Chinese champion

Chapter 228 The road to glory is uncertain
In the first round of Serie A, Inter Milan drew with their opponents. Coincidentally, Udinese, where Hu Yong is located, also drew 0-0 with Regina. The midfielder Pizarro teamed up to support Udinese's midfield, and basically stifled Reggina's offense in the midfield. He did a good job in offense. There was a long-range shot that almost broke the goal, but the goalkeeper fought bravely. jumped out.

After the first round, although the Chinese fans felt sorry for Inter Milan's failure to win, they were very satisfied with Pei Wei's performance. The two assists made the fans optimistic that Pei Wei had established his main position.

Two days later, the Champions League group stage made this point of view even more popular. In the first round of Inter Milan's home game against Bundesliga champions Werder Bremen, Pei Wei still started as the starter. In the midfield at that time, Pei Wei was on the left side of the midfield, behind him were Cambiasso and Davis, and Van der Meyde replaced Stankovic as the right midfielder.

Having experienced the depression of the first draw, Inter Milan's soldiers were united at home and beat the Bundesliga champions without temper. 2:0, Inter Milan won the first three points in the Champions League.

Both goals were scored by Adriano, the first was a penalty that Adriano scored after van der Meyde was tripped after driving into the box and the second came in the second half , Pei Wei broke through and passed it to the unmarked Adriano in the penalty area. The "King" easily pushed through the net and scored twice.

However, four days later, Chinese fans unexpectedly found that Pei Wei was sitting on the bench in Inter Milan's home game against Palermo, while the starting midfielder was Juan Veron.

The Chinese fans quit, and they began to doubt the head coach Mancini: Why did Pei Wei perform so well in the game but was a substitute in this game?Is it discriminating against Chinese players?
In fact, this has wronged Mancini. He has always admired Pei Wei, but Pei Wei's weakness in defense made him feel scruples-in the Italian field where even the forwards have to actively return to defense, leaving an unsatisfactory player on the field. He is not sure whether the defensive midfielder will do more good than harm or do more harm than good.

So he put on a different type of attacking midfielder Veron in this game, just to see if Inter Milan can play better when they are on the court.

The score was 0:0 in the first half. Although Veron failed to create so many opportunities, he and Cambiasso made Inter Milan's waist stiff in the midfield. This was from Palermo's offensive. It can be seen in a few.

Not long after the start of the second half, Veron scored a goal in the midfield. Stankovic made a pass from the bottom and Adriano broke the deadlock with a header.

But 10 minutes later, Palermo equalized the score through a counterattack. Tony, who moved to Palermo this year, also blasted away Toldo's ten fingers with a powerful header.

The equalized Inter Milan launched a tide-like offensive, but the opponent's defense was very tenacious, and Veron's slightly slow shortcomings were exposed.
Facing the opponent's iron barrel formation, Inter Milan had no choice but to swallow the bitter fruit of Erlianping.

One game 2:2, one game 1:1. After the first two rounds of the league, Inter Milan's points are only a pitiful two points. Putting Inter Milan aside by four points, Mancini couldn't sit still.

But Hu Yong scored his first goal after moving to Udinese in this round of competition. Udinese swept Parma 4-0 at home.

Moratti personally summoned Mancini. Although he didn't say anything dissatisfied, Mancini still felt the pressure. In the third round of the away game against Atlanta, he made adjustments in the midfield. Returning to the starting position, also played Recoba, he replaced the injured Vieri.

Inter Milan finally won the game, but the process made Mancini break out in cold sweat. Soon after the opening, the opponent scored first, although Stankovic and Recoba scored twice in the second half to tie the score. However, in the 804th minute, Atlanta once again took advantage of Pei Wei’s failure to return to the defense in time to equalize the score again. Fortunately, Pei Wei showed his offensive talent after 3 minutes and passed the ball to Ah Deriano, the Brazilian's volley from inside the penalty area finally made Inter Milan's first league victory of the season.

Mancini really doesn't know what to do now. Inter Milan is definitely much stronger offensively when Pei Wei is on the court, but the problem in defense is also obvious, scoring more goals and conceding more goals. The team's defense was much better when Veron was on the court, but the offense was not as smooth as when Pei Wei was there, and the excitement was also greatly discounted.

Who should be used is a question.

In fact, Mancini and Moratti have the same views. Pei Wei should definitely be an indispensable chess piece for Inter Milan. Compared with Veron, although his defense is much worse, he has surpassed him in offense. Veron, and he is still very young, only 22 years old...

Adriano, born in 1982, Pei Wei, born in 1983, Martins, born in 1984, all three of them have a common characteristic, that is, they are all trained by Inter Milan themselves, Pei Wei and Martins do not use Said that Inter Milan's youth team is where they first arrived in Europe, and Adriano was first sold by Inter Milan and then went out on loan to practice. Mancini believes that as long as there are three of them, Inter Milan In the next seven or eight years, there is no need to worry about your own offense.

"The best combination of Inter Milan's offensive line in the next ten years", Moratti thinks so, and Mancini thinks so too!
But between the future and reality, it is often difficult to choose...

Just as the existence of Vieri made Martins only live on the bench, the existence of Veron also made it impossible for Mancini to let go of Pei Wei!

If you want to use Pei Wei, you must consider the problem of defense. If you put two midfielders behind Pei Wei like in the game against Bremen, although this solves the problem of defense in the middle, the loopholes are also obvious!

That is the lack of wing attack!

Pei Wei always likes to play in the middle, and he will only be more threatening when he is in the middle. In this way, only Stankovic on the right is left for Inter Milan's wing attack, but Stankovic is also For a player who is used to attacking in the middle, without the support of the midfield, it is not enough to rely solely on the assists of the full backs!

Without the pass from the wing, the power of Inter Milan's two center forwards would be halved!
In this vacillation, Inter Milan ushered in the fourth round of Serie A, playing against Parma at home!

The current Parma is no longer the one in the "Seven Sisters" era of Serie A. Buffon, Thuram, Cannavaro, Chiesa, Crespo... the loss of too many outstanding players made Parma The code has lost the strength to land in Europe, and has often fought for relegation in the past two years!

But like many teams that rely on selling players to survive, they quickly found their new banner, Alberto Gilatino!

This player of the same age as Adriano is a striker who emerged after Adriano returned to Inter Milan. After Adriano and Mutu left Parma at the same time, he alone provoked the offense of the entire team , It is said that his outstanding performance has attracted the attention of many giants!
Obviously, the time for him to leave Parma is not far away...

But today, he is still a player of Parma, and Inter Milan still has to face his offense!

In this game, Mancini sent Veron and put Pei Wei on the bench. Obviously, he was still afraid of Parma's attack.

Due to the short height of Parma's defense, Mancini sent two pure wide players Keili and van der Meyde, trying to use their crosses to create opportunities for the two high center forwards in the penalty area.

The beginning of the game was uneventful. Inter Milan, which had the home court advantage, aggressively attacked. Keely and van der Meyde frequently created murderous intentions on the wing, while Parma played steadily, using Gilardino's personal presence on the forward line while shrinking the defense. ability to create opportunities.

No. In the 11th minute, Van der Meyde broke through Ferreira's defense on the wing, and then passed the ball into the penalty area. Vieri rushed forward and gave a powerful lion shake, just as the Inter Milan fans were about to cheer. , The ball was saved by French goalkeeper Frey with a beautiful side throw!
Vieri raised his head and yelled. The iconic figure of Inter Milan was very depressed. He has not scored a single goal in the four rounds of the league. It's too embarrassing.

What's more, Vieri now feels that his position as the main force is no longer unshakable. Off the court, there is a silent and restrained Cruise, a Recoba who explodes without knowing when, and a young and promising player who is very good at the main force. Martins, whose position has been overlooked...

He needs to score to secure his position!Not only from Inter Milan, but also from the Italian national team...

But he still didn't score...Although he played hard, he always missed the goal.

But his rival in the national team, Gilardino, scored a goal. No.208 minutes, Masseginho's cross fell into the penalty area. Gilardino leaned on Materac, and then suddenly a Barb shot!

Toldo's line of sight was blocked by Materac, and he didn't expect Gilardino to shoot in such a way, and the ball flew into the goal in a daze!

There was no sound at the Meazza Stadium, only more than 1000 Parma fans cheered there!

Mancini can't sit still anymore. His recent poor league results have put him under heavy pressure. He seems to have aged a lot after accepting the head coach position for less than three months, and gray hairs have appeared on his temples.

Parma's defense is very solid, while Inter Milan's offensive methods seem a bit single, and it is impossible to open up the opponent's solid defense only by relying on wing attacks.

Mancini endured until No. 70 minutes in the second half and finally couldn't help it. He waved his hand and made a substitution!

And one change is two, Pei Wei replaces Veron, Martins replaces Vieri!
What Inter Milan needs now is not slow possession of the ball in midfield, but impact!

After Pei Wei came on the field, Parma's midfielder Simplicio immediately followed him. This strong black midfielder followed Pei Wei closely and never left.

But after a few rounds of Serie A, Pei Wei has gradually adapted to the rhythm of Serie A. After a beautiful two-to-one with Kiley, he easily got rid of Simplicio's defense.

Simplicio's speed is not as fast as him, so Pei Wei easily received the ball passed by Keely.

After receiving the pass, Pei Wei didn't take too much, but passed the ball to the left. Van der Meyde, who switched to the left, turned around to avoid the defender's interception, and then twisted his body and passed the ball into the penalty area.

The ball was well placed, right between Frey and the back line, but there wasn't an Inter player there.

Seeing that Inter Milan's attack was about to return in vain, at this time a black figure rushed out from behind the defender at an incredible speed, first stopped the ball with his right foot, and then shot with his left foot!
"GOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOAL——" the commentator at the Meazza Stadium was depressed for most of the time, and finally waited for a chance to show his voice: "**** Dings! He scored a goal for Inter Milan in just 4 minutes of playing!"

After scoring the goal, Martins did not celebrate, but picked up the ball from the net and ran back desperately.

A draw is not the result Inter Milan needs!

But 1 minute later, Parma's offense gave Inter Milan another blow. Morfeo, the abandoned general of Inter Milan, counterattacked. His exquisite direct pass in front of the penalty area made Masseginho directly face Thor. More, Parma once again overtook the score!
"Continue to attack me! All go up!" Mancini yelled from the sidelines, he can't afford to lose now!
"Is it because I came on the stage to meet a defeat? No!" Pei Wei said to himself in his heart: "No matter what, I can't accept failure!"

No.805 minutes, Cambiasso held the ball in the midfield, but he couldn't find a chance to pass the ball. Parma's penalty area was full of people, and every Inter Milan player was closely watched. He There is no gap at all.

"Give me the ball!" Pei Wei's relentless running finally got rid of Simplicio's defense. He rushed to the penalty area and shouted at Cambiasso.

Cambiasso hurriedly passed the ball, he had only this choice.

Pei Wei leaned on Simplicio, then turned around suddenly, and slammed the ball with his left foot!

The ball drew an obvious arc, miraculously passed through the figures in the penalty area, and flew into the lower left corner of the goal with a roar!

(End of this chapter)