After the game, Inter Milan head coach Mourinho was dissatisfied with the team's performance. He said: "We just played good goals in the half. In the first half, we could have scored more goals, but the players were wasted some opportunities. In the second half, we saw a real Fiorentina team. They showed a strong desire to survive, played a lot of beautiful offensive cooperation, and equalized the score."

"Then I had to send Zheng Zhi, and his game ended. Haha, I know what you want to say, but he is our ace, we have to ask him to stand up, and he did, we won the trophy, and that's the best story, the best fairy tale, isn't it?"

"Did you notice he was sleeping?"

"Yes, the king of Inter Milan is sleeping, but he has to wear armor and fight for the team."

"He looks tired, but we have no choice."

"Now I need everyone to have a good rest and prepare for the Serie A game in three days. The new season starts with the Super Cup championship, which is a good sign. After playing the first round of Serie A, we will compete with Liverpool. I hope we can also win the European Super Cup, so that we will win four championships in 2001. In addition to the Toyota Cup at the end of the year, I think our goals in the second half of the year are still full of challenges."

Italian media reported on the game with pictures of Zheng Zhi celebrating his goal as the background. Zheng Zhi was highly praised.

"Milan Sports" titled "Inter Milan won the Italian Super Cup". "Murinho's team is still reaping the championship, with tactics and strong overall combat effectiveness and good luck. Inter Milan won the Super Cup. Although Fiorentina is very close to the championship, when the king on the bench wakes up, everything is over."

"Milan Sports" believes that Inter Milan may be without Vieri, without Ronaldo, and without anyone, but Zheng Zhi must not be without.

Finally, "Milan Sports" concluded, "Inter Milan has two major successes in this game: one is to always let the team play football confidently, and the other is to always place hope on the Chinese at critical moments."

"Turin Sports" said, "It took only 10 minutes for the king to wake up and let Inter Milan win the Italian Super Cup."

The Turin Sports Daily pointed out that Mancini's only mistake may be that he did not give Zheng Zhi a pillow to give him a good sleep. If Zheng Zhi woke up for 10 minutes late, perhaps Fiorentina might win the penalty shootout. Unfortunately, the king woke up and they were defeated.

Rome's Republic: Zheng Zhi defeated Fiorentina with a Batti-like goal, allowing Inter Milan to win the Super Cup. Even if Vieri and Ronaldo appeared in the starting lineup at the same time, Inter Milan was not terrible. Only when Zheng Zhi was at the time, Inter Milan was invincible and invincible!

After winning the Super Cup, Inter Milan had no celebrations, and there was obviously no reason to excite them in such a useless championship.

Everyone's minds flew into the European Super Cup, and even the first round of Serie A did not arouse their appetite.

On the 25th, the Serie A officially opened, with Inter Milan playing against Perugia at home.

Mourinho rotated Vieri and Ronaldo, sent a forward combination of Tony and Recoba, while the midfielder was a combination of Zanetti, Dibiagio, Zheng Zhi and Pirlo, and the defense line was Panucci, Cordoba, Carvalho, Grosso, and the goalkeeper was Buffon.

This year's lineup is obviously much looser than last year.

As a result, Inter Milan defeated Perugia 4-1 at home, ushering in a good start to the league. The goals were Tony, Recoba and Sanetti, and Tony scored twice.

However, this score did not make them at the top of the list, only ranked second.

Juventus' 4:0 was even more brilliant, without losing a single goal, the forwards showed great power, Pierro and Trezeguet each took over two goals.

Another team from Milan City was not good at making a move and was tied 2:2 by Brescia, led by Baggio.

The two teams of Roma City were also tied 1:1 on the road respectively.

Last year, Roma competed with Inter Milan, and it seems that Juventus and Inter Milan competed this year? The two teams showed violent offensive edge at the beginning of the season.

But this is just the first round. Last year, Roma was overtaken by Inter Milan until the second half of the season. The team that can win the league championship will always be the most stable team.

Just as the Italians were talking about the first round of Serie A, Inter Milan had already sent troops to Monaco, and they were going to compete with Liverpool for the UEFA Super Cup at the Luis II Stadium.

Inter Milan arrived in Monaco Monte Carlo three days in advance to prepare for the battle.

The next day, the entire Inter Milan team attended the UEFA awards ceremony, and Inter Milan became the biggest winner because they were the Champions League champions last season.

UEFA's Most Valuable Player (MVP) was produced among Zheng Zhi, Irving and Ronaldo. Ronaldo, who finally set a record of 18 goals, defeated Zheng Zhi and Irving.

It has to be said that in this award, the striker still has a greater advantage than the midfielder. Is Zheng Zhi not outstanding? He is even better than last year, but Ronaldo's goals are too exaggerated, with 37 goals in the league, 18 goals in the Champions League, and a total of 55 goals in the season. This is the limit that a striker can achieve. The last time he was able to score 55 goals was another Brazilian player, Jadel, but he created it in the Portuguese League at that time.

However, Zheng Zhi did not return disappointed, and he won the Best Midfield Award. In this field, neither Zidane nor Figo poses a threat this year. Liverpool's Gerald has some hope, but it is just hope.

Other awards, Best goalkeeper: Casillas. Although Real Madrid lost, Casillas performed very well. If it weren't for him, Real Madrid would not even pass the Manchester United level.

Best defender: Blanco. He reached his peak at the end of his career and is now playing for Manchester United.

Best forward: Ronaldo. In this position, Raul and Irving are excellent enough.

Fair Competition Award: Irving.

Poor Irving, he is magical enough this year, but in the forward position, the League Cup best scorer is still not as good as the record Champions League best scorer. The Fair Competition Award can only be a comfort.

Inter Milan head coach Mourinho also defeated Liverpool's three-time champion Liverpool and won the Best Coach.

The Liverpool generals were all tragic and lost to Inter Milan.

This is fun. The two teams will have a European Super Cup final battle the next night, Mourinho vs Hollier, Ronaldo vs Irving, and they can continue to score on the court.

However, Inter Milan did not win the Best Team Award. The League Cup dark horse Alaves was named the Best Team of last season by UEFA and defeated Inter Milan.

Alaves did a pretty good job, no worse than Inter Milan, and they had a fantastic season.

In addition, the newly retired Real Madrid veteran captain Sanchez, AC Milan's current captain Maldini, and former Inter Milan star Bergomi entered the European Football Hall of Fame together, and all three of them appeared on the scene.

After the award ceremony, the lottery for the Champions League was immediately held.

The 32 teams participating in the draw include defending champion Inter Milan, 15 teams that directly qualified for the group stage and 16 teams that advanced through the qualifying round.

According to the club points of UEFA, these teams are divided into four levels, Inter Milan and the top seven teams in the first level, and then eight teams are the second level, and so on.

During the draw, a team will be drawn from each level to form a group, with a total of eight groups. At the same time, it is necessary to ensure that the teams from the same league will not be in the same group, and their game dates and home and away games should be staggered as much as possible to watch and broadcast.

As the defending champion, Inter Milan automatically became the seed team in Group A, with good luck. The other three opponents are Galatasaray, Eindhoven and Nantes, and the promotion seems to be no problem at all.

Only three other teams are in pain because they can only compete for one promotion place for this.

The results of the lottery are as follows:

Group a: Inter Milan, Galatasaray, Eindhoven, Nantes.

Group b: Liverpool, Dortmund, Dynamo Kiev, Boavista.

Group C: Arsenal, Mallorca, Schalke 04, Panasinaikos.

Group d: Real Madrid, Rome, Moscow Locomotive, Anderlecht.

Group e: Juventus, Porto, Rosenberg, and Celtics.

Group F: Barcelona, ​​Lyon, Leverkusen, Fenerbahce.

Group g: Manchester United, La Coruna, Olympiacos, Lille.

Group h: Bayern Munich, Spartak, Feyenoord, Sparta Prague.

Next year's final will be held on May 15, 2002 at Hampden Park Stadium in Glasgow.

After the draw, Mourinho was still worried that Inter Milan would not win the best team of the season.

He said in an interview with the media: "I think this is incredible. We are the Champions League champions and the Serie A champions. We are not the best team in Europe?"

"Alaves is of course worth the reward, but I think Inter Milan is better."

He shrugged, "Does we have to prove ourselves the best in the Champions League?"

This sentence immediately caused laughter from reporters.

"What do you mean, once again to the top of Europe?"

"Why not, don't every team that comes here to participate in the Champions League want to win the final championship? Although it's difficult, if Inter Milan wants to become greater, they must continue to become European champions."

"And our starting point starts with defeating Liverpool tomorrow night!"

He had been thirsty for this game.

"I think it's more appropriate to hold the awards after the European Super Cup. How can we ignore the European Super Cup? Of course, maybe we have higher requirements."

Before the game began, he despised Liverpool.

"Liverpool is great, but we can only win tomorrow night. My players said that if they fail, they will jump into the sea and swim all the way back to Italy. I know that such a vow is a bit exaggerated, but believe me, they really said that."

"Inter Milan is not afraid of Premier League teams. We can beat Manchester United and Leeds United, and we can naturally beat Liverpool. The most important thing is that this Liverpool has no championship experience, and they will be afraid when facing us."

"The Champions League champion will not lose to the League Cup champion."

"If we lose, we will swim back."

Boss, why are you doing so hard? Isn’t this giving everyone no way out?

Zheng Zhi was listening from the side, and he was sweating all over.

Moreover, we have never said such words. Aren’t you cheating us? He really wants to clarify in front of the media...

However, it was still silent.

As a result, the reporter asked Zheng Zhi.

"Zheng,"

"is that so?"

Zheng Zhi was slightly stunned and then smiled, "Yes, if we lose, we will swim back. But the problem is that many people don't know how to swim, this is a problem that cannot be solved, so we have to beat Liverpool, and we have no way out."

"However, on the map of Europe, it's only a few centimeters away from Monaco to Italy."

Ha ha ha ha……

Upstream of the map, simple. It's not really jumping into the Mediterranean.

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Liverpool vs Inter Milan.

In the eyes of Chinese fans, it can also be a Chinese derby held in Europe, because Liverpool has Fan Zhiyi and Inter Milan has Zheng Zhi. This is another peak of Chinese football.

Who can win, 32-year-old Fan Zhiyi and 21-year-old Zheng Zhi?
To be continued...