In England in February, it was rainy and the weather was very uncomfortable, especially in an industrial city like Manchester, and the air quality was not good at all.

The long-awaited February has finally arrived.

This month should be a season of passion. Manchester City, under the leadership of Wang Dalong, is firing four arrows.

The league and Manchester United go hand in hand, the FA Cup is on the rise, the League Cup is about to compete with Manchester United, and the Champions League is against Inter Milan. From now on, it's harvest time.

The first was at home to Inter Milan and then the Carabao Cup final against Manchester United in the middle.

Inter Milan returned to the Champions League after many years and reached the knockout rounds, but they were unfortunate to meet the mighty Manchester City. Even former Inter Milan legend Cristiano Ronaldo has said that Inter Milan will have any chance of eliminating Manchester City, who have already booked a place in the quarter-finals. For Inter Milan, the round of 16 is already the final result of the season.

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Javier Zanetti appears at the door of Manchester United's training base.

"This is the Carrington training base."

He stood at the gate and didn't move his steps to walk in, he had played football for so many years in his life, and he had been to so many away games, but he had never visited someone's training base.

Today in Manchester, mainly to follow Inter Milan to play in the Champions League, against the powerful Manchester City, he also came to Manchester United's training base by the way.

Of course, the purpose of coming here must be to meet Mourinho, since 2010, the two of them have met once at the awards gala, and since then, they have not seen each other again.

While it is possible to see Mourinho on the European football news every morning, it is certainly not as good as meeting in person.

It's been almost nine years since 2010, and time has passed too fast. Back then, he followed Samuel Eto'o and Sneijder to win the Champions League with Jose Mourinho, and he still remembers it vividly, but time is so fast that he doubts it.

I used to think that time was flying when I played football, but now I retire faster, and I am an old man in my 50s, not even an uncle.

"Javier Zanetti?" The old man looked at Zanetti for a while, took out his mobile phone and searched for Zanetti's photo, and only after confirming it did he dare to speak.

Because he was too familiar, but he didn't know who, he finally remembered it and didn't dare to confirm it, so he stayed up for so long before he spoke.

Looking at the extraordinary Zanetti, he asked curiously.

"Hey, hello, I'm Javier Zanetti." Zanetti smiled, his eyes fixed on the old man.

"You're here for Mourinho, right?"

"Yes, want to come and see him, don't you know he's at the training ground? With his character, there was definitely a training session on the last day. Zanetti smiled, that is, the afternoon before the game, Mourinho would do a lot of training, he didn't say hello to Mourinho, but he took the initiative to come here, he thought he could definitely see Mourinho.

"Yes, you're right, he's on the training ground. Your person is so nice and will come to see him. The old man also smiled, "He will be very happy, and when he sees you, he will definitely hug you." ”

"Haha, I also have this urge, so, I went in?" Zanetti pointed to the gate.

"Yes, welcome to Manchester United, Mr Zanetti, and wish your team a triumphant victory and a victory over Manchester City." The old man knew that Zanetti was the vice-president of Inter Milan.

"Thank you."

When Zanetti was gone, the old man sighed.

"Why did the good old man Ferguson train so many disciples, and after these disciples left, they never came back to comfort him? On the contrary, Mourinho, who often offends people, still has people come to see him? It's such a strange world. ”

"Alas, old, old, I really don't know what the world has become......"

Looking at Zanetti's back, he seems to think of many, many Manchester United stars who are about the same age as Zanetti.

"By the way, David Beckham hasn't been back to Carrington either, has he? Roy Keane? What the hell did they do, not even the Neville brothers, Ryan Giggs, none of them ever came back, not even the news of having dinner with Ferguson. ”

"Manchester United raised them, but they never came back, how many years have passed."

"Alas......"

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"Hey, Javier!" Mourinho stopped, and the moment he saw Zanetti, he was stunned for a moment, and then laughed.

The old people meet and are in a good mood.

"You're old again." Looking at Mourinho with gray hair, Zanetti's heart hurt a little, that year, his hair was gray at best, and now, it is all white.

The high-spirited Mu Shuai has long been ......

Time, what a pig-killing knife.

Just now, he was still sighing at the gate that he was old, but after seeing Mu Shuai, he felt that he was really young. At least Mu Shuai is much older than him......

"Am I old? So Ferguson, aren't they even more indescribable? I just saw it at the training ground. ”

"Ferguson? Oh, he's still coming to the stadium. ”

"Yes, the Carabao Cup final is coming and Ferguson can't help but come and talk to me about what to do. After all, you know, Manchester City is terrifying. Mourinho spread his hands and actually burst into foul language.

"Well, I'm just kidding, the lord just wants to come back to the training ground and see, lately he's been a little nostalgic, always talking about the old days in front of young people, talking about the old football, life, or Manchester United, I think, he's really too old, only the past is left in his mind, alas."

"Of course, we also talked about the future Carabao Cup final and the lord suggested that I play against him Manchester City, what do you think?" Mourinho raised an eyebrow and said football, and he regained his serious expression.

Lately he hasn't figured out how to play against Manchester City.

"Hehe, I'm not a coach, how can I give you advice. However, I don't think Manchester City is scary at all, it's just the king of China who is scary. ”

Zanetti politely gave his opinion anyway. Although he is not a manager, the number of games he has played on the football field gives him enough experience to analyse the game. If he hadn't gone the path of vice-president of the club, he could have become a good coach.

It is said that the midfield is particularly easy to produce good coaches, and Zanetti definitely has this potential. Players like Conte, Deschamps, Zidane, and Ancelotti, who were once brilliant, are not also mixed up in their coaching careers?

"yes, King of China, it's too difficult to deal with, even harder than Messi, I've never met a player who is so scary. He's as big as two-thirds of a team on his own. Oh my God, it's crazy, this kid is in the Premier League all day, and he can't be at peace for a day. If he were to come to Manchester United, I wouldn't have to worry about Manchester City at all. ”

When did Mu Shuai start chattering. In his memory, Mu Shuai would not talk so much nonsense at all, and he would only chatter if he played psychological warfare in front of the media.

It seems that Wang Dalong has really put a lot of pressure on him, otherwise it wouldn't be like this.

"Didn't Liverpool give a model this year, you played a pretty beautiful game yourself, and I think there was some luck left with the game playing like that." Zanetti reassured.

"Yes, but no matter what, it's still Manchester City's chances of winning, at least six or four, Manchester United four. Unless he can't play, I don't necessarily have any tactics that can really contain him. ”

'So, there's only one way to attack, no matter what tactics we use, we can only score more goals than the other side. It's useless to think too much. ”

"Haha, Javier, that's right, it's actually such a simple truth, let's go, I'll treat you to dinner."

Mourinho laughed and took Zanetti with him.

Zanetti was not polite, got into Mourinho's car, and went to a quieter restaurant on the outskirts of the city.

After sitting down, Mourinho found out that Zanetti is the vice president of Inter Milan, didn't Inter Milan play the Champions League with Manchester City first?

"I almost forgot, Inter Milan are going to play Manchester City, you see my memory is ......" Mourinho put down his knife and fork and became serious.

Then he thought about it for a long time, and finally spit out, "Inter Milan doesn't have a chance." ”

"Yes, I also feel sad that there is no chance. I've never been so frustrated, it's a terrible feeling to think I've lost a game before the game has started. Do you know that the bookmaker actually opened the data of Manchester City conceding two goals, what kind of odds does this have to be........."

"Haha, Javier, don't be angry, if I go to buy a lottery ticket, I'll also buy Manchester City to win," and then he became serious again and sighed, "Alas, the truth is, they are very strong." ”

"Seriously, unless he goes off the field with an injury, or doesn't play, otherwise Inter Milan doesn't have any chances, attacking, attacking, defending, and can't defend, alas."

Mourinho sighed again.

Inter Milan used to be his team, but it was really helpless.

The two of them were eating dinner silently, whether it was Manchester United or Inter Milan, they had to face Manchester City......

At the same time, Pep Guardiola is also analysing Inter Milan and Manchester United. He's sitting in his office, figuring out a starting lineup.

Both games are important, the Champions League is definitely going to be qualified, the League Cup is definitely going to be won. Inter Milan are easy to play, but Manchester United are not easy to play, and if you think of the first leg of the league, Mourinho's side have never played well, unless their team collapses first.

"Finish Inter Milan in the first leg and then prepare carefully to play Manchester United." He confirmed in his mind that if he could win the first leg by a big score, then the second leg would be a chicken rib event. Naturally, when it comes to a duel with Manchester United, there will be no worries.

Therefore, in the end, on the day of the game, Guardiola sent the strongest main lineup, because Aguero's recent form is hot, so after communicating with Wang Dalong, he put Wang Dalong in the midfield, trying to stimulate Manchester City's strongest fighting power.

"Inter are going to cry." The Times observed a moment of silence for the national Milan when reporting on Manchester City's starting line-up.

"No one can stop Manchester City!"

On the Italian newspaper side, the report was also very sad. Milan Sports Newspaper wrote, "For Inter Milan, this Champions League is mainly based on learning, and being able to play against the strongest team in the world is a kind of luck in itself, although this luck is a little bad, but next year's Inter Milan will be very strong." Both teams in Milan City are at least back in Europe, but the world has changed so much that I don't know when the center of European football will return to Milan......"

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"Hey, damn it, why are there so many Inter fans today? Where did they come from? ”

On the day of the match between Manchester City and Inter Milan, Inter Milan fans poured into the Etihad Stadium, and so many people surprised Manchester City fans.

According to the usual away fans, there are not so many fans who come to the Etihad. But today's Inter fans really scare them.

I've never seen so many away fans.

"Are they trying to make the Etihad Stadium their home stadium? Oh my God, they thought it was ideal, this is Manchester City's home stadium! ”

"Isn't it possible that they think that the more fans they come, the better the chances of the team winning? This is something that simply can't happen, look at the odds given by the bookmaker, Inter Milan has no chance of winning at all, the handicap is to concede two goals, I don't even think the company is stupid, at least three and a half goals, they underestimate Manchester City, even Aguero may also score three goals. ”

"Hey, man, let's go back, it's not a good feeling to see the team slaughtered in person." Some Manchester City fans began to cause trouble, and the Inter Milan fans said. Maybe this sentence is not without malice, but it sounds very mocking to Inter fans.

Po –

That Inter Milan fan, he didn't say, he just punched the guy who spoke.

Even at the Etihad Stadium, they dared to make trouble.

The Manchester City fan fell straight onto his seat.

Immediately afterward, the scene became chaotic. Fans on both sides joined the fray.

There was a fight with each other......

The security guards at the stadium took immediate action, but there were so many fans between the two teams that it was impossible to separate them in the first place.

The chaos grew bigger and bigger, and eventually the local police station was also dispatched.

The game had to be announced a two-hour delay.

In the dressing room, the players also knew about it.

This is rarely experienced.

"I've heard that the fans on both sides have already started fighting. It's incredible, their heads are on their butts, it's just a ball game. ”