On the evening of April 18th, the 32nd round of Serie A.
Inter Milan challenges Juventus away.
The game was very intense. Just ten seconds into the game, Nedved threatened Inter Milan's goal with a long shot.
In the ninth minute, Balot made a wonderful stop, cut inside and dunked past two defenders, and shot low with his left foot in front of the goal. After the ball passed Buffon's hands, it was promptly defended in front of the goal.
Portuguese midfielder Thiago makes a clearance.
Subsequently, Juventus retaliated, Del Piero took a free kick, and the unguarded isolated volley hit the goal, but it went slightly wide and missed an excellent scoring opportunity.
The first half was tied at zero to zero, but in the 64th minute of the second half, when Inter Milan counterattacked quickly, Ibrahimovic sent a through ball, Muntari sent a wonderful pass, and Balotelli crossed the line.
Riguera opened the scoring for Inter Milan with a right-footed shot from ten meters in front of the goal.
Juventus immediately launched a fierce attack, but unfortunately in the 76th minute, when Balotelli took the ball, he was fouled by Thiago, and the Portuguese midfielder was sent off with a red card.
Just when everyone thought that Juventus was basically sentenced to death, the game entered stoppage time. Giovinco took a corner kick, and Grigra's header from the front point scored for Juventus.
Si scored a goal.
One to one, the two sides finally shook hands and made peace.
Mourinho was furious after the game and felt unbelievable that the team's three points turned into one at the last moment.
"If we keep performing like this, then I can only congratulate Napoli!"
The implication is that Inter Milan performed too poorly.
It was so bad that he felt that such a performance was not worthy of the championship and could not defeat Naples.
However, Mourinho did not feel sad for too long, and soon grinned again and laughed loudly.
Because in another game that was held at the same time, Naples challenged Cagliari away from home with a full substitute lineup. As a result, the two sides shook hands with each other 0-0 in the 90 minutes of the game.
In this way, Inter Milan's draw doesn't seem too bad.
There is still a five-point gap, and there are still six rounds left in the league.
It seems that Inter Milan still has a chance.
The key is that in the 33rd round, Inter Milan challenged Naples away from home.
If we can win and successfully shorten the gap, it's hard to say whether we will win or lose.
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Midweek, the second leg of the Italian Cup semi-finals.
After defeating Lazio 3-1 away from home in the first round, Naples returned to home. Gao Shen continued to play with a full substitute lineup, allowing the main team to focus on dealing with Inter Milan on the weekend and Manchester United next Wednesday.
Within four days, two focus games are related to the two fronts of Serie A and the Champions League. This is definitely a huge test for Naples. The advanced team must win these two key games in order to continue to compete in the two fronts.
Go on the front line.
Especially when playing against Manchester United in the Champions League, the game starts first as home and then away, and the schedule is unfavorable. If Manchester United cannot be beaten at home and goes to Old Trafford, the situation will be very passive.
Mourinho is already difficult enough, and with the addition of an even more cunning and cunning Ferguson, Gao Shen has to face two of the world's top coaches at the same time, which is really stressful for Gao Shen.
During the preparation period, Gao Shen spent every day in the tactical library, re-examining the entire development process and tactical evolution of Ferguson and Manchester United over the years. In addition to Ferguson, he also studied Queiroz.
Since Queiroz became Ferguson's assistant, Manchester United has unswervingly embarked on the route of mainland reform. Ferguson is responsible for controlling the overall situation. All training, as well as the arrangement of specific personnel and tactics, as well as game preparations, are all done by Queiroz.
Ross is in charge.
This Manchester United is Ferguson's Manchester United, but there are also deep shadows of Queiroz in it.
There is this sentence in Ferguson's book: The most critical influence brought by Queiroz is training and pre-match preparation. The new ideas he brought to the club are great. They are not just so-called 'continental ideas'.
It was precisely because of his outstanding work at Manchester United that Queiroz was selected by Real Madrid to become the head coach of the Galacticos. After getting out of class at Real Madrid, he was immediately invited back to Manchester United by Ferguson. Now, he has gone to the Portuguese national team.
Coaching.
From beginning to end, Gao Shen re-examined the development and evolution of Manchester United in recent years, hoping to find a more effective way to restrain Ferguson.
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Since the team played with an all-substitute lineup, Gao Shen even gave Verratti and Insigne more than half an hour of substitute time, so Napoli eventually lost to Lazio 1-2 at home.
But with a total score of 4-3, Naples successfully advanced to the Italian Cup final.
And at the San Siro in Milan.
Inter Milan unexpectedly lost 0-3 away to Sampdoria in the first round, causing Mourinho's team to fall into a very passive and embarrassing situation.
The second round was at home. Although Mourinho launched a fierce attack, he was unable to reverse the defeat. He defeated Sampdoria 1-0 and was eliminated by Sampdoria with a total score of 1-3.
In the end, Napoli and Sampdoria met in the Italian Cup final.
This also blocked Mourinho's last escape route.
After defeating Sampdoria 1-0 but being eliminated, the Portuguese madman said that Inter Milan now has only one front left, and that is Serie A.
"We have no choice, we must defeat Naples away from home in the 33rd round!"
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On the evening of April 25th, St. Paul Stadium.
In the thirty-third round of Serie A, Naples faced Inter Milan at home.
Mourinho still adopts the 4-3-1-2 three-midfielder tactic that he has commonly used in recent times. He is obviously worried about Naples' ability to play at home, especially against the offense trained by Gao Shen.
This is already the strongest attacking lineup that Mourinho can field.
Mourinho's determination to win Naples away from home is also clear.
Gao Shen fought with 433.
Goalkeeper: Handanovic.
Defense: Vargas, David Luiz, Bonucci and Lichtsteiner.
Midfield: Thiago Motta deep, Biglia and Rakitic in the centre.
Forwards: Sanchez, Pelle and Di Maria.
Gao Shen's formation surprised Mourinho because he did not expect that when facing Manchester United next Wednesday, Gao Shen would actually face Inter Milan with the full lineup of the Champions League.
But he also vaguely guessed something, and immediately asked the whole team not to have any scruples, and launch a fierce attack on Naples from the beginning of the game.
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The game seemed to go as Mourinho expected.
From the beginning, playing at home, Naples did not launch a fierce attack on Inter Milan to seize the opportunity as they had in the past, but instead adopted an uncharacteristically defensive strategy.
Almost from the beginning, Inter Milan pressed hard.
In the second minute, Inter Milan got a free kick opportunity in the frontcourt. Lucio's header from close range was saved by Handanovic. The subsequent corner kick also created a threat again.
After that, Ibrahimovic and Balotelli got consecutive shooting opportunities.
The most threatening attack occurred in the 17th minute. Moutinho sent a wonderful pass in the penalty area. Ibrahimovic leaned on Bonucci with his body and hit the goal from close range.
As a result, the Swedish center's shot that was close at hand was shot high.
Naples didn't take the first shot of the game until the 21st minute.
At this time, more than 50,000 Naples fans in the audience felt very puzzled, what on earth is going on?
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"What does he want to do?" Boas was confused.
Not only him, but also Baresi, Faria and others could not understand.
Only Mourinho knows exactly what Gao Shen thinks.
"Training troops! Trial formation!"
"What?" Everyone was dumbfounded.
This is the focus of Serie A's championship battle. Gao Shen uses such a game to train his troops?
"I guess he wants to test how much offensive pressure his center can withstand," Mourinho said.
Everyone felt a little unbelievable, because this was indeed a bit too bold.
"He was very confident in his team's defense, but he probably wasn't too confident about whether he could defend Manchester United, so he wanted to give it a try and let us attack!"
When he said this, Mourinho laughed and said, "If I don't beat him hard, I will be sorry for him!"
How could Mourinho let go of such an upright, righteous and opportunity to beat up the master?
Besides, if you really beat Gao Shen to the ground, maybe Gao Shen will thank him.
It’s great to not only get three precious points, but also receive profound thanks!
Looking at the assistants around him, Mourinho smiled again, "Don't forget, Naples is leading by five points. Even if they lose these three points, they still have two points. What's more, so far, we have
I haven’t scored a goal yet.”
At this point, Mourinho suddenly felt that his face was a little uneasy. He immediately walked to the sidelines and motioned to the players to press on and attack with more intensity.
He almost shouted a curse word.
Damn, where is your Italian cannon?
Bang me! Smash it! Cut it into pieces!
Throughout the first half, Inter Milan kept launching wave after wave of attacks against Naples.
But I have to say that Naples really stayed calm and defended, and the overall defensive level was still very high.
No matter how Inter Milan attacked and penetrated, they almost never created any good opportunities.
The only good opportunity was wasted by Ibrahimovic.
The rest of the time, there is basically no threat.
This also made Mourinho shake his head in anger on the sidelines.
Opportunity is given to you!
If your opponent lets you attack and still can't score, blame me!
It wasn't until the end of the first half that Gao Shen let out a heavy breath.
"The defense did a good job in the first half. There were some minor problems, but the performance was good. In the second half we attacked!"
