Mister Legend

Chapter 182 Steady and Steady (Third)
Due to the UEFA Champions League group stage arrangement in the middle of this week, the two teams that need to fight for points for the entire league can take the lead on Saturday night.Even if they didn't play with all the main players, Juventus still defeated the deputy squad leader Pescara with three goals at home, allowing everyone to see the huge gap between the principal and the deputy.On the other hand, Naples, which also excluded many rotation players, beat Udinese 2-1 in the away game without any risk, ending the downturn of two consecutive games and continuing to put pressure on the leading group.In the remaining games, except for the most important Milan Derby, which was put on Sunday night, the rest of the games will be played at noon and afternoon of the day.However, for China, which is six hours later than the Italian time, it would be better to kick off before the afternoon. After all, it is too painful to get up at 45:19 in the morning to watch the game.In order to obtain higher viewership from the Far East, the Italian Football Association arranged the Turin game at 30:[-] Beijing time in a "humane" way, but the Italian team that played at noon said that This is so stupid, this was supposed to be the time for everyone to have lunch, and their biological clocks were messed up, okay?
It's a pity that in the face of huge commercial interests, the club and players have no human rights to complain about, so they have no choice but to accept their fate.However, in the Apennine Peninsula in late November, the lowest temperature at night has reached below 11 degrees Celsius, which is not an environment suitable for strenuous exercise. On the contrary, the highest temperature at noon is still 10 or [-] degrees, which is quite comfortable for activities.So from this point of view, Li Mudi thinks there are gains and losses.

Crotone Football Club (FC Crotone) is located in the city of the same name, belonging to the southernmost part of the Apennine Peninsula, Calabria (Calabria), which is the closest region to Sicily.The level of football in this area is still commendable. Although there are no top teams, the number of professional teams is quite considerable. There is another Reggina who has played in Serie A for many years.

Crotone, nicknamed Pythagoras (Pitagorici) and Shark (Squali, because there are two sharks on its team logo), was founded in 1923 and has participated in the Italian professional league since 1947. Playing around in the league, it was not until the 2000-01 season that it was successfully promoted to Serie B that it entered the outside world's sight.After more than ten years of ups and downs, they finally locked in the promotion quota in advance by drawing with Modena on April 4th today, and for the first time in history, they were able to see the top level of football.However, the upgrade process is not perfect. They can advance to Serie A, and they must thank the former Inter Milan and Palermo assistant coach Ivan Juric (Ivan Juric).The former Croatian international midfielder, born in 30, represented Crotone in the second and third Italian leagues from 1975 to 2001.Ulrich took over the coach last summer when the team only won No.2006 in the second division. He used his very flexible and changeable on-the-spot command and paid great attention to the tactical thinking of the overall coordination to make Crotone inside In a short period of time, it became a powerful team. It successfully reached the top two from the sixth round, and then occupied the top spot in the standings for 17 rounds.It's a pity that they lost the chain at the last moment, playing a wave of 21 draws and 2 loss, and were overtaken by Cagliari. In the end, they unfortunately missed the first second division championship trophy in the club's history.

However, when the outside world speculated whether they could complete relegation in the first league trip in the new season, Julic was poached by Genoa, another old club he played for, to replace him. Gasperini left Atlanta. The "Serie A first brother" had to find a new captain. In the end, the former Bari coach Davide Nicola (Davide Nicola), who had played [-] seasons in his career but only played [-] Serie A games, won his first job as a coach. The luck of playing in Serie A.

This summer, due to the limited financial strength of the club, the team's net investment in the transfer market was less than 200 million euros. After selling last season's top scorer, Croatian Ante Budimir, to San After Pudulia, their signings are still concentrated in low-level league teams, and the ability of new players is obviously insufficient.According to Li Moody's previous scouting tools, the Crotone team's highest ability value is actually goalkeeper Alex Cordaz (Alex Cordaz), the 33-year-old who only represented the Nerazzurri once in four years in his youth. The veteran only has an overall ability of 125, but his goal-line skills are still good. Last season, he played all 42 league rounds on behalf of the team, and 21 clean sheets against opponents. He is the first contributor to the team's upgrade.

Before the start of the season, the media predicted that Crotone was a favorite for relegation. At that time, only one of the ten media participating in the evaluation believed that they could escape relegation with No. 17, and their strength was indeed not recognized by everyone.Since the Ezio Scida stadium (Ezio Scida) has a capacity of less than 1 people and does not meet the Serie A competition specifications, Crotone will use Pescara's home games for the first four home games at the beginning of the season. , Losing home court advantage at the start is definitely bad news for a newly promoted team.Fortunately, after more than three months (including the offseason) of emergency expansion, the stadium finally increased the number of seats to 4 before the ninth round of the league against Naples, and only then was it possible to return to their home.However, after twelve rounds of competition, they only achieved 12500 win, 1 draws and 2 losses. They can only rank in front of Pescara, which is still struggling for a win, and rank second to last in the standings.Fortunately, Palermo and Empoli in front of them also performed poorly, which retains the possibility of avoiding early relegation. Judging from the current situation, these four teams are basically locked in the relegation circle. Among the contestants, only one team can finally land, it is too tragic!
However, Li Mudi and the Turin team are not to the point where they have room to pity others. Facing the pressure of many powerful enemies, they vow to take all three points from this kind of belly, otherwise they really have no chance to compete against a group of powerful enemies. The opponents have grabbed tickets to the European war.

The home team's starting roster was announced first, and it was still the usual 4-4-2. The main players in the team were not affected by injuries or suspensions and all appeared on the field.However, there are five players on loan from outside, and there is no buyout clause, which means that the team's lineup will still have a big change next year. This approach also confirms this club. There is indeed no long-term plan, and it is difficult to gain a foothold in the top league.

The starting lineup for the Turin side was submitted before the pre-match press conference. As expected, Li Moody still rotated several positions according to the previous opportunity. In the 4-3-3 position, the goalkeeper is Joe Hart, the defense line: right back Zampacosta, center back Rossettini with Vallejo, left back Avilar, three midfielders: The defensive midfielder Akuwa, the central midfielders Benassi and Febas, the front trident: right winger Iturbe, left winger Iago Falk, center Belotti.

After the opening, Crotone played defensive and counterattack tactics as everyone predicted before, leaving only two local forwards, both on loan from Sassuolo, near the midfield circle: the 25-year-old French Diego Falcinelli and the 24-year-old Marcello Trotta, the rest of the players focused on preventing the visiting team from passing and cutting in the dangerous area.When turning from defense to offense, the home team first used Trota's header ability to disrupt the visiting team's defense. Midfielder: Leonardo Capezzi, who is on loan from Sampdoria, and the former Italian international Raffaele Palladino, who has good dribbling skills, can also cause serious damage to the Turin team's defense. impact.

It can be seen that Nicola and his players have indeed studied their opponents for a long time, and have made extremely effective defensive tactics based on the characteristics of the visiting team's two wing assists.Crotone's full-backs basically used the method of blocking the cross as much as possible, and if it didn't work, they let the opponent's wide players cut in and let the players in the middle assist in the defense.This makes the Turin players have to be in a very awkward state every time they take the ball. Most of the time, they can only play the ball. Sometimes they have to greatly adjust the arc and strength, which makes the success rate all the way down. At worst, six consecutive crosses failed to find Belotti.After strangling the visiting team's conventional side pass tactics, the home team hoarded a large number of defensive players in the middle, making it difficult for the Turin players to pass in the frontcourt. Halftime adjustments, although the ball possession rate is very objective, but the practical significance is pitifully small.And once their possession was back on the halfway line, the home players were less aggressive and looked as if they were happy to accept a draw.And once the visiting team launches an attack, Crotone will also wait for an opportunity to intercept and then organize a counterattack, which seems to mean that the enemy does not move and I do not move, and the enemy moves to kill him.

At the end of the half, when the possession time ratio was almost 1:3, the number of shots from both sides was exactly the same 8 times, and the number of shots on target was 2 times for the home team and 1 time for the opponent. .Yes, within the first 45 minutes, the Torino players only hit the goal once, and most of the finishing touches were made under huge defensive pressure and unreasonable choices.Faced with this situation, Li Mudi really has not much to do. After all, the strength of the substitute players needs to be improved when many main players are rested in rotation.However, there is no truly impenetrable defense in this world. The Turin coach believes that the opponent will definitely make mistakes in the game, because the physical consumption of the defensive side is greater than that of the offensive side, especially in a one-sided situation. The species gap will become more obvious in the later stages of the game.As long as your players can be patient and keep testing each other's limits, opportunities will always arise. Even if they are as strong as the Italian national team, they dare not say that they can maintain the concentration of the audience, let alone Crotone. The kind of underdog who concedes two goals per game.

However, it seems that the negative buff of being "slapped in the face" by the Turin coach has not been cleared. No matter how many routines the visiting team players have tried, they have not been able to get the damn ball into the opponent's goal. After all the starters on the field except Joe Hart and Rossettini have shot records, the score is still 0 to 0. The defense in front of them today is like a solid wall.However, because the physical condition of the opponent's players can be observed at any time through the FM system, Li Mudi has been sitting on the ground beside the coach's bench, and did not stand outside the sideline as he usually does when he is anxious. The Turin players, who had been unable to attack for a long time, calmed down a little impatience.

The Turin coach's intercontinental professional certificate exam is in the middle of this week, and he will return to Madrid to take the exam, so he has been reviewing various knowledge in his free time these two days.And the reason why he is sitting there with a calm look is not only because he has a lot of confidence in the team's ability to score goals, but also because he is trying to apply the psychological knowledge in books to reality.Before, he always believed that these things were also used to cope with exams and obtain certificates, but after more than a year of feedback from front-line coaching, sometimes they can really come in handy.Just like today's "pretending to be B" mode, it has brought a lot of positive effects to the players' psychology, so that they have not been completely out of balance because they can't successfully break the goal, and finally waited for the moment when the opponent made a mistake .

No.80 minutes, after Avelar's cross was pushed out by the opponent's central defender, the home team immediately counterattacked, but the Turin team's return defense quickly did not give the opponent any opportunity to take advantage of, and Crotone had to enter the position In battle.However, the pass from the Swedish midfielder Marcus Rohdén was intercepted by Akuwa. The Ghanaian quickly passed it to Falk in front. Belotti and the substitute Argentine forward Boyer also accelerated to the frontcourt. , Turin's counterattack formed a three-on-five situation in its frontcourt.The Spaniard dribbled the ball all the way to a position about 0 or 1 meters in front of the penalty area, and was double-teamed by several home team defenders and sent a through pass in the middle. A low shot from the left side of the penalty area was successful. [-] to [-], the deadlock on the court was finally broken.However, judging from the slow-motion replay provided by the broadcaster, Hong Beibei seems to be suspected of being offside, but because it was in the middle of the flash, the linesman did not see clearly, and even the players of the home team did not take the initiative to signal, resulting in It's a done deal.

This conceded goal completely destroyed the fighting spirit of the Crotone players. Eight minutes later, Boyer dribbled the ball horizontally two steps inside the opponent's penalty area, and accidentally stabbed the ball to the left side under the interference of the defensive player. Belotti and Hong Beibei didn't say anything else, almost from the same position where they scored just now, they made another low shot and hit the near corner again. 8-0, the Turin team completely sealed the victory.

(End of this chapter)