Inter Milan disgraced the mid-table Sampdoria - in three consecutive matches, Inter Milan won three games in a row, Inter Milan gave Sampdoria a 3-0 at home in the first leg of the Coppa Italia semi-final in midweek, and in the 21st round of the weekend, Inter Milan gave Sampdoria who had drawn 1-1 at home a clean 2-0 away from home, and two new signings, Ibrahimovic and McConn, scored one goal each. Sampdoria, who have lost two in a row, was completely lost by Inter Milan, and was beaten 2-0 by Inter Milan's substitutes in the second leg of the Italian Cup in midweek, and did not score a goal in all three games, such a performance is a real defeat!

Played like this by Inter Milan, Sampdoria was once beaten to a great injury, and barely succeeded in relegation at the end of the season, of course, this is a later story.

Inter Milan's dominance in Italy seems to be unstoppable, they have now won 13 consecutive league games, and if they can win Messina again in the next replay, then they will have a well-deserved 14 consecutive wins, adding three games to the Serie A winning streak!

Can Messina, now in the relegation zone, stop Inter from setting a new record? It seems unlikely to think about it......

It is indeed impossible, in this game, Dick did not send all the main forces, but sent a mixed lineup of the main force and substitutes, and after 90 minutes, the bloody score of 5-0 proved the strength of Inter Milan.

Fourteen consecutive wins without controversy! A new record is born!

"Fourteen wins in a row? This is just the beginning, and I think we have a good chance of setting a winning streak that has never been seen before...... The winning streak in the top five leagues is Real Madrid's 15 in a row, and we will try to break that record. How long is the all-European winning streak? I think it was like Celtic's 25-game winning streak, and it was a goal worth chasing. ”

Dick's words caused an uproar in Italy again - although Inter Milan is indeed a bit unstoppable now, but it won't be long before Inter Milan will usher in the Champions Cup, and they can still maintain their league winning streak in the Champions Cup? I look down on Serie A too much, right?

However, when Inter Milan beat Chievo again in the league to reach 15th in a winning streak, everyone fell silent, and now Inter Milan have equaled the streak in the top five leagues, and it doesn't seem like a problem to set a new streak in the top five leagues, and the performance in the first half of the season proved that they are capable of beating any strong team, a record of 25 consecutive wins? Who says they can't create?

Dick had slapped them in the face many times before, and they really didn't want to be beaten by Dick again and their cheeks were red and swollen, and they didn't have a temper......

After beating Chievo, Dick will start preparing for the game against Valencia, and in the next round against Cagliari, Dick intends to put the substitutes on the field, Cagliari has caused a lot of problems for Inter Milan before, this team from Sardinia has always been a difficult bone to gnaw, but now their strength has dropped a lot, ranking in the bottom ten of the table, they are only fighting for relegation, and they will not cause too much trouble for Inter Milan.

Despite Cagliari's hard work and Inter Milan sent all the substitutes, Inter Milan still narrowly won the game, relying on Chiellini's 11th-minute header, Inter Milan defeated Cagliari 1-0, officially breaking the streak of the five major leagues, and now the streak of the five major leagues belongs to Inter Milan 16 games!

"Now we are waiting for the Champions Cup. Valencia are a strong team, otherwise they would not have finished top of the group. It's not a good situation for us to play at home first, so we have to play a little bit more aggressively at home. The current Valencia team is very different from the Valencia team I know, they have changed a lot of blood, maybe they will be stronger than before. ”

Dick's cautious pre-Champions League press conference was a bit of a surprise – could Valencia have been outstanding this season? However, they are now in third place in La Liga, a position they can often reach, and although they won the group in the Champions Cup, the strength of that group is not very strong, and their real opponent is none other than Roma.

Obviously, there is a reason for Dick's caution, Inter Milan have played too well since the start of the season, and have not faced too many strong opponents in the Champions Cup, although they met Bayern in the group stage, but after all, there are two qualifying places in the group stage. What's more, Valencia now has two geniuses in the squad who can score the world wave, and Dick is a headache for such a player, because it is easy to have unexpected scenarios.

For Dick's caution, Valencia's current head coach Flores also seemed very surprised, his current situation in Valencia is not particularly good, and the discord with technical director Carboni makes his coaching a little difficult, encountering Inter Milan in such a situation is not good news for him, but Dick looks very jealous of him, why is this?

After thinking about it for a long time, Flores decided not to think about it, Inter Milan has shown quite strong ability at both ends of the offensive and defensive ends this season, the offense is not much different from last season, but more flexible and more changeable, and the defense is more and more stable after more than half a year of games and adjustments, even if McCone always assists forward, there is no shortage of people behind him, in this case, it has become a very difficult thing to beat Inter Milan.

However, the current Valencia staffing is not bad, the rise of the two newcomers Villa and Silva, the addition of Morientes, Albert da Marchena and others are old and strong, the back line has formed a new strong central defender combination of Ayala and Albiol, and the form of the old goalkeeper Canizares has not dropped much, and it makes sense that this Valencia team can achieve quite good results in this season's Champions Cup.

Flores' tactics are to field the best squad at hand, then try for a good result on the road, and then go back to the home side and take on Inter Milan – who are not so invulnerable, at least they have conceded a lot of goals......

Fast forward to February 22, Inter Milan ushered in the first match of the Champions League knockout round.

"I hope this game will be the beginning of a legend, not a joke. Don't care how many goals we've conceded, but remember that we've been able to achieve great results in recent years, and the most important thing is our attack. It doesn't matter to us whether we play home first or not, because if we want to qualify, we will qualify by scoring more goals than the opponent, rather than carefully calculating what home and away goals we will score! Valencia have a lot of good attacking players, so let's compete with them and see who has the better attacking ability! ”

"Beat them and march towards the Triple Crown!" Captain Zanetti shouted and led the players out of the dressing room towards their goal!