Chapter 409: I've always had more enemies than friends
'We were unlucky to lose on the last goal and that doesn't mean anything. Speaking at his post-match press conference, Delneri said that this time, Dick didn't give any face to his men who lost twice in a month: "One narrow win is an accident, two narrow wins are not an accident...... We're going to get stronger and stronger, and we're going to concede fewer and fewer goals...... What do you think? β
Once again, the Italian press saw Dick's aggressiveness after gaining the upper hand.
Dick wasn't just talking about Del Neri, but also about journalists β didn't you say Inter Milan was unstable? But we can always win if we are unstable, not to mention that we will be stronger in the future, Inter Milan's defense has indeed conceded a lot of goals, but in such a conceded goal, they are also running-in, and they are also growing, Inter Milan's four main players on the current defense line are not young players, and they will cooperate more well......
After this round of league games, Juventus continued to be at the top of the table, under the coaching of Capello, they won a solid 1-0 away victory over the strong Udinese, and continued to lead on goal difference, Inter Milan is also second with 13 points, third place is unexpected, promoted Messina with three wins and two draws unbeaten record surprisingly ranked this position, winning against strong teams such as Roma and AC Milan, who defeated the chaotic Roma 4-3 in the second round, With a 2-1 win over AC Milan in the fourth round and a 4-1 win over Siena in this round, they are quite high in the rankings.
AC Milan are fourth in 10 points, with a defeat to Messina leaving them three points behind Juventus and Inter Milan, but there is still a long way to go in the league and they have time to catch up.
After this round of the league, Serie A was suspended, and more than a dozen players in the Inter Milan team were going to play for the national team, while Dick was handed over to the assistant coaches to manage the training, and he was on his way to the draw for the UEFA Cup.
In this draw, Inter Milan, one of the seeded teams, drew a draw that could not be up or down.
They are not in the same group as Feyenoord, Schalke Zero, Newcastle, Villarreal, Sevilla, etc., but there are also Athletic Bilbao from La Liga, as well as Romania's Steaua Bucharest, Turkey's Besiktas and Belgium's Standard Liege β not particularly strong teams, but they are all difficult to entangle......
In the UEFA Cup, you don't need to play home and away against every opponent, just play one game against every opponent, but Inter Milan are lucky enough to not have to go to Turkey to play away games.
In the first round, they will challenge Athletic Bilbao away, at home to Steaua Bucharest in the second round, away to Standard Liege in the third round, a bye in the fourth round, and a home game against Besiktas in the fifth round.
The top three teams in the eight groups, a total of 24 teams, plus the eight third-place teams eliminated in the Champions Cup group stage, will participate in the round of 32 in next year's knockout round, and the next schedule is to go all the way to the two-legged knockout stage until the final.
"The pressure is not very high to qualify for the top three, and the real test is in the second half of the season." Dick said to Marrina after returning to Milan.
"There's really nothing ......to play in the League Cup" has been by Dick's side for so long, Marriner's vision has also become higher, in his opinion, a League Cup title, there is really no need to pursue it, and now Inter Milan's biggest task should be to impact the championship in the league, not to play any League Cup......
'It's not a lot to play, but Robert, you have to know, we have a lot of good substitutes, and the UEFA Cup, like the Coppa Italia, is a good opportunity to practice. Dick said with a smile.
"You look down on the UEFA Cup and the Coppa Italia too much...... Marriner said helplessly.
"In the early League Cup and Coppa Italia, there was really nothing to look up to...... The real test is in the later stages. Dick said after shrugging his shoulders.
Dick is very confident, but his self-confidence is not unfounded, Inter Milan after this period of play, they have gradually begun to understand the new tactics, and their performance has naturally begun to improve.
On October 17, in the sixth round of the league, Inter Milan hosted Udinese.
Inter Milan at home showed excellent fighting spirit, Adriano scored two goals in the eighth and twelfth minutes, although Mauri recovered a point after the start of the second half, but soon Toney extended the score again with a powerful header six minutes later, before the end, substitute Cruz stabbed a goal in the chaos, 4-1, Inter Milan's first league game of the season was not a goal difference!
Next, Inter Milan ushered in the first round of the group stage of the League Cup, away to challenge Athletic Bilbao, Dick rotated a large number of main players on the road, in addition to the goalkeeper and two central defenders to start, the wings sent Maggio and Arbeloa, the midfield sent Mascherano, Di Natale, Karagunis and Pandev, the forward line Cruise and Martins partnered, and finally they played 2-2 with each other on the road, Pandev scored the first official goal of Inter Milan, Martins scored the second goal through the counterattack.
In such a game, a large number of main players are hidden, of course, to prepare for the next round, and Inter Milan's next game is to challenge AC Milan "away", such a Milan derby, of course, needs better preparation.
Giving up a UEFA Cup is nothing, but if the first Milan derby is lost, it will be quite a big blow to Inter.
Dick knows where his team's weaknesses lie, Inter Milan's run-in is not yet complete, and AC Milan have not changed much in the summer, the addition of Stam has further improved their backline, and the midfield has not changed, they do not have any run-in problems.
Dick doesn't think that the current Inter Milan is worse than AC Milan, but if he plays against AC Milan now, I am afraid the end will not be too good.
So Inter Milan, who played extremely ferocious offensive football in the first few rounds, began to play more defensively in this game.
At the beginning, Ancelotti also guarded against Inter Milan's ferocious attack, after all, in the first six rounds, Inter Milan scored eighteen goals in six games, and the offensive power of no more than three goals per game was enough to make all teams jealous, and now the second most goals in the entire Serie A is Lecce, known as Little Pepper, but they only scored fourteen goals, four less than Inter Milan, and the third place is Roma and Juventus, both scoring twelve, and AC Milan only eleven goals.
With such a crazy offensive ability, Ancelotti naturally will not take it lightly.
And Dick was very obscene and let the team continue to attack in the first half, so that Ancelotti never found out his true intentions, and it was not until Inter Milan began to launch a comprehensive defense in the second half that Ancelotti suddenly realized that he had fallen for this bastard again!
What made him depressed was that Dick's trick had been played in the previous Champions Cup final, when he was fooled, and now he is fooled again......
Annoyed Ancelotti wanted to wave his hand to show that we were fighting with this bastard, but at this time Dick smiled and replaced Tony with Martins, this time Ancelotti has a bit of a mouse-thrower, Adriano's personal ability to break through with the ball is very strong, Martins is a speed maniac, if he presses too hard and is counterattacked by the opponent......
Maybe he just wants me to do it.
Carlo Ancelotti thought to himself and began to instruct his players not to press too high - now he could accept a draw, after all, the league is still long, after all, they are only three points behind Inter Milan, there is no need to start taking risks now.
As a result, the much-anticipated Milan derby ended 0-0, and it was Dick's first goalless game in charge of Inter Milan.
After the end of this game, it can be said that both are lost, Juventus after a three-goal victory over Siena, the lead was extended to two points, but Dick didn't care much, now Inter Milan's crazy attack to kill the enemy and lose eight hundred, play those midstream teams and Roma such an overall chaotic team is still okay, play AC Milan This is a fairly mature team, it will still be very difficult, now it is good to draw, wait for the team's tacit understanding and self-confidence to go up, and then have a war to defeat the opponent, That's the way to go.
After holding AC Milan to a draw with a sudden change of defensive tactics, Dick began his journey to reshape the team.
In midweek, in the eighth round of the league, Inter Milan hosted Lecce.
When Inter Milan and AC Milan drawn, Lecce defeated Messina 4-1 in an offensive battle, they have now equaled Inter Milan in the number of goals, and they are also the team with the most goals in Serie A this season, for Czech coach Zeman, he has not achieved much in his life, and he has not won any championships, his only pride is that the team he coaches has more goals than those strong teams, and in the face of Inter Milan, he has to prove that he is the most capable coach of the team's attack!
'We score in every game and the team with the most goals is us Lecce and not any other team! In any environment, we will stick to playing attacking football! Zeman said in an interview before the game.
"I never said I was a manager who could play attacking football, I would, just win championships."
Dick's counter-attack continued his vitriolic style β he had no friends in Serie A, the holy league between Juventus and AC Milan would not be his friends, and Zeman was an anti-Juventus fighter but he would not be a friend of Dick eitherβand Dick didn't care about that, no matter what team he coached, in what league he was in, he would always be much more enemies than friends.
"It's a pleasure to have a lot of enemies, and I don't want to make money with anyone. I like to beat all my opponents and I don't want to say to me after they beat me, 'You guys played well, try hard next time'. Football is war, war in peacetime, the two commanders on the battlefield may sympathize with each other, but as long as they have the opportunity, they will still try their best to defeat the opponent, this is the atmosphere I like, this is the charm of football. β
"What I want is not for everybody to say I'm good, but for everybody to look at me in awe and be afraid of me β football, of course."