Chapter 404: Being Spit Out

Inter Milan's forward intervention showed their ability to counter-attack quickly, and soon, they also showed their ability to play positional battles.

After this attack, Inter Milan quickly launched another attack, Stankovic distributed the ball to Adriano in the midfield, Adriano forced the ball into the penalty area, and then intended to cross to Toney, Chievo central defender Danner cut the ball halfway, causing the Chievo fans in the stands to cheer.

"Well, this kid is quite obedient." Dick rubbed his chin off the pitch and thought that Adriano had shown his dribbling ability on the past few occasions, but he had also done a very good job of passing, at least thinking about passing the ball to his teammates - at least at this point, he was not arrogant enough to think that he could solve all the problems alone.

Attackingly, Inter Milan gradually started playing, but in defense Inter Milan was still under a lot of pressure, Luciano continued to break through from the right side, bringing a lot of pressure to Pasquale, and in the twelfth minute, his breakthrough on the side forced Pasquale to foul, thus receiving a yellow card.

"Simeone, remember to help defend more!" Dick frowned and shouted into the room.

Perrotta nodded and began to help Pasquale defend more, but Inter Milan, who looked more passive, scored their first goal of the season in Serie A with a beautiful attack in the fifteenth minute!

Recoba, who had been quiet after the opening kick-off, burst into the air when he dropped back into the middle to receive Perrotta's through ball, then turned around and got away from the opposition midfielder Baronho, and when the rest of Chievo's players tried to come up to defend him, he lifted his foot to deliver a long diagonal pass.

Adriano and Toney's runs caught the attention of the other Chievo defenders, and Stankovic quietly cut in from the right and then received a pass from Recoba!

In the box, he unloaded Recoba's long ball with his chest, and then Stankovic grabbed in front of the attacking Fontana and fired a left-footed volley directly in front of the attacking Fontana, the ball passed Fontana and flew into the goal behind Fontana!

Recoba's assist, Stankovic's goal, gave Inter Milan a one-goal lead away from home!

"Beautiful goal! However, from this goal, we see more of a performance between several stars, is this all there is to Dick's team? That's a little disappointing......" said the narrator.

Although this goal is very beautiful, but it does look like a flash of inspiration for Recoba and Stankovic, such goals have appeared more times in the past Inter Milan games, and this is also a point that has been criticized, they have always bought superstars, and they have always wanted superstars to play an important role, but superstars are not a panacea, when they do not play well in some important games, Inter Milan's results will be greatly affected.

Dick shook his fist off the pitch and it was good to be able to take the lead, and Dick was not the kind of manager who was rigid either, he focused on the whole but did not limit the individual performance of the players.

However, for many who watched Dick's move to Inter with coloured glasses, the rest of the first half was a delight for them – Chievo launched a flood of attacks after conceding the goal, and Inter Milan were slightly recovering and waiting for opportunities to counter-attack, although they were not too skilled up front and missed several chances.

Adriano's through ball once created a one-on-one chance for Toney, but Toni was a little slower to get out of the way, the ball was held in the arms of the attacking Fontana, Toni split the side, Perrotta's long-range shot was blocked, Adriano headed high from seven meters in front of goal, and before the end of the first half, Toni missed a chance to head from close range in front of goal, and his header was incredibly high......

In the 30th minute, Cannavaro rose to the top, Luciano unloaded the ball in the box and shot directly to equalize for Chievo, and in the 37th minute, Franceschini tore through the Inter Milan defense in the middle, and Pelissier burst into the box and stabbed the score to overtake......

"Inter Milan got off to a good start and were overtaken by Chievo! To be fair, it wasn't a fair scoreline, they created more chances than Chievo, but wasted a lot of them...... Toney, who was tasked with replacing Vieri, struggled in the first half as he missed two great chances, including a one-on-one and a close-range header, and Dick looked away at him! After all, he was twenty-six years old, and there was little room for improvement, but Dick wanted to replace Vieri with him...... I have to say, he took it for granted! ”

"Inter's deficit in the first half was also related to some problems with their centre-back combination...... The first goal was conceded by Cannavaro, while the second goal was conceded by a problem between Cannavaro and Materazzi, and there was a gap between the two, which was easily broken by Perissier! The problem that Cooper didn't solve, Dick still didn't solve, now it's Cordoba suspended, and when Cordoba is suspended, what is he going to do with these three central defenders? Let Cannavaro play as a substitute? Members of the national team and superstars with an annual salary of five million play as substitutes, and Inter Milan is a little too extravagant......"

Commentators from all walks of life are complaining about Inter Milan's performance in the first half, and the score behind in the first half does make Inter Milan look very ordinary, and Inter Milan fans are a little disappointed - actually see that they are behind, isn't Dick able to continue to win as soon as he comes......

Dick was in a coméd manner, he did not rush back to the dressing room, but high-fived the players off the field one by one, and only after the last player was off the field did he follow and walked to the players' tunnel.

"Pretend to be calm...... man," many people thought to themselves.

"Okay guys, we were behind in the first half, don't think about that anymore...... Of course, Fabio, Marco, remember that you are partners in the backline, pay attention to the coordination and complement each other, I don't need to say more, Fabio pounced, Marco was in charge of the fill-in, this is a cooperation that we have done many times in training, I hope there will be no such low-level mistakes in the future, understand? ”

Cannavaro and Materazzi nodded a little depressed at the same time, their performance in the first half was actually not bad, Materazzi twice stopped Chievo's goal in front of goal, Cannavaro had three beautiful tackles, but the defender is like this, once a bad performance, all the top performances, will be wiped out.

"In the first half we were not worse than Chievo, and their movement also consumed a lot of energy, the advantage in the second half will definitely be ours, now we just have to pay attention to some details in the attack, Alvaro, you played well in the first half, but pay attention to the timing of the pass, not every time you need to complete that sharp through or long pass, it is also very necessary to mobilize the whole team's attack by dividing the ball."

Recoba nodded a little dazedly, Dick sighed in his heart, Recoba is a player like him, it's really not easy to position, if he doesn't have physical problems, play around him, the results will definitely be good, but it is not enough to satisfy the giants, and if he is just a part of the team, his cooperation in this regard is a little worse, which causes the so-called he has not been able to fully play his ability - later people commented that Recoba "has never reached the height he should have", In fact, it is such a paradox.

However, Recoba's performance today was still good, and we can expect his performance in the second half.

"Reiter, continue to play your characteristics in the second half, pull out, break through, and then divide the ball, so that you will have more space, and you can shoot from a distance when you have a chance, I want to see how good your long-range shooting is!"

Adriano nodded and said confidently: "Boss, you just watch the second half!" ”

As for the three midfielders, Dick didn't have much to say, and their performance in the first half was exactly what Dick wanted, showing a high standard at both ends of the pitch and leaving one Tony remaining......

Toney was a little frustrated, he hadn't played in Serie A before, but he had never played for a giant of Inter Milan's level, and he was indeed a little nervous in the first half...... But he can score a goal with a single click, he has scored many goals like this, and he is actually nervous in this situation......

Tony knows the cruelty of playing in the giants, he has played next to Baggio, for Baggio, a veteran who has experienced hardships, the process of playing in the giants can be described as a mixed blessing, and the cruelty of playing in the giants He also told Tony that his performance in the first half was so average, maybe Dick will replace himself in the second half......

Just as he was thinking about it with anxiety, Dick came up to him.

"Luca, don't be nervous, Serie A is at a higher level than Serie B, but don't forget what a terrible goal rate you have in Serie B...... Just fight them as opponents of Serie B! Chievo was at the level of Serie B a few years ago, remember the task I gave you before the game, understand? ”

Tony looked up - Dick didn't take him off, but encouraged him, which made his worries disappear: "No problem, boss, I'm going to do better in the second half!" ”

"That's it, don't overthink it!" Dick patted Tony on the shoulder, then clapped his hands, "Ready to play, guys, it's just a ball behind...... I'm ready to watch you equalize at the start and then we go back to Milan with a win! ”

Dick waved his hand, and the Inter Milan players walked out of the dressing room suspiciously, from now on, Dick except for two sentences, everything else is a mouthpiece, can he really win the game......

Three minutes into the second half, everyone kept their mouths shut......

Only three minutes into the second half, Recoba took the ball in the middle and passed it to Perrotta, Perrotta passed diagonally to Adriano who pulled out of the penalty area, Adriano began to move forward with the ball, when he dribbled the ball, Perrotta began to break through diagonally towards the penalty area, and Toni pulled out of the penalty area to receive on the penalty line, such a run distracted the attention of Chievo's backline, Adriano did not force the ball, but raised his foot and passed the ball to Tony who received at the front of the penalty area, and then stepped forward himself, Toney controlled the ball at his feet, used his body to withstand Mandelin, who was constantly interfering behind him, and then raised his foot to pass the ball back.

Adriano, who followed up, met the ball back from Toney, raised his foot and shot from outside the penalty area!

The ball flew to the far corner of the goal like a cannonball, and although Fontana stretched out his arm, he could only watch the ball fly quickly in front of his hand and plunge into the far corner of the goal!

Three minutes into the second half, Inter equalised!