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When Xiao Yu and Beckham agreed that this matter would be kept secret for the time being, the players from both sides officially walked into the Meazza Stadium. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info

Inter's line-up illness was not too surprising.

Cesar was the goalkeeper, Zanetti, Burdisso, Materazzi and Maxwell formed the backline, Cambiaso, Stankovic and Solari played a back three, Figo appeared in the midfield position, and the two strikers were Cruz and Adriano.

Judging from this starting lineup, Mancini still chose to seek stability, even if he was sitting at the Meaza Stadium, he did not dare to take a little risk, after all, he was facing a powerful Red Rebels.

However, just when everyone was still thinking that the game should start a little flat, and both sides would be on their feet, Mourinho's side surprised everyone.

Only 3 minutes into the opening game, Ronaldo played a combination with Zambrotta on the left side, the Italian left wing-back quickly stepped forward near the bottom line, got rid of Zanetti's marked cross, Drogba in the middle, in the face of Materazzi's hard pull, but still firmly stuck in his position, the header knocked, Cesar looked powerless against the close shot.

0:1, the Red Rebels only opened 3 minutes and took the lead in scoring a goal!

This is undoubtedly a surprising result, both for the Red Rebels and for the fans of Inter Milan, it is a surprise, in the stands of the Meazza Stadium, there are even many Inter Milan fans are still looking for their seats, no one expected that just such a short effort, the Red Rebels will score.

Mancini's heart was hung in the air after seeing the clever one-two cooperation between Little Ronaldo and Zambrotta just now, and when he saw Drogba score, he was even more pricked in the heart, a hot sting.

Looking back at Mourinho nearby, the Portuguese was not shocked, and looked coldly at the pitch, as if he was showing cool.

"Could it be that the Red Rebels want to attack as soon as they start?"

Mancini was a little hesitant and told his players to drop back, especially in midfield, to better protect the defence.

No matter what the circumstances, the Italian team will not lose the tradition of defending, even Inter Milan.

Immediately afterwards, the Red Rebels launched a ferocious attack, but Inter Milan withstood the Red Rebels' attack to the death, and even Cruise retreated to the midfield to participate in the attack, leaving an Adriano in front.

However, the Brazilian has not been in great form lately, with Inter Milan starting high and going low, and after experiencing the glory of the Inter king, he has now become another headache for the team, and he is in terrible form when he hangs out in nightclubs, and even Moratti is disappointed in him.

It has been reported that Inter Milan are currently in a bid to buy Chelsea's Crespo, who has not been given many opportunities while Shevchenko is in good form, and Barcelona's Samuel Eto'o, who is said to be unhappy with his new manager.

In the 15th minute, Inter Milan, who had been in a passive state since the opening, finally found an opportunity, Figo picked up the ball on the left, got rid of it beautifully, shook off McConn, and suddenly got up and crossed diagonally.

Adriano's body is very strong, and after retreating, he firmly controlled the position, stopped Curtis behind him, stopped the ball, and suddenly turned around to break through.

From the ease with which he turned around and broke through, it can be vaguely seen that Adriano's strength is still there, and the fans of Inter Milan also gave Adriano a warm applause, as if they saw Adriano hit the outside of the penalty area, and suddenly got up and volleyed vigorously, and the ball went into the net.

But soon, they were disappointed!

Curtis was thrown away, but he quickly caught up from behind and beautifully slid the ball away from Adriano's feet with a lightweight sliding tackle, which also tripped the Brazilian, but it was not a foul.

From getting rid of Curtis, to being caught up by Curtis, the whole process is short, but it is also embarrassing, once upon a time, Adriano rushed up like an armored car that couldn't stop the car, but now, he has become a bulky tank.

The originally excited Inter fans withered, and a hard-won opportunity for Inter Milan was also wasted by Adriano, and the Brazilian was disappointed, but his teammates were equally disappointed.

"Curtis!" Jose Mourinho shouted from the sidelines.

Curtis, who was wearing the captain's armband, immediately looked over and saw that the manager had made a killing gesture and immediately nodded.

Curtis, who has already accumulated a lot of experience in fighting against super strikers, just let him know that Adriano is actually not difficult, and of course, he can't relax, after all, a striker of his level, no matter how bad it is, he still has strength.

Mourinho's away goal is a clean sheet!

…………………… After losing a chance, the Red Rebels consciously retreated, wanting to take advantage of Inter Milan's backward weakness to attract opponents to attack, give full play to the advantages of strong attack power in the front court, and broaden the attacking space.

However, Mancini didn't know whether he was too conservative, or he didn't dare to press too high, but he didn't dare to let the team press, and he had no choice but to survive more than ten minutes, and after more than ten minutes, the Red Rebels pressed again, and the two sides once again fought a stalemate.

"Inter Milan began to retreat, judging from the half-hour game, I don't see that Inter Milan has the psychology of winning at home, or should I say so, Mancini wants to win, but he wants a small victory, he may only want to win the Red Rebels 1:0, and when he withstands the opponent's attack, he plays a counterattack goal, a typical Capello-style counterattack."

Even the commentators of the live broadcast were incomprehensible to the dullness of the game, according to the normal situation, the home team conceded the opening goal, how should they play more actively, why did they seem to play more conservatively?

"It is estimated that this is also related to the strength of the Red Rebels, Mancini does not dare to take risks, and now he has conceded 1 goal at home, with Mourinho's wisdom, he must be a solid backline, and when you Inter Milan plays, I will fight back, which is very unfavorable to Inter Milan, after all, Xiao Xiaoluo, Messi and Kaka, and even Drogba, are all players with fast speed and outstanding personal ability, and if Inter Milan attacks, the risk of conceding again is too great."

For the Champions League knockout round, conceding 2 goals at home, if you can't win, it's very difficult to play away, so Mancini's conservatism can't be said to be wrong, but it can't be said to be right.

You can never use simple arithmetic problems on the football field to count, after all, that is not realistic, sometimes you should be careful, but sometimes, you should fight hard, whoever has a hard fist, who can stand up straight and walk out of the field.

Mancini's brow furrowed, he clearly saw that the team's midfield was gradually losing control, Figo was undoubtedly the brightest star in football, but now that he is older, it is impossible to ask him to do the feat he did seven years ago, and it is no longer the football environment of seven years ago.

Cambiaso, Stankovic and Solari are not the kind of players who can do the dirty work, which is a headache for Mancini, who was expected to be strong in the Red Rebels, but conceded a goal in just three minutes that was unexpected.

'Maybe Roberto Mancini should have made a change at half-time, Adriano was sleepwalking for the whole first half!'

…………………… Since Inter Milan didn't attack, the Red Rebels had 1 goal in hand, and at the same time controlled the situation on the field, so they didn't attack too quickly, and wasted time with Inter Milan slowly.

At half-time, Mancini replaced Adriano with French midfielder Dacourt, obviously treating the Brazilian, he has completely lost hope, and the purpose of replacing Dacourt is also relatively clear, that is, to strengthen the defense and control of the midfield.

Inter Milan's formation changed, Figo and Solari went to the two wings, Darkett, Cambiaso and Stankovic sat in the middle of the midfield, leaving Cruise in front, Inter Milan's tactics immediately became this change, which did make Inter Milan start to play, after the beginning of the second half, Inter Milan's attack was activated, both sides were more open, and Cruise in the middle was also more active, frequently creating threats.

However, after Adriano's departure, Curtis's task became to freeze Cruise, and the England centre-back has completely washed the lead in defense this season, becoming very solid and very sophisticated in defensive skills, and Cruise has hardly been able to get any chances under his marking.

At the beginning of the second half, Inter Milan pressed out to play a momentum, but when the game reached the 61st minute, McCone received Curtis's header on the right side and cleared it, and after breaking through with the ball at high speed along the right side, he first made a one-two with De Rossi, and then used his speed to eat Maxwell and pass the ball into the penalty area in front of the baseline.

Drogba was entangled by Materazzi this time, Burdisso cleared in time, but the clearance ball did not go too far, Kaka outside the box cut in the back row, stopped the ball, and rushed to Dacourt to the left side of the goal.

Xiao Xiao Luo rushed into the penalty area like a gust of wind, grabbed his foot before everyone and shot angrily, the ball drilled through Cesar's palm, and went into the net, 0:2!

If the first goal was sudden, the second was a bit disappointing, and it was a very demoralizing goal, almost putting Inter in a desperate situation.

But it also made Manich finally make up his mind.

In the 65th minute, Mancini replaced the underperforming Maxwell with Recoba, and the Uruguayan formed a double striker with Cruz, and Inter Milan stepped up the attack.

Recoba had a good chance as soon as he came on and used his skills to flick off a gap on the right side of the penalty area before Kros followed up and beat Vidic for a header.

At this time, Adler, who was very attentive in the whole game, flew to save in time and cleared Cruise's shot in time to defuse a must-win shot from Inter Milan.

After that, Inter Milan also took advantage of Recoba's play, played a round of quite powerful attack, but the Red Rebels with two goals in hand began to slow down the offensive, after all, they were able to score two away goals, Mourinho was already very satisfied, back to the Red Rebels' home stadium, the team will give Inter a fatal blow.

Even so, the Red Rebels were solid defensively, and Inter Milan failed to score after Recoba came on and suffered a 2-0 home defeat.

This defeat also made many media chant after the game, Mancini completely fell back from God, and the previous 16 consecutive wins were ultimately no match for this crucial defeat, especially the pessimism against Inter Milan in the second leg when he visited the Red Rebels Stadium.

Meanwhile, in the other three knockout games, Manchester United beat Bayern Munich 1-0 at home, Robinho has undergone an astonishing transformation this season under the tutelage of Alex Ferguson, and with the help of Diego, Wayne Rooney and Quaresma, Robinho has been the center of attention, scoring the winning goal and being voted Man of the Match.

Real Madrid was held to a 1-1 draw by Liverpool at home, and Capello continued his tradition of poor performance in the Champions League, judging from this score, Real Madrid wants to advance to the last four unless they can win away against Liverpool, but from the current form of both sides, Liverpool undoubtedly have the advantage.

Real Madrid focused more on the league, Capello hoped to reverse Barcelona to win the title, so for the home draw by Liverpool, although dissatisfied with the game, but finally decided to accept, from this point of view, Real Madrid is likely to be eliminated.

As for the matchup between AC Milan and Chelsea, the direct dialogue between Tasotti and Carlo Ancelotti, the two Rossoneri managers, ended in Tasottti's victory, AC Milan beat Chelsea 2-1 at home thanks to the goals of the transferred Ronaldo and Gilardino, Ronaldinho scored a crucial away goal for Chelsea.

As things stand, the Red Rebels undoubtedly have the biggest advantage in qualifying, unless they are overturned at home to Inter Milan, but everyone knows how small that could be.

However, after advancing to the last four, the Red Rebels will face a rivalry between AC Milan and Chelsea, no matter who they are, they will be difficult characters, but what is even more difficult is that the Red Rebels will travel to Watford two days after the Champions League play.

At present, although the Red Rebels are leading all the way in the Premier League title race, they still maintain a nine-point lead, but neither Chelsea nor Manchester United are willing to give up hope and chase all the way, forcing Mourinho not to be careless.

Since this round of the league is scheduled in the middle of two Champions League knockout matches, Mourinho has arranged a number of substitutes in the game, after all, Watford has already confirmed relegation, and it is believed that it will not be difficult to win the game.

Watford proved to be struggling to stop the in-form Red Rebels, thanks to Ismael's brace, Sergio Aguero and Michael? Johnson's goal gave the Red Rebels a 4-0 win at Watford.

Watford are demoralised and after relegation, the league is not over, but the Watford players have begun to look for a new club.

After this round, in addition to Watford's confirmed relegation, Charlton, Sheffield United, Fulham and Newcastle are all in danger of relegation, and the Premier League's relegation battle is just as eye-catching as the championship game.

(To be continued)