Mister Legend

Chapter 495 Fan Support and Point Difference Controversy

The day after the winter transfer window closed, the No. 20 round of the Serie A league officially started, which is also the opening game of the second half of the cycle.

Before that, the two teams participating in the UEFA Super Cup will usher in their respective No.19 league rounds in the middle of the week. Although the result is both wins, the diametrically opposite process has caused a lot of repercussions.

截至到此刻，积分榜上欧战区的排名为：都灵队48分、尤文图斯42分、国际米兰41分、罗马40分、那不勒斯40分、拉齐奥36分、佛罗伦萨34分，除了红色公牛的超常发挥和斑马军团的意外低迷之外，其它球队的成绩都在外界此前的预料当中。

Although for the performance of the defending champions, no one but their competitors will be satisfied.However, after strengthening the loopholes in the defense and welcoming back a number of main players who have returned from injury, the Serie A overlord is still optimistic about completing a strong rebound.

No, in the first league game in 2019, Ronaldo used a hat-trick to help the old woman beat Bologna 5-0 in the away game. In addition to the 4-0 at home in the first round last year, it is really not for the old days. The team legend Inzaghi lost face.It’s just that the amazing momentum shown by the Juventus soldiers in the game made all those who supported them to win the championship very happy. Judging from this matchup, the Bianconeri has indeed regained its previous strength in the domestic league. With the momentum of gods blocking and killing gods and Buddhas blocking and killing Buddhas, such a team is almost invincible.

And this kind of undisguised, direct pressure on the opponent will naturally make other teams feel great pressure. Even the Turin team, which temporarily holds a 6-point lead in their hands, will inevitably be disturbed.

In the away game against Genoa, whose strength is far inferior to his own, and the Red Bulls who have all the starting lineup, they almost lost points by accident. Fortunately, Belotti scored a brilliant goal in the No.709 minute of the game The diving header allowed the Serie A leaders to retreat at the Luigi Ferraris Stadium, keeping the point difference that was hard to open in the first half of the league.

However, although they won the victory, all the members of the Turin team did not relax after the game. At this time, even Li Moody, who wanted to take another shot to adjust everyone's mental state, had no good solution.

Being chased by a fierce tiger behind him, and he may pounce on him to deliver a fatal blow at any time, this feeling cannot be calmed down no matter how strong the will is.He can only minimize the interference of the players in other aspects in daily life, so that everyone can devote all their attention to preparing for the game.

It's just that the tense and depressive atmosphere has shrouded the team for a long time. It is obviously an extremely bad situation, and it is unknown when it will lead to a big collapse.This also shows that this Turin team and Li Moody are still too young. Although they have achieved some results, their self-confidence is still far from reaching the level of a top team.If Juventus were in the leading position, they would not care about who the chaser was behind them and how close the distance was. They would only march towards the championship extremely firmly, and regard other things as clouds.

The current state of the Red Bulls naturally cannot escape the eyes of the media and insiders. Many people will stand up and express their opinions in the next week, giving the situation that the top team is in crisis and may suddenly collapse due to excessive pressure. predict.For a while, the Juventus supporters who had been hidden everywhere showed up again, and joined the ranks of advocating that Juventus will soon return to the top of the list and go all the way to win the eight consecutive league titles.

The two teams located in the same city have both created brilliant honors for this country, but now there is such a huge gap in the status of football and the hearts of the people, which is really chilling.

But if you think about it carefully, there is still a certain truth in it. Although there are rivals in the same city such as the Milan duo, the Madrid duo, and the Manchester duo, who are not much different or even almost equal, but like Barcelona and the Spaniard, It is more common for Bayern and Munich 1860 to have a big gap in the same city CP.

The Turin team has been reduced to an elevator between Serie A and Serie B after the Superga air crash, especially after entering the mid-90s, and naturally it will not attract more new-generation fans.It's just that although there is a precedent for Manchester City's rapid rise in a short period of time, and its prestige and popularity are equal to Manchester United, but behind the Red Bulls there is no financial consortium that is not short of money, and can rely on a large number of gold dollars to buy first-class stars. In the early stage, we can only rely on youth training to make steady progress.

It’s just that this method takes a lot of time, and now it is facing the unfavorable situation that the head coach who has the ability to discover young talents is about to leave, and the club’s chairman’s construction of a new stadium has caused the financial situation to shrink. The plan for the gap between Tus, it is very likely that it had to be interrupted in advance just after it started, which is a pity.

However, although they are at an absolute disadvantage in terms of numbers, social status, and financial resources, the existing Red Bull fans will not be weaker than any fan group in the world in terms of passion and loyalty.When the public opinion in domestic football is basically occupied by Juventus supporters, at least half of the residents of this city are willing to stand up to express their support for their home team.

Around 2012, the Italian media once made a statistics on the distribution of fans. Juventus is the football team with the highest support among local fans, accounting for about 30% of the share, followed by AC Milan, Inter Milan, Naples and Rome, but both are very different from the old lady, and the name of the Turin team does not appear in the top ten ranks (the list only lists the top ten names).

In terms of the number of fans in the city where the team belongs, the Bianconeri also beat the Red Bulls and became the most popular football club in Turin.At the end of the last century, this data was just reversed.Although the Turin team at that time was in a mess in terms of competitive performance, they were almost resident in the second division, but because of the unique "ancestral" tradition of European fans, the more grassroots Red Bulls still had more local support. To a certain extent, a similar situation also appeared in Manchester City and Atletico Madrid.

It's just that as Juventus has achieved too dazzling results in the 21st century, especially in recent years, it finally broke the decades-old tradition and reversed the city's football attributes.However, in addition to the fact that the younger generation is more in pursuit of the Serie A overlord, among the ordinary fans of the older generation, there are still more supporters for the Turin team.

In fact, most of Fiat's bottom-level employees actually don't like the team owned by the company they work for. There were protests, saying that they hadn't raised their salaries for many years, and the value created was used by high-level executives to invest in team signings, which became a hot topic at the time.

Now, when these so-called low-level urban people see that the team they support is in trouble, they still stand up very forcefully.

Although a large number of adult fans were unable to act hastily due to the need to go to work on weekdays, during the training process of the Torino team on Friday, a cheering team of hundreds of people appeared outside the club's practice field. Mostly elderly and women.They are all season ticket holders of the team or their family members, and they contacted the club in advance and were approved to enter the residence. Li Moody believes that the arrival of fans will bring extra incentives to the players, and may be able to change the situation in the team. The current tension.

According to Director Castellazzi, the team played against Cagliari at home on the weekend. The sales of live tickets were announced as early as noon of the day, and many people went to the ticket office or Trying to buy tickets online.This kind of situation rarely happened when playing against weaker teams before, which shows from the side how much support the fans have for the Red Bulls.

Affected by the positive external environment, the mental state of the Turin players has finally recovered to an ideal level before the start of the game. In addition, it is a home game, and the confidence to win is still relatively sufficient, so there is no such thing as the media expected. Crash condition.

In the end, amidst the cheers of 27958 spectators, the Red Bulls easily defeated the visiting Sardinia 4-1 with the goals of Immobile, Barrera, Pellegri and Parrigini. The capital team ushered in a three-game winning streak after being unexpectedly drawn by Bologna.

On the other hand, in the duel that ended at almost the same time, Juventus, who played in the away game, also successfully scored three points, maintaining the point difference between the two teams at 6 points, and the situation predicted by the outside world did not appear. .

Just when the supporters of the Torino team gradually regained their confidence and dared to refute in public the statement that the Red Bulls will inevitably lose stamina and be overtaken by Juventus and even Inter Milan, Li Mudi and his team fell. up the chain.

On January 1, the Turin team, who was a guest at the Frankie Stadium, suddenly seemed to be cut off collectively, and the entire game was lifeless.Even if the team's head coach replaced two substitute players in one breath before the start of the second half, it could not change the extremely poor performance of his team.

In the end, the league leaders suffered their second league defeat of the season against Viola, and it was a 0-3 defeat.

As for the specific details, the red bull is also very ugly. Not only was Casillas scored a wonderful upside-down golden hook by Chiesa, but he was also paid for throwing Saponara down in the penalty area. When it comes to the package of penalty kicks and red cards, the team can only face with ten players in the next 20 minutes, which can be described as losing and losing.

But what worried the team most was that Ranocchia also strained his right thigh muscle at the last moment of the game, and was diagnosed to have to rest for at least one and a half months.All of this together makes people feel that something is going wrong. It seems that, as most media predicted, the team's collapse is imminent.

However, another thing that people never expected was staged two hours after the end of the Buddha-Du war.Juventus, who sit at home, failed to chew on Lazio's tough bone when they had an absolute advantage in the audience.A 0-0 result made Allegri's players lose an excellent opportunity to narrow the points difference with their rivals in the same city to one game, and it also made their supporters sigh.

Although the gap changed from 6 points to 5 points, it seems to be an improvement, but after missing this good opportunity, no one knows when the Turin team will lose points unexpectedly next time.Don't look at the fierce shouting from the outside world, saying that they are optimistic that Juventus will complete the overtake soon, but judging from the arrangement of the second half of the league, it is actually the red bulls who have the advantage.

Li Mudi's team has more home court advantage when facing several strong opponents at the top of the standings, such as Juventus, Milan duo, Roma duo, Naples and Atlanta, which is more beneficial to them.

This season's Serie A league is different from the previous two or three years. The point difference at the front end of the standings has not been widened. After 22 rounds, the fifth-ranked team is only 8 points behind the leader. For the first time in nearly a decade.Juventus did not perform well in the first half because they lost their previous absolute dominance in this type of duel in the strong dialogue. Many teams such as Inter Milan scored points at the home court of the Bianconeri Any more road trips for the Old Lady in the second cycle are getting a bit of a cliffhanger.

As for the Turin team, which narrowly escaped death, they were finally able to breathe a sigh of relief after learning of the results of their rivals in the same city.Although it suffered a disastrous defeat, the final result was not so unacceptable, which played a positive role in adjusting the mentality of the players.

No, just three days after the away defeat at Frankie Stadium, Li Moody led his team to complete their revenge at their home court.In the quarter-finals of the Coppa Italia, they won the advantage of fighting at home by virtue of the good luck in the previous draw, and eliminated the main lineup 3-1 amidst the cheers of the full fans. Fiorentina, which is too ideal, advanced to the semi-finals of the domestic cup for the second consecutive year.

The rotation system of the Turin coach and the average strength of their players and the characteristics of all the people are one of the important reasons why this game can be won relatively easily. Nine of the opponents' starting 11 players played twice in three days. On the field, in the second half hour of the game, there was an obvious lack of physical strength, and finally had to swallow the bitter fruit of defeat.

And a day later, the Torino team received another gift from heaven.At home, with Icardi's goal in overtime, Inter Milan eliminated Juventus, which had won four consecutive championships, 1-0, and joined the Red Bulls in the semi-finals.

Although Spalletti's team is not an easy opponent to deal with, it is still slightly weaker than the old woman in terms of overall strength. The former's promotion is an ideal result for the Red Bulls. After all, it is really difficult to defeat the Serie A overlord in two consecutive home and away rounds of dialogue.

The promotion of Inter Milan gave Li Modi and the club's top management the hope of winning the Coppa Italia championship, but the third-line battle is indeed a bit too difficult for the team. How to choose, the club must come up with a charter as soon as possible.

(End of this chapter)