Chapter 587: Mu Shuai's Curse

Sampdoria's Ferraris Stadium was the place where Mourinho played his first game in Serie A, and at the same time, Inter lost 0-3 here in the Coppa Italia last season, which became the most painful defeat since Mourinho coached Inter! So, this stadium, this team has a special meaning for coach Jose Mourinho.

Sampdoria is even more special for Chinese football fans like Han Sen since childhood, Sampdoria in the glorious 90s of Serie A, it was when Serie A broadcasts were popular in China, at that time the names of AC Milan, Inter Milan, Juventus, and Sampdoria were not only familiar to Chinese fans, but even to many ordinary people. At that time, there was only one channel on CCTV, and every Sunday afternoon Serie A highlights were the moment for football fans to experience the style of these giants. At the beginning of the professionalization of Chinese football in 1994, Sampdoria also went to China, as a pioneer of commercial competitions, and played friendly matches with the Chinese national team, which made Sampdoria famous!

Inside the dressing room, the club claimed it was Samuel's 200th Serie A game, and the Argentine was blessed by the player.

Due to the current stability of Inter Milan's lineup and style of play, it is difficult for many marginal players to get the opportunity to play, and this round, as the team hardly uses the bilateral strikers Quaresma and Mancini Jr., appeared on the bench collectively, which is the first time in the past 4 rounds of the league. It seems that this game is a game in which Mourinho will have to rest his squad.

Sampdoria played 433: goalkeeper No. 1 Castellazzi, defenders No. 3 Ziegler, No. 6 Lucchini, No. 28 Gastardelo, No. 7 Manini. Midfielders No. 23 Stankovis, No. 17 Palombo and No. 16 Poli, forwards No. 11 Bellucci, No. 10 Pazzini and No. 99 Cassano.

Inter Milan is also in a 433 formation: goalkeeper No. 12 Cesar, defenders No. 3 McConn, No. 6 Lucio, No. 25 Samuel, No. 39 Thornton. Midfielders No. 14 Vieira, No. 19 Cambiaso, No. 4 Zanetti, forwards No. 45 Balotelli, No. 22 Milito, No. 9 Eto'o.

Before the game, the two sides were the former chairman of Samp, Enzo? Garoufi observed a minute of silence. After the start of the game, the two sides fought fiercely. In the sixth minute, Samuel Eto'o went through and Milito cut forward, but defender Lucini cleared the danger. 8th minute. Ziegler's cross from the left was deflected wide by Poli from 20 yards. In the 12th minute, Samuel Eto'o went through. Milito formed the breakaway, but he was slightly hesitant to shoot and was disrupted by a defender. In the 21st minute, Thornton brought down Cassano on the edge of the box. But the referee ignored it. Samp up and down, and even Chairman Samp in the stands, was extremely dissatisfied. The appearance of teeth and claws was captured by the big screen of the stadium.

In the 22nd minute, Inter almost broke the goal, Milito received Cambiaso's through ball and burst into the left side of the penalty area, he did it near the bottom line, Cambiaso followed up with a left-footed shot in the big penalty area and was blocked by the goalkeeper! Missed chance to score!

Then in the 30th minute, Milito won the ball in front of the court and shook three players. A right-footed shot from 15 yards out was too wide for the goalkeeper to reach. 35th minute. Patrick Vieira went through and Samuel Eto'o went on a one-on-one shot, but goalkeeper Castellazzi stepped in to get the ball on the ball. In the 38th minute, Cassano faked a fall in front of Lucio outside the penalty area and was shown a yellow card. At half-time, the two sides played 0-0.

In the second half, the two sides changed sides and fought again, with neither team making any substitutions in midfield. In the 51st minute, Milito received Eto'o's cross and burst into the box along the left flank, but he broke past a defender but did not shoot, and the ball was destroyed when he was about to get past the second. In the 55th minute, Balotelli crossed the ball to the left in front of the penalty area, shook off the pounced defender and fired a low shot into the far corner, the ball was saved by the goalkeeper, Milito followed up with a follow-up shot, but unfortunately slipped when he was about to touch the ball. In the 57th minute, McCone brought down Cassano and received a yellow card. In the 60th minute, McCone crossed from the right, and Balotelli's header in the box was slightly wide.

Seeing that the game was stalemate, Mourinho took the lead in substitutions, Stankovic replaced Vieira, Zivo replaced Balotelli, and the team changed to 4312. Then Samp also replaced Tisone and Zauri to strengthen the defense. In the 70th minute, Milito played the ball with his heel and Eto'o's angry shot from in front of the box slid past the goalkeeper.

The team was slow to open the situation, Mourinho thought for a long time, and pointed to Quaresma beside Han Sen: "Get ready, you play!" ”

There have been two changes in front, plus Quaresma, and it seems that today's away trip was spent on the bench. is also sitting on the bench, Han Sen obviously feels the feeling of rotation at Inter, not the kind of rotation that Barcelona sometimes has no reason for, after all, like Quaresma, as Mourinho's hometown, he has almost never played a game, and there are still 20 minutes to go up to find the feeling, which is also more meaningful than going up to fight hard for these 20 minutes.

However, this meaning in Hansen's heart was quickly broken by the situation on the field, in the 72nd minute, just after Quaresma replaced Cambiasso on the field, Sampdoria launched an attack, Palombo made a low cross from the right side, Manini hit the right side of the penalty area to the middle, Pacini rushed to the penalty spot and swept the ball into the upper right corner of the goal!

1 to 0! Sampdoria took the lead at home, and Pacini even stripped off to celebrate after the goal, not hesitating to receive a yellow card.

Compared to the dream start of the last game, when we scored two goals in a row at the beginning of the game, with 20 minutes to go, the substitutions have been used up, and we are still in an away situation, which is another level.

Han Sen looked at all this dumbfounded, Mourinho also muttered something in his mouth, Han Sen vaguely heard a few words, as if there were words "unlucky" and "unlucky" in it, but speaking of which, it was indeed unlucky!

Fortunately, after Quaresma played, it was originally for attacking, and Inter simply fought with all their might. In the 83rd minute, Inter Milan took a corner kick, Sampdoria cleared, Quaresma got up and fired a shot from 20 yards out, but the referee thought that Lucio in an offside position had touched the ball, so the goal was invalidated.

This penalty once again made Inter speechless, Han Sen and the substitutes had already stood up to celebrate the goal, but they got this wordless ending, only holding their heads and being speechless. Even the always manic Mourinho seemed to foresee defeat and sat there silent.

In the final moments of the game, Inter attacked all over the line, Eto'o's shot was blocked in the 90th minute, and Lucio's free-kick from 30 meters out in the first minute of stoppage time was blocked by Castellazzi. In the third minute of stoppage time, Milito made a direct stop, and Eto'o ran a one-on-one, but it was offside. At the end of the game, Inter suffered a 1-0 defeat of the season.

In the long league, as a championship-level team, a slight loss of one or two games is not a big deal, but on the bus back to the road, many players are silent due to the fatigue of two games in a row, and a certain unknown mood about the future.

"Beijing welcomes you, open up the world for you, let us all cheer up to surpass ourselves......" Suddenly there was a burst of Chinese singing from a corner of the carriage, needless to say, of course it was Han Sen singing, it should be said that a man like Han Sen, who has no literary and artistic cells, has been living overseas, and what he can remember is naturally the only one who was repeatedly brainwashed when he was in Beijing a year ago.

In response to that sentence, some people sing for money, and some people sing for death! Han Sen's singing, the dead silence in the carriage suddenly became active, and Materazzi, who was closely behind Han Sen, seemed to be about to fall asleep, and was shocked by Han Sen's voice, and sat up straight with a series of Italian swear words directly in his mouth, and then patted the back of Han Sen's chair: "It's almost enough!" ”

Sitting alongside Hansen were Brazil's defensive duo, goalkeeper Cesar and full-back McConn, both of whom gave Hansen a middle finger in unison.

Muntari in the front row suddenly blessed his soul, and also hummed a typical African song, different from the melodious and tactful melody of Chinese songs, the lyrics and rhythm of African songs are dense, and Muntari's singing voice is not much better than Han Sen's, it sounds like a ghost chanting, and there are more people in the carriage who are scolding and scolding like Materazzi, of course, including some other players with serious homesickness, at this time, they simply took advantage of the chaos and hummed the tune of the motherland.

Mourinho and Baresi sat in the front row, listening to the international concert of five continents and three oceans behind, and when they looked back, they were also rarely kind and smiled, Mourinho put his seat back, lay down comfortably, and gently patted the armrest of the seat, as if beating with someone's singing.

Seeing the team lively, singing, talking, and chatting, Han Sen thought to himself, I am so witty. So he stealthily took out a pair of MP3 headphones from his backpack, stuffed them into his ears, and fell asleep against the window, letting the international concert symphony continue. (To be continued......)