Chapter 22 Ten consecutive wins and soap opera
Also at the Flagy Stadium, Inter Milan lost the same 0-3 against the same opponent!
The last time, Mourinho cherished his feathers and watched it from the wall. He lost the Italian Super Cup and was not involved in him, but this time it was really different.
After the game, I have never heard Mourinho's doubts, especially his tactical arrangements in this game. Some media even pointed out that Mourinho's tactics in the second half were completely copying Mancini's old routine.
Take a closer look, it seems to be true, especially in the 61st minute of the second half of the game, Mourinho replaced Obina with Crespo and Vieira for Mancini Jr. Inter Milan completely gave up the 433 formation and kicked 4312 instead. Stankovic hit the front waist, and Mourinho also shouted. Call Crespo not to pull the edge and approach Ibrasimovic in the middle, which is exactly like the formation of the Mancini era.
After that, Portuguese Quaresma appeared, and Mourinho did not let him play the winger, but played the front waist, and 4312's arrangement remained unchanged.
When Mourinho signed the contract with Inter Milan, Capello said: "Mourinho can only add 1% of tactical new content to Serie A at most."
Ancelotti said, "It should be more than 1%."
This summer, Mourinho repeatedly insisted that the club should choose his ideas according to his 433 formation, and Quaresma is the chosen candidate.
But Serie A is not the Premier League. Mourinho faces a group of technical and tactical experts. Whether it is Mazzari and Gasperini who drew with Inter Milan or Prandelli who defeated Inter Milan twice, they are the best in technical and tactical arrangements among the Italian coaches of the mesozoic generation.
Basically, if a team makes some kind of attempt, even if it fails, it will give a lot of inspiration to other coaches. Samp's draw with Inter Milan in the first round is an example. After the setbacks of Lecce and Catania, Genoa and Florence have been able to restrict Inter Milan with more certainty.
However, Mourinho did not agree with this statement after the game. When asked questions from reporters, he kept defending himself and said, "Florence plays 442 formations with a very tight defense. Their coach is excellent. Our whole team has worked hard and got several chances to score goals, although in the end I lost, but I can't criticize my players for such a game.
At the beginning of the season, Mourinho continuously ridiculed his opponent for changing his habit of playing when he met Inter Milan. Later, he realized that fine-tuneing his skills and tactics at any time according to his opponent's situation was a characteristic of the Serie A team, which was very different from the style of the Premier League team's overall technical and tactics throughout the season. Mourinho is also I have to work hard to adapt to this characteristic of Serie A.
The dilemma Mourinho is facing now will be that if Inter Milan continues the current 433 and makes some fine-tuning according to the opponent's situation, similar situations will still occur, and Mourinho will gradually feel that the team is not always overwhelmingly sure to defeat the enemy. But if 433 is to be denied, how will Mourinho deal with the outside world's ridicule of his return to the Mancini system?
This is the biggest problem!
Moreover, not only technology and tactics, but also some people have some complaints about Mourinho's employment, such as Quaresma, which has caused more and more controversy.
Everyone knows that Mendes, Quaresma's agent, is also Mourinho's close friend and agent. At the beginning, Porto knew that Mourinho would definitely put pressure on Inter Milan to buy Quaresma, and once offered a sky-high price of 40 million euros, and the price was not reduced until the transfer market was close. Half, but also took the opportunity to take away the young general Bailey.
Now Quaresma can't prove his outstanding ability in the main lineup, nor can he become a super substitute. Mancini, the former head coach of Inter Milan, questioned Mourinho's persistence in Quaresma in public during an interview.
But Mourinho defended: "I have known Quaresma for 4 or 5 years. Now you can say anything to him. He doesn't play very well now, but I'm sure you will recognize the value of Quaresma."
Of course, Mourinho can choose to continue to trust Quaresma, but without scoring in two games, Mourinho's team fell into a goal drought, which is an indisputable fact. Look at the accuracy of Inter Milan's shooting rate against Fiorentina in this game: 12 shots in the whole game, only twice hit the goal frame.
This is a bleak data for the team that aims to win the championship, but one of them has performed at a high level, but unfortunately, this person is indeed a Crespo who was forced to be "defeated" by Mourinho.
After Crespo came on the court, he completed two shots, one was to receive Ibrahimovic's header and the other was one of Inter's two shots in the game.
At that time, Crespo had just come on the field for only four minutes, Inter Milan's arc top straight plug, Crespo's beautiful anti-offside into the penalty area and pushed a shot on the right side of the penalty area. This shot could only be blocked by Frey, who was in excellent condition, which was also one of Inter Milan's two most threatening shots in the game.
Crespo can be said to be a struggling player of Inter Milan. In the Mancini era, although Crespo's goal rate was not low, it has never been appreciated. Because of this, Crespo once said that "he has me in the new season", but Moratti fired Mancini and invited Mourinho. , Crespo also stayed at Inter.
However, for Argentines, this is just getting out of the tiger's mouth and entering the wolf's den. In fact, in the Chelsea era, Crespo would not have been reused by Mourinho. If it hadn't been for AC Milan, Crespo might have left these big teams.
Although Mourinho said, "All I can say is to praise Crespo. His training is very hard, and no one even works harder than him, because he is a very professional player."
But in fact, for Mourinho, Crespo is a person who doesn't care. Mourinho once explained why Crespo can't play: "We have 29 players, and the coach must choose according to the characteristics of the players. Unfortunately, this is our life. I have been saying I don't want the team in my hand to be too big, but I have to get used to it. Now, I have to cut off Crespo. Sometimes I'm also depressed on the way home. I don't think it's an easy decision for me to make.
Many media in Europe have analyzed Mourinho's purpose of selecting people. Portuguese people like highly talented players and players with strong personal combat ability. Needless to say, the latter Ibrasimovic is a typical example and can use his ability to create opportunities. And finally scored, but Crespo is not such a player. He needs other players to pass the ball for him, a typical point-grabbing shooter.
In Mourinho's tactical system, he didn't care much about Crespo's existence, but because Cruz's recent discord with Mourinho, and Baloteli's previous games also made Mourinho dissatisfied, Adriano was beaten into the cold by Mourinho again, so Crespo got the opportunity.
But it was precisely this person who was abandoned by Mourinho who became Inter Milan's most threatening striker on the court in 30 minutes. Look at Ibrasimovic, who is in poor condition, has no effect except for the wave shot outside the penalty area. Maybe Mourinho should reflect.
Not only Crespo, but also Cruz have the same experience. Just because of an out-of-bounds ball, Mourinho and this efficient striker turned against him. Maybe Crespo and Cruz, the Argentine fellow villagers, are indeed not important candidates in Mourinho's tactics, but their ability cannot be ignored.
Adriano was beaten into the cold palace, Cruz froze, and Baloteli had no chance. Now Mourinho thought of Crespo when he couldn't start the situation, but this was exactly a person who was determined to leave.
Previously, Crespo had publicly talked about the possibility of a transfer twice, but now Crespo's possibility has become inevitable in the Mancini era. Even if it is not reused, Crespo can still get the opportunity to rotate, but unlike in the Mourinho era, it is difficult for people who have no place in his mouth to get the opportunity, and it is precisely because of this that Crespo is forced to leave.
Mourinho chose Crespo to play in the stalemate, hoping that he could open the impasse, but it was Mourinho himself who put Crespo on the road he had to leave.
After the match between Inter Milan and the tenth round of Serie A on Sunday, Fiorentina defeated Udinese 2-0.
In the 30th minute of the game, Pasqual made a cross from the left, Degan deliberately missed the front point, and Mutu easily headed the ball in at the back point, 1:0.
In the 75th minute, Modric made a corner kick on the left side. Degan headed the ball and hit the crossbar, but Compani made a make-up shot and scored a goal to lock the victory, winning seven consecutive games.
After the end of the game, although Digan failed to score, the ridiculous 90-minute "goal shortage" did not appear again.
However, the focus of attention was no longer on Digan, but more on Ronaldinho. At the beginning of the season, Ronaldinho was only a substitute in AC Milan. At that time, there were many comments about Ronaldinho's fall, but In recent games, Ronaldinho's performance has been getting better and better. So far, he has quietly scored five goals and one assist. These goals and assists are crucial, either in one stroke, or breaking the deadlock, directly bringing Milan five victories, and his front teeth have become eye-catching again. Who can imagine how the three-time World Footballer of the Year has lived in depression, disappointment and self-abandonment?
Obama said in his victory speech that change has come. This sentence also applies to Ronaldinho of San Siro.
The environment is changing. After two years of poor environment in Camp Nou, AC Milan's support and confidence to Ronaldinho, whether it is teammates, fans or public opinion, is unparalleled. The ability of Milan's laboratory is not comparable to that of a Barcelona team doctor who has created N ligament tear cases in a year.
Responsibilities are changing. In Barcelona, even in the most glorious two years, Ronaldinho shouldered an unbearable burden. All the focus and all the responsibilities are borne by him. There are only two fates of a bowstring that has reached the limit, breaking or broken, and no matter whichever it is, it is the same as the free happiness advocated by Samba. It's far away.
In Milan, he is recovering the feeling of freedom. The spiritual leader is Maldini, the tactical core is Kaka, and Gatuso's powerful voice, all of which have spiritually liberated Ronaldinho.
Before the Milan derby, Ancelotti gave Ronaldinho a good rest. Compared with Germany, the football elves who gradually recovered physically and mentally scored an average of 90 minutes, which was no accident.
At the same time, Ronaldinho's mentality is also changing. He said goodbye to the mentality of self-abandonment and confrontation, lowered his price and gave up the transfer to Milan to prove that his desire was extremely strong.
For Brazilian players, such subjective initiative is decisive. He has become as conscientious, kind and self-disciplined as when he first debuted. Even the bar only goes on a holiday without training the next day. By the way, Adriano, who has been trained, digs the wall of Inter Milan.
For Ronaldinho, Digan appreciates it very much and also hopes that the former world's first player can be rejuvenated. Only in this way can the Serie A become more interesting.
After finishing the league, Fiorentina will go to France in the middle of the week to play the Champions League group match with Lyon. In the last round of the competition between the two teams, Fiorentina easily won a 6-1 victory at home. This time, when it came to the away game, although Lyon had the intention to revenge at home, it was helpless. Ji, the only thing they can do is to change 0:6 to 0:2, that's all.
In the last league, Degan, who failed to score a goal, broke out in this game. Two goals made the hegemon of Ligue 1 have no choice but to admit that there is still a huge gap between Ligue 1 and Serie A.
Then on Sunday, Fiorentina welcomed the eleventh opponent of the Serie A season, Degan's old club Atlanta.
Now Atlanta is completely different from the team that won the Premier League and Coppa Italia. President Riodo finally step down in the scolding of the fans. Except for Natori, the old captain Tebby, the player who won the double has left.
There was no suspense in the game. Degan did not score a goal, but gave three assists. Ledesma, Modric and Mutu each scored one goal, and finally locked the score to 3:0.
Now that Fiorentina has won, no one has paid attention to it, and no one has changed the law to bad the invincible division that is actually ruling the league.
Since there is no way to make some soap operas to attract people's attention. Is there anything more attractive than the contradiction between Mourinho and Adriano in Serie A?
Just a few days ago, Adriano's agent, who had been put into the cold palace by Mourinho, vowed: "Ade and Mourinho have made up."
But soon new problems appeared. The day before the start of this round, Adriano missed Inter Milan's training class again, which made Mourinho furious.
According to La Gazzetta dello Sport and Roma Sport, Adriano asked for sick leave from the club this time and did not come to train, but neither the club nor Mourinho believed Adriano's reason for "cold fever", and Mourinho was particularly angry about this. In the words of Roma Sport, "Adriano is really troublesome this time."
Adriano has never been included in the Inter Milan list since he was punished by Mourinho for the bubble bar, which was explained by Mourinho as a "technical reason". Adriano's absence from training is also a sign of resistance.
Milan Sport said that Adriano did not leave in advance, but when the team had started training, Adriano's phone call came. Mourinho was very angry when he learned the news.
Roma Sport said that if Adriano was banned by Mourinho and received the sympathy of the club, the club is very disgusted by the performance of this public confrontation. There is no doubt that Adriano has now been completely isolated at Inter Milan.
For Adriano, Roma Sport believes that his prospects in Inter Milan are very pessimistic and may even leave the team this winter. Anyway, the relationship between him and Mourinho may be difficult to repair. The good relationship between Adriano and Mancini in the past has been maintained for two years before it broke down. When Mourinho first took office, he had a good relationship with Adriano, but who would have expected that their "honeymoon" only lasted for more than two months.
Of course, if Adriano leaves the team, he will not worry that no one will want it. After this incident, Roma's deputy captain Panucci said, "Adriano will be welcomed if he comes to Rome. He is an excellent striker, and good players will always be welcomed."
Florence was also listed as Adriano's potential owner, but immediately Degan said: "Everyone in this team must be sacrificial and must be diligent enough. That guy obviously does not have such qualities!"
Obviously, Adriano wanted to come to the purple lily, and Digan was the biggest obstacle. At the beginning of the Brazilian national team, if it hadn't been for the conflict with Adriano, Digan would not have withdrawn from the Brazilian national team in anger.
Although Brazilians still regard Degan as a traitor, more people regret it. For example, the current head coach of the Brazilian national team, Denga, has publicly said: "If Degan can play on behalf of the Brazilian team, then the World Cup is a part of the Brazilian team, but now, Brazil wants to wear a jersey. With a star, the biggest obstacle is Belgium!"
The king of the ball, Bailey was furious about Pereira's original decision in an interview: "He gave up the greatest genius in the history of Brazilian football for a puddle of mud that can't stand against the wall, which is simply a ridiculous decision."
Digan will not care about Adriano's life or death. Digan doesn't care whether Mourinho will be stroked by Adriano's stingy brain, and Digan doesn't care. He just wants to play a good game now.
After the match with Atlanta, European football ushered in a national team match day. Degan, Compani and Fellaini also returned to Belgium to participate in the World Cup qualifiers.
In two games, against Poland and Armenia, neither team is strong. Degan only played one and a half and scored one goal to help the team win. At present, he ranks first in the group in the World Cup qualifiers.
For today's Belgian football, qualifying can no longer be called a target!
After winning the European Cup, their goal has been to win the World Cup.
After participating in the national team, Degan and his entourage returned to Florence. However, before the 12th round of Serie A, another news was implicated with Fiorentina. In order to transform the defense, AC Milan fell in love with Fiorentina's main central defender Thiago. Silva.
Tiago. Silva's performance in Florence in the last two seasons is obvious to all. After the initial discomfort, the Brazilian and Compani have become the pin on the defense of Fiorentina. At the same time, he has also replaced Juan and become Lucio's central defender partner in the Brazilian national team.
This summer surrounds Thiago. Silva's gossip has never been interrupted, but the Brazilians are very satisfied with their current life in Florence and finally announced their stay in the team. Who knows that AC Milan will not give up.
Although Galliani did not confirm that AC Milan would definitely buy Tiago. Silva, but he confirmed: "Because Maldini will retire next summer, we will definitely make reinforcements on the defensive line."
The introduction of a central defender in the summer is already a "determined acquisition" of AC Milan. The suspense is only who this person is. Some media have disclosed in detail the candidates under investigation by AC Milan's defense line introduction, among which there are as many as nine main candidates.
AC Milan showed its determination to be young this time. The "Maltini successors" they examined are all players under the age of 25, and among these nine, the first choice is undoubtedly Tiago of Florence. Silva, with two years of experience in Italy, if he can transfer smoothly, he will directly transform Milan's defense without any adaptation.
Except for Thiago. In addition to Silva, there is another popular candidate, Real Madrid's Sergio. Ramos, the Spanish international, has always been the player that AC Milan wants to introduce the most, and of course it is the most difficult, because Ramos is regarded by Real Madrid as Raul's next leader, and they are ready to renew their contract.
In addition, there are also goals for AC Milan in the Bundesliga. Bayern Munich's 19-year-old defender Breno is actually the easiest to get among the nine goals and the closest to AC Milan.
Most importantly, Breno was favored by Kaka. In an interview a few days ago, Kaka said, "He is a very good defender."
And Breno's coach Lopez once called him: "a talented defender once in 30 years."
And compared with the first two, AC Milan is much easier to get Breno. Bayern Munich seems to be willing to rent this young man with great potential and see his development. For AC Milan, although it can't get Breno at once, if it can be rented to him first, in the future Buying out is also a good way.
In the Bundesliga, AC Milan's other target is Leverkusen's Chilean young player Vidal, who can hit the defender and midfielder, and his technique is very comprehensive.
In addition, the media also mentioned that 25-year-old Miranda of São Paulo and 18-year-old Munos, two defenders discovered by Braida on his trip to South America, are the oldest and youngest on this list.
The other two people mentioned in the media are Liverpool's Danish defender Agel and Mihalik of Dinamore, Ukraine, but the latter's "main job" is the main midfielder, but sometimes guest-up central defender.
Finally, people also mentioned a name, that is, Zampata, who plays for Udinese, although Pozzo of Udinese, said recently: "Zampata and Dagostino are the people we want to keep."
But Zampata's agent made a correction yesterday. He said, "Zampata will definitely not leave in winter. He will stay in Udinese. We will see what happens in the future in the summer."
Degan knows that although many names are mentioned in this list, in fact, there are only two people who were really associated with Milan in their previous life and eventually played in Milan's robes. One is Thiago, who will never let Florence go. Silva, also a Colombian Zampata.
"Mr. Galliani, you don't have to fantasize about it now. Tiago is very good in Florence. He won't leave here. We will fight side by side and win more championships!"
Follow Tiago. Silva also said, "I'm fine in Florence. Although I feel honored by the attention of AC Milan, now I just want to stay in Florence and fight for more championships with my brothers!"
After Digan dispelled Galliani's delusional, Thiago followed the twelfth round of Serie A and Cagliari. Silva also used a goal to show his loyalty to the club. After scoring the goal, he kept kissing the team emblem on his chest, making the purple lily fans in the stands of the Vlaki Stadium cheer.
However, it was not easy for Fiorentina to win this game, although just at the beginning, Modric received a cross pass from Degan and took the lead for Fiorentina with a cold shot.
But when the game reached the 30th minute, Acquafreska fell to the ground in the penalty area, and Compani was sentenced to block a foul. The Fiorentina team was very angry with this penalty. From the slow mirror, Compani only blocked Acquafreska's chest with his left arm, but in any case, the penalty was irreplaceable. In return, Compani was sent off with a red card, and then Acquafreska hit the knife to equalize the score.
The game lasted until the end of the second half, Fiorentina passed a corner kick opportunity by Tiago. Silva once again surpassed the score and won the game with difficulty.
After winning this game, Fiorentina has won ten consecutive games. In the league, the points have reached 27 points, ranking as a helper. The second place is Milan's two heroes with 21 points, and Juventus has unconsciously opened a long distance from the championship group.
In the group stage of the UEFA Champions League, Fiorentina, who has won four consecutive victories, has qualified ahead of schedule. As long as they win Bayern Munich in the next game, they will be able to lock in the top position in the group.
Although the number of goals scored by Degan this season is significantly less than that of previous seasons, people with bright eyes can see why.
In addition to the physical fatigue caused by continuous fighting throughout the summer, what is more important is that Degan has now begun to gradually change his playing style, from a simple Terminator to the stadium commander.
Prandelli said in an interview: "The former Degan was frightening, but now Degan is desperate. He began to move away from the goal, but the whole court is under his control. I don't want to discuss whether Degan is down or not like you. A king of football, his performance is seen by everyone. What I want to say is that among all the players I have met, Degan is one I never want to be an opponent. Fortunately, we are on one side! This is my luck and Florence's luck!"
As the results get better and better, Degan's reputation in the city of Florence has reached its peak. People believe that when the season is over, the six championships that Digan promised them will be realized.
There has been an initiative to erect a statue for Degan outside the Vlaki Stadium, just like the original Batistuta.
In this regard, Degan just smiled helplessly and didn't say anything. Even if he set up the statue, once he left here, he was not treated the same as Batistuta. He was treated cold and then was treated as a traitor and the statue was pushed to the ground.
Digan did think that he did like the city if he kept playing here, but he also knew that it was impossible. Now he and Delava can still be at peace, but from Pakinwa's attitude towards him, it is not difficult to see that Delava's attitude towards him is not as good as before. Don't trust me.
In the face of interests, people will always change. As Fiorentina's performance gets better and better, the value of the players in the team will become higher and higher. At that time, no matter how persistent Digan insists, Dela will one day be unable to resist money** and reach out his hand into the team. What will Digan do then?
He doesn't want to think too much!
Degan just hopes to leave more for this team before leaving!
It is no big news that Florence is at the top of the list, but Italian football is still very lively because someone is coming.
If it was just speculation before, then the news has been confirmed now.
Beckham is really coming to Italy this time!