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Chapter 169 The Italian Derby in Serie B
After the nine rounds of the league, Naples achieved four wins, three draws and two losses, and ranked fifth in the Serie B rankings with [-] points, only four points away from the number one Genoa. For a newly promoted horse, this result is not bad at all, but it is bad for Naples.

Genoa, ranked No. [-], is also a newly promoted horse. Like Naples, they are all special newly promoted horses. What's more, behind Naples, there is Cesena with [-] points, three teams with [-] points, and two teams with [-] points.

Although Juventus is only ranked No.18 now, that's because they started with minus 25 points-after the first round capsized in the gutter and were tied, in the next eight rounds of the league, they have already won eight victories, and their actual points are equal to [-] points-everyone knows that Juventus is not the team that should be in Serie B.

The rules for the promotion of Serie B are that the top two will be promoted directly, and No.3 will play the play-offs with the fourth, fifth, and sixth—but if No.3 leaves No.4 by more than 3 points (including [-]), then No.[-] will be promoted directly. However, looking at the situation in Serie B this year, this possibility seems very small.

Before this game, Raya was helpless. In fact, the pressure on his body did not seem as great as the outside world. After all, Naples still won four games in eight games. Several draws have also had the opportunity to take it down. Several major players introduced have basically showed their strength. The assistance of the field is also excellent. Dazelby's breakthroughs made up for the shortcomings of Naples's offensive. Although the little Canavaro often made some mistakes in the game, the total performance was good -the most dissatisfied was the performance of Bick. After the stunning performance of the best shooter in the opening stage last season, it soon fell into a low tide -only in the last eight rounds, In a goal, Naples's eight rounds have a maximum of one goal in each game. A large part is his responsibility -a shooter does not score the goal, and the influence on a team is huge. Naples can win the game with a goal that only rely on midfielders and wingers.

Rea originally used the three-forward tactic this season to maximize Bucky's ability to grab points and score in front of the goal, and at the same time give Carayo and De Zerby more freedom. However, after nine rounds of the league, Carayo and De Zerby have performed very well. On the contrary, Bucky, who should be the most comfortable, seems to have disappeared on the field!
Of course, a striker who scores around [-] goals every season will not suddenly lose his form - Rhea doesn't believe it, but the real situation is like this. Some good people have done statistics. In the first nine rounds of the league this season, Bucky's performance is his worst in the past five seasons!

Faced with this situation, Rhea can only admit that he is unlucky. Even the best striker will suddenly encounter a scoring shortage. He originally prepared a second plan, which is Sosa. Although Sosa is 31 years old, his impact and scoring ability are also quite suitable for this tactic. Unfortunately, after playing a good game, he was injured.

As for Long Bisheng, if it was another game, Rhea would be willing to give Long Bisheng this chance—but the opponent in this game is Juventus!Facing the famous Serie A defenders such as Chiellini and Lero Tallie, how effective can he be?Rhea couldn't afford to take the risk.

After thinking about it, Rea still decided to send Bucky as the main player in the game against Juventus. He chose to continue to believe in Bucky, believing that he is just in a period of adjustment. When he finds the feeling of shooting, he will still be the scary striker in Serie B last year.

As for Long Bisheng—Let him stay on the bench for a while. Facing strong opponents, if young players fail, it may deal a huge blow to their confidence—Reiya still likes this hard-working Chinese center forward, and he doesn’t want to ruin him just because of one game.

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Before the game against Juventus, Long Bisheng knew that he would be included in the squad for the weekend game.

He didn't pay much attention to this news. In the four games at the end of the new season in Naples, he didn't get too many opportunities to play. He only came off the bench in the first Coppa Italia game. Other times, he couldn't even enter the squad. Bucky was the main force, and Sosa was the best substitute in Rhea's mind. So most of the time, he could only watch the game from the stands. After Sosa was injured, he became a regular in the squad. There were only three centers in the team , one main player, one injured, and the remaining substitute can only be him.

For this game, he naturally knows what it means. Juventus is a giant in Serie B, and other teams have to look up to them, whether it is Naples, Genoa, Lecce, Bologna or other teams.It was precisely because he knew how strong his opponent was that Long Bisheng knew that he might not have any chance in this match.

In the first few games, no matter how bad Bucky was, Rea would let him play the entire game—because he was the club’s most expensive signing this season, and Reya would not let such an expensive striker sit on the bench, so he would be hard to explain to the club’s board of directors.

On November [-]th, due to the lackluster performance of Naples in the previous rounds, the number of spectators at the Stadio San Paolo surged again. What kind of performance Naples, which has been relatively flat this season, will have against Juventus has aroused everyone’s interest. Si squeezed into the sixth position!

With this good news, Juventus came to the Sao Paulo Stadium almost aggressively with the prestige of eight consecutive victories!
However, Naples is not afraid of this opponent at all. Although Juventus is full of momentum, before the start of Serie B, Naples had a spark hit the earth with the opponent on this field, and eliminated the opponent through a penalty shootout. What's more, in this game, Juventus was full of injuries. On the field, these seven players covered the three lines of front, middle and back. I dare not say that they were injured, at least they were greatly damaged!
On the other hand, Naples, apart from Souza still missing, the main goalkeeper Chu Ran has returned from injury, forward Carajo has also recovered after a two-week break, and played well in the first two games. What makes them more confident is that they have three wins and one draw at home this season and remain unbeaten. The glory of Maradona is blessing them!

Long Bisheng sat on the bench, watched the main players of both sides come out, breathed the scorching air of the San Paolo Stadium, and felt the unique atmosphere of the Italian stadium!

Yes, although these two teams are only in Serie B now, these two teams have already surpassed the scope of Serie B!This kind of home atmosphere is not much better than Serie A!
The Sao Paulo Stadium was full today, more than 7 fans packed the entire stadium to the brim, they sang the team anthem of Naples neatly, using their actions to create huge psychological pressure on the visiting team Juventus!
This game called "Itali Derby", which is known as "Itali Berby", entered the fierceness at the beginning. In this game, Lea accidentally replaced the tactics back to the four or four two last season. All four players in the midfield were players of the last season. Monteveno took the back of the back. Entering the big list, Dazelby also sat on the bench, the striker partnered by Boji and Karajo.

This change was obviously unexpected for Juventus. Although the midfield of this lineup lacks the creativity of Dara Bona, it appears to be thicker and more balanced. At the same time, there is no problem with their cooperation. Amodio is not as good as Dara Bona, but he has more drive, vitality and physical fitness!

The two sides played sparks in the midfield. The Naples midfielder who was still playing in Serie C last season faced the Juventus midfielder Zanetti, Camoranesi, Marcinho and Giovinco who were playing in Serie A last season. In just 2 minutes of the game, Naples created a good opportunity. The ball was intercepted by Lero Taille, who blocked it in time.

After 3 minutes, Caraiola broke through from the side and gave the ball to Bucky in the penalty area. Bucky's shot was intercepted again by Lerotalie, and Chiellini made a clearance.

Immediately after Juventus launched a counterattack, Del Piero, who was about to celebrate his 32nd birthday, passed the ball to Camoranesi with a beautiful heel, and Bucky, who was actively returning to the defense, made a clearance.

(End of this chapter)