Mister Legend

Chapter 405
Of course, Li Moody does not mean to look down on Red Bull Salzburg. After all, they have been the overlord of the Austrian Super League in the past 15 years.This season, the team played very strongly in the European League. After beating Marseille with an unbeaten record in the group stage and winning the first place, they defeated Real Sociedad and Borussia Dortmund in the next two knockout rounds. A strong team in the five major leagues, and has continued its undefeated golden body. This performance is the only one among the top eight.

However, from the perspective of competition experience and the quality of the stars in the team, compared with the old strong teams such as Arsenal and Atletico Madrid, the Salzburg Red Bull still has a certain gap. For the Turin team with combat experience, it is indeed a top pick.Although Antonio Comey, the director of the club who participated in the draw ceremony, still maintained a cautious and modest attitude when interviewed by the media, the team has long been happy, so that some players and even coaches have begun to look forward to The semi-finals are duel.

And from the winning odds immediately offered by the gaming company, everyone can easily see that this Olympic Super League champion is indeed one of the least favored among the quarterfinals.Atletico Madrid has become the number one favorite to win the championship in the minds of professionals with odds of 2.37, followed by Arsenal at 4.00. The gap between the two teams is not big.Ranked No.3 is the Turin team that was given an odds of 7.50, followed by Leipzig Red Bull 9.00, Marseille 11.00, Sporting Lisbon 21.00, Salzburg Red Bull 21.00 and CSKA Moscow 34.00. Li Moody's team The reason why they were able to overwhelm the Bundesliga teams in good condition is naturally because the outside world thinks that they have little suspense to advance to the semi-finals.

The schedule for the quarter-finals of the two European competitions will also be released immediately. The two rounds of confrontation will be held in the first and second weeks of April respectively.Due to the reason of being drawn out first, the Torino team has to face the schedule of first host and then away. Although it is a little unfavorable, considering the strength of the opponent in this round, Li Modi feels that he should not be too greedy and be content. Will always be happy.

After taking the plane back to Italy on Friday afternoon, Li Moody ordered a day off. Although two days later, he will face Fiorentina, which is playing in a mourning posture and has a good momentum, but the fatigue accumulated by the players in the past two weeks is still quite high. In order to avoid new injuries, more protective measures should be taken.Boyer suffered a minor ankle injury against Lokomotiv, bringing the team's staggering [-] injuries this season, but fortunately Ranocchia and Falk have resumed training, but they are still unable to play He played this weekend, and Gourcuff and other injured players are also sure to return with full blood during the upcoming national team match day.

However, these good news obviously will not help this Sunday's league. There are only 22 regular registered players who can play in the first team. The vacant places can only be filled by the boys of the youth team.So in Saturday's training, young players such as Johannes Eggstein and Ricardo Marchiza began to participate in tactical drills wearing vests that symbolized substitute players, and they are participating in this year's Viale The Torino U19 team in the Joe Cup also excluded these main players from the registration list for the next game, which led to their penalty kick loss to Inter Milan U19 in Monday's knockout match, which was originally expected by the outside world Team, sadly bid farewell to the tournament.

The Viareggio Cup, founded in 1949, is the oldest club youth team international competition in football. Its name is taken from the town of Viareggio, Italy, where it was originally held.With the current development of the competition, in addition to the club youth teams with better results in Italy, some excellent foreign teams will also be invited to compete. Batistuta participated in the Viareggio Cup on behalf of Boca Juniors. With his outstanding performance, he attracted the attention of Florence and was able to start his European tour.

Because of the mediation of Mr. Lippi, the national football U19 participated in the world's top youth competition for the first time in history.Under the leadership of head coach Cheng Yaodong, they played a few friendly matches in France and performed well. However, after returning to Italy, they lost a goal in the first group match with Turin U19.Fortunately, the boys were not discouraged, and adjusted their status in time. In the remaining two rounds, they achieved a record of 1 win and 1 tie, and finally ranked second in the group with 4 points.Because there are other groups with higher No.2 points, the national football U19 team failed to advance to the knockout round, but the performance of these young players on the field has been widely recognized by domestic and foreign media.

After playing the last group match on Friday, Director Cheng, who confirmed that he had no chance of qualifying, came to the Turin club's residence with the team leader, and bid farewell to Li Mudi and other staff members who rushed over from home.The national football U19 team will immediately set off to Germany for the next stage of warm-up match exchanges.The Turin coach sent his blessings and stated that if there is a need or difficulty, you can contact him, and he will do his best to help solve it.

After bidding farewell to a group of young people who were still full of dreams about football, Li Mudi's mood fluctuated somewhat.The performance of Tianchao players in their youth is not much worse than that of European countries, and occasionally there will be a group of young men who make people feel bright.But as they grow older, the talents that they once had have gradually disappeared, and they have become "wastewood" in the eyes of fans.It seems that the group of players under Director Cheng cannot escape this fate. At the age of seventeen or eighteen, they dare to express themselves on the court and face any opponent without fear of self-confidence. Disappeared, and walked on the old path of the predecessors.

Li Mudi didn't know what to do to change the future of them and Tianchao Football, so he could only sigh and put all these troubles behind him for the time being, and don't worry about the problems that can't be done, otherwise life will be very sad.

On Saturday night, Juventus, who took advantage of the victory in the midweek make-up match to overtake Naples and climbed to the top of the standings, took the lead, and it was surprising that the gutter capsized.They were a guest at the Paul Mazza Stadium. When they played with all their main players and dominated the game, they were forced to 0-0 by the newly promoted Spar who was on the edge of the relegation zone. It can be said to be a big upset.This draw also gave Naples, who had just been ousted from the league throne, the hope of tying the points. They also lived up to expectations and beat Genoa 1-0 at home on the second day, with 73 points and the same score as the old lady. They were placed in second place only because of their direct confrontation record, but at least they had a good chance to reach the top at any time.

In Sunday's other games, apart from Lazio's 1-1 draw at home to Bologna, the teams ranked higher in the rest of the two sides have almost all won. AC Milan beat Chievo 3-2 without any risk at home, Roma beat Crotone with two goals away, Atalanta beat Verona with five goals, and Inter Milan regained the fiery early season. The state, in the away game with a 5-0 victory over Sampdoria, which performed well before.Icardi completed four big goals, allowing him to overtake Immobile in the scorer list and occupy the top scorer position.

The final game of Serie A this weekend comes from the focus match between Turin and Fiorentina at home. Before the start of this game, a small commemorative event was also held in the Olympic Stadium of Turin to pay homage to the visiting team who died half a month ago. Captain Astori expressed his condolences.However, after the opening whistle sounded, the players on both sides immediately put aside their good mood a few minutes ago, and put out all their energy on the field like bayonets, trying to knock each other down to the ground.

Violet currently only has league missions, and there are no important players in the team suffering from injuries, so they can send all the main players to play.Coupled with the additional morale boost and motivation brought by the captain's death, the entire team is in an unprecedented state of unity and excitement, and can display [-]% of its strength. The home team brought a lot of pressure.

Due to Benassi's suspension, Gourcuff's injury and Fabas' poor physical fitness after playing the whole game in the middle of the week, Li Moody can only send Baselli as the core of the single-core playmaker. In the 3-5-2 position, Immobile and the young German teenager Johannes Egerstein partnered up front, and Tulalang and Vukocevic stood behind Baselli to protect , the starting wingbacks on both sides are Silvestri and Boyer, the three backs are Diego Llorente, Goldaniga and Kanneman, and the goalkeeper is still Iker Casillas.

Except for Egerstein's current ability, this lineup is obviously not enough, and the other positions are all players who can rank first in Serie A. In fact, the overall strength is still very strong.However, in the first 10 minutes of the game, the home team was forced to be extremely embarrassed by the opponent and made frequent mistakes. If it wasn't for the help of luck, the score might have been rewritten.

In the 7th minute of the start of the game, Kanneman was too weak when he passed the ball low and flat in the backcourt to Toulalan. He took the ball straight to the penalty area, and after attracting the attention of all the defensive players of the home team, including Casey, he made a diagonal pass to the left space.In this game, Fiorentina coach Pioli arranged for Saponara, who was in the forward position, to outflank at a high speed. He fell to the ground and shot the empty goal at a position only about four meters away from the goal post. Unfortunately, he failed to grasp the ball well. Relative to the movement relationship, the height of the left foot was slightly deviated, and this kick that was bound to be scored was actually smashed.When the ball bounced and flew out of the baseline, all the Viola players, coaches and even the fans who accompanied the team to the scene to cheer were clasped with their heads in disbelief.

The visiting team that missed this excellent opportunity did not give up on themselves, but still started crazy high-position presses in the frontcourt without hesitating their physical fitness, and dared to invest in the offensive end. In the 4-3-1-2 formation, in addition to the two forwards and the attacking midfielder, the three central midfielders always rotate forward, and the two full-backs frequently assist, making the home team half-time The flames of war in the country are burning more and more.Moreover, Fiorentina is also a defensive team, forming the first line of defense from the front line, constantly putting pressure on the pass control of Turin players, which also caused the home team's pass success rate to drop sharply, making it difficult to play effective offensive cooperation. , this tactical arrangement can be said to be a modern application of total attack and total defense.

No. In the 13th minute, the left back Biraghi of the visiting team came up with an assist. After he got the ball on the left side of the penalty area, he suddenly chose to volley the near corner of the goal vigorously, trying to catch Cassie by surprise.Silvestri hurried over to block, but accidentally let the ball hit his right hand and bounced off the baseline.Although the ball was suspected of hitting the ball, but because the arm was not close to the torso of the right back in Turin, the referee Javierucci, who was not far away, immediately blew his whistle to signal a handball foul and decisively awarded the penalty A penalty and a yellow card was shown to Silvestri.However, the French midfielder Villetour's shot to the lower right corner of the goal was a bit weak, and Cassie, who was judged accurately, made a sideways save and blocked the ball out of the bottom line, and the home team escaped.

After seeing Cassie's effort to turn the tide, the fans of the home team erupted in huge cheers. The former Spanish goalkeeper has saved the team in times of crisis many times this season and has completely won everyone's hearts. A petition was launched on the Internet, hoping that Matador coach Lopetegui can find him back in the national team, but unfortunately no response has been received so far.

However, no matter how brave Saint Cassie played, he couldn't resist the low-level mistakes of his own players. In the No. 208 minute, the home team took a tactical goal kick from the backcourt to try to advance and organize the attack from the backcourt. Unexpectedly, central defender Goldaniga actually Big mistake in position behind the midfield circle.After receiving a cross from Kannemann, he actually played tricks, trying to use a chic Cruyff to turn around and sway Villetou who was coming up to press, but in the end he messed up his game and was directly kicked by the opponent. The ball was broken.After the Frenchman got the ball, he drove all the way into the penalty area, throwing away the home team's returning defender by at least three meters.

Helpless, Cassie had no choice but to abandon the goal, but on the way, the opponent seized the opportunity of being unsteady and shot through the ten fingers with a beautiful arc ball. He had to accept the fate of conceding five goals in the past six games. .

The Turin team, which was behind at home, was naturally unwilling to lose the planned three points. Li Mudi immediately instructed the players to press forward boldly, and at the same time to foul when the opponent made a threat, hoping to regain the momentum in the duel. The initiative is in your own hands.

The players also did their best as required, and the defensive end was fine. After the implementation of the measures of strengthening fighting and using violence to control violence, the activity of Fiorentina was immediately slowed down. Got a yellow card, but at least the visiting team couldn't get a good chance to score before halftime.But the performance on the offensive end was not very satisfactory. Baselli was completely frozen by the opponent, and the 305-year-old Johannes Egerstein was completely trapped in the predicament of the Viola defense line and made no achievements. Turin The team can only rely on Immobile's interspersed running positions and two crosses from the wing to find the opponent's loopholes, with little effect.

Most of the players on the Red Bulls are in a sluggish state. Although they have tried their best to adjust themselves, they still can't achieve the desired effect. They didn't find a chance to threaten the opponent's goal until the halftime whistle sounded. , Today's game is really a bit difficult.

(End of this chapter)