There is no doubt that the trend in football is one of more and more physical and technical combinations.

As early as the European Cup, Yang Cheng said that it is impossible to win the game by relying on technology alone

But in Spain, his argument is not accepted at all, because it is a country that celebrates technology.

What Iruetta's team do best is rely on their individual skills and delicate coordination to tear apart the opposition's defence, a tactic that they can try and test in Spain.

Even when Inter Milan visited the Riazor Stadium, they suffered a loss.

But when they came to the Meazza Stadium, Inter Milan tried to tell the Spaniards that the team that only knows how to play with technology and blindly relies on technology will not be able to adapt to the future trend of football.

Inter Milan deployed 4312 tactics at the Meazza Stadium, with Ronaldo and Ruud van Nistelrooy up front, Nedved in midfield, Pirlo, Emerson and Van Bommel in midfield, Zambrotta, Nesta, Lucio and Zanetti at the back, and Gianluigi Buffon in goal.

At the beginning of the game, Inter Milan put aside the idea of competing with the opponent for possession, and Yang Cheng focused on practicing targeted defensive routines before the game, focusing on firmly limiting the space in his own half.

This time, Inter Milan did not press forward in order to stabilize their own dangerous area.

Deportivo La Coruna can keep the ball but not move forward, and once the ball is in the way, Inter Milan immediately disrupt it.

It's a targeted tactic that focuses on restricting Deportivo Latóruña's attacking zone, freezing the space for their players to move around, and forcing Deportivo to fight themselves because they can't find an area to attack.

In terms of technology, Inter Milan is not as good as Deportivo La Coruna, but in terms of the control of space, in terms of midfield encirclement and pressing tactics, Deportivo La Coruna can't catch up with Inter Milan with ten horses.

Deportivo La Coruna dominated possession, but Irueta had to be depressed to find that his team had empty possession, but could not organize an effective attack, especially in the midfield, Inter Milan firmly limited the space of Deportivo midfield, often as long as one player took the ball, the surrounding area was immediately surrounded.

In this case, no matter how good the technology is, the person can only rush forward.

In this way, Deportivo La Coruna made more mistakes.

The opponent's mistake is your own chance

Inter had a number of chances from the start, first with Ronaldo's combination with Ruud van Nistelrooy's counter-attack, with Ronaldo reaching into the box and his shot blocked by goalkeeper Molina, and then the Dutchman's long-range shot almost finding the visitors' goal.

Then Pirlo's direct free-kick and Ronaldo's long-range shot from outside the box almost found the back of the net for Deportivo La Coruna.

Molina was under tremendous pressure at the start of the game, and he had to find out sadly that Deportivo Deportivo was a slag in front of Inter's counter-attack

Mackay, Dejaminha, Belleron...... They were star-studded by the numbers, but when they were confined and isolated, they were synonymous with misery, and even without a single shot from Mackay throughout the first half, Dejaminha was unable to provide him with strong support at all.

On the contrary, Inter Milan, in the first half, took advantage of a sudden forward insertion by Lucio, a counterattack with a long pass over the top, Ronaldo reached into the penalty area and scored with a clever shot, 1:0

At the beginning of the second half, Inter Milan suddenly stepped up the counterattack, grabbed Deportivo for a while, and frequently created threats at the beginning, especially in the 51st minute, Duschel pulled down Vanney in a chase, and the referee was clear, directly showed a yellow card, and two yellows turned into one red, and sent him off.

After that, Inter Milan began to fight back frantically, Deportivo completely lost its combat effectiveness when there was one less person to fight, but Inter Milan showed more and more courage, Ruud van Nistelrooy inserted into the penalty area twice, grabbed the point to score, and locked the score at 3:0 for Inter Milan

Yang Cheng's tactics for Irueta and Deportivo La Coruna obviously worked, especially Inter Milan's rapid advance throughout the field and the midfield encirclement and pressing tactics, which obviously made Deportivo Deportivo's attack completely collapse, and the Spaniards couldn't adapt to Inter Milan's tactical play at all, and were frequently beaten into counterattacks.

As for Tristan and Pandiani, who came on as substitutes, although they wanted to strengthen their attack after coming on the field, their midfield was suppressed by Inter Milan, and no matter how strong the players on the front line were, they could not get the ball or support, they were toothless tigers. …,…………

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'I can say that it was the best night we have had in the Champions Cup this season, without conceding a goal, pressing the opponents, controlling the game, it doesn't get much more perfect than that'

'I'm very happy with the performance of my players, they did a great job, especially everyone who watched the game, you can see that we can at least score more goals, and my players didn't give up their desire to score goals even until the last minute, which is what I would love to see."

"We won and it was a reasonable result"

'Before the game, I told my players that when we were in Spain, we had a lot of difficulties, we couldn't even control the tempo and had to let the opponent lead us by the nose, but it's not our character, we have to show our progress with the performance of the game'

'So we dominated the game from the start and took our chances, Deportivo is a very good team and everyone knows how difficult it is to do that, but I'm happy that my players did a good job'

'I always think that we are new to the Champions League, we are improving in every Champions League game, it is not easy, yes, we have managed to get out of the group, but we will not be satisfied with this because this season's Champions League final is at the Meazza Stadium and everyone knows how important this season is for Inter.

"If I could choose, I would tell my players, guys, that our adventure has just begun"

At the post-match press conference, Yang Cheng was full of praise for the process of the game.

Inter dominated the game from the start, there was no suspense, and Deportivo La Coruna was beaten, completely defeated

Even Irueta had to admit that they had no idea that the Inter Milan team at the Riazor Stadium would be able to teach them such a painful lesson at the Meazza Stadium, and they didn't even have the ability to resist during the game.

'I was hoping for my players to score a goal at the last moments, but unfortunately Inter defended well, we didn't have any chances at all, I want to congratulate Inter, congratulations to Caesar, they are a very good team and they deserved to qualify'

Irueta looked very personable, and Yang Cheng did not lose his demeanor, took the initiative to stand up and hug Iruetta, and wished them good luck, after all, the team has performed very well in La Liga this season.

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Inter Milan defeated Deportivo La Coruna 3-0 to announce their exit from the Group of Death with a hearty victory.

But coincidentally, Manchester United also won a crucial victory at the Geraine Stadium, thanks to goals from Keane, Paul Scholes and Veron, 3-0 against Lyon.

This leaves the top two in Group A with Manchester United and Inter Milan equal, but the latter reluctantly relegated to second place.

For a time, the whole of Italy was boiling

The Italian media generally gave great recognition to Inter Milan's strong qualification, because this team has become the only seed of the Serie A team in European competition this season, the top 8 16 teams in the League Cup and the Champions Cup, and there is only one team left in Serie A, Inter Milan, they have become the last fig leaf of Italian football.

Moratti undoubtedly became the happiest person of the day, and he even ran to the base of Pinettina to excitedly vent his excitement and excitement to Yang Cheng and all the players.

"I've never shown my face like this since I've been at Inter, you know?". Moratti grabbed Yang Cheng's shoulder excitedly, he really felt that signing Yang Cheng was the most correct and correct decision in his life.

"The whole of Italy is looking at us, they are looking up to us, even all the Italian fans are looking forward to us going further, you say, is there anything more exciting and exciting?".

Yang Cheng smiled, of course it won't be all Italian fans, there must be some diehards of other teams who want Inter Milan to suffer, but the mainstream still supports Inter Milan.

There are many factors in this, and the lack of European performance and great pressure on the Serie A team in the past two seasons is a very important factor, and Inter Milan's breakthrough this season has just become an outlet. "Massimo, don't be so excited, it's just that you are so excited that you qualify from the group, so if one of us is careless, we reach the final, or even more accidentally win the championship, wouldn't you be so excited that you will be suffocated?" ”

"It will be, it will suffocate," Moratti looked excited.

But soon, he calmed down and looked at Yang Cheng expectantly, "We'...... Will we really make it to the final? Can you really win the championship? ”。

Yang Cheng nodded, "I promise you, I still remember, to reproduce the glory of the era of the big Milan, the Champions League must be won"

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Inter Milan's qualification not only boosted the enthusiasm of the Italian fans, but also completely collapsed the rest of the European teams that reached the last eight, because they had to find one thing, that is, those teams who worked hard to get to the top were unlucky, but those who finished second were snickering.

According to the draw rules for the top 8 knockout rounds of the Champions League, the second stage of the group in the same group is avoided, the group winners cannot play against each other, and the group runners cannot play against each other.

In other words, the first group must meet the second group.

Looking at the top of the other three groups, Valencia, Bayern Munich and Real Madrid are the top of the group.

No matter who it is, they definitely don't want to touch Inter

However, the day after the group stage, UEFA started the knockout draw in Nyon, Switzerland, and as a result, Inter Milan drew La Liga team winners Real Madrid, and Manchester United drew Leeds United to stage a Premier League derby.

The other two sets of matchups are Arsenal against Valencia and Bayern Munich against Galatasaray, which is definitely too good to be a good sign, almost a guarantee.

Yang Cheng was interviewed by the media for the first time after the draw, and he was still confident.

"Real Madrid? It's a good signing, we've just met Deportivo La Coruna and have experience with La Liga teams"

Smiling, he immediately explained, "Just kidding, in fact, no matter who the draw is, I still say the same thing, our goal is the Meazza stadium on May 24th, and until then, I don't mind taking out all the opponents who stand in our way"

Real Madrid coach Bosque also said that the team is confident of beating Inter Milan after learning the results of the draw.

The first leg between the two sides is scheduled for April 3, when Inter Milan visit the Santiago Bernabeu

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Obviously, becoming Italy's European hero does not add points to Inter Milan in the league, the game is still to be played game after game, and the most important thing is that in the 23rd round of the league, after a tough 2-1 away defeat to Lecce, Inter Milan will usher in a two-week national team break.

Just for that damn World Cup qualifiers

Yang Cheng was very depressed about this, but he could only accept it, because he was not the president of UEFA at all.

The only thing he can do is to pray to God and Buddha that his players will not be injured during the national team break, but after the national team break, the 24th round of the league will be ushered in, and Inter Milan will definitely have a large number of substitutes to rest the main players and prepare for the upcoming battle at the Bernabeu.

Although he played Real Madrid away, Yang Cheng did not intend to be passive at all.

For almost 2 weeks, Yang Cheng stayed at home with a cultivated mind, or went to the Pinetina base and Paul? Bayer and others watched the video and studied Real Madrid's tactics, especially the strengths and weaknesses of this team.

As the defending champion, Real Madrid's strength is undoubtedly very strong, especially this season with the world superstar Figo, making Real Madrid's left and right wings very sharp, which is a big challenge that Inter Milan has to face.

Yang Cheng, meanwhile, focused on the backline combination of Pasquale, Ferrari and Silvestre during the international break, for which he also brought in a young right wing-back from the youth team.

He will give this back line a rest against Perugia.

In addition, he also focused on watching Luca? Toney's training and performances are intended to revolve around him for Inter's away attack.

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Two weeks later, on 1 April, Inter Milan played Perugia away.

Perugia, who were playing at home, attacked Inter Milan frequently from the start, especially when they saw through Inter's substitution lineup, so they frequently fought for the initiative from the start and scored first in the 35th minute. …,

However, Inter soon took advantage of Zanetti's cross after dribbling forward and Perrotta equalised with a long-range shot from in front of the box and returned to the dressing room with a draw.

At the beginning of the second half, Inter Milan immediately reversed the away game and played very actively, Recoba broke through on the left and crossed to Luca, who joined Inter Milan during the winter break? Toney finally scored his first goal for Inter Milan with a close-range header past Perugia to put the scoreline in the lead.

However, less than 10 minutes later, Perugia took advantage of a mistake by Ferrari and Sylvestre to counter-attack and pull the score back to a 2-2 draw.

This time, Inter Milan was in trouble, and Perugia became more and more courageous.

Yang Cheng couldn't help but have a headache to find that Recoba is more suitable to be a solo role, rather than an attacking tandem in the midfield.

Turning back and sweeping to the bench, he saw Robert? Baggio.

The latter also raised his head, and his eyes revealed a look of longing and seeking war

"Warm up, play in 3 minutes, attack" Yang Cheng said succinctly.

Baggio nodded in agreement, he couldn't be more familiar with his character.

Three minutes later, Baggio was back on the scene in Serie A.

It was his first appearance in Serie A since his injury, and the Italian fans in the stadium immediately took the initiative to stand up and applaud the return of the Italian melancholy prince.

Baggio waved to the fans, thanking them for their care and support during his injury.

But on the football field, Baggio didn't hold back at all.

After he came on the field, Inter Milan's performance immediately had the backbone, everyone knew that around Baggio to attack, the Italian has been recuperating for more than 4 months, and his body has long recovered, and after he returned to the team, he has always maintained self-discipline training, and he has not participated in the national team competition, his physical fitness is good, and he ran away as soon as he came on the field.

Smart people play football is different, Baggio soon got a chance, deftly got rid of the defender, a straight kick, through the Perugia defense, Recoba after the successful anti-offside, directly into the penalty area, a calm left-footed push, the score is exceeded again.

The score of 2:3 also remained until the end of the game, and Inter Milan continued to chase Roma in Serie A

But after this game, Inter Milan almost non-stop felt Madrid, the capital of Spain, and ushered in the first round of matches with Real Madrid on the 3rd.

For Inter Milan, the continuous rush is undoubtedly a major loss of physical fitness for the players, and the overall state of the team is very average, but Real Madrid, which is playing at home, has shown the advantage of waiting for work at home from the beginning, and has played very actively.

Yang Cheng formulated a strategy before the game to stabilize after the start, but unfortunately, the Inter Milan players were obviously lost in the monstrous behemoth of the Bernabeu fans*, and Bosque's opening tactics were very right, and it can even be said that Yang Cheng was caught off guard, so not long after the opening, Raul assisted Morientes to score.

In the 28th minute of the first half, Elgra scored a header from the back row to break through Inter Milan's goal again, and the score was rewritten to 2:0

After that, the Inter Milan players showed great tenacity, and Yang Cheng also adjusted the team in time, but the crazy Real Madrid seemed very excited, and Inter Milan's defense could only be resisted.

When the half-time whistle blew, the whole world had no doubt that Inter Milan would face an extremely tragic massacre away from ......home.