Chapter 1168: Advance to the finals

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"Damn it!" Seeing Vieri shoot the ball into his own door, an angry Cooper slammed the water bottle he was holding to the ground, "It's all to blame on Di Biagio, if he had just listened to me and knocked Pirlo over with a flying tackle, then how could this happen now." ”

Although everyone could see that Cooper was angry, no one stood up to say a word of justice for Di Biagio at this time. On the one hand, the reason for this phenomenon is that players who know Di Biagio well are either playing on the pitch (such as Toldo and Materazzi) or are not in the 18-man squad for this game at all (such as Batistuta); On the other hand, because the players know that Cooper likes to be angry and extremely cautious, so naturally no one dares to come forward to persuade him.

After all, everyone eats on football. If Cooper is hated for Di Biagio, then the end result is likely to be kicked out of the team by Cooper this summer with Di Biagio. You must know that a rich and generous club like Inter Milan is not easy to find in Europe, which is now experiencing an economic winter. Most teams are trying to save as much as they can now, and it's very difficult to find a job that pays like that. Therefore, unless it is a big man who has enough voice and influence in the locker room, no one wants to take the initiative to hit the muzzle.

At this time, Cooper's slightly hideous facial expression and excessive behavior once again attracted the attention of the fourth official, who had educated the Argentine head after arriving at the scene, forcing Cooper to suppress the anger in his heart, put on a smiling face and countless assurances before sending the great god away from him.

You can't blame the referees for being so careful, as the Champions Cup represents the highest level of competition among European clubs and is one of UEFA's main sources of revenue. Therefore, on a crucial occasion such as the semi-finals of the Champions Cup, these referees must be extra careful to ensure that the game does not go awry, which will have an irreparable negative impact on the overall image of the Champions Cup, leading to signs of shrinking the economic benefits of the competition.

As the saying goes, cutting off people's wealth is like killing your parents. In the eyes of UEFA, those teams and people who have had a bad impact on the golden sign of the Champions Cup, they will take a thunderous blow to it.

At the same time, on the pitch, the hearts of the players on both sides have also changed unnoticedly because of Vieri's goal.

Due to the first leg of a 1-1 draw with Fiorentina at home, and the opponent scored the first goal in this game, so at this time, the Inter Milan players are still quite panicked. After all, it would be very difficult for an opponent of Fiorentina's level to pull off a comeback against them.

Some may cite Fiorentina's performance in the league in previous seasons, but let's not forget that the reason why Fiorentina were overtaken by the likes of Lazio and Roma in those seasons when they were leading the league was mainly due to their distraction from European competition and the aging of the squad. And now, with the overall situation of the league already decided, and the initial renewal of the team has been completed, the possibility of a comeback to beat Fiorentina is too low.

Compared with the gloomy Inter Milan, Fiorentina is a jubilant scene at this time. After all, after withstanding the onslaught of the opponent for more than ten minutes, the players who finally scored a goal did need a reasonable way to vent the pressure they had accumulated before, so that they could travel lightly and face the next fierce battle with a more relaxed mentality.

Inter's players were not so lucky, as they had to press hard after the restart and put on an all-out attacking posture under the pressure of being behind on aggregate. Even if the players know in their hearts that doing so is likely to give the opposition more opportunities to counter-attack, they have to.

There is no way to do it, after all, if Inter choose to continue attacking now, then it is impossible to say that one of their shots will turn into a goal. And if they reduce their investment in attack for the sake of security at the rear, then the undisciplined Fiorentina players will certainly take the opportunity to stabilize the defence while delaying the game to drag the score to 1-0 until the end of the game.

This is a conspiracy set up by Heynckes, and even if Inter Milan knows that they will be successful, they have to obediently drill into the trap, because they can't think of a way to crack it - who makes Inter Milan the side behind in aggregate and forces them to strengthen their attack to recover the disadvantage in the score?

Some people may think that Florence's style of play is too negative or utilitarian and does not fit their aesthetics. But in reality, there is no professional team that is not utilitarian. Even Barcelona, who is known as the most gorgeous football in the Universe, often appears in the scene of controlling the ball in the backfield after taking the lead until the opponent collapses? Isn't this a utilitarian approach in disguise?

Therefore, in this case, if Fiorentina, which has a world-class backline, did not take this opportunity to stick to the back and play the opponent's counterattack, it would be a nervous abnormality.

As the Inter Milan players feared, Fiorentina, who took the initiative to shrink the defensive line, really seized the space exposed in the backfield after they pressed the attack in the following time and launched a quick counterattack, making Toldo the busiest man in the Frankie Stadium tonight; However, due to the tight space in the attack and the fact that Emre was completely targeted, they struggled to tear apart the opponent's defense, and they didn't even have a few threatening shots.

If the disadvantage on the pitch was just a little frustrating for the Inter players, then the goals of Vieri and Giuli in the 38th and 56th minutes of the game were the last straw that broke them!

Although Crespo pulled one back in the 75th minute with his brilliant individual ability, it did not help the outcome of the match. After all, in a Champions Cup semi-final, the difference between two goals is just too huge. What's more, Inter Milan has to face Fiorentina, which has extremely strong defensive ability, which undoubtedly further increases the difficulty of the Nerazzurri to chase points.

In the end, when the referee announced the end of the game, the Inter Milan players who were like walking corpses on the pitch fell to their knees on the turf of the Frankie Stadium and wept bitterly. Because in this crucial battle, they lost to Fiorentina almost without resistance, and were blocked out of the Champions League final!