Since the score in the first round with Manchester United was 2:2, Inter Milan only needed a 0:0 score to advance at home. Inter Milan had the initiative and could attack and defend whenever they wanted. Originally, Jiang Mu’s platoon
The formation of troops is a bit fanciful. Now that they have the initiative, it has added a lot of difficulty to Ferguson's formation before the game.
Before the game, Ferguson thought that Inter Milan would maintain a balanced offensive and defensive tactical arrangement. However, after the game started, Ferguson discovered that Jiang Mu had formed a dense defensive formation with three midfielders and attacked Manchester United's counterattack. This left Ferguson speechless. He
I finally understand why no one can compete with Jiang Mu tactically. This is a guy who has no skills at all. His thinking is different from that of humans. He will play against Manchester United in the away game. When he returns to his home court, he has the advantage.
It's not obvious. There is still a lack of a main central defender, but the opponent also has Ruud van Nistelrooy, the king of the small penalty area, and Beckham, the best free kick player. However, Inter Milan has arranged such a dense defensive formation. Such a person is simply not possible.
Taking the fans' feelings into consideration and being a bit arrogant in his confidence, does he really think he can keep Manchester United clean by just defending?
Ferguson was unconvinced. Not only was he unconvinced, but all the players of Manchester United were unconvinced. The same defense was scored two goals by Manchester United at Old Trafford. The players of Manchester United did not believe that they would win at Meazza.
Can't score a goal.
In the last game, Manchester United worked hard to regain the ball from Inter Milan in the second half. In this game, they finally no longer worried about not having the ball at their feet. However, after having the ball, Manchester United found that offense was still a problem.
Inter Milan played hard on the counterattack today, shrinking the backcourt very tightly, and almost all three lines returned to their own half. Every offensive player of Manchester United has about two players to take care of it, which makes the fast break that Manchester United is famous for fundamental.
I can't fight.
Manchester United has Ruud van Nistelrooy and Ole Gunnar Solskjaer in the penalty area. They also have free kick masters like Beckham when they get free kicks. They really want to score the ball into Inter Milan's penalty area, and they must at least score it into a dangerous area of 30 meters.
In this way, they can take advantage of Ruud van Nistelrooy and Beckham, but they face an Italian team. Even though Inter Milan is the team with the most goals in European football this season, it is also the team that has conceded the most goals in Serie A.
However, once they defend hard, it will be very difficult for any team to break their goal.
It was not only Inter Milan's defense that prevented Manchester United from scoring, but Inter Milan's forward line also restricted Manchester United even more. In this game, Jiang Mu sent three forwards, Ronaldo, Ronaldinho, and Robben. This was
The Chinese media call them the flying trio. Their speed is astonishing and their one-on-one ability is outstanding. Each of them has the ability to destroy a defense line. Although Inter Milan sent three defensive midfielders, Di Bianho and Farley.
North and Pirlo provide little support to the three forwards, but once they get the chance to get the ball, Manchester United's defense will immediately face huge danger. With such three players in front, Manchester United's two
Neither full-back Sylvester nor Gary Neville dared to assist easily.
Without Sylvester's assist on Giggs' side, the power is a little less powerful. But without Neville's assist on Beckham's side, the offensive power is greatly reduced. It's not that Beckham's ability is not good, it's Beckham's.
Beckham's ability is very outstanding, but for the sake of Manchester United as a whole, Beckham's style is different from Giggs. His personal ability to break through with the ball and distribute the ball is not strong, and his speed is not fast. Therefore, Manchester United's attack on the right mainly relies on Beckham.
This was accomplished through the local support of Ham and his teammates.
Beckham's cross from the right baseline is very powerful. Inter Milan also guards him very closely. However, Beckham's personal breakthrough ability is not very strong, so he needs the cooperation of his teammates to complete the attack better. Generally speaking,
The offensive routine is that when Beckham is flanked, the right back Neville will quickly come in from behind. This is likely to attract a defender from the opponent to reduce the pressure on Beckham. If the opponent does not mark him
In Neville's case, Beckham can directly pass the ball to Neville and let Neville pass down the field, which is also very threatening.
Now Neville's Inter Milan has retained the Dutch Peter Pan Robben. Robben's skills are slightly worse than Ronaldinho's, and his impact is slightly worse than Ronaldo's. However, Robben's dribbling mainly relies on changing directions.
He is better than Ronaldinho in counterattacks. Once Robben gets the ball, Neville can't catch up even if he wants to. So Neville's assists are basically useless.
Ferguson was also worried about being suppressed on the wing, so he also arranged a auxiliary play, using Solskjaer to retreat to provide support, while Scholes and Keane stepped in to directly threaten the opponent's door.
However, in the actual game, Inter Milan deployed a 433 defensive counterattack formation today, which made Ferguson's pre-game arrangement fall into place. Solskjaer's return could not open up the opponent's defense. Inter Milan stayed in the frontcourt.
There were too many players, one was taken away and two are waiting.
However, the Manchester United players had cooperated for a long time and reacted quickly. When the opponent launched a defensive counterattack, Keane and Scholes in the midfield immediately took turns approaching Beckham and did some wall-breaking cooperation with him to create good scoring opportunities for the strikers.
Inter Milan doesn't care who is cooperating with Beckham. For them, harassing every Manchester United player is the main task of the game. Once they steal the ball or the opponent makes a mistake in passing the ball, they will hit it immediately after getting the ball.
Two wingers, or a direct pass behind the defender, to attack Manchester United's counterattack.
Defensive counterattacks must first be defended, and then we can talk about counterattacks. For the Italian team, defense is in the blood. Every player is a defensive master. Even if Inter Milan's players are not as abnormal as Italian players, but
After playing together in Serie A for so many years, their defense is deeply rooted in the hearts of the people. They defend wholeheartedly. Without excellent luck, it will not be easy for Manchester United to get a good chance to shoot.
But what is even more tragic for Manchester United is their defense. In the first game, Manchester United worked too hard to seize the ball. In this game, they got the ball easily, which made Manchester United's frontcourt players unable to help but press very close.
forward, and Manchester United's back line felt the pressure brought by Inter Milan's forward line and did not dare to press forward too much. In this way, the distance between the back line and the midfield became larger, which provided Inter Milan's forward line with more opportunities.
Very spacious starting space.
In the 8th minute of the game, Inter Milan's center back Cordoba intercepted the ball at the front of his penalty area, and then drove the ball directly to the wing to find Ronaldinho.
Cordoba is not a passer, but this kick was an explosion of character. The ball passed just within the controllable range of Ronaldinho.
Ronaldinho also showed his extremely skillful ball control skills. When the ball was about to fly out of the baseline, he steadily stopped the ball with his thigh. When the ball fell to his feet, Sylvie
Sturt arrived just in time. Ronaldinho calculated Sylvester's speed almost like a computer. He picked up the ball and the ball flew over Sylvester's head. Ronaldinho
Dinho easily passed Sylvester, forming a breakthrough on the wing.
Driving straight in, Ronaldo, without any obstruction on the right, went straight to Manchester United's bottom line.
In the center and on the left, Ronaldo and Robben were like two sharp swords piercing straight into Manchester United's penalty area. Their speed was so fast that Manchester United's defenders were frightened.
When Ronaldinho, who started first but was the slowest, reached the bottom line and passed the ball, Ronaldo and Robben were already outflanking him. Robben, who had less resistance on the side, had already surpassed Neville by two meters, and Ronaldo also surpassed him.
Brown's status.
Ronaldinho was worried that Ronaldo would be pulled and fouled, so instead of passing it to Ronaldo, he lifted the ball and passed it to Robben at the back point.
When Robben saw Ronaldinho playing a high ball, he immediately understood what Ronaldinho meant and wanted to pass it to him. He slightly deflected the direction and wanted to go over to meet the ball, because he had been there all the time.
He runs diagonally towards the penalty area from the wing. From his position, it is still very difficult to shoot. Unless the opponent's goalkeeper Butters does not block the near corner, there is not much chance.
But just when the ball was about to fall on Robben's head, Robben suddenly discovered that Ronaldo had just made an emergency stop and landed behind Manchester United's two central defenders. In order to chase Ronaldo, Manchester United's two central defenders had already used
Despite their strength, they couldn't stop just because they wanted to. They almost all rushed into the goal.
Robben saw that Butters had moved to the near corner, and Ronaldo got rid of the defender. The midfielder had not yet arrived, so he immediately flicked the header, gave up the attack, and passed it to Ronaldo in the middle.
Ronaldo didn't expect Robben to pass the ball. Robben has always been very independent. After being scolded by Jiang Mu a few times, he got better. However, many times he almost instinctively forgets his teammates and shoots alone. Ronaldo's emergency stop just now was nothing.
He did his best. Ronaldinho was planning to pass the ball to Robben anyway, so he just thought he was waiting for a follow-up shot. Unexpectedly, he just stopped the car and the ball flew over.
This is a pass that is almost as high as Ronaldo's. Although Ronaldo's header skills are the worst, his position is too good now. The goalkeeper is moving to the right post, which is almost an empty goal, and the two central defenders have not yet come from.
He turned around on the penalty area line.
Ronaldo hit the ball with an ugly posture, and the ball flew towards the goal with no power and no angle, but this was enough because there was no goalkeeper in front of the goal and the two central defenders had just turned around, so there was nothing that could be done
to intercept.
The ball went in!
1:0.
Ronaldo gave Inter Milan the lead in the eighth minute.
After scoring the goal, Ronaldo patted his head and ran to the stands. He was extremely excited. Ronaldo is extremely happy this season. He has never won the Champions League. Now he is moving towards his dream step by step. More importantly,
He is one of the driving forces behind the team's continuous advancement.
The Nerazzurri fans applauded like a tsunami again in the stands, and the name "Ronaldo" resounded in the night sky of Meazza. At this moment, all the Nerazzurri fans felt relieved. This goal was almost certain.
Inter Milan has been sent to the semi-finals. Manchester United needs to score two goals to advance, but judging from the current progress of the game, this is almost impossible.