Mister Legend

Chapter 134 The Protagonist's Task Is To Slap The Face
The match against Chievo was a friendly match to commemorate the 37-year-old striker veteran Sergio Pellissier (Sergio Pellissier), who was born in the youth training of Turin but grew into a famous player in Serie A in Chievo. It is a special event held for the No.15 season of No. [-], so in the game, the attitudes of both sides are still very kind and friendly, the physical confrontation is not too fierce, and it is more about adapting new tactics and new players.

However, compared to the stumbling here in Turin, the home team that won No.9 in Serie A last season naturally seems to be very comfortable.The coach Rolando Maran has taken over the team for two seasons, and his tactics have long been mastered by the players, and because of the satisfactory results last year, coupled with financial difficulties Influenced by them, their lineup has not changed much in the new season. They just bought out the right back Fabrizio Cacciatore (Fabrizio Cacciatore) who was on loan from Sampdoria last season. Other rookies have not yet been able to enter the starting lineup. Among them, so the team cooperation and tactical proficiency are naturally far stronger than the opponent.This gap is directly reflected on the court. The home team's players are at a disadvantage in terms of individual ability, but overall they are more than one level higher. Although facing the opponent's outstanding individual performance, there will always be some feeling of stretching , but still made good use of the strength of the team to block the opponent's offensive, making Torino's 11 shots and 5 shots on target all useless.And they relied on a corner kick attack in the second half, and the veteran Gamberini who came off the bench scored the only goal of the game, thus giving the Red Bulls a two-game losing streak in the warm-up match.

In this game, Li Moody made a small change to the formation. He changed the position of the three frontcourt players to a single midfielder and double forwards, allowing Jesse's activity area to be slightly behind Belotti, but the width is wider. , played the role of a shadow forward, and completely gave up the two wingers to the two Brazilians Bruno Perez and Avilal who inserted in the back.Judging from the effect of actual combat, this arrangement still has a certain threat, but it is still subject to the problem of mutual cooperation, and there are too many mistakes. The number of mistakes made by the Turin team in these three games was 24, 20 and 22, which is far away. far surpassed the opponent.And through the FM system, it can also be seen that the three common formations 3-4-2-1, 3-4-1-2 and 4-3-2-1 set by Moody Li for the team, the players' adaptability is all Below 70%, everyone has only mastered 55% of the four-back positions that Ventura seldom selected in the previous seasons. The situation is not optimistic.

However, as the team's lineup has basically stabilized, Li Moody has extended the training time of the daily tactical drills. I believe that before the official start of the new season, it is still very promising to increase the adaptability of the three formations to about 90%.Assistant coach Samfield is also very confident about this. The black-faced god has been focusing on this aspect of work these days. Those players who have been stared at by his "death pupil" are working harder, and the effect is also Really good, the tacit understanding between the players seems to be improving to a degree that can be seen every day.

The atmosphere in the team is good. Both the coaching staff and the players know that the main problem of the poor results in the previous warm-up matches is not because of the poor strength of the team's new coach.But the outside world doesn't see it that way. More and more media have begun to criticize Turin's operation this season, starting with the "unreasonable" termination of the football director, selling the team captain and other original main players, and signing the player who is seriously lacking. Many problems, such as the new coach with experience and ability, and unfavorable signings, will be directed at Chairman Urbano Cairo.At this time, Li Moody also found that something was wrong with the development of the situation. Guinness, who had already returned to Spain, called him and told him to be careful about his words and deeds at the moment, and not to be caught by the media.In the evening, Valentino Cairo came to the apartment of the team's head coach. After eating the instant noodles cooked by Li Moody, the two talked about the incident.

It turned out that someone was doing things behind the scenes this time. Before the Cairo family took over Turin, the team owned the industrialist Ciminelli. .According to internal sources, the Ciminelli family has teamed up with Alessandro Moggi, who is known as the little Moggi. His father is known as the ruler of Italian football for more than 20 years and has a wide network of resources. It is unimaginable for ordinary people.The first thing they want to plan is to oust the current chairman Urbano Cairo by bewitching the fans to make trouble, and then take down the entire Turin club through capital operations.The original plan was not to be implemented at this time. It should be launched when the team's performance reached the bottom and the dissatisfaction of the fans accumulated to the strongest.However, Li Moody's joining brought a huge amount of Chinese corporate sponsorship, which caused the Turin Club, which was originally valued at only a little over 4000 million euros, to be immediately raised by the bank. 40%, this immediately panicked Ciminelli and the others who had been preparing for a long time. They were afraid that there would be any changes in the future, so they had no choice but to launch an offensive in advance.

Although the Turin coach who finally figured out the cause and effect did not say anything, he was very angry in his heart. He became an excuse and loophole for others to attack his opponent. This is simply too much deception!Didn't you criticize me for not being good enough, the team's defensive strength is not strong, and the signings are not good?Well, I'll let you see what the current level of the Turin team is like!
Just when various negative news about the Torino club continued to spread from the outside world, Li Moody issued the most severe ban order and extra training plan to the team. All the staff and players in the team are not allowed to accept the media in the near future interviews, and the daily practice time has also been extended from the previous five and a half hours to six and a half hours. Coupled with the individual exercise of each player, they are considered to be in excellent physical fitness if they are not exhausted into dead dogs at the end of the day.However, the club's top management, especially the chairman, continued to use his status as a media tycoon to counterattack in various media, proving that their operations this summer are absolutely solid and reliable, and time will prove all of this.

So how long will it take to justify the name of this Turin team?Li Moody's answer was four days.

At 8:4 on the evening of August 17 local time, the Red Bulls ushered in their fourth warm-up opponent this season at their home stadium, the Jumilla football team from Group 4 of the Spanish C[-] League. They were Tang Hui and For the team that Li Xiang bought, the local TV station in Turin and China's Xiaoshi sports network platform broadcast the game live.

As a result, under the witness of 11 fans of the home team and several media reporters present, the red bulls with full firepower annihilated the opponent who came from afar with a bloodbath of 0 to [-], which left everyone dumbfounded.Contributing to the team are Hong Beibei's four goals, Heqiu King's two goals, Vallejo's goal, Benassi's goal, Bruno Perez's goal, Obi's goal and the opponent's own goal.

In the whole game, Turin's ball possession rate reached 78%, 32 shots were made, 17 of which were on target, and 8 corner kicks were obtained. The success rate of steals and headers both exceeded 70%.Moreover, the opponent only made two shots in the whole game, and the number of fouls was 9 to 31, which made Jumilla's frontcourt players lose their temper.

After the game, the two Chinese fellows who did not come to the scene to help the battle directly made a long-distance call, laughing and accusing Li Mudi of being too ruthless and being too unsympathetic to his own people.The Turin coach also admitted his mistake with a smile, promising to have the opportunity to entertain the two in the future to make amends.However, the two sides were able to clearly understand the gap in strength shown in the game. Tang and Li also humbly asked their younger brother Li Mudi some questions about the team's lineup and tactics.The Turin coach, who has always been outspoken, said: "Looking at Jumilla's current strength, it is still unrealistic to upgrade next summer. There is nothing to say on the tactical level. The head coach has his own personal philosophy. Although the ability is not very good, but the competitiveness of the West Division B teams is generally not strong. After the young players have grown up, there will be a lot of opportunities, so what is lacking now is the accumulation of time. After all, As the owner of the team, there will be no major problems, unlike me, who works for others, can’t relax in the slightest, and has to be criticized by the outside world all the time, hey!”

The live broadcast of this game through the Internet has made more people who pay attention to the Turin club see the strength of the Red Bull. Many fans who were fooled by the media before suddenly changed their positions and felt that they should remain neutral for the time being and wait for future development. It is the most correct choice at this time.However, those media who looked down on the head coach of China and were bribed by Siminelli and others were not willing to fail, but even more frantically accused Jumilla's boss of being from China, who came here to play a match-fixing to help their compatriots through a crisis of confidence.However, many people raised objections on the Internet, thinking that it was just a warm-up match, whether it was worth doing a fake or not, it was completely meaningless.As a result, those media made a big fuss about the strength of both sides, devaluing the Spanish third-tier league teams as worthless, thinking that if a team of their level joins the Italian football world, it may even play in the Italian Ding League. No, this big victory in Turin did not have the slightest technical content.This kind of statement immediately triggered a scolding war between Italy and Spain. The media and fans and netizens on both sides constantly belittled the football level of the other side. It took the topic of criticizing Turin's high-level officials and Li Moody as a deviation, and it was to such an extent that eight hundred horses could not be pulled back.

However, the Italian media's judgment on Turin's victory ended in Madrid two days later. Castilla, led by Solari, beat Serie B mid-range in a hearty 5-1 home warm-up match. For the team Barry, no one seems to dare to question the level of the Spanish non-League teams.

However, those "anti-Lee Moody Alliance" people will naturally not be silent. On August 8, "Corriere dello Sport" published a long interview with Lazio's new head coach Mikhailovich.In the article, the former Serbian legend expressed his views on the Turin club, which has been rumored to sign with him before. He believes that this summer of the Red Bulls can hardly be called a success. After the disintegration of the defense line, the team did not purchase a capable successor, and the defensive danger was too great.In addition, the team's offensive line does not have enough outstanding stars. It is difficult to persist until the end of the season with only Belotti as a center.As for Jesse and other players on loan from Real Madrid, Miha believes that the Spaniard has never had a tradition of success in Italy, so these are failed signing operations.He also revealed to the media that he said he got news from within the club that some players who had the opportunity to join the giants had to be kept in the team because someone forced them to block them. It is extremely fatal. If he were to take over Turin, he would never make such a low-level mistake.Finally, he made some predictions about the results of the two teams in the new season: Lazio, the top three in the league, a strong contender for the Coppa Italia championship and at least the semi-finals of the Europa League; level, the first round of the Coppa Italia at most; as for the new coach of Turin, I have never heard of this name before, so it is not convenient to comment.

Throughout the article, the new Lazio coach did not belittle the Turin coach in a positive way, but his sense of superiority over the Chinese man was revealed all the time between the lines, as if the other party was only qualified to be a student in front of him and did not know this kind of thing. Where does self-righteous arrogance come from.In this life, because of Li Modi's time travel, he failed to take over Turin and get a high salary, so he had to take over the coach of his old club Blue Eagle with a "half-price" annual salary of just over 100 million euros.Although the strength of the team is much stronger, the loss of money still makes him feel dissatisfied with the Turin club that did not choose him and the Chinese coach who took his place. Such an interview was completed under the instigation and arrangement of caring people .

In this regard, the next day's "Turin Sports News" naturally couldn't be persuaded, and also published an article to refute it, but not just for any purpose, and did not criticize Miha himself too much, but only aimed at his various opinions. At the same time, he alluded to "Corriere dello Sport" with bad intentions in an attempt to shake the confidence of the Turin club in the new season.Li Mudi speculated afterwards that it might be that Urbano Cairo still had illusions about the Serbs, thinking that he might have to invite the Serbs to coach the team at some point in the future, and he couldn't tear himself apart for the time being. This is really a typical businessman's behavior, no It is easy to form a deadly enmity with useful people.

Leaving aside the counterattack from the media and the club, Li Mudi's slap in the face can't wait any longer, revenge must be done as soon as possible!
On August 8th, Turin ushered in the fifth warm-up match opponent of this season at home. The former Serie A team Modena, which had just been relegated from the second division last season, turned out to be the home team again. All the people who were not optimistic about them before were beaten as pigs.

(End of this chapter)