Mister Legend

Chapter 498 When Death Chases Behind
Although Li Moody had already expected the result of being out of the Champions League, after all, the strength of the team is still lacking, and it is far from reaching the level of reaching the top of Europe.But when the moment of being eliminated really appeared in front of his eyes, he still inevitably felt a little unwilling.

Even if it’s not even possible to talk about the ambition of “the princes and generals have kindness” and insist on creating a mythical story of “the dick’s counterattack”, as a time traveler (although it’s only been back for more than a year, The plug-in is not very effective, and he was criticized by the few book lovers and even abandoned the book, o(╥﹏╥)o), Li Moody naturally restrained his desire for various championships, especially the Champions League trophy.

It's just that real life is often extremely cruel. With the strength of the current lineup of the Turin team, it is still impossible to take care of the third-line battle. The attack was successful.After all, the pressure in the league is not small, unless the team can completely abandon the Serie A arena and devote all their energy to the European war, but the probability of such a gamble will eventually be successful is not too high. It is obvious from the profit ratio It's totally uneconomical.

The domestic league championship is the first goal of the Red Bulls, and this plan should never be shaken.

After a regretful loss in the world-famous romantic city, Li Moody and his team members must put aside all the negative emotions of being eliminated as soon as possible, because they are about to usher in the most difficult schedule in the league. If If you are not able to fight for every victory, Juventus behind you will harvest the head of the red bull like a god of death who is chasing after him.

On March 3th, the Turin team accepted the challenge of the powerful opponent Roma at home. Both sides spent a lot of energy in the midweek Champions League. The home team played an extra hour and a half in overtime, but it was more than the visiting team A day off, so the two sides are still at the same starting line in this regard.

It's just that the competitive status of the players on both sides is quite different. The Torino team fighting at their own gates, apart from not having to suffer from continuous running around, is also a big psychological advantage.

On the other hand, when the Red Wolves are out of the European game, their ranking in the league is not very satisfactory, and they even lose the chance of winning the championship early, it is inevitable that there will be various negative emotions in the team, especially the team who just joined last summer. Those newcomers are shown in the FM system as low morale, mediocre or even a little depressed.

The result is that in this state where the two sides are not equal, the outside world thought it would be a strong dialogue that was evenly matched, but in the end it failed to explode with any dazzling sparks.The home team is like a routine. Through two team counterattack tactics, they knocked on the door guarded by the Swedish goalkeeper Olsen, who replaced Alisson who joined Liverpool at a high price and became the current main goalkeeper of the Red Wolves. With a clean 2-0 Keep this three-pointer in Turin.

It is worth mentioning that Lucas Moura, who was on loan in the winter transfer window, scored his first goal in Serie A in this game, which can be regarded as a small milestone.

After a week of adjustments, the Turin team finally got rid of the shadow of being out of the Champions League. With a very relaxed attitude, they waited for the No.20 opponent Atlanta in the eighth round of the league.

Gasperini's team encountered a rare ups and downs of winning and losing European qualifications last summer, which seriously affected their state after the start of the season. Coupled with the outstanding performance of other teams, their Compared with the previous two years, there has been a certain degree of decline in performance.As of last weekend's game, the Son of the Sea God is only ranked tenth in the standings, and there is still a gap of 7 points before qualifying for the European competition next season, which can be said to be very unsatisfactory.

In a sense, there are still many similarities between the same person in a team, for example, they all pay attention to a positive mental outlook. If you don’t adjust your emotions in place and just act with a muddling mentality, then the result will naturally be different. How good it would be.

Atalanta is quite lacking in spirit now. It seems that they have an indifferent attitude towards what kind of results they can achieve at the end of the season. It's also a bit difficult, so let's break the jar and let everything be fate.

Using this state to compete with the Turin team, which is desperately fighting for the league championship, how can it not lose. A 1-4 defeat is naturally a matter of course.In this regard, when Li Mudi shook hands with his friend Gasperini after the game, he felt a deep sense of helplessness from the famous local coach. Perhaps at the end of the season, he really will not stay in the post.

However, the Red Bulls' easy victory not only did not help them expand their lead in the standings, but also opened up the gap in goal difference between their rivals in the same city, because Juventus created another tragedy this round. AC Milan was bloodbathed 4-0, which not only made the biggest score difference between the two sides in the past 25 years, but also directly led to the dismissal of the Rossoneri coach Gattuso.Considering that the two clubs once formed a "holy alliance", the old lady is really a bit ruthless this time.

After this round of the league, the time belongs to the category of the national team match day. In the UEFA Nations League group stage match held in the second half of last year, the new Italian national team led by Mancini finally won two The difference in goal difference ranks second in the group, and it is a pity that they missed the promotion to the second stage.

This result also made the Azzurri miss the opportunity to get an additional ticket for the 2020 European Cup. It is a bit sad and sighing, but the qualifiers or wild card games held in the second half of this year will also provide 20 seats. , Judging from the performance of this national team so far, it is still very hopeful to avoid repeating the mistakes of missing the World Cup two years ago.

Since there is no need to play the second stage of the game, the Italian team can freely choose their friendly match opponents according to the previous model during this national team match day cycle. Similar to their situation, there are other Turin players such as Poland who have been eliminated. The country of enlistment.After only two games, Li Modi almost went mad because his players had three injuries at the same time, and they were all the main players in the team. This luck is really bad!
Belotti, Baselli and Glick happen to be the three generals on the central axis of the Red Bulls. Their absence due to injury will have a great negative impact on the team. Although diagnosed by the team doctor, the three Baselli, who is the most injured in the middle, will return within three weeks at the latest, but this is by no means good news for Li Moody, who is used to large-scale rotations in the game lineup.

In this way, the Turin team, who returned to the league schedule with this incomplete lineup, ended their winning streak that had just accumulated two rounds against their next first opponent, Lazio.

In this crucial duel, the Turin players in the away game generally failed to play their highest level of competition. Facing the opponent's full-court pressing strategy, the Serie A leader frequently passed the ball in the middle and backcourt. There was a mistake and the situation became extremely passive.

The worst performer in the team was Montenegro international Vukocevic, who received a yellow card in less than 10 minutes of the game, and then became the key target of Lazio's offensive players.In order not to be penalized for the second yellow gem card, Vukocevic began to become more and more cautious. As a result, the defensive effect naturally became worse and worse, and he became a hole for the home team many times.

The goal scored by the Blue Eagles in the No.207 minute of the first half was launched from the defensive area of ​​​​the Montenegro midfielder. His performance in the first half disappointed the team coach and prompted the latter to make a decision in the second half. decision to replace it.

It's just that the young player Askaciwal who replaced him on the field, after experiencing the previous outstanding performance, his competitive state has gradually fallen back to the normal range.Moreover, he just played two consecutive friendly matches on behalf of the Argentine national team. Although he didn't play much time, he couldn't help but play in Asia, and the journey back and forth was very exhausting, which also affected his game state.

Although he has worked very hard to strengthen the team's sweeping range according to the head coach's deployment, and through a lot of running to cooperate with his teammates to pass the ball, he still made a big mistake in his busy schedule and bumped into his own penalty area. The Kosovo international and midfielder Berisha, who switched from the Salzburg Red Bull last summer, gave the home team a penalty.

As a result, Luis Alberto's penalty kick broke through the defense line guarded by his compatriot Iker Casillas. In the second half No. 704 minutes, the score on the field was rewritten to 2-0. The Turin team Fell into a dangerous situation hanging by a thread.

Fortunately, at this moment of life and death, there is another superhero who bravely stood up, and his name is Bruno Fernandez.Although the Portuguese international has also expended a lot of energy in the national team, he obviously did not suffer in terms of physical fitness after he came off the bench in No. 60 minutes. The opponent's weak links are directly exploited.

With two goals behind, the Torino team will inevitably choose to attack aggressively. There is no suspense. With the defensive counterattack tactics they are good at can no longer be used, it is time to test the level of the team in positional warfare It's time, but the most unfavorable thing is that Belotti, the number one offensive weapon, cannot play, otherwise the effect should be better.

However, even under the unfavorable conditions of not much time left and the absence of the top sledgehammer, Fernandez still showed his strength that he has joined the ranks of world-class attacking midfielders.Excellent combination of passing ability and excellent overall situation view helped him completely control the attacking dominance of the visiting team and became a real commander on the field.Almost every attack of the team will be deployed by him in the center, or the continuous conduction between two or three players in the center, or the forceful assault from the side, which makes the Turin team's offense organized in an orderly and threatening manner.

Lazio coach Inzaghi Jr. found that the situation was not good and quickly made the last personnel adjustment. He replaced Alberto with Bosnian veteran Lulic, leaving only Nani as a counterattack point in the frontcourt, and all other players were withdrawn. , ready to defend the two-goal advantage until the last moment.

But Fernandez still found the only opening in the almost impenetrable defensive front, sending the ball to the feet of Pellegri who advanced to the edge of the small penalty area, and the latter then broke the Albanian national team with a strong shot. Lakosha's ten-finger pass helped the Turin team regain a victory. At this time, the time came to No. 801 minutes.

Less than 3 minutes after the re-kick-off, the Portuguese midfielder staged another super personal show. After completing a collision with Immobile, he received a cross pass from the latter and was about 27 meters away from the bottom line in the middle. Suddenly fired from a long distance from the position of the home team, and the ball was accurately sent into the dead corner on the upper right of the home team's goal, and it bounced into the net after hitting the junction of the crossbar and the post. Top five Super Goals!

Accompanied by the wailing of the fans of the home team, the two sides actually returned to the same starting line at the last moment of the game, which made many people who had already sentenced the red bull to death exclaim in disbelief.

In the end, neither of the two teams could gain anything in the remaining time, and a draw was the final result of this strong dialogue.

For this score, Lazio is still barely acceptable. Although they were temporarily overtaken by Fiorentina after this round and fell to the seventh position, they are still three points ahead of Sampdoria behind, and their European seats are still relatively stable.

But for the league leaders, this result is really not very good, because of Juventus' victory, the point difference between the two sides has been reduced from eight points at the end of last year to one point all the way.The Turin team seemed to have heard the sound of the god of death waving the sickle behind him, and a cold air suddenly shot out from the back of the neck, causing the whole body to shudder, and the heart was filled with endless fear up.

"Serie A overlord is about to return to the throne! "-"Turin Sports Gazette" did not hesitate to use such a headline on the front page of the next day. In the eyes of them or the vast majority of Italian football people, this is almost a certainty.Even the "Evening Post", a major newspaper with the widest coverage and the highest sales volume in the country, also expressed the prediction that the top position of the standings may change hands at any time on the sports page.

But for this point of view, Li Mudi said that he has something to say.

(End of this chapter)