Chapter 48

Back to Milan, in the seventh round of Serie A, Inter Milan ushered in the challenge of the powerful Udinese.

With the momentum of a big victory, they played very proactively from the beginning. In the 11th minute, Di Biagio took the ball from the left and passed it straight to Recoba in front. Recoba faced two defensive players and barely passed the ball. The ball is under control, but the chance to cross is lost.

At this moment, Di Biagio, who jumped in quickly, took away the ball. Since the defensive players were entangled with Recoba, Di Biagio formed an empty space after the assault, and he was able to pass easily.

Nagi in the center received the ball sideways, but he didn't stop it, but knocked the ball with the heel of his right foot, and the ball rolled obliquely to the right edge of the penalty area.

Vieri, who quickly plugged in, shot towards the ball, and the ball pierced through the ten fingers of Udinese goalkeeper Tulsi.

The few people who played exquisite coordination gathered together to celebrate this goal, and the home fans in the stands also cheered. They haven't seen the team's coordination so smoothly for a long time.

In the 74th minute of the second half, Inter Milan made several large-scale changes in the midfield, gradually approaching forward, and successfully tore through Udinese's defense line. Nagi received the ball in the penalty area.

He carefully controlled the ball under his feet, avoiding the pressure of two defensive players all the way to the bottom line. Then Nagi relied on his speed to pass from the bottom to the bottom, which attracted the opponent's No. 14 defender Betoto to fall to the ground to block.

As a result, Nagi just feinted and pushed the ball back. The ball rolled behind his left foot, and he directly chose a small angle to hit the goal. This shot went straight to the near corner of the goal. Tulsi's position was a bit in the center, so it was too late for him to react and save.

2:0! Relying on Nagi's pass and shot, Inter Milan beat Udinese at home.

In the middle of the week, Inter Milan sat at home against Odense, who came from afar.

Only 3 minutes into the game, Nagi caught the ball from the right and went to the middle. Seeing that Odense's defense was tight, he hit back to Di Biagio in the middle, and then quickly advanced.

After receiving the ball, Di Biagio gave it to the forward court. The ball was passed to Consicao's feet.

Nagi at the front of the penalty area formed a one-on-one. He used the fried meatball technique to easily deceive the defenders and then broke into the penalty area.

"Mina dribbled the ball in the penalty area and hit the goal! Goooooooooooooal! The goal is scored! Only three minutes into the game, Nagi Mina opened the scoring for Inter Milan!"

"This game is Inter Milan's weekly double match, but the players are very excited. It can be seen from the cooperation of this goal. Of course, Odense's defense also has problems. It was easy to be defeated by Inter Milan."

In the 11th minute, Nagi was on the right, and Di Biagio passed the ball in his direction. At this time, Nagi was marked by a defensive player behind him, which blocked his position.

In this case, it would be more dangerous for him to stop the ball and then deal with it, so Nagi had an idea and deliberately let the rolling ball pass by his feet, and then turned around without the ball to chase the ball.

After easily dodging the defense in this way, facing the supplementary defense, Nagi suddenly accelerated with the ball, escaped the press through the change of speed, and went straight into the penalty area.

After coming to the penalty area, Nagi kicked the goal directly, and the ball entered the net from the near corner of the goal.

2:0! Only one-ninth of the game time passed, Nagi scored twice.

The excited Inter Milan still did not stop their pace. In the 27th minute, Recoba held the ball on the left. He passed the ball straight to Vieri. After breaking into the penalty area, the latter suddenly knocked back to Nagi at the front of the penalty area.

The force of the knock back was a bit strong, the ball hit the inside of Nagi's foot and flew up vertically, Nagi volleyed directly against the falling ball, and the ball flew out with a "bang".

The speed of the ball was so fast that Odense's goalkeeper couldn't react in time and let the ball hit the net for a while before it fell.

3:0! Nagi performed a hat-trick!

This was Nagi's first hat-trick in Inter Milan. Excited, he jumped over the billboard of the stadium to the auditorium, looked up at the stands that were as high as a dozen floors, and celebrated with his hands pointing to the sky.

The Inter Milan fans in the stands stood up and cheered for his wonderful performance. The nearest fans lay on the fence and shouted his name excitedly, saying: "You are the best, we need you." .

Materazzi, who came later, jumped on his back and shouted: "You must have taken a doping today, why did you even need us?"

When the game started again, Odense was completely stunned, and their offense and defense became disorganized.

In the 35th minute, after Nagi took the ball on the right side, he easily got rid of the defensive player through the skill of accelerating the emergency stop and changing direction, and then made a cross. Di Biagio pushed an empty goal into the net.

4:0! Before the end of the first half, Inter Milan secured the victory.

After that, Inter Milan obviously slowed down their offensive pace, wanting to save some face for their opponents, Nagi was substituted in the 50th minute, and then Cooper was replaced by substitute players in succession.

But in the 77th minute, Inter scored another goal, only to allow Odense to pull it back towards the end of the game.

In the end, the score between the two sides was fixed at 5:1, which is also the game with the largest goal difference in this round of the Europa League.

Serie A has played 7 rounds so far, and only Juventus, Roma and Inter Milan remain unbeaten. Among them, Inter Milan ranked second with 5 wins, 2 draws and 17 points. Juventus ranked first. Sri Lanka has 6 wins and 1 tie with 19 points.

Next, Inter Milan will encounter a wave of devil's schedule, and they will have dialogues with AC Milan and Juventus one after another. These two games will be directly related to the final championship.

Fortunately, although the game against AC Milan is an away game, it is still at the Giuseppe Meazza Stadium in Milan, and the next home game against Juventus is also at the Giuseppe Meazza Stadium, so Inter Milan does not need to travel. Lawton ran to Turin.

In order to better prepare for the game, head coach Cooper deliberately applied to the club's senior management and brought the whole team to the five-star Hilton Hotel in the urban area for training. This is also the first choice of many Serie A clubs who come to Milan for away games.

The reason why I left Pinettina was because of the bad environment there. Just a week ago, there were some problems with the hot water device in the dormitory, which almost scalded Cordoba and Gresco. The device that caused the accident is still there. in maintenance.

The poor environment of the training base has been criticized by Inter Milan players for a long time. Compared with Milanello, the training base of AC Milan, the environment and quality of the Pinettina dormitory are much worse, but Moratti has never started to solve it. Therefore, there are some voices in the team who want to go to the hotel for training before the home game instead of in the training camp.

Naturally, the club's top management would not agree to this proposal, but in order to prepare for the next two key games of the championship, under Cooper's argument, they still took a step back and agreed to stay in the hotel during these two games.

This result made all the players cheer, and Nagi was no exception. After living in Pinettina for a period of time, he realized how terrible it is. Not to mention the cold winter and warm summer, the dormitory still has an old damp smell, and the room without sunlight looks extraordinarily gloomy, like a prison.

It's just that Nagi is not that particular kind of person. He has lived in even worse places, so he has never raised any objections to the training dormitory.

In addition to the improvement of accommodation conditions, there is one more gratifying thing, that is, Ronaldo will be back in the game against AC Milan!

In fact, since the start of this season, Ronaldo has been undergoing adaptive training with the team, and the team doctor will monitor his health in real time.

After missing 7 rounds, he finally regained some form, and the team doctor approved him to play, so he entered the Inter Milan squad for the first time, but he must be a substitute, and he will start after he is fully familiar with the rhythm of the game.

After receiving the news, the Italian media reported one after another. Gazzetta dello Sport interviewed Inter Milan fans. Many people made huge slogans saying "Welcome back, Ronnie". It was exhibited during the game, and some fans wrote a battle song to welcome Ronaldo's comeback.

Of course, there are a lot of troublesome media who want to create some gimmicks. According to the analysis of "Corriere dello Sport", Nagi's performance in the first seven rounds was impeccable, and he faintly became the core of Inter Milan's attack. But after Ronaldo's comeback, who will be the the real core?

"Whether one plus one is greater than two, or whether they are playing a dragon-tiger fight, is still unknown."

Such arguments were not uncommon in Italy, and many media have given analysis of watching the show or worrying. Inter Milan coach Cooper said in an interview: "This statement is completely nonsense. As long as you have watched our games, you will know that Mina is not a person who takes up a lot of offensive resources."

"From the analysis of the data after the game, it can be seen that the average number of shots per game by Nagi is only 7.1, while the average number of shots is 5.9. The average number of goals per game is 1.6. His high efficiency is eye-catching."

"So we don't have to worry about the cooperation between the two, there is no competition between them."

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In the eyes of everyone, the Milan Derby between Inter Milan and AC Milan officially kicked off.

Inter Milan still started with a regular formation of three-five-two, while AC Milan played a four-five-one formation, goalkeeper Rossi, defender Helveg, Costacurta, Maldini, Koko, and midfielder Shevchen Coe, Albertini, Boban, Rui Costa, Serginho, the single striker is Inzaghi.

The two sides fought fiercely in the midfield, and no one was willing to give up the ball. In the 60th minute of the second half, the score was still 0:0.

At this moment, Inter Milan launched an attack. Di Biagio took the ball at the front of the penalty area and wanted to hang the ball into the penalty area, but was intercepted by the defender Maldini and then cleared with his big foot.

The ball flew to the midfield, Consicao rushed up quickly, rushed forward to face the ball before Shevchenko arrived, then caught up with the ball and drove forward to find Vieri in the penalty area.

But no one expected that the ball hit the blocked Shevchenko's left foot, changed direction in the air, and came to the right side of the penalty area.

Nagi's reaction was quick. When the ball was in the air, he judged the trajectory and the approximate landing point, so he suddenly accelerated to throw off Costacurta who was defending nearby, and came to the vicinity of the landing point first.

Costacurta was an experienced veteran. He was now thirty-five years old. His main goal in this game is to limit Nagi's performance. However, after going through a high-intensity 60-minute game, it is inevitable that he was somewhat powerless.

Although Costacurta failed to keep up with Nagi in time, he still relied on his rich experience to keep chasing by his side, ready to block his shot at any time.

But Nagi sped up again, pulled the two of them halfway apart, and after catching up with the ball, he planned to volley directly from a small angle. Costacurta could only slide down to the ground to block his shooting angle.

Nagi caught a glimpse of the goalkeeper standing in front of the goal, waiting seriously. If he shoots from this angle, there is a high probability that he will be blocked from the bottom line or confiscated by the goalkeeper.

So he controlled his body to stop suddenly, turned the shot into a smash, hooked the ball with his right foot to his left foot, and then shot with the outside of his foot.

The ball flew straight to the far corner of the goal. Although goalkeeper Rossi made a save, he missed the ball and let it fly into the net, while Costacurta slid all the way off the baseline and hit the billboard. .

"goooooooooooooal! In the 60th minute, Mina scored a goal to break the deadlock!"

"Although Consicao's long pass failed to find Vieri in the penalty area, it changed direction and went to the right. Mina snatched the ball by relying on his own speed."

"At the same time, his fake shot near the bottom line and the real push deceived the experienced veteran Costacurta, which was really wonderful!"

After Nagi scored a goal, he rushed to the sideline excitedly, and celebrated with his arms outstretched in a gliding gesture. This was a goal in the Milan derby!

The Inter Milan fans in the stands gave him warm cheers and applause, while the AC Milan fans booed him. Nagi enjoyed this feeling very much, the cheers from his own team and the boos from the enemy team were the greatest compliments to him!

After Inter Milan took the lead, Fatih Trim sat back on the coaching bench with a livid face. Ever since Nagi entered Serie A and scored consecutive goals, Trim's life in AC Milan has not been easy. Because he once said in front of the team's top management that they don't need Nagi, and Nagi will not be able to adapt to the Serie A. Unexpectedly, the reality slapped him hard.

"May I ask which starting player in AC Milan is not worth more than Mina? If Mina could be introduced at the beginning, AC Milan might be the second place in the standings now." A team executive complained.

Coupled with the fact that AC Milan has a poor record from the start to now, only ranking 8th in the standings, this makes people question the vision and coaching level of the Turkish coach.

Known as the "emperor" of Turkish football, Trim is extremely confident. He hopes to defeat Nagi's legend through direct dialogue with Inter Milan and prove that his judgment is correct.

So he took strict defensive measures against Nagi, making him unable to do anything in the first 60 minutes, but he didn't expect that he could catch even a small defensive hole and turn it into a goal.

The proud Turk also had to bow his head and admit Nagi's excellence!

In the 63rd minute, Inter Milan coach Cooper was about to make a substitution. When the slightly fat figure on the bench was doing warm-up exercises, the fans in the stands burst into commotion.

Cooper replaced Vieri with Ronaldo, and Nagi remained on the field. All the Inter Milan fans stood up and gave warm applause to the injured superstar. Ronaldo also raised his hand to show everyone.

Ronnie came to Nagi's side and said, "Well done Nagi, let's work together to secure a victory for the team." In front of them, they proved that there was no internal strife and conflict.