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Chapter 523 No shame in losing to monsters

Chapter 523 No shame in losing to monsters

"Raphael wants to use defense to spend the rest of the time..." Pei Wei said to Mourinho.

"He can do this kind of thing!" Mourinho said with a deep face. "There are only ten minutes left before the end of the game, and there will be no more than 10 minutes after stoppage time! What Rafael wants is to rely on the defense of all players to maintain the current score to the midfield...With Inter Milan's defensive ability and this defensive thickness, it is not impossible for them to do this!"

"After shrinking the defense, they don't need to be dragged away by our fast-paced offense..." An assistant coach said cautiously.

"That's right, their physical disadvantage will be well compensated, and our offense will become very difficult under such a tight defense..." Shearer shook his head and asked Mourinho: "Should we replace with a new force?"

Mourinho thought for a while, and finally shook his head: "No... I believe in the fighting spirit of the players. The substitution at this time will give Inter Milan a little breathing time. I said that I need a goal in the second half, and they will definitely be able to do it! I believe in them!"

Listening to Mourinho's categorical words, the assistant coaches nodded heavily at the same time, and the players on the bench began to get excited.

"But even if we don't change players now, we can't make it too easy for those guys on the opposite side... Go out and warm up for me!" Mourinho waved his hand.

Except for the substitute goalkeeper, Mattok, Huntington, Srna, Bostock, Walcott and Baxter all left the bench and began to warm up on the sidelines. Even the TV cameras were scanned over them, wondering if Mourinho was going to substitute someone to strengthen the attack.

Benitez just glanced over there and didn't care. He knew that Mourinho was mostly trying to motivate the players on the field or to disturb his thoughts. He had to deal with it and wait until he changed people.

The players who were already red-eyed on the field were not attracted by this episode. Now the Newcastle players are only thinking about how to break through the opponent's goal, while the Inter Milan players are thinking about how to defend the opponent's attack and even counterattack...

Bell's breakthrough from the wing was shoveled out of the baseline by Thornton. From a corner kick, both Dawson and Taylor rushed up, and Inter Milan even returned to defense. In this stalemate, set kicks often become an opportunity to break the deadlock.

Bell put the ball on the corner kick several times before getting up to observe the situation in the penalty area. Now the penalty area has become a pot of mud. The Inter Milan players desperately tried to keep up with the Newcastle offensive players, but found that the opponent disappeared as soon as they entered the crowd.

Bell felt dizzy after watching for a while. At this time, Long Bisheng and Ranocchia collided again in the penalty area. Ranocchia staggered a few steps back. Several defenders of Inter Milan protested to the referee at the same time. The referee warned the players of both sides and let the game continue.

Bell passed the ball into the penalty area. Long Bisheng, who rushed to the front point with a few strides, jumped high to meet the ball but feinted and missed the ball to the back point.

Cesar was blocked by the players in front of the goal and could not react. Fortunately, Caldirola, who was guarding in front of the goal, jumped up and made a header!

"Caldirola, who just came on the field, has done a great job!"

The ESPN commentator just shouted, and saw Essien rushing up to meet the ball outside the penalty area, and then raised his right foot!

"Bang—bang!" Two voices sounded almost at the same time. The former was the sound of Essien's foot pumping the ball, and the latter was the sound of Sneijder rushing out from the oblique thrust and blocking the shot with his body!

"Tough defense! Sneijder blocked Essien's powerful long shot with his body! Newcastle may start to feel impatient, Inter Milan's defense is simply indestructible!"

The commentator of ESPN let out an exclamation, and the stands of the Ancelo Moratti stadium erupted into huge cheers. The fans of Inter Milan were shouting loudly for such a solid defense of the team!

Amidst the shouts, Benitez frowned slightly.

Although the defense this time is very beautiful, it blocked the opponent's inevitable shots twice in a row, but this kind of defense cannot last forever after all. It can be defended once, but twice?Or even ten times?

It seems that Newcastle's offense is really fierce... It would be great if the team's second goal happened in the second half, but now, Inter Milan, whose midfield has completely lost control, can only rely on tenacious defense to survive the last 10 minutes!

Benitez has never felt the importance of midfield like this moment!Although he has made great efforts to transform the midfield after he took office, introducing midfielders like Mascherano and Aquilani, and even transforming Aguero into a midfield to some extent, but Inter Milan's deep-rooted weakness in the midfield for more than ten years is not what he can change!

Sneijder is a good attacking midfielder, but his strength lies in distributing the ball and cutting in, but not in organization!Inter Milan has never had a midfielder with a very good ability to hold the ball in the midfield!If there is such a midfielder now, the situation of Inter Milan will be much more favorable!

Thinking of this, Benitez sighed, how difficult it is to transform a perfect lineup, it can even be said to be almost impossible...

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"This guy's physical fitness is almost..."

Listening to Ranocchia's panting, Long Bisheng thought in his heart, but the opponent he is facing now is not only Ranocchia, Lucio has also come up to help defend, and even Caldirola who just played is paying close attention to his performance.

"What does that matter? As long as there are more crosses on both sides..."

Long Bisheng fiercely leaned against Ranocchia with his body, then jumped high, blocking Lucio behind him, facing Maicon's cross, he just threw the ball!

Cesar raised his hand and hit the ball out of the baseline.

"It's another corner... It's the third corner in a row. Now Newcastle has completely suppressed Inter Milan. Their performance is really worthy of respect. But for them, the end of the game is getting closer. If they keep winning like this and fail to score, no matter how much praise they receive after the game, it will not help." ESPN commentator sighed and said: "It is a great thing to suppress Inter Milan in this way at the Ancelo Moratti Stadium, but no matter how great the feat is, It’s never satisfying to lose in the end.”

Mourinho walked up and down the sidelines with a grim expression. He controlled his urge to make substitutions. The players on the field have already performed very well, and the pressure on the opponent's defense is also great. There is no need to make substitutions. If substitutions can achieve the goal, he will definitely change them, but the current problems on the field cannot be solved by substitutions.

Now Newcastle is suppressing with all their strength, and Inter Milan is struggling to support it. I don't know when this string will break-but the question is, can Newcastle break the string of Inter Milan before the end of the game!

At this time, the development of the game on the field has exceeded the control of Mourinho and Benitez. Mourinho can only pray for a goal before the end of the game, and Benitez can only pray for not conceding the ball before the end of the game!

Both of them are figures among the coaches who can turn their hands into clouds and rain, but now they can only pray to God and look forward to the performance of the players. The game has reached this level, and it is indeed impossible to predict it with common sense. This is also the most moving aspect of football.

Bell took a corner kick again. This time he didn't send the ball directly to the goal, but knocked Ribery on the wing, a tactical corner kick.

Franck Ribery received the ball, and he faced Inter Milan's right-back Thornton directly.

In today's game, Ribery and Thornton, one old and one young, fought a lot on the wing, but most of the time, Thornton's defense was very successful, so he still greeted him with full confidence-he was young and at the peak, and he had sufficient confidence in an old man who had begun to decline.

Ribery slowly took the ball and moved forward step by step, while Thornton bent slightly, his eyes fixed on the ball at Ribery's feet, a standard Italian defender's defense-keep the ball and not the man, and never take it easily-this is how Thuram made Ronaldo no threat throughout the game in the 98 World Cup!

While moving forward, Ribery considered how to get rid of Thornton's defense.

Thornton has good physical fitness and fast speed. Although Ribery is good at speed, it is still a bit unrealistic to rely on speed to get rid of Thornton.

Just as Ribery was thinking about it, Bale's voice came from beside him: "Frank! Someone is coming up from behind!"

Franck Ribery glanced back, sure enough, Balotelli had already chased him up from behind!

Just in this flash, an idea flashed in Ribery's mind.

Thornton's timing was perfect, while Ribery glanced back.He immediately poked the ball towards Ribery's feet. He was sure that Ribery was distracted just now, and it was impossible to avoid his quick kick.

But at the moment he took his foot, Ribery pulled the ball back extremely quickly as if he had already expected his movement.Dodged Thornton's protruding foot, and then moved the ball to Thornton's side, rushed forward with the whole body, and broke through!

Thornton immediately turned around quickly and rushed towards Ribery.He had considered this before he stepped out just now, so his body stabilized very quickly.

Ribery dunked the ball back again and avoided Thornton's pounce again!

Thornton's face was a little uncomfortable, being played by a 31-year-old guy like this.Even though this old guy is one of the best wing assaulters in the world, he is also one of the best full backs in the world now!

Thornton rushed forward for the third time, but this time due to his mentality, he did not calmly observe the situation around him!

Just before he was about to jump to Ribery's side, Ribery suddenly swayed the ball laterally, avoiding Thornton's pounce, and Thornton, who couldn't hold back, collided fiercely with Balotelli, who was attacking from behind Ribery!

Without Thornton's containment, Ribery immediately dribbled the ball into Inter Milan's penalty area!But almost at the next moment, three Inter Milan players surrounded him immediately!

The fully recovered Inter Milan has sufficient manpower to make up for every loophole!

"Come on, come more..." Franck Ribery muttered silently in his heart, while controlling the continuous advancement of the ball under his feet. The three opponents failed to intercept the ball. When the fourth man was about to come up, Franck Ribery passed the ball.

The ball flew out precisely through the cracks of people, and flew towards the small penalty area near the point!

At the moment when he passed the ball, Long Bisheng, who was left with Ranocchia alone because of Ribery's activity, suddenly took a step forward, and then left Ranocchia behind.

Ranocchia strode forward and wanted to catch up and block Long Bisheng behind him, but at the moment of exerting force, he suddenly felt a sense of weakness under his feet, staggered a few steps, and the untenable Ranocchia bumped into Long Bisheng's back from behind.

Long Bisheng didn't even move. He stretched out his foot and stopped the ball under his feet. Instead, he leaned on his body and took advantage of the opportunity to shoot with his left foot!

Although he didn't score too many miles in this action, the place where he shot was already in the small penalty area!

The ball flew upwards and flew towards the top corner of the goal!Cesar did his best, but was still a step behind!

The ball flew into the goal quickly, hit the top of the net and then fell off!

Did the ball go in?Such a thought flashed through everyone's minds, and then they realized-the ball has been scored!

No one thought that the goal would come so unexpectedly!

When Bell passed the ball to Ribery, there was no sign of a goal, but just after Ribery broke into the penalty area with the ball, he passed the ball, Long Bisheng stopped and shot, and the ball went into the net!

Even the referee seemed to be stunned for a moment, then put the whistle in his mouth, blew it hard, and pointed to the kick-off spot in the middle circle!

Until this time, a huge cheer erupted from a corner of the stands. It was the collective cheers of thousands of Newcastle fans!

Long Bisheng also lost his balance and fell to the ground after finishing his shot. His shot just now was very hasty, so even he couldn't stabilize his center of gravity. However, with the intensity of Inter Milan's defense, it is impossible for their defense to fail to react if they don't shoot right away!

With a support, Long Bisheng got up from the ground, and then ran to Ribery who assisted him. Excited, Long Bisheng picked up Ribery, and then carried him to the stands where the Newcastle fans were, cheering loudly!

Then came the teammates who swarmed in, they all knew that this goal meant a shot!

No.809 minutes of the game!Newcastle tied the score to one to two, and the total score was two to two!This means that Newcastle will lead Inter Milan with away goals!

"Long live! Newcastle!" Newcastle once again survived the desperate situation in the away game!

Mourinho, who couldn't contain his excitement, suddenly slid to celebrate on the sidelines, and then he waved his fists at Benitez several times in a demonstration. Pei Wei ran from behind and hugged Mourinho: "Jose! We are going to the final!"

"More than the final!" Mourinho got up from the ground, hugged Pei Wei with his backhand, and shouted loudly: "We still want to win the championship! We want to win all the championships!"

"It's that guy again!" Hiddink, who was far away in Madrid, looked at Long Bisheng who was celebrating wildly with his teammates with complicated eyes. He would not forget that a few weeks ago, at the Bernabéu Stadium, Real Madrid led by him had already turned the balance of victory to his side, but Long Bisheng's goal brought Newcastle back to life!

Thinking of this, Hiddink, who once served as the head coach of the Chinese national team, couldn't help but start to wonder if the Chinese national team had such a center at that time, would they have stopped in the quarterfinals of the World Cup?Seeing Long Bisheng's performance against Italy's strongest team Inter Milan, if the Chinese team had him at that time, would they have lost to the Italian national team that later won the championship?

"This World Cup, it seems that the Chinese team may be able to create a miracle... There are still four years later, and the World Cup in four years will be held in China!"

Coincidentally, Benitez, another former head coach of the Chinese national team, also bit his lip and looked at Long Bisheng with complicated emotions. The goal just now, although Ribery's sudden outburst caught Inter Milan by surprise, Inter Milan's defense still did not have any major flaws, but Ranocchia's failure to keep up with Long Bisheng became fatal-maybe when Ranocchia could only compete with Long Bisheng, this ending was doomed!

Ranocchia was already lying on the ground—he had cramps, but Long Bisheng still had the strength to carry Ribery all the way to the stands!what does that mean?It means that Long Bisheng's physical fitness can even be said to be spare!What kind of physical strength is this?What a monster!

Benitez seems to be able to see that in the next few years, the princes from all walks of life in Europe will be ravaged by this monster...

Losing to such a monster seems, maybe, or, probably an acceptable thing... Benitez thought helplessly, although there is still time before the end of the game, Mourinho can completely use up the substitutions again and again to use up all the time!He guessed the beginning, but failed to guess the ending...

Five minutes later, the referee blew the whistle for the end of the game, and 5 Inter Milan fans looked at the field helplessly. The two-to-one above the stands was so dazzling...

(End of this chapter)