How Manchester City and Inter Milan Successfully Transformed their Defenders

As early as 3 years ago, John Stones’ position in the team began to be challenged, especially after the team successively introduced defenders such as Hebin Dias, Niton Aiji and A Jianzhi. His outlook sounded alarm bells. However, Gordio has arranged a new role for him this season, which is to push him forward after using the 3-core formation. It did take time to get used to it at first, but it gradually became smoother and smoother. Even in the UEFA Europa League match against Bayern Munich In the second round of the top 8, he became the best player in the tournament, and also became the best player in April in the Manchester City team.

Before the Europa League final, Stones accepted an interview on the official website: “I may have experienced the most difficult moments in my career in the past few years, but looking back at myself, I have been trying to see what I can do better. Details, including food and training, and then see what is added. I go home and study, and sometimes even late at night, for me, it is a learning curve growth…”

The transformational player is very proud of making the right choice: “I never thought about leaving. If you have this mentality and don’t face difficulties, then you might as well kill yourself. So, I always wanted to stay, and I didn’t Tell anyone you want to prove something, because the first thing you need to do is that you deserve to be here, and that is action, not words.”

He pointed out that the current role does allow Godiona to see more of his qualities, but also added: “Yes, I was or still like to play the center, but I also like the current position.”

Some players go smoothly when they debut, while others have to experience ups and downs. Inter Milan left-wing defender Federico Dimarco obviously belongs to the latter. This son is a product of Inter Milan’s youth training. He was a team member for the first time at the age of 17, but his career did not start smoothly. He was loaned to Ascoli and Amberli, and was finally given up. In 2017, he was only 391 million euros to join Sion in Switzerland.

“Every player goes through ups and downs, but at the beginning of my career, I fell more than that.” The 25-year-old Di Marco said positively, “I went to Switzerland because I believe that every player should take responsibility. My own responsibility, I took my own.”

Di Marco was also having a hard time in Switzerland. In the landmark game, he suffered a fracture and was seriously injured. He missed most of the games. After his comeback, he played 9 games and handed in 2 assists. Inter Milan bought it back for 7 million euros. Returning to San Siro did not mean immediate success, and he was soon loaned to Parma and Verona.

In Verona’s 3-5-2 formation, Di Marco finally found his best position – the left wing back, and played an extremely efficient offensive and defensive ability. With 5 goals and 3 assists, he won a seat for Inter Milan next season. After Pelixi left the team this season, Di Margao is firmly in the top pick. Although he occasionally misses defense, his passing, free throws, and back burying are all of a very high standard. “I am very happy to be here today. This is my hard work. The work and all the sacrifices. I made some right choices and some bad choices, but always knew what I was doing.”

As the only product of Inter Milan’s own youth training among the current regular players, coupled with the ups and downs in the early stages of his career, Jodi Marco helped the team beat Manchester City in the Europa League final on Saturday, and the fruit is even sweeter.

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