Football irons are burning

Chapter 247

In another semi-final, Kaiserslautern lost 1:2 to Valencia at home.

The two teams playing at home have lost one goal, and the prospect of promotion is not optimistic.

Gazzetta dello Sport: Inter Milan beat Liverpool away, one foot has stepped into the threshold of the final!
The Guardian: Liverpool lost at home, the Polish goalkeeper became the biggest weakness, and the position of the Red Army's summer window reinforcements was also directly exposed.

Marca: Inter Milan and Valencia won away games, and it is not a problem to meet in the final.

After winning, Inter Milan hurried back to Milan without stopping. In the 27th round of the league, Inter Milan will face the challenge of Fiorentina at home.

Although already leading the Roma team by 11 points, Inter Milan still will not relax. It must be done to win Fiorentina.

After the match day came, when the players from both sides came out, the Inter Milan fans applauded enthusiastically, welcoming the home team who returned from the Champions League victory, which also made the visiting team players envious.

It's a pity that Florence may hardly have such an opportunity again.

After the game started, Inter Milan made a special mark on Rui Costa, and Di Biagio stopped doing other things and just stared at the Portuguese.

In this way, Fiorentina really has no way to threaten Inter Milan's goal.

With Didier Drogba scoring a goal in the second half, Inter Milan defeated Fiorentina 2-0 at home and continued to lead the standings.

After the game, Li Tie and Rui Costa chatted for a long time. Surprisingly, Rui Costa actually wanted to play in the Super League.

This is a player of the golden generation of Portugal, who is still in his prime, how could he think so?
After chatting, Li Tie found out that the teams looking for Rui Costa are all Serie A teams, and he doesn't want to be an enemy of Fiorentina, so he plans to play in the Super League for a year.

And the capital club has already offered Fiorentina 3500 million euros, and at the same time offered him an annual salary of 800 million euros!

Good guy, the capital club is willing to spend money. It seems that the slogan of always striving for the first place is about to be fulfilled this time.

"Very good, Rui, the Chinese Super League is developing. There is a good football market there, and there are many big-name players. The competitiveness is still good. I support you to go to the Chinese Super League."

Li Tie sent his blessings to Rui Costa.

The more big-name players go, this is a good thing for the Chinese Super League, and now it is not going to be a grave. Beckham will play a good show again this summer. Real Madrid has reached an agreement with the Shanghai club and is willing to pay them a transfer fee of 3000 million euros to take Beckham away.

This means that the Shanghai club made a lot of money for nothing. When Beckham joined, there was no transfer fee, but he only assumed his annual salary of 750 million euros.

This time, I made more money.

It can be seen that the attractiveness of the Chinese Super League is also increasing.

However, once Rui Costa leaves, Fiorentina may officially remove the label of a strong Serie A team, and the remaining players, who are capable, will definitely leave one after another.

This is also one of the watersheds in the decline of Serie A. With the decline of Florence, Lazio, Parma and others will follow suit.

Roma also won the game and continued to rank second. Juventus was tied by Parma.

If you can't play in the Champions League, I'm afraid Lazio will fall faster.

Finally, there is no double match a week, and Inter Milan also has three days off this week, allowing the players to rest to their heart's content.

Li Tie is at home with Liu Fei. The expected date of delivery is August. The waiting for these months is quite happy. With his wife and children, Li Tie is in a very happy mood. The mother-in-law came to Milan to take care of Liu Fei, and the family is also very lively.

From time to time, the neighbors also come to visit. They are all players, they all know each other, and it is good to chat.

Li Tie took the opportunity to promote the Chinese Super League to them, hoping that they will all play in the Chinese Super League in the future.

On April 4, the 28th round of Serie A will continue.

Inter Milan played away against Brescia, relying on Deisler's free kick to score, Inter Milan scored 1 points in an away game with 3 goal.

The Roma team drew with Lazio 2:2 in the Rome derby, and the benefit, of course, is Inter Milan.

There are 6 rounds left in the league, and Inter Milan's lead has expanded to 13 points. It is indeed only a matter of time before defending the title.

Now the media is not interested in this topic, but is very interested in the Champions League seats and relegation. Lazio is currently only 1 point ahead of Parma and 3 points ahead of AC Milan. In the next 6 rounds, these three teams will work hard for the last Champions League seat.

In terms of relegation, Cassano's Bari team is obviously out of the game, and relegation has basically become a foregone conclusion.

The bad boy Cassano also scored 18 goals this season, and it is estimated that next season, he will be taken away by a wealthy team.

And Naples, Verona, Regina, Lecce, Perugia and even Bologna are all likely to be relegated. Their points are not much different, with a gap of 2-3 points.

Relegation is still quite intense this season.

Once relegated, the outstanding players in their team will leave one after another. This is professional football.

On April 4, the second round of the UEFA Champions League match between Inter Milan and Liverpool started at the Meazza Stadium.

Since Inter Milan won the away game in the first round and had 3 away goals, Lippi's lineup was a 3-6-1 formation, with only one Esposito left in front, stationed in the midfield, and let the opponent fall into hand-to-hand combat in the midfield.

And Houllier arranged a three-forward formation, and the goalkeeper did not use Dudek again. It seems that this guy's days in Liverpool are over.

After the game started, the two sides really went shopping in the midfield.

It is obvious that Liverpool's midfielder is not an opponent.

Less than 9 minutes into the game, Smicer was injured and left the field. In the 19th minute, Gerrard put Li Tie behind his back and received a yellow card. Five minutes later, he pulled down Esposito, who made a single-handed breakthrough, and left the field after two consecutive yellows and one red.

Liverpool, who played with 10 people, quickly collapsed.

In the 36th minute, Li Tie and Deisler made a two-for-one cooperation in the wall-hitting style, and they kicked out of the penalty area and scored, 1:0!

Before halftime, Li Tie reciprocated and gave Deisler a second pass. He also broke into the penalty area and scored the goal, 2:0!

With such a pair of talented midfielders, maybe whoever comes to coach will wake up laughing when they fall asleep.

In the second half of the game, Liverpool still did not improve.

Under Inter Milan's strong midfield strangulation, it is difficult for them to send the ball to the striker's feet.

In the 69th minute, Esposito single-handedly scored and finally locked the score at 3:0. Inter Milan eliminated their opponents 6:2 in the two rounds and took the lead in reaching the final.

At the press conference after the game, Houllier believed that the first round of the match between the two sides decided the result, so there was no suspense about the team being out. He still congratulated Inter Milan for their return to the Champions League final and congratulated Inter Milan for a toast.

Lippi also whitewashed Liverpool. He also believed that the first round determined the trend of the second round. At the same time, he was very satisfied with the control of the team's midfield.

"Yes, when you have a midfielder like Li Tie, Sebastian, Di Biagio, Andrea, Frank, you will only feel helpless. No matter who you play, they all have the ability to end the game."

(End of this chapter)