Chapter 442: Hand-to-hand combat
Inter Milan or Juventus, who has the stronger attacking line and whose spear is sharper?
The teams of the two teams naturally have their own opinions and support their own teams.
It is difficult for a third party standing in a neutral position to come to a conclusion that can convince the public, because the attacking lineups of both teams are very luxurious and powerful!
Judging from the comparison of data alone, of course, the Inter Milan team is superior, and the forward trident of the Inter Milan team - Shen Feng, Icardi, Perisic, has scored 91 goals for the Inter Milan team in Serie A alone this season, accounting for more than eighty percent of the total goals of the Inter Milan team!
Shen Feng, Icardi, and Perisic scored more goals than the total number of goals scored by the entire Juventus team!
Shen Feng's goals alone are more than the top two scorers in the Juventus team, Cristiano Ronaldo and Dybala combined!
However, the comparison of strength is not a simple data competition, especially in a specific game, there are more influencing factors!
Of course, Shen Feng is the most shining superstar in this season, the entire European football world, and even the world football, has booked the European Golden Boot Award in advance, no matter whether the Inter Milan team he leads can reach the final of the Champions League or win the championship, he will be a strong contender for the best player in UEFA this season!
The best player of the season in Serie A is already in Shen Feng's bag!
However, in the Juventus team, Ronaldo's fame and influence are not weaker than Shen Feng, Ronaldo, who is over 35 years old, still maintains an excellent competitive state, and he has been rolling in international football for more than ten years.
Ronaldo and Shen Feng are both people who can decide the trend of a game!
Interestingly, Icardi and Perisic on Inter Milan's side, and Dybala and Mandzukic on Juventus' side are the main core of Argentina and Croatia respectively.
Icardi and Dybala are relatively young, although they are now twenty-six or seventeen years old, and they have long been the absolute main core in other national teams, but in the Argentine team, over the years, they have been living in the shadow of Messi, Aguero and others, and they must not be reused!
In last year's Copa America, the Argentine team led by Messi and Aguero once again returned home, which made the fans excited.
The Argentine Football Association, as well as the new head coach, decided to change the team's reliance on Messi for more than ten years, focus on promoting newcomers, inject fresh blood into the team, and hope that the Argentine team will be reborn.
Icardi and Dybala, replacing Sergio Aguero and Higuain, have become the main force in the Argentine team's forward line, leading the Argentine team in the 2022 World Cup qualifiers that have already begun, and playing satisfactory results.
Not to mention Perisic and Mandzukic, who were the most decorated players in Croatia's 2018 World Cup runners-up.
Therefore, judging from the comparison of strength alone, the attacking lineups of Inter Milan and Juventus are evenly matched, and it depends on their performance in this game!
After the opening of the Juventus team, the attack was ferocious, trying to open the situation as soon as possible, and the Inter Milan team had been prepared for this, and the response was calm.
In the past week, the Juventus team has deeply studied the lineup and tactics of the Inter Milan team, and the Inter Milan team is not idle, and is also looking for loopholes and flaws in the Juventus team.
Big flaws are certainly not found, and if there are such obvious flaws, Juventus will not be able to reach the semi-finals in the Champions League.
However, Inter Milan still found a point in the Juventus squad that could be exploited.
This point is on Cristiano Ronaldo, the strongest in the Juventus team!
As mentioned earlier, Ronaldo, who is 35 years old, has maintained a very good competitive condition, but as he gets older, his physical fitness is definitely not comparable to before.
Cristiano Ronaldo is also aware of his situation and consciously avoids this issue in the game.
However, in a game of average intensity, Ronaldo can use the way of reducing running and sprinting to save physical energy, so as to play the whole game; In a high-intensity game, this is not guaranteed!
In the first leg, Ronaldo fought too hard in the first half, and after the start of the second half, his physical fitness declined rapidly, making him weak on the field in the last 20 minutes of the game.
Juventus was finally equalized by Inter Milan, and it must be said that Cristiano Ronaldo was unable to put enough pressure on the Inter Milan team due to fitness problems after Juventus took the lead again, which is also one of the reasons.
In response to this, the Inter Milan team made a special arrangement in this game to consciously consume Ronaldo's physical energy, so that the seemingly unbreakable lineup of the Juventus team showed a flaw in Ronaldo's point.
The way adopted by the Inter Milan team is to strengthen physical contact and physical confrontation in the defense of Ronaldo, with more physical contact and fierce confrontation, and the consumption of Ronaldo's physical energy will definitely be greater!
Cristiano Ronaldo immediately changed his game strategy after realizing the intentions of the Inter Milan team, no longer rushing to the front, wasting his energy in the physical confrontation with the defenders of the Inter Milan team, retreating slightly from the position to the central midfield, from the finisher of the Juventus team's attack, to become the initiator of the attack.
In a team, the initiator of the offense is more important than the finisher of the offense!
It's just that the vast majority of fans only focus on the striker who can score goals, and they have no time to look at the midfield conductor, so that the influence of the midfielder is not as good as that of the striker.
The midfielder of the Juventus team, although there are good players like Khedira and Matuidi, but in general, in the team's three lines, the strength is still weak, and Ronaldo's position retreat, although it will weaken the Juventus team's forward attack, but after the midfield control is strengthened, it has little impact on the overall attack of the Juventus team.
Shen Feng and Ronaldo originally had no chance to play against each other on the court, because there was no place for the two of them to play on the field.
Now, Ronaldo retreated to the midfield to get the ball, Shen Feng was also taken care of by the Juventus team in this game, and he couldn't play to his heart's content in the frontcourt.
When Ronaldo once again retreated to his own half to get the ball, Shen Feng rushed up and entangled him closely, and the two strikers launched a hand-to-hand fight in the midfield.