From the man behind the football king to the football king.

Chapter 306 Farewell Battle

May 15th, 8:45 pm.

Friuli Stadium, Udine, Italy.

In the final match of the 2015-2016 Serie A season, Udinese faced Carpi at home.

The Friuli Stadium, which can accommodate 41,000 fans, was packed, and many media reporters were even allowed to stand on the edge of the stadium to watch the game.

As early as half a month ago, the tickets for this game had been sold out by enthusiastic fans.

Although the summer transfer window has not yet opened, everyone knows that Bruno, who has stayed in Udinese for three seasons, will definitely leave Udinese this summer, or even leave Italy.

Today's game will also be Bruno's final game in Udinese, and even in Italy as a whole. When he appears in the Italian arena again in the future, he will definitely be an opponent.

At such an important moment, everyone hopes to see where this magical man will set the record he created today.

In the 37 rounds of the league that have ended, Bruno has scored 37 goals and assisted 27 times. Both statistics have refreshed the historical records of Italian football.

Naples' final game ended one day ago. Higuain set his season goal tally at 36 goals, missing the chance to tie Bruno.

So regardless of today's result, Bruno will be the holder of the two records for most goals and most assists in a single season in the history of Italian football.

However, everyone is still curious about what kind of performance Bruno will perform in his final game on behalf of Udinese.

Not only all the fans and media reporters who came to the scene, but also countless viewers squatting in front of the TV to watch the live broadcast.

Furthermore, this game is also the last game of the career of Udinese's legendary captain Antonio Di Natale, and the fans also come to the scene to bid farewell to the legendary captain.

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The two teams arrived at the scene early and conducted the last warm-up training before the game.

Carpi's head coach Castori said in an interview with the media before the game that he and his team will strictly abide by professionalism in this game and do their best to snipe Udinese and Bruno.

Because this is also their battle for survival. Only by scoring points or even winning against Udinese can Carpi hope to stay in Serie A next season.

In fact, he also lined up his strongest lineup in this game, using a four-and-five formation to fight. His intention was very obvious, which was to compete with Udinese in the midfield.

The visiting team's defensive counterattack intention was very obvious, and everyone was secretly sweating for Bruno.

With Carpi on tight guard, it would be too much for Bruno to continue to break his own record!

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In the home team's locker room at the Friuli Stadium, Bruno stood shirtless in front of the washbasin, looking at himself in the mirror in a daze.

Due to the live TV footage, many people still think he is thin, but in fact, he is full of muscles.

Of course, in order to maintain his flexibility, he did not train his muscles horribly, giving people a feeling of explosive power at a glance, but rather balanced them, which has something to do with his insistence on swimming.

Now, he needs to calm down.

knock!knock!knock!

Di Natale knocked lightly on the cabinet, waking up Bruno who was lost in his thoughts.

"It's almost time." Udinese captain reminded.

Bruno nodded, turned on the faucet, held a handful of water with both hands, wiped it hard on his face, exhaled heavily, looked at himself in the mirror with his face covered with water, and secretly encouraged himself.

come on! You can do it for sure!

Bruno took a deep breath, turned around and walked out.

"How is it?" Di Natale asked with concern.

Bruno shook his head as he walked and replied: "It's okay, I'm a little nervous. I'll be fine as soon as I get on the court."

"Yes." Di Natale nodded. At this time, it was impossible not to be nervous. Even he was in this state.

"Don't worry, you still have us, all of us will help you." Di Natale said.

Bruno nodded heavily. He knew and was grateful, but there was no need to say more.

Back in the locker room, he found that everyone was waiting for him.

Bruno looked at this group of teammates and he really felt satisfied. He is able to get to where he is today thanks to the support of these teammates. Without them, he would not have been able to get to this point.

"Don't be so nervous, just be the same as usual." Bruno pretended to be relaxed and smiled.

Many people laughed with him, but they were all stiff.

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"GOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOL!!!!!!!!!!!"

"Carpi scored!"

“In the 18th minute, visiting Carpi took the lead in scoring Udinese’s goal!”

"This was a very fast counterattack. Verdi quickly stepped in and directly attacked the goal, giving Carpi the first goal!"

"It was a really wonderful goal, which put Udinese into a passive situation. They obviously carried a heavy psychological baggage tonight, and they were indeed not very lucky."

"Only twelve minutes into the game, their French center Taylor collided with the opponent's center back during a header, and was carried off the court and replaced by teenager Zapata."

<divclass="contentadv">"On the contrary, it was Carpi. Although he was completely passive and reduced his defense after the start, he still played very steadily and his defense was very well organized."

"Facing the desire to win and fight for the last chance to stay in Serie A, Udinese obviously encountered a tough nut tonight."

"Facts have also proved that Carpi is not a soft persimmon who can be manipulated. Udinese attacked for more than ten minutes in the opening game. Not only did they fail to break Carpi's goal, but they exposed their own defensive loopholes."

"Verdi's goal is very crucial!"

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When Bruno saw Verdi excitedly rushing out of the field to celebrate the goal, he exhaled forcefully.

In Serie A, conceding a goal is nothing to Udinese. With Udinese's strength, as long as they play well, scoring goals is a matter of course.

Carpi's goal also made Bruno sober and rational.

In the first ten minutes of the game, the team did not play ideally. A very important reason is that everyone wanted to help Bruno score. Everyone knew that he was going to score, and Carpi also defended against Bruno.

This is very problematic.

It is easy for the opponent to defend, and Udinese makes a lot of mistakes. Once they are caught with the opportunity to counterattack, it will be the same goal they just conceded.

This is obviously not possible, at least Udinese is not strong enough to make its opponents obedient.

Another point is that Carpi played very tough in the midfield today. There were five midfielders and they adopted shrinking defensive tactics. Neither Badu nor Itura worked. This is also a big problem.

If we didn't concede a goal before, everything was fine, but now we have conceded a goal and we must get it back as soon as possible.

So, Bruno quickly walked towards Badu and Itura.

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When the game restarted, Bruno obviously learned from the previous experience and lessons, especially combined with his own observations. He began to realize that it was not possible to continue like this because Carpi had ambushed heavy troops in the middle and had to pull them apart, so the wings had to be type it out.

After the restart, Udinese also began to frequently create problems on both wings.

Cancelo and Piris also actively pressed forward, and Bruno also became more active on the right midfielder.

In this game, Udinese arranged a 442 formation, and the midfielders were in parallel positions, with Bruno serving as the right midfielder.

Bruno first made a pass from the bottom, causing Zapata's header in the penalty area, and then planned Piris's direct long shot that suddenly inserted into the right rib. Both attacks were quite threatening.

The most threatening thing was in the 25th minute, when Cancelo moved forward to receive the ball and passed it diagonally into the penalty area.

Bruno quickly inserted into the penalty area, stopped the ball with his chest, and volleyed with his left foot.

The shot was shot very quickly, but the angle was a bit right. Carpi's goalkeeper reacted quickly and flew to lift the ball out.

Although he failed to score, it made Carpi break into a cold sweat.

Bruno discussed with Di Natale that he would take the corner kick himself.

The Udinese players in the penalty area were also waiting for opportunities.

Bruno rushed out quickly and directly curved the ball very low, but the ball speed was very fast and fell directly to the front point.

Di Natale got ahead of everyone, took a stab, and knocked the ball directly into the goal.

"GOOOOOOOOOOOOL!!!!!!!!!!!"

"Udinese equalized the score!"

"Only seven minutes! It only took Udinese seven minutes to equalize the score!"

"It turns out that the goal conceded just now was just a mistake. When Udinese calmed down, the goal came quickly!"

"Bruno's corner kick was very good, and Di Natale understood it well and took the first shot."

After the goal, all the players rushed to the corner kick area to celebrate with Bruno.

"Work harder and try to score another goal!"

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After the score was equalized, Udinese once again took control of the situation on the field and continued to bombard Carpi.

Castori also made adjustments to the team's tactics, moving a defensive midfielder back to the back line, adopting a five-back tactic, and at the same time placing two defensive midfielders at the front of the penalty area. Waist formation.

This is the iron bucket array that must be buckled!

Breaking the density has always been a problem for all the strong teams in the world.

As a strong team in Serie A, Udinese has encountered this kind of iron barrel formation frequently, and it is very clear in its heart that patience is very important.

Bruno also kept comforting and encouraging his teammates. He knows very well that as long as Udinese controls the ball and the rhythm of the game, Carpi will be very passive, especially in the second half, because losing possession of the ball will be a double torture to the players' physical and mental strength.

With Carpi's defensive ability, as long as Udinese remains patient, goals will definitely come again.