34. Collision with Inter Milan
Although it is a weekend, there are not too many fans who go to the Meazza Stadium to watch the game in the afternoon, only more than 40,000 spectators, and about half of the people sit at the Meazza Stadium, of course, the vast majority of them are home fans, Trapani is not a strong team, there is only one real star of the team, that is Hugo, he has a lot of influence among the young Italians, but this is a ball game, who is interested in going to the side of the stadium to watch Hugo dance?!
Zaccheroni fielded a 343 formation for this game:
Goalkeeper: Toldo
Defenders: Córdoba, Materazzi, Cannavaro
Midfielders: Zanetti, Zanetti, Emre, Koko
Forwards: Cruise, Vieri, Donny van der Meyde
Inter Milan has never been able to find its own pace, because there are too many foreigners, and they are not good at management, for example, they are directly dumped at the manager in terms of player integration, but this is not the right way, the club itself needs to invest a lot of energy in this area.
Trapani is doing much better than Inter Milan in this regard, in terms of management, the club has come forward to rent a house for young foreign players, if they don't want to live in the Pacheco training base, with translators, Italian language training and other humanistic care, Hugo said that we want to establish our corporate culture, and this is what we do the most.
In fact, many clubs do not pay attention to the integration of players in life, but it is precisely because many players do not adapt to the team not only because of the tactical concept but also because of the unsatisfactory life.
Inter Milan has always been criticized for the fact that there are many internal gangs, and the internal cohesion is too poor, when Inter Milan was in charge of Simeone, Ronaldo actually had special treatment, and he could sleep until he woke up naturally every day and then went to the base to participate in training.
Many people praise Simeone, Simeone Inter Milan almost won the championship, and they suffered a misjudgment in the game with Juventus to miss the championship, but Hugo is extremely disagreeable with this management level.
A privileged class like this, there will be no less at Inter Milan, and it has to be said that they have done it themselves without a championship for many years, Inter Milan's dressing room is a beautiful scenery in Serie A, not to mention anything else, the team is too large, they can have as many as 30 players in the first team, how can everyone get a chance with so many players, and it is normal for the locker room to be unstable.
Inter Milan's injuries have been a bit serious recently, which is one of the reasons why Cooper has not been able to get a good start, Zaccheroni has come to power, there are fewer people, good arrangement, and when the injured players come back in the future, if Inter Milan can't go further in the Champions League, wait and see, there will be times when Zaccheroni has a headache.
Trapani's Hugo is the same 352;
Goalkeeper: Kameni
Defenders: Victor, Natali, Rinahudo
Midfielders: Maggio, Mascherano, Li Tie, Miku, Evra
Forwards: Muscala, Toney
Since playing Mascala as a substitute, Hugo has also fully experienced the benefits of the second striker setup, if there is a good second striker, he can retreat, help his midfield control, increase the midfield's point of the ball, and make it difficult for the opponent to prevent, so when Mascala showed a good state, Hugo of course chose to let him continue.
Today, Mascala's task was specially arranged, Zaccheroni arranged a front three and two forwards, the purpose is to make a fuss from the wings, but the midfield is still their key area, Trapani has to do is to change the strategy of making a fuss from the wings, focus the main direction in the middle, and maintain the defensive thickness on the wings of Inter Milan.
Mascala will need to drop back and get closer to the midfield to keep the situation under control.
Zaccheroni shook hands with Hugo in the open space between the dugouts, and his team has been doing well lately, so he is naturally in a good mood.
"Mr. Zaccheroni, you have to be merciful later!" Hugo gave Zaccheroni a Chinese-style pre-match greeting.
Zaccheroni was stunned, then laughed twice.
The game began, Trapani first had the meaning of retreating defense, and arranged heavy troops in the backfield, Evra and Maggio on both wings retreated deeply, this is different from the game against Juventus, this time it is the recovery of the initiative, Hugo does not know that Inter Milan's starting lineup in these games is changing, the formation is also changing, the coaching staff does not know where the essence of Inter Milan's 343 tactics is, on the one hand, it is conducive to further understanding Inter Milan's routines, on the other hand, it is funny, Hugo hopes that the defensive line can warm up first and adjust the form.
The dense defence really made it a bit difficult for Inter to find a gap, and the Dutchman Van der Meyde tried to break through twice on the flank, but both failed.
Zaccheroni played as a winger against Cruise, others didn't know, but he knew that he was actually inspired by Hugo, who used a center forward who could score as a pseudo-winger in the league, and reaped good results, and Zaccheroni followed suit in this game.
Unfortunately, Trapani was successful in restricting Inter's crosses on the flanks after the opening game, and Inter's two or three crosses were not much of a threat.
Zaccheroni was a little surprised by Hugo in the dugout, everyone in Italian football knows that Hugo likes attacking football, just as a manager, and has some ideas of offensive and defensive balance, but it is definitely not a defensive defense that is huddled in his own half like now.
Hugo also gradually understood Zaccheroni's routine, in fact, his 343 formation, the wings of the midfield are still quite focused on defensive attention, not to mention the origin of Zanetti and Koko, let's say that this played for more than ten minutes, Zanetti and Koko are limited to the press, which shows that Zaccheroni still puts the team's defense in the first position.
"He must have thought I'm playing as a back five, and now it looks like he's the back five!" Hugo said to the members of the coaching staff.
Hugo walked to the sidelines and began to gesture, asking his players not to continue to shrink and to possess the ball with purpose.
Trapani's simple clearance ball is gone, and the backfield has begun to control the ball rhythmically, Zaccheroni's tactics do not have a high position to press this link, and he is not like Hugo, what kind of tactics Hugo wants to implement that can be carried out unscrupulously, the players are not big names and easy to discipline, but Inter Milan is different, Inter Milan is full of big names, you want Vieri to run in the front court, let him participate in the defense of the whole team, this is impossible thing!
As a result, Trapani slowly had some advantage in possession, Zaccheroni's midfield configuration could not play a good role in interception, and Trapani's numerical advantage in the midfield was obvious.
In the 21st minute, Trapani even almost broke the door of Inter Milan, Mascala pulled to the side, played the famous Cannavaro, crossed, Toney's sweep was quickly blocked by Toldo's quick response.
The reason why it is almost is mainly because Toldo did not subconsciously block at all, but Tony swept the ball directly to him, otherwise at a distance of five meters in front of the goal, Tony had a slight angle, and Toldo was difficult to save the ball.
The game began to gradually move in Trapani's favor, the only problem was to the edge of the penalty area, Trapani wanted to pass the ball into the penalty area a little difficult, Materazzi was given a special task by Zaccheroni, specifically to take care of the small character Toni, Córdoba and Cannavaro turned quickly, Masscara wanted to continue to break through them It was difficult, only to find the right time.
The originally planned full-backs, Patrice Evra and Maggio, must also focus more on defensive positions in this game, and the pressure is far from the same as in the previous two games.
In this way, 45 minutes of the first half passed, and everyone did not get any good chances, and the powerful Inter Milan did not have much to do with the weak Trapani, when the referee Darini blew the whistle at the end of the first half, the Meazza stadium actually sounded sporadic boos, this boo was not for Trapani, but for the home team Inter Milan.
On his way back to the dressing room, Hugo found an interesting banner in the stands, a banner telling Moratti to fuck off!
After all, the Moratti family returned to Milan and brought their favorite stars to Milan, but in a blink of an eye, Inter Milan has all kinds of chaos, and there is still no way to get the championship, Moratti's patience is not particularly good, and the patience of Inter Milan fans has come to an end for so many years.
It's useless to fire the head coach, but the fans think that Moratti is the biggest problem for Inter Milan, and there are many critics of Moratti in the media, and fans are also cloudy, and then blame Moratti, and the demonstration of Moratti to get out of the event is not uncommon since 2003!
Looking at the banner in the stands, Hugo returned to the dressing room with a happy mood.