269 ​​Golden Combination

On April 22, Inter Milan hosted Florence.

Batistuta performed very well against his old club and staged a hat trick, helping Inter Milan defeat Ferlencui 4:2 at home, continuing to maintain the pressure on Rome, and also shattering everyone's doubts about him.

With these three goals, Batistuta scored 23 goals in the scorer list, surpassing Roma's Crespo and ranked first in the scorer list. What is commendable is that Batistuta is not the absolute main force of the team at the beginning of the season, but after the winter break, he burst into a very outstanding goal state.

This is also the honor that Inter Milan has once again approached this honor after Ronaldo won the best scorer last season.

As for Ronaldo and Fanny, both players are also among the top in the Serie A scorer list, but their main battlefield this season is in the Champions League, and Inter Milan's rotation strategy makes them unable to compete for the honor of the league's top scorer.

After playing Florence, Inter Milan got a week off.

Yang Cheng gave the team two days off in one go so that they could all have a good rest.

A week later, the team was visiting Brescia.

As Crespo scored another goal against Lazio, the two scored goals in the league. Batistuta performed well against Brescia, scoring an equalizer for Inter Milan, and finally retreated from Brescia 1:1 away.

After this game, Inter Milan took the home court and welcomed Cooper and his Valencia.

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"goallllllllll!"

"Less than 8 minutes after the game started, Inter Milan took the lead in a fierce attack. Nedved counterattacked quickly from the right and made a diagonal pass. Fanny ran at high speed and made a forward insertion. After stopping the ball, he scored a strong shot from the right side of the penalty area, scoring, Inter Milan's first record!"

"This is a very sharp counterattack, and it is also the reward for Inter Milan's active attack since the start. Cooper must regret his conservativeness after the start, because he must admit that it is almost impossible to defend Inter Milan's attack at the Meazza Stadium!"

A deafening cheer suddenly came from the stands of the entire Meacha Stadium!

Fanny, the Dutchman who is usually not revealing his own way, can always score goals for Inter Milan at critical moments. He used his super high scoring efficiency to prove that he is the most lethal striker on the European arena. The double striker formed by him and Ronaldo has made countless European powerhouses frightened.

Yang Cheng kept applauding on the sidelines, but he was not too excited.

On the contrary, Paul Baier next to him looked very excited and excited, he always did this!

Inter Milan's starting lineup in this game has not changed much, and the people are still the same, and the tactics are still the ones that are mainly me. Inter Milan only makes targeted arrangements in details.

For example, in this game, Pirlo's position is basically fixed, that is, he is at the back of the central defender, so he will basically not leave his area.

Emerson's position is more active in this game because he always moves sideways in front of the defense line, responds, supports, and passes. These are his duties. Whether it is Pirlo or Van Bomer, he always has to rely on the way to respond, but his activity area will not leave this horizontal area.

As long as he was too long from the back line, Lucio and Nesta immediately spoke to remind him.

Emerson's passes are basically mainly on two sides, generally not directly forward, pass the ball to the wing and hand it over to the full-back, and then the full-back is forwarded to complete the cooperation with Pirlo, Van Bomel, and even Nedved.

Therefore, in this game, Inter Milan played very active on the wing.

After Pirlo's position in the middle was relatively fixed, Cooper's arrangement to freeze him was completely useless, because Pirlo's medium and long pass transfer was something he could not guard against. Often, just give him a little space, he could suddenly transfer the ball from the left to the right.

This is how Nedved's counterattack came!

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

Emerson is responsible for sorting out and passing the ball left and right, and also taking on the task of protecting the defense line. Pirlo is in the front position and is responsible for transferring medium and long passes. Moreover, his getting the ball away is also a great show, which makes Inter Milan's midfield offensive organization seem very layered and more difficult to defend.

"Although Van Bomel had a pass and planned Nedved's counterattack, he always felt that he was not very adaptable to the current midfielder!" Paul Bayer analyzed.

Yang Cheng nodded constantly, Emerson and Pirlo formed a duo, and Van Bomel was a little difficult to integrate into it because he was a player with a hard bridge and hard horse. His offensive ability was excellent in the back row, but he could no longer inject more creativity into Inter Milan's midfield.

According to Yang Cheng's idea, he planned to build the midfield into four small diamonds that coexisted by No. 10 after Deco came to the team, but the position was very flexible. In addition to Emerson, Pirlo, Deco and Nedved could all form a cooperative routine.

This will definitely be a terrifying midfield combination!

Currently, Inter Milan's most stable line is the front line and the back line.

Zambrota, Nesta, Lucio and Zanetti have both offense and defense, and are becoming more and more stable. Under Yang Cheng's transformation, Emerson also performed very well in the midfield position, with steady defense and full sense of position. Moreover, he is from the No. 10 MVP, and his organizational ability, reading game ability and sorting out the midfield are excellent.

As long as this group of players remains unmoved, Inter Milan's defense will not be problematic!

As for the forward line, there is no doubt about the strength of Ronaldo, Fanny and Batistuta. Luca Tony is also a big surprise at the critical moment. These four forwards can easily partner with a sharp forward combination.

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

As long as the midfield is finished, the players on the forward line will run, pull and score goals. The midfield behind them will provide waves of offensives continuously, and then the truly powerful Inter Milan will be!

Ronaldo, Van Nicht and Batistuta are all players with excellent goal efficiency, especially the first two, who are the best in the world. As long as the midfield behind them continues to create opportunities, who else is the opponent of Inter Milan?

Of course, at present, this tactic is just a prototype, a framework!

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After Van Nicht scored, Inter Milan continued to increase its offensive. Ronaldo won another goal for Inter Milan in the 25th minute, rewriting the score to 2:0!

This was definitely a goal that hit morale extremely, and Cooper almost collapsed because Inter Milan's offensive was too fierce, but their offense was based on a powerful on-site counter-attack.

As soon as Valencia intercepted the ball, the players around him immediately surrounded him, and Nedved also immediately entered the crazy frontcourt press. In addition, Inter Milan's attack on the wing suppressed Valencia's side, making it difficult for the Bats' attack to open up the situation.

In the second half, Cooper made adjustments, but it still didn't help.

In the 52nd minute, Nedved suddenly pulled to the left side of the penalty area. After receiving Pirlo's over-top pass, he passed the penalty area with a pick-up pass. Fanny scored 10 meters in front of the goal, locking the score at 3:0!

Everyone immediately understood that this was an irreversible defeat and Valencia could not turn the situation around.

In the 61st minute, Mundeta intercepted the ball in the middle and passed Vicente made a cross from the wing. High center forward Karu headed the ball in the penalty area and broke Buffon's goal, 3:1!

This is also a typical Valencia counterattack routine, which is to advance through the side, grab points in the middle, and use Karu to break through the opponent's goal, but this method is really monotonous.

Just 3 minutes later, Ronaldo successfully intercepted the ball after a return chase. After quickly dribbled the ball, he formed a beautiful two-pass and one-on-one cooperation with Van Nicht. After entering the penalty area and forming a single shot, he shot in the upper left corner and staged a hat trick, 4:1!

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

At this time, everyone could see that the overall situation was decided and Inter Milan had won this game. Although Valencia began to play more proactively, it was still difficult to break through Inter Milan's defense line.

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"This is our most painful defeat this season, and it is even more unacceptable than the away game of Málaga, because it is a higher-level UEFA Champions League. We have made complete preparations but still failed to achieve satisfactory results."

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

"Our players have shown their best side, but unfortunately, Inter Milan players have performed better. This is their home court, and we have never found a way to break the opponent's goal."

After a pause, Cooper still refused to give up, "But this is just the first leg. We have a away goal in hand. I hope to be able to return to Spain and complete an epic reversal. I am confident that I can eliminate Inter Milan because we reversed in the second round of the group stage by a big victory!"

Everyone knows that after losing the away game 1:4, Valencia can almost be said to have been eliminated from the Champions League, but Cooper still has the confidence to reverse it because they beat Austria's Graz 5:0 away from home in the group stage when the situation of qualifying in the second round was slim.

In addition, in the first leg of the knockout stage, they reversed Arsenal 1:0 at home and advanced to the semi-finals with a 1:0 loss to Arsenal 1:0 in the home game. It should be said that Valencia's Champions League trip this season was a bumpy but there was a precedent for reversal.

Yang Cheng did not doubt this either.

"Yes, I don't think we're already sure to win. For Valencia, three goals are not an irreparable gap. Cooper is a very capable head coach. I don't think we can celebrate the victory."

"I hope my players can stay calm and sensible, because the Mestalia Stadium will become extremely cruel in a week. Only by doing our best and exerting our best strength can we be qualified to escape from this stadium!"

Yang Cheng's reminder did wake up the alarm for Inter Milan. He even did his best to prepare before the second leg and did not hesitate to play on the bench against Parma, so that the team suffered another defeat this season, losing to Parma 1-0 away.

However, in the second leg of the Champions League quarterfinals knockout round in the mid-week, Inter Milan relied on its steady defensive counterattack tactics and retreated from the Mestalia Stadium with a record of 1:1.

Cooper did go out and attack wildly this time, but Valencia's offense was as monotonous as Yang Cheng said before, and Cooper planned to use Aimal as a surprise weapon, and the latter did not get a chance to play until the second half.

The Argentinian did perform very well, but Inter Milan was sure to win at this time, while Valencia had lost confidence in reversing, because they had to score 3 goals in Inter Milan before they could enter overtime, which was almost impossible!

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

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

He led the team to the finals twice in three years and led two different teams. This is a supreme honor for any head coach, especially since neither of these two teams are still top teams.

Yang Cheng's name as Caesar became famous all over the world as he once again reached the Champions League final. All fans had to re-recognize the young coach who was only 29 years old but had many miracles. Everyone was surprised by the dazzling achievements he achieved in Kaiserslautern and Inter Milan.

As Yang Cheng's opponent, Heathfield's strength is undoubtedly. He also led two different teams to the Champions League final, but his time is a little longer. However, as a favorite to win the championship this season, Heathfield has great hope of another Champions League.

"Yes, I admire Yang Cheng very much. He is very young, but he has achieved extremely brilliant results. The team he leads can always create incredible results again and again. We are very good friends, but I am very sorry that I must beat him this time because I am eager to win the championship!"

Heathfield was interviewed with a smile.

"Then do you have anything to say to Yang Cheng?" the reporter asked with a smile.

Heathfield thought for a while and nodded, "I want to tell him, Yang Cheng, give it to me, don't fight. Anyway, you are still young, and you still have a lot of opportunities to fight in the future. Let me once this year!"

After saying that, Heathfield burst into laughter. Everyone could hear it. He was a joke.

In addition to Heathfield, Beckenbauer also accepted an interview. He said that it was a headache to meet Inter Milan in the final, but he firmly believed in Heathfield and Bayern Munich, and that they would definitely be able to turn the situation around.

Neither Yang Cheng nor Inter Milan responded to the words from his opponent.

When Inter Milan returned to Milan City from Spain, more than 2,000 Inter Milan fans came to Milan Malpensa Airport like a hero. At the same time, countless journalists from Italy, Europe, and even around the world witnessed this scene with their own eyes.

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

They shouted Caesar, Ronaldo, Van Ni, Nedved, Lucio, Nesta, Zanetti, and Inter Milan players' names.

At this moment, they found that the Blue and Black Legion they loved was so close to the top of Europe.
To be continued...