Chapter 359: Inter Milan's predicament
Shen Feng's physical examination report was as good as the Inter Milan club expected, which was a good thing for the Inter Milan team, which was in an injury crisis and urgently needed personnel replenishment.
What the Inter Milan team needs most now is the ability to fight!
Inter Milan, at the beginning of the season, performed well on both fronts in Serie A and the Champions League.
With a good record of six wins, two draws and two losses in the first ten rounds of Serie A, they are in the top three in the standings, and the Champions League places are stable, and they maintain the impact of the league title.
After the first three rounds of the Champions League group stage, they also achieved a good record of two wins and one loss, with 6 points, temporarily ranking second in Group B, second only to Barcelona who won all three games, and as many as 5 points ahead of the other two opponents in the same group, Tottenham Hotspur and PSV Eindhoven.
But then, Inter Milan fell into an injury crisis, and a number of key players suffered injuries in a row, which greatly affected the strength of the team and caused the team's record in Serie A and the Champions League to fluctuate greatly.
Inter Milan, who won six of their first ten Serie A rounds, won just three of the next nine games, along with three draws and three defeats.
Halfway through the Serie A schedule, Inter Milan only achieved a record of nine wins, five draws and five losses, accumulating 32 points, and has fallen to seventh place in the standings, not only the Champions League seat is not guaranteed, but even the Europa League seat has been temporarily lost.
In the second half of the season, if the situation does not improve, Inter Milan will fall back into the trough this season after six consecutive slumps and finally improved their form.
In the Champions League group stage, Inter Milan are in an equally difficult position, with two wins in the first three rounds, five points ahead of the other two opponents, and only one more win in the next three rounds to ensure qualification for the last 16.
However, in the next three rounds, Inter Milan lost to Barcelona and Tottenham Hotspur, and before the final round of the group stage, the lead established in the first three rounds was gone, and Tottenham Hotspur fell to third place in the group.
In the final round of the Champions League group stage, Inter Milan will only have to take all three points against their weakest opponents in the group, PSV Eindhoven, to keep their hopes of qualifying.
Moreover, the fate of promotion is not in the hands of Inter Milan at the moment, and it depends on the result of another game, that is, the match between Tottenham Hotspur and Barcelona Hotspur, if Tottenham Hotspur can beat Barcelona who have already qualified from the group in advance, then whether Inter Milan can beat PSV Eindhoven or not, it will not help.
In the end, Tottenham Hotspur drew away from Barcelona and the group stage results were fixed at two wins, two draws and two losses, with 8 points.
Inter Milan received an assist from Barcelona and came together to beat PSV Eindhoven at home in the final group game, with a record of three wins and three losses in six rounds of group play, accumulating nine points, and achieving a Jedi counterattack in the final round, overtaking Tottenham Hotspur to win the second place in Group B and advance to the round of 16.
Inter Milan advanced to the round of 16 of the Champions League this time, which was very lucky, and it was the lowest point among all the top 16 teams.
In the subsequent Champions League quarterfinals draw ceremony, Inter Milan was not very lucky, although avoiding Real Madrid and Manchester City, but did not meet the weaker Porto team and Liverpool team in the eight group leaders, but drew the Bundesliga hegemon Bayern Munich.
Bayern Munich, like Inter Milan, is a world-class giant, is a well-deserved hegemon of the Bundesliga, before that, has achieved six consecutive Bundesliga titles, and the team's total number of Bundesliga titles has reached 27!
In the Champions League, Bayern Munich are also one of the favourites to win the Champions League every year, although the last time they won the Champions League was six years ago, they have reached the last four several times in recent seasons.
Although they always missed the title, they performed much better than Inter Milan, who had missed the Champions League for six consecutive years!
If Inter Milan wants to pass the quarterfinals of this season's Champions League, they must surprise and use strange moves!
Shen Feng will be one of the team's wonders.
The injury-plagued Inter Milan team brandished a cheque book in the winter transfer period and introduced a large number of reinforcements, including Shen Feng, a total of four players were introduced, which is the largest recruitment among the giant teams in Europe.
The focus of the recruitment of European giants is generally placed in the summer transfer period, when there will be blockbuster transactions with transfer fees of more than 100 million.
The winter transfer period is just an opportunity for teams to fill in the gaps, and there are few big moves.
The Inter Milan team was forced to make such a big move this time.
In this winter transfer period, the Inter Milan club spent a total of 70 million euros for recruitment, of which Shen Feng alone accounted for half of the transfer fee, which cannot but be eye-catching.
Although Shen Feng rose to prominence in last year's World Cup, beating Harry Kane, Lukaku, Ronaldo and other big-name superstars to win the "Golden Boot Award", he also has some fame in Europe, the center of international football.
However, because he did not choose to land in Europe immediately after the World Cup, after half a season, many European fans have forgotten who he is.
Including fans of the Inter Milan team.
Therefore, a few days ago, when the news of the introduction of Shen Feng by the Inter Milan team was announced, the local Italian media and the fans of the Inter Milan team were in an uproar and expressed their incomprehension of this blockbuster deal.
Some people even maliciously speculated that this was the owner of the Inter Milan club, the dragon country, who was making trouble, and wanted to completely bring down the century-old giants of the Inter Milan club.
Even at Inter Milan Club, Shen Feng's past records were announced in a timely manner - the World Cup "Golden Boot Award", the new champion of the Asian Cup, the new champion of the AFC Champions League, and the total number of goals in the club and national team in the past year has reached an astonishing 86!
This record and data prove that Shen Feng is not a nobody, but a superstar seedling with outstanding strength and great potential!
The Inter Milan team did not hesitate to buy him at this time in order to strengthen the team's attacking line, and it was by no means a trick made by the club's dragon owners as the outside world speculated!