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Chapter 520 Ancelo Moratti Stadium
Milan.

This time Ning Xi and Lu Xiaoshan accompanied Long Bisheng to Milan again. Originally, both of them were looking forward to visiting this fashion city. After all, the name of Milan City "Fashion City" is enough to make all women yearn for it. But this time, both Ning Xi and Lu Xiaoshan lost the mood for shopping.

Counting the first round against Inter Milan, Long Bisheng has not scored in three consecutive games. Although he had an assist in the match against Inter Milan, even the most loyal fans of Newcastle have to admit that Ranocchia's defense against Long Bisheng is quite effective!

Long Bisheng is also facing the biggest problem now, that is, what should he do when he encounters a defender who is not much shorter than him in height, has a limited difference in confrontation ability, and also has excellent defensive skills and defensive awareness?
Although Long Bisheng is no longer the center forward who only uses his own height, he also knows that he is based on the professional arena, and even became the most popular center in Europe in the past two years. The biggest factor is his astonishing height and physical fitness that everyone envies!

He has encountered defenders who are not much taller than him. He has met the England central defender David White who is now playing for Arsenal. When he was still playing for Leeds in the British Championship, he once played against White who was playing for Middlesbrough at the time.

He has also faced super defenders with a height of about 1.9 meters like Pepe, Piqué, Ivanovic, and Evans one by one. Although he has no advantage in physical confrontation and foot skills, his height advantage of more than ten centimeters allows him to still find opportunities to deal with these defenders.

But now, Long Bisheng has encountered such an opponent. In terms of height, Ranocchia is only seven centimeters shorter than him. This distance is not a big advantage on the court. In terms of body, Long Bisheng is also difficult to gain an absolute advantage in confrontation. In terms of foot skills, Long Bisheng is even more unable to use his dribbling to break through Ranocchia, who is extremely capable of frontal defense...

So after the home game against Inter Milan, Long Bisheng didn't seem too happy. He has been thinking about how to deal with such an excellent defender opponent as Ranocchia, which also affected his performance in the two league games. It is difficult for him to score [-] goals in the league this season.

Of course Ning Xi and Lu Xiaoshan couldn't help with this, but they couldn't go shopping happily when Long Bisheng was upset, so when Long Bisheng wasn't training, the two of them stayed with Long Bisheng in the hotel room, hoping to make him feel better and perform better on the field.

"I don't think you should be thinking about it here alone." The day before the game, Ning Xi couldn't help but said to Long Bisheng: "It's impossible for a player to find a way to score goals on the pitch. If that's the case, the football game is too simple... As long as you perform at your best on the field, why bother to be obsessed with whether you can score in one or two games."

"But I have to be persistent now." Long Bisheng smiled wryly: "I'm about to accomplish what I promised you, and half of those who can travel a hundred miles are ninety. I can't let go of the chain at this time. If this opportunity is lost, maybe I will never meet it again in the future."

Ning Xi and Lu Xiaoshan blushed at the same time. Of course they knew what Long Bisheng had promised them...

"But you're also right." Long Bisheng scratched his head: "It's really useless to dream here, the only way is to go to the field to think about it. This guy will definitely come to stare at me tomorrow. I don't believe that I can't think of a way to deal with him!"

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While Long Bisheng was thinking hard, his boss was living a comfortable life.

In the past two days, he has been wandering around the new stadium of Inter Milan. The current Inter Milan has moved out of the Meazza Stadium they have been in for 82 years two years ago, and left this stadium to their rivals AC Milan in the same city. Moved into the newly built stadium.

This stadium named "Ancelo Moratti Stadium" is named after the greatest chairman in the history of Inter Milan, that is, the father of the current chairman Massimo Moratti. The stadium is one of the most modern stadiums in Europe. It is located in the suburbs of Milan, next to the highway, and has complete supporting facilities. There is a parking lot that can accommodate nearly [-] cars near the stadium, as well as a separate Inter Milan museum. As for restaurants, shopping streets, entertainment areas... there are everything.

This kind of stadium is no longer a separate football stadium, but a large-scale comprehensive entertainment area for fans. In fact, all the first-class stadiums are already this type of comprehensive entertainment area for fans. After getting rid of the high rental fee and obtaining the independent management right of the facilities near the stadium, Inter Milan’s income is much higher than before. Every weekend game can bring a lot of money to the Inter Milan club.

In fact, Inter Milan is not the only Italian Super League club to do this. Juventus and AC Milan, the other two of the top three in the north, also have corresponding means. Juventus has obtained the management right of the Alpi Stadium for 99 years, and has rebuilt it with a lawsuit of one billion euros. After seeing that the top three in the north have their own stadiums, they have basically got rid of the previous state of relying on blood transfusions from the rich families behind them. After the financial revenue is increasing day by day, it is presumed that other clubs in Yichao will also take action in this regard.

The Ancelo Moratti Stadium has a capacity of 5000 people. Although it is much smaller than the 8 people of the former Meazza Stadium, the Inter Milan club has more ticket revenue than before, because the former Meazza Stadium is rarely full. It is great to have 6 people enter the stadium in general games. The reduction in the number of seats in the stands can also reduce the maintenance cost of the club. Most importantly, the new stadium has a lot more luxury boxes than before. Many wealthy people are willing to rent a box to show their status. The income of this luxury box is quite astonishing, and it can definitely make up for the loss caused by the reduction of seats.

What's more, for the team, a stadium with fewer seats but a high attendance rate is better than a stadium with a lot of seats but a large number of empty stands.

Looking at this new stadium, even Pei Wei felt a little envious. After he took over the St. James Park Stadium, he built a lot of stadium-related facilities near the stadium, such as bars, restaurants, fan supplies stores, etc., but the vicinity of the St. James Park Stadium is already saturated. Some land is owned by private or municipal governments, and some places are public green areas. Pei Wei tried his best and only acquired less than half of the land around the stadium for construction. plan, so although Newcastle's income is also very rich, it is not as much money as Inter Milan earns on this stadium.

He wants to build a large parking lot around the St. James Park Stadium, but there is no land. He wants to expand the stadium, but there is still no land. He even wants to rebuild a few more VIP boxes, but because it will take up the seats of some ordinary fans, it cannot be implemented...

It’s not that Pei Wei has never thought about rebuilding a stadium, building large-scale ancillary facilities or even commercial areas and residential areas around it. Although the investment in this approach is huge, the profits are also quite lucrative. However, he has to consider the feelings of Newcastle fans for St. James’ Park. Moreover, for Premier League clubs, St. James’ Park and its ancillary facilities are already quite good. Sierra's situation is completely different.

So even though he is envious, Pei Wei also knows that it is not realistic to rebuild a stadium. He can only watch the Ancelo Moratti stadium drooling, envious, and unwilling...

It is precisely because of this that after coming to Milan and accepting the invitation of Inter Milan chairman Moratti to visit his home, Pei Wei greatly praised Moratti for his courage in rebuilding the stadium and expressed his envy for the stadium.

The two talked more and more speculatively. Pei Wei really admired Moratti's love for Inter Milan and football. Moratti also felt that Pei Wei's popularity in Europe in the past ten years proved that he was a president who loved football. In addition, the relationship between the two clubs had always been very good, and there were more exchanges between the clubs. Pei Wei also sold Ibrahimovic and Lucio to Inter Milan. Inter Milan also went to China and Newcastle several times to participate in the Yunjia Cup. Moratti almost let his eldest son, Mario Moratti, gradually succeed him as the real power figure of the Inter Milan club, recognize Pei Wei as godfather. In the end, Pei Wei resolutely refused because he was only ten years older than Mario, which was unsuccessful.

Compared with the friendly conversation between the two presidents, the Inter fans at the Ancelo Moratti Stadium were not so friendly to the visiting Newcastle when the game started the next day.

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"We have always played Juventus as a team wearing black and white swords!"

As the Newcastle players warmed up in the center of the Ancelo Moratti stadium, their eyes were drawn to a giant banner in the North Stand.

On one side of the banner there are two people wearing jerseys. Although the drawing is not very good, it can still be seen that the man in the blue and black sword-striped shirt is beating the man in the black-and-white sword-striped shirt. On the other side is this slogan. The person who wrote the banner thoughtfully wrote it in Italian and English. The Newcastle players looked at it and could see it clearly.

This banner is based on a slogan played by Newcastle fans at St. James' Park Stadium two weeks ago. The slogan is "We provide the Juventus jersey!" The implication is that the Juventus jersey, which has won the most league titles in Italy, was originally provided by us, not to mention your Inter Milan. It is full of British arrogance.

And this slogan obviously irritated Inter Milan fans. As long as they are Inter Milan fans, there is no one who does not hate Juventus. If there may be four or five out of ten Inter Milan fans who still appreciate AC Milan, then probably not one in ten fans who like Inter Milan and Juventus at the same time. Ventus is different. After being the first to embroider a star representing ten league championships on the jersey, the two teams have become absolute rivals. In addition, the two teams before and after the phone gate have had so many years of grievances and enmity. The two teams have long been incompatible.

The fans of Inter Milan played this banner, and there is another meaning in it, which is to encourage the team to play at the highest level in this game and defeat the opponent!You must know that Inter Milan played against Juventus and AC Milan, it was a game that did not require mobilization at all!

Fireworks, shouts, and singing as neat as an opera house!

"Fall in love with her, crazy Inter Milan, fall in love with her! All joys are for her, all sorrows are for her..."

The singing of "Crazy Inter Milan" resounded throughout the Ancelo Moratti Stadium, and the sound of "Ama la" was heard in the entire stands. Compared with the uniform singing of [-] Inter Milan fans, the "Bing to Newcastle" sung by thousands of Newcastle fans was completely suppressed!

"Crazy Inter Milan... The momentum of Inter Milan's home court is really crazy. It seems that the small stadium has small advantages..." Pei Wei, who stood by the coach's bench and looked around the entire stand, muttered.

In fact, a stadium that can accommodate 5000 people is by no means small. This is only compared to the former Meazza Stadium. Compared with St. James Park Stadium, the capacity of Ancelo Moratti Stadium is several thousand more.

"Do you want to play us like Juventus? Are you kidding me!"

Mourinho has always been a coach who will make use of all factors, so the banner played by the Inter Milan fans has also become his target: "Juventus is indeed the team that has won the most league titles in Italy so far, but their results in the Champions League are far from the best! Comparing us with Juventus, let's not talk about the past. Our results have been much better than Juventus in the past ten years. This banner is simply an insult to us! The past has nothing to do with us, we only know that now in the Champions League Juventus is far behind us in terms of performance!"

The players who returned to the locker room after warming up all waved their fists in response. Mourinho's words were really encouraging, especially in the situation where this kind of battle is about to start, the so-called humility and friendliness will not work!Putting your opponents down before a game is also a way to boost morale!
This is also why players cannot tell the outside world about the situation in the locker room. I believe that no matter which head coach he is, he will say some disrespectful words to his opponents during pre-match mobilization. Whether it is too much or not, it just depends on the tone the coach is used to speaking... If these words are disclosed to the outside world, then it is estimated that the players on both sides will beat their brains out in every game.

"Inter Milan is indeed a very good opponent, and the atmosphere at home is also crazy... But will we be afraid of the frantic home atmosphere?" Mourinho looked around the players and asked.

The players didn't answer, but laughed one after another—the whole world knows that the home atmosphere of Premier League teams is the most frenzied, otherwise England's football hooligans wouldn't be so notorious, and teams that can feel this frenzied atmosphere almost every weekend would still be afraid of the frenzied atmosphere of the away game?What's more, these Newcastle players have also been to countless other stadiums with a fanatical atmosphere, such as Allianz, the Bernabeu, the Nou Camp, and the Meazza in the past...

The corners of Mourinho's mouth turned upwards. It was obvious that he was satisfied with the performance of the players and he was able to deal with this problem with ease. It was obvious that they really didn't take the frenzied atmosphere of Ancelo Moratti Stadium into consideration, instead of gritting their teeth and holding on.

"You know, it's us, not them, who are leading by one goal now. We already taught them a lesson at home two weeks ago, and now we have a second chance to teach them a lesson. What will you do?" Mourinho yelled loudly.

"Continue to teach them a lesson! Let them know that we are the only ones who can win the Triple Crown this season! It can only be us!" The players shouted in unison. The draw in the last league game not only did not affect their morale, but inspired them to fight more enthusiastically to face the second round of the Champions League semi-final!
"Okay, let's go! Use your performance to let them know this!" Mourinho waved his hand fiercely, and Pei Wei, who was standing in front of the door, opened the door cooperatively, and the Newcastle players rushed out aggressively.

(End of this chapter)