Chapter 260: It's better to have handball and offside
On the morning of April 9, the Pinettina training base. "If you want to rest for a few more days, I can understand that." Mancini said to Ricardo, who had already changed his training gear.
"I've rested enough, Stella has been out of the ICU, and now I don't need to be guarded every day." Ricardo said.
"But she's in Rome without relatives and no one to take care of her," Mancini said, "I'm not going to let you play in today's game anyway, you have a good rest for a few days, and when Stella is better, you can hire a nanny to take care of her." I just ask you to catch the Milan derby in the next leg. ”
"Her agent will take care of it." Ricardo replied.
In addition to temporarily asking someone from the company to come over to accompany Stella, he also negotiated with Ricardo that both parties would pay half of the money to hire a senior care for Stella.
Stella had a car accident on April 5 and left the ICU on April 8, and Ricardo rushed back to Milan on the evening of April 8 to prepare for the league match against Bologna on April 9.
"Anyway, I'm not going to let you play tonight. It's not just you, Ronnie and Adriano won't be playing. I want you to recharge your batteries for the next leg of the Milan derby. ”
Ricardo nodded and accepted the arrangement. "Don't worry, Robert, I'll get back to my groove as soon as I can."
Mancini has made the astonishing decision to keep Ricardo, Ronaldo and Adriano on the bench for the second leg of the Champions League quarter-final against AC Milan.
Ricardo has been very tired these days, and even if he can play tonight, he will not be able to maintain his form; Adriano has just recovered from injury and is not necessarily in good shape. They also gave up, and it really took courage to put Ronaldo on the bench.
In this 30th round of Serie A, Martins and Cruz started the game. Inter Milan played a defensive counterattack and finally beat Bologna 1-0 away thanks to a goal from substitute "Chinese boy" Recoba.
In another game played at the same time, AC Milan, which was also trying to stay in the Champions League, was forced to draw 1:1 at home by the weak team Brescia, basically announcing the shattering of the dream of defending the league champion.
In another crucial match later on, Juventus challenged Fiorentina away and came back from three trails to draw 3-3.
The news made Inter Milan's players cheer and feel confident. They are level on 66 points with Juventus and once again top of the table on goal difference.
With only eight rounds of the league remaining, there is no room for mistakes, and it will be even more difficult for both Juventus and Inter Milan.
Comparatively speaking, Inter Milan have a slightly friendlier schedule. Except for the 32nd round away to Juventus, the remaining 7 games are against weak teams, either teams in the relegation zone, or teams with no hope of European competition and no relegation, as long as Inter Milan does not make mistakes, it should not be a problem to win 7 games.
Juventus, on the other hand, will also play Lazio and AC Milan away and Parma at home, all of which are tough games, and their margin for error is much smaller than Inter Milan's.
It can be said that the initiative is already in Inter's own hands.
As long as they don't lose against Juventus and don't make mistakes against weak teams, they can win the Serie A title this season.
But that's all for later. First of all, they have to fight to go one step further in the Champions League.
The obstacle in front of them is called AC Milan.
With 17 Serie A titles, five Coppa Italia titles, six Champions Leagues and two European Cup Winners' Cups, the team in the red and black arrows are a superpowerhouse in their 105 years.
And the grievances and hatreds between them and Inter Milan are too many to describe in words. As we all know, Inter Milan was formed in 1908 by a group of AC Milan members who "defected".
So far, Inter Milan have only 13 Serie A titles, four fewer than AC Milan; The Coppa Italia has been won 7 times; The Champions League has only been won three times, only half of AC Milan's. In addition, Inter Milan have won the UEFA Cup three times.
In comparison, Inter Milan received slightly less accolades.
However, Inter Milan up and down, hoping to narrow the gap between the number of honors won by this team and AC Milan this season!
It may not be the strongest and most balanced season for Inter Milan, nor the season for Inter Milan to attack the most or defend the most, nor the season of luck, nor the closest season to the league title or Champions League title.
However, in this season, Inter Milan are still unbeaten in the league! Only one defeat in the Champions League!
They are confident enough to win everything!
On the morning of April 11, a special person walked into the team locker room at the Pinettina training base.
This is a spirited old man, tall, with pale blonde hair, a Chinese face, serious small eyes, thick sword eyebrows, and even a smile exudes a faint majesty.
"Hello Chairman!" Zanetti was the first to greet pleasantly surprised.
The rest of the players also shouted: "Hello Chairman! "Chairman, why are you here?" "Mr. President, you look in good spirits!"
"You're not bad, you're all great guys." 62-year-old Giacento. Facchetti didn't look old at all, his back straight, and he smiled and waved to the boys.
"Ricardo, I heard that your girlfriend was injured and hospitalized, is she okay?"
"Ronnie, are you ready to remarry?"
"Christian, how's it going?"
"Marko, it's still so spirited."
'Alvaro, the goal from the night before yesterday was wonderful.
Facchetti greeted the players one by one, and after a round in the dressing room, he exclaimed: "You will face your old opponents again tomorrow night, do you have the confidence to win them?" ”
"Yes!" The players shouted.
"When you meet AC Milan, you don't have to say anything, you just do it." Facchetti burst into foul language, and the locker room burst into laughter.
Before the laughter could stop, Facchetti quoted Plisco: "My dream is to win a derby and Inter Milan score a second before the end of the game to beat AC Milan 1-0. Hopefully it's an offside goal, or a handball, but it's better to be offside plus handball. ”
The laughter was even louder.
"But," Facchetti laughed, "if Ronnie had beaten five men in a row and then used the pendulum past Dida to kick the ball into the empty net, I would have accepted it." ”
The laughter continued, with several players patting Ronaldo on the shoulder, and Ronaldo laughed from ear to ear.
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