The Day I Played with Ronaldo

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Istanbul, known as "Constantinople" and "Byzantium" in ancient times, has a long history and splendid cultural heritage. It was once the capital of the Eastern Roman Empire and the Ottoman Empire, and it can be regarded as one of the centers of the Western world. The fastest update ┏Ⅹ④③⑨⑨┛ is now the capital of Türkiye.

This is a beautiful city, which spans Eurasia, has a population of 11 million, and is full of libraries, palaces and mosques.

The final of the 2004-2005 European Champions Cup will be held at the Ataturk Olympic Stadium in the western suburbs of Istanbul.

This is a large stadium that can accommodate 80,000 spectators, but it is not a professional football stadium. It was built for the bid to host the Olympic Games, and there is a track and field track beside the green field.

On the afternoon of April 23, the entire Inter Milan team arrived in Istanbul. After staying in the hotel, they conducted field adaptation training on this stadium.

The amount of training is not large, mainly to let the players familiarize themselves with the turf conditions in advance.

Ronaldo was chatting with Ricardo in a low voice: "Brother, I don't think you will have a chance to play tomorrow. I will finish Liverpool in halftime."

Ricardo smiled: "Dadado, although you are very strong, I must remind you that Liverpool only conceded one goal in the 4 games in the quarter-finals and semi-finals. Their defense is very good."

"Really?" Ronaldo blinked, "But I have already found their weakness."

"Oh, what is it?" Licardo asked.

"It's a secret," Ronaldo said solemnly. "You won't start anyway, so it's useless to tell you."

"Maybe I need to come off the bench to turn the tide." Ricardo joked.

Ronaldo thought for a while: "It makes sense. Then let me tell you, come here."

Ricardo leaned over his ears.

"Their weaknesses are very obvious..." Ronaldo suppressed a smile and said with a straight face on purpose, "We just need to drain the water."

"What?" Licado showed a puzzled look.

Ronaldo prompted: "Think about it, what is the name of Liverpool's team?"

"Liverpool..."

"right,

They all live in swimming pools. Then we'll just drain the water and see what happens. ’ Ronaldo gloated over his little joke.

Ricardo actually didn't think this joke was funny, but he still gave Ronaldo face and pretended to laugh for a while: "Okay, we can try to drain the water first. But what if it doesn't work?"

"Then try to play more behind the ball," Ronaldo said, "Liverpool's defenders are tall and strong, they defend fiercely from the front, and they are also good at defending against high-altitude balls, but their turning speed is relatively slow. Play more behind the ball, I think there will be miraculous."

"Mancini said the same thing..." Ricardo said helplessly, "Dadado, do you have any ideas of your own?"

"Of course there is," Ronaldo said confidently, "I think we can try more long-range shots."

"Why?"

"I heard that the goalkeepers in England like butter hands."

"Liverpool's goalkeeper Dudek is Polish..." Ricardo covered his forehead.

"After staying in the British league for a long time, a good goalkeeper will become a buttery player," Ronaldo said firmly. "Seeing the British goalkeeper get kicked, this is the secret of our Brazilian national team."

Come on, Ricardo knew that he would never hear anything useful from Ronaldo.

This year is the 20th anniversary of the Heysel tragedy, which is a special day for Liverpool.

After the Heysel tragedy, Liverpool were banned from European competition for seven years. To make matters worse, the Healdsburg tragedy in 1989, the two incidents plunged Liverpool into a trough for two decades.

In such a special year, maybe the Liverpool people can explode with special fighting power.

An incredible reversal, a permanent miracle in the history of football, an unsolved mystery, and the madness of 3 goals in 6 minutes. Oxford Dictionaries even has a new entry for it: unbeliverpool.

Although this is in a different time and space, Ricardo firmly believes that Inter Milan with a healthy Ronaldo cannot be overturned by Liverpool, but he still can't help worrying.

In this world, no one can understand his worries.

Like another time and space, Liverpool defeated the strong with the weak all the way, eliminated the thriving Chelsea and Juventus, and reached the final step by step. What if they also explode in the finals?

The uneasy mood kept him from sleeping well all night.

When he got up for breakfast the next day, he had big dark circles under his eyes, which shocked his teammates. Mancini couldn't help shaking his head when he saw it: young players have poor psychological quality. Fortunately, I didn't plan to let Ricardo start today.

Inter Milan's big list has been determined: goalkeeper Toldo, defender Zanetti, Mihajlovic, Cordoba and Favalli, nothing new. The midfielders are Cambiasso, Stankovic, Veron and C. Zanetti, and the forwards are Ronaldo and Adriano. The list of seven substitutes is: Fontana, Materazzi, Ze Maria, Emre, Van der Meyde, Ricardo and Martins.

Liverpool has not yet announced the squad, Mancini and assistant coach Oscar. Caballero guessing Liverpool's starting lineup.

Liverpool's midfield is relatively stable, goalkeeper Dudek, defenders should be Finnan, Carragher, Hyypia and Traore, midfielders should be Gerrard, Riise, and Benitez's favorite Luiz .Garcia and Xabi Alonso, but the striker is not sure.

Liverpool like to use a single arrow this season, and then ambush a hidden forward. Single arrow will be the French striker Cisse? Or Czech Baros? Yinfeng will be the Australian Kewell, or the Czech veteran Smicer?

But one thing is for sure, Liverpool's style of play must be based on defensive counterattacks.

They were grouped with Monaco, Olympiacos, and Deportivo in the group stage. It stands to reason that the average strength of this group is relatively weak, but they only achieved 3 wins, 1 draw and 2 losses, ranking second in the group qualify.

However, it is worth noting that although they only scored 6 goals in 6 group matches, they only conceded 3 goals, which is the team with the second-lowest conceded goals among the 8 groups. Juventus conceded the fewest goals, conceding only 1 goal in 6 group matches. Inter Milan, Chelsea and Liverpool all conceded only 3 goals, tied for second.

Then they beat Leverkusen 3-1 in the quarter-finals, Juventus 2-1 in the quarter-finals and Chelsea 1-0 in the semi-finals.

It's not that Juventus and Chelsea's offense is weak, Juventus doesn't mention it, Capello's 1:0 doctrine makes them not score many goals. But Chelsea is a goal madman, scoring 10 goals in 6 group matches, scoring 5 goals against Barcelona in the two rounds of the quarter-finals, and scoring 6 goals against Bayern Munich in the quarter-finals. A wealthy family is by no means a belly that allows anyone to score goals.

Of course, in terms of offensive power, these two teams are not comparable to Inter Milan.

Inter Milan scored a crazy 16 goals in 6 group games, and their opponents were the champions of La Liga, Bundesliga and Liga last season. In the knockout round, they scored 4 goals for Porto, 4 goals for AC Milan, and 5 goals for Eindhoven. It can be said that Inter Milan is the team with the strongest attack power in this Champions League match! And Liverpool is the strongest defensive team!

The strongest spear and the strongest shield will decide the winner today!