"Look at Albertini's performance up until now. Galliani and Ancelotti must be very regretful! Demetrio has completely grasped Nottingham Forest's rhythm. He's like the conductor of a band. Forest's offense and defense all revolve around him. "
"I disagree with you, Malachi. Galliani and Ancelotti won't come to watch Inter Milan's game live. No, I'm afraid they won't even watch the television broadcast. "
"What a pity. Albertini like this can also play as a main force in AC Milan."
The two Italian commentators were praising Albertini, who was currently organizing the offense on the field.
After Inter Milan's indiscriminate bombardment in the opening few minutes, the rhythm of the game was pulled back to Nottingham Forest's side by Albertini.
The best part of Tang En's move of letting Albertini start was that Albertini was familiar with Inter Milan, so he knew how to deal with them. If it were Arteta, the Spanish kid might have been drowned in the Italian-style defense.
Albertini, who was born in Italy and had played in Italy for 16 years, did not have such a problem. He played the game with ease and elegance.
Tang En, who saw it off the field, wanted to sigh and say that this might be Albertini's most outstanding game of the season.
Cambiasso had finally intercepted Albertini's ball, but it was immediately intercepted by George Wood.
Now, when Albertini took the ball, there were no longer any boos in the Giuseppe Meazza Stadium. Instead, it was Wood who attracted the firepower of all the Inter Milan fans. When he used his body to push Cambiasso away and intercepted the ball, the ear-piercing boos rang out again.
Mancini finally stood up from the manager's seat.
Fifteen minutes had passed. Inter Milan's offense looked powerful and surging, but the number of truly threatening attacks on the goal could be counted on one hand. On the contrary, Nottingham Forest's several counterattacks were spectacular, causing a lot of trouble for Inter Milan's defensive line. It looked like Tony Twain, the Englishman, was as good at defensive counterattacks as the Italians.
To deal with defensive counterattacks, one could not leave too many gaps in their own backfield for the opponent to exploit. But if one wanted to keep the back line in formation and defend the back, it would affect the strength of the attack in front. If one did not invest enough forces, they would not be able to break through the opponent's "defensive counterattack."
This seemed to be a dilemma.
Mancini could see that Nottingham Forest's counterattack mainly relied on the two flanks. Whether it was Ribéry on the left or Ashley Young on the right, they were both very fast players with excellent individual skills. Many times, even without the support of their teammates, they could dribble the ball to attack alone. Coupled with Albertini's precise long passes, they could always easily tear apart Inter Milan's defense. In comparison, the Forest team's two strikers, Mark Viduka and Anelka, did not seem to be much of a threat.
So what should he do now?
Strengthen the defense on the flanks?
No, that's not what this match is about.
Mancini whistled on the sidelines, then stretched out two fingers and pointed at Nottingham Forest's goal. What he meant was for the team to strengthen the offense on both flanks and use Inter Milan's offense to suppress Nottingham Forest's offense.
Mancini did not believe that Inter Milan's offense could not match up to Nottingham Forest. Moreover, this was their home ground. With more than eighty thousand fans cheering for them, there was no reason why they could not take down Nottingham Forest!
For this match, Mancini lined up Stankovic and Figo on the flanks, one on the left and the other on the right. On the forward line were Adriano and Martins.
Tang En had been very interested in Martins in the summer, but now that he had Anelka, who was more well-rounded than Martins, he no longer missed the Nigerian kid.
As a true powerhouse, Inter Milan's players looked bigger than Nottingham Forest's. Almost every one of them was a long-established star player, or even a superstar. On the other hand, Nottingham Forest, other than Albertini, Anelka, Edwin van der Sar, and Viduka, had only become known to the public with the Forest team's rise in the past two years. It looked like their strength was not comparable, but in reality?
Inter Milan was currently ranked third in Serie A, while Nottingham Forest was ranked second in the English Premier League.
Tang En did not like to fill the team with superstars, just like Real Madrid, where the majesty of a manager was buried in the brilliance of superstars. He was the kind of manager who needed to control every person and every point of the team in his hands. He could not tolerate any players or others being above him. So, he was very satisfied with the current personnel structure of the Forest team because he had personally requested them to come, except for Anelka. He was also very satisfied with the performance of the French striker after he came, so he did not pursue the matter.
Only such a team could become a whole, fight together, and work together for a goal. Only then could they have combat effectiveness. So, Nottingham Forest's players were not very famous, but they could still rank second in the Premier League and reach the top eight in the Champions League.
If someone still could not understand this, then they would suffer a big loss. For example, Benfica, the poor Portuguese Premier League champion, did not even advance out of the group stage because they underestimated Tang En's Forest team.
Looking at Inter Milan, they had been in constant internal strife this season. The conflict between Meazza's "King" Adriano and the Argentine midfielder, Veron, had become completely public. Veron was in the starting lineup for this game, but because of the conflict between him and Adriano, no matter how much Mancini favored him, he believed that he would decisively abandon Veron and choose to stand on the side of "King" Adriano at the critical moment for his own position as manager.
Tang En could only sigh at this point. The powerhouses needed big-name star players and superstars, so they spent money at all costs to buy superstars. Then, when one by one, the brilliant names appeared in the starting lineup for a game, they felt proud. As for the dark side of the locker room, where no one was willing to submit to each other, the small teams, and the struggles between the gangs, it was intentionally or unintentionally ignored by the club's decision-makers until one day, when the results were not good and the volcano erupted, exposing all the contradictions. Only then did they raise the scythe to "cleanse" it. But the team's combat effectiveness and honor had inevitably been affected. Who was the one who got hurt in the end? It was the fans who were infatuated with their support and had no regrets.
Evan and Allan both hoped that Nottingham Forest would become a powerhouse club like Real Madrid, Inter Milan, or AC Milan. But sometimes Tang En thought, Isn't it good to be like this? There are no big-name star players, but there is a group of strong players. United together, fighting. How good …
But Tang En was also very clear that if the team could keep winning like this and win more and more championships, it would not be far from the day that Evan and Allan hoped for. The day that Evan and Allan hoped for was not far away. By then, there would be more and more big-name stars in the team. As the head coach of the team, he would not only have to deal with his opponents, but he would also have to deal with his own people …
This was a future that would give him a headache.
Tang En, who was sitting in the manager's seat, shook his head and tossed that "future" to Mars. Then, he continued to watch the game. Speaking of Adriano, he recalled what happened later in his memory. The current king, two seasons later, would be … a good-for-nothing.
Should he poach him over when the time came? Tang En frowned as he considered the question. But he soon gave up on the idea. The Brazilian players' discipline gave him a headache. Although they were all brimming with talent, they could become a ticking time bomb in the team's locker room. Moreover, he knew what Adriano's future would be like. Perhaps his arrival would make Allan smile, but Tang En would have a headache, so he let it go.
Just as he came back to his senses, Tang En saw Adriano's header being courageously pushed out of the crossbar by Edwin van der Sar. The Brazilian striker seemed to be using his own performance to protest Tang En's evaluation of him in his heart.
"Inter Milan has strengthened their offense on the flanks," Kerslake said from the side. Before Adriano's header, it was Figo who had passed the ball.
"There's no need to adjust the defense. The situation is good now. In terms of offense … "Tang En touched his chin." We'll attack Anelka's point. "
Kerslake nodded in understanding. He stood up and walked to the sidelines to convey the tactical adjustment on Tang En's behalf. This was to shift the direction of the offense from the two flanks to the middle.
It was almost impossible to make the team truly achieve the state of "unpredictable and unpredictable." That requirement was too high. But through repeated training, a similar situation could be achieved. That was to prepare multiple sets of plans and rehearse them repeatedly during normal training. When needed, adjustments could be made at any time.
Most of the time, everyone knew that Nottingham Forest was good at the flanks. Many of their goals came from the flanks. The middle looked more like a relay station that provided ammunition to the flanks. Of course, this had something to do with the Forest team not having a true attacking midfielder. But this did not mean that the Forest team could not play in the middle.
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