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Chapter 724 Under the Prestigious Fame, There Is No Void [1 More]

Chapter 724 Under the Prestige, There Are No Voids [One Update]

In the first leg of the Champions League quarter-finals, Inter Milan beat Schalke 1 0-04 at home. It was very difficult for Inter Milan to win. If it hadn’t been for Diego Milito’s header at the last moment, it is hard to say that Inter Milan’s winning streak would have ended at San Siro after the winter break.

What is more worrying than the final score is the state of the players in the game. After all, the Nerazzurri fighters are flesh and blood. At the end of the long season, they have been exhausted physically and mentally after repeated vicious battles. In the Schalke 04 game, the Nerazzurri did not show the kind of oppressive momentum they had in previous games.

In fact, Inter Milan is not a special case.

Europa's five top leagues have entered April, but any giant team that has the hope of winning the championship, no matter how thick your bench is, by this time they are all at the end of their battles. In the long season, the competition is perseverance and spirit. Every final champion is finally born after going through the test of blood and fire.

This is exactly the value and charm of the championship trophy.

After the game, Gazzetta dello Sport commented worriedly in related reports: "At the end of the season, they still maintain the ability to compete for the championship in the league, the Champions League and the Coppa Italia. This is something that Inter Milan is proud of, but it is also something they must be careful. The tight schedule of double matches in a week is likely to make them a tired team. The rival AC Milan has already bid farewell to the Champions League. They are 2 points away from the leader Madman Li's team. Relatively speaking, they are much calmer..."

"Gazzetta dello Sport" concerns are justified.

On the third day after defeating Schalke 04 32-[-], Inter Milan had not had time to catch their breath, and the [-]nd round of Serie A officially kicked off.

The match between AC Milan and Inter Milan started at the same time.

AC Milan challenged the powerful opponent [Volatilia] Fiorentina in the away game, while Inter Milan played at home at Meazza to face the Serie A relegation team Chievo. Originally, many people regarded this round of the game as a great opportunity for the [Nerazzurri] to overtake AC Milan and return to No.1 in the Serie A standings. After all, Allegri's opponents are much stronger than Madman Li's opponents.

However, Inter Milan did not seize the opportunity.

After 10 and 4 minutes, AC Milan relied on [Brazilian Golden Boy] Pato and [Cycling Prince] Robinho to score twice at the Franchi Stadium, sweeping [Volatile] 1:[-], while Inter Milan fought hard at home, and finally relied on Diego Milito's goal to defeat the underdog Chievo.

After 32 rounds, the gap between the Milan duo in the standings remains at 2 points.

Such a result disappointed many Inter Milan supporters for a while, but they quickly threw their negative emotions to Java Island. There is nothing to worry about. The man standing in front of the team's command seat and fighting for the team is called Crazy Li. Is there anything that "God on the Football Field" can't do?When has he let his supporters down?What's more, in the more important UEFA Champions League, the mortal enemy AC Milan has been eliminated, and we still maintain the hope of entering the final!

4 month 13 day.

Inter Milan flew to Germany.

Since Gelsenkirchen, where Schalke 04 is located, does not have an international airport, the team can only go to Dortmund first, land at Dortmund Airport, which is closer to Gelsenkirchen, and then take the train to Gelsenkirchen.

After tossing all the way, it was already evening when we arrived at the hotel we booked before. It was impossible to go to Schalke 04’s home Veltins Arena to adapt to the venue in advance. Li Tongfan simply asked the players to go back to their rooms to rest and recover their strength.

During this period of double matches a week, coupled with the travel, the Hammers' physical fitness is very strong, and the assistant coach Batistuta is worried, full of various worries about the upcoming game.

"Hey, Gabriel, if you keep frowning like this, you will soon be abandoned by those female fans who are obsessed with you, because you grow old too fast!" Seeing the players obediently returning to the room to rest, Li Tongfan patted Batistuta on the shoulder with a smile, and suggested: "Why don't we go out to see the night view of Gelsenkirchen? You know, this is the famous [City of a Thousand Suns] in Europe... Let's go!"

Before Batistuta refused, Li Tongfan packed up his equipment, put a deep-brimmed baseball cap on [God of War], and dragged him out of the hotel.

moment--

The peaceful environment with soothing music in the hotel lobby changed, and a kind of noise and prosperity came oncoming.

Gelsenkirchen in the night has its own unique taste, just like a woman who has been washed out of her beauty after going through the wind and snow, revealing the temperament and grace that only she has.

In 1840, when the test drilling probe found coal mines for the first time, Gelsenkirchen was just a village with less than 600 named households. However, the discovery of "black gold" made the village grow explosively. When the coal mining industry was at its peak, there were more than 60 coal mines in operation at the same time. Rows of blast furnaces, coking ovens and steel factories gave this industrial city a beautiful nickname - "City of Thousand Fires", which refers to the city because Steelmaking burns thousands of flames every day and every night.

At that time, a large number of farmers and workers came here to make a living. Gelsenkirchen also became the most important industrial, mining and energy city in Germany for a time, but the fireworks were brilliant but could not last long. With the import of cheap coal and the adoption of environmentally friendly energy, coal enterprises in Gelsenkirchen closed down like leeks that were cut off, and a large number of workers lost their jobs...

During these difficult years, it was football that supported the lives of the city's miners.

"Whether I turn into iron filings or chalk, I'm going to Schalke..."

This song that brought hope to a generation at that time is still sung in Gelsenkirchen. When the mining industry can no longer become the life and identity of this city, football has become particularly important to people’s common feelings. For the citizens of this city, Schalke is not limited to football. She is a football association and a concept of life.

Strolling in an unknown street in Gelsenkirchen, you can see signs related to football and Schalke 04 everywhere. Photos of the team's coach Magath, the team's top star [Lord of the Rings] Raul, goalkeeper Neuer, and striker Farfan appeared on the advertising space on the ground floor of a 50-storey glass building opposite, accompanied by a German slogan - "Beat Madman Lee, we can do it!"

Kacha Kacha-!

The shutter of the Sony SLR camera made crisp sound again and again, and Batistuta was unlucky enough to become Li Tongfan's personal videographer, constantly recording the poses that the sullen man posed with his obscene laughter...

"Li, I remember that you didn't like photography so much before..." Batistuta pressed the shutter with a wry smile, and fixed the V-shaped pose of Lao Li's hands on the film: "Besides, I was photographed today. Is it difficult for you to be obsessed with modeling?"

"Gabriel, you never gossip like this before!" Li Tongfan rolled his eyes, and by the way leaned on a bronze statue of a coal miner in the shape of a city behind him, posed an idiot pose, the flashlight was shining, and then continued: "My son is about to be born, and I decided to record all the places I have been to with photos from now on, so that I can tell him about my father's heroic past every day..."

"OK! That's a great explanation, Lee, you'd be a good father!"

Wearing sunglasses and baseball caps, the two of them took photos along the way, and there were many people walking on the road, but no one recognized these two leisurely tourists on the street, who would be the life and death enemies of the entire city tomorrow.

When passing by a bar, a few big German men wearing Schalke 04 imperial blue team uniforms came out of it, smelling of alcohol, and some people were still holding bottles of wine, waiting for taxis at the door of the bar...

"Tomorrow, when I go to Auf Schalke to watch the game, I must boo that damn guy, Madman Lee..."

"Let's go back and make a more prominent slogan, what is written on it?"

"Why don't you write 'Go back to your mother's stomach and eat shit, Crazy Lee...' What do you guys think?"

"Oh, Scharf, this topic of yours is really fucking shit. Crazy Li is a super handsome man, so provocation like this won't do anything at all..."

"Yeah, it's really a pity. If it weren't for the fact that he brought the Italian bastards from Inter Milan to play, I really thought of going to ask for his autograph. You know, I have been his fan since three years ago..."

A few drunks chattered loudly.

Li Tongfan rolled his eyes, went straight to the drunks, and said a few words in German—after he had enough [Character Points], Lao Li had already learned several mainstream football languages ​​such as German, Portuguese, and Dutch through the FM system, so there was no problem in communicating with these drunks.

Batistuta looked worriedly at Li Tongfan, who was talking and laughing with the drunks, for fear that the drunks would recognize this man as the life and death enemy of Schalke 04 tomorrow, and they would turn Old Li on the spot.

Who knew that the few people had a very happy conversation. I don’t know what Li Tongfan said. The drunks burst into laughter. One of them was a 1.9-meter-tall man who looked like [Terminator] Schwarzenegger, and even talked and laughed with Li Tongfan like an old friend...

Batistuta looked dumbfounded.

"Hey, Gabriel, come and take a picture for us!" Li Tongfan waved in the distance and greeted loudly in English.

Kacha-!

The shutter sounded, and a meaningful photo was frozen in the night of Gelsenkirchen. What surprised Batistuta was that at the moment of taking the photo, Li Tongfan took off his baseball cap and sunglasses...

Before qualifying for the life-and-death battle, a group of fanatical Schalke 04 fans, in front of the football-themed bar with the logo of the Imperial Blue Team, laughed and took a group photo with the rival coach Crazy Lee... Batistuta felt that he was running out of brains.

"Hey, idiot, remember your promise, you must come to the Auf Schalke Stadium to watch the game tomorrow..."

"You're an interesting guy, you can sit among us when the time comes..."

"Idiot, then we will let you feel the enthusiasm of the Schalke fans. After the game, we can buy you a drink, haha..."

The drunks waved their hands, got into taxis and left.

"Ha, this is a group of enthusiastic guys..." Li Tongfan took the time to put on his baseball cap and sunglasses, turned around and shrugged at the still a little bewildered [God of War].Batistuta looked at the black line on his forehead and said, "Li, if they recognized you just now, you would be in trouble..." Li Tongfan laughed, turned around and walked away: "Didn't you recognize them? Gabriel, don't you think these fans are cute? Think about it, you can become friends with a group of strangers at any time... Ah, praise God..." Li Tongfan put his hands together, raised his chin slightly and made a prayer, closed his eyes and exclaimed: "This is the power of football." !"

"By the way, did you capture the pose just now?" Li Tongfan asked suddenly.

"Uh... no!"

"What a waste of my expression, let's do it again!" The sullen man was very disappointed.

Kacha-! !

The flash fired and the shutter sounded.

"Li, which fans will know who you are tomorrow, how do you think they will react?" Batistuta suddenly asked with a smile.

Li Tongfan also laughed out loud.

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Li Tongfan didn't know how the drunk man who took a photo with him in front of the bar in the dark of night would react when he met him again.But Lao Li now clearly knows that Schalke 04 fans will definitely not cheer for his arrival like the Nerazzurri.

Middle finger, and boos!

Surrounding the Inter Milan bus, it was less than 200 meters away from the Veltins Arena, but surrounded by fanatical Schalke 04 fans, the bus crawled to the player tunnel outside the stadium at a slow speed that would make even a snail feel ashamed...

It is said that the fans of Schalke 04 once created the largest decibel record in the stadium noise in the European League. At first, many Inter Milan players scoffed at it. You must know that the atmosphere at Meazza is also quite fanatical.

Looking out of the car window, there is only one color in front of me——

blue!

Imperial blue!

The entire bus is like a light boat that has been sucked into the vast ocean, waiting for a wave to come over, and it is in danger of being destroyed at any time...

The fans of Schalke defend their club as if defending their own children. Football has become an indispensable culture in a quiet life here. The Bundesliga Blues reached the top 8 in the Champions League this season as a dark horse. Every step forward is a miracle, enough to make this football city boil!

Under such circumstances, you can understand the expectations of shaker04 fans for the upcoming game.Every man has an inexplicable innate preference for miracles, and a natural hostility towards those who kill miracles!

Today, Inter Milan and Crazy Li are the ones who are hated by the whole city.

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"The game has started for 10 minutes, and the current score is still 0:0..."

Four 10 minutes later, Veltins-Arena.

The German commentator is explaining the ongoing game with a worried face.

The second round of the 2010-2011 UEFA Champions League knockout round [Nazzure] Inter Milan vs. [Imperial Blue] Schalke 04 has already started 12 minutes.

In the past twelve minutes, Schalke 04 used the power of the home court to explode a powerful attack, like a sudden flash flood on a rainy night, with the unstoppable momentum of thousands of horses galloping down from the top of the mountain, carrying rolling stones and muddy water, possessing the might of destroying the world.

[Tie Shuai] Magath obviously wanted to use a fierce offensive to catch Crazy Li off guard.

However, the situation made many senior supporters of [Imperial Blue] feel a little worried. The current Inter Milan team built by Madman Li is not strong in defense, but even so, they still persisted for 04 minutes under the stormy offensive of Schalke 12, without showing the slightest flaw!

If you can't attack for a long time, you will be backlashed!

Just think about the [Blue-Black Storm] that is still fierce in Serie A, think about the tragedy that Bayern Munich, the big brother of the Bundesliga, encountered at the Allianz Arena, the supporters of [Imperial Blue] have no doubt that as long as their offensive stops for a while, they will suffer what kind of terrible counterattack from Madman Lee!

time flies.

Schalke 04 almost played the most magnificent offensive this season. The cooperation between the center and the frontcourt was like passing clouds and mercury pouring down the ground. Even the Schalke fans in the stands were watching it.

[Tie Shuai] Magath, who likes to play centralized power, frowned on the sidelines.

He never expected that Madman Li would actually play this song for him in the away game—this madman who likes to attack, actually played a defensive counterattack honestly, and he played it brilliantly, which made his tactical intention of relying on a desperate attack at home to win a chance of life before the game completely come to naught!

"Unfortunately, physical fitness is the weak point of Inter Milan. If they attack hard, we have a chance...but..." Magath turned his head and glanced at the young man in front of the coach of the visiting team who was less than ten meters away from him. He still couldn't let go of his heart: "Although he had a high evaluation of this guy before the game, it was still not enough. There is no one under the name. Is this the strength of the creator of the myth of victory?"

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There is one more.

(End of this chapter)