"Inter Milan, which has scored 99 goals in Serie A this season, is now on the road. They are about to go to Portugal to participate in the UEFA Cup finals this season! And their city rival AC Milan will be in three days.
Participate in the Champions League final, which will be held in Istanbul, Turkey."
"For Sporting Lisbon, another team that entered the final, their advantage is that Alvalade, the venue for the UEFA Cup final, is their home court! Playing at home is certainly more advantageous for them.
One thing. The disadvantage is that their forward Pinilla is unable to play due to a thigh strain, while Inter Milan does not have any injuries and has full personnel."
"Judging from the state of both sides, Inter Milan certainly has the upper hand. They have already won the Serie A league championship before, while Sporting Lisbon lost to local rival Benfica four days ago and has already lost the chance to win the Portuguese Super League this season.
The hope of the championship, for Sporting Lisbon, their last hope this season is the UEFA Cup!"
"We are not here for vacation, we are here to participate in the UEFA Cup final. We only have four games left this season, and there are three more after this game. I don't want to lose any of these four games, but
I hope to win them all. We have the ability to create such a record, and now what we have to do is to show all our strength, then win the cup, celebrate, and then return to Italy."
After arriving in Lisbon, Dick said in an interview that in his opinion, this was a matter of course. There were no strong teams in the UEFA Cup this season. Inter Milan was the top seed team. For Inter Milan,
It is deserving to win the UEFA Cup this season, but it would be abnormal if we cannot win it.
From the beginning, there were no traditional giants playing in the UEFA Cup. After the Champions League group stage, there were also no giants among the Champions League teams that came to the UEFA Cup. Inter Milan almost reached the final easily. Facing Sporting Lisbon, Dick wanted
Just a happy victory!
This naturally aroused dissatisfaction from Sporting Lisbon, but Dick didn't care. His team had an absolute advantage in strength, and in his opinion, Sporting Lisbon's so-called home court advantage was actually nothing. In such an important situation,
In the final, there can't be too many off-field factors that influence it. The most is that there should be more Sporting Lisbon fans on site. What does this mean?
Moreover, the current Sporting Lisbon does not have very outstanding players. The current Sporting Lisbon is no longer the same as when they had Figo. The departure of Quaresma and Ronaldo also left them without top wingers. Muniti
Si and Hugo Viana, who returned from Newcastle on loan, are not particularly outstanding. The players worth noting are nothing more than Portugal national goalkeeper Ricardo, national team defender Beto, Rosenbach and Mooney who are on loan from Barcelona.
Thies, Viana, forward Sa Pinto... these can only be regarded as good players, and they are not people that Dick is afraid of.
Nani? Nani is still a child now and has little chance of playing, and he is not a particularly outstanding player.
In terms of tactics, Sporting Lisbon is also playing a diamond midfield of 442 this season, but they pay more attention to the wingers, while Dick's Inter Milan is better at attacking in the middle. When the players have the advantage, it is almost the same.
In terms of tactics, Inter Milan naturally has the advantage.
Even if no one is guaranteed to win the game, with so many advantages, Dick feels that if he still can't win, he might as well just go to bed and talk about becoming the top head coach in the world.
More importantly, in terms of physical fitness, Inter Milan also has an advantage. Although they are playing away from home, their main players were well rested during the weekend. But what about Sporting Lisbon? They just played a game on the weekend.
In a life-and-death battle that has a lot to do with winning the championship, the loss of physical fitness is not small, and the main forward is also lost, which is also a very huge advantage!
The UEFA Cup game is not particularly valued. This final is placed before the Champions League. This is the critical moment for winning the championship. Sporting Lisbon encountered such a situation, and from this point it can be seen that Inter Milan
Winning the championship two rounds in advance will be of great help to them in this UEFA Cup final.
"Well, from this aspect, the undefeated season I created is not particularly worth bragging about! The main reason is that I did not play in the Champions League, and there are no strong teams in the UEFA Cup. It is simply better than my first one in Atletico Madrid.
The season is going to be easy. At least that season we met top teams like Parma, Roma and Liverpool in the UEFA Cup..." Dick thought to himself.
After arriving in Portugal, it was natural to adapt to the venue, take a good rest, and prepare for the game. In terms of training, Dick did not hide anything. He did not want to use any unexpected tactics to win this game. It was just their usual style of play. In fact,
This style of play is also very restrained by the Portuguese team. Most of their attacks are launched from the wings, and Inter Milan happens to be quite strong in defense on the two wings. At the same time, it can concentrate its forces to attack the opponent's center.
Can Rosenbach be able to withstand the impact of Adriano, Pandev, and Stankovic and Perrotta who come to the center to attack at any time?
Sporting Lisbon is a club that produces wingers. In addition to Futre, the first top winger in Portuguese history, others such as Figo, Quaresma, Cristiano Ronaldo, Munidis and others all came from Sporting Lisbon.
It is precisely because of this that they cannot give up the offensive tactics on the wing, and Dick is confident enough to deal with this tactic.
Of course, Dick will not let the players slack off because of this. The point he emphasizes the most is that this is the final. Yes, this is the final. As long as it wins one game, it will be the championship. Any team will show its performance under such circumstances.
The ones with the best strength, not to mention this is their home court, will perform even better.
Portugal did not do any dirty tricks, such as letting fans cause trouble outside the visiting team's hotel. After all, this is a final. As the organizer, you must do your best, otherwise it will have a huge impact on the image of the entire league.
Besides, those who don’t care about image in the entire European continent are probably just Turkish footballers...
May 25th is coming soon.
As one of the venues for the European Cup, Alvalade's capacity is not bad. The Alvalade Stadium, which can accommodate 52,000 people, was packed with seats on this day. Fifteen thousand Inter Milan fans occupied part of the stands.
, and the remaining seats are all home to Sporting Lisbon fans, which has such an advantage.
"Do you think there will be more pleasure in defeating the team they support in front of so many people?"
Dick said this first in the locker room, and then the players laughed one after another.
They seemed very relaxed, and they had reason to be relaxed. After all, Sporting Lisbon... was indeed far behind their strength.
Sporting Lisbon's lineup is goalkeeper Ricardo, defenders Miguel, Beto, Inacar El, Tello, midfielder Rosenbach, Moutinho, Viana, Barsabo, forward Sa??
Pinto and Ledson.
442 versus 442, Sporting Lisbon did not change their tactics. In fact, this is also the tactic they are best at. If they make changes, it will actually reduce their own strength. This game is a home game. If they play better,
, and with a little bit of luck, it’s not like they can’t compete with Inter Milan!
"Now the players from both sides have appeared! Inter Milan's players look more relaxed, while Sporting Lisbon's players have serious expressions... Inter Milan wears yellow Champions League jerseys, while Sporting Lisbon wears their traditional green jerseys.
The white and white jersey, playing at home, is motivation and pressure. Sporting Lisbon has won the Cup Winners' Cup, eighteen Portuguese League championships and nineteen Portuguese Cup championships. However, unlike Benfica and Porto,
, they have never won the Champions League championship, nor the UEFA Cup championship. This time they hit the UEFA Cup final, it is also a historic impact for them!"
"Inter Milan won the UEFA Cup three times during the championship gap in the 1990s. They have enough experience to participate in the UEFA Cup final... If they can win the championship this time, then Inter Milan will
Become the team that has won the most UEFA Cup championships! For Dick, he will not let go of such an opportunity either..."
However, Sporting Lisbon obviously hopes to become the fifth team to win the European Cup at home. Although the bonus for the runner-up is 2.26 million, which is nearly one million euros less than the bonus for the champion.
But it is obvious that this is not a game that both sides value. At this point, the prize money has long been nothing. What both sides want is the championship!
Moratti, the boss behind Inter Milan, even announced long ago that if he can win the championship, the club will not take a penny of the bonus of 3.24 million euros, and will all be distributed equally to all players and coaches as bonuses.
The members of the group are worth about 100,000 euros each...
For Portuguese clubs, this is the third consecutive year that they have seen Portuguese clubs appear in the finals of European competitions. Porto won the European competitions in the first two seasons, and Mourinho became the leading coach in Europe.
The coach, now the head coach of Sporting Lisbon, Peseiro also wants to do this.
"At our home court, we have to attack with all our strength, because this is the way we are good at playing."
This head coach is obviously different from Dick and is an honest person, because after the game started, everyone discovered that Sporting Lisbon did this at their home court. They launched a fierce attack from the beginning of the game.
Trying to rely on your own offense to take the lead in gaining an advantage for the team!
"They actually played against Inter Milan!"
The commentator from Italy covered his face and gloated: "I seem to have seen that this will be a final with many goals... I remember when Dick led Atletico Madrid to win the UEFA Cup, the final was a six-six game
The big score of four equals the record for the most goals scored in a European final jointly created by Real Madrid and Frankfurt in 1960. Will this game be a game with more goals than that game?"
No matter how much they disliked Dick in the league, when Dick led the Italian club to strive for glory in the European arena, the Italian commentator still turned to Dick and Inter Milan.
