Mister Legend

Chapter 313: League Opening
Of course, this does not mean how strong the players in this Turin team really are. Whether it is judged by the senses in the real world or the values ​​​​given by the FM system and scouting tools, they are in the face of Compared with Juventus, Roma, Naples and even AC Milan, which was just reorganized in the summer, they are all at a complete disadvantage.The current ability of Belotti, the number one star in the team, is only 156, which is really not enough for the old lady's first team of 160+ or ​​even 170+ superstars.

But the overall strength of the team depends not only on the strength of each player, but also on whether the staffing is reasonable, whether the team cooperates tacitly, whether the tactical play can maximize the strength of the players, etc., and These latter points are exactly where Li Mudi is most confident.Even the currently unsatisfactory tactical adaptability, after one and a half months of high-intensity training and multiple consecutive warm-up matches, has reached a high evaluation of 87% in the FM system. The opponents encountered in this round are not strong, which can just help the players continue to improve their tacit understanding.

The Italian Super Cup held on the 14th also proved that player ability is not the most important factor in determining the final outcome of the game.Since Juventus swept the league and domestic cup titles last season, this Italian "king of kings" duel was launched between the old woman and the cup runner-up Lazio.

Compared with the Bianconeri, which spent a lot of money to introduce Szczesny, De Sciglio and Bernardeschi this summer, the transfer operation of the Blue Eagles made the outside world shout incomprehensible. After last season's main players such as Mobile, Biglia and Wesley Holt, Mikhailovich seemed so stingy in signings. The three people exchanged by the team) only spent less than 1300 million in total, making the club's income in the transfer market so far as high as 4300 million, becoming the king of net income in Serie A.

But just when the outside world thought that they were very likely to be unable to make an impact on their European qualifications in the new season, Lazio slapped everyone in the face with this Italian Super Cup.Relying on Senegalese striker Keita Balde who became the main striker after Immobile left the team, scored twice, and midfielder Murgia's No.90 two-minute lore, Miha's team After defeating the mighty Juventus 3-2, after shattering the eyeballs, it also made a good start for the upcoming new season.

And Allegri's conservatism also received unanimous criticism from the media after the game. In addition to replacing Bonucci, who joined AC Milan with Benatia, who was bought out from Bayern, Uncle Jiong used in this game The other ten starters were the main players of last season, and his attitude towards winning the first championship of the season is already very clear.However, the state of Buffon and Chiellini, who are one year older, are a bit disappointing in this game. Higuain, Mandzukic and Cuadrado in the frontcourt are also full of sleepwalking. Balla scored two goals in a row to equalize the game before the game, and the old lady knelt down long ago.

Judging from the situation of this game, many people have certain doubts about whether Juventus can complete the league championship for seven consecutive times, but more people are still neutral. They are all waiting to see if the defending champion can make a timely decision. Adjustment, after all, in terms of hard power, Allegri's team is still at the top.

Contrary to Juventus's slightly old performance before the season, Real Madrid played a perfect youth storm.They first defeated last season's Europa League champion Manchester United 2-1 in the UEFA Super Cup, defending the UEFA Super Cup, and then double-killed arch-enemy Barcelona at home and away in the Spanish Super Cup in two rounds, winning 5-1. The tenth time in the history of the huge advantage to win the cup.It is worth noting that these two championships were won when the team's top card Ronaldo played only 34 minutes due to injury and red card suspension. Everyone was speechless.

Just in mid-August, Western media broke the news that Real Madrid was about to renew their contracts with important members of the team such as Isco, Asensio, Benzema and Ramos, and the most eye-catching one was undoubtedly It is the issue of coach Zidane's new contract.The former World Footballer who led the team to win seven championship trophies (two Champions Leagues, two European Super Cups, one Club World Cup, one La Liga and one Spanish Super Cup) in less than two years after taking over the team, also Became the head coach (with Bosque) who has won the third most championships in the history of Real Madrid. This seemingly open life has naturally attracted everyone's attention. "Aspen" reported that Qi Zu's new contract is about to be concluded, and his annual salary will increase from the current 8 million euros to nearly 435 million euros. If the news is true, he will become the top football coach salary list today. Five exists.

In this regard, Li Mudi made a special phone call to his friend on Thursday to congratulate him, but the other party did not talk much about the salary issue, but expressed a lot of concern about Ronaldo's suspension during the call .The Turin coach suggested that Qi Zu take the opportunity to give more opportunities to young people such as Mbappe. Due to the crazy performance of the French teenager in Monaco last season, after his return to Madrid, many media will harden the title of "C Ronaldo's successor". It was on his head, which made the Portuguese superstar a little dissatisfied. This situation is undoubtedly very bad for the young man.However, Cristiano Ronaldo's suspension will just provide a rare opportunity for Mbappe's superiority. According to the Turin coach's suggestion, this kind of healthy competition within the team will far outweigh the disadvantages for the team.

It's a pity that neither Qi Zu nor Lafayette realized that they were too indulgent in their treatment of Ronaldo (or they realized it, but they didn't want to or even couldn't make changes). Everything needs this very stubborn superstar to decide, For fear of violating the other party's intentions and causing them to be unhappy.The previous incidents such as "the club did not express support for the tax evasion case", "teammates did not support him when commenting on the Ballon d'Or", "there is no need to sell De Gea because Navas is better" and other incidents were all attributed to Ronaldo as a player. It is a classic case of identity forcing the world's number one club to compromise with it. If this continues, Real Madrid will be really dangerous.

Although he appreciates the football skills and hard work of the prospective football champion, Li Moody never thinks that a player can expand his personal influence to interfere with the daily work of the club. This is not just a "ball bully" vocabulary It can be evaluated, and it simply becomes an anonymous chairman.Even if he can help the team win one after another on the field, if it weren't for his veto, De Gea may have made up for Real Madrid's weakness in the goalkeeper, and without his tendency, Moura Tower won't be terrified by Benzema's pressure on the bench, and finally choose to leave the team. In that case, the team's strength will obviously be higher.

Forget it, let's not mention these useless nonsense, or turn our attention back to Italy. At 8 o'clock in the evening on August 19th, the new season of Serie A finally kicked off in the anticipation of the fans. The opening game was defending champion Juventus at home against Cagliari, which ranked No.17 last season. , this global live broadcast game has received great attention from football lovers around the world.In the end, with the front trident Mandzukic, Dybala and Higuain each scoring a goal, the Bianconeri defeated the first opponent in the league 11-3, perfectly stepping out to try to defend the league title for the sixth time in a row The journey of the champion.

It is worth mentioning that the VAR system, the video assistant referee, was officially launched this season, and it played a role when it debuted. No.307 minutes, Moldova international Artur Ionica broke into the penalty area and made a cross from the left. Croatian center Cope, who had just returned from Sporting Gijon on loan in the summer, took the ball with his back and was defended by Alex Sandro. Falling to the ground, Brazilian striker Farias followed up in time. He rushed to the scene of the incident and shot a strong shot. Unfortunately, Chiellini, who was flying to block the hole of the gun, was blocked from the post with his toes. The referee Maresca Indicates that it is a corner kick.

But when the Cagliari players were about to take a corner kick, Maresca blew the whistle to signal the suspension of the game, and ran to the sidelines alone to watch the video playback and listen to the video assistant referee's opinion.More than ten seconds later, he returned to the field and changed the judgment decisively. He pointed to the home team's penalty spot and signaled that Sandro stepped on Kopp's foot from behind in defense just now.No one thought that the first knife cut by VAR was aimed at the defending champion.However, the penalty kicked by Farias was too straight and was easily blocked by Buffon. The warm applause of the fans and the praise of the commentators from all over the world all proved that the Italian goalkeeper is still the best goalkeeper in the world. one.

Regarding the video assistant referee, Li Moody really didn’t have much concept before. Although this technology has been used in many leagues including the Bundesliga last season, Italian clubs that have never had the opportunity to get in touch with it are still Don't know much about it.At the beginning of August, the Italian Football Association once held a study course on VAR, explaining its working principle and methods to the head coaches of all Serie A teams, but it was all blind people who did not experience it in the game. Not very impressed.However, the first appearance of this new technology is really shocking, so that everyone can better understand what this thing is, so that they can be mentally prepared when encountering similar situations in the future.

After the game, almost all the media praised the application of the video assistant referee, thinking that this is a revolutionary change, which can effectively prevent the occurrence of missed and wrong judgments, and restore the result of the game to the goal 3%. In terms of the real strength of the team, it is no less important than the [-]-point system for winning and the rule of prohibiting return goalkeepers.But there are still a small group of people who firmly believe that misjudgment is part of the charm of this fascinating sport, and there should be too much human interference in it, but so far, the side that supports it still has an absolute advantage.

When Li Mudi was interviewed by reporters before the start of the game on the second day, he was also optimistic about the addition of new technologies, but he also believed that referees should continue to strengthen their law enforcement capabilities as the most important job, because VAR is used too frequently Obviously it will slow down the progress of the game, which is very harmful to the game.

However, no one cares about his small doubts at all. Now everyone is in a state of high recognition and praise for VAR, and rarely cares about negative remarks, so the answer of the Turin coach is like a breeze. No trace, no sense of existence.

Back in the league, Naples, who needed to play in the second round of the UEFA Champions League playoffs in the middle of the week, also made their debut on the first match day. As a result, they defeated the upgraded team Weiwei 3-1 in the away game with some reservations. Rona achieved his combat goal relatively smoothly.

And the third strong team to play is the Red Bulls. Their first round of the league was scheduled for 20 o'clock in the afternoon on the 15th local time. This was of course to take care of the fans of China. Playing football in the high temperature of Celsius, the players of the two teams also worked extremely hard, and the physical test for them was very difficult.

Last season's No.15 place obviously made Donadoni very dissatisfied, so in this summer, not only did he not let go of any of the main players in the original team, he also spent less than 1000 million to introduce the new Swedish international Central defender Philip Holland, and bought out Algerian midfielder Slit Teide on loan from Inter Milan.The most important thing is that the midfield organizer Polly and the "braided god" Palacio both joined as free agents from the Milan duo, which strengthened the strength of the team.

Before the start of the season, Bologna was also considered by many media to have the opportunity to hit the top half of the standings, so they must do their best in the first home game to lay a good foundation for the subsequent journey.For this reason, Donadoni abandoned his usual 4-3-3 formation, and instead used the 4-2-3-1 that Li Mudi was good at before. The intention to strengthen the control of the midfield is very obvious.

The Turin coach also boldly made changes in the first game of the new season. As soon as he came up, he resorted to rehearsing a 3-4-1-2 position for a summer. The starting lineup is as follows: Goalkeeper: Cassie, Three central defenders: Diego Llorente, Ranocchia and Kanneman, four midfielders: Zampacosta, Vukocevic, Baselli and Barreca, midfielder: Benassi, and Bello on the front line Dee and Immobile's partner.

This lineup is what he has been trying to form last season. Players in all positions are theoretically the best choices for each position. Only Lars Diarra is not as good as the rookie Vukocevic. Did it on the bench.Since this position has been used in several warm-up matches, other Serie A teams including Bologna will not be too unfamiliar with it, but Li Moody dared to take it out in the first round of the league. It exceeded everyone's expectations.

Zhang Guidance, the guest commentator of Tianchao, analyzed this new tactic before the start of the game. He believed that the purpose of the Turin coach to change the routine is obvious, which is to show the overall strength of his players on both offensive and defensive ends A more outstanding advantage completely abandons the method of relying on the individual abilities of individual players when encountering strong opponents or stalemate games last season.This concept is undoubtedly an improvement, but the specific effect still needs to be tested in the game.

Subsequently, the on-duty referee Davide Massa blew the kick-off whistle, and the first round of the Serie A match, which has attracted the attention of Chinese fans, began.

　Tomorrow's New Year's Eve, three o'clock.

　　
　
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