Life is an open-plan image of momentary phases. There are huge differences in the tasks carried out under the four lines compared to those carried out outside the field. They are antagonistic perspectives on the same subject, both, each at their own time, known to Sérgio Conceição.
The individual crying with the despair of a shipwrecked man on the high seas in the final of the Italian Super Cup, in Riyadh, is someone drowning in the lack of control over the implementation of his plan. That's kind of the trainer's role, to make a drawing and give it to other people so they can sign it as if it were theirs.
Sérgio Conceição was another when, in 1998, he arrived in Lazio with scraped knees after fulfilling a promise at the Sanctuary of Fátima without giving time for the wounds to heal before traveling to Italy. By displaying the hinges of his scaled legs he made his first appearance impactful, although not as much as the goal he scored on his debut for the team coached by Sven-Göran Eriksson when the game lasted 90 minutes.
Lazio won the Super Cup that year. That Sérgio Conceição with the rebellious sideburns is the same Sérgio Conceição who, today with grayer hair, coaches Milan. Four days after being official by the Rossonerithe 50-year-old Portuguese won the Super Cup semi-final against Juventus. A week later, he won the final against Inter (2-3) and, 26 years later, he missed the touch of that same trophy.
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In this always questionable option of playing an Italian Super Cup in Saudi Arabia, it becomes even stranger when two teams from the same city and who share the stadium oppose each other. As Lautaro Martínez sniffs the goal in any geography, from Taremi's pass, the Argentine dissolved the defenders in first half stoppage time.
Without much difficulty, Inter placed the attackers in positions free from the defenders' surveillance. A possible lesser adjustment of Malick Thiaw's sense of urgency and AC Milan would have gone into the break even more penalized by the offensive aggressiveness of the unruffled. It wasn't in the first half, it was at the beginning of the second. Taremi, who scored 91 goals in four seasons being coached by Sérgio Conceição at FC Porto, this time haunted the former coach.
Rafael Leão entered in the 50th minute for a Milan team that until then had been demanding continuous retreats from the wingers. The Portuguese international changed the trend, helping the team to develop into the attack. At the same time, the Rossoneri they began to despair with the ineffectiveness of Reijnders, the most advanced midfielder, with a constant presence in the opponent's area.
The frequency of behaviors, which leads us to call them habits, reiterates a series of actions that become inherent to the personality. Sérgio Conceição was sitting on a glacier – where we have already seen this – when Theo Hernández scored a free kick.
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Rafael Leão was very interested in not leaving work halfway. He and Theo Hernández, both rebels accused of having a difficult relationship with Paulo Fonseca, Sérgio Conceição's predecessor. The full-back set up Pulisic for the equalizer and the threat of a comeback became serious. AC Milan dropped the block again, something that was seen little in the second half. Eventually, I trusted that Maignan, who intervened to deny Dumfries the goal, would be able to emerge as the hero of the penalty shoot-out. There was no need to go that far. Rafael Leão broke through on the right and set up Tammy Abraham to complete a somersault from 2-0 to 3-2 in added time.
Sérgio Conceição, who left FC Porto after winning the Portuguese Cup, wanted the hug he gave to be marked on the players' backs Rossoneri. As for you, you traveled from tight spot to tight spot with your eyes holding back some tears. Greeted as everyone responsible for Milan's eighth Super Cup was, he went to a corner to talk to himself. He's back.
