Chapter 9: Unexpected Ease

The Italian Super Cup match at the Stadio Fragi featured the strongest line-ups, and the game was also seen as a battle between the top scorers of Digan and Ibrahimovic, as well as the two young coaches of Prandelli and Jose Mourinho.

But what is surprising is that although Mourinho went to Fraki with the team, he did not appear in the coach's box, and the game was directed by Inter Milan's old coach Baresi, not Franco, but Franco's brother, Da Baresi.

The course of the game was even more surprising, Fiorentina scored in the opening ten minutes, and after receiving a pass from Pasquale on the left side of the penalty area, Digan adjusted slightly and fired a direct long-range shot, the ball went over Cesar's ten fingers and went straight into the corner of the goal.

After the goal, Deegan didn't even celebrate, just stood in place, arms held high, as if it were a goal.

Fiorentina took the lead, and in the ensuing game, Inter Milan launched a big counterattack, and for a time they had the advantage on the field, but Kompany and Thiago. Silva's two-man hooked back line is so solid that even a strong one as Ibrahimovic can only hit the wall repeatedly.

Before the end of the first half, Fiorentina scored again, this time it was Degan who scored with a header from inside the Cavinaghi penalty area, and Deegan followed up with a header to head the ball directly into the Inter goal.

2:0!

The reporters in the stands were dumbfounded, the match seemed to be completely off the track they expected, it was supposed to be a fierce collision between the two powerhouses, but now it seems that Fiorentina is too easy.

Whether it is attacking or defending, Fiorentina seems to be at ease.

On Inter Milan's side, Motta faced his old club, and although he was very familiar with Fiorentina's style of play, he couldn't help at all.

Quaresma on the wing is very hard, but his breakthrough with the ball seems very reckless, there is no purpose at all, and Marcho, who defends him, was repeatedly told by Prandelli before the game to be tough at all times.

There's no denying that Quaresma is a genius, but the heart of this genius is too fragile!

In the 63rd minute of the second half, Fiorentina sealed the victory, after Digan broke the ball in the middle, he drove straight into the ball directly, and the defenders of Inter Milan had no way to stop Digan who had already sprinted with all his might.

After beating four Inter defenders in quick succession, Digan stabbed in front of Materazzi to once again give Brazilian goalkeeper Cesar a bow.

0:3 behind, Inter Milan has no chance, Baresi began to make substitutions, gave up the game, Prandelli did not plan to beat the water dogs, and also began to change, just joined Fellaini, Cristo got the opportunity to play.

However, Degan was left on the pitch by Prandelli, and what he needed now was not physical reserves, but a return to the feeling of playing at Fiorentina.

When the whistle blew at the end of the game, the Fiorentina players simply celebrated, as if in their hearts, the victory was a matter of course.

Digan took the trophy and the trophy flowed in the hands of each player, and the Fiorentina players had a smile on their faces, but there was no excitement in sight, perhaps for them, a Super Cup in Italy was no longer worth their excitement.

With the Italian Super Cup over, it's time for Serie A to begin.

On 30 August 2008, the Serie A tournament officially kicked off, with the opening match being played at the Stadio Marassi in Genoa, between last season's league runners-up Inter Milan and Sampdoria.

The most eye-catching thing about this game was not the many big names of Inter Milan, but Mourinho, who stepped into the position of Inter Milan manager for the first time.

In the previous Italian Super Cup with Fiorentina, Mourinho was just watching from the sidelines, and this game was the first time he performed the position of head coach.

At the pre-match press conference, Mourinho appeared to be at ease in front of a large number of Italian media, not taking Genoa as an opponent in his words, completely forgetting that his team had just lost an Italian Super Cup.

At the Marassi Stadium, Mourinho walked into his first away game after landing in Italy with a dashing demeanor, and the whole stadium began to cheer.

Mourinho greeted everything silently, calmly and leisurely, threw his blazer into the dressing room, wore only a white shirt, habitually loosened the first neckline, and accompanied the whole team to warm up at close range.

During the warm-up, he also walked into the pitch and talked to the players, the players returned to the dressing room, changed into game shirts and prepared to play, when the players of both sides smiled and greeted in the passage, Mourinho had already put on a suit and walked into the stadium alone, ahead of the referee.

From Mourinho's first game as manager, he was used to this way, he wanted to show his chest first in front of the enemy, and greet all kinds of complicated greetings in the place of the team, which in his opinion was to protect the team, and the stadium was full of boos, and he was unaware of it.

After more than two months of waiting, the new season of Serie A finally debuted, this summer, all kinds of giants in the transfer market have a lot of movement, so the appetite of fans and public opinion has been very high.

But when it comes to the biggest Italian star, of course, Mourinho is Mourinho, in the past three months, Mourinho has been interviewed by major media no less than 30 times, and in front of the spotlight, he is even busier than Italian politicians!

Before the start of the show, more than 50 cameras and cameras were all aimed at Mourinho, peeking at him from all angles, and he calmly and nobly, like a big-name actor, slowly distributing his mannerisms.

Joked with the linesman Griseira, shook hands with Cassano and touched his head, elbows on his knees, relaxed as if he were drinking and chatting at a bar, showed a restrained smile, and then returned to normal.

This is the opening ceremony of the madman to Serie A.

Why do you need to compete?

This series of entrance actions and reactions is enough to conclude that Mourinho is the only protagonist of this game.

He doesn't need, and doesn't allow to, a role that he plays perfectly, starting with the press conference on the day he landed in Serie A, and continuing with every training session and friendly match.

The summer in Italy is his, and the autumn and winter will be his, but this is not his ideal, his desire is to master the entire future of Italy.

Mourinho is so much noticed because of his outstanding performances in the Portuguese and Premier Leagues, which has earned him a great reputation, in other words, because of his excellent results in the last six years.

But one cannot ignore the fact that Mourinho is still a newcomer to Serie A and he still needs to show results to prove himself.

Historically, there have been too many managers who have achieved great results on the European continent but suffered heavy defeats in Serie A, such as Cooper, etc., and Mourinho needs to have a good record if he wants to conquer Italy.

Unfortunately, in the first round of the league, Mourinho did not succeed.

Inter Milan and Sampdoria drew 1:1, and Inter Milan was still equalized after leading 1:0, in Serie A, which pursues 1:0 doctrine, Inter Milan, who was born good at defending and counterattacking, such a game process can be regarded as a shame.

What's the problem?

Is it because of too many injuries?

These may not be the main reasons, the main reason is that Mourinho has changed!

Mourinho has probably figured out how deep the water is in Serie A, and Mourinho, who used to have horns on his head, thorns on his body, and always a knife in his mouth, has become kind and humble.

In the Super Cup, he only sat in the stands to record, did not move his position throughout the game, did not even open his mouth, and after losing the game, he complimented Prandelli again.

And this Mourinho's real debut was forced to draw, seeing that the team regarded the draw as a victory celebration, Mourinho just refused to comment on "the players are working hard", is this still the Mourinho who directly told the players when he came to Stamford Bridge "I am the Champions Cup coach, you guys, nothing"?

Did the madman of the year become a good man after a year of hibernation?

Speaking after the game, Mourinho admitted that the reason for the defeat was on him: "Maybe the blame is on me, because maybe I'm not the kind of Italian coach who is used to doing a lot of pre-match preparation, Sampdoria changed their formation to play against us, which made us a little flustered! ”

And after the game, Moratti also said: "It's a lesson for Mourinho, but I still believe in him!" Very convinced! ”

The arrogant Jose Mourinho was in trouble in the first game, which is not necessarily a bad thing, which made him clearly aware of the difference between Serie A and the Premier League.

The Premier League is popular with "one trick", for example, as long as Manchester United pinches the system, it can win in a row for 20 games without changing the playing style; Chelsea relies on a move Drogba, rushing against Lampard's long-range shot, you can be spanning for two years, Arsenal's tactics are even simpler, heavy artillery bombardment, infantry rush, infantry rush, artillery bombardment, artillery bombardment, infantry rush, 10,000 years of unchanged side and middle combination, plugged in the back row, the tactical rigidity is simply looking for death, but it can also break the Premier League's winning streak.

But Serie A is different, almost every opponent will set tactical traps, as strong as Ancelotti's 4321, which has been unchanged for a year, and has been eaten by the opponent for a year, and its power has been reduced.

So, for Mourinho to succeed in Serie A, he needs to really think like a Serie A coach.

Of course, Mourinho does have a reason to change his character, in the Premier League he inherited a 50-year-old white team that doesn't know what the title is, and Inter Milan has a huge halo of history on his head.

Mourinho's strength lies in the kneading system, in the training of players, in shaping the spirit of the team, but how to deal with the tactical traps designed by the coach of the small club, he still lacks experience, which he himself knows clearly: "I can learn a lot when I come to Serie A. ”

Therefore, he needs to go through an Italian brainwashing, or keep a low profile and work hard, the spotlight is sometimes very harmful.

The Madman got off to a bad start, as did the other two old powerhouses, AC Milan and Juventus, who lost the game on home to Bologna, who had long since lost their glory.

Ronaldinho's debut was a failure, and after Shevchenko's return, it has been proven that his majesty is long gone, and the only highlight of the game is Kaka, whose goal helped AC Milan take the lead, but the back line gave up the victory to the opponent.

After the return of Antonini and Abate, they quickly occupied the main position on the side of the team, but in this game, the spirituality of the two people was completely missing, Abate was rampage aimlessly, and Antonini's defense became the biggest hole in the Milan defense.

It's not that Fiorentina is amazing, playing in the Purple Lily can get a combat power bonus, the biggest problem is that in Florence, the defense on both sides has the assistance of Ledesma, Donadale, Marchena and other backs, and the pressure on defense is not great, but who is there in the AC Milan midfield, Gattuso is a defensive strongman, but who can you count on besides him, Seedorf, Ambrosini, or Pirlo, Kaka?

1:2!

AC Milan lost the first game of the new season, but they weren't the only old powerhouses to lose, as did Juventus.

Before the game, Juventus' Camoranesi said in an interview that last season, Fiorentina was able to win the championship because of luck, and Fiorentina couldn't even play the Champions League this season.

But when the game was over, the glaring 3-0 in the Alp Stadium was like a great irony, and Camoranesi left the stadium with his head bowed and ignored the reporters who were coming by.

Degan, who had played the whole game in the Super Cup before, once again fought for 90 minutes, and the result was the same as the previous game, Degan's hat-trick made the Torino people have to accept a painful defeat, and at the same time watched Fiorentina stand at the top of the table after the start of the new season.

"In this game, we played without pressure, yes! I've lost a couple of important players before, but those who stayed were the best, Marouane Fellaini was very good in this game, you can all see, he made Juventus' attacking group, completely unplayable, the rest of my team-mates also played very well, I want to thank Ricciardo, his three assists were perfect! ”

After saying that, Deegan left with a relaxed face, leaving only the messy reporters.

Inter Milan and then Juventus!

Both games were 3-0 and Fiorentina won comfortably, and with ease it was intimidating.

Will anyone else in Italy be able to beat Fiorentina?