In the last moment of stoppage time in the first half, Inter Milan won the ball, but still failed to complete the attack. The referee Gonzalez directly blew the whistle to the end of the first half. On the way back to the locker room, Inter Milan players were amazed at Gao Xiaodong. Even Sneijder, who had always been silent with Gao Xiaodong, was convinced. Even the goalkeeper can play in a special position. Who dares to disobey such a monster?

Mourinho returned to the locker room first and waited for the players. When Gao Xiaodong came in, Mourinho excitedly gave him a hug, "Xiaodong, you saved the team today."

Gao Xiaodong has been a goalkeeper for a while, but he has been much calmer. "I can't say that he can save it yet. We still have a difficult second half."

Mourinho said confidently: "Don't worry, I often play one less game. As long as we save a penalty, we have the hope of getting a draw. Although the score is not good, we can advance with just one goal in the away game, which is acceptable in this case."

After Mourinho said this, the players all knew that he had plans for how to play in the second half.

Sure enough, while everyone was sitting down to relax, Mourinho said: "We play less, and we can no longer use winning as our goal in the second half. We can keep the current score and strive to prevent our opponent from scoring goals in the second half. This is our most realistic goal."

Although Inter Milan players are a little unwilling to give up, they also know that home advantage is not omnipotent. It is wisest to be able to get a draw and wait for the staff to go to Stamford Bridge to have a life-and-death battle with Chelsea.

Mourinho also understood that the psychological shadow of Inter Milan players was very big. He explained: "Don't think about any record that cannot win for decades. Records are just records. That is the past. Records are left to break, and it will be broken sooner or later. Now we just need to think about exerting our strength and achieving the goals I set."

After telling the players about the goal of the second half, Mourinho began to summarize the lessons learned in the first half, adjust his tactics, and prepare for the second half.

Visitor team locker room

Ancelotti looked very relaxed. He hugged every player and praised their performance. "We played very well in the first half and almost surpassed the score. It is not a problem to not score the penalty kick. Everyone has time to miss the penalty kick. The Chinese high-ranking goalkeeper in Inter Milan is very good..."

Lampard interrupted Ancelotti angrily, "That boy is too shameless. He broke all the grass on the penalty kick while bowing, otherwise how could I play the game?"

Chelsea players and coaches suddenly realized that no wonder Lampard missed the penalty. Everyone began to scold Gao Xiaodong for being shameless and comfort Lampard.

After the players vented, Ancelotti also began to deploy tactical styles in the second half.

Although the score is completely acceptable for Chelsea away, because Inter Milan plays one less player, Ancelotti still hopes to score another goal and end the game away.

With one less opponent, he will definitely continue to defend the dead in the second half. Ancelotti has no good idea against the Iron Barrel Formation, just set balls and long shots, long passes and rushes and bottom crosses. As for whether he can score a goal, it depends more on his luck.

After halftime, players from both sides walked out of the locker room.

Chelsea did not make any adjustments to the roster, but Inter Milan replaced forward Milito and replaced midfielder Montari to strengthen the midfield defense.

The strong Montali played, which improved the hardness of Inter Milan's midfield. In the midfield battle, Inter Milan finally no longer suffered as much as in the first half.

Chelsea continues to siege Inter Milan by relying on its number of advantages.

At the beginning of the second half, Chelsea created an opportunity. Maluda broke through on the wing and tangled across to the front of the penalty area. He made Inter Milan's defense line mess up. Then Maluda gently passed the ball to the penalty area and looked for Drogba.

In the first half, Drogba was very uncomfortable being stared by Lucio. In the second half, African Warcraft also made obvious adjustments. He got fewer balls. When he got the ball, he tried to shoot and ferry directly instead of controlling the ball.

Maluda's pass was very clever. Drogba kept stopping in the penalty area and turned around and volleyed.

This volley was very beautiful and the ball was pressed very low, showing Drogba's good footwork. The only disadvantage was that he shot a little straight.

Gao Xiaodong continued his outstanding form in the first half. This very test-sensitized shot was jumped up by him and blocked it with both fists.

Lampard grabbed the landing point, and he followed up and shot again, and the ball hit the defender and bounced back.

Mikel followed up and shot again, and the ball flew directly into the stands.

Inter Milan kicked the ball, Gao Xiaodong kicked the ball to Maikon, who assisted along the wing to the frontcourt.

Chelsea deployed heavy troops near the central circle to block Macon's advance.

Under this bad situation, Maikon did not make any strong breakthroughs and directly passed it back to Mota.

Mota passed it to Cambiaso again, and Cambiaso was assigned to the left, and Sanetti received the ball from the side to launch an attack.

Inter Milan's midfield circulation was very fast. When Sanetti launched the attack, Chelsea's personnel had not been allocated and were led by Sanetti through the half.

Zanetti was intercepted by heavy troops when entering Chelsea's 30-meter area, and Zanetti passed it across to the front midfielder Sneider.

Sneijder stopped the ball with a clever stop and turned around, passing the ball to Etoo in the double-team of two Chelsea players.

Etoo showed his Cheetah's true nature under the defense of Chelsea's two major central defenders. He pulled the ball and raised his foot at the top of the penalty area. However, Etoo's shot actually hit his support foot, and the ball bounced out, and Etoo also fell to the front of the penalty area.

Lampard grabbed the ball and passed it to Drogba. Drogba stopped the ball with his chest and tried to turn around and shoot. Lucio pushed Drogba down from behind, and was awarded a free kick at the front of the penalty area by the referee.

This is the first free kick that Chelsea won after Gao Xiaodong came on the court.

The ball is not far from the left side of the penalty area arc, twenty-two or three meters away from the goal.

This ball is either good or bad. It is basically easy to score a goal by breaking through a human wall, but because the distance is a bit close, the arc ball has no room for falling.

Such free kicks require skill to rank the walls of the man. Inter Milan players were worried about Gao Xiaodong. I wonder if he, a guest goalkeeper, has experience in ranking the walls.

Gao Xiaodong was calm and composed, with a high-ranking general, directed his teammates to stand on the wall of the human wall to block the corner. At the same time, he also made an arrangement that surprised Inter Milan players. Gao Xiaodong actually let Etoo lie behind the wall.

Etoo said speechlessly: "Gao, what does this mean?"

Gao Xiaodong said seriously: "Prevent the opponent from playing the ball when the wall jumps."

Inter Milan players suddenly realized that they looked at Gao Xiaodong with a little more admiration. Even this could be imagined. How could this be the first time I was playing for the goalkeeper?

The fans had never seen such a person standing in a wall, and they were all surprised to find that there was still people lying behind them.

"What's this for? Etoo's rest?"

"A wall of people lying down?"

"Can this be allowed?"

"This is really a big idea."

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Inter Milan goalkeeper coach Silvino nodded repeatedly and said to Mourinho: "This kid is meticulous, this is a genius. You can even think of this."

It was Lampard who took the free kick. He was really planning to roll the ball when Inter Milan's man jumped up. After all, the arc ball is not easy to get, but Gao Xiaodong's arrangement made Lampard give up this idea.

After the referee blew his whistle, Lampard kicked a banana ball and hit the goal in the near corner.

The distance is indeed close, and the ball has no room to descend. After crossing the human wall, it flew out of the bottom line against the beam.
Chapter completed!