At the press conference before the game, the moment Li Mudi saw the Inter coach in the passage outside, there was only one sentence in his heart: These brothers really look alike!

The two brothers who were born together on May 15, 1970, it is difficult to see any difference in terms of facial features, height and weight, especially when they were young. Now there are certain differences in hairstyles and figures, especially in face shapes, but people who are not familiar with them still can't easily tell who is who. The reason why the two people are always commented on together by the world is not only because they are twins, but also because the trajectories of their careers are highly overlapping. In the 1987-88 season, the De Boer brothers were promoted from the youth team to the Ajax first team, but compared to his younger brother Frank, who directly occupied the team's main central defender, his brother Ronald has not been able to gain the full trust of the manager, and as a midfield rotation player for three or four years, until he was loaned to Twente and played well, then returned to Ajax to take the starting position. The brothers went on to play alongside Barcelona and Glasgo Rovers and Al-Rayyan Sports Club in the Qatar League before retiring in 2006 and 2008 respectively.

On the eve of the 1990 World Cup, Frank was called by Leo Beenhakker, then the manager of the Netherlands team and who had led Real Madrid to three consecutive La Liga titles, and was given the opportunity to play for his country, and then participated in many major tournaments after the World Cup in Italy, and became the first player in the history of the Netherlands to play more than 100 games for the national team at Euro 2000. After suffering an upset in the 2002 South Korea-Japan World Cup qualifiers, Frank, as the captain of the national team, announced his retirement from the Dutch national team, although later at the strong invitation of Edvocaat, he returned to the mountain and participated in the 2004 European Championship, but after the game, he said goodbye to the orange team completely, and fixed the national team statistics to 112 appearances and scored 13 goals. The elder brother Ronald's international career was lackluster, having only been given the opportunity to wear the orange shirt in 1993, until 2004, when he failed to make the European Championship squad and announced the end of his international career, leaving only 13 goals in 67 appearances and the same as his brother. This is indeed a bit unattainable for a once-world-renowned attacking midfielder.

After retiring, the De Boer brothers still habitually got together. In the summer of 2007, Frank first became the coach of his parent club Ajax Under-19s, and a year later he became assistant coach of the Dutch national team and head coach of Ajax's Under-19s, with Ronald taking over the position left by his brother. In 2010, the younger brother was promoted again and qualified to coach the parent team; The elder brother could only continue to practice in the youth team, and in 2012 he became the chief assistant coach of the "second palace" Van Gaal in the Dutch national team, and then simply became a guest commentator on football matches.

In terms of personality, the younger brother is more calm and experienced than the elder brother, Ronald's temperament is a little jumpy, but he is also better at communicating with people, Frank's current predicament at Inter should have a lot to do with his failure to do a good job of unity within the team.

Back at the pre-game press conference, the two protagonists who have recently been hyped by the outside world to change their coaches sat at a table, which was enough to attract hundreds of media reporters to the scene. However, neither the Inter manager, who is in crisis, nor Lee Mudi, who is speculated by most to have verbally agreed to take over the Nerazzurri, has responded to that sensitive issue. The latter also stressed before the end of the press conference that he was happy with the club in Turin and that less than a quarter of the time has passed in his contract, which was a side refutation of the media's lack of ideas, but it did not seem to have had any effect. In the end, the two head coaches returned to their dressing rooms with a calm face, leaving a room full of reporters who had not received any inside information and could only struggle with how to go back and make up the story.

At 20:45 local time on October 26, Italy, the tenth round of Serie A, which was originally just a game that not many people cared about, but suddenly became the focus of the world's football circle because of the intricate relationship between the two head coaches, started on time at the Meazza Stadium. Due to the excellent record of the away team and the war of words in the early stage of the league, and because there was no strong dialogue in the other games that kicked off at the same time today, the Italian national television was very prescient to choose the battle of the national capital as the national broadcast time, and it is estimated that the leaders of the TV station will laugh clearly when they think of the super high ratings that may be generated. According to estimates in the morning Corriere della Sera, the live broadcast of the game has the potential to attract more than 220 million people, including Celestial Empire fans, which is almost as good as the figures for the Milan derby and the Italian derby.

On the away side, although Li Mudi put on a posture of adapting to all changes, he still fine-tuned the starting lineup, the usual 4-3-3 position, goalkeeper: Joe Hart, right-back Bruno Pérez, veteran Moretti and Rosstini partnered with central defender and left-back Avilar, midfielder Akwa and captain Vives, central midfielder Baseli, and the front trident is right winger Iago Farke, left winger Jesse, and center forward Belotti. Brazilian centre-back Kastan has accumulated yellow cards and is suspended, while the midfield position has become a triangle, with two midfielders who can help the back line more at one end of the defence, and the work of midfield organization can only be done by Basseri alone.

Frank de Boer, who was already on the verge of resignation, will no longer have any reservations, facing a must-kill order from the club's hierarchy, except for Chilean midfielder Gary Medel, who was banned for three games for elbowing his opponent in the last game, and right-back Danilo DAmbrosio, who was angrily denounced as a traitor by Torino fans, the Dutch has all the main force at hand. In the same 4-3-3 formation, the goalkeeper is naturally Slovenian international Handanovic, and the backline is Japanese Yuto Nagatomo, Brazilian central defender Joao Miranda de Souza Filho, Colombian international Jeison Murillo (Jeison Murillo) and Argentine Ansaldi (Cristian Ansaldi), who just joined from Genoa in the new season. The midfield three is Croatian international Marcelo Brozovic, Portugal international Joao Mario, who joined from Sporting Lisbon for €45 million before the summer transfer window deadline, and Argentinian Banega, while up front captain Icardi is a lone arrow forward, with Eder and Candreva splitting the flanks.

The biggest attraction of this game is not only the coaches of the two sides, but also the head-to-head confrontation between the super center forwards. Belotti, who leads the scoring charts, has scored nine goals in the first nine league games, and this is despite missing two games, while Roma's Bosnia-Herzegovina centre-forward Dzeko is second with eight goals, followed by Inter Milan's Mauro Icardi with six. But when it comes to efficiency, then the Argentine is a miracle in world football today, he has formed a total of 21 shots on goal in his first nine league games, of which only 8 shots are on target, which is indeed a bit low, but only two of the eight shots in the frame of the goal have been saved, and 75% of them have scored, which is amazing! Therefore, before the start of the game, Li Mudi specially emphasized not to give the Inter captain any chance to attack the goal within 35 meters of the front, even the opponent's long-range shots that are not very good at should be guarded against, he didn't want to see Icardi as if he was hanging up to make any world waves when facing the "background emperor" Joe Hart.

Despite the pressure on the manager's back, the home side's players were surprisingly quick to get into shape, and just 40 seconds into the game, Ansaldi, who had a rare chance to start, delivered a quality cross from the right, and Eder's header was cleared by Moretti before Icardi could react.

In the third minute, Baseli was surrounded in front of his own side, and Brozovic won the ball and distributed it to Eder, who returned to midfield to pick up, who took a step and sent a lob over the top, and Joao Mario cut in at high speed and fired a powerful volley directly from 25 yards in front of goal. Although the ball bounced off the far post, the atmosphere of the home fans was mobilized, and with only 50,000 people cheering on the crowd, Inter's attack gradually suppressed the visitors, forcing the Torino players to hardly form an effective teamwork, and there was not a single attempt to attack the goal in the opening ten minutes. In the sixth minute, centre-back Murillo suddenly stepped forward in front of the midfield circle and tried to send a through ball, but was narrowly intercepted by Aceva's tackle. The visitors had to try their luck with two crosses from the wings, and in the ninth minute, Bruno Perez's cross from the right bounced off the box and was kicked out of the box by Yuto Nagatomo.

In addition to having the upper hand in attack, the home team also fought more fiercely in the midfield, which allowed them to not only dominate the positional attack, but also successfully hit several quick counter-attacks with multiple tackles in the middle and back. In the 11th minute, Eder won the ball on the left flank and attracted two defenders to mark it, and he immediately sent a diagonal 45-degree cross to the back post, where Candreva cut in at high speed to meet the ball from a tight angle, only to be blasted into the side-netting due to the angle.

Icardi is not bad at heading, but he is still more accustomed to playing on the ground, so Frank de Boer's tactical approach to the home team is also more oriented towards penetration in the middle and flexible movement, which makes them use their through balls a lot. In the twelfth minute, Icardi retreated to midfield, received the ball and dribbled past Baseli and Wives in succession, and then tried to pass straight to Eder, who was inserted on the left, but was destroyed by the experienced Moretti in advance; A minute later, Banega broke through with the ball in the middle and stabbed the ball in front of Vives' calf to form a line, and the Argentine center adjusted the running route in time to outflank the line, but Avilar kicked the ball out of the bottom line first.

In the face of the opponent's super state that seems to have played chicken blood, Li Mudi has no good way, so he has to let the players recover all of them first, and wait for the opponent's laxity or mistakes while doing a good job of defense. But just after the Torino team strengthened the marking defense of the opponent's running, Inter Milan took out another offensive weapon - long-range shooting, which made the Torino coach constantly complain on the sidelines: "MMP, with this state and ability, how did you play the 14th place in the league before?" Or is it just against us that we can play 100% of the strength of the Serie A giants? What a hell! ”

In the 14th minute, Eder, who was very active in the game, broke through Vives and knocked down the middle, and Brozovic volleyed hard from 20 meters in front of the goal, and the ball went wide of the right corner of the goal. When the visitors managed to get a header into the far corner after Rosettini had received a corner kick from Barcelona (which was easily confiscated by Handanovic), the home side counter-attacked in midfield, Brozovic sent a through ball, Eder's powerful long-range shot missed the target, and the ball smashed hard into the protective net behind the goal. The Torino team, who were afraid of the coming world wave, hurriedly adjusted again and expanded the defensive range a little, and then Inter Milan returned to the style of play of short pass penetration. In the sixteenth minute, Mario's through ball attempt failed to pass Akwa's interception. Two minutes later, Ansaldi's cross was again controlled by Rossettini.

After gradually adapting to the opponent's two attacking patterns, the Torino players gradually recovered from the suppressed form after the opening game, and they were finally able to find some sense in the attacking end after the opponent's momentum slowly regressed. In the 23rd minute, Baseli and Bruno Perez played a diagonal pass on the right after completing a collision with the wall, Belotti could not take advantage of the scramble with Miranda, and the ball flew off the touchline on the other side without anyone touching it; Two minutes later, Jesse's low cross from the left was cleared off by Mario, and then Akwa's long-range shot from the edge of the box was parried away by Handanovic.

Just when everyone thought that the Torino team was going to be the main opponent, Inter Milan proved that they were just relieved, and they were still wearing blue and black stripes on Meazza's turf. In the 26th minute, Brozovic made another ill-advised decision in his attacking options, his cross found Eder, who didn't know where to drop his boots, and the Brazilian's push from the edge of the box still didn't pose much of a threat to Joe Hart, looking like he was aiming for a plane in the sky. In the 30th minute, Banega went straight to the ribs and Brozovic's diagonal cross was cleared by Moretti, who was stuck in front of Icardi. Three minutes later, Brozovic again played a long ball into the left flank, but Eder made a mistake when he stopped the ball and went straight out of the touchline.

Although the home team's attacks failed to create real chances, they directly snuffed out Torino's offensive that had just improved, making them turn back to a passive defensive posture again, and Li Mudi, who was watching the game from the sidelines, couldn't help but frown again.