In the end, Inter Milan had the last laugh in the battle between the two most attacking teams, beating Lecce 4-2 to achieve six wins and two draws in the first eight rounds of the league!

It was Inter's best start to the league season after Cooper's start to the season with seven wins and one draw.

The only regret was that the terriblely solid Juventus won again, this time beating the chaotic Roma by two goals at home, putting Del Neri under even more pressure.

Dick doesn't care about this, he just needs to win one game at a time, Capello's Juventus is always terrible stable at the beginning of the season, but they will inevitably decline in the late stage, because Juventus's bench thickness is not particularly good, as long as they can bite them in the early stage, there is always a chance to kill them in the later stage!

However, the following weekend, Inter suffered a big loss at home to Lazio, and although Adriano scored his seventh league goal of the season, Corradi's goal gave Lazio a point away from Inter's home turf.

This made the mood of Inter fans start to turn bad, because the damn Juventus won again, they swept Chievo 3-0 at home, leaving Inter Milan by more than a quarter and AC Milan catching up, who are now only one point behind Inter.

I have to say that in the past few years, or even in the past ten years, after winning the 88-89 season with a two-point scoring record, Inter Milan has not won the league championship for fifteen years, which has made Inter Milan fans begin to become less confident, even if they have been close to the league championship several times during this time, and won three league cups, it also makes them unable to maintain great self-confidence, the reason is simple, a top team, if you can't win the league championship, So why are they called the top teams?

Now the start is not bad, but it has met a Juventus who have eight wins and one draw in the opening game...... Such a situation is indeed easy to make Inter Milan fans lose confidence, and even this situation will in turn affect the performance of Inter Milan players.

Dick saw this in his eyes, but he didn't say anything, this situation has accumulated over a long period of time in the past ten years, and it will definitely not be solved by him in one or two sentences, and if the mouth cannon is fired too often, it will not have a good effect......

If they really want them not to worry, only through the slow accumulation of victories, Dick firmly believes that Juventus's good form cannot be maintained forever, at this time, on the contrary, Inter Milan can not mess up.

The following week, in the second round of the UEFA Cup, Inter Milan drew with Athletic Bilbao in the first round, while Bucharest Stars beat Belgium's Standard Liege by two goals at home, and now they are top of the group with three points, Inter Milan and Bilbao are tied for second and third, Besiktas has a bye, and is the same as Standard Liege with zero points.

Against the top of this group, Inter Milan naturally wants to go all out to win.

Inter Milan fans are no strangers to the UEFA Cup, after all, they have also played in the UEFA Cup in previous seasons, and Cooper led the team to the last four of the UEFA Cup in their first season - in fact, Cooper's first two seasons were not bad, winning a league third, a league second, and the League Cup and Champions Cup both reached the semi-finals, but for Inter Milan fans who are hungry for the title, this result is not enough......

For the Bucharest star, Dick did not send his own main team, and continued to use a large number of substitutes to rotate the line-up - goalkeeper Cesar, defenders Maggio, Arbeloa, Andreoli and Pasquale, midfielders Mascherano, Farinos and Caragounis, and the forward three dexterous and fast forwards of Di Natale, Recoba and Martins.

Such a combination of frontcourt has achieved unexpectedly good results, Di Natale's instigation, Recoba's aura and Martins' speed together to form a pretty good chemistry, the first half is Recoba's wonderful pass to Di Natale in the penalty area, Di Natale is not greedy to pass the ball to Martins in a better position, Martins easily flew up and scored the ball into the empty goal, Inter Milan at home one goal ahead.

After taking the lead, Inter's young backline came under a lot of pressure, and the centre-back partnership of Andreoli and Arbeloa was flexible enough, but it was still quite difficult to face the impact of the opponent, and Dick began to direct the players to retreat gradually, first withstanding the opponent's fierce attack.

After the start of the second half, Dick successively replaced Recoba and Martins with Semioli and Cruise, these two substitutions had a good effect, Semioli's breakthrough on the side effectively eased the pressure on the defensive line, and it was a cross after his breakthrough on the right side was sent to the head of Cruise, Cruise was also not greedy, the header was ferried to Di Natale who ran out of space in the penalty area, Di Natale volleyed directly to the falling ball, helping Inter Milan extend the lead to two goals!

A 2-0 win at home put Inter Milan at top of the group, while Besiktas, who had a first-round bye, beat Athletic Bilbao 3-1 at home to move into second place......

Besiktas was coached by an old acquaintance of Dick's - Bosque who left Real Madrid - but Dick knew that Bosque was a failure in Turkey, and he did not coach the professional team for a long time after that, until Aragonés retired after Euro 08, and he took charge of the Spanish national team.

It's a pity that the fight with Besiktas was in the last round, and Dick didn't know if he had a chance to play against this old rival, after Dick left La Liga, Bosque finally led Real Madrid to win a league title, but after winning the championship, Florentino ruthlessly fired him, which was also a very unbelievable thing at the time - he was suppressed by Dick for two years in a row, and he was not fired when he didn't get a championship, and now he won the league championship, or was fired, What exactly was Florentino thinking?

Of course, all this has nothing to do with Dick, after playing the second round of the group stage, the next third round will not start until three weeks later, during which Inter Milan will play two league games, a Coppa Italia, and usher in a FIFA matchday, he doesn't need to take the League Cup too seriously now - in fact, with the current schedule, four rounds of the league, Inter Milan has already scored four points, basically close to qualifying, and it will not be too much of a problem to occupy the top three positions in the group, Even if the next two games are drawn, there will be no problem in qualifying from the group.

In fact, this is the biggest problem encountered by the restructuring of the League Cup now, five teams in a group, only play four rounds, the top three can get the right to qualify, unless it is performance or luck is too bad, generally speaking, it will not be too difficult to qualify, which also causes the pressure and excitement of the group stage is not very large, and the natural attraction will decline, until the League Cup is restructured into the Europa League, this lack of excitement has been changed.

Inter Milan fans, naturally, pay the most attention to the league matches.

On 7 November, Inter Milan took on Fiorentina away.

Fiorentina is a team that has only been reborn and returned to Serie A this season, although they did not get the best results in Serie B, but with the help of the expansion of Serie A, they were relegated to Serie C 2, and it only took two seasons to miraculously return to Serie A, with the help of the fame left over from before, they also recruited a large number of relatively outstanding players, such as Brescia defender Dainelli, Perugia midfielder Obodo, Roma goalkeeper Lupatelli, Juventus striker Micoli, and Portillo on loan from Real Madrid, and Jorgensen, the old department of Dick, who was no longer able to play the main force in Atletico Madrid, was poached from Atletico Madrid's high salary......

Of course, there is also Juventus's midfielder Maresca, Dick originally fancied this attacking and defensive midfielder, and Juventus also intended to let him as a bargaining chip to sign Vieri, but as Dick sold Vieri to Real Madrid, Juventus sold Maresca to Fiorentina in a fit of rage - of course, half ownership.

Fiorentina are not your average promoted team, and now after nine league games, they have three wins, four draws and two defeats, and are now tied for sixth place with Chievo and Cagliari, with one point more than the hapless Roma, which is not bad.

Fiorentina had a bad start to the season, but with a new manager, they have started to pick up and have recently won two in a row......

Inter Milan played hard away from home, although Fiorentina is not a very mature team, but they played very crazy at home, once suppressed Inter Milan, and relied on Dainelli's header in the 23rd minute to score the first goal, at the moment of Dainelli's goal, the shouts and cheers of the Frankie Stadium were simply shattered!

"It's a terrifying home atmosphere...... Dick muttered thoughtfully, his relaxed expression made the Inter Milan players also begin to relax - Fiorentina used to be one of the bitter masters of Inter Milan, but the current Fiorentina is no longer the former Fiorentina, a promoted horse, what is there to be afraid of?

With this in mind, the Inter Milan players quickly equalized before the end of the first half, Pandev took the ball in the front of the penalty area, and when the Fiorentina defenders paid attention to the two strikers, he turned and passed the ball back, followed by Stankovic is a powerful long-range shot, the ball broke through Lupatelli's ten fingers, Inter Milan equalized!

The situation in the second half was even more stalemate, but Inter Milan still relied on Adriano's header in the 80th minute to overtake the score, and it was difficult to keep the score until the end!