Mister Legend

Chapter 174

At the press conference before the game, the moment Li Mudi saw the Inter Milan coach in the outside passageway, there was only one sentence in his mind: These two brothers really look alike!
The two brothers who were born together on May 1970, 5, no matter in terms of facial features, height and weight, it is difficult to see any difference, especially when they are young.Now there is a certain difference in hairstyle and body shape, especially in face shape, but people who are not familiar with them still can't easily tell who is who.The reason why two people are always put together for comment by the world is not only because they are twins, but also because their career trajectories highly overlap. In the 15-1987 season, the De Boer brothers were promoted from the youth team to the Ajax first team. However, compared to the younger brother Frank who directly occupied the team's main central defender, his older brother Ronald has not been able to get the title of the head coach. I fully believe that as a rotation player in the midfield, I spent three or four years until I was loaned to Twente and played an excellent performance before returning to Ajax and taking the starting position.The brothers then played together for Barcelona, ​​Glasgow Rangers and the Qatari League's Al-Rayyan Sports Club before retiring in 88 and 2006 respectively.

The situation of the two brothers in the national team is also the same as that of the club. On the eve of the 1990 World Cup, Frank won the coach of the Dutch team at the time. (Leo Beenhakker), got the opportunity to play for the country, and then participated in many major events after the World Cup in Italy, and became the first player in the history of the Netherlands to play for the national team for more than 2000 games in the European Cup in 100. player of.After suffering an upset exit in the 2002 Korea-Japan World Cup qualifiers, Frank, the captain of the national team, announced his withdrawal from the Dutch national team. European Cup, but after the game, he bid farewell to the Orange Legion completely, and set the national team's statistics at 2004 appearances and scored 112 goals.The elder brother Ronald's career in the national team was lackluster. He only got the chance to put on the orange jersey in 13. It was not until 1993 that he failed to be selected for the European Cup squad and announced the end of his international career. He only played 2004 times. Same 67 goals as his younger brother.For a world-renowned offensive midfielder, this result is indeed a bit unsatisfactory.

After retiring, the De Boer brothers still get together habitually. In the summer of 2007, Frank first became the coach of the parent team Ajax U19 team. A year later, he also served as the assistant coach of the Dutch national team and the head coach of the Ajax U19 team. Ronald just took over his younger brother. seat left. In 2010, the younger brother was promoted again and qualified to coach the parent team; while the older brother could only continue to practice in the youth team, and in 2012 became the "second entry" Van Gaal's chief assistant coach in the Dutch national team. He simply became a football match commentator.

From the point of view of personality, the younger brother is more calm and sophisticated than the elder brother. Ronald is a bit out of character, but he is also better at communicating with others. Frank's current difficulties in Inter Milan should be related to his failure to play well. The unity within the team has a lot to do with it.

Back at the pre-match press conference, the two protagonists who were recently hyped about a coaching change sat at a table. This gimmick was enough to attract hundreds of media reporters to the scene.However, neither the Inter Milan coach, who is in crisis, nor Li Moody, who is speculated by most people to have verbally agreed to take over the Nerazzurri, did not respond to that sensitive question.The latter also emphasized before the end of the press conference that he was very happy at the Turin club, and that the contract was only less than a quarter of the time, which can be regarded as a side refutation of the media's out of nothing, but it does not seem to be true. What effect can it have.In the end, the two head coaches returned to their respective locker rooms with calm faces, leaving behind a room full of reporters who didn't get any inside information and could only go back to how to make up stories.

At 10:26 on the evening of October 20th, local time in Italy, the tenth round of the Serie A match, which was originally a game that not many people cared about, but suddenly became the focus of the football circle all over the world because of the intricate relationship between the coaches of the two sides, was held on time. San Siro started.Due to the excellent record of the visiting team and the war of words in the early stage of the league, and because there were no strong dialogues in the other games that kicked off at the same time today, Italian National Television chose the national-capital battle as the national live broadcast very presciently. It is estimated that Thinking of the possible super high ratings, the leaders of the TV station will laugh out their dreams.According to the estimate of Corriere della Sera published in the morning, the live signal of this game may attract more than 45 million people including Chinese fans to watch, which is basically equal to the data of Milan Derby and Italian Derby .

For the visiting team, although Li Moody put on a posture of adapting to changes, he still fine-tuned the starting lineup, the usual 4-3-3 position, goalkeeper: Joe Hart, right back Bruno Pepe Reis, veteran Moretti and Rossettini teamed up with center back and left back Avelar, double midfielder Akuwa and captain Vives who paid for the lifting of the ban, center midfielder Baselli, the frontcourt trident is Right winger Iago Falk, left winger Jese, center Belotti.Brazilian central defender Castan has been suspended for accumulative yellow cards, and the midfield position has become a triangle. The two defensive midfielders can help the defenders more on the defensive end. The work of midfield organization can only be done by Baselli alone. finished.

And Frank De Boer, who is already on the verge of getting out of class, will naturally have no reservations. He faces a kill order issued by the club's top management, except for Chilean midfielder Gary Medel, who was fined three times for elbowing his opponent in the last game. In addition to the suspension and the injury of right back Danilo DAmbrosio, who was denounced as a traitor by Turin fans, the Dutchman exhausted all the main players at hand.In the same 4-3-3 formation, the goalkeeper is naturally Slovenian international Handanovic, and the defense line is Japanese Nagatomo Yuto, Brazilian central defender Joao Miranda de Souza Filho, and Colombian international Murray. Jeison Murillo and the Argentine Ansaldi (Cristian Ansaldi) who just joined from Genoa in the new season, the three midfielders are Croatian international Marcelo Brozovic (Marcelo Brozovic), who paid 4500 million euros before the end of the summer transfer window. The Portuguese international Joao Mario (Joao Mario) and the Argentine Banega, who joined the team from Sporting Lisbon, are equipped with a high value. On the front line, captain Icardi made a single arrow forward, and Eder and Candreva scored points. Make two sides.

In addition to the coaches of the two sides, the biggest highlight of this game is the head-to-head confrontation between super centers, which is also the focus of everyone's attention.Belotti, who leads the scorer list, scored nine goals in the first nine rounds of the league. This was achieved in the absence of two games. Roma's Bosnian center Dzeko temporarily ranked with eight goals. In second place, in third place is Inter Milan's Icardi, who has scored six goals.But when it comes to efficiency, the Argentine is a miracle in today's world football. He made a total of 21 shots in the first nine league games, of which only 8 shots were on target. This hit rate is indeed a bit low, but these eight hits The shots within the goal frame were only saved twice, and 75% of them scored goals. This efficiency is amazing!So before the start of the game, Li Mudi specifically emphasized not to give the captain of Inter Milan any chance to attack the goal within 35 meters of the front, even the long-range shots that the opponent is not very good at should be wary of. What kind of world waves did the ordinary Icardi make when facing the "background emperor" Joe Hart.

Although the head coach is under tremendous pressure, the players of the home team are still amazingly quick to enter the state. Only 40 seconds into the game, Ansaldi, who got a rare chance to start, sent a good quality ball on the right. In the cross, Eder's header ferry was cleared by Moretti before Icardi could react.

In the 3rd minute, Baselli was sieged in the frontcourt of his side. Brozovic got the ball and gave it to Eder, who returned to the midfield to respond. The latter took a step and sent an overhead ball. After Mario plugged in at high speed, it was a powerful volley directly 25 meters in front of the goal.Although the ball missed the far post after bouncing off the ground, the atmosphere of the fans of the home team has been mobilized. Amidst the cheers and cheers of only 5 people in the audience, Inter Milan's offensive gradually suppressed the visiting team and forced Turin The players could hardly form an effective teamwork, and there was no attempt to score within the opening 10 minutes.In the 6th minute, central defender Murillo suddenly advanced to the front of the midfield circle, trying to send a direct pass, but was intercepted by Akuwa with a shovel.The visiting team, whose midfield was not working well, had to try their luck with two crosses from the wing. In the 9th minute, Bruno Perez's cross from the right was kicked out of the penalty area by Nagatomo Yuto after rebounding.

In addition to having the upper hand on the offensive end, the home team also fought more fiercely in the midfield, which not only gave them an advantage in attacking positions, but also successfully made several quick counterattacks in the midfield and backcourt. No. In the quick counterattack in the 11th minute, Edel got the ball on the left side and attracted two defenders to mark him. He then sent a 45-degree cross to the back post, where Candreva was ambushing him at high speed. Plugged in, faced the ball with a small angle and blasted the goal. As a result, the ball was blasted to the side net because of the small angle.

Although Icardi's header ability is not bad, he is still more accustomed to ground cooperation, so Frank De Boer's tactical arrangement for the home team is also more inclined to penetration in the middle and flexible running positions, which makes their direct pass use A lot. No. In the 12th minute, Icardi retreated to the midfield. After receiving the ball, he passed Baselli and Vivis in a row and then tried to pass it directly to Eder, who was plugging in on the left. He was destroyed by the experienced Moretti in advance. ;1 minute later, Banega dribbled the ball through the middle and then stabbed in front of Vivis's calf to form a change of line. The Argentine center adjusted his running route in time to outflank the ball, but Avilar kicked the ball first. Out of line.

Facing the opponent's seemingly super strong state, Li Mudi had no good solution, so he had to let the players recover first, and wait for the opponent's slack or mistakes while doing a good job of defense.But just after the Turin team strengthened the man-to-man defense against the opponent's running positions, Inter Milan took out another offensive weapon-long shots, which made the Turin coach keep complaining on the sidelines: "MMP, in this state And ability, how did you become No.14 in the league before? Or is it only when you face us that you can 100% play the strength of the Serie A giants? What a ghost!"

No.14 minutes, Edel, who was extremely active in this game, broke through Vivis and knocked across the middle. Brozovic volleyed vigorously from 20 meters in front of the goal, and the ball missed the right corner of the goal.When the visiting team finally got a header from Rossettini to the far corner after receiving a corner kick from Baselli (which was easily confiscated by Handanovic), the home team counterattacked in midfield. The snatch was successful, Brozovic sent a through ball, Edel's powerful long-range shot failed to hit the target, and the ball slammed into the protective net behind the goal.Fearing that the world wave is coming, the Turin team hastily made adjustments and expanded the defensive range, and then Inter Milan returned to the short-pass penetration style of play. No. In the 16th minute, Mario's direct pass attempt failed to pass Akuwa's interception. Two minutes later, Ansaldi's pass was once again controlled by Rossettini.

After gradually adapting to the opponent's two attack modes, the Turin players gradually recovered from the state of being suppressed after the opening. After the opponent's momentum slowly dropped, they finally found some sense on the offensive end up. No. In 203 minutes, Baselli and Bruno Perez completed a wall collision and sent a diagonal pass on the right. Belotti failed to take advantage of the fight with Miranda. The ball was not touched by anyone. After 2 minutes, Jesse's bottom cross from the left was destroyed by Mario's shovel, and then Akuwa's long shot from the outside of the penalty area was confiscated by Handanovic.

Just when everyone thought that the Turin team was going to turn away, Inter Milan proved with facts that they just breathed a sigh of relief, and they still had the right to wear blue and black striped shirts on Meazza's territory. No. In the 206th minute, Brozovic made an unwise decision in the offensive selection. His cross found Eder who didn't know where to throw his shooting boots. The Brazilian's push from the front of the penalty area was still Failed to pose any threat to Joe Hart, it looked like he was aiming at the plane in the sky. No.30 minutes, Banega went straight to the ribs, and Brozovic's diagonal pass was cleared by Moretti who was stuck in front of Icardi. Three minutes later, Brozovic made another long pass to the space on the left, but Edel made a mistake when stopping the ball and went directly out of the sideline.

Although the home team failed to create any real chances in these few attacks, they directly extinguished Turin's offensive that had just improved, making them return to a passive defensive posture again. I frowned.

(End of this chapter)