The Day I Played with Ronaldo

With the whistle of the referee Rodomonti, the highlight of the third round of the 2004-05 Serie A season, the match between Inter Milan and Juventus at home officially started!

Mancini once again used his trusted Favalli, Mihajlovic to start, another central defender was Cordoba, and right back was Zanetti.

The midfielder finally abandoned Veron, because the formation he played at the moment required the midfielder to pass the ball forward frequently and take advantage of the forward's speed advantage.

Veron hardly passes the ball to the Brazilian, so he can only be left out of the starting lineup.

The configuration of Inter Milan's midfielder and frontcourt is exactly the configuration of the main team in the team's confrontation games these days. Davies, Stankovic and Cambiasso sit in the midfield, while Ricardo, Ronaldo and Adriano sit in the midfield. It's three arrows, ready to go.

Ricardo's body has actually recovered a long time ago, but Mancini has been pushed on the bench just to play a surprise role in this crucial game.

At this moment, he is like a tiger returning to the mountains and a dragon returning to the sea, and he feels that both his physical condition and his mental state have reached the peak.

Not long after the opening, he tried to dribble twice and hit a long shot to test his state.

The dribble was successful once, and Zebina was brought down by Zebina on the other time, and the opponent received a yellow card; the quality of the long-range shots was also very high. Can be regarded as good condition.

Ricardo was satisfied with this, and in the following time he stopped being self-willed and focused on implementing Mancini's tactical ideas.

Capello stood on the sidelines and after watching for a few minutes, a smile overflowed from the corner of his mouth.

Mancini is still the same... when he wants to score goals, he plays forward. As everyone knows, whether it is offensive or defensive, success can only rely on the strength of the whole.

If the overall offensive is played smoothly, goals can be scored even without a striker.

If the offense is not well organized, even playing 4 strikers is X**T, and you can only score a few goals when you are lucky.

After seeing Mancini's guiding ideas for this game, Capello was relieved and sat back on the coach's bench.

If Mancini sticks to his defense and uses the speed and personal ability of Ronaldo, Adriano and Ricciardo to fight back, he will feel a little headache.

Since Mancini wants to play offensive football, then his soldiers will definitely give Mancini a good lesson. What is "offense wins the fans, defense wins the championship"!

What Juventus ranked today is also a midfield parallel position 442 that has been popular in recent years.

Defensive goalkeeper Buffon, right back Zebina, left back Zambrotta. The two midfielders are Emerson and Blasi, the right midfielder Camoranesi, and the left midfielder Nedved. Among them, Nedved will cut in more and assist Emerson in the midfield organization.

The striker partners are Ibrahimovic and Sarajeta. This is not the strongest lineup for Juventus, but both Trezeguet and Del Piero are injured, and only the fourth striker Zarajeta can play such an important game.

Compared with Inter Milan's lineup, this lineup is so simple, but the threat to Inter Milan on the field is not small.

Juventus played slowly on the field, keeping the ball with their feet upside down, and seemed in no rush to attack. And when Inter Milan showed their flaws because of impatience or pressing, they would suddenly speed up and show their sharp fangs.

Inter Milan is playing unrestrained offensive football. It's complicated to say, but the essence is - give the ball to any one of Ronaldo, Ricardo, or Adriano, and let them solve the battle!

However, in view of the fact that Cannavaro has always been close to Ronaldo, and Zebina, Thuram, and even Brasi in the midfield also make up for it from time to time, so Inter Milan often attack through the two wings. The ball was given to Ricardo and Adriano.

Offensive football does not mean not to defend. Even Ricardo and Adriano often come back to participate in defense.

In the 0th minute, Adriano kicked Nedved down when he returned to the defense, received Inter Milan's first yellow card, and gave the opponent a free kick in an excellent position.

Fortunately, Juventus' free kick master Del Piero was injured, and Nedved kicked the ball into the wall.

A minute later, Inter Milan played a quality counterattack, Stankovic sent a direct pass, Ricardo took the ball and singled out Zebina.

Zebina was very experienced, and he didn't take the initiative to stretch his feet. He just squeezed Ricardo with his body and forced him to the outside.

Ricardo just protected the ball and didn't try to break through with the ball. Zebina now has a yellow card in his body, and he has learned his lesson and will not be easily shaken away by him.

With his back to the goal, Riccardo noticed Ronaldo's running position from the corner of his eyes, and immediately knocked the ball with his heel.

Ronaldo shook off Cannavaro for a moment, got the football, and Cannavaro immediately leaned against him.

I saw Ronaldo turned his body sideways and kicked the football heavily with his right foot, as if he wanted to distribute the ball to Adriano on the right. However, his kicked foot turned into a smashing action, and a nearly perfect Cruyff turned around, shaking Cannavaro hesitantly.

Taking advantage of this small gap, Ronaldo suddenly accelerated, slipped in from Cannavaro, and faced Thuram who was assisting in the defense, he made a quick sway left and right.

His movements are too fast, and every fake movement may become a real movement at any time, so Thuram has to eat his movements and is shaken to lose his center of gravity.

Ronaldo accelerated again, brushed past Thuram, and raised his leg to hit the goal before Zambrotta's flying shovel.

Buffon's attention was highly focused, and as soon as Ronaldo raised his leg, he flew out like a spring, and saved the ball steadily over the baseline.

The commentator commented: "Ronaldo chose to shoot by himself! He is a bit alone in this ball, and it can be handed over to Adriano. Adriano's side is already empty."

But Ricardo and Adriano on the field didn't think so. They are all little fans of Ronaldo, and they think it is normal for Ronaldo to shoot by himself.

After all, Ronaldo is number one in the world.

If the number one in the world dare not take responsibility and dare not shoot the goal by himself, then what kind of number one in the world is he?

So they applauded Ronaldo one after another, and the fans in the North Stand also applauded Ronaldo's wonderful breakthrough and shooting.

Capello jumped up when Ronaldo broke in, and when Buffon hit the ball out of the baseline, he still looked stern, with his left hand resting on his chest, and his right index finger gently tapping his chin.

Mancini's tactics are easy to crack, but Ronaldo's outburst is really unsolvable...

At this moment, he suddenly envied Mancini very much. Being able to coach a player like Ronaldo is so worry-free and labor-saving. Just X**T in the middle and backcourt, as long as the ball is passed to Ronaldo, Ronaldo can kill the game by himself.