Chapter 409 My enemies are always more than friends
"We have bad luck. Losing the last ball doesn't mean anything." Delneri said at the press conference after the game. This time, Dick did not give up to his men who lost twice in a row in a month.
Defeated will lose any face: "A narrow victory is an accident, but two narrow wins are not an accident... We will become stronger and stronger, and we will concede fewer and fewer goals... What do you think?"
The Italian media once again witnessed Dick's aggressiveness after gaining the upper hand.
Dick's words were not only blocking Del Neri, but also blocking the reporters - didn't you say that Inter Milan is unstable? But if we are unstable, we can always win, let alone say that we will be even stronger in the future.
Yes, Inter Milan's defense has indeed conceded a lot of goals, but in such conceding, they are also adjusting and growing. The four main players on Inter Milan's current defense are not young players, and it is difficult for them to work together.
It will be even better...
After this round of the league, Juventus continued to rank first. Under the coaching of Capello, they had a steady 1-0 win over the powerful Udinese in an away game and continued to lead the international rankings with a goal difference advantage.
Milan is also ranked second with 13 points. The third place is unexpected. The newly promoted Messina surprisingly ranks this position with an unbeaten record of three wins and two draws. The opponents it won include Roma and AC Milan.
A strong team, they defeated the chaotic Roma 4-3 in the second round, beat AC Milan 2-1 in the fourth round, and beat Siena 4-1 in this round, their ranking is quite high.
AC Milan is ranked fourth with 10 points. The loss to Messina puts them three points behind Juventus and Inter Milan. However, there is still a long time in the league and they have plenty of time to catch up.
After the end of this round of league games, Serie A was suspended. A dozen players from the Inter Milan team were going to participate in the national team competition. Dick asked the assistant coaches to manage the training well while he went to the UEFA Cup draw ceremony.
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In this draw, Inter Milan, one of the seeded teams, drew a draw that was neither good nor bad.
They are not in a group with strong teams such as Feyenoord, Schalke, Newcastle, Villarreal, and Sevilla. However, there is also Athletic Bilbao from La Liga in this group.
, there are also Romania's Steaua Bucharest, Turkey's Beşiktaş and Belgium's Standard Liege - these are not particularly strong teams, but they are all very difficult to deal with...
In the UEFA Cup, you don't need to play home and away games with every opponent. You just need to play one game with every opponent. However, Inter Milan is lucky and they don't need to go to Turkey to play away games.
In the first round, they challenged Athletic Bilbao away, in the second round they faced Steaua Bucharest at home, in the third round they challenged Standard Liege away, in the fourth round they had a bye, and in the fifth round they faced Besiktas at home. Such a match is very important for the international team.
It is also more advantageous for Milan, and among the five teams in the UEFA Cup group, the top three are all qualified to qualify.
The top three in the eight groups, a total of 24 teams, plus the eight third-placed teams that were eliminated in the Champions League group stage, are the top 32 who will participate in next year's knockout rounds. The next schedule is two teams all the way.
The knockout rounds continue until the finals.
"With the top three qualifying, there is not a lot of pressure. The real test will be in the second half of the season." Dick said to Marriner after returning to Milan.
"There is actually nothing to play for in the UEFA Cup..." After staying with Dick for so long, Marriner's vision has also become higher. In his opinion, there is really no need to pursue a UEFA Cup champion. Now the international
Milan's biggest task should be to win the championship in the league, not to play in the UEFA Cup...
"There is nothing to play for, but Robert, you have to know that we have many good substitute players. The UEFA Cup, like the Italian Cup, is a good opportunity for training." Dick said with a smile.
"You look down on the UEFA Cup and Italian Cup too much..." Marina said helplessly.
"The early UEFA Cup and Italian Cup are really nothing to look forward to...the real test will be in the later stages." Dick shrugged and said.
Dick is very confident, but his confidence is not unfounded. After this period of games, Inter Milan began to gradually gain experience in new tactics, and their performance naturally began to get better.
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On October 17, in the sixth round of the league, Inter Milan faced Udinese at home.
Inter Milan, sitting at home, showed extremely good fighting spirit. Adriano scored two goals in the eighth and twelfth minutes. Although Mauri recovered a point at the beginning of the second half, Tony soon scored.
Six minutes later, the score was expanded again with a powerful header. Before the end, Cruz, who came on as a substitute, scored a goal in the chaos. It was 4 to 1. Inter Milan's first league game this season was not a clean win.
One goal victory!
Next, Inter Milan ushered in the first round of the UEFA Cup group stage and challenged Athletic Bilbao away. Dick rotated a large number of main players in the away game. In addition to the goalkeeper and two central defenders starting, the two wings also sent Mao Zedong.
Joe and Arbeloa sent Mascherano, Di Natale, Karagounis and Pandev in the midfield, and Cruz and Martins partnered up front. In the end, they played the opponent in a two-game away game.
Second, Pandev scored his first official goal in Inter Milan, and Martins scored the second goal through counterattack.
Hiding a large number of main players in such a game is of course to prepare for the next round. Inter Milan's next game is to challenge AC Milan "away". Such a Milan derby certainly requires better preparations.
Giving up a UEFA Cup game is nothing, but if they lose the first Milan derby, it will be a huge blow to Inter Milan.
Dick knows the disadvantages of his team. Inter Milan's current running-in has not been completely completed, and AC Milan has not changed much in the summer. Stam's joining has further improved their defense, and the midfield and frontcourt have improved.
There are no changes, they don't have any running-in issues.
Dick doesn't think the current Inter Milan is worse than AC Milan, but if they play against AC Milan now, the outcome may not be very good.
Therefore, Inter Milan, which played extremely ferocious offensive football in the previous rounds, started to focus more on defense in this game.
At first, Ancelotti was on guard against Inter Milan's ferocious attack. After all, Inter Milan had scored 18 goals in six games in the first six rounds, averaging no more than three goals per game.
It is enough to make all teams fear it. Now the team with the second most goals in Serie A is Lecce, known as the Little Pepper. However, they have only scored 14 goals, four less than Inter Milan. Ranking
In third place are Roma and Juventus, both scoring 12 goals, while AC Milan only scored 11 goals.
With such crazy offensive ability, Ancelotti will not take it lightly.
And Dick was so clumsy that the team continued to attack in the first half, so Ancelotti never discovered his true plan. It was not until the second half when Inter Milan began to launch a comprehensive defense that Ancelotti suddenly realized it.
——I have been fooled by this bastard again!
What made him depressed was that Dick had used this trick in the previous Champions League final. He was fooled then, and now he was fooled again...
The annoyed Ancelotti wanted to wave his hand to show that we are fighting with this bastard, but at this time Dick smiled and replaced Toni with Martins. Now Ancelotti was a bit defensive, Adria
Nuo's personal ability to break through with the ball is very strong, and Martins is a speed maniac. If he presses too hard and gets counterattacked by the opponent...
Maybe that's what he wanted me to do.
Ancelotti thought in his mind, and began to instruct his players not to press too high - now he can also accept a draw, after all, there is still a long time in the league, after all, they are only three points behind Inter Milan.
Well, there is no need to start taking risks now.
So this much-anticipated Milan derby ended with a score of zero to zero. This was Dick's first game without a goal when coaching Inter Milan.
After this game, it can be said that both sides suffered losses. Juventus expanded its lead to two points after defeating Siena with three goals. However, Dick didn't care much. Now Inter Milan's crazy attack kills the enemy.
The strategy of losing one thousand to one's own and losing eight hundred is fine. It's okay to beat those mid-range teams and teams that are in overall chaos like Roma. But it will still be very difficult to beat a fairly mature team like AC Milan. It's good to be able to draw now.
Once the team's tacit understanding and self-confidence improves, then we can start an offensive battle to defeat our opponents. That's the way to go.
After using a sudden change in defensive tactics to draw with AC Milan, Dick continued his journey of transforming the team.
In midweek, in the eighth round of the league, Inter Milan faced Lecce at home.
When Inter Milan and AC Milan were tied, Lecce defeated Messina 4-1 in a head-to-head battle. Their current number of goals has tied Inter Milan and is also the top scorer in Serie A this season.
The team with the most goals. For Czech coach Zeman, he has not achieved much in his life and has not won any championships. The only thing he is proud of is that the team he coaches has scored more goals than those strong teams.
When facing Inter Milan, he has to prove that he is the head coach who can best train the team's offense!
"We score goals in every game. The team with the strongest scoring ability is our Lecce, not other teams! We will insist on playing offensive football under any circumstances!" Zeman said before the game.
He said this during an interview.
"I have never said that I am a head coach who can play offensive football. I can only win championships."
Dick's counterattack continued his acrimonious style - he has no friends in Serie A, and the holy alliance between Juventus and AC Milan will not be his friend. Although Zeman is an anti-Juventus fighter, he will not be either.
Dick's friends - Dick didn't care about that either, no matter what team he coached or what league he was in, he would always have more enemies than friends.
"Having many enemies is an enjoyable thing. I don't want to get along with anyone to make money. I like to defeat all my opponents, but I don't want them to pretend to say something to me after they beat me, 'You played well.
, try harder next time. Football is war. In peacetime wars, two commanders may cherish each other on the battlefield, but as long as there is a chance, they will still find ways to defeat their opponents. This is the atmosphere I like, and this is the charm of football.
Where.”
"What I want is not that everyone says good things about me, but that everyone looks at me in awe and is afraid of me - of course, within the scope of football."
