Mister Legend

Chapter 496
Time soon entered February. Because of the Spring Festival, this month is naturally the most important time of the year for the Chinese people.

And since New Year's Eve is the day after the weekend match day, the Turin club also followed the thinking of the past two years to rearrange the inside and outside of the residence, especially the stadium, so that the ubiquitous Chinese elements will start from the end of January. It's in people's eyes.

Since the team's performance this year has exceeded most people's expectations, and its attraction to Chinese people has also increased compared with last year, the Italian Ministry of Tourism even estimated that at least 15 Chinese tourists will visit the Apennine Peninsula during the Spring Festival holiday. , most of them will use Turin City as a foothold in their itinerary.

The consumption that so many local tyrants will bring will naturally be an astronomical figure. How can the local government not attach great importance to it? After some manipulations, the whole city has a little New Year flavor, which is extremely Rare.

However, Li Modi, who is a descendant of Yanhuang, does not have much thought to enjoy this Spring Festival at this juncture. Juventus is chasing after him, so that his team cannot have the slightest chance to dare to relax.

On Saturday, February 2, the Bianconeri, who played first, beat Cagliari with three goals in an away game, continuing their excellent state after the winter break, and temporarily narrowed the point difference with Turin to two points.

Faced with such a huge pressure, the red bull obviously had to hold his breath, no matter how difficult it was, he had to grit his teeth and knock down every opponent.Otherwise, if they fail to withstand this tone, everyone's hard work in the past six months will be wasted immediately, which is unacceptable to every member of the club.

The next day was the 29th day of the twelfth lunar month in the Chinese lunar calendar, that is, the penultimate day of the 10 year, and Li Moody led his team to welcome their rival Sampdoria at home.As a result, after a fierce fight for 2 minutes, they struggled to win 1-[-], completing the season double play against the club's No. [-] mortal enemy.

It's just that the defensive midfielder Wu Kocevic also followed in Cassie's footsteps in the game, got the red gem card, and was sent off directly for using dangerous moves.The Montenegro international will be suspended for two league games like his own goalkeeper, but the Spanish veteran will return in a strong dialogue with Inter Milan after two rounds, but he can only miss that crucial battle up.

Moreover, after Musis left the team, the team only had two reliable candidates for this important position. Vukocevic's current suspension, all the burden falls on Askacivar's shoulders up.Fortunately, the condition of this Argentine boy can be said to be so good that he has no friends during this period of time. He can show world-class performances almost every game, which makes the coaching staff feel more at ease.

It's just that the side effect of his sudden rise is also very obvious, that is, it has attracted the attention of many wealthy teams. The FM system shows that almost all European teams with a reputation above the Turin team have become interested in Ascarcibar. It also gave Li Modi a headache.

Fortunately, the transfer period has just ended, as long as those rumors can not interfere with the player's state, he can't take care of too many things. After all, even if he stays, he can't stop others from pursuing better personal treatment and The solicitation of many wealthy families.

After briefly celebrating the arrival of the New Year with his parents and fiancée, Li Moody led the team to central Italy on the second weekend of February, and on the fifth day of the Lunar New Year, they won a 4-0 victory from behind the standings The swimming team Empoli scored three points.Belotti completed a hat-trick in the game, which is also the first single-game triple scored by a Turin player so far this season.

Due to the team's tactical arrangement, after contributing to the league's top scorer for two consecutive years, the Red Bulls have basically declared that they have missed the three consecutive championships for this honor.After the match against Empoli, the Red Beibei, who scored the most goals in the league, scored only 14 goals, not only behind Icardi and Dzeko, but also far behind Cristiano Ronaldo It's even more so that you can't see your back.

However, in terms of the wide distribution of firepower, the Turin team is the absolute No.1 in Serie A. Among the 57 goals scored the third highest in the entire league, 18 players including an own goal are on the list. This can also be regarded as a miracle in the football world.

However, under the pressure of Juventus, not many people will pay attention to this record. Less than three hours after the Turin team won a big victory in the away game, the Bianconeri won 6-0 at home. Chievo was bloodbathed and the point difference between the two sides was brought back to 5 points. The competition between the two teams in the same city began to show an intensified trend.

No, this high-intensity confrontation has continued from the league to the European competition.

In the middle of the following week, the 2018-19 UEFA Champions League quarter-final stage match officially started. The two teams in Turin City happened to appear in the two days apart, starting their respective knockout tours.

Shortly after the end of the last round of the group stage at the end of last year, the list of first-round knockout matches for the two European games was officially released through the draw.

Juventus, who easily won the first place in the group, is obviously the favorite to win the championship in UEFA's mind, and was assigned to a weaker opponent: Valencia.Although the performance of this Spanish team in the Champions League has always been good, the huge gap in strength between the two sides makes the suspense of the matchup in this group really not too big. Only the craziest gamblers will put their chips on last season's La Liga On the palace army.

As for the other three Italian teams that reached the top [-] at the same time as the second in the group, their luck is not so good.The Roma team, which almost made it to the final with an upset all the way last year, encountered the mighty Bundesliga overlord Bayern Munich. He returned home in the World Cup with feathers and almost cut off his dream of becoming the champion, but in the club, he is still invincible. The outside world is unanimously optimistic that the Catalan team can easily advance to the quarterfinals.

Compared with the above two brothers and sisters, the difficulty of the Turin team in the first round of the knockout round is not too much.Although the Ligue 120 giants Paris Saint-Germain have always been evaluated as "insiders in civil wars and outsiders in foreign wars", this life failed to recruit a new generation of football champion Mbappe because of Li Moody's reasons, but after retaining Neymar, Di With Maria and Cavani as the trident in the frontcourt and hoarding many world-class stars in the midfield and backcourt, the strength of Paris is still unquestionable. If the Red Bulls want to climb this mountain, they must explode. [-]% energy comes.

Judging from the first round of the match between the two sides, the Turin team at home did not choose to give up the Champions League because they were under tremendous pressure from their rivals in the same city in the league. The best lineup is obviously not intended to just go through the motions in the knockout round.

Amidst the wild cheering and cheering of the fans, the Turin team played the head coach's solid defense and quick counterattack tactics to the fullest. If it weren't for the Filipino goalkeeper of the visiting team, Areola, who made at least three key goals With saves, the final point difference will never be as weak as 1 to 0.

At the other end of the court, Paris' offensive line is not a vegetarian either. Casillas has also staged the drama of the gods many times, leaving this victory at the Olympic Stadium.Especially in the last 10 minutes of the game, the Ligue [-] giants, who were one goal behind, almost launched a violent attack. The former Real Madrid captain intercepted the high-altitude ball several times and attacked very decisively, leaving no chance for the opponent. .Together with Immobile, who scored a golden goal, he became the biggest contributor to this victory.

However, in the first round at home, they only scored a goal difference. This result can only be said to be above or below the passing line. Three weeks later, the second battle at the Parc des Princes will obviously be a difficult problem for Li Moody.

And the promotion prospects of their rivals in the same city are much better. Ronaldo's habitual power in the Champions League helped Juventus win a 3-1 away game, and one foot has entered the threshold of the quarterfinals.

But before that, the Turin team's energy still needs to be used on how to win Inter Milan, a strong opponent.

On February 2th, the Red Bulls who returned to the domestic arena not only could not simply recall the joy of winning the European competition, but canceled the usual post-match rest and directly started the tactical drill against the Nerazzurri.

Four days later, facing Inter Milan, who were eight points away from their own side and still retained some hope of winning the championship, considering that the players' physical fitness was not all in the best condition, Li Moody rarely came up with a conservative 4- The 4-2 formation allows Dickman and Boyer to act as two full-backs, obviously hoping to strengthen the defense on the field.It’s just that this idea didn’t help the home team gain even the slightest advantage. Not only did they get into trouble on the offensive end because of insufficient support from the two wingers, but also on the defensive end because the opponent didn’t need to be too distracted in the backcourt, so they could play in the frontcourt. Putting more energy into the test.

The most important thing is that although Boyer is considered to have a strong defensive ability among wingers, facing Perisic, who is in explosive form today and deliberately switched to the left to attack him, the Argentine boy is also He has no power to resist, if it is not for the repeated help of his companions, he can really kneel on the ground and sing conquest.In the entire first half of the game, no one would question Boyer being completely beaten by his opponent.

In this way, after the first-half turn-off scenario that few people could have predicted before the game, with the help of the Turin team's stable defense and some luck factors, Li Moody's team was able to keep the 0-0 tie State, did not dig a deeper hole for the second half.But even if this is the result, I believe it will make the extremely supporters of Juventus who are watching the live broadcast come to a small wave of congratulations first, because it is difficult for people to find that the Red Bulls will play just by looking at the performance of the first 45 minutes. Reason for victory.

However, those bad-mouthers underestimated the strength of this team, especially its coach Li Moody. After the accumulation of the previous two seasons, Turin has grown into a team that no one can take lightly under the careful training and teaching of the Chinese. The first-class European team that has been defeated.He defeated Atletico Madrid in the Europa League final, Real Madrid in the UEFA Super Cup, and occupied the top position in the Serie A standings for four and a half consecutive months in the past six months, especially knocking down Juventus twice in the league and the Italian Super Cup Tucci, such a performance will naturally bring great confidence to themselves.

So when the home team changed the formation back to 3-5-2 before the rematch (replacing the starting right midfielder Dickman with Issa Diop, the original two full-backs Silvestri and Ba Reka became a wingback, and then replaced Boyer with midfielder Bruno Fernandez), the team's overall ball-handling ability in the midfield immediately improved by at least one level, and tactics no longer paid as much attention as they did in the first half Defending, although they will also play defensive counterattacks when the opponent presses out, but when the ball is at their feet, the offensive end becomes more active.

Especially with the Portuguese international's connection between the striker and the midfielder, the Turin team has more ways to fall into positional warfare.First, the three lines that Inter Milan had pressed very high before were forced back to the position where the two sides were in a balanced situation, which widened the distance between Icardi and other strikers and the goal guarded by Cassie, and reduced the opponent's ability to enter the dangerous area of ​​​​the side. frequency.After that, they started to make a sudden effort from the No. 605 minute, hitting a wave of continuous offensive climax, which completely suppressed the visiting team.

When Askaciwal, who scored more than one goal in the world before, kicked a long shot from 30 meters away on the crossbar of Inter Milan's goal, which made Handanovic break out in a cold sweat , Spalletti finally couldn't sit still, and ordered all the players to retreat, clinging to the status quo of the draw.Being able to score a point at the home court of the league leader is not a perfect result for the Nerazzurri, who are still trying to secure the hope of winning the championship, but at least it is acceptable.

It’s just that Sshuai’s conservative strategy was met with a sap in the No.708 minute. Immobile took advantage of a melee opportunity to rewrite the situation on the field with a clever stab shot in the small penalty area and helped the home team win Leading the score.

After falling behind by one goal, Inter Milan had lost the reason to stick to it, and only then resumed its investment in the offensive end.But Li Moody took the opportunity to replace Immobile with the energetic frontcourt player Lucas Moura, and pulled the aggressive Belotti back to the midfield. The team's offensive routine only played the new Brazil. This point of man allows him to rely on his speed to attack the two central defenders of the visiting team who are not slow to turn around, but have already exhausted their physical strength.

Although this move is very monotonous and lacks variety, the power produced during this time period is very huge. As long as one can catch one of the three or four opportunities, it can completely kill the suspense of the game.

In the end, in the mentality of Inter Milan hoping to press the whole line, but a bit cautious, the 1-0 score was maintained until the moment when the referee blew the halftime whistle. The Turin team defended their home court with great difficulty and won this Very valuable three points.

(End of this chapter)