After defeating Shakhtar Donetsk with a score of 2-0 at home, Inter Milan's hopes of advancing were very high. Under such circumstances, Li Ang increased the team's technical and tactical training.
He began to use the Impenetrable Defense and Young Eagles Spread Their Wings skill cards.
The Champions League qualifiers against Shakhtar Donetsk, as well as the three games against Brescia and FC Schalke 04, were edited by Li Ang's coaching staff into his instructional videos.
Before the start of the training, Li Ang played the edited videos of the three games for the entire team …
He told his players what had gone wrong in the past few games and what the right way to deal with it was.
If they were to use his LION tactic, how to use it, and how to solve the problems in the games.
After watching the carefully edited videos of the games, coupled with the detailed explanations of Li Ang and assistant manager Banderas, the Inter Milan players began to have a more intuitive understanding of Li Ang's tactics.
Among these players, Carlos, Mata, and Modric were the most familiar with this tactic. Therefore, these three players currently had an innate advantage in the competition for the main position.
In addition, Ronaldo and Samuels, two former Real Madrid players, had direct confrontations with Sporting de Gijón and were well aware of the power of this tactic.
The second round of the Champions League qualifiers against Shakhtar Donetsk was in two weeks. These two weeks were very precious for Inter Milan. They had to familiarize themselves with the manager's tactics as soon as possible.
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In these two weeks, Inter Milan played a friendly game against the Serie A team Siena. The Nerazzurri won with a score of 2-1.
Although they won, Inter Milan's performance, which was still in the stage of familiarizing themselves with the tactics, did not satisfy Li Ang.
He and the coaching staff carefully edited the game and analyzed it for the players again.
Li Ang used this method to gradually deepen the players' understanding and familiarity with his tactics.
The core of his tactics was a full-court press and an emphasis on ball control. This was different from the current Italian team's emphasis on defense and defensive counterattack tactics. The players needed time to familiarize themselves with and understand it.
Later, Inter Milan played a game against the team's reserve team.
Playing against a relatively weak opponent, the team faced less pressure and could be more confident and familiar with the tactics with ease.
The First Team defeated the reserve team with a score of 6-0.
A player on Inter Milan's reserve team caught Li Ang's attention. It was the under-18-year-old Acquafresca. Born on September 11, 1987, Acquafresca showed his talent as a striker. He was very calm in the penalty area and had a keen nose in front of the goal. If not for the good performance of César, the starting goalkeeper today, the reserve team might have even scored by Acquafresca. Acquafresca was currently the main striker of Italy's U18 national youth team. In this glittering national youth team, Acquafresca was regarded as Italy's most promising striker. This young man was signed by Inter Milan from Turin in May this year, thanks to Oriali's transfer operation.
In addition, the other young striker on the reserve team also made Li Ang's eyes light up. The 18-year-old Biabiani was very fast, which made Materazzi, who was not good at speed, a little embarrassed.
These two young people were good, but Inter Milan's First Team had no place for them at the moment.
Later, Li Ang asked the general manager of Inter Milan, Oriali, to extend the contract with the two young people again. After completing the contract extension, he loaned them out to train.
In order to let Biabiani and Acquafresca play in games, Inter Milan did not loan them to a Serie A team. Instead, they chose to loan them to a Serie B team.
Biabiani was loaned to a Serie B team, Atalanta.
Acquafresca was loaned to a Serie B team, Brescia.
Li Ang knew that in the original history, these two young people did not really become talents. He hoped that this time they could get good training. He told the two young people that he would continue to pay attention to their performance during the loan period. This made Biabiani and Acquafresca very excited. The manager's attention made them full of motivation and made them see the hope of one day playing in Inter Milan's First Team.
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On August 24, 2005, the second leg of the third round of the 20042005 UEFA Champions League qualifiers arrived.
In the game against Shakhtar Donetsk, Li Ang's Inter Milan used the tactics they were currently practicing in an official game for the first time.
After all, there was a clear difference between an official game and a warm-up, and Shakhtar Donetsk also dreamed of a comeback.
Therefore, the overall performance of China Inter Milan in the game was still not enough to satisfy Li Ang. Of course, at certain times in the game, the team was still able to play according to his requirements.
The goal that Inter Milan scored was a reflection of the players' good implementation of his tactical requirements.
Inter Milan frequently passed the ball in the middle and front field. At one point, Shakhtar Donetsk could not touch the ball for five or six minutes.
The anxious Shakhtar Donetsk pressed out to fight for the ball, and a gap suddenly appeared in their defensive line. Modric sent a straight ball, and the tacit cooperation between Figo and Ronaldo was brought into play. Figo did not stop the ball and swept directly to the middle. Ronaldo stopped for a moment and then shot. After the football was saved by Shakhtar Donetsk's goalkeeper, Adriano's close-range rebound shot was blocked by the rear guard at the goal line. Mata's astute rebound shot was successful!
This was the only goal in the game!
Thanks to the [Iron Wall] skill card used by Li Ang, as well as the defensive qualities of the Italian team itself, they then withstood the crazy counterattack of Shakhtar Donetsk and maintained the score of 1: 0 until the end of the game.
2-0 at home!
1-0 in the away game!
Inter Milan, who did not play well, smoothly advanced to the group stage of the UEFA Champions League with a total score of 3-0.
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Four days later, the new Serie A season began.
In the first round of the league tournament, Inter Milan defeated the newly promoted team, Treviso, with a score of 1-0 at home.
In the whole game, Inter Milan had as high as 70% of the ball, but only one goal was scored.
Modric's long shot scored the only goal for Inter Milan in the game.
Li Ang's Inter Milan stumbled, but still managed to win.
And the players he brought in, especially the players from Sporting de Gijón, Mata and Modric, were always able to perform well at the crucial moment and successfully save their master.
This made the media and opponents who were waiting to see Li Ang make a fool of himself unable to hold their breaths.
After playing the league game against Treviso, Li Ang took his boss Moratti's private jet to Monaco to participate in the 20052006 UEFA Champions League group stage draw.
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