Since the rules are lenient, San Remo should also leverage their pressing tactics.
Why does Barça easily enjoy the benefits of lenient officiating?
Even without the main referee deliberately favoring them, Barça’s tactics inherently allow them to benefit doubly.
When officiating is strict, we control the ball, and when the opponent fouls more, they naturally become hesitant to press, making it easier to control the game and gradually creating more opportunities.
With lenient officiating, we focus on frontal pressing and can equally benefit from it.
This is the convenience provided by their playing style.
Coincidentally, San Remo also has both midfield control and frontal pressing modes.
At the start of the second half, San Remo began an aggressive counter-press.
And the main referee seemed impartial, without significantly favoring either Inter or San Remo.
If there were double standards, it would be outright biased officiating.
Currently, it’s just UEFA setting minor obstacles before the game, not crossing into biased territory.
But such pressing will also give Inter some opportunities.
When San Remo pressed in the front, they couldn’t cleanly intercept the ball, allowing Inter’s midfielders to take possession.
Bam!
The opponent lobbed a big kick, sending the ball to San Remo’s backfield.
Talista, not slow in speed, made a run to beat the offside trap, finding himself one-on-one with the keeper.
Naji chased back defensively behind Talista.
The ball was delivered deep, directly near the small penalty area.
The position was extremely awkward.
Areola did not rush out, as if he did, Talista might shoot without stopping the ball.
Talista stopped the ball, pausing his movement.
Naji never expected Talista to stand steady.
He flew past Talista, out of the end line.
Talista, after halting, struck a small-angle shot after Naji flew past him.
Areola was momentarily thrown off by Naji, failing to follow the ball.
The ball rolled into the goal.
Three to zero!
Inter went wild on their home turf!
"Oh! My god! San Remo has a big problem! They simply can’t stop Talista!"
"A brace for Talista, he’s completed a brace!"
"Inter’s fans are celebrating fervently, but few are chanting Talista’s name."
"This is the pain of Inter’s fans. They have an excellent striker, but there’s mutual disdain between him and the fans."
"This issue is a failing of the Inter Milan Club. They can’t unite excellent fans with excellent players; are the higher-ups eating dirt?"
"Even if the higher-ups take the blame, now is not the time for conflicts between fans and players. Inter Milan is definitely lacking responsibility here."
"Of course, Talista also deserves some blame. He once told Inter’s fans, ’I don’t need your cheers and applause!’"
Sure enough, after the goal, Talista shouted towards the stands and then turned to walk back to his half.
He neither celebrated with the fans nor with his teammates.
The most direct consequence of this is... San Remo’s players were not intimidated by this goal.
Because both Talista and Inter’s fans seemed repressed somehow, unable to exert genuine pressure in terms of momentum.
In the sixty-fifth minute, Inter finally faced backlash.
San Remo, constantly maintaining their pressing state, intercepted the ball through Lu Yang.
Lu Yang dribbled directly down the left, performing a classic one-two breakthrough along the flank.
The speed advantage of Lu Yang became very evident with various boosts along the flank.
With his side-wing freedom, his choices for breakthroughs on the flank became much more flexible.
The early inside steps, followed by cutting back outside repeatedly, made Inter’s defenders seem like wooden stakes.
Lu Yang dribbled the ball from beyond his own penalty area into Inter’s penalty area.
Bam!
A sweep across the front was made!
Lu Yang had too many Inter defenders around him with no room for a shot, so he gambled on an own goal.
But Lu Yang’s cross was swift, passing without touching any Inter players.
Instead, Sogel, coming up at the far post, had an opportunity.
Seeing the ball about to slide past the goal, Sogel flung himself forward with a slide shot.
Simultaneously, Inter’s goalkeeper courageously rushed out, diving towards the ball.
Bam!
Sogel’s foot hit the ball first.
But the next moment, Sogel was struck in the abdomen by the rushing Inter goalkeeper.
Inter’s goalkeeper’s head banged directly into Sogel’s groin.
Sogel curled up immediately, trembling in front of the goal.
The pain of testicular agony!
Hope you never have to know!
The only consolation is that the ball was in Inter’s net.
Sogel scored.
"Oh! Lu Yang with a perfect one-man show down the flank!"
"A cross before the goal, Lu Yang’s pass was extremely threatening; unfortunately, San Remo players couldn’t catch up."
"Sogel with the point-blank effort, he hit the ball!"
"It’s a goal! Well done! Sogel did not succumb, the AC Milan player sounded the horn of resistance against Inter Milan on this pitch!"
"Wait, Sogel’s movement... is he injured?"
"Let’s watch the replay... oh, it’s brutal, Sogel was headbutted by Inter’s goalkeeper! The scene was too brutal!"
"We can see Sogel clutching his groin, tears almost coming out from the pain."