Chinese champion

Chapter 247 Brilliant Road Grouping
Pei Wei's excellent performance in these two games also allowed Mancini to restore his confidence in Pei Wei. Now anyone with a discerning eye can see that although Inter Milan can win without Pei Wei, it will not be like this Two so easy.

The biggest difference between Pei Wei and Veron is his speed. Veron's slow speed makes Inter Milan's offense often slow down, but Pei Wei is different. He can easily mobilize Inter Milan's frontcourt. Fast players work together to create the greatest threat.

Mancini has always wanted to change his style of play since he took office, changing Inter Milan's defensive counterattack and long pass play left over from Cooper's tenure, but his change last year seemed to be unsuccessful, lacking Pei Wei Wei, a midfielder who can constantly create opportunities in sports battles, is a big reason for this, and now, he has enough courage to raise the banner of offensive football in Serie A.

We now have Adriano, Martins, Figo, Pei Wei... Who says we can't play offense!

On November 11, in the 28th round of Serie A, Inter Milan defeated Messina 13-3 away. Recoba and Stankovic gave Inter Milan a two-goal lead in the first half. Expanding the score to three goals, Messina only scored a face-saving goal in the No.1 minute.

On December 12th, in the 5th round of Serie A, Inter Milan beat Ascoli 14-2 at home. Winning, the points reached 0 points at once, tying Fiorentina, who had a draw and a loss in the two rounds of the league, and only two points behind AC Milan, who had one win and one loss, but because Juventus performed so well, it is also the same All wins, so Inter Milan is still 29 points behind this old rival.

Mancini is very satisfied with the performance of the players in these two games. Although the scores were not very high, they all played very well from the scene. Inter Milan dominated the midfield and firmly controlled the entire game. There is no chance for the opponent to counterattack at all.

Pei Wei did not score a goal in these two games and only assisted once, but no one can ignore his role in the midfield. His presence has made Inter Milan's midfield more diversified, efficient and rich Aggressiveness, which Veron cannot do.

Moreover, Pei Wei also has another performance that surprised him, that is, he seems to have learned how to defend in the midfield. He can often use his speed to intercept the opponent's pass in advance. Not useless to defense like last year.

It seems that now I can consider putting only a midfielder behind him... Especially at this time...

A week later, in the 15th round of Serie A, Inter Milan's opponent will be their city rival AC Milan.

How many years has it been since Inter Milan beat their city rivals?Mancini doesn't know, he only knows that last year he led Inter Milan to meet AC Milan four times in the league and the Champions Cup, but the final result was a horrendous one draw and three losses. There was a fan riot, which left all three home stadiums in this season's Champions League group stage empty...

Mancini knew that this game was an opportunity for him to rectify his name.

Not only because Inter Milan, which has already ranked No.3 by virtue of goal difference, will jump to second after winning this game, nor is it because Juventus' opponent in this round is the underdog Cagliari. If they lose, it is very likely that the old woman will widen the points gap to 13 points. Just for the four words of Milan Derby, Mancini has a reason why he has to win!

In order to prepare for this game, Mancini even gave up the last round of the Champions League group stage on the [-]th. In this game against Glasgow Rangers, he sent two teenagers from the second team, and the other players also played. They are all substitute players like Worm, Solari, and Pizarro. They just sent the combination of Martins and Adriano to let them find their feelings, but it is worth noting that after leaving the pitch for a long time For a year, Burondisso appeared in the starting lineup, his position is left back.

The little angel Angelina's illness has almost recovered under the careful care, and Brundisso can return to Italy to continue his football career, although it is impossible for Mancini to let him, who has been away from football for nearly a year Play the main force, but this kind of game is the time for him to gradually recover.

Every player who didn't play blessed Burondisso, and his performance on the field did not disappoint everyone's expectations. He was as brave as ever. Although he played a left back position that he was not used to, Burondisso still showed his strength on the field. Obviously, during this year, Brundisso has been training himself.

Although Inter Milan sent most of the substitutes, the Rangers failed to take advantage of it. You must know that although they are substitutes, people like Toldo, Materac, Old Miha, Solari and others also have He is a world-renowned star, even better than the main players of the Rangers.

This also made Pei Wei, who was sitting on the bench, lament that a rich family is a rich family. If Mallorca were replaced, how could a second team be able to beat the runner-up of the Soviet Super League to such a virtue at home?
Inter Milan ushered in the lead in the 30th minute. The old Miha took a corner kick, and Adelaide jumped high in the middle to break the deadlock. more relaxed.

With a one-goal lead, Inter Milan became more relaxed in the second half. Mancini simply replaced the two main forwards with Recoba and Cruz. Facing a full substitute lineup like Inter Milan, Rangers still We can only rely on Lovenkranz's single goal in the 78th minute to equalize the score. This is also the last goal of the game. In the end, the two teams tied 1:1, relying on the result of a 0:0 tie between Bratislava and Porto , the runner-up of the Soviet Super League narrowly entered the next round with a one-point advantage.

After finishing the match comfortably, Mancini and his disciples can finally concentrate on the Milan derby, and to their advantage, another Champions League group game on the same day can only be secured by winning. AC Milan, the top team in the group, fought at home with Schalke 04, who also vowed to qualify. The two teams with eight points before the game had a fierce contest. In the end, it was AC Milan who played at home. They relied on Pirlo's direct free kick to score and Kaka's brace to beat the opponent 3:2, but the price they paid was also very high. Captain Maldini was injured in the fight and missed the Milan Derby , which is obviously good news for Inter Milan.

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On the afternoon of the 11th, although tomorrow is the Milan Derby, Mancini still gave the players half a day off, because this afternoon, in Berlin, the capital of Germany, the group draw ceremony for the 2006 World Cup is about to begin. Inter Milan, I believe many players are very concerned about this matter, right?Including Mancini himself, is also very concerned about which group Italy will be assigned to in the World Cup.

"Everyone come in, coming to my house is like coming to your own home, don't be too cautious!" Pei Wei greeted a group of teammates, and said to Martins: "Oba, greet everyone for me, I will help Ke Er Get something to drink!"

"No problem!" Martins has long been familiar with Pei Wei's family, so he will naturally take on this responsibility.

Among the participating countries in the World Cup, there are six teams with Inter Milan players, especially the Argentine team, Cambiasso, Burundisso, Kiley, Cruz, Samuel, Sola There are eight players from Argentina, Veron and Zanetti. Although it is impossible for them all to be selected for the Argentine national team, it is believed that about half of them will be able to become international players. From this point of view, It is not unreasonable for Inter Milan to be called the "Argentina Gang".

Adriano and Cesar are Brazilians, Materac and Favalli are Italian internationals, these are the three seeded teams for the World Cup, and the remaining three teams are Stankovic Serbia and Montenegro, Portugal where Figo is, and China where Pei Wei is.

Compared with the three seeded teams of Brazil, Argentina, and Italy, Serbia, Montenegro, Portugal, and China are all fourth-tier teams, so that Adriano and the others laughed and said that they hoped that their national team could compete with them. Teams are grouped together.

"Cut, don't blow your breath!" Pei Wei smiled and pointed to Adriano and Brundisso: "Even if our Chinese team meets your two national teams, so what? You must know that at the World Youth Championship we But the one who won you, don’t you really have the confidence that you can definitely defeat us? I don’t think so, right?”

The faces of Adriano and Brundisso began to become awkward. What Pei Wei said was indeed the truth. Both of them were not good at words, so they couldn't find anything to refute for a while. Captain Zanetti saw He has a lot of experience in the world, so he can see through the loopholes in Pei Wei's words at a glance: "Pei, you are too cunning! You actually changed the concept secretly!"

Pei Wei smiled and did not refute. Zanetti turned to Adriano and Bronsodi and said, "You two, don't be fooled by that kid Pei! How can the World Youth Championship be compared with the World Cup? You know, for us For me, the World Youth Championship is just an opportunity to discover talents, just like the World Cup that Pei just said, although Brazil and Argentina failed to win the championship, it cannot be said that we have failed, because in those two teams In the team, there are excellent players like you two and Kaka, Saviola, Coloccini, and Baptista. As long as there is such a harvest, it is a victory for us! For Asian and African teams like China, they concentrate all their good players in order to achieve good results, so they will naturally have some advantages. Just like Ghana in Africa, their historical record in the World Youth Championship is probably only better than that of Argentina and Brazil is close, but in the World Cup? There is no chance to perform at all! So in the World Youth Championship, the results are not the first, but now in the World Cup, any national team has concentrated the best in the country Players, in this regard, the Asian and African teams have lost their advantage, so, Pei..."

Zanetti turned to Pei Wei: "Although I know that your Chinese team is very strong now, and you have hired Mr. Menotti as the head coach, it is very likely to become a dark horse in the World Cup, but I still want to make a bet with you , no matter which of the seeded teams you meet in the World Cup, you can only get a draw at most! Because the advantage of the seeded team is not only because of their strength, but also because of their rich experience in the World Cup! This is not what the current Chinese team can match!"

Pei Wei stuck out his tongue: "I don't gamble! Captain, I also know the truth you said. I knew I would lose, so how could I bet with you? I'm not stupid!"

"Cunning boy!" Zanetti smiled. At this time, the live broadcast of the lottery ceremony officially started. Everyone stopped talking and began to concentrate on watching the live broadcast.

At this time, Pei Wei fell into deep thought. What Captain Zanetti said was correct. The World Youth Championship has always been a stage for young players to show their strengths to the world, especially South American and African players. The outstanding performance in the Youth Championship impresses the European giants and becomes a professional player, so sometimes the World Youth Championship is more like a big draft, and the European teams only hope to produce a few good seedlings in the youth team. Enough is enough, but as for the Asian teams, they pay more attention to the results, so they emphasize the whole, emphasize the tactics, and take victory as the first goal, so the performance of the Asian teams in the World Youth Championship has always been good, but they pay too much attention to the overall The result is that the players' personal strength cannot be developed in the game. Among the two players who looked comparable in their youth, European and South American players can often stand out and become world-class superstars in the future, while Asian and African players are average. All will only get the result of "disappearing everyone".

The purpose is different, the consequences are different.

This may be why South American and European football has always been the pinnacle of the world, while Asian teams can only catch up behind.

At this time, there was an uproar in Pei Wei's ear, and Pei Wei raised his head, just in time to see Materac yelling: "Captain, isn't it, you are so lucky? You are divided with Holland ? The group of death, this group is definitely the group of death!"

Pei Wei craned his neck to watch TV, and happened to see the two teams in Group C: Argentina and the Netherlands.

"Now let's see which two unlucky teams are left in this group. No matter who they are, it's really unfortunate..." Martins gloated at the side, anyway, his home country, Nigeria, was in the preliminaries. Sai did not qualify, how could it not be his country.

But having said that, Pei Wei's two black friends were unlucky enough this time. Martins' Nigeria and Eto'o's Cameroon both failed in the qualifiers and didn't even get the chance to participate in the World Cup.

"You're so bad." Pei Wei pulled Martins back: "I don't have a chance to go to the World Cup and I hope others will be unlucky. Your psychology is so dark."

Martins said with a mournful face: "No... I'm not gloating, but some teams will be unlucky, right?"

Pei Wei shook his head, and Martins said again: "Pei, do you think this team will be your Chinese team?"

Pei Wei grabbed Martins by the neck: "You crow mouth..."

At this time, the draws for the first three rounds are over. Except for the group where Argentina and the Netherlands are relatively strong (the third team is the African newcomer Côte d'Ivoire), the strength of the other groups is average, only the fourth-tier team There is also a super strong Czech Republic here. I believe this team led by the steel giant Nedved will have a huge impact on any seeded team.

Seeing that the last team in Group C was about to be drawn, FIFA President Sepp Blatter reached into the glass jar, took out a small ball, unfolded it and said with a smile: "Serbia and Montenegro."

Serbia?

The crowd roared, Stankovic and old Miha's faces suddenly became like bitter gourds, and other players "congratulated" them one after another, which made the two of them very angry but not easy to attack.

The Czech Republic and Italy were in a group, but Pei Wei's Chinese team was lucky enough to be assigned to the weakest group among the eight groups, Group H. The seed team of this group was Spain, and the rest The two teams were Ukraine, which entered the World Cup for the first time, and Tunisia, an African team. They were lucky. No wonder even Figo looked at Pei Wei with envy and jealousy, which made him feel a little creepy.

"Group H?" After seeing off his teammates, Pei Wei fell into deep thought, and Ma Keer said with a smile: "This time the Chinese team is grouped well, why are you unhappy?"

"Happy? Of course." Pei Wei said: "But for the Chinese team, no matter which group they are assigned to, it is the same, because any team that enters the World Cup will not be an underdog, and we will You just have to fight one game at a time.”

"Well, it makes sense." Ma Keer nodded, and Pei Wei continued: "But... tomorrow seems to be a good rehearsal..."

"What rehearsal?" Marco didn't understand.

"The biggest opponent in our group is probably Ukraine, because Spain is very strong. I am afraid we can only compete with Ukraine for the second place in the group. The best player in Ukraine is of course Shevchenko. It happens that we will have a match with Ukraine tomorrow. AC Milan played against each other, hehe..."

(End of this chapter)