Chapter 417: The battle is before the start of the season

Although the next round is the "Italian derby" between Inter Milan and Juventus, fans who are looking forward to this game will have a long time ahead of it - the next week is the FIFA break, and the weekend after the match day will be the first leg of the second round of the Coppa Italia, Inter Milan will host Bologna, and in the middle of the week, Inter Milan will play in the third round of the group stage of the UEFA Cup, away to Belgium Standard Liege, and then after the weekend, will welcome Juventus at home.

With the departure of the internationals, Dick's job has become to train the substitutes, and with the start of the Coppa Italia, the substitutes will have more responsibilities, and it is their responsibility to share some of the pressure for the main team in such a game.

In the first few months, Inter Milan's substitute players did not get too many opportunities, because the team was reorganized, and the main team needed games to run in, so the substitutes did not have many opportunities to play, and even Dick's veteran Cruise only got a few opportunities, and in this case, the players did not have any complaints, even Cruise did not have any chances to play, and it could not be said that Dick favored those main players, they wanted to play, It's only better to show your ability through training.

"Julio, how have you been training during this time?" Dick paid special attention to Cesar.

"Very good, boss, the level of goalkeeper training in Italy is really high and I have found a lot of deficiencies in me."

Cesar has only made two appearances in the UEFA Cup so far since joining Inter Milan, but he did not look frustrated and was very happy when answering Dick's questions.

After all, when he was in Brazil, he could only be regarded as an ordinary goalkeeper, and he was more famous because he married a famous wife - Suzanne, who had been in love with Ronaldo before......

Therefore, being favored by a club like Inter Milan also made Cesar feel that he had a very good future, especially when he heard that he was a goalkeeper handpicked by Dick, which made him feel more promising in the future.

After entering Inter Milan, Dick's customized training plan for him made him see Dick's sincerity, and the training level of Italian goalkeepers is indeed the top in the world, and now most of the main goalkeepers in Italy are their home, and there is still a big difference between the situation of foreign goalkeepers in the future - in fact, the Italian goalkeepers will be out of gear in the future, because of the influx of goalkeepers from a large number of talented other countries, or rather, starting from Zeng Jia, Up to Gianluigi Buffon, after this golden period of endless talented goalkeepers, there was a gap in Italy's potential goalkeepers, which had nothing to do with their goalkeeper training level.

After all, even if there is a good teacher, it is necessary to have excellent apprentices to be able to train, without good talents, no matter how good the training mechanism, it is impossible to train top goalkeepers.

Pagliuca's all-roundedness, Peruzzi's steadyness, Buffon's youthfulness, Toldo's physical gifts...... It's all talent, and with the right training under this talent, there is a cluster of goalkeepers in the golden age of the Italian national team, and the emergence of such a large number of talents, even in Italy, is rare.

Dick wants to get a young local goalkeeper, but unfortunately, there are no good goalkeeper seedlings in Italy in the next ten years, plus Inter Milan has a tradition of top goalkeepers, there is a Cesar who doesn't need it, do you want to watch him go ordinary, or go to other clubs to show top standards?

And Cesar is indeed a top goalkeeper after playing, although his body has shortcomings, but his reflexes and goal-line skills can fully make up for this, no matter whether Dick plays offense or defense, he will not become the team's shortcomings, on the contrary, in Inter Milan's current fierce attacking tactics, Toldo began to seem a little insufficient, he is more suitable to play the main force in the stubborn team, such as Cooper's Inter Milan - now he is starting to grow because of age, Reflexes began to decline and there was a decline in form, and only by letting him fade out slowly, and in history he was happy to accept the substitute position, not noisy or noisy, as long as Dick did his job, Toldor would not be a problem in the dressing room.

"Giulio, you have to know that in the conventional gaze, your height is not qualified as a goalkeeper...... However, this is not irreparable, Casillas's height can only be considered average, but he is still a top goalkeeper. Height is not enough, then you have to use technology to make up for it, goal-line technology you must have a good connection, and at the same time the ability to judge to be enhanced, I have seen your previous games in Brazil, high-altitude ball attack and free kick save, this is your shortcoming, but this is not a shortcoming that cannot be made up, we have targeted training for you to make up for such shortcomings, so you must work hard, understand? ”

"I understand." Cesar nodded vigorously, since there are shortcomings, it is a good thing, because you know where you should work hard, and through these months of training, Cesar has indeed found some shortcomings in some of the ways he used to save, and now is the time for him to make up for such shortcomings through training.

"You'll be the main force in the next two cup games, so put on a good show." Dick said one last word to Cesar.

This sentence made Cesar very happy, at least it can prove that he can still play in some games to maintain his form......

When Inter Milan ushered in the Coppa Italia, because of the FIFA match day, Dick rotated almost all the players, Cesar as the goalkeeper, among the four young defenders, Maggio and Pasquale appeared on the wings, Arbeloa and Andreoli in the middle, Mascherano and Farinos in the middle, Semioli and Di Natale on the wings, and Recoba and Martins in the front.

Inter Milan basically relied on a quick counter-attack in this game, the two wings used speed to break down Bologna, Semioli and Di Natale each had an assist to help Recoba and Martins score a goal each, and Semioli assisted the substitute Cruz in the second half to score, the only thing that made Cesar depressed was that he was still broken by the opponent with a free kick in front of him with a lot of teammates in front of him......

The three-to-one score almost confirmed that Inter Milan would be able to advance to the next round, and in midweek, Dick fielded a starting lineup that was almost identical to that in the Coppa Italia, except that Calagounis replaced Farinos in attacking midfield, and Cruise started with Recoba - and finally relied on goals from Di Natale and Cruz, Inter Milan defeated Standard Liege 2-1 away from home, and after three rounds, they got seven points in the group and almost won the right to qualify from the group. With the bench lineup to get such a result, Inter Milan's substitutes are indeed very good, especially the backline, although young, although Arbeloa is more suitable to play on the wing, but these young people have used running and cooperation to protect the goal, at least for a lot of time, they are still trustworthy......

After two consecutive cup matches, it's finally the first Italian derby of the season!

Countless Inter fans poured into the Meazza stadium, and the whole of Italy began to get excited about the game, Juventus scored 31 points in 12 rounds, and Inter Milan scored 30 points in 12 rounds; Juventus only conceded four goals and was the first in Italy in terms of defensive ability, while Inter Milan scored 32 goals and was the number one in Italy in terms of offensive ability; Juventus coach Capello is one of Italy's gold medal coaches, and Lippi, Sacchi, and Trapattoni are the top managers, while Inter Milan's head coach Dick is the most popular coach in recent years; Inter Milan has Adriano and Toney in the front, Juventus also has Ibrahimovic, Trezeguet and Piero forwards, Inter Milan has Stankovic in midfield, Juventus has Nedved, Inter Milan has Materazzi and Cannavaro in the backline, Juventus has Thuram and homegrown central defender Lerotali who has shone under Capello this season, Inter Milan has Zanetti on the wing, Juventus has Zambrotta......

All fronts have been compared, all aspects have been used by commentators to discuss the ultimate success or failure, and any situation on both sides will cause a big discussion in the media - in this case, Inter Milan is at home, and the Italian derby is ushered in!

Dick of course knows that Inter Milan wants to dominate in the league, the biggest opponent is Juventus, AC Milan is now five points less than Inter Milan, for the time being, you can ignore the threat of the other party, in this game, Inter Milan must not allow a defeat, even if it is a draw, it will be much better than failure!

In the first half of the season, it was acceptable to grab points if they could grab points, and it was acceptable to get a point face to face with AC Milan and Juventus, and it was only in the second half of the season that they started a head-on confrontation, which is the tone set by Dick for Inter Milan this season.

His team is not yet mature, his tactical system has not yet fully shown its essence, and the few players he likes have not yet been able to reach their best...... Now Inter Milan can't afford to lose.

The media also ignored one thing, that is, in fact, in the transfer market before the start of the season, Inter Milan had already played against Juventus, and Juventus wanted to poach a lot of people from Inter Milan at that time, such as Capello wanted to get Vieri, whom he had always admired, wanted to bring the old department Zanetti from his time in Rome, and wanted to poach Cannavaro, who was depressed at Inter Milan...... And these people are useful to Capello, Piero's form in the past two years has been good and bad, Trezeguet is always injured although he is reliable, Vieri can make up for the weak links in Juventus' forward line, Zanetti can form Juventus's top two-back combination with Emerson in the midfield, and in the backline, if Cannavaro can come, Juventus will be able to completely transplant the defensive iron triangle of Parma back then......

After Capello put forward such an opinion, Moggie began to operate, in his opinion, it is not very difficult to get a bargain from the more willful Moratti, after all, Moratti is always very generous when he buys people, and he is also generous when he doesn't want people, in fact, these people also have the opportunity to go to Inter Milan, but because of the existence of Dick, all of Moggie's plans have been frustrated - the shrewd Moggie suffered a big loss because he did not know the power that Dick had in the Inter Milan team.