Chapter 758
"That's why many small teams can beat big teams. The value of the team is often not just about ability."
"With the same ability, a 20-year-old player will definitely be worth more than a 30-year-old player. Even if the 20-year-old player's ability is lower than that of the 30-year-old player, his value may still be higher than that of the 30-year-old player."
"But Inter Milan has already demonstrated its strength in Serie A, and Simeone has made Inter Milan his own team."
"So in this first leg of the Champions League knockout match at Inter Milan's home ground, anyone can win."
Scholes supports neither Inter Milan nor Liverpool.
On January 6, Lin Chen had arrived at Inter Milan's stadium, and there were many fans outside the stadium greeting the players.
Lin Chen heard some Inter Milan fans shouting his name.
Outside Inter Milan's stadium are posters of the 11 starting players. This is Inter Milan's way of cheering for the team!
"Goalkeeper: Handanovic."
"Defenders: Skriniar, De Vrij, Bastoni."
"Midfielders: Dumfries, Vidal, Brozovic, Calhanoglu, Dimarco."
"Front: Lautaro Martinez, Dzeko!"
Compared with the lineup when Liverpool played against Tottenham, Salah is still the right winger, Dias is the left winger, and Nunez is the center forward.
The starting midfielders were Soboslai, Rodri and Lin Chen. Klopp did not start McAllister.
Left winger Robertson, central defenders Van Dijk and Konate, right back Gvardiol.
"Klopp doesn't let McAllister play, so Liverpool hopes Rodri will have the ball alone. Soboslai will definitely attack more, and his playing style is different from McAllister's."
"So Klopp didn't come for a draw in this game, they wanted to beat Inter Milan at Inter Milan's home ground!"
Gullit knows that Klopp's tactics in the Champions League will be bolder, but considering Inter Milan's recent performance, especially Lautaro Martinez, who has scored a lot of goals at Inter Milan's home ground, Liverpool may also lose more goals by doing so.
Lin Chen has never played against Inter Milan, this is the first time.
Because in the past few seasons, Inter Milan has not been able to return to the Champions League knockout stage, and now Lin Chen is very happy to see Inter Milan return in a strong state.
"Some players may not have played in the Champions League knockout stage. After today's game, you will find that there is no difference between the Champions League knockout stage and the Premier League game."
"Perhaps playing in Italy will make you feel more comfortable than playing in Manchester, after all, the weather here is very comfortable."
Lin Chen recalled the scene when he and Liverpool went to Manchester to play games. Whether it was against Manchester City or Manchester United, rainy weather always accounted for most of the time.
When Lin Chen arrived in Italy, he found that the weather was very good.
Lin Chen didn’t know how Inter Milan was prepared, but Liverpool was well prepared.
Nunez has been watching videos of Lautaro Martinez's goals.
"Maybe you should learn from Lautaro's connection between sprinting and receiving the ball. He can always hit the ball directly at high speed and score."
"Many of his shots were without stopping the ball, but he hit the ball directly towards the goal while it was still rolling, which is why he was able to score so many goals."
Inter Milan is ready to watch Liverpool! When playing against his home team, Simeone always stands on the sidelines in a comfortable suit, looking more like he is enjoying the Italian sunshine than coaching a game.
Klopp, who never wears a suit when directing a game, also put on a suit, as if he wanted to compare with Simeone to see who is more handsome!
Looking at Klopp in a suit, Lin Chen felt that his usual black sportswear was more suitable for recommendation, but he didn't want to say something that might make Klopp lose confidence. During the warm-up, Lin Chen took off Klopp's hat.
"Klopp, if you must wear this sports cap, then you might as well not wear a suit. You have a nice haircut."
Zabia put Klopp's hat on his head!
"Lin, do I look more handsome with this hat on?"
Lin Chen looked at Zabia very seriously.
"Zabia, sometimes I always feel troubled about how to avoid saying something hurtful, so could you please not ask me the question I just asked?"
Klopp laughed, Kravitz snatched a hat-trick off Zabia's head and the Liverpool players showed no signs of nervousness during their warm-up, even though they were surrounded by Inter's home fans.
The warm-up is over, Liverpool and Inter Milan are on the stage. In the 2021-2022 season, the first round of the Champions League knockouts will start at Inter Milan’s home!
After the game started, Dimarco began to defend Lin Chen as expected. Lin Chen looked at Dimarco and Vidal who was following behind him, and kept running towards Calhanoglu.
Even if Inter Milan's midfielder sent someone to mark him, Lin Chen still had to defend Calhanoglu!
Because Calhanoglu provided too many assists to Lautaro Martinez in Serie A!
The 8th minute of the game!
"Calhanoğlu can't get the ball now!"
"Vidal and Dimarco were both defending Lin, and Lin kept running towards Calhanoglu, but no one from Inter Milan dared to pass the ball to him!"
De Vrij started to make long passes in the backcourt. As a Dutch central defender, his long passes were as accurate as Van Dijk's!
Lin Chen has always believed that De Vrij is one of the best central defenders in football this season!
De Vrij made a long pass from the backcourt to Dzeko, who transferred from Manchester City to Inter Milan. Dzeko stopped the ball and passed it back to Brozovic!
Brozovic had already chosen Lautaro as his passing target, and when he received the pass from Dzeko, he passed the ball to the front left!
Lautaro Martinez dumps Van Dijk off!
"This ball was passed well!"
“Lautaro Martinez shoots!”
When Brozovic's pass reached Lautaro Martinez, Lautaro shot the ball directly towards the goal!
Alisson made a standard close-angle save to block the ball!
"Lautaro Martinez is as excited as ever at Inter's home ground!"
"This shot will definitely make Liverpool realize the power of Lautaro!"
