Inter arrived in Merseyside to prepare for a tough Champions League clash with Liverpool.
In the history of the Champions League, the first home game of the two-legged system lost 0-2, and the precedent for the second leg reversal was only once (Manchester United defeated Paris 3-1 away in the second leg, relying on more away goals to reverse the promotion, but now there is no away scoring rule), so the mainstream Media in Europe believes that Inter wants to challenge the reversal, which is an "impossible task".
Because Inter's overall aging, the physical endurance of multi-line combat is poor; because Inter's hope of overturning is slim, most fans do not expect this... Therefore, the call for Inter to abandon the Champions League and concentrate on the weekend league is the mainstream at present.
All indications are that Inter may really have two plans, first send elites to fight, if the game does not progress smoothly, then through the backhand substitution to reduce the consumption of the main players.
In the pre-match press conference, the Inter manager said: "For us, it will be very important to score in the first half".
So the reporters asked Inzaghi Jr.: What if Inter didn't score in the first 60 minutes? Will Inter replace the main force, reduce the consumption and build up for the weekend league? Little Inzaghi gave a very ambiguous, subtle answer: "Then let's wait for this not to happen!" ”
Inzaghi Jr. did not deny that if he did not score a goal, he would replace the main player.
Go all out to attack, if there is hope of overturning, fight all the bullets, but if there is no hope of overturning, consider leaving strength for the league, this is Inter's two-handed plan for attacking this battle.
Many people expressed dissatisfaction, why not simply give up? If you have to fight and spend energy, will it not be worth the loss to ruin the great cause of the league championship?
Give up without fighting, it's impossible. Players may not agree.
This is not only the spiritual appeal of competitive sports to never give up, but also the pattern of interests and capital dominating everything in the Western world.
Let's start with one thing about a player.
For many inter, playing at Anfield is the first time in their careers that only five Inter players have ever played at this stadium.
Four of them are veterans who are no longer on the rise. Dzeko, Sanchez and Damian are three veteran Premier League players.
Vidal played for Barcelona and also played a focus battle at Anfield. In the Champions League semi-finals in May 2019, Barca won 3-0 at home in the first leg, but lost 0-4 at Anfield.
The really relatively young one, Gossens. His experience is worth examining.
In the 2020-21 Champions League group stage Group D, Atalanta and Liverpool were in the same group, and back-to-back duels in the third and fourth rounds. In the third round, Atalanta lost 5-0 at home.
In the fourth round, Atalanta won 2-0 at Anfield. Gosons is the hero of the goal,
The Italian media stressed that Gossens's experience of obtaining many rewards in the following years through his outstanding performance in this battle revealed a fact: even if Inter really had the idea of "giving up", the players and the forces behind the players would not agree.
Gossens has been famous in Serie A for many years and has distinguished himself in battle.
But the popularity of the ball market has not been too high, especially the Premier League chaebols once had limited interest in him. Mainly because over the years, Premier League teams have dug up full-backs (wing-backs) from Serie A, and there are too many precedents for failure.
But since Gosons has been at Anfield, he has begun to gain favor in the Premier League. Since then, in every transfer window, Atalanta will receive an offer from the Premier League.
Before Gossens moved to Inter, he was injured for several months, but there were still chaebol teams like Newcastle who offered him high prices and high salaries. Although Gossens tended to choose the old giants and rejected the Premier League, gossons was able to double his salary through transfer, and the Premier League's offer was still one of the pushers.
In recent years, the development trend of Serie A has deteriorated.
A few years ago, the Serie A champions' league broadcast fee was around 100 million euros, which is much lower than the Premier League relegation team.
In recent years, Serie A broadcast fees have continued to decline, once the standard was flowing, and this season's defending champions such as Inter may only get about 70 million euros in broadcast fees, and the gap with the Premier League relegation team should be calculated by "multiples". Some financial experts pointed out that the reason why the top three in the north have collectively entered the top four of the Italian Cup is also because the yield of Serie A is actually not much different from the Italian Cup...
This situation is difficult to improve in the short term. In the future, the gap between the financial resources of Serie A and the Premier League will become wider and wider.
This determines that if a Serie A team wants players to sell for a good price, it should give priority to selling to the Premier League (except for Greater Paris). If a player wants to increase his income and get favored by the Premier League, it is easier to achieve his goals (except for The Greater Paris). For these reasons, as long as a Serie A team has the opportunity to play in the Premier League, the players will have more desire to perform, and the agents, sponsors and capital institutions behind the players will also put pressure on the players to perform for their lives. In a word: playing the Premier League to perform well and impress the chaebols is in the interests of all parties, and in the Western world, interests and capital are the forces that dominate everything.
From this point of view, it is meaningless to criticize the coach because of "refusing to give up the Champions League", because the things that the coach can control are limited after all.
The two plans that can be achieved by "fighting with all our strength when we have the opportunity, and staying hard when we don't have the opportunity to fight" are already pragmatic.