Chapter 101
March 13.
Amsterdam Stadium.
After a long-lasting war of words, Mancini and De Boer finally got the chance to fight.
The players of both teams were still in the player tunnel, and the two of them had a routine handshake before the game.
Both of them touched each other's hands as a matter of routine, and immediately turned back to their positions without even looking at each other.
Ajax and Inter Milan players were on both sides of the player tunnel, and there was no communication between them.
Studio.
After football commentator Barend laid the groundwork, he immediately announced the starting lineups of both teams.
"Mancini arranged a 4-3-2-1 formation for Inter."
"Goalkeeper: Handanovic."
"Defenders: D'Ambrogno, Vidic, Juan, Santon."
"Defensive midfielder: Hernanes, Medel, Guarin."
"Attacking midfielder: Saric."
"Forwards: Palacio, Icardi."
"And Ajax's formation is still their usual 4-3-3 formation."
"Goalkeeper: Cillessen."
"Defenders: Van Rijn, Wittelmann, Moisander, Boylesen."
"Midfielder: Klaassen, Serero, Riedewald."
"Left winger: Sun Yu. ”
“Right winger: Schone.”
“Center forward: Milik.”
“Before the game, Inter Milan coach Mancini said that it would not be a problem to beat Ajax in this knockout round. Under this premise, we thought Inter Milan would at least line up a tit-for-tat lineup and use a victory to take the lead in the away game.”
“I don’t know if there is a problem with Mancini’s expression or if Italians have their own independent values. I think in terms of expression, there are too many Inter Milans in the world with similar expressions.”
“Marco, how do you evaluate the starting lineups of the two teams and the mentality of the two head coaches?”
Van Basten said calmly He said with a smile: "When Mancini was a player, the style of all Italian teams was to defend first and then consider attacking."
"In the world competition, it is not easy for any team to break through the Italian team's goal, but the Italian team will also be unable to break through."
"In general, the first goal of Italian football is not to lose, not to win."
"Although Mancini's words before the game meant to look down on Ajax, when he was away, he pragmatically chose a more stable tactic."
"Inter Milan's starting lineup has two excellent forwards who can score The two players with strong strength are Icardi and Palacio. "
"Although Icardi is only 1.8 meters tall, he has good shooting, positioning and explosiveness. He is also the player with the most goals in Inter Milan this season."
"In my opinion, it is not so important what kind of starting lineup the opponent puts out. What is important is the result."
"Once we win the first Europa League knockout match, no matter what the score is, such a result is very beneficial to the team."
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While the two sides were talking, the entrance music sounded in the stadium, and the referee immediately led the two teams into the football field.
Because of the remarks that despised Ajax before the game, Ajax fans booed loudly from the first time Mancini appeared in the eyes of the public.
And Ajax fans even wrote on the banner: "Mancini is a pure waste and a coward."
In the live broadcast, Mancini glanced at the banner and smiled arrogantly.
As a well-known figure in the history of Italian football, Mancini's resume as a player can also be called amazing.
Mancini was admitted to a local club team at the age of 5, and his football career in adolescence was smooth.
In his adult career, he won two Serie A titles, two European Cup Winners' Cup titles and six Italian Cup titles.
In addition, he has won the Italian Footballer of the Year three times. These honors are enough to show Mancini's status in Italian football at that time.
But with the blessing of these honors, Mancini's performance in the Italian team was very different from that of the club.
In the eyes of everyone, Mancini is a talented player, but he has no way to get a starting position in the competition with Baggio.
Baggio was almost a perfect idol in that era. He had superb football skills, handsome looks, outstanding character, and a melancholy look that fascinated everyone.
Baggio missed the most important penalty kick in his career in the 1994 World Cup final, but he was still the most influential player in Italian football in his era.
On the other hand, Mancini feels a bit rebellious. Although he is talented, he is not as good as Baggio., and not as likable as Baggio.
Mancini only participated in the World Championships as a main player once in his career, but was abandoned by subsequent Italian coaches because of his mediocre performance.
With a height of 1.79 meters and mediocre physical ability, he played 36 times for the national team and scored 4 goals. In his career, he played 545 times and scored 156 goals.
From the perspective of a striker, Mancini's goal efficiency during his playing days can only be said to be average.
If he could have the goal efficiency of Melo, not to mention Baggio, any shadow striker in the history of Italian football would have to stand aside.
After becoming the head coach, Mancini seemed to have suddenly changed into a different person. He hid the domineering and arrogance in his character and became a gentle and patient head coach in the mouths of the players.
But character is something that was engraved in the soul in childhood, which can only be disguised but not changed.
However, Ajax fans did not indulge Mancini at all, and they would ridicule him wantonly when they saw him.
Mancini looked forward, as if he was not disturbed by the outside world.
But Sun Yu, who had already walked into the stadium, felt that this guy was having a hard time holding back.
You said you are not good at pretending, and you can't talk big, so why bother?
The game was about to start, and Sun Yu subconsciously looked at his player panel again.
Shooting 75, ball control 76, dribbling 83, passing 66, crossing 56
Long shot 70, header 55, set piece 69, explosive power 87, speed 86
Confrontation 67, bounce 69, flexibility 73, balance 72, physical fitness 75
Off-ball running 82, vision 61, prediction 69, creativity 76, defense 43
Skills: extreme change of direction, fatal through pass, blind side movement
Overall evaluation: excellent player in the Eredivisie.
Dominant foot: left foot is like a fish in water, right foot is at ease.
Physical condition: good.
Sun Yu thought that his attributes were rising gratifyingly, but there was still a great urgency in terms of time.
At the beginning of the season, the opponent was still the PSV Eindhoven youth team. A few months later, they were competing with clubs of the same level as Barcelona and Paris Saint-Germain. The competitor was directly upgraded to PSV Eindhoven.
The Dutch Eredivisie had just gained an advantage, and they would soon compete with many European giants in the Europa League for the Europa League.
In order to compete with young talents of the same era for the Golden Boy Award, the Europa League has become the biggest weight for Sun Yu to compete for the Golden Boy Award.
With the current influence of the Dutch Eredivisie in Europe, the Dutch Eredivisie champion has a certain influence in China, but it does not have much advantage in the process of various European awards.
Even if Ajax won the double championship of the Dutch Eredivisie and the Dutch Cup after the end of the season, even if Sun Yu killed a lot in the Dutch Eredivisie, it would be difficult to make a big impact, because the four major leagues do not particularly recognize Dutch Eredivisie players, and players who can go to big clubs every season are rare.
For the selection of the Golden Boy Award in 2015, the results of the 2014-2015 season are the top priority.
The selection data was closed in early October, when the new season had just begun and there were only a dozen games played at most.
In this case, the Europa League became the king bomb in the Golden Boy Award selection.
In the previous life, the winner of the Golden Boy Award in 2015 was Martial, a player who could play both left winger and center forward, and he repeatedly contributed brilliant performances as soon as he arrived at Manchester United.
If there were no injuries, a pseudo-star like Rashford would not be worthy of competing with Martial.
As long as the Europa League championship can be won, not to mention Martial, Ma Dongmei will not be able to help.
In addition, Mancini, the old Deng, was still playing tricks on himself at the press conference. Sun Yu is now very motivated and has a sense of bursting combat effectiveness.
At the beginning of the game, Inter Milan, who kicked off first, played slowly. They passed the ball six or seven times in a row in the backcourt, and Guarin in the middle suddenly transferred the ball to the left.
Inter Milan's left back Santon ran from the backcourt to the frontcourt in one breath, stopped the ball and tried to force a breakthrough, but Santon's breakthrough was a bit too forced under Riedewald's physical confrontation.
Seeing that he couldn't break through the opponent's defense, he kicked directly into the Ajax penalty area, but Riedewald stretched his legs to block it out of the sideline.
Inter Milan threw the out-of-bounds ball to the backcourt, and the players passed it back and forth in the backcourt.
They passed it a few times, and the ball came to Palacio's feet.
The Argentine star who became famous in Boca Juniors and shone in the Toyota Cup faced Van Rijn. At the moment of acceleration, he hid the ball behind him, and then used his left foot to flick it to the left, which looked like a ghost.
This action made Van Rijn a little confused, and he was instantly beaten clean by the opponent.
Compared with the European youth training system in the process of training players, South American football always has some unusual things.Path, players with different styles.
Many South American players did not receive formal football training in their childhood, and the place where they honed their skills was the wild court.
So many South American players always give defensive players an unexpected feeling once they meet European clubs.
But this is definitely not a happy thing, because there are very few players who can be discovered by clubs through wild courts.
Many South American players are engaged in football, in addition to their love, to a large extent because professional players can greatly improve the family's economic status.
Children from poor families in South America who lack a way out and competition channels can only perform thousands of troops crossing the tightrope for a slim hope.
After completing the breakthrough, Palacio went straight into the penalty area.
Facing Moisander who was defending, Palacio suddenly stopped, and then poked the football between Moisander's legs with his toes.
The football rolled diagonally towards the penalty area, and Icardi started hard.
But because Palacio's pass was too sudden, Icardi did not succeed in grabbing the point in the first time.
He was quick-witted. At the moment when the football passed by his eyes, he stretched his left foot behind his right foot and knocked the football to the lower right corner of the goal with his heel.
Cillessen quickly jumped to save the ball and lifted the ball out of the bottom line with his fingertips.
Sun Yu looked at the performance of Inter Milan players and felt that the opponent seemed to have the upper hand.
Although Inter Milan players were very methodical and a little lazy when passing the ball, they suddenly made a move and the lethality was really great.
If it weren't for Cillessen's wonderful save, Ajax might have lost the ball in the first two minutes.
Palacio took a corner kick, and Vidic, who transferred from Manchester United to Inter Milan this season, used his arms to separate the defenders and headed the ball from the spot.
Cillessen didn't react this time, but Riedewald, who was standing next to the goal post, kicked the ball out of the sideline.
After the football flew out of the sideline, captain Boylesen loudly reminded his teammates to push out.
Serero rushed out of the penalty area desperately, and rushed to the opponent's players in the 30-meter area of the goal, allowing Inter Milan to stabilize its position.
After withstanding the opponent's attack, Ajax also launched a strong offensive at home.
In the seventh minute, the ball came to Sun Yu's feet.
Facing Inter Milan's right back D'Ambrogno, Sun Yu could only say that he was very unfamiliar.
Once Inter Milan entered the black hole period of stars, the team could always dig up some players who were hard to name and had a strong sense of scratching lottery tickets.
From the appearance, D'Ambrogno's upper body muscles are very developed, and he looks like a player with strong confrontation ability.
As for whether he is fast or not, it is difficult to judge from his other games this season.
Sun Yu suddenly made an inward cut, then pretended to cut inward, and suddenly changed direction with the ball to the left.
D'Ambrogno's turning speed was not good, and Sun Yu took the ball into the penalty area from behind him in one step.
Vidic degenerated seriously and did not make up for the defense.
Until Sun Yu had already run into the penalty area, Vidic's defense was not in place.
Sun Yu glanced at the goalkeeper's position, leaned on the defensive player behind him, and suddenly kicked the ball.
The moment he raised his foot, Vidic threw himself into the air, ready to block Sun Yu's shot with his body.
Seeing that the opponent was slow to react and the movement was so big, Sun Yu immediately dribbled past Vidic with his left foot.
This moment!
All Ajax fans cheered and stood up from their seats.
Sun Yu was just about to kick when he suddenly felt a huge pressure on his back.
After shaking Vidic off, the chance to shoot was very good, and Sun Yu wanted to forcefully raise his leg to shoot.
However, the defensive player behind him kept sticking to him, and as soon as he raised his right leg, he was squeezed to the grass by the opponent's body.
The moment he fell, the referee's whistle sounded immediately.
Sun Yu looked back, and the referee pointed his finger to the penalty spot without hesitation.
There was nothing wrong with this penalty.
Sun Yu didn't want to fall down when he shot just now, because the angle of the shot just now felt better than the penalty.
After being passed by Inter Milan's right back D'Ambrogno, he kept chasing Sun Yu from behind.
Seeing that he wanted to shoot, he immediately thought of taking advantage of the situation.
As a result, the referee today was very strict and directly penalized his small action.
D'Ambrogno ran to the referee and clasped his hands together, explaining his motives pitifully.
At this time, Sun Yu had already put the ball on the penalty spot.
The whistle sounded.
Sun Yu immediately took a run-up!
One step away from the ball, Sun Yu directly shot the ball into the upper right corner of the goal with his left foot.
Handanovic didn't judge the direction correctly.
The ball flew into the goal!
1:0!
The next moment!
The entire Amsterdam Stadium became joyfulOcean.
After scoring the goal, Sun Yu opened his arms and ran for more than ten meters, raised his hands towards the stands, and then pointed his hands directly at Mancini.
Ajax fans reacted and sang in unison: "Mancini is a fool, but he became the head coach of Manchester City because Manchester City has money!"
Okay, okay!
The fans were prepared in advance!
A blow to Inter Milan!