Chapter 453 Have We Lost?
September 21, Verona Bent Godi Stadium.
Taking advantage of the three consecutive victories, the strong Inter Milan soldier pointed directly at Chiwo.
However, this small team that ranked 15th in the Serie A last season and was very dangerous to relegate, did not perform badly this season. The first three rounds were two wins and one loss, ranking fourth in the league.
Head coach Giuseppe Piron is not very famous, but he was the head coach of the Serie B team Treviso last season. Because of his good performance in Treviso, he was recognized by Chivo and left Treviso to coach the Serie A team.
As a result, the coach of the 49-year-old, who is not well-known and has long coached low-level league teams, surprised everyone at the beginning in his first season in Serie A.
The league round caused quite a lot of trouble for Juventus away. Although he lost 0-1 in the end, Chievo won everyone's recognition, and then won Parma 1-0 at home in the second round, and then defeated Regina 3-1.
Giuseppe Piron led Chievo to a surprising performance in the first three rounds, making this weak Serie A team that was not taken seriously once again within the scope of everyone's attention.
Interestingly, Giuseppe Piron adopts a more balanced formation style of 442. The center is a high center Amauri with Brazilian descent. He has poor scoring ability, but has huge tactical effects.
The goalkeeper is Fontana, who just left Inter Milan this summer.
Gao Han still lined up the 433 formation in this game, but because it was a week-long double competition, Gao Han performed appropriate rotations on the lineup.
On the back line, Cordoba temporarily served as the right back as Sanetti.
Although this short player is good at playing center back, he is very fast, and Gao Han also tries to let him play fullback.
In addition, in the midfield, Zanetti replaced Cambiaso, Stankovic replaced Figo, and Sorari replaced Cristiano Ronaldo, serving as the team's left winger.
Although it was a rotation, Inter Milan played well in this game. Stankovic, Peron and Zanetti's midfielders were also well organized. Solari and Recoba both played their wings and swung their power. Ibrahimovic was still the center and the offense was also very threatening.
It is good that the rotation lineup can play like this, and Gao Han is also very satisfied.
But the goal never came.
Giuseppe Piron's arrangement in this game was very targeted, and he played very tenaciously at home. The four midfielders were not at all inferior to Inter Milan, and the overall formation was retracted, leaving Amauri in front.
Although Chievo's style of play gave all the initiative in the game to Inter Milan, he controlled the defense very closely.
This is also a major feature of the Serie A League.
Inter Milan cannot defeat for a long time, but cannot score points after gaining the opportunity to score frequently.
But at the last moment of the first half, Inter Milan launched another attack. After Solari cooperated with Evra from the left, he dribbled the ball and forced the ball to break through the bottom, but when he made a cross, he was blocked by the opponent's central defender and won a corner kick.
Recoba took the penalty himself, and Gao Han used a five-star confrontation card. As a result, Cannavaro broke out from the crowd, squeezed out the defensive players beside him, and knocked the ball into the goal guarded by Fontana.
The score of 1-0 was also maintained to the end.
Inter Milan narrowly wins!
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From the away game, Inter Milan finally catered to the expectations of the outside media and its performance began to decline.
In another game held at the same time, AC Milan defeated Lazio 2-0 at home and Juventus defeated Udinese 1-0 away, both of which performed well.
This also made many media very sure that as the season deepens, Inter Milan will gradually show fatigue.
But Gao Han asked back with a smile at the post-match press conference, leaving all media reporters speechless.
"I'm very surprised, why do you always like to guess when we will lose? Almost every week you are shouting that we are going to collapse, but after so many years, have we lost?"
Afterwards, Gao Han smiled and said, "I'm very satisfied if I can win the Serie A in a row for one week!"
But that's it, but the media continues to report like this after the game. It's nothing more than the remarks such as Inter Milan's performance declines and losing is in the next round. Anyway, if you say it wrong, you don't need to lose money and you don't have to be responsible.
The only new thing is that a media reporter photographed Adriano in the stands at the Bentgodi Stadium.
The Brazilian striker was banned from Gao Han for four games and was fined for one month, which made everyone realize Gao Han’s determination to purify discipline.
After the league started for one month, without Brazil's striker, Inter Milan still won four consecutive victories. Many fans have even gradually forgotten Adriano's existence and instead think that it is good for Inter Milan to continue playing like this.
But now, Adriano has appeared in front of the media again, causing discussion again.
Everyone knows that this top superstar, known as the most powerful and potential in Europe in the next decade, should not waste time in the stands, so whether Adriano will return to the lineup has also become the focus of everyone's attention.
But some media have also begun to hype that Adriano will leave Inter Milan.
There is never a need to worry about where he goes.
Real Madrid is eager to seek talents, Juventus, AC Milan, Chelsea...a lot of European teams want to get him.
But Inter Milan refused to respond to this.
Three days later, Serie A ushered in the fifth round of the league.
Inter Milan returned to the Meazza Stadium to face the visiting Florence.
This time, Gao Han dispatched almost all the main players, Favali, Cannavaro, Matrazi and Sanetti formed the defense line, and the midfield was still the combination of Figo, Peron and Cambiaso, and the frontcourt had not changed. Cristiano Ronaldo, Ibrahimovic and Recoba formed a trident.
Fiorentina's head coach Plandelli lined up in the 442 formation, with the double striker Luca Tony partnered with young player Bozinov.
But what is really unexpected is that when facing Inter Milan, which was unstoppable with four consecutive victories, Plandelli suddenly turned around and launched a fierce attack on Inter Milan from the beginning.
Just thirty seconds into the game, Fiorentina created an opportunity. High center forward Luca Toni beat Matrazi 15 meters in front of the goal and shot, but Cesar reacted and saved the ball.
This shot made Inter Milan sweat all over, but Gao Han quickly made a decision and the team began to counterattack.
After that, Inter Milan scored a series of waves of Xiao Gaochao, creating three very threatening shots for Fiorentina's goal, but goalkeeper Frey performed well and tried hard to ensure that the goal was not lost.
But in the tenth minute, Favalli fouled on the left and after Fiorentina took a free kick, Luca Toni beat Matrazi and Cannavaro and headed the ball from a close distance, opening a record for Fiorentina.
This was obviously a carefully prepared set ball cooperation, which accurately grasped Inter Milan's weakness of defense.
Gao Han was also quite depressed about this goal conceding.
Matrazi is like a god when he is stable, but once his brain is short-circuited, it is really...
It's no wonder Cannavaro of this goal. After all, the physical gap is there, and he also went to make up for Matrazi's absence, but unfortunately became a victim of Luca Tony's goal.
The first goal conceded in the new season, and the visiting team scored a goal in the Meazza Stadium, which made Inter Milan fans nervous, and almost everyone in the game was nervous.
The live TV cameras frequently gave Moratti and others in the stands to their anxious expressions.
Gao Han always stood out, shouted all the players and said a few words.
After the game started again, Inter Milan was not in a hurry to counterattack, but aimed at stabilizing its position.
The midfielders with Peron and Figo and Cannavaro and Zanetti as the defense line, finally played the role of veterans with rich experience and quickly stabilized their position again.
After stabilizing the situation, Inter Milan began to plan a counterattack, and Gao Han also began to use his skill cards.
In the 20th minute, the Nerazzurri attacked the front of Fiorentina's penalty area and wanted to pass the ball to Ibrahimovic, but the opponent's central defender successfully tackled it, but the ball did not fly far.
Recoba cleverly grabbed the landing point and sent the ball directly to Figo's feet without waiting for the defending player to approach.
Figo stepped forward at a critical moment. After receiving the ball, he dribbled the ball from the left rib into the penalty area, attracting the attention of the defender, and suddenly passed it straight and sent the ball accurately to the penalty area.
The ball was just right and fell into the middle area between the opponent's defender and goalkeeper, making it difficult for goalkeeper Frey to attack decisively, but Cristiano Ronaldo was like a flash of lightning, quickly catching up with...
The rest is simple.
Cristiano Ronaldo once again seized the opportunity and calmly sent the ball into the goal, one-to-one!
This goal not only helped Inter Milan equalize the score, but also restored morale to the team.
After that, the Blue and Black Legion continued to attack Florence.
Just eight minutes later, Ibrahimovic won another goal for the team to reverse the score, one to two.
In the second half, Inter Milan firmly controlled the situation. Peron's long shot after one shot scored the third goal of the game and the last goal for the Nerazzurri.
In the 65th minute, Gao Han finally made a substitution adjustment.
Adriano, who had been missing for a long time, replaced Ibrahimovic and served as the team's center. However, although the Brazilian striker created several opportunities throughout the game, he was not sure of it and ended with regret.
Three days after playing the fifth round of Serie A, Inter Milan ushered in the second round of the League Cup knockout round, playing in a rotation lineup, and finally defeated Setubal 1-0, successfully advancing with a total score of 3-0.
After finishing the League Cup, Inter Milan went to the away game to challenge Udinese.
This time Inter Milan sent all its main players to play, showing strong attack power again, and took the lead with Ibrahimovic's goal in the first half.
But the key is in the second half. Starting from the 61st minute, within ten minutes, Inter Milan launched a fierce offensive, with three players, Cristiano Ronaldo, Ibrahimovic and Figo, scoring three goals, defeating Udinese four to zero, winning six consecutive victories.
But Juventus' performance was not bad at all. He defeated Lecce three to zero away, and also won six consecutive games, with the same points as Inter Milan, but temporarily ranked second with a goal difference disadvantage.
AC Milan defeated Palermo 2-1 at home, winning three consecutive victories, and then ranked third in the league with a record of four wins, one draw and one loss, and gradually opened the points gap with teams such as Livorno and Palermo.
After this round, Serie A was temporarily suspended and ushered in a two-week national team match day.
But some British media took pictures of Gao Han at London Heathrow Airport.
What did he come to London to do?
Chapter completed!