Chapter 460: Barcelona (Asking for a Monthly Pass)

After the match between Inter Milan and Tottenham, the top four of this season's Champions League were all released, namely Inter Milan, Schalke 04, Manchester United, and Barcelona.

There is no separate draw for the semi-finals this season, and the semi-finals are decided at the time of the quarter-final draw.

Therefore, Inter Milan's semi-final opponent is Barcelona, who beat Shakhtar Donetsk 6-1 over two legs.

Obviously, this is a very strong opponent.

However, the first leg of the semi-finals will not be until the end of April, and Inter Milan will still have to play domestic games first.

On April 16, in the 33rd round of Serie A, Inter Milan challenged Parma away.

As of the first 32 rounds, Inter Milan is 8 points ahead of second place AC Milan, and the lead is still relatively large.

In addition, the next game is the Coppa Italia semi-final against Roma, so this away game against Parma also rotated to save space for the next game.

Half of the substitutes came up, and it was away again, and Inter Milan played a difficult game in this game.

Fortunately, Lu Wenbin still maintained his super high scoring efficiency, although there were no free kicks in this game, he completed a brace through sports battles and a penalty kick, helping Inter Milan draw 2-2 away to Parma, and retreated.

Three days after this league game, it is the semi-final of the Coppa Italia against Roma.

Now that Inter Milan have reached the semi-finals of the Champions League and Coppa Italia, and have been firmly in the top spot in the league, Moratti and Mourinho will both want to lead Inter to the feat of Italy's first treble.

Therefore, against Roma, in the Coppa Italia semi-finals, Mourinho attached great importance to it and played his main role.

The Coppa Italia format is a bit strange, with the semi-finals being a one-off affair, but in the semi-finals there are two legs, like the Champions League.

In the first leg of this season's Coppa Italia semi-finals, Inter Milan challenged Roma away, and the second leg returned to play at home, and the schedule had a certain advantage.

However, Mourinho still did not dare to be careless.

At present, Roma has been eliminated from the Champions League, and the league is also hopeless, and even European qualification is in danger.

The Coppa Italia is also a way out for the Roma team to compete for European qualification.

If they win the title, they will be able to participate in the Europa League next season.

Therefore, this away match in the first leg of the Coppa Italia semi-finals will not be easy.

At 21 o'clock on the evening of April 19, with the referee's whistle, the first leg of the 2010/2011 Coppa Italia semi-final match between Roma and Inter Milan officially began at the Olympic Stadium in Rome.

Because of his participation in the Qatar Asian Cup, Lu Wenbin was absent in the first two rounds of the Italian Cup and did not participate, and now this is the first Italian Cup match he has participated in.

Naturally, the Roma team carefully studied and defended Lu Wenbin, not only to contain Lu Wenbin's breakthrough shots, but also to reduce the number of free kicks he took free kicks.

Comparatively speaking, Roma have spent much more time on targeted training than Tottenham.

Therefore, Roma's tactical performance in this game with reference to AC Milan to advance the defense was much better than that of Tottenham.

In the 13th minute, Lu Wenbin was about to break through with the ball and was brought down, but the place where the Roma team fouled was 367 meters away from the goal.

Although Lu Wenbin turned on the system skill, although the free kick of the system skill hit the goal frame, it was finally saved by goalkeeper Lobon because it was too far away.

As for the anti-offside, Roma also played quite carefully, and goalkeeper Lobonte expanded the range of attacks from time to time, rushing to disrupt Sneijder or Stankovic's through ball before Lu Wenbin.

In the end, after the whole game, Lu Wenbin only scored a long-range shot from outside the forbidden zone through his dribbling skills.

However, Lu Wenbin's passing and assist ability is also very good.

After discovering that Roma were focusing most of their efforts on defending him, Lu Wenbin also set up Samuel Eto'o to score another goal for Inter Milan through a passing organiser.

After 90 minutes, the score on the big screen was 1-2, and Inter Milan won the first leg with Lu Wenbin's pass and shot.

Although the Roma team learned AC Milan's defensive tactics and achieved certain results, they still failed to completely stop Lu Wenbin.

This also fully proves Lu Wenbin's ability and value.

The world's No. 1 superstar is really worthy of his name, and he can't prevent it.

It's a bit of a risk to win, but it's a win. Moreover, it was won away from home.

Back at home in the second leg, Inter Milan have a better chance of progressing to the Coppa Italia final than Roma.

After playing the match with Roma, on April 23, in the 34th round of Serie A, Inter Milan hosted Lazio.

Lazio also defended Lu Wenbin in an early defensive manner.

However, this style of defense is a double-edged sword.

Used well, like AC Milan and Roma, the free kick restriction on Lu Wenbin does have some effect.

But if it is not used well, like Tottenham, it will give Lu Wenbin more space for anti-offside and front-court sprints.

In this game, Lazio's tactics were not used well.

In just the opening 10 minutes, Lu Wenbin received a through plug from Stankovic in an anti-offside position, and scored an empty goal from outside the big forbidden area.

Lu Wenbin scored the first goal, Inter Milan 1-0 Lazio.

In the 25th minute, Lu Wenbin crossed from the bottom, Eto'o fought for the top in the middle, and the ball was saved by the Lazio goalkeeper, but Sneijder, who rushed up, stabbed the ball into the goal.

Inter Milan 2-0.

In the 37th minute, Lu Wenbin successfully countered offside again, received a pass from Sneijder behind the Lazio defense, and then hit a far corner in the forbidden area.

The ball went into the net, and the Lazio goalkeeper couldn't reach it.

Before the end of the first half, Inter Milan led 3-0.

Lazio did not succeed in learning AC Milan's tactics, and like Tottenham, they were beaten by Lu Wenbin.

After 15 minutes of half-time, the two sides changed sides and fought again, and the Lazio coach also admitted the failure of his tactics, let his players retreat in defense, or honestly defend with a bus bucket formation, and then wait for an opportunity to counterattack.

On the side of Inter Milan, because the next game is the Champions League semi-final against Barcelona.

Therefore, from the 60th minute, Mourinho began to make substitutions one after another, and the three substitutions were used up, and even Lu Wenbin was replaced in the 76th minute.

However, before being replaced, Lu Wenbin finally got a free kick in a good position, and turned on the system skill to kick the ball into the goal, completing a hat-trick.

After Lu Wenbin was replaced, Lazio scored a counter-attacking goal in the 88th minute.

In the end, Inter Milan beat Lazio 4-1 at home to continue to lead the Serie A standings.

Next, it's time for the semi-final battle against Barcelona! (Ask for a commuter pass)