Mister Legend

Chapter 155 Even more difficult two consecutive victories

From the post-match statistics, the Turin team has an absolute advantage in the number of shots (14 vs. 5), the number of shots on target (5 vs. 2) and the success rate of steals (67% vs. 55%), but the ball possession rate is only 45.6%, which is nearly ten percentage points behind the visiting team. In addition, the number of fouls 19 to 8 also shows that when they face Empoli's possession tactics, there is actually no better way. The referee's scale is not so strict, and there may be downsizing.

In the locker room after the game, the team doctor brought bad news to Li Mudi: the right back Zappacosta collided with the opponent's Butcher at No. 809 minutes, causing a very painful calf because there was no substitute There is no quota, so I have no choice but to stay on the field and continue to persevere.After a simple inspection just now, it seems that there is a suspicion of bone fracture, and I need to go to the hospital in time to take an X-ray photo to confirm the specific situation. This makes the team coach who is finally happy because of the victory very depressed. Everything is not going well!

In the post-match press conference, Li Moody greatly praised Empoli and his coach Martucciello, thinking that their tactics are very advanced and brave, and they are becoming more and more utilitarian in today's football It is absolutely worthy of everyone's praise that he dares to stick to his own style.These are not compliments, but his sincere words. Li Mudi's best tactics originally were ball control and frontcourt suppression. Unfortunately, this style of play needs to be supported by an absolutely superior technical ability. Asia can do it in West Division B, but Turin can only be suppressed by the opponent in Serie A. The contrast is indeed too great.Now he can only arrange tactics based on the abilities and characteristics of existing players. If he wants the team to play completely according to his own ideas, it will take many seasons to replace the lineup.As for the training of the young echelon, Li Moody will naturally not forget the plan he designed with Valentino Cairo, but the number of players in the two existing youth teams is really too much, and most of them are nothing. The future "wastewood", so he can only ask the "Prince" to clear out those who are not on his plan list as soon as possible, and only after completing this step can he start the training plan.

In the middle of the night, all ten games of this round of Serie A had their results. In the highlight of this round, Inter Milan unexpectedly defeated the mighty Juventus 2-1 at home. After giving to Chievo, they achieved 2 wins and 1 tie, and the team seems to have gradually stepped on the right track.The head coach Frank De Boer was naturally arrogant in the post-match interview. He didn't say a word when a reporter asked him his opinion on the Turin coach, but his expression at the time seemed to be completely dismissive look.In addition, Fiorentina also won at home, and they defeated the strong enemy Roma.So far, after the four rounds of the league, only Naples with 3 wins and 1 draw has remained undefeated, while the Turin team ranked ninth in the standings with 2 wins, 2 losses and 6 points. More than enough.

However, the "Corriere dello Sport" published the next day did not ignore Li Mudi's mediocre performance. It published a reporter's column titled "The "Lamp" of the Prophecy World", which roughly read: "Since ancient times, there have been rumors that the ancient There are many kinds of miraculous witchcraft in the East, which can not only cure diseases and save people, pray for happiness, but also kill people thousands of miles away, and the most incredible thing is probably the prophecy. Although those shocking rumors It seems that they only exist in ancient books or even legends, but this Turin head coach from the Celestial Dynasty definitely thinks he is a master of prophecy. It's a pity that those predictions became similar to the "guiding lights" in the casino after just one month, and they all came in the opposite direction according to his predictions. He first praised Gasperini for his superior ability, and Atlanta got This coach will rise rapidly in the future, while the opponent's old club Genoa will be in a slump, but what is the reality? Except for one victory in Turin, Atalanta has lost all three remaining games, while Genoa has won 3 1 loss and tied for No.2 in the standings with the old lady, this face hurts, don't worry, there are still more to come."

"Next he predicted that Inter Milan's new coach Frank De Boer would leave get out of class halfway, but judging from the current situation, although the results of 2 wins, 1 draw and 1 loss are not very good, it is no longer a blue-black team. It's time for the Legion to win five consecutive championships. With seven points in four rounds, this rate can be regarded as a strong contender for the European qualification. The probability of the Dutchman being fired does not seem to be as great as the Turin coach previously expected. And with Inter Milan's sharp rise in the recent period and the strength of their opponents generally weaker, we have reason to believe that they are likely to form a lot of pressure on the top team in the early stages of the league, which is really doubtful Did Moody Lee's comments at the time seem like a 'curse'?"

Due to the strong appeal of the article's arguments, detailed and reliable arguments, cautious and logical arguments, it has won the approval of fans and netizens, and once again recruited a lot of black people for the Turin coach. ah!
After getting up early on Monday morning, Li Mudi first dialed Baozi's phone number, and discussed with his buddies about the few domestic agent candidates he had temporarily found. After all, the time was short, so the two decided to wait a few more days to see if a more suitable candidate appeared.After finishing his business, he opened the various SNS software again to check the latest friends' movements. As a result, he saw the message from Lin Yuner and the private letter to the Turin coach on both Ins and Weibo.The TV series "The K2" she filmed in Barcelona before will be broadcast on TVN cable TV every Friday and Saturday night from September 9, Kimchi Country time. It is expected to have a total of 23 episodes. Fans are here to support it.And the end of the private message turned out to be a message that surprised Li Mudi: The song "Today" adapted from the "word" he sent to Sunny before was actually selected as the ending OST of this TV series. This is also the captain of Girls' Generation Kim Taeyeon once again consolidated her "OST Queen" status masterpiece.Actor Lin joked in the postscript that Li Mudi was eccentric, and even wrote a song for the captain sister who had little contact with him, and asked if he had any ulterior thoughts about her, which made Li Mudi didn't know how to respond for a while, saying that it was all It was a coincidence made by that Sunny guy, would anyone believe it?
However, this little incident did not disturb the Turin coach for too long, because after breakfast, training will begin.Since the schedule of this week's league is double matches a week, the team did not take a day off as a new coach usually does, but directly entered the state of preparing for the fifth round of opponents.In the training in the morning, the players were divided into two parts. The players who played more than an hour in the last round of the game still focused on recovering their physical fitness, and the rest performed individual exercises and adjusted their status as usual.Sitting in the shade outside the venue, Li Mudi studied the situation of his opponent Pescara in the middle of the week while combining the FM system. He hoped to continue to rotate the lineup in that game and get this to his lips at the lowest cost. three points.

Pescara Football Club (Delfino Pescara 1936), from its name, it can be seen that it was established in 1936 and belongs to the city of Pescara in the Abruzzo District.The area is located in the middle of the Italian peninsula, with the Marche area to the north, the Lazio area to the west, the Morise area to the south, and the Mare Adriatico to the east, a large bay in the Mediterranean Sea.There is no strong football team in the region. The overall football strength is at the bottom in Italy, and Pescara is the highest-level club.

However, the professional league history of this team is not very good. After joining the professional league in 1940, the honors are only two Serie B championships and two Serie C championships. There were only seven seasons last year.Except for the successful relegation in the 1987-88 season, the rest of the season was a one-year tour, and the places for relegation were booked early. This year, judging from the analysis given by various media before the start of the season, it seems that it is inevitable to return to the second division. League doom.

In the first four rounds of this season, Pescara only achieved a bad record of 1 draw and 3 losses. With the disadvantage of goal difference, it "overwhelmed" another newly promoted Marco Rotone and ranked in the position of deputy squad leader in the standings. .Their performance in the Serie B last season was still very admirable. Although they only participated in the promotion play-offs as No.4, they performed very well in key games, killing them one after another Novara and Trapani in front won the last promotion places.However, there are still many problems with this team. The previous impression was that the offense was strong and the defense was weak. Last season, they scored 69 goals, second only to Serie B champion Cagliari, but conceded 52 goals. The most of the ten teams.However, the level of the second division league is very different from that of the first division league. Judging from their ability, if the number of goals conceded in the new season is multiplied by 1.5 times the number of goals conceded in the previous season, it will reach 78. This number is absolutely Unable to relegation.

The head coach of the team is the former AC Milan defense star Odo, who should be familiar to old fans. He took over the hometown team Pescara in the summer of 2015 and led the team to upgrade successfully in his debut season. However, his coaching ability It's still in its infancy, and there's nothing really good about it other than strong willpower.During this summer's transfer period, the team basically retained most of the main lineup, which is only unsatisfactory compared to Serie A, and it is difficult to do anything.But after the team's top scorer Gianluca Lapadula was poached by AC Milan for 900 million euros, only Udinese midfielder Vire and Inter Milan defender Biraghi were introduced. It is definitely a fatal blow to their offensive strength.

It shouldn't be surprising that such a team that looks weak offensively and defensively has only won one draw since the start of the game.However, it was this average that attracted Li Moody's attention, because they drew 2-2 at home against the mighty Naples in the first round of the league, and this was the only game in which the latter lost points so far.After watching the video of that game through the FM system, the Turin coach found that Pescara’s counterattack tactics were very organized. The 173 cm tall Libyan midfielder Ahmad Benali (Ahmad Benali) and Gianluca Caprari, a 171-centimeter striker who was bought and loaned from Inter Milan for 815 million euros, is a player with outstanding speed and strong dribbling ability. .

After carefully analyzing the opponent's technical and tactical characteristics, Li Mudi communicated with the coaching staff and finally came up with a 4-3-2-1 lineup that focuses on defensive counterattacks.The goalkeeper is still England's national goalkeeper. The back four is Bruno Perez, Moretti, Castan and Avilar from right to left. The midfielder is the double midfielder Vives and Akuva plus the playmaker. For Baselli, Jesse, Juan Iturbe, on loan from Roma, and Lucas Boyer, who scored the winning goal in the last round, jointly featured on the front line.

After the start of the game, Pescara, who was playing at home, found that the opponent had retreated a lot, so he tentatively crossed the midfield line and began to control the ball.After 15 minutes, they found that the visiting team was completely discouraged, so they gradually stepped up their offensive, and the two full-backs also began to participate in the attack from time to time.

Li Mudi's idea is to prevent the opponent from playing the counterattack tactics he is used to, and he wants to find flaws in the active attack that the home team is not very good at, and then use his own counterattack to fight back against him in his own way.It's a pity that the idea is very good, but in reality, we encountered great difficulties.The opponent's coach Oddo is really capable. After he found that the only player with strong organizational skills in Turin was Baselli, he decisively instructed the 21-year-old midfielder Bryan Cristante to closely guard the visiting team. At the same time, veteran Aquilani helped to encircle the siege. As a result, Torino was almost unable to play effective counterattack tactics in the first half. Most of the offenses were individual ones.

To make matters worse, Ghana's defensive midfielder Akuwa also received his second yellow card in the game half a minute before the end of the half-time and was sent off. As a result, Turin had to play one less player in the following games.Li Moody had to replace Iturbe with Benassi to keep the number of defenders in the midfield.

In the second half, the home team was still attacking and the away team was defending, but Pescara's offensive ability was really mediocre, and one more player failed to create any good opportunities.On the contrary, after the Turin coach replaced Boyer with the newly injured Belotti in the No.606 minute, under the dispatch of Baselli and Benassi, the team's offense showed a significant improvement. Saw a chance to win.

(End of this chapter)