On April 22, Inter Milan sat at home and welcomed Fiorentina.

Batistuta performed brilliantly against his former club, scoring a hat-trick to help Inter Milan beat Fileneau 4-2 at home, continuing to keep the pressure on Roma and shattering all doubts about him.

With these three goals, Batistuta topped the scorer list with 23 goals, beating Roma's Crespo, and it is commendable that Batistuta was not the absolute main force of the team at the beginning of the season, but after the winter break, he broke out into a very good goalscoring form.

This is also the second time that Inter Milan have a star close to this honor after Ronaldo won the top scorer last season.

As for Ronaldo and Ruud van Nistelrooy, both players are also at the top of the Serie A scorers' charts, but their main field this season has been in the Champions League, and Inter Milan's rotation strategy has prevented them from competing for the league top scorer title.

After playing Fiorentina, Inter Milan got a week of rest.

Yang Cheng gave the team a two-day vacation in one go, so that they could all have a good rest.

A week later, the team travelled to Brescia.

With Crespo scoring again in the Rome derby against Lazio to level the pair's league tally with each other, Batistuta put in an impressive performance against Brescia, scoring the equaliser for Inter Milan and eventually exiting Brescia 1-1.

And after this game, Inter Milan sat at home and welcomed Cooper and his Valencia.

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“GOALLLLLLLL！”

"Less than 8 minutes into the game, Inter Milan took the lead in a wave of fierce attacks, Nedved quickly counterattacked on the right side of the diagonal pass, Vanney ran forward at high speed, and after stopping the ball, he scored with a strong shot from the right side of the penalty area, opening the scoring for Inter Milan!"

"It was a very sharp counter-attack and it was the reward of Inter's aggressive attack since the start, and Cooper must have regretted his conservatism at the start of the game, because he has to admit that it is almost impossible to hold Inter's attack at the Meazza Stadium!"

There was a deafening cheer from the stands of the entire Meazza Stadium!

Ruud van Nistelrooy, the usually unobtrusive Dutchman who has always been able to score goals for Inter Milan in crucial moments, has proved himself to be the most lethal striker in Europe with his super high scoring efficiency, and his double striker with Ronaldo has terrified countless European powerhouses.

Yang Cheng couldn't stop applauding on the sidelines, but he wasn't too excited.

On the contrary, it was Paul Byer next to him, who looked excited and excited, and he always did!

The lineup of Inter Milan in this game has not changed much, the people are still those people, and the tactics are still based on me, and Inter Milan is just a targeted arrangement in the details.

For example, in the midfield of this game, Pirlo's position is basically fixed, that is, in the back of the central midfield, and he basically does not leave his area.

Emerson's position is more active in this game, because he is always moving laterally in front of the defence, receiving, playing, passing, these are his duties, whether it is Pirlo or Van Bommel, he always has to lean over to pick up, but his area of activity will not leave this lateral area.

As soon as he was too far away from the backline, Lucio and Nesta immediately reminded him.

Emerson's current passing is basically based on two wings, generally not directly forward, through the pass to the wing, handed to the full-back, and then the full-back forward to complete the cooperation with Pirlo, Van Bommel and even Nedved.

Therefore, in this game, Inter Milan's wings played actively.

After Pirlo's position in the middle was more fixed, Cooper's arrangement to freeze his Mendieta was completely useless, because Pirlo's mid-to-long-distance long ball transfer was something he could not guard against, and he was often able to suddenly move the ball from the left to the right as long as he was given a little space.

That's how Nedved's counterattack came this time!

Yang Cheng was very happy to see the results of his midfield transformation, because he could see that Pirlo and Emerson were no longer the dual-core effect of the past, but had a front and a back, similar to a duo. ,

Emerson is responsible for combing, passing the ball left and right, and also taking on the task of protecting the defensive line, while Pirlo is a little more forward, responsible for the transfer of mid-length passes, and his handling of the ball is also a good play, which makes Inter Milan's midfield attacking organization seem very layered and more difficult to defend.

"Van Bommel had a pass and planned Nedved's counter-attack, but he always felt that he was not very comfortable with the current midfield!" Paul Beyer analyzed.

Yang Cheng couldn't stop nodding, Emerson and Pirlo formed a duo, and Van Bommel was a bit difficult to fit into, because he was the kind of player who was a hard bridge and a hard horse, and he was excellent at the back of the attack, but he couldn't inject more creativity into Inter's midfield.

According to Yang Cheng's idea, he is ready to make the midfield into a small diamond shape with four 10s after Deco arrives in the team, but the position is very flexible, in addition to Emerson, Pirlo, Deco and Nedved can form a matching routine.

It's going to be a formidable midfield combination!

At the moment, Inter Milan's most stable line is the forward line and the backline.

Zambrotta, Nesta, Lucio and Zanetti are both offensive and defensive, and more and more solid, Emerson has also performed very well in the midfield position under the transformation of Yang Cheng, with solid defense and full positional sense, and he is the No. 10 MVP, with excellent organization, ability to read the game and the ability to comb the midfield.

As long as this group of players stays still, Inter Milan's defense will not have a problem!

As for the forward line, there is no doubt about the strength of Ronaldo, Ruud van Nistelrooy and Batistuta, and Luca Toney is also a big surprise in key moments, and these four forwards can be combined at will to create a sharp forward combination.

Yang Cheng's problem this summer is to train a golden midfielder for Inter Milan!

As long as this midfield is sharpened, the players on the forward line only need to run, pull and score, and the midfielders behind them will provide a steady stream of attacks, and then it will be the truly powerful Inter Milan!

Ronaldo, Ruud van Nistelrooy and Batistuta are all excellent goalscoring players, especially the first two, who are the opponents of Inter Milan as long as the midfield behind them continues to create chances?

Of course, the current set of tactics is just a prototype, a set of frameworks!

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After Ruud van Nistelrooy's goal, Inter continued to increase their attack, and Ronaldo scored another goal for Inter Milan in the 25th minute, rewriting the score to 2:0!

It was definitely a morale-boosting goal, and Cooper almost collapsed because Inter Milan's attack was too fierce, but on the contrary, their attack was based on a strong counter-attack on the spot.

As soon as Valencia broke the ball, the surrounding Inter Milan players immediately surrounded it, and Nedved also put in the crazy frontcourt for the first time, coupled with the Inter Milan side attack suppressed Valencia's side, making it difficult for the Bat Army's attack to open the situation.

In the second half, Cooper made adjustments, but to no avail.

In the 52nd minute, it was Nedved who suddenly pulled to the left side of the penalty area, and after receiving Pirlo's over-the-top pass, he picked up the penalty area, and Van Nistelrooy grabbed the goal 10 meters in front of the goal, locking the score at 3:0!

It was immediately clear to everyone that this was an irretrievable defeat and that Valencia would not be able to turn the situation around.

In the 61st minute, Mendieta passed the ball after a steal in the middle, Vicente crossed from the side, and the high school striker Karui scored with a header in the penalty area and broke Buffon's goal, 3:1!

This is also a typical Valencia counter-attacking routine, which is to advance through the wings, grab points in the middle, and use Karui to break the opponent's goal, but this method is really monotonous.

Only 3 minutes later, Ronaldo successfully broke the ball after a chase, broke through with the ball quickly, and formed a beautiful two-on-one combination with Ruud van Nistelrooy, the Dutchman probed into the penalty area to form a single knife, volleyed into the upper left corner, and scored a hat trick, 4:1!

After that, Yang Cheng made substitution adjustments to strengthen the team's offense.

By this time, everyone could see that the big picture had been decided, and Inter Milan had won the game, although Valencia began to play more aggressively after that, but it was always difficult to break through Inter's defence. ,…………

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'It was our worst defeat of the season, even more unacceptable than the 3-0 defeat at Málaga because it's a higher level of the Champions League and we were fully prepared but we couldn't get the results we could satisfactorily.

In the post-match press conference, Cooper said sadly.

'Our players have shown their best side, but unfortunately the Inter players have been even better, this is their home stadium and we haven't been able to find a way to find the back of the net.

After a pause, Cooper still refused to give up, "But this is only the first leg, we have one away goal in hand, I hope to be able to return to Spain and complete an epic comeback, I am confident that we can eliminate Inter Milan, because we relied on a big win in the second round of the group stage!" "Everyone knows that after losing 1-4 away games, Valencia can almost be said to have been eliminated from the Champions League, but Cooper still has the confidence to reverse it, as they beat Austria's Graz 5-0 away to qualify in the second round of the group stage.

In addition, in the first leg of the knockout round, they lost 1:2 away to Arsenal, and reversed Arsenal 1:0 at home to advance to the semi-finals.

In this regard, Yang Cheng did not doubt it.

'Yes, I don't think we're sure of winning the game, three goals is not an irreparable gap for Valencia, Cooper is a very good manager and I don't think we're at the point where we can celebrate.

"I want my players to stay calm and rational because the Mestalla in a week is going to be brutal and we have to give it our all and play our best to be able to get out of this stadium!"

Yang Cheng's reminder really woke up the bell for Inter Milan, and even before the second leg, he did his best to prepare for the game, and did not hesitate to play as a substitute against Parma, so that the team suffered another defeat this season, losing 1-0 away to Parma.

However, in the second leg of the Champions Cup semi-finals in midweek, Inter Milan relied on solid defensive counter-attacking tactics to retreat from the Mestalla Stadium with a 1:1 record.

Cooper did go on a rampage this time, but Valencia's offense was as Yang Cheng had previously said, monotonous, and Cooper intended to use Aymar as a surprise player, who didn't get a chance to play until the second half.

The Argentines did perform very eye-catching, but at this time Inter Milan was already winning, and Valencia had lost the confidence to come, because they had to score three more goals against Inter Milan to enter extra time, which was almost impossible!

In the end, the two sides shook hands and made peace, and Inter Milan also entered the Champions League final with an aggregate score of 5:2!

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For a time, football all over the world was a sensation.

Reaching the final twice in three years, and leading two different teams, is a great honour for any manager, especially since neither team is at the top of the game.

Yang Cheng's reputation as Caesar became famous all over the world as he reached the Champions League final again, and all fans had to reacquaint themselves with the 29-year-old but miraculous young coach, and everyone was amazed at his dazzling achievements at Kaiserslautern and Inter Milan.

As Yang Cheng's opponent, Heathfield's strength is undoubted, and he also led two different teams to the Champions League final, but his time distance is a little longer, but as the favorite to win the championship this season, Heathfield is very hopeful for another Champions League.

"Yes, I admire Yang Cheng, he is very young, but he has already achieved great results, he has led the team to create incredible results again and again, we are very good friends, but I am sorry, this time I have to beat him because I want to win the championship!"

Heathfield smiled and was interviewed.

"Then do you have anything you want to say to Yang Cheng?" The reporter at the scene asked with a smile. , Heathfield thought for a while, nodded and said: "I want to tell him, Yang Cheng, let it be given to me, don't fight, anyway, you are still young, there are still a lot of opportunities to fight in the future, let me do it once this year!" ”

When he had said that, Heathfield burst out laughing, and everyone could tell that he was joking.

In addition to Heathfield, Beckenbauer also gave an interview, saying that it was a headache to meet Yang Cheng's Inter Milan in the final, but he firmly believes that Heathfield and Bayern Munich will be able to turn the situation around.

Regarding the words from the opponent, Yang Cheng and Inter Milan did not reply.

When Inter Milan returned from Spain to Milan, more than 2,000 Inter fans came to Milan's Malpensa Airport as if they were heroes, as well as countless journalists from Italy, Europe and the world.

When Yang Cheng led the team out of the waiting hall, countless fans cheered, and the entire waiting hall seemed to become a stage for Inter Milan and the fans to celebrate, and all passengers were surprised by this scene.

They shouted Caesar, Ronaldo, Ruud van Nistelrooy, Nedved, Lucio, Nesta, Zanetti, the names of Inter players.

In this moment, they discovered how close the Nerazzurri, whom they loved, to the top of Europe.

As long as they go one step further, as long as they take another crucial step, they are the kings of Europe, and they can proudly claim that they have opened the curtain on the era of the restoration of the big country, and they are back to the throne of European champions!

For Inter Milan after a decade of slump, there is nothing more exciting and unforgettable!

Moratti looked very excited when he returned from the away game with the team, he kept laughing, greeting the fans with a smile, smiling and interviewing with the coach and the players, his smile was so sincere, so simple, so simple, just because his favorite team reached the Champions League final, so he was excited, excited, happy.

There is no reason, no reason, just love!

The entire waiting hall was in chaos, and all the reporters caught Inter Milan's head coach Yang Cheng and the players in the team interviewing.

'I'm happy to be able to bring joy to the fans, but it's not time to celebrate, we still have the league, there's a big final, we still have a lot of games and honours to fight for, I want everyone to calm down, to be able to stay sane and sober because we're nothing now!'

Yang Cheng's answer obviously did not satisfy the reporters, and they immediately interviewed other stars in the Inter Milan team.

Because they were greeted by Yang Cheng beforehand, everyone never mentioned the final, and as soon as the question touched the final on May 24, they would remain silent and throw the question to their head coach.

It's not that Yang Cheng likes to be in the limelight, but he wants the players to be able to play this game without pressure.

What kind of team Bayern Munich is, Yang Cheng knows better than anyone, so he knows one thing better than anyone else, that is, if the Inter Milan players go to the final with pressure, then they will definitely lose.

Therefore, he will not only do everything in the coming time to ensure that the players are relaxed, but also further stimulate their desire to win, adjust their game state in training, and relieve their pressure.

As for the media gag order, Yang Cheng decided to continue, prohibiting anyone from giving interviews in private.

But there are some interviews that are unavoidable, such as an appointment call from UEFA's public media department.