Mister Legend

Chapter 165

On their way to the stadium in a taxi, Li Moody received a call from Valentino Cairo, who told him a piece of news that could not be said to be good or bad: just an hour ago, Udine The Serie A club held a press conference to announce that the team coach Beppe Iachini (Beppe Iachini) officially dismissed get out of class, and became the second team coach to be dismissed in Serie A this season.

This midfielder in the player era is a model coach of a player-turned-coach who has played more than 200 times in the Italian top league. He started his coaching career in Cesena in the 2002-03 season, and then coached Vittoria. Cenza, Piacenza, Chievo, Brescia, Sampdoria, Siena, Palermo and many other teams can be regarded as one of the famous vagabonds with rich experience but never settled down.Although there are no outstanding honors in terms of coaching performance, Iachini's concept of advocating offense has been recognized by many fans. In addition, he is also very experienced in cultivating young players. Belotti and Dybala, the two hottest new stars in European football today, both emerged in his hands.

In the middle and late stages of last season, Udinese lost 20-1 to Roma at home in the ninth round of No.2 in the league, leaving only a mere four points behind the relegation zone. The situation was once very urgent.The club's top management made a decision to change coaches, letting the former team coach Luigi De Canio (Luigi De Canio), who was unemployed after getting out of class in Catania in the 2013-14 season, replace the old coach Colantono (Stefano Colantuono) post.And De Canio was only unsatisfactory. In the last nine rounds of the league, he achieved 2 wins, 3 draws and 4 losses, ranking No. 16 in the league, only one point higher than the relegated Capi, which scared the nickname For the little zebra (Udinese's official nickname is the black and white legion, little zebra, Friulian zebra, black-bone chicken is a misrepresentation of the Chinese dynasty) the team is covered in cold sweat.So after the end of the season, De Canio naturally did not get a contract extension, and his successor was Beppe Iachini.

Unfortunately, due to the unfavorable schedule and its own reasons, Udinese lost to Roma, Chievo and Sassuolo 0-4, 1-2, 0-1, 0-3 in the first seven rounds of this season. And Lazio, although they also had an excellent performance in an away game against AC Milan by a small goal, but on the whole it was far from the club's previous expectations. .According to the instant news searched by Li Moody on his mobile phone, most of the media are more optimistic about the chances of Idi Rea, Eugenio Corini, Andrea Mandolini and others having the opportunity to take over Iacini and stay. The handsome position, but the FM system in his mind once again confirmed how unreliable those media are.The 66-year-old famous Italian football coach, Luigi Del Neri (Luigi Del Neri), who once coached Juventus before five consecutive championships (too bad luck), has signed with Udinese. He will lead the team for the rest of the Serie A schedule, only to be officially announced.

However, Li Mudi didn't have much feeling for this colleague who was fired. After all, apart from Lord Wei—no, Sir Ferguson, there are really few people in this line of work who can start well and end well. Of course, the person in charge Auxerre's legendary Guy Roux, who has been in charge for 44 years, is outside the scope of this discussion.Not to mention the still chaotic Chinese football, just in terms of the five traditional European leagues, each league has to have at least five or six coaches dismissed halfway through a season. It is normal for eight or nine coaches to catch up with the "peak season".Although the current results of the Turin team are in a mess, if Li Moody does not prepare fully every minute, maybe a two-game losing streak will make him hear the sound of getting out of class, and a three-game losing streak or four rounds of winning may make the chairman Really consider the coaching position issue, if the fiasco is lost to Juventus, the contract may be terminated at that time.Therefore, the head coach of any professional team is not qualified to pity his peers who have been dismissed miserably, because no one can tell whether he will be the next poor guy who loses his job.

Fortunately, the taxi driver is skilled and the stadium is very close to the airport. They were sent to their destination in about seven or eight minutes.After paying the fare, they hurriedly took out the tickets they had bought earlier and passed through the security checkpoint before the start of the game. After entering the arena, they had just found their seats when the whistle sounded.

This is a focus event in the second round of Group G of the 2018 Russia World Cup European qualifiers. Italy is playing against Spain at home. Both teams won the previous round. It is widely considered to be a battle for the top spot in the group, and whoever wins can occupy a favorable position in the battle for the right to qualify directly.Speaking of which, the relationship between the two teams and Li Moody is still very close. One is the country where he has lived for ten years and coached his first team in his life, and the other is the place where he works and lives now.Even the coaches of the two teams are inextricably linked with him. Ventura is his predecessor at the Turin club, while the Spanish national team coach Julen Lopetegui (Julen Lopetegui) was born in Real Madrid youth training, when I passed the coach qualification certificate in 10, I was a classmate with Li Mudi for three months, and we are very familiar with each other.

As for the starting lineup, the Matador in the away game is quite satisfactory, with a 4-3-3 position, except that Sevilla's winger Vitolo (Víctor Machín nicknamed Vitolo) is used on the front line to partner Diego. Except for Costa, the rest of the starting nine are the previous main teams.Lopetegui basically overthrew the frontless formation often used by the former coach Bosque, and established the tactical idea of ​​"prosperity and beauty" as a single arrow in front, and Vitolo's position was fixed at the right winger position On the other hand, although Silva is called a left winger, he is the player with the largest range of activities in the entire Spanish team, which is equivalent to a free man in the frontcourt.This makes their overall formation more like a right-biased "unbalanced formation" when they have the ball in control, which is very unique.

On the other hand, looking back at the starting roster of the Italian team, Li Moody feels that he and Ventura have completely out of touch brain circuits. It is currently the frontcourt combination with the highest scoring efficiency of the Azzurri.But Ventura has been holding on to Pellet and Edel, and it seems to be a "unswerving" trust.God knows how a "Qian Crazy" who can't play the main force in the Inter Milan club, failed to score a goal in seven rounds of the league, and can't achieve an average goal rate of 0.5 even in Chinese football, how did he score eight in six games? Hong Beibei, who scored the ball, and Immobile, who scored four goals in seven games, went ahead. This kind of judgment is absolutely rare in the world.In addition, Chiellini's red card suspension in the last round of the game may bring hidden dangers to the defense. AC Milan's young central defender Romagnoli won the first chance to start his national team career.

As the two top teams in European football, the exchanges between Italy and Spain are relatively frequent. Since 2011, the two sides have played against each other seven times before this game, each winning two games, and three games were draws (One of the games was finally decided by a penalty kick), but in terms of gold content, it is clear that the Matador has the upper hand.The record of 1 win, 1 draw and 1 loss in the three friendly matches is evenly matched, but Italy’s other victory was the just-concluded European Cup in France. Under the heels of German tanks.Spain won the European Cup final in 2. The 0-2012 score not only created a historical record, but also made Italian football miss the best chance to win the trophy since 4 for the second time (the first time should be even more regrettable. , was defeated by the French Golden Ball in 0).The last special draw happened in the Confederations Cup in 1968. The two sides scored a goalless draw within 2010 minutes, and the result of the penalty shootout was once again biased towards the Spaniard, 2013 to 120. Italy wanted to play for the first time in history. The dream of entering the final of this event was shattered.Of course, don't forget that when the Spanish dynasty was just established in 6, they eliminated the Italians through penalty kicks in the quarter-finals. This feud is really serious!
However, after the two teams replaced their new head coaches, both teams have entered a period of adjustment. Although the starting lineups of both sides have not changed much compared with their predecessors, compared to Ventura's conservativeness, Los Angeles Petji still has some changes in the frontcourt, but judging from this game, it seems that there is no positive effect.In order to better control the midfield, Lopetegui sent a total of five midfielders including the wingers who retreated at any time, but the Italian team, which mainly focuses on defensive tactics, followed closely Defensive formation based on the movement of the ball and the players, forming multiple small defensive lines in the face of the opponent's team leader, forcing Spain to pass back and re-launch the attack. Lay out the defensive layers.

Therefore, in most of the first half, although the visiting team's midfielder led by Iniesta and Silva gained a lot of advantages in possession of the ball, due to their age, they especially Xiaobai's speed The upper body has lost its former power, and even though the exquisite footwork technology is still unrivaled in the world, it is no longer able to break through the encirclement net of Italy on its own.In the 10th minute, the two completed a wonderful cooperation. Iniesta played 2-1 with Silva in the midfield. The former rushed all the way to the penalty area, and then he cooperated with Silva again, and the latter returned For Xiaobai, it's a pity that Xiaobai deftly swayed Florenci away from the position of one step inside the penalty area, and his left foot hit the goal without strength, and was easily caught by Buffon in front of his chest.These two consecutive cooperations are definitely a wonderful performance by the two midfield masters, but Xiaobai's shot shows that he is already "at the end of his strength" in the end, breaking through from the midfield all the way to the penalty area. It seems too difficult for the future.

Although the Matadors still control the rhythm of the field, their offense always seems so weak in front of the Azzurri, whose defensive ability has almost returned to its peak. Since the No.14 minute, the visiting team has repeatedly threatened offense. It didn't work out.First, Silva's pass from the left side of the penalty area was blocked by the defender, and then Vitolo's direct pass after cutting in from the right was confiscated by Buffon, who attacked decisively, before Costa's kick. Two minutes later, Silva made a cross from the left, and Costa's shot was still blocked by Barzagli. No.2 minutes, Silva shot a cold arrow from the outside of the penalty area. The ball flew high over the home team's crossbar after refraction. Then Iniesta took a corner kick from the right and passed it to the front of the penalty area. Pique's header attacked The door again missed the post on this side.On the scene, it seems that the Spanish team has been taking the initiative, but in terms of actual details, they are not much closer to scoring than the Italian team.

Just when the visiting team was preparing to strengthen the strength of the backcourt, an accident happened. Defender Carvajal from Real Madrid left the field due to injury in the second minute of No.20. The biggest obstacle for the Spaniard is the injury that seems to never get rid of.Lopetegui had to replace Nacho, another Real Madrid defender with almost zero assist ability, and Spain's right-sided attack could only rely on Vitolo and Atletico Madrid midfielder Koke.

At the end of the half, with the statistics of the difference in the number of shots by four times and the difference in possession rate by ten percentage points, the two sides entered their respective locker rooms with a score of 0 to 0.However, the fact that the two sides only hit the goal frame once in total also truthfully reflected the boringness of this game. If it weren't for the sitting posture and they couldn't fall asleep, it is estimated that many fans at the scene would have started dreaming.However, even if someone has really practiced the magical skill of sitting and sleeping, they will be woken up. During halftime, multiple cameramen in the field began to look for interesting shots among the audience. When the head of the Turin coach appeared above the stadium On the big screen, the few Juventus fans in the audience still managed to boo loudly enough. Of course, if there were no sound effects added by the stadium staff, maybe this booing would not have attracted more people attention.However, Li Moody kept smiling the whole time, and when a recent camera kept shining on his face, he also showed a look of enjoyment. After all, the boos from fans of his rivals showed that he was indeed threatening them. Isn't this something to be happy about?
After the re-kick-off in the second half, Lopetegui didn't know which tendon was wrong, and even gave up Spain's traditional ball possession advantage, and began to look for forwards directly in the midfield more, adding through balls.However, the success rate of this kind of through pass is not high, and it is easy to be intercepted and give up the possession of the ball. The Italian team also took this opportunity to gradually catch up with the gap in the ball possession rate between the two sides.However, this kind of unstructured tactic in Li Moody's view was really successful once. In 4 minutes, Busquets sent a long-distance through pass near the center circle, the ball was sent to Vitolo, and Buffon attacked into the penalty area There was an inexplicable mistake outside the line. He failed to touch anything and gave Vitolo an empty goal. The latter scored easily, Italy 0-1 Spain!
After conceding the goal, Ventura finally reacted, replacing Pellet and Parolo with Immobile and Belotti one after another, and adjusted the formation to a three-forward.This desperate style of play paid off in the No.80 minute. Hong Beibei crossed the middle on the right side of the penalty area. Edel was tripped by Ramos (again!) before receiving the ball. The referee issued a penalty With a penalty kick, De Rossi took the penalty and tied the score overnight.

In the end, the two sides shook hands with a score of 1 to 1 in this world-renowned "Battle of Revenge", but because in another Group G match that was held at the same time, Albania defeated the underdog Liechtenstein and achieved two consecutive victories , This made the two Western Italian teams with 1 win and 1 draw fall to the second and third positions respectively in the current group standings.

(End of this chapter)