After two warm-up games in the Middle East, Inter Milan are ready to leave the Middle East with two wins and return to Italy, where they still have a series of games to play, such as against two lower-division teams, Ternana and Luca, and finally the three-year-old Telecom Italia TIM Cup......

This is the fourth TIM Cup, the first championship was taken away by AC Milan, and the next two championships were won by Inter Milan.

The match took place on August 27, and Inter Milan's tactical drills were still relatively new to the Italian media, and in the TIM Cup, Dick did not reveal his true tactical intentions.

In the first game against AC Milan, Dick sent a three-five-two formation, the goalkeeper was Toldo, Cannavaro Cordoba and Materazzi formed a three-center back, the captain Zanetti on the right wing, the new Italian international Perrotta on the left wing, Zanetti, Farinos and Stankovic in the midfield, and the partners in the forward line were Recoba and Adriano, and finally in the forty-five minutes of the game, Inter Milan and AC Milan played 0-0, and then beat the opponent 5-4 in the penalty shootout, The first to win.

In the next 45 minutes, AC Milan beat Juventus by two goals, and then it was Inter Milan's turn to play Juventus, this time Dick changed another lineup, goalkeeper Toldo, right-back Maggio, Cannavaro and Materazzi played central defense, left back sent Pasquale, midfielders Zanetti, Farinos, Perrotta and Semioli, forwards were replaced by Toney and Martins, and finally relied on a surprise goal from Martins in the 37th minute, Inter Milan beat Juventus 1-0, In the end, he won the TIM Cup for the third time with a record of winning two games!

However, after the end of this game, the media did not care about the championship won by Inter Milan, and now there is a saying of "winning the TIM Cup and losing the league", although Inter Milan completed the three consecutive championships in this competition, but Inter Milan did not show any particularly outstanding strength in the game, playing three central defenders, that is also Cooper playing leftover, is there anything new in Dick? No......

However, some media have noticed that Farinos is one of the few Inter Milan players who have played in two TIM Cup games, and will the former Spain international, who has been marginalized under Cooper, be rejuvenated under Dick?

Whether at Atletico or Borussia Dortmund, Dick will always have a technical midfielder who is organised at the back, with Belleron at Atletico and Rosicky in the first year and Klinger in the second year at Dortmund...... No matter what, there will always be such a person.

In the transfer market, Dick did not bring in such a midfielder, although he bought a lot of midfielders, but neither Perrotta nor Stankovic are this type of players - it is not that they can become this kind of playmaker by simply delaying the attacking midfield position, such a player must meet several characteristics - excellent ball control, good overall view, excellent long and short passing ability, and able to control the tempo of the whole game......

Thinking of this, Inter Milan fans are quite suffocating - if Dick had come to Inter Milan two years earlier, then Pirlo would not have gone to AC Milan because he did not have the opportunity to play, and as a result, Ancelotti dragged the position back to become the new Albertini, you must know that before he went to AC Milan, Dick had already completed a historic feat at Atletico Madrid, dragging Belleron behind and making this attacking midfielder who could only be regarded as a first-class attack midfielder become the world's leading dispatch control master, Ancelotti was only following Dick's example......

And Farinos happened to play his best year in Valencia, which was to organize and help defend from behind, and in this case, it seems normal for Dick to use Farinos, and in the two halves of the TIM Cup, Farinos became one of the few players to play two full games, which also became a kind of evidence.

As a team participating in the League Cup this season, Dick encountered another restructuring after the merger of the League Cup and the Cup Winners' Cup, the League Cup is no longer a direct two-legged knockout to the end, as the fifth in Serie A, Inter Milan does not need to participate in the first two rounds of the game, but directly participate in the third round, the game will be played on September 16 and October 1, Inter Milan will participate in the group stage draw if it can qualify, the group stage has four rounds of league to play, The top three teams from the group advance directly to the round of 32 for the following year, followed by home and away matches.

So in fact, playing the UEFA Cup is no less than playing the Champions Cup, with Inter still having to play six European games in the first half of the season and one more round of two-legged knockout rounds in the second half of the season.

Although Dick has not yet seen the UEFA Cup accolades, and Inter Milan's management and fans also prefer the team to win the league title - they have been in the league for fifteen years, but for Dick, he is very interested in winning the UEFA Cup - Inter Milan now has three UEFA Cup titles, tied with Juventus and Barcelona, both of which are the teams that have won the UEFA Cup the most, if Inter Milan win the UEFA Cup again in their own hands, Then Inter Milan will become the only team to win the most championships in the UEFA Cup, and this idea also makes Dick feel very pursuing......

Inter Milan's opponent in the third round of the UEFA Cup is Maribor from Slovenia, which is not a strong team, so Dick does not care much about this.

As the days passed, before the season began, Inter Milan encountered a FIFA match day, and the internationals in the team returned to the national team to participate in the national team competition, and Dick didn't care about it, with a group of young players and substitutes, he also trained very highly.

And after the international players returned to the team, Dick officially announced: "A new season is about to begin!" ”

During this time, neither Moratti nor Facchetti were in charge of the team, they were just meeting all the needs of Dick, including the transfer funds he wanted, who he wanted to sell, who he wanted to buy, he wanted to install underfloor heating in the training ground, he wanted to decorate the players' dormitories better, he wanted to buy training equipment...... Everything, as long as Dick asks for it, they will agree, and as for the team, Dick will do it single-handedly.

This situation is exactly what Dick is happy to see, although it may be tiring to run the whole team single-handedly, but in order to achieve good results, Dick must control everything in the first team, and now it seems that Moratti has also fulfilled his promise and has not interfered without any interference, whether it is Dick selling Vieri or telling Recoba that he will not be the main player, he has no interference.

Of course, Dick knows that Moratti's patience will not last long, and if he can't come up with good results quickly, then he will gradually lose Moratti's trust, like many previous managers Moratti.

It's hard to mix in Serie A, under Moratti...... That's harder.

The new season's Serie A is the reformed Serie A, and the new season's Serie A will have twenty teams participating in the competition, which means that the whole season will have four more rounds of league games than before, and for the teams that have to take care of multi-line games, it will make their burden heavier, and the postponement of the season is to make the schedule of this season begin to become more intensive.

Inter Milan's opponent in the first round was Chievo.

This team, nicknamed the flying donkey, has been the bitter master of Inter Milan since entering Serie A, and Inter Milan finally lost the championship in the 01-02 season, although it is directly related to the loss to Lazio in the last round, but if it were not for the loss to Atalanta and Lazio in the last five rounds, and was forced to draw by Chievo, with the advantages they had established before, they would have won the championship in advance! The game that was forced to a 2-2 draw by Chievo was also fatal, if Chievo did not lose those two points, then Inter Milan only needed to draw in the final round to win the championship, and Inter Milan did not need to play so impatient in the final round and lead to a loss......

That season was Chievo's first Serie A game, they beat Inter Milan away and drew at home, and in the next two seasons, they met Inter Milan four times, one win, one draw and two defeats, each time making Inter Milan suffer, which can be called Bari in previous years, always able to be Inter Milan's nemesis.

Now, Inter Milan will face Chievo away in the first round.

For this game, the Italian media are not particularly optimistic about Inter Milan, after all, Chievo has been like this in recent seasons, the momentum at the beginning of the season was very fierce, almost unstoppable, and in the second half of the season began to gradually decline, at the beginning of the season against such a team, no one wants to confront them head-on.

Chievo can stand tall in Serie A for several years in the case of being a promoted horse, relying on their tactics to rush and run and play, with two wings as the core of the attack, and constantly sprinting back and forth to make the other party tired, the previous Inter Milan was quite afraid of this style of play, on the contrary, a team like Juventus is not afraid of this offensive method, so although Chievo has a good relationship with Inter Milan, it has invisibly repeatedly become an accomplice to Inter Milan's inability to win the championship, Because they let Inter lose at least two points every season, but give Juventus six points......

There are a lot of personnel exchanges between the two clubs, for example, Inter Milan has two players from Chievo this season, Perrotta and Semioli, and Chievo also has a player from Inter Milan, that is, the old goalkeeper Fontana.

The players on both sides are relatively familiar with each other, but before the game began, the two sides still set off a war of words.

"I don't know what Dick's tactical level is, but if you want to achieve results in Italy, you have to show a little bit of real skills." Chievo's head coach Del Neri said in an interview before the game.

Del Neri's words represent the attitude of many Italian coaches, in their opinion, Dick, who was born in the wilderness, can only achieve so many honors can only show that he is lucky.

"I really haven't achieved much in Italy." Dick replied in an interview that while all the reporters were stunned, he continued: "My results have been achieved in Spain, Germany and Europe. ”