Inter's dressing room is very simple, using a long hard bench, players do not have fixed seats, who would like to sit where they sit.
It seems that the players sit very casually. In fact, the players of the local, Argentinean and Brazilian gangs all sit together, while the players of Africa and Europe sit casually against them.
Gao Xiaodong is sitting on the edge of the bench, with Portugal's Quaresma on the left and Balotelli on the right.
Although the enemy is at hand, what we are talking about is not all the games that will start soon, but the draw for the group stage of the Champions League held yesterday. Inter are in group F with Barcelona, Dynamo Kiev and Rubin Kazan.
Barcelona is the defending champion, which is almost equal to losing the possibility of competing for the first place in the group. Although the other two teams are poor in strength, they have to play in cold Russia and Ukraine, which has a great impact on Inter. In short, compared with AC Milan, AC Milan is much worse. AC Milan, Real Madrid, Marseille and Zurich are assigned to group A. although AC Milan have little hope of competing for the first place in the group, the other two opponents are much better than Inter Milan.
However, Gao Xiaodong is very satisfied with this group. After being swept by Barcelona in the final of last season's Champions League, Gao Xiaodong has been worried about it, hoping to have a chance to revenge. However, it is not easy to meet him in the Champions League. Unexpectedly, the group match came across.
While the players were talking, president Moratti came in.
"Hello, chairman."
The players stood up to say hello to Moratti.
Moratti said with a smile: "Hello everyone, don't mention it. I just come to see you. It's not to give you pressure. The opponent is very strong and it's a derby. It's possible to win or lose. Just play your level."
"No, we have to win. The derby has more than three points," he said
Moratti said with a smile: "I don't want to give you pressure. In fact, I have great confidence in our team. We have two or three world-class players in the three lines. I believe that the final champion will belong to us no matter whether we win or lose."
With that, Moratti came to Gao Xiaodong again and said with a smile: "Xiaodong, don't have pressure. Coach Jose and I believe in you and play bravely. We regard the Milan derby as an ordinary game."
Gao Xiaodong has never played such an important Derby. The suffocating atmosphere makes him feel nervous because of the pressure brought by his super high value and annual salary. However, in the face of Moratti's encouragement, he can only look confident and say: "we will win! This kind of competition is the time to defeat the confidence of the opponent who won the championship. If he can score two, he will never score one. "
Newborn calves are not afraid of tigers! Moratti was very happy and said, "OK, I'll wait to celebrate for you."
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Compared with Inter's dressing room, Milan's dressing room is much more grand and luxurious. The seats are red and black leather seats. Each player has his own fixed seat. Core players like Nesta and Ronaldinho sit in the middle, while substitutes and marginal players sit near the goal.
Young coach Leonardo is lecturing the players, "Inter is an unpredictable team, from Zanetti to Thornton, from Stankovic to Dongo They can play in different positions, which directly determines the different lineup. I don't know how the other side will play. They have a lot of formation options, and he often changes formation. He even changes formation within 90 minutes, so it requires you to use your brains and be flexible on the field... "
Leonardo did not fully win the trust of the players and failed to establish his authority. When he spoke, Ronaldinho and Pato did not listen attentively and talked about something from time to time.
Leonardo can only pretend to be invisible. Both of them are Brazilian compatriots. One is former World Footballer of the year, and the other is president Berlusconi's son-in-law. What can he say? He can only continue to talk about the game. "There are some changes in Inter's lineup this season. Last season, there was a player like Ibrahimovic, who could allow them to cross the midfield directly. Now Ibrahimovic has gone They changed the way they played and paid attention to the scheduling and organization of the midfield. We must pay attention to the Chinese kid, who has a very sophisticated ability to handle the ball and has a long-range shot. We must watch him dead.... "
Although Gao Xiaodong has excellent performance before and after joining Inter Milan, his youth is always easy to be ignored. AC Milan stars still don't think much of him. Gattuso laughs: "that's because he didn't meet the world's top midfield. Last season, his performance against Barcelona was very bad. Today I will let him understand the difference between Serie A and Portuguese super."
Flamini said: "children also know how to use brute force, he will soon understand what is chain defense."
After hearing the comments of the players, Leonardo doesn't know whether to worry or be happy. It's good to have confidence. If he has too much confidence, I'm afraid he will miss things.
At this time, Milan president Silvio Berlusconi also came. Berlusconi is the Prime Minister of Italy and an excellent businessman. He also knows football very well. Unlike Moratti, he not only encouraged the players, but also commented on the team and tactics of Inter Milan, and then left the dressing room to go to the box.At 5:55 p.m., the players of inter and AC Milan came out of the dressing room under the leadership of referee Rizzoli.
The fans had been waiting anxiously for a long time. When they saw the players coming out, the fans cheered. The fans who had bought water to go to the toilet and left their seats to chat also went back to their seats and waited for the game to start.
"Players come out and let's see the starting lineups of both sides:
AC Milan: 30 storari, 15 Zambrotta, 13 Nesta, 33 Tiago Silva, 18 jankulovsky, 8 Gattuso, 21 Pirlo, 16 Flamini, 80 Ronaldinho, 22 Borriello, 7 Pato
inter Milan: 12 Cesar, 13 Maicon, 6 Lucio, 25 Samuel, 2 6-chivu, 4-zanetti, 5-stankovic, 11 montari, 10-gao Xiaodong, 22 Milito, 9-eto'o
both sides adopted the formation of 4312. Inter's montari started a bit unexpectedly. He didn't eat for a day, which made people doubt his physical fitness. Chivu appeared in the position of left back instead of Thornton, which is a change. In AC Milan, the starting line-up didn't change What's the surprise? It's exactly the same as the last game. It should be speculated by Jose and targeted deployment should be made. But the advantage of fixed starting is that the players cooperate more tacit The game begins, inter kick off Let's watch the game Ah! Xiaodonggao's breakthrough with the ball.... "
At the beginning of the game, after passing the ball in the middle of the circle, Milito and Eto'o gave the ball to Gao Xiaodong. Gao Xiaodong saw that Pato rushed too fast to himself, didn't pass the ball, smashed the ball past Pato, and quickly pushed forward.
When Ronaldinho came to Milan, he didn't think he was good at attacking the midfield.
Gao Xiaodong is not good at breaking through, but he is very fast. Seeing that AC Milan has a big space in the middle and the defense is still lax, he suddenly accelerates with the ball and kills the 30 meter area of AC Milan.
AC Milan realized the danger when they saw Gao Xiaodong coming very quickly. Gattuso and Pirlo quickly came to intercept, but Gao Xiaodong made a big angle of the ball and fired at 37 meters.
Less than 20 seconds after the start of the game, Milan goalkeeper storari did not return to the front of the goal. The ball flew like lightning. Storari was shocked. He subconsciously flew to save but did not touch the ball. When storari was desperate, he only heard a bang and the ball flew out on the crossbar.