Section 78 The decisive battle begins now (2)
The two similar goals made Lachio and Inter Milan stand on the same starting line again, and the game time is not long. Although both sides are unable to fully satisfy the 1-point result, time has made both sides unable to change the result 1:1. With the referee's whistle, Inter Milan had no choice but to stop its winning streak and ended the first three rounds with a record of 2 wins and 1 draw.
In this round of matches, AC Milan defeated his opponent 1-0, while Roma continued to make a big stride and started with three consecutive victories and jumped to the top. Inter Milan, AC Milan and Juventus both ranked behind with 2 wins and 1 draw.
After the league with Lacio, the entire Inter Milan team boarded the flight to Portugal after a little trimming, and another tough battle was waiting for them.
Like the Netherlands, which has three strong teams, Ajax, Einhorn and Feyenoord, Portugal also has three strong teams that are well-known in the world football world. Porto, the opponent of Inter Milan's first match in the Champions League, is one of them. In history, this club located in Porto, a northern Portugal city, has won the league championship 18 times.
The most glorious moment in its history was that night in 1987. The unknown Porto defeated the top European giant Bayern Munich and won the team's first European Championship Cup in history. Soon after, the new European champion Porto was sent to Tokyo, and in a heavy snowy match, Uruguayan Penarrole team fought fiercely for 120 minutes. With Algerian star Majer, he defeated his opponent 1:0 and won the opponent and won the world champion!
Most Chinese fans know this team, probably because of the Porto under the personality coach Mourinho. This team that was not well-known at the time first won the UEFA Cup championship in 2003, surprised the world a little. The following year, Manchester United, Lyon and La Coruna even more. They defeated Monaco, France 3-0 in the final held in Gelsenkirchen, Germany, won the European Cup again after 17 years. That year, the championship was generally considered a miracle in the world football world, and Mourinho became famous since then.
But Mourinho is the future. For Inter Milan and Xiao Hua, the Porto in front of him is the most concerned. Xiao Hua looked through the detailed information of the opponent collected by the club staff before the war on the plane to Portugal.
After Porto won the 18th championship in history last season, meritorious coach British gentleman Bobby Robson went away to Barcelona, Spain, and the young talented goalkeeper Baya also went with his mentor. The core Brazilian Emerson of the midfielder joined the English Middlesbrough team, and the core of the defense, Quretario was poached by Real Madrid in Spain. From these situations, Porto's life this season may not be very good, and the core of the entire team has been basically poached.
However, Porto did not have a big decline this season as expected. All this is due to the two young players from Brazil, the 23-year-old powerful forward Jadel and the 22-year-old Brazilian talent midfielder Ed Nelson. Under the leadership of these two young players who are not afraid of tigers and new coach Oliveira, Porto not only did not draw slopes this season, but instead achieved five consecutive victories in the first five rounds of the league. Inter Milan is definitely not easy in this game.
The Das Antas Stadium, which can accommodate 50,000 spectators on the day of the game, was full of seats. Portuguese fans were enthusiastic about visiting a wealthy family like Inter Milan. This world of Portugal seems too narrow for them. They are eager to prove their strength in Europe. They are not satisfied with being the king and dominant in Portugal. Inter Milan is their ideal opponent!
Amid the cheers of fans, the two teams finally entered the court. Porto was wearing traditional Lan and white uniforms, while Inter Milan wore a away uniform with white colors as the main color and two Lan and black slashes on their chest.
Due to Jadel's height and header advantage, Wenger sent two central defenders, Frecy and Deselli, on the back line today, who were very good at defending high balls. Bergomi and Zambrota defended the left and right sides respectively. This defense line is much weaker than usual assists. From this, it can be seen that Wenger is still very careful about this first European Champions League game after a few years.
Unlike Jadel's people who are tall and strong, Porto's midfielders are generally not tall, and not only the height of the players, the physical condition of the players is not very ideal. Compared with Inter Milan, they generally look thin. This is also the tradition of the Portuguese team, which pays more attention to technology and ignores the body.
For this reason, Wenger sent Vieri, who was tall and big, to start today, and Baggio was cruising behind him. Nedved, Biagio, Berti, and Pobosky defended the important midfielder.
In the stands, Xiao Hua was warmly received by Mr. Da Silva, the chairman of the home team Porto. As soon as he met Silva, he came up and hugged Xiao Hua and said, "Mr. Musco, welcome you very much to Porto."
"I am also honored to come to this beautiful city and meet such a great team!" Xiao Hua said politely.
After the two sat down, Da Silva picked up the wine glass and said, "Mr. Musco, let us cheer for the friendship between the two sides!"
Xiao Hua thought to himself: What's wrong with this old man? He is so enthusiastic about me? He responded in front of him: "Cheers to friendship!"
After both sides continued to be polite, Silva turned to the topic and said: "Mr. Musco, recently Mr. Kenion of your club is leading the establishment of an organization serving various clubs in various parts of Europe. Our Porto is very interested in this organization and is very interested in it. Unfortunately, Mr. Kenion has not come to our Portugal. We are anxious to watch it. You see, this organization must not be missing our Portuguese club in the future, and our Porto is the most representative of the Portuguese clubs."
Xiao Hua smiled in his heart: It turned out to be this. Perhaps Silva was worried that Kenyon would be depressed when he found Benfica. Thinking of this, Xiao Hua smiled and said, "So that's it. Mr. Silva, you are very right. How can this organization be missing the Portuguese club in the future? I will definitely find time to talk to Peter. The top three Portugal are all very outstanding clubs, but this matter is still in the preparation stage and there should be further news after a while."
Silva continued to approach Xiao Hua and said, "Mr. Musco, I feel that the scale of this organization in the future cannot be too large. It will be almost the same as our family in Portugal. In the future, we will definitely advance and retreat with you in this organization." Silva also knew that Xiao Hua was talking about the top three Portugals. In the future, this organization would definitely not have three Portuguese clubs. It would be good if one of them was a good idea. Silva secretly decided to squeeze into this organization. Once he stepped into this hurdle, the level of his club would naturally rise to a higher level.
Xiao Hua is really not good at making any guarantees to Silva right now. In the future, this organization will definitely not be his Inter Milan or Xiao Hua. Kenion has the final say. As the initiator, he may have a certain voice, but such a major event still needs to be discussed together by several major families. When Xiao Hua was in a dilemma, the referee whistle and the game began. Xiao Hua hurriedly opened the topic and said, "Mr. Silva, let's watch the game first. When I return to Milan, I will mention your enthusiasm for this organization with Kenion. I believe he will seriously consider it."
Both teams were very careful at the beginning of the game. For both teams, today's game was something they had been waiting for for a long time, and they could not make any mistakes.
Due to geographical, historical, economic and linguistic reasons, there are always many African and Brazilian players in the Portuguese team, and many young Brazilian and African players always regard Portugal as their first stop to Europe for gold rush.
Brazilian scorer Jadel is one of them. This tall shooter is not like a traditional Brazilian player, but is more like a traditional British center. Because of this reason, this shooter, who has always been very prolific, has not been recognized by world mainstream football throughout his career. He has been in two-story leagues such as Portugal and Scotland for a long time. Although he can become the best scorer in every league, the door of the Brazilian national team has never been opened for him. However, Jadel must not know these future events now. At the age of 23, he still has beautiful visions. He is eager to participate in today's game. He is eager to attract the attention of world football. He is eager to enter the national team to participate in the 1998 World Cup.
Today, the burden of guarding Jadel fell on the newly joined French defender Desellie. After joining Inter Milan, the defender gained Wenger's full trust and even squeezed Frasey, the absolute main player of the first two seasons, to the bench. However, judging from the performance of several rounds, although Desellie worked very hard, the fans did not find anything outstanding about him. Gradually, the outside world also had some opinions on Wenger's approach. Desellie was also anxious about this. Today is his opportunity to show himself in front of everyone.
"Porto's midfielder was very simple today, and there was no too much entanglement with Inter Milan's midfielder. The ball always quickly reached the frontcourt and then found Jadel's high point through the wing. Although this tactic is not very beautiful, it is very likely to be fatal, especially Jadel is an excellent point-grabbing shooter. Inter Milan's defender should be careful." The commentator analyzed the situation on the field professionally.
In the 25th minute, Porto won a free kick in the frontcourt. Ed Nelson quickly drove the ball. Jadel in the penalty area saw the opportunity and moved back and forth in the penalty area to try to get rid of Deselli's defense, but it seemed that the effect was not very big. Deselli still stuck to him like a candy, and the ball approached quickly. Jadel could only force his head to jump towards the landing point of the ball.
"With a beautiful defense, Desaili grabbed the landing point and the ball was pushed out of the penalty area by him. It seems that Jadel encountered a close opponent today, an opponent he could not imagine in the Portuguese league." Desaili's beautiful header clearance made the Italian commentator very excited.
Wenger also applauded the excellent performance of Desailey who he strongly recommended to introduce, because he was under a lot of pressure this time.
"Jaddle attempts to break through, oh! Deselly cut the ball very beautifully. It seems that Jader's feet are not very good."
"The ball has reached Inter Milan's penalty area again, oh! It was Desailita who once again destroyed Jadel's dream. Jadel, who is invincible in Portugal, seems to have met a away star today. The Portuguese League is indeed not comparable to the Italian League." In the following period, Jadel was frustrated in front of Desaili several times, and the commentator also began to tease.
Jadel was unable to play under the control of Deselli, and Porto's attack power was immediately discounted. You should know that their 1.5-half-point goal was completed by this Brazilian guy.
Due to the away game and the fact that I have not participated in the Champions League for many years, Inter Milan was relatively overconfident in the first 30 minutes. After slowly passing the first 30 minutes, the players began to adapt to the rhythm and atmosphere of the game, and the offensive began to begin.
Unlike Porto, there are only one attack point. Inter Milan has many attack points in the frontcourt, Vieri's header and impact force, Baggio's spirituality and back insertion, the long-range shooting ability of several players in the midfield, and so many attack methods once Porto's weak defensive ability is difficult to stop Inter Milan's goal.
Porto's average height on the back line was just 1.80 meters tall. Vieri really stood out at one of the stops. In the 40th minute of the first half, Inter Milan launched an offensive in the backcourt. Nedved took the ball and divided the ball to the left. Bertie dribbled the ball and advanced at high speed, making a cross near the baseline.
Vieri beat his opponent's only star defender George Costa and jumped up and hit the ball. Unfortunately, although Portugal international Costa could not jump Vieri, he still had a lot of experience. With the help of small movements such as pulling clothes and arms, Vieri's header was very regrettably not to hit the front part, but just rubbed the ball, and a header turned into a pass.
Apart from scoring a goal in the Super Cup, Baggio has not yet opened this year. At this time, he showed his star style. The striker's unique sense of smell made him prepare to grab the second point when he was jumping in Vieri. The opportunity always belongs to the prepared person. The ball that changed direction just fell to Baggio, who was unprepared. At 6 meters in front of the goal, the "Prince of Italy" hit the ball with a very easy shot.
The goalkeeper had no way to reflect the goalkeeper's lead at such a close distance. After scoring the goal, Baggio rushed to the stands of thousands of Inter Milan fans who came from afar and celebrated wildly. In the stands, Xiao Hua also stood up excitedly and waved the scarf around his neck. This goal was his first goal in the Champions League since taking Inter Milan.
In the second half, the two sides fought again. After the discomfort at the beginning of the first half, Inter Milan has now completely let go. With the advantage of one goal, the gap in strength between the two sides was fully reflected, and Porto gradually had to deal with it.
In the 10th minute of the second half, Inter Milan broke out after stealing the attack. Vieira, who had just replaced the field, kicked the ball with a big foot, and the ball went straight to Vieiri in the penalty area.
George Costa, who defended Vieri, made a small move again. Vieri, who was tired of it, couldn't bear it anymore this time, and waved his right hand hard. How could the old fried dough stick Costa not take advantage of this once-in-a-lifetime opportunity and immediately fell to the ground and rolled in pain.
"Dou!" While whistling, the referee rushed up immediately, showed a yellow card to Vieri, who was angry, and signaled Vieri to calm down!
The angry Vieri roared and prepared to rush up to argue with Costa who was rolling on the ground. Fortunately, Vieri was excited under the pull and pull of his teammates, finally did not make any impulsive moves, otherwise a red card would not be able to escape.
"Wait, your defense like this cannot stop me. Today I must break through your door." Vieri glared at Costa and muttered.
Vieri's angry eyes made Costa swallow his stomach when he wanted to give back his resentment, and shook his head and ran back to his post.
The following game presented a strange situation. The backward Porto team launched a full defense, and the leading Inter Milan offensive was higher and higher. In fact, it was not that Porto did not want to attack, but that his offensive was really weak and it was difficult to pass Inter Milan's powerful midfielder.
In the 80th minute of the game, Poboski cut from the right to the middle, and brought the ball to the front of the penalty area. Two Porto players quickly stepped forward to interfere. Poboski used his right instep to walk and took a few kicks horizontally to dodge the opponent's press. Suddenly he stopped urgently, then used his left instep to lift the ball. The ball passed through the two Porto defenders and passed the left rib in the penalty area in a diagonal way! Just like his sling shot in the European Cup, but this time it was a sling pass.
Vieri, who vowed to break through the opponent's goal, ran towards the ball quickly. At this moment, the ball's landing point was very close to the goal, and the defense was empty. George Costa followed Vieri right behind him. Unfortunately, Vieri did not jump this time, and his small movement could not play a role.
After the ball landed, it rebounded and Vieri shot in a fury corner of the ball before everyone arrived.
The goalkeeper was powerless again for such a close shot, and Vieri secured the victory for Inter Milan 2:0.
After scoring the goal, Vieri celebrated back and forth around George Costa in protest, and even took advantage of the referee's inattention and made a face at the depressed George Costa.
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