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Chapter 224: Battle for the League's Top Scorer

Three days later, on May [-]th, which is the afternoon of this Saturday, the penultimate round of this season's Serie A continued.

For the three games in the last seven days, the Juventus players are still a bit overwhelmed, which is why Conte arranged all substitutes in the last round of the league. Of course, Li Zihan and Pogba rely on their own performance And play, is now a member of the main force.

Although tired, the players didn't complain at all, because they can basically rest after the last few games, and it will be every second of vacation time.

Of course, the players of the national team cannot enjoy vacation time, because this summer, the champion of his continents will attend the adaptation match for the World Cup in Brazil next year, the FIFA Confederations Cup.

In this home game against Cagliari, Conte sent the entire main lineup.However, considering that Pirlo was injured a few days ago, and he started many games as the main force this season, his body was a little tired, and he was also selected for the national team lineup.Such a tight schedule will overload his body, and after all, he is not young.So Pirlo did not play in this game, and he was not even in the squad, replacing Pogba who appeared in the midfielder position.

Juventus, who are at home, attacked Cagliari's defense as soon as they came up. They still gave Li Zihan the chance to score the main score. After all, Li Zihan still has a good chance to score against Cavani. The ball figures hit it.

It's just that Cagliari is obviously not willing to be a foil. Although his team is not qualified to play in the European War, and there is no worry of relegation, it can be said that it has no desires and no desires.But the newly appointed head coach doesn't want to lose so many games in just two months since he took office, even though he is facing Juventus.

Two months ago, Cagliari's head coach failed to win a game after the winter break because of his poor leadership.The team is about to fall into the quagmire of relegation, and the board of directors fired the original foreign head coach on the grounds of poor signings during the winter transfer and poor record.Then the new native Italian coach took over.

And this new head coach has had many successful experiences in leading his team to relegation, and it will not cost much to poach from a small team in Serie B, so the board of directors has high hopes for him.And he did not let the opponent down. He succeeded in relegation early with five wins, one loss and two draws. Now he is ranked No.12 in the league. They have successfully pulled Palermo, Genoa and Turin down. water.

And this head coach often travels between Serie A and Serie B teams, but he is also ambitious. He wants to gain a firm foothold in Serie A, so a team like Cagliari is an opportunity.The tasks of such a small team are not very heavy. As long as they are not relegated or fall into the quagmire of relegation, the board of directors will not dismiss the employer coach at will, so as long as he leads the team with good results, he can gain a firm foothold in Cagliari.Then with excellent results, I finally went to some mid-range teams, and then slowly climbed to the upper-stream teams.

So the last few games of this season are also very important to him. After the season ends, the team will rise one more place in the standings, and his position will be more stable.He had already made plans for the game against Juventus. He told his players before the game that they don't have to score goals, but they must not lose goals!
And his players also listened to the new head coach and implemented his tactical philosophy.

So Li Zihan is in trouble now, it should be said that the entire Juventus is in trouble.Any Serie A team, if it is determined to play defense with you, then there will be an urge to scold the offensive players.

Several times Li Zihan received a pass from his teammates and wanted to attack, but was intercepted by the opponent's midfielder, or was simply put on the ground.

Faced with this situation, Li Zihan also became angry.Seeing the opponent coming again, he took the ball and ran two steps, getting as close to the opponent's goal as possible.

Then seeing the opponent running towards him and about to kick him, Li Zihan decisively turned around to protect the ball, with his back turned to the attacking direction, trying to fake a pass.The opponent's foot directly knocked down Li Zihan's heel, and because he was afraid that the opponent's shoe spikes would run towards his calf without a shin guard, he even made a slight protective action.In the end, Li Zihan, who turned his back to the opponent, was knocked down by the defender's tackle.

The referee did not cheat like the police uncle in the Hong Kong blockbuster. Instead, he appeared at the scene of the incident at the first time, and then showed a yellow card to the defender who tackled the ball.Immediately afterwards, he pointed to the place where Li Zihan fell on the ground-and gave a direct free kick in the frontcourt.

The captain of Cagliari came up to communicate. When he saw that Pirlo was no longer, he thought that the opponent's free kick was not very threatening.However, it is very easy to make fouls with this kind of defensive tactics. If you take too many cards, you can only shrink back later. You must know that once two yellow cards are given, the team will lose one player on the field.

"Hey, sir, my teammate didn't do it on purpose, and he tackled the ball, and he didn't tackle the opponent. A direct free kick is not far away. Is it too serious to give the card?"

He doesn't know if his teammate fell to the ground or knocked someone down. Of course, even if he ran towards someone in this situation, he couldn't admit it.

The referee points two fingers to his own eyes, and then to the opponent.The meaning is obvious - I can see it clearly, don't try to play tricks.

Seeing that the referee was very determined, the captain knew that his tactics of putting pressure on the referee had failed. He innocently spread his arms and shrugged, and went to the wall without saying much.

It's just that his actions angered the fans of the old woman at home. Tens of thousands of Juventus fans used boos and curses to condemn each other and express their dissatisfaction.

"Red card!!! Damn, that should be a red card!"

"Yes, they should be given a red card. You can see that their actions are getting bigger and bigger."

"He rushed to foul and asked the referee to make trouble unreasonably. This should give him a red card and let him go down to cool off."

The free kick was about 30 yards from the goal, and Pogba stood in front of the ball.As for why Pogba took the free kick instead of Li Zihan, who has already started under Pirlo, to be honest, even Conte didn’t know. He only saw that it was discussed by Li Zihan, Pogba and Vidal. result.

Next to Pogba is Vidal, and Li Zihan is on the left side of Vidal, parallel to him for a distance, and Li Zihan's front right is the direction of the goal.

Pogba took a deep breath and set off.It seemed that a standard heavy bombardment was about to hit the goal, but when his feet were about to touch the ball, he took off most of his strength and pushed the ball to Vidal not far away.

Cagliari's human wall thought Pogba was going to shoot, so he was deceived by Pogba's fake action and took off early.The Cagliari players who saw that they were fooled immediately ran up to steal the ball on the spot, but Vidal didn't give them a chance.

Vidal knocked the ball directly to Li Zihan beside him, and Li Zihan stepped on the ball with his left foot to stop the ball.Then he directly swung his right leg sharply, and shot the ball directly without looking at the opponent's penalty area.

This shot was beyond everyone's expectations. By the time they realized it, the ball had already flown over the heads of the players on the wall at the front of the penalty area, heading straight for the opponent's balls.

"Juventus excellent free kick in the frontcourt, Pogba passed the ball to Vidal, Vidal knocked on Lee, and Lee shot directly!!!"

Cagliari's goalkeeper didn't expect the plot to be like this, and by the time he reacted and made a save, it was too late.The ball went straight into the top right corner of the goal before him and flew into the goal.

"The goal is scored!!! Well done, Li Zihan!! I said before why it was Pogba who took the penalty instead of Li Zihan. The ball was kicked as an indirect free kick!! With a beautiful free kick tactical cooperation, they successfully deceived the opponent's players. In the end, Li Zihan lived up to expectations and scored in this game. On the other side of the news, Cavani did not No goal, that is, the number of goals scored by Li Zihan and Cavani has been reduced to one goal again. Although Di Natale has an assist at Udinese, it is not a goal, so Li Zihan will not use it for the time being. Worried about the pursuers behind."

After scoring the goal, Li Zihan was very excited. He hugged every team that came up.The fans also cheered for him. For Juventus, it has been a long time since they had a player wearing a black and white zebra jersey in the league top scorer award.

And Hullhouse didn't know if he was too happy, he didn't look like a football commentator or commentator at all, and yelled like an ordinary fan: "Good job, this is Li——and he The season's No.20 seven league goals, as for the Champions League goals. Sorry, I forgot to count!"

This sentence scared the videographer in front of him into a cold sweat, for fear that he would be fired by the company because of this big-name commentator with "characteristics" and "personality"
After scoring a goal, Li Zihan played more actively in the following games. This is because his speed is too fast, and his teammates can't keep up. When it comes to the frontcourt, Li Zihan often falls into the dilemma of fighting alone.

In the end, Juventus failed to expand the score, but was equalized by Cagliari in the No.80 two minutes of the second half.Cagliari's midfielder threatened Juventus' goal with a long shot. The ball hit Caceres' thigh in the penalty area, and then refracted and bounced into the goal. Facing such a goal with a strange trajectory, even if Even goalkeeper Buffon can do nothing.

And Cagliari scored a point in the away game and left the Juventus Arena very satisfied. It didn't look like they were average but they won.

But for Li Zihan, he also heard good news. Although Cavani and veteran Di Natale played the whole game for 10 minutes, both of them scored.

So now on the scorer list, Cavani ranks first with 28 goals, Li Zihan ranks second with 27 goals, and Di Natale ranks third with only 25 goals.

It seems that the competition for the top scorer in the league will not be divided until the end of the last game.