Chapter 134: Accidents that are no longer in the realm of control

Just because he kept a low profile before the game doesn't mean he doesn't want to win the game.

Against Inter Milan, he was well prepared.

In response to Inter's tactics, he made some adjustments to the Mad Dog tactics. In terms of personnel, most of the players who rested in the last league game also returned to the starting line-up.

Valencia fielded their strongest squad at home to Cooper's Inter Milan.

At this time, Inter Milan is full of strong players, although it has not yet gotten rid of the bad evaluation of "star black hole", but in terms of player strength, it is still higher than Valencia.

However, Chang Win still has the confidence to beat Inter Milan at home.

Because it's not the stars that decide the outcome of a football game, it's the whole.

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Chang Sheng believes that his overall strength is better than that of Inter Milan's stars.

But as soon as the game started, the superstars of Inter Milan gave him a blow to the head.

In the ninth minute, Vieri, a powerful centre-forward, squeezed away Ayala in the box and put the ball into Valencia's goal......

Ayala defended hard, but in terms of physical confrontation, he was too far behind, and was easily blocked by Vieri and shèmen scored.

When he saw this scene, the corners of Chang Sheng's mouth twitched.

He thinks about almost everything he can consider, but he really can't control the individual performance of the opposing players......

Who would have thought that Vieri's form would be so good in this game?

Scored just the opening goal!

After the goal, Vieri waved his arms and roared, and his chest and abs were highlighted on the jersey, which made people grin - this is a powerful center!

Can tactics control everything?

The tactics that had always won on Vieri had failed.

Unfortunately, his central defender was still too weak, and he was squeezed by Vieri and lost his position.

It's all a contest of individual strength, and he can't really help at that......

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After Vieri's goal, Valencia launched a counter-attack.

And in the 30th minute, Vicente scored the equaliser.

Although the Valencia fans showed kindness and welcome home to Cooper before the game began, they quickly moved into the Valencia fan corner as soon as the game began.

When Vieri scored, there was silence in the Mestalla.

And when Vicente scored, the huge cheers quickly filled the Mestalla stadium.

This time, Cooper's brow furrowed.

Vicente was a regular when Cooper was still Valencia manager last season, scoring five goals in the league.

However, Vicente's goal just now was not a difficult goal, it was a series of passes that sent the football to the goal, and then Vicente appeared in a position that was basically unmarked and put the football shè into the goal.

Because of the previous series of passes, Inter Milan's defense was torn apart, so there was no one to defend Vicente.

This Valencia team is clearly completely different from the Valencia he coaches......

He looked next door, and he didn't expect that the new coach had only been in charge of the team for less than a season, and he would be able to completely overturn Valencia's tactical system and start all over again.

And I heard that he is not yet thirty years old......

What an amazing young man!

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In the second half, Chang Win was more focused on control and used control to defend. This tactic has been used in the matches against Barcelona and Real Madrid, and Valencia is now very handy.

In the middle of the half-time, Valencia finally found a flaw, and Ibrahimovic sent the ball into the conservative goal of Inter Milan goalkeeper Toldo.

The final score was 2-1 and Valencia emerged victorious at home.

But Chang Sheng didn't feel easy at all, and when Cooper shook hands with him at the end of the game, he didn't think it was a big deal to lose.

Because Cooper got an away goal.

After Vieri's goal, Valencia stepped up their defence against him.

And Inter Milan seems to have seen the power of Valencia's ball-control tactics and did not dare to attack rashly.

As a result, Inter Milan only scored one away goal.

But it was enough for Inter Milan, as Valencia also scored just two goals.

Inter Milan haven't played Ronaldo in this game, and they haven't even brought it.

It would be a shame if the constant win was still a fan mentality.

But now he has no regrets, and he has to be glad that Ronaldo didn't come. One Vieri is enough for him, and another Ronaldo, so that people don't mix?

In this way, the winners have to worry about whether Inter Milan's away goal will cause problems for them.

And Ibrahimovic received a yellow card in the game and will be suspended for accumulating yellow cards and miss the next leg between the two sides.

Ibrahimovic himself didn't seem to realise the significance of the yellow card, perhaps because he forgot that he was about to be suspended, or maybe he didn't think it was a big deal that he missed a game.

But Chang Sheng felt a headache.

What he knows about Cooper, and what he sees of this game. It can be seen that Valencia's Inter Milan are playing defensive counter-attacks.

Now that Valencia have an away goal in their hands, they are expected to play more conservatively when they return to their home stadium as they only need one goal.

The next time they can shrink the defense.

Zlatan Ibrahimovic is a very important player to break down the dense defence.

If he doesn't play in the next round, what will the match look like and what will the outcome be...... It's hard to say!

Whether it was Vieri's goal or Ibrahimovic's yellow card, there was something in this game that was out of his control.

This made him a little unhappy.

As a head coach, the most hated thing is things that are beyond your control.

But maybe this is a normal football game.

Everything is under your control, that's impossible.

Football is round, there are always some surprises......

Vieri's goal was an accident and it just got the game back on track.

For such a goal, Chang Sheng couldn't even lose his temper with the players in the dressing room after the game.

Because the players are doing well enough, but there are always things that no one can control.

Chang Sheng felt the helplessness of football in this game.

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A week later, Valencia travelled to Inter Milan.

After the first round, Ibrahimovic learned that he was suspended for the next round.

He regretted it at the time, but what was the use of saying this at this time?

When the rest of the players could go to Milan, he was able to stay home and watch the game live.

At the Meazza Stadium, the winning team was met with dense defensive resistance from Inter Milan, as he expected.

Cooper's Valencia once reached the Champions League final for two consecutive seasons with a non-innovative tactic of defensive counter-attack, and was replaced by the stronger Inter Milan, and his defensive counter-attack was more handy.

In the last game, he learned about Valencia's attacking pattern and made adjustments to his defence. It's tighter than in the first round.

And Valencia, without the battering ram of Ibrahimovic, also lacked the tricks to break through the dense defense.

Villa's movement is erratic, but when the box is full of people, it's obviously useless for him to run without the ball.

Inter Milan are an Italian team, and defending is almost instinctive.

Coupled with Cooper's training, it is even more solid.

In addition, there is a more lethal point, Cooper has Ronaldo in the start of this game.

Ronaldo is fast, good for counter-attacking and he's the kind of striker who can settle battles alone.

In this game, Cooper's Inter Milan only need one goal to score.

So Cooper put all his jīng forces on defense, and the offense left Ronaldo alone to sneak attack.

It really made him succeed in the sneak attack......

In the 47th minute, Ronaldo used the defensive counterattack to dribble the ball straight into the goal.

Canizares couldn't make a save and could only watch the ball fly into the back of the net.

And the constant victory on the sidelines also closed his eyes.

Another triumph of individual heroism......

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Inter Milan, who equalized the aggregate score, began to shrink the defense, leaving one Ronaldo to continue to disturb in front, so that Valencia did not dare to press as a whole.

And Valencia, who had lost Ibrahimovic, lacked the means to get in, so they could only keep using the far shè to attack, counting on shit luck and getting into one.

But as a result, Valencia were unable to score until full-time.

Chang Sheng could only reluctantly accept the fate of being eliminated by Inter Milan.

There was no way for his Valencia to go any further.

Because there were too many factors beyond his control in these two games that played a crucial role......

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Valencia, who returned to their lair in frustration, was already very painful about this defeat, but they didn't expect that there were even more painful things waiting for them.

The media in Spain did not sympathize and regret their failures, and the media in Madrid and elsewhere even criticized them for their failures at their own expense!

'Why was Valencia knocked out? Quite simply, because their minds are not on the League Cup, but on what ridiculous unbeaten league streak! ”

"Before the first leg of Inter Milan's first leg, the whole of Valencia was talking about what season they were unbeaten and from that moment on, I predicted their defeat today!"

"I don't feel sorry for Valencia's defeat at all, it's their own fault! Too much distraction before the game, not thinking about Inter Milan, still counting on winning? Do they really think the UEFA Cup is the Spanish Copa del Rey? ”

When the team returned to Valencia, they were greeted by an overwhelming wave of media criticism.

It was as if they had already lost the UEFA Cup final, but in reality they were only eliminated in the quarter-finals. (To be continued.)