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Chapter 395 Chapter 394: Holy Mourinho?

In order to reduce unnecessary troubles, Arsenal's warm-up was not arranged at Inter Milan's training base, but at AC Milan's training base.

At nine o'clock in the morning, reporters gathered at AC Milan's training base. They didn't come to see Milan train, but wanted to get a glimpse of Arsenal's starting lineup tonight.

More importantly, they wanted to see which position Wenger would let Chen Fan play.

Should he play with Song as a defensive midfielder, or with Van Persie as a striker?

The reporters looked at the watches on their wrists. It was already nine o'clock. Could it be that there was a traffic jam?
While discussing and predicting tonight's battle, they waited for Arsenal.

"It's not a big traffic jam, is it?"

After waiting for half an hour, they got a little impatient.

"Did Arsenal cancel the morning training? But why didn't they inform us?"

An hour later, the reporters were angry, because after their investigation, there was no traffic jam in Milan.

A London reporter thought for a while and said: "It may be that Wenger didn't want us to know tonight's starting lineup in advance, so the training was temporarily canceled."

Journalists in the London area nodded their heads, thinking that this statement made sense.

But a Spanish reporter expressed their concerns: "Maybe something unexpected happened to Arsenal, so the morning training was temporarily canceled."

A Danish reporter raised his eyebrows and said: "If this argument holds water, Arsenal should come to training this afternoon!"

The reporters immediately shifted their attention to the local reporters in Milan present. A Milan reporter thought for a while and went to the side to make a phone call.

Not long after, he came back, looked at his colleagues and said: "The colleague just said is right. Something must have happened at Arsenal this morning or last night. They changed the training time. At three o'clock in the afternoon, they will come to warm up!"

As soon as the words fell, the group of reporters let out a "boom!...", and then the reporters immediately used their imaginations to guess what happened to Arsenal.

The London reporter left with a worried face, and then they called someone from Arsenal.

Some people go directly to Wenger, some go to the staff of the team, and some go to players with a good relationship.

Although their calls got through, no one answered their calls.

Arsenal's reaction made them even more worried.

At noon, rumors began to appear in the press group. Some people said that several Arsenal players went to a nightclub last night, and Wenger found out about it, so the French lost their temper and stopped the training in the morning.

Some people say that before Arsenal came to Milan, the team had a large area of ​​influenza, so they canceled the morning training.

There is some evidence to support this statement. A few days ago, there was a large-scale flu in London. When Wenger was interviewed at the airport yesterday, his nasal voice was quite heavy, and he suspected that he had the flu.

It was also said that Arsenal wanted to avoid reporters and deliberately changed the training time. The purpose was to prevent reporters from knowing tonight's starting lineup and tonight's tactical arrangements in advance.

It doesn’t take much thinking to know that the last statement was spread by a London reporter. As for the first few statements...

Maybe it was spread by Spanish journalists, maybe it was spread by local journalists.

At three o'clock in the afternoon, Wenger led the players to the AC Milan training base. To their surprise, they were greeted by a large number of reporters.

Wenger had to lament the energy of the reporters.

In the face of intensive fire from reporters, no one from Arsenal, including Arsene Wenger, was interviewed.

To add to the annoyance of the reporters, they were told by stadium security not to enter the training ground to watch Arsenal train.

They can only hope that after training, Wenger will open his mouth and accept their interviews.

Arsenal's training session ended in just an hour, but Wenger still didn't finish their interview.

They had no choice but to pin their hopes on the pre-match press conference two hours later.

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At the moment Mourinho is still studying tonight's tactics with his assistants.

"Okay, guys, let's figure out how to defend."

After discussing offense, Mourinho turned his attention to defense.

The Portuguese knows that he can replace Mancini as the coach of the Serie A giants. The main reason is the boss's desire for the Champions League.

Mancini led Inter Milan to achieve three consecutive Serie A championships, but did not achieve outstanding results in the European war, nor did Moratti see the hope of winning the Champions League, so Mancini packed up and left.

Even if he wins more Serie A titles, Moratti is not so satisfied. After all, the current Serie A is no longer the era of three heroes competing for hegemony, and Inter Milan is thriving.

Now that he has reached the semi-finals of the Champions League, the Portuguese certainly wants to enter the final and compete for the championship.

Now the opponent he has to face is not the "cosmic team", the six-time champion Barcelona, ​​but the shocking Arsenal who have remained unbeaten in three events this season.

To be able to eliminate Barcelona, ​​Arsenal is enough to shock the world, not to mention eliminating Barcelona with a score of [-] to [-].

Thinking of the score at the Nou Camp, the Portuguese has a few points on his shoulders.

Five goals, Arsenal scored five goals at Camp Nou!
"I think Chen is the focus of our defense, but we cannot underestimate Van Persie. His role in Wenger's offensive tactical system is irreplaceable."

The tactical coach throws out his point of view.

Mourinho exhaled and said: "We will talk about Van Persie's issue later, now let's discuss the defense against Chen first."

The tactical coach is of course the main spokesperson in this kind of discussion. After thinking for a moment, he said: "Actually, we have already thought about the way we can think of. Why don't we let Materac mark him."

The room immediately fell silent.

Since the return of the World Cup in 06, Italy's defensive iron gate has been in trouble with injuries, and its state has been ups and downs. Now it can only appear in Serie A as a substitute.

In the Champions League, Materaz has only played four games so far, and three of them came off the bench.

The performance after playing is also average.

"This is a way!"

The goalkeeping coach breaks the silence of the room.

Several coaches looked at each other for him without speaking, and then everyone's eyes turned to Mourinho.

Wait for him to make the final decision.

The Portuguese went to the window and opened the curtains, and the sunlight instantly entered the room, making it bright.

Mourinho, bathed in the sun, is like a holy son, with white light shining all over his body.

At this moment, his body was filled with divine light...

"Okay, let Materac come on, and put Lucio on the substitute list."

Mourinho's voice was very calm and without any emotion.

The people in the room couldn't imagine how much the Portuguese struggled in his heart at the last moment, and what kind of ideological struggle he went through before finally agreeing to this plan.

Maybe it's "victory comes first"...

(End of this chapter)