shadow striker

On this Saturday afternoon, the home stadium of the Turin team, the Communale Stadium, welcomed the most important guest in recent years, Juventus.

Although it belongs to Turin, this stadium has not received this heavyweight guest for a long, long time.

Or in other words, it has not seen its former owner for a long, long time.

Many years ago, Turin and Juventus, both belonging to the city of Turin, used to share this stadium and took turns using it as their home stadium.The two teams then shared the Del Alpi Stadium together.Just in 2006, the contract between the Turin team and the Alpi Stadium expired, and Juventus demolished the old Alpi Stadium and built a more luxurious new stadium.

The new Alpi Stadium is not only a professional stadium with a good atmosphere, but also a world-class stadium integrating catering, entertainment and shopping.

However, it seems that the Turin team can only pick up the dilapidated Communale Stadium and use it as their home stadium.The owners of the Turin team seemed unwilling to see such a thing happen, but they just spent a lot of money to renovate the Communale Stadium, and transformed it from a multi-purpose stadium to a A professional stadium, and many restaurants and fast food restaurants have been built in it.

However, the repair of the stadium caused the Turin team to owe a high amount of debt, and it also made the club's operation more difficult.

This debt was not fully repaid until the current club owner bought it.

And now, the new Communale Stadium will welcome Juventus once in a while.

Before being promoted to the Italian Serie A again, the Italian king a long time ago, the Turin team has been lingering in the Serie B for a few years.It was a long and difficult time for the fans who loved him.Yet after three years of waiting, their beloved team is finally back on the grandest stage of Italian football.

And they have passed all the way in the nine rounds that have ended, winning Bologna, Atlanta, Lecce, Parma, and even a draw with the traditional Serie A team Roma.

Torino...hasn't had such a good result in many, many years.

This is enough to make the veteran Torino fans who have not paid attention to the game for a long time once again devote their weekends to one exciting game after another.

Almost from the morning of this day, the Communale Stadium was filled with the roar of the fans.Even Yue Yihuang, who was sitting in the players' lounge, felt nervous.

In fact, he's never fought in a heavyweight fight yet.He has almost never felt the atmosphere of a real derby.And many of his contemporaries represented their country in the World Youth Football Championship at an early age.

What's more... Counting this week, he hasn't worn the garnet red jersey of the Torino team for seven weeks.However, Francisco on the side seemed eager to try, and even couldn't wait.He seemed to feel Yue Yihuang's gaze on him, and turned his head.

"Are you nervous?"

"Yes."

Facing Francisco's question, Yue Yihuang looked at his shoes, loosened and tightened the shoelaces again, and gave a calm answer.

Just in the players' lounge, they can already feel the enthusiasm and expectations of the Torino fans, so what about when they go out and stand on the pitch?Treating such enthusiasm, Yue Yihuang was obviously at a loss, and even the frequency of breathing was different from usual.

Francisco hooked his arm on Yue Yihuang's shoulder, and said to him in a very breathy voice: "Listen, this time it's Juventus. In Serie A, we can still meet The Milan duo, Udinese, Lazio. And we're in the Champions League, where we'll meet my old club Chelsea, Manchester United, Arsenal. Yes, and the Spanish pair, Real Madrid and Barcelona. Listen Come on, this is just the beginning. We can go a long way, you hear?"

Hearing these words, Yue Yihuang took a deep breath, then closed his eyes, as if he was imagining how he would wear the garnet red jersey to play against those top teams in the world.That was really... a beautiful and shuddering picture.

Yue Yihuang's body trembled violently, getting a low laugh from Francisco.

"Coward, are you afraid?"

"No, I'm happy about it. We'll meet Barcelona. We'll meet..."

He couldn't wait to ask Yue Yihuang again in a deep and hoarse voice, why Delo opened the door and rushed in just by mentioning Barcelona.

He inspired the team with a humorous and provocative tone, and walked away with an almost manic smile.

After he left, Yue Yihuang, who put on another layer of training clothes on the outside of the jersey, was almost familiar with the way, and left first with other substitute players and entered the substitute seat.

Yes, Yue Yihuang was still a substitute in today's game.But this time it was different from the previous nine rounds.He will be used as a trump card against Juventus and will play at the right time.And De Luo said that he promised to let Yue Yihuang play for at least six 10 minutes.In this regard, Francisco did not give any expression, but said softly to Yue Yihuang when he left first:

"If I can't wait for you to play, maybe I can consider playing badly at the beginning."

Yue Yihuang could hardly imagine that a player like Francisco would say such a thing, and gave him an elbow very mercilessly.Seeing the situation here, the sharp-eyed Cassel immediately made a gesture of pulling out a yellow card from his sweatpants pocket, and shouted in a very incongruous Italian:

"Yellow card! Yellow card! Elbow foul!"

Cassell's roar made the entire players' lounge laugh like crazy, causing Yue Yihuang to pull his hair embarrassingly, and finally said goodbye to his teammates with a smile, and left here.

Yue Yihuang was still sitting in the first row of the bench, the position closest to Delo, staring at the court closely.

Today's Communale Stadium is almost full.There were also many figures belonging to the Juventus Bianconeri fans in the audience.They wore Juventus' black and white striped jerseys, and many even painted very striking black and white stripes on their faces.They took black and white cardboard and tried to spell out a symbol related to Juventus.

However, since this is the home court of the Turin team, there will be traces of Turin on the field.Fans waved huge banners emblazoned with the bull logo, and even a group of fans bought tickets for an entire field, and most of the fans in that audience were wearing all Torino jerseys and Some fans were distributed among them wearing white tops.From a distance, they actually formed a huge bull mark in the auditorium of the stadium, as if just looking at that mark could hear a ferocious roar.

For all this, Yue Yihuang was silent, but the silence could not conceal the excitement in his heart, the eagerness to try.

Players from both sides began to enter the field, while little ball boys wearing the jerseys of the two teams stood in front of them.Players from the two teams began to shake hands, but they couldn't feel even the slightest bit of friendly atmosphere.The fighting spirit... seems to have been ignited from this moment.

A large part of what makes football so attractive is... as long as you don't see the end, you can never guess the ending.

In the World Cup, from time to time, traditional strong teams miss the quarter-finals, and even go home early in the morning.Not to mention, what often happens in the five major leagues is that a weak team beats a strong team.When the fighting spirit is high enough and the determination is strong enough, it seems that anything is possible.

It is precisely because of this that Jagged Juventus did not show an arrogant attitude when facing Turin, but put on an absolutely not weak starting lineup in the away game.

Yue Yihuang squinted his eyes looking at the man in Italian football whom he had never met in three years in Italy.

They seem to have seen that Turin lacks a strong midfielder, strengthened the center in the formation, and even tried to cut off all Turin's offensive with a strong full-back.No matter which team it is against Juventus, during the game, they will often find eight Juventus players standing in front of them when they launch an attack.

It seems that when the opposing team attacks, Juventus will withdraw all players except two or three forwards into their own penalty area.Although this style of play is often criticized and ridiculed as an old lady's style of play, the iron-like defense can indeed drive every team that plays against them crazy.

If you're driven crazy by a defense like that, driven crazy and putting a lot of your players on offense?

Then congratulations, you will soon be caught by this Bianconeri in the gap of defense and score with one hit.

The referee blew the whistle to start the game, and the players of the two teams immediately started a silent fight on the court.This is not La Liga, which is known as the best football league in the world. Compared with beautiful cross passes and inverted ball cooperation between teams, it emphasizes the confrontation between players and the confrontation between bodies, and therefore It seemed more vicious and more thrilling.

As soon as the game started, a strong confrontation began.Kick off from Juventus, who are playing away.

The Juventus midfielder did not start to organize the attack directly after getting the ball, but passed the ball to the players at the back of the field. While opening the team formation, it also passed the power from the backcourt to the front. field.

In this regard, the Turin team playing at home did not directly go deep into the opponent's penalty area to compete, but was closer to the midfield to judge the opponent's ball direction and the position of the breakpoint.

In this very short period of time, the Turin team's formation has been completely set up. The midfielders and wide players are ready to fight. Nirva, who is a militant, is even more excited in the backcourt, as if waiting Watching the Juventus striker rush to him.

However, Francisco, as a striker, does not seem to intend to let this game start with Juventus' initiative to attack.

Yes, he saw that there were only three opponents guarding the goal at this time, and there was a huge gap between the three, so he rushed directly towards the opponent's players at this time.Another striker, Kells, a member of the former Turin team, saw Francisco's movements, and quickly rushed in another direction.

Sure enough, the Juventus defender quickly passed the ball to the left after seeing Francisco rushing towards him.Cassel, who was in charge of the wing, quickly played to his advantage. After a Juventus player dodged his mark, he ran towards the football with all his strength.

This sudden change allowed the Turin team to grab the ball within half a minute of the opening. However, just as Cassel was about to take the ball all the way and pass the ball to the striker from the wing, he found that the Juventus players had eliminated the two strikers. They have all returned to defense quickly.And in front of him at this moment... are the eight Juventus players in black.This success made Cassel, who was holding the ball at the moment and was slightly thin, glared under the pressure of tens of thousands of people and swallowed his saliva...

I don't know what interrupted the balance. It seems to be a subtle movement of Cassel, and it seems to be a sudden start of the Juventus defense.

But one thing is for sure.That is... there is absolutely no way the Bianconeri's defense can just wait for the opposing player to rush towards their penalty area with the ball and do nothing...