After playing two warm-up matches in the Middle East, Inter Milan is ready to leave the Middle East with two undefeated results and return to Italy. They still have a series of games to play in Italy, such as against two low-level teams Terna
Na and Luca, finally participated in the three-year-old Telecom Italia TIM Cup...
This is the fourth TIM Cup. The first championship was taken away by AC Milan, and the next two championships were won by Inter Milan. This time Dick led the team to participate in the TIM Cup, which is also regarded as an international cup.
The starting point of the new Milan season.
The game was held on August 27th. Inter Milan's tactical drills were still relatively unfamiliar to the Italian media, and in the TIM Cup game, Dick did not reveal his true tactical intentions.
In the first game against AC Milan, Dick sent out a 352 formation, with Toldo as the goalkeeper, Cannavaro Cordoba and Materazzi as three central defenders, and captain Sane on the right wing.
Ti, the newly joined Italian international Perrotta was on the left, Zanetti, Farinos and Stankovic were placed in the midfield, and the forward partners were Recoba and Adriano. Finally, in
In the forty-five minutes of the game, Inter Milan and AC Milan fought to a zero-0 draw, and then defeated their opponents 5-4 in the penalty shootout and took the lead in victory.
In the next 45 minutes of the game, AC Milan defeated Juventus with two goals, and then it was Inter Milan's turn to face Juventus. This time Dick changed his lineup again, goalkeeper Thor
Duo, the right backs Maggio, Cannavaro and Materazzi play as central defenders, the left backs send Pasquale, and the midfielders are Zanetti, Farinos, Perrotta and Semioli.
The forwards were replaced by Toni and Martins. Finally, with a surprise goal from Martins in the 37th minute, Inter Milan defeated Juventus 1-0, and finally won the TIM for the third time with a record of two wins.
Cup champion!
However, after this game, the media did not care about the championship won by Inter Milan. Now there is a saying of "winning the TIM Cup and losing the league". Although Inter Milan completed three consecutive championships in this competition,
In the game, Inter Milan did not show any outstanding strength. They played three central defenders, which was the rest of Cooper's game. Did Dick have anything new? No...
However, some media have noticed that Farinos is one of the few Inter Milan players to have participated in two TIM Cups. Will this former Spanish international, who has been gradually marginalized under Cooper, be rejuvenated under Dick?
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Whether at Atletico Madrid or Dortmund, Dick's staff will always have a technical midfielder who is organized from behind. When he was at Atletico Madrid, it was Belleron, when he was at Dortmund, it was Rosicky in the first year, and in the second year, it was Rosicky.
Klinger... No matter what, there will always be such a person.
In the transfer market, Dick did not introduce such a midfielder. Although he bought a lot of midfielders, neither Perrotta nor Stankovic were this type of players - it is not that simple.
By dragging the attacking midfield position deep, you can become this kind of organizing midfielder. Such a player must meet several characteristics-excellent ball control, a good view of the overall situation, excellent long and short passing abilities, and the ability to
Control the tempo of the entire game...
Thinking of this, Inter Milan fans are quite disappointed - if Dick had been allowed to come to Inter Milan two years earlier, then Pirlo would not have gone to AC Milan because he had no chance to play, and was cut by An
Lottie moved his position further back to create a new Albertini. You must know that before he went to AC Milan, Dick had already completed a historic initiative at Atletico Madrid. He moved Belleron into his deeper position and let this player
What could only be regarded as a first-class attacking midfielder has become the world's leading master of dispatching and control. Ancelotti's approach is just imitating Dick's...
And Farinos happened to have the best year in Valencia, where he organized and helped defend from behind. Under such circumstances, it seemed normal for Dick to use Farinos, and
In the two halves of the TIM Cup, Farinos became one of the few players to play two full games, which also became a kind of evidence.
As a team participating in the UEFA Cup this season, Dick encountered another restructuring after the merger of the UEFA Cup and the Cup Winners' Cup. The UEFA Cup competition is no longer a direct two-leg knockout. As the fifth in Serie A, Inter Milan does not need to participate
Instead of participating in the first two rounds of competition, they will directly participate in the third round. The competition will be held on September 16th and October 1st. If Inter Milan can qualify, it will participate in the draw of the group stage. There are
There will be four rounds of league games, and the top three teams in the group will directly advance to the top 32 in the second year, followed by home and away games.
So in fact, there are no fewer games in the UEFA Cup than in the Champions League. In the first half of the season, Inter Milan still has to play six European games, and in the second half of the season, they have to play an extra two-leg knockout round.
Although the honor of the UEFA Cup is not yet in Dick's eyes, Inter Milan's management and fans also hope that the team can win the league championship - they have had a league championship blank for fifteen years, but for
For Dick, he is very interested in winning the UEFA Cup - Inter Milan now has a record of winning the UEFA Cup three times, and is tied with Juventus and Barcelona as the team with the most UEFA Cup championships. If Inter Milan
If Milan wins the UEFA Cup again in his own hands, Inter Milan will become the only team that has won the most UEFA Cups. This idea also makes Dick feel very pursuing...
Inter Milan's opponent in the third round of the UEFA Cup was Maribor from Slovenia. This was not a strong team, so Dick didn't care much about it.
Day by day, before the season started, Inter Milan encountered a FIFA match day. The international players in the team returned to the national team to participate in the national team competition. Dick did not care about this and led the team.
With a group of young players and substitutes, he also coached them very enthusiastically.
After the international players returned to the team, Dick officially announced: "The new season is about to begin!"
During this period, neither Moratti nor Facchetti was in charge of the team's affairs. They were just meeting all Dick's needs, including transfer funds, who he wanted to sell, and who he wanted to sell.
No matter who he buys, he wants to install floor heating on the training ground, he wants to decorate the player dormitories better, he wants to buy training equipment... Everything, as long as it is a request made by Dick, they will agree. As for the team,
, it was Dick who took care of everything.
This situation is what Dick is happy to see. Although it may be tiring to take charge of the entire team, but if he wants to achieve good results, Dick must control everything in the first team. Now it seems that Moratti is also
He fulfilled his promise without any interference, whether it was Dick selling Vieri or telling Recoba that he would not be the main force, he did not interfere at all.
Of course, Dick knows that Moratti's patience will not last long. If he cannot produce good results quickly, then he will gradually fail like many other head coaches who were previously appointed by Moratti.
To Moratti's trust.
It's difficult to play in Serie A, but it's even harder to play under Moratti...
The new season of Serie A is the Serie A after the reform. There will be twenty teams participating in the new season of Serie A. This means that the entire season will have four more league rounds than before. For a football team that has to take into account multi-line competitions
For the team, it will make their burden heavier, and the postponement of the season will make the schedule of this season become more intensive.
Inter Milan's opponent in the first round is Chievo.
This team, nicknamed the Flying Donkey, has been the victim of Inter Milan since entering Serie A. In the 2001-02 season, Inter Milan finally lost the championship. Although it was directly related to the loss to Lazio in the last round, if it were not for the last five
They lost to Atalanta and Lazio in the first round, and if they were tied by Chievo, they would have won the championship early with the advantage they had established before! The game where Chievo forced a 2-2 draw was also fatal. If Chievo didn't
Lose those two points, and Inter Milan can win the championship as long as they tie in the last round. Inter Milan does not need to play so impatiently in the last round and lose...
That season was the first time Chievo played in Serie A. They defeated Inter Milan on the road and drew with Inter Milan at home. In the next two seasons, they met Inter Milan four times, winning one and drawing one.
Two losses, each time caused Inter Milan to suffer. It can be said that Barry in previous years has always been able to become Inter Milan's nemesis.
Now, Inter Milan will face Chievo away from home in the first round.
For this game, the Italian media are not particularly optimistic about Inter Milan. After all, Chievo has been like this in recent seasons. At the beginning of the season, the momentum was very strong and almost unstoppable. In the second half of the season, it began to gradually improve.
has declined. When we encounter such a team at the beginning of the season, no one is willing to confront them head-on.
Chievo has been able to remain in Serie A for several consecutive years despite being a newly promoted team. It relies on their tactics of rushing, running and fighting. They use the two wingers as the core of the offense and constantly sprint back and forth to make the opponent become
Tired of running for their lives, Inter Milan was quite afraid of this style of play in the past. On the contrary, teams like Juventus are not afraid of this offensive method. Therefore, although Chievo has a good relationship with Inter Milan, it has repeatedly become Inter Milan's helpless.
Accomplices in winning the championship, because they will make Inter Milan lose at least two points every season, but will give Juventus six points...
There are a lot of personnel exchanges between the two clubs. For example, this season Inter Milan has two players from Chievo, Perrotta and Semioli, and Chievo also has a player from Inter Milan, that is the old goalkeeper Fonta.
Na.
The players on both sides are relatively familiar with each other, but before the game started, the two sides still started a small war of words.
"I don't know what Dick's tactical level is, but if you want to achieve results in Italy, you have to show some real skills." Chievo's head coach Del Neri said in an interview before the start of the game.
Delneri's words represent the attitude of many Italian head coaches. In their view, Dick, who was born in a wild country, can win so many honors only shows that he is lucky. If it is really about tactics, Italy can just pick any coach.
Can blow him up all over the place!
"I really haven't achieved anything in Italy." Dick replied during the interview. When all the reporters were stunned, he continued: "My achievements are in Spain, Germany and
