The Day I Played with Ronaldo

Although Ricardo decided to use a long shot to break the deadlock, he was not in a hurry to shoot. Regardless of the opportunity or not, shooting as soon as you catch the ball is called a wave shot.

Although Ricardo is now the de facto core of the team's offense, his status is not high enough to be able to shoot at will.

Therefore, he is still playing steadily. According to Mancini's tactical deployment, he takes the ball from the left and makes a bottom pass or cuts in. After the cut, he chooses to pass or shoot according to the situation, and the number of passes is more. Because the two central defenders of Juventus are too strong in frontal defense, he rarely has the opportunity to shoot immediately after cutting inside.

Now he is waiting for an opportunity to present itself. Just like the previous situation, Adriano switched positions with him, ran to the left to get the ball, and he ran to the center. When Adriano attracts Cannavaro and Thuram away and passes the ball to him, he will look for a chance to shoot long.

In the 40th minute, Inter Milan had a chance to score. At that time Chiellini shoveled Ricardo, the referee Papalesta fouled Chiellini, gave Chiellini a yellow card, and then gave an indirect free kick.

However, none of the Inter Milan players noticed this.

Since the ball was relatively close to the goal, Ricardo took the penalty. This time he kicked a wonderful elevator ball. The football fell sharply after crossing the wall and flew into the net, while Buffon did not move.

When Riccardo was about to run to the sidelines to do Tai Chi to celebrate, he found that his teammates hadn't followed him. He looked back and found that Papalesta declared the goal invalid, and the players of Inter Milan were begging for an explanation.

Ricardo immediately became angry. He missed a penalty kick at the beginning of the game, and now his goal is blown away. He rushed to Papa Lesta and shouted: "Why is the goal invalid!"

Papalesta gave him a cold look and said, "This is an indirect free kick."

Licado was speechless for a moment. He really hadn't noticed Paparesta's gesture before.

If his free kick hits a defender, or hits one of his own people and refracts the goal, the goal will be valid.

"Why an indirect free kick?" Ricardo objected.

"Because I was penalized just now because of Chiellini's dangerous action." Papa Lesta explained.

Li Kaduo could only be speechless, and ran away sullenly.

Although this episode affected his mood a bit, he quickly got rid of distracting thoughts and devoted himself to the game.

In the 45th minute, Juventus' attack was blocked by the Inter Milan defender. Pizarro found Ricardo with a long pass, and Inter Milan had a chance to counterattack.

Ricardo dribbled the ball along the left for more than 20 meters and pushed the ball forward. Adriano stabbed in obliquely, took the ball and continued to dribble on the left.

Ricardo regained his energy and quickly ran towards the middle.

I saw Adriano protecting the ball with his strong body, attracting both Thuram and Balzaretti, and Cannavaro approached Ricardo.

Before Cannavaro was in place, Adriano's pass had already arrived. Due to being double-teamed by two people, his passing accuracy was affected a little, and he flew to a place far in front of Ricardo.

Ricardo could only speed up, and finally stopped the ball dangerously, but due to irregular movements, the stop was a bit big,

He immediately pulled the ball back and avoided Cannavaro's steal.

At this time, his teammate Emerson of the Brazilian national team also came back to defend and tried to get the ball from behind. Figo shouted from the side: "Be careful!"

Ricardo leaned back, protected the ball with his body, and then kicked the ball with his left foot, as if to pass the ball to Figo.

But the foot he kicked out pulled the ball back at the last moment, and swiped to the front left again, shaking Cannavaro away, followed by a long shot with his left foot.

This kick caught people off guard, and Buffon's reaction was half a beat slow. By the time he realized, the football was already close at hand.

He barely made a save, but only touched the ball with his fingertips, and the ball was slightly diverted from the direction. However, football is still stubborn, and fell headlong into the net.

"Riccardo Goal! It was a long shot from 25 meters away. Buffon couldn't make a save. Inter Milan led 1-0! The first half is coming to an end, and Inter Milan finally took the lead!"

"Riccardo's movements are like flowing water. He calmly swayed open in the double-team of Cannavaro and Emerson, and finally shot a cold arrow and broke through Buffon's ten fingers. He was celebrating with that Chinese Kung Fu again. Yes, this is his 14th league goal this season, he is obviously very excited! With such a scoring rate, he will be the strongest contender for the Serie A Golden Boot this season!"

"Throughout the first half, Inter Milan's most outstanding player was Ricardo. Not as fast as Ricciardo, but he made Chiellini and Balzaretti suffer with his flexible movement and excellent technique."

The game restarted. After Juventus finished a wave of offense, Papa Lesta whistled to announce the end of the first half.

Players from both sides walked into the locker room with different attitudes.

"Very good," Mancini seemed very satisfied, his approving eyes swept across the faces of the players, "but don't be complacent, a 1:0 lead is the most unsafe score in the world, we still need more defense on the defensive end." Work hard, and then strive to expand the score advantage through defensive counterattacks.”

"I hope you put aside all distracting thoughts, don't think about the changes in the standings, don't think about the ownership of the championship, and don't think about the next Champions League. We have only one goal now: beat Juventus and get all 3 points! I believe you can do it!" Mancini encouraged, "Every one of you was great in the first half, but I hope to see you better!"

Then he carefully arranged the tactics for the second half. Basically no changes, just some fine-tuning in details.

For example, Adriano and Ricardo scored goals, and Mancini asked them to continue to play like this in the second half.

For example, asking Maicon to assist less and return to the middle more often, using his height advantage to help the two central defenders defend the opponent's two high center forwards.

For example, Cambiasso's position is required to be a little more forward, while Pizarro is more retreated, so that Pizarro can act as a "metronome" role similar to Pirlo's in AC Milan.

In the Juventus locker room, Capello did not criticize the players too much, but only implicitly expressed his dissatisfaction with Cannavaro and Emerson, thinking that they gave Ricardo too much room for movement .

In response to Inter Milan's style of play, he also made some tactical fine-tuning.

"Equalize the score as soon as possible and let the game return to the rhythm we are familiar with. We can win!" Capello finally concluded.

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