The Day I Played with Ronaldo

In the 71st minute, Ricardo replaced Keely Gonzalez and Emre replaced Veron.

Just after playing, Ricardo made a dribbling breakthrough, but he didn't control the cross well. The Chievo team obviously attaches great importance to Ricardo. Right back Fabio Morrow no longer participates in assists and is almost inseparable from Ricardo.

This kind of treatment was not enjoyed by Li Kaduo when the two sides met for the first time.

Ricardo didn't think that he had to dribble for breakthroughs, assists or score goals. The key was to implement the coach's tactical intentions and help the team win. He actively runs on the wing, pulls, participates in defense, and gives his all.

In the 79th minute, Inter Milan ushered in a good opportunity. After a series of cooperation on the right, which attracted the attention of Chievo's defenders, Emre transferred the ball to the left in a wide range. Luo, a low pass to the center.

However, his pass was inaccurate. During the flight, the ball was blocked by Lorenzo Dana and bounced outward.

At this time, Ronaldo showed terrifying explosive power. He changed direction suddenly, grabbed the ball's landing point, adjusted a step and shot from a small angle, and the football flew into the far corner.

1:1, Inter Milan equalized the score. And Ricardo also successfully brushed up an assist statistic.

This goal boosted the morale of Inter Milan, and they launched a fierce offensive in the last ten minutes. In the 86th minute, after receiving a through pass from Stankovic, Ronaldo forcefully passed the two and broke into the penalty area. Under the double-teaming of two defenders, Ronaldo forcibly kicked and shot the goal. The football hit the defender's leg and bounced to the right. On the side, Adriano didn't wait for the football to hit the ground, and directly raised his foot and shot angrily, breaking through Chievo's gate again.

In the end, Inter Milan struggled to gain three points at home, and also ushered in an 8-game winning streak in the league. In the previous game, Juventus also won, while AC Milan unexpectedly lost to Livorno, so that Inter Milan climbed to the second place in the standings, still 4 points behind Juventus.

After the game, Riccardo was rated 6.5 points by Gazzetta dello Sport, a score slightly higher than the passing line, which proved that his performance in the limited playing time was qualified.

Therefore, in the first round of the Coppa Italia quarter-finals on January 27, Ricardo started again.

In this game, Ricardo had several wonderful breakthroughs, but he seemed to lack confidence in shooting, and he didn't have a single shot in the whole game. In the end, relying on Stankovic's long-range shot, Inter Milan defeated Atlanta 1-0 away and took the lead.

On January 30th, Inter Milan challenged Palermo in an away game. Ricardo still received the trust of Mancini and started the game. Van der Meyde scored a goal, Ronaldo scored twice, and Inter Milan beat their opponents 3-0 away. Li Carduo's performance was not bad, but he was a little bit unlucky.

Before the end of the winter transfer window, Inter Milan made another deal. They bought the Brazilian goalkeeper Julio Cesar from Flamengo, using up the last non-European quota.

This deal made Ronaldo unhappy. After all, Cesar snatched his Susanna, who was his rival in love. Few men can work friendly with their rivals in love, and Ronaldo believes that the management's decision to make such a signing is disrespectful to himself.

In order to appease Ronaldo's anger, and considering that Toldo was in good condition, Inter Milan rented him to Chievo after buying Cesar.

On February 2, Inter Milan defeated Atalanta 2-0 in the 22nd round of Serie A, winning ten consecutive league victories. Ronaldo and Adriano each scored a goal, Ricardo contributed an assist.

And Juventus lost to Sampdoria in an upset at home. The point gap between them and Inter Milan was narrowed to 1 point. Juventus ranked first with 49 points.

Inter Milan ranked second with 48 points. AC Milan lost to Bologna in the last game, and now the points gap with Inter Milan is as much as 6 points. They rank third with 42 points. Although they have not quit the championship competition, their chances are already slim.

In the 23rd round away game against Parma on February 6, Inter Milan may have wanted to win too much. The players played very frizzy and gave Parma too many opportunities.

They fell behind twice and equalized twice, but in the end they were unable to stage another reversal. Although Ricardo performed well, he continued to score goals.

Dramatically, in the later game, Juventus lost 0:1 away to Palermo, giving up the top position. The two sides have 49 points, and Inter Milan temporarily ranks first with a goal difference advantage.

This is also the first time Inter Milan has climbed to the top of the standings this season.

After the game, Ricardo, Ronaldo, and Adriano flew to Hong Kong to join the Brazilian national team. In order to make money for the Brazilian Football Association, they played a friendly match with the Hong Kong team.

Pereira tentatively used Inter Milan's front trident and used Ricardo to play as a left midfielder. In the end, Brazil defeated Hong Kong 7:1. Ricardo scored twice and also assisted Ronaldo to score a goal.

This friendly match finally allowed Ricardo to regain the feeling of scoring goals, but Adriano suffered a slight injury in the game, which is likely to affect the next few games.

In the 24th round of the league on February 12, Ricardo started and partnered with Ronaldo as a striker. He continued his form in the friendly match and scored twice again in this game, and Mikhailovich made a free kick. Inter Milan defeated the Red Wolf Roma 3-0 at home cleanly.

On February 16, Inter Milan defeated Atalanta 4-0 at home in the Coppa Italia. In this game, Ricardo came off the bench and assisted a goal. He performed well.

On February 20, Inter Milan lost a good game away. In the 71st minute of the game, Ronaldo received a long pass from Ricardo's midfielder, went straight in and passed the goalkeeper to score a goal, but then their defense made another mistake and was equalized by Udinese.

Fortunately, Juventus was also tied 0:0 away by Messina in the later game. Inter Milan still leads the Serie A standings with a goal difference advantage.

Then came the knockout stage of the Champions League.

Inter Milan has drawn a good lottery, and their opponent in the eighth-finals is the Portuguese super giants and the defending champion Porto.

Although Porto beat all the tyrants last season and won the Champions League, they lost their meritorious coach Magic Bird and a number of main players this season, and their strength plummeted.

Mancini did not dare to underestimate the opponent, but Inter Milan's next opponent in the league is AC Milan, and he had to consider staying for it.

So in the first round match against Porto on the night of February 23, he performed a large-scale rotation. Ricardo and Ronaldo sat on the bench impressively, and Vieri and Martins started.

In the end, with Stankovic's beautiful long shot, Inter Milan drew with Porto 1:1 away. An away goal was scored, which is good news for Inter Milan, and then they focused on the 26th round of the league.

The 26th round of the league is another Milan derby. Although there are at least two Milan derbies every season, people never feel fatigued, and every game can have new passion.