Lvyin Fengmo

Chapter 210
For the Premier League, December is an out-and-out devil's schedule. The league, European games, and domestic cups are all gathered in just one month, and double matches a week, or even one match every two days, has become commonplace.

Although Serie A is relatively slow-paced, the schedule has become denser as Christmas approaches.

After playing Paris on December 12, on December 8, Lazio ushered in the opponent of the 12th round of the league at home, Sampdoria.

The main players who got a rest in the middle of the week played very actively, but when the first half ended, the score was still only 0-0.

However, Pioli remained motionless, and Lu Feng was still sitting on the bench.

Klose broke the deadlock in the 51st minute, but the visitors leveled within 10 minutes.

In the 65th minute, seeing that the score was still 1-1, Pioli couldn't sit still.

He turned slightly sideways, and glanced at Lu Feng who was sitting on the second row of benches with Erlang's legs crossed:
"Feng, get ready to warm up."

Lu Feng responded, but did not move.

Pioli frowned, he felt that it was not that simple.

The two of them stared at each other for 5 seconds, but Lu Feng's butt still did not leave his seat.

The atmosphere suddenly became awkward and anxious.

"Ah, what happened to Lazio's bench...?"

Italian narrator Daniel Adani let out a strange cry of surprise:

"Pioli, who is eager to change his occupation, wants to send Lu Feng to play, but the Asian Footballer...seems to have rejected the head coach?"

Lazio star Ruben Sousa also expressed concern:
"Lu Feng is actually a relatively gentle player. Unless there is a problem of principle, he should not openly disobey the head coach's instructions..."

"what……"

When all parties were eagerly paying attention to Lazio's bench, Lu Feng finally made a move.

He lifted his left leg off his right leg with great difficulty with both hands, and then smiled awkwardly at Pioli:
"Sorry, my leg is numb..."

Only then did Pioli feel that cold sweat had already oozed out of his armpits!

He suddenly felt a little scared!
In case the Chinese superstar really refuses to be a substitute, his weak personality...can he be tough?

Even if it can be hardened, what's the use?
The relationship between Lu Feng and Lazio is only on loan. If Pioli dares to abandon him, Lu Feng can return to the Red Army and return to the Premier League after the winter transfer window opens on January 1!
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Because Lu Feng's legs were numb, he didn't finally come on as a substitute until 72 minutes.

Sampdoria was immediately on the verge of a formidable enemy. Their first choice was to retreat and strengthen the press. They wanted to keep the 1-1 draw and 1 point until the end.

But everyone knows that the inevitable result of strengthening the press...is that the number of fouls soars!
Just 2 minutes later, Anderson was brought down by the defender when he cut inside, and Lazio won a free kick only 19 meters from the goal.

Lu Feng stood at the top of the penalty area without hesitation. Relying on the [Magic Crystal Arrow], he pierced through the bottom of the wall with an arrow sticking to the ground, and easily rewritten the score!
2-1!

An embarrassing fact for Sampdoria is... because they strengthened their defense and pressing, the free kick shot just now was actually his first touch of the ball after he came on the field.

Also because Sampdoria paid much more attention to Lu Feng than other Lazio players, Klose and Keita scored a goal each within 5 minutes, and the score came to 4-1.

Although already behind by a large score, Samp still did not relax his focus on Lu Feng. The Blue Eagles No. 1 had to obediently watch Klose score another goal in stoppage time to lock the score at 5-1. !

Played for nearly 20 minutes, shot three times, and only scored one goal. The number of touches, passes, and breakthroughs were all pitifully small, and the running distance was less than 1000 meters. He averaged a hat-trick Klose was elected the MVP of the game with 8.8 points, which immediately caused a heated discussion.

"I thought someone would question my decline, after all I almost disappeared from the camera for 20 minutes."

In an interview with Lazio's official radio station, Lu Feng made a small self-mockery.

Once known as the "substitute king", he "only scored one goal", which undoubtedly does not conform to his style.

But the picky Italian media and fans not only did not criticize his decline, but instead looked for explanations for him from various angles:

"It was Lu Feng's appearance that freed Klose from the tight defense, otherwise he would have never been able to perform a hat-trick!"

"The role of Lu Feng on the court, those cold statistics can't reflect it at all!"

"OPTA is just a computer score, after all, the machine still can't understand the essence of football!"

"Sampdoria conceded four goals at the time, and Lu Feng, who was born in a state of etiquette, didn't even bother to add insult to injury."

"Lazio will play against Inter Milan in the next round of the league. Of course, Lu Feng must preserve his strength to avoid injury."

……

In the city of Milan hundreds of kilometers away, Inter Milan's coach Mancini couldn't help reminding:
"Before the 17th round of the league, Lazio will play Udinese in the Coppa Italia!"
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Four days later, on December 12, Lazio welcomed Udinese at home.

Although this is already the fifth round of the Coppa Italia this season, for Lazio, it is only the first domestic cup match.

Udinese has dropped to 15th in the league standings, and only scored 16 points in 18 rounds. Compared with the goal of relegation, it is meaningless to advance to the next round of the Coppa Italia!
Facing the menacing Lazio today, the "Black Chicken" simply chose to give up. They directly sent a youth reserve team to the Olympic Stadium in Rome, and then they were defeated by the "Blue Eagle" 2-0 who also had a large rotation!

In this game, Lu Feng didn't even play for a second, and sat on the bench wrapped in a blanket for 90 minutes!

Looking at Cataldi and Kirshner who were extremely excited after scoring the goal, Lu Feng curled his lips.

Let these big brothers in the bench lineup who managed to play the full 90 minutes... have fun.
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Before the last game before the winter break, the Lazio club announced the financial statements for the first quarter (August-October) of the 2015-16 season. …they turned a profit for the first time in nearly 8 years!
Now that the overall Italian football market is in a downturn, their profit has exceeded 2300 million euros!
You know, a year ago, the Lazio club lost 541 million in the first quarter!
Specific to the details:
In terms of income:

来自于7个主场比赛（5场联赛、1场欧冠附加赛、1场欧冠正赛）的门票收入，总计为862万。

——From only 1% of the first home attendance to 31% of the fifth home, with Lazio leading the standings, more and more fans poured into the stadium to cheer for the team, and the club's ticket income is also increasing soared.

The TV rights and other related income are 4200 million euros. There is no doubt that successfully breaking through the Champions League play-offs has brought huge economic benefits to the club.

Sponsorship and advertising revenue directly increased by 279 times from 3.3 million in the same period last year, reaching an astonishing 1200 million euros—entrepreneurs from the mysterious east made a huge contribution to this revenue.

The income from jerseys, shoes and other peripheral income was 260 million euros. Lu Feng alone contributed more than 20 jerseys, accounting for 80% of the Lazio team.

On a comprehensive basis, the total revenue in the first quarter reached 6422 million euros.

During this three-month period, the operating costs of the Lazio club reached 3760 million, double the same period last year:
One of the reasons is that the maintenance cost of the Formello training base and the rental fee of the Olympic Stadium in Rome have increased from 600 million to 920 million euros.

But the more important reason is that the total salary of personnel has skyrocketed from the previous 1360 million to the current 2800 million!The increase has more than doubled!
This salary list includes the Lazio club from players, coaches, medical team, to administrative staff, logistics staff, and even the guards at the training base. Of course, the player team with less than 30 people occupies the most important weight.

This season, Lazio has made great progress in the league and the Champions League at the same time. Every victory means that a valuable bonus will be distributed to the players and coaches!

Although Lu Feng's basic salary is not under the control of Lazio, according to international practice, his bonus has to be paid by the loan club!

他在前3个月里总共为拉齐奥赢得了9场胜利，打入了25粒联赛进球和9粒欧冠进球，外加1次助攻，出场费、赢球奖、进球奖、助攻奖、月度最佳球员奖、晋级欧冠正赛奖、以及联赛进球达到20球的额外奖励……拉齐奥要为他支付超过300万欧元的奖金！

You know, the annual salary of most Lazio players... probably doesn't exceed 300 million.

But Lazio boss Lotito must have been very happy when he paid for it.

He paid Lu Feng 300 million in bonuses, but earned more than 3000 million euros for his club!

Could he be unhappy?

(End of this chapter)