Mister Legend

Chapter 224 The most critical month
Although the Turin team defeated the weakest deputy squad leader as they wished and got the planned points, but most of the other strong teams in this round of the league also won, so the situation of the Red Bulls in the standings has not become more favorable Some, the final attribution of the qualification for the European War is still not seen to be able to stand out.

Naples continues to maintain the unbeaten record of the last thirteen rounds. They gave Genoa a record of ten consecutive rounds with 2-0 at home. Roma beat Crotone with the same score in the away game. The latter suffered a three-game losing streak (including a make-up match) after a big victory over Empoli, and the prospect of relegation became increasingly Dim up; coincidentally, Juventus also scored two goals away from Cagliari, Higuain arranged all the goals.These three 2-0s also made the position and point difference of the top three in the standings unchanged compared with the previous week. However, the No. 20 victories of the old lady still allowed them to get 60 points. The Red Wolf with 53 points and the White Dolphin with 51 points are firmly under him. This kind of stability in scoring points in front of weak teams is also what the latter two teams currently lack.

The teams of the second group also scored three points one after another. Fiorentina rebounded sharply after returning home and defeated Udinese with three goals; Inter Milan blocked Empoel with 2-0 at Meazza Lee, after the new coach Pioli took over the coach, they have 10 wins, 2 draws and 2 losses, and their rapid rise has made everyone dare not underestimate them; Atlanta's away game against Palermo at the bottom of the list turned out to have an obvious advantage on the scene. With a 3-1 victory, they continue to chase the top-ranked teams.Only AC Milan and Lazio did not decide the winner in this strong duel. Under the huge disadvantage of 9 to 23 in the number of goals, the Rossoneri retreated 1 to 1 in the away game, but this result was not happy for both sides stand up.If you sail against the current, you will retreat if you don't advance. After all the opponents have won, this point really seems to be a drag.

In addition, Chievo's 3-1 away game against Sassuolo was also a big upset. Di Francesco's performance in leading the team was much worse than last season, and there was already a vague voice to dismiss him from get out of class; In another game, Sampdoria miraculously reversed the unlucky Bologna 3-1 at home. The latter took the lead for 64 minutes, and then was conceded by the home team in just 80 seconds in No. 83, 100 and [-] minutes. Scored three goals and created a miracle.Giampaolo's team also took the opportunity to win three consecutive victories and continue to improve their rankings.

Torino ranks fourth in the standings with 47 points, followed by Inter Milan, Lazio and Atlanta with 44 points. Fiorentina and AC Milan both rank eighth and No.40 with 9 points.Leading the third group is Chievo with 32 points, followed by Samp with 31 points, Sassuolo with 30 points and Udinese with 29 points, Cagliari 27, Genoa 25 and Bologna 25. It seems that there is no worry about downgrading.In the relegation circle, Pescara's 5 points are already doomed to fail. Crotone with 13 points and Palermo with 14 points are also brothers and sisters. Only Empoli holds 20 points, and it seems possible to go ashore. maximum.

Although the team's current results are very good, the last seven rounds of the league have 5 wins and 2 draws and remain unbeaten. Not only is it temporarily in the leading position in the competition for Europa League tickets, but it also faintly sees the door to the Champions League. In theory, 4 points That gap is nothing for 14 games remaining.But Li Mudi is very clear that the next month from February 2th is the critical period for whether he can have the last laugh. His team will face Roma, Florence, Palermo, Lazio and Inter Milan in turn. Among the five opponents, except for the Eagle Legion in the middle who is a soft persimmon, the rest are all strong enemies.In the difficult schedule of the first round, the Turin team was in a peak state, and beyond most people's expectations, they got 19 wins and 3 draws, which laid the foundation for them to be at the top of the standings.

However, with the recovery of these teams after the winter break, some people in the industry have begun to look down on the situation of the Red Bulls. Even its own mouthpiece "Torino Sport" is inoculating fans, claiming that as long as After playing Inter Milan, the team will not fall behind No.5 by more than three points. They will have the opportunity to take advantage of the schedule behind to complete the overtake.

The quarter-finals of the Coppa Italia have all ended on January 1 and 25 and February 26 and 2. There are no upsets. The current top three in the league and Lazio have successfully entered the semi-finals.Excluding strength factors, there is a 1% chance that this season's cup champion will be a team that can participate in the UEFA Champions League next season, then the Europa League qualification brought by this title will be transferred to League No.2.In other words, as long as Lazio cannot win the seventh Coppa Italia championship in team history, there will be one more ticket for the European war. It can be called excellent news.Therefore, in the two rounds of the Coppa Italia semi-finals, these teams must cheer for the Roma team. I hope that the Red Wolves can defeat their rivals in the same city and get close to the finals, creating a more favorable condition for everyone.

But before that, the Roma team was still Li Moody's headache. Spalletti's team is currently at its peak. Except for the unexpected away loss to Sampdoria two rounds ago, the last seven In the round of the game, he won six games, five of which were clean sheets.The playing level of this head coach who came from the Fiorentina youth training camp in his career is indeed too average, and he can only hang out in the third division. However, his performance after retirement has made his name spread throughout the European continent.The first job was to work hard in Empoli for four years, and then lead the team to two consecutive promotions and enter Serie A. After that, he took over Udinese and helped the little zebra get the qualification for the Champions League. The solicitation of the red wolf. The three years from 2005 to 2008 were the key period for him to become a world-renowned coach. Although he lost a lot of opponents who were seriously injured because of the phone call, he was runner-up in the league for three consecutive years and the gap with Inter Milan was gradually narrowing. The world has shown Sri Lanka's strong coaching ability.

However, after inexplicably taking over the Russian Super League team Zenit St. Petersburg, his personality collapsed. He could have caused huge troubles to Bayern and Real Madrid in the Champions League, and won the Europa League (at that time Also called the UEFA Cup) and the European Super Cup (the Siberian Tigers who defeated Sir Alex Ferguson's Manchester United) turned into a nest under his leadership.Although he won two championships and one runner-up in the league in three years, he turned into a soft-footed shrimp in the European arena, and his performance declined year after year. After that, there were scandals of manipulating match-fixing and stealing kickbacks in player transactions. The Italian marshal had no choice but to resign in despair and hide at home to avoid the limelight.

However, after 22 months of rest, Spalletti came out again and proved that he is still not old in his old club Roma. At that time, he had fallen to fifth in the standings, was eliminated early in the domestic cup, and made history in the Champions League group stage. The Red Wolves, who barely qualified with six points, immediately changed their old look. Although they were still behind Naples by two points and only got third in the league, the morale of the team has returned to the level of the previous top teams. , no one dared to underestimate them.

Of course, Si Shuai is not perfect. Although his tactical design can be called top-notch in Italian and even European football, his training is extremely targeted, and almost all of them are adjusted to each opponent. Like most other head coaches, they rely more on assistants or collective strength to deal with it.However, his ability to control the field is a mess, his style of play is good-looking but he has little confidence to complete a reversal in a desperate situation. This is an important reason why Roma has not been able to become the top giants. Wenger is one type.

But even if the opponent has such problems, the current Turin is not qualified to look down on them. The current Roma team is indeed the top three in the league, with the third offensive power and the second best defense. Excellent, even with the FM system in hand, Li Moody has no confidence to say that he can win the opponent.Judging from the comparison of the strengths of the two sides, except for the center position where Belotti and Dzeko are basically at the same level, the Red Wolves have an advantage in other positions. Even after joining Nokia, the Red Bulls' defense is only It is the level of the middle and upper reaches of the entire Serie A, far less reliable than the opponent's defense.Although the football game is not guaranteed to be won by anyone with strong strength, if the opponent is completely suppressed in all aspects, it is really difficult to complete the counterattack.Without luck and the help of the opponent's own mistakes, facing the Roma team who wanted to avenge the 1-3 away defeat in September last year, the Turin coach could only think hard about some unique moves that could achieve a surprise victory.

However, just two days before the start of the game, this powerful enemy created a super topic of suspected civil strife, which diverted people's attention from the upcoming game to outside the stadium.Spalletti's contract will expire this summer, so a reporter intercepted the Roma coach's car outside the club gate after the day's training and asked him about the contract extension.But I don’t know if he didn’t hear the question clearly or was deliberately provoking trouble. He even replied: "If Totti wants to continue playing, he should renew his contract." After being reminded by the reporter who was already confused, Another sentence came: "Ah! This is not what you asked me? But I want to say! For Roma, the important contract is the player contract, not the coach contract." Then he drove away, leaving a group of surprised The reporters who couldn't close their mouths.

The grievances between Spalletti and Totti can almost be written into a book. Since the former put the Roma captain on the bench regularly in February last year, the war of words between the two sides has never stopped. , The Wolf King, who has always been reluctant to make irresponsible remarks in the media, went crazy in an interview and angrily denounced the team's head coach for being unfair to him.Since then, the relationship between the two has dropped to a freezing point, and they have become the most famous pair of rivals at the moment.

The news immediately spread throughout the Italian football world, and many media and experts came out to interpret it, and finally got roughly three possibilities.The first is that Si Shuai really believes that the stay of the Wolf King will greatly help the atmosphere in the locker room. Only when the latter renews his contract can he have no worries, and then he will consider his own contract extension.However, this point of view is considered to be the most untenable. As we all know, Spalletti has an awkward personality that often speaks ironic words and irony. Listening to his words often requires reverse thinking.Considering the tense relationship between the two before, he seems to have no reason to support the captain of Rome at this time, so it is very likely that he is talking ironically.

So the second point of view is that the Roma coach is forcing the club to drive away the team's banner, and the sentence about the important contract is also interpreted as "If the problem of Totti's contract cannot be resolved, I will not renew the contract with the team." negotiating", this is undoubtedly forcing the palace.However, according to the "Corriere dello Sport" report, if the Wolf King chooses to retire this summer, then the Roma Club will provide him with a technical director position with an annual salary of 60 euros, which will instead bring more benefits to Si Shuai's future coaching. The big trouble, the drama of power struggle may be staged.Therefore, such an analysis, this point of view is somewhat unreliable.

So the third possibility emerged. Spalletti actually used the issue of Totti's contract renewal to cover up his own plan to leave Rome.It was previously reported that Allegri wants to raise his salary by another level when he renews his contract in the summer, but his current annual salary of 900 million euros is already one of the best figures in Serie A history. The dominance of the team does not have much to do with the head coach. After all, the old lady is ahead of other teams in terms of hardware and software.To put it bluntly, if they change to another dog to coach, they may be ranked in the upper reaches of the standings, so the club is not willing to agree to the current coach's salary increase request, so there are rumors that the coach may replace Allegri.The Roma coach's emotional intelligence is not too low. He didn't want to break with his old club before everything was clear, so he used Totti as a shield to delay the start of contract renewal negotiations and wait for the follow-up progress of Juventus.

All in all, regardless of what was going on in his head when he said that, Roma's internal problems did get attention from all over European football, and it was generally agreed that this created a very good-looking situation for Moody's team. An upset chance, the bookmaker's adjustment to the game odds says it all.However, after checking the competitive status of the opponent's players through the FM system, the Turin coach said that it is better not to be too optimistic.

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