Chapter 414: Mutual Dependence
In the defeat to Bologna, Inter Milan once achieved good results with a three-five-two formation, and they gave Bologna no room to play in the first half, which made fans start to think that Inter Milan seemed to use this tactic to be good, at least better able to suppress the opponent......
It's just unfortunate that often what fans can feel is an illusion, in fact, Dick knows that this can be done once or twice, but not always do it, otherwise, it is easy to be caught by others, and it is okay to occasionally use it as a tactical change, but to be able to use it for a long time, or only the four four two that has been well practiced in the pre-season training camp can have better continuity.
And in Dick's view, this set of tactics still has a good room for growth, especially with a few players who can play better and better, such a lineup has the strength to impact the championship.
This season's Juventus is terrible, although their overall strength is not particularly good, and there are many weaknesses in the substitute lineup, but their starting eleven is very strong, although Dick did not let Cannavaro go to Juventus, but their overall strength is still not weak, especially under the leadership of Capello, their ability to grab points is quite strong.
Capello is a very good manager in the league, and playing cup games is a bit poor, which is why his Juventus results in Europe are average, but the results in the league are a little desperate......
Three days later, Inter Milan faced their opponent in the twelfth round, a team from Sardinia, Cagliari.
Cagliari is also a very difficult team in Serie A, and now they have former Italy international Gianfranco Zola - after ending his contract at Chelsea, the veteran Zola refused to keep Abou and chose to return to his roots, and now he is also playing quite well in Cagliari, always able to play very beautiful football, Cagliari's front trident is quite tough, although in this game, Honduras international Suazzo was injured and could not play, but Esposito, Gianfranco Zola and Rangela's trident attacking power should not be underestimated, and the trident formed by these three men together has scored quite a few goals, and Cagliari can now be in the middle of the table, and the attacking ability of these three men has played a big role.
"Gianfranco Zola is a great player, he was already famous when I was a kid...... It's just that we are opponents now and I don't want my team to lose points in Sardinia...... It just so happens that we have a strong attack, so we can compare and see if the new Inter Milan attack better or Cagliari attack better. ”
Dick seemed to be dismissive of his next tactics before the game began, but the media were warning one after another: "Don't be fooled by this guy!" He's always going to pretend to attack when he's actually counter-attacking in situations like this, and he's done that many times in Spain and he's done it against AC Milan in the league...... Cagliari, don't be fooled! ”
The Italian media reminded Cagliari as if they had taken medicine, but after the game began, they found that they seemed to be living the belly of a gentleman with the heart of a villain......
Goalkeeper Toldo, defenders Córdoba, Materazzi, Cannavaro, Zanetti, midfielders Zanetti, Stankovic, Perrotta, forwards Pandev, Adriano, Toney.
There were no changes to Inter's starting line-up, and neither did the tactics......
As soon as it opened, Inter Milan almost stunned Cagliari with an extremely ferocious attack.
In fact, Cagliari's tactics this season are very simple, relying on the trident in the front court and the other seven men in the back defense, and so far they have scored 12 goals in 11 league games, all of which are scored by the front trident, and in the case of trying their best to defend, they have also conceded 15 goals......
So in fact, although they are not bad in the rankings now, it is because they can always get small victories, grab points quite well, and at both ends of the offensive and defensive ends, they are not particularly good.
It is precisely because of this that Dick let Inter Milan attack aggressively away from home, trying to let the team win the game with goals, maybe they will still concede a lot of goals, but this can always score a lot of goals in the game, but it can create a momentum for the team, how to play in attack, and not discouraged when conceding in defense......
From the very beginning of the game, Inter Milan launched a frantic attack, constantly creating chances through attacks from the middle, while the midfielders also ran and responded, coordinated with each other, and then tore apart the opponent's defense through back and forth.
Although there is a center forward like Toney, Inter Milan has never been dead on the wing, their two full-backs are more like a free man, retreating to the midfield position when defending, and sometimes going to the winger when attacking, sometimes going into the penalty area, this style of play is more flexible and more impossible to defend.
Only eight minutes into the game, Inter Milan tore apart Cagliari's back line through a series of passes in the front, first Stankovic stepped forward and passed the ball to Pandev, Pandev took the ball and turned around, but knocked the ball to Perrotta on the left side, Perrotta raised his foot and plugged the penalty area, Adriano relied on his physical advantage to get the ball in front of the opponent's defender, and then turned around and raised his foot to pass the ball to the other side of the penalty area, Toni in front of the ball and pushed the ball, the ball flew into the goal quickly, 1 to 0, Inter Milan lead away from home!
Dick nodded off the field, Adriano's current performance made him feel very happy, because he didn't put too much pressure on him, so although Adriano scored a lot of goals, Dick didn't let his teammates die and let him pass the ball alone and then create opportunities - this is the easiest way to do it, and it is also the most irresponsible way.
Although Adriano is known as the king in history, his most brilliant season in Inter Milan is the first half of this season, he scored fourteen goals in sixteen rounds of the league in almost isolation, but only scored two goals in the second half of the season, because that style of play is too dependent on individual ability, once the opponent desperately wants to block his goal, the performance of the whole team will be affected, and now Adriano does not score as many goals in history, and others have scored a lot, This makes Adriano's status less high-profile – and in fact, it's a good thing for Ade.
There are many reasons for Ade's downfall, and Dick has studied it, especially after deciding to become Inter Milan's manager, and he knows that he needs to solve this problem no matter what.
Later generations generally believe that it was after the death of Ade's father that Ade became depraved, and his life had no purpose and pursuit, so he directly began to choose indulgence, but in fact, Ade's father's illness was already there, and there was a bullet in his head, which was a time bomb, and when something went wrong and died, Ade was already psychologically prepared, and if he was decadent just because of his father's death, it was not convincing enough.
After careful study and recollection, Dick came to a rather bold conclusion.
Ade's fall was due to pressure, not to lack of motivation.
Adriano's performance in the half season of Inter Milan's outstanding performance can be called the world's number one striker, but the results are quite bad - that season under the leadership of Mancini, Inter Milan in the first half of the season almost plagued by draws, two goals ahead can be equalized by the opponent, two goals behind can also be pulled back, no matter what opponent has not been lost, but in the league the gap is widened...... And not only that season, but the next season Inter Milan also performed very well, but met a Juventus team that set a points record, and Inter Milan was constantly blocked by black whistles, in this case, Adriano, who carried the hopes of all Inter Milan fans, began to feel that he was under pressure, because he had performed extremely well, but still did not see the hope of winning the championship......
In this situation, no matter how well he performed, he couldn't help Inter Milan win the title, Adriano was directly confused, he didn't know what he should do, and when he returned to Inter, his ambition became an unattainable goal, plus all kinds of other factors - with a salary of millions of euros a year, he didn't have to worry about living, the death of his father left him with no goal to talk to, and his teammates just passed the ball to him on the field...... You know, even if everyone thinks he is a better king than Vieri, he is only a twenty-two-year-old when he comes to Inter Milan! Vieri was able to hold on for so long because he was mature enough, and Vieri had always had a genius and hope like Ronaldo by his side, so that he would not be under so much pressure, but what about Adriano?
Does he have such teammates to share?
And after the phone gate, Inter Milan ushered in the revival, such an outstanding player as Ibrahimovic was willing to accept the status of green leaves and come to join, but at that time, Adriano, is no longer the Adriano of 04, he has begun to decline, his body is bloated, and his mentality has also changed dramatically, and finally Ibrahimovic has become a red flower from green leaves, and the better Ibrahimovic plays, the greater the pressure on Adriano, so that he put forward a request to return to Brazil to play, and finally parted ways with Inter Milan, like a stranger.
After figuring this out, Dick felt that he needed to avoid such a situation in various ways - to delay Adriano's arrival at Inter Milan for half a year, not only because he was worried that he would not be able to suppress him after his performance in the half season was too good, but not to let him become the object of too much attention and dependence on him by Inter Milan fans, which would ruin him.
In tactics, he will still let him be the main force, be the core, and attack around him, but the importance will drop a lot, and there will be more people around him to help him, when he gets the ball, Tony helps him attract firepower, there are people on both wings to plug in, and there are people around him to help...... If this continues, Adriano will know that he is in a strong whole, and his teammates have to rely on him, and he has to rely on his teammates.
This feeling of mutual dependence is actually very important, especially for a player like Adriano, who looks tough but is actually a little fragile on the inside.
Although this painstaking loneliness will not be known to others, and others do not know what Adriano will become in the future, Dick only needs to know it, and that is enough.