Mister Legend

Chapter 320 The Strong Bull

Put aside the situation about the national football for the time being, and turn your attention back to European football.Less than two hours after the end of the Asian qualifiers, there were multiple duels in the European competition. The six teams in Group G also appeared on the field at the same time, fighting against each other.

Liechtenstein, the biggest player in Spain's guest group, slaughtered Liechtenstein, the weakest opponent in the entire European continent, 8-0.The Matadors scored 34 goals in the audience, almost like they were doing shooting training. In the end, both Morata and Aspas scored twice, Ramos and Isco also scored a goal; Macedonia, a weak team, brought surprises to people. They drew 1-1 at home with Albania, the third place in the group, helping the Italian team to consolidate its advantage in qualifying for the play-offs.

At the same time, the Azzurri sat at the Mapei Tricolore Stadium in Sassuolo and defeated Israel 2-0. It was none other than the striker twin stars of the Turin team, Belotti and Yin. Mobile. In 3 minutes, Candreva forcibly made a pass from the right in the face of two people's pinching. Immobile, who was unmarked, easily headed the ball into the upper corner of the goal. 1-0 704, Italy took the lead with some difficulty. No. In the [-]th minute, Belotti received a cross from his former teammate Zampacosta, overwhelmed the opponent's central defender, and smashed the ball into the net, helping the team completely seal the victory.

Although they won this somewhat difficult opponent, the Italian team scored 24 goals and 9 shots on goal and only scored [-] goals. Ventura's style of play is very rigid. A pass from the road is a direct pass behind the opponent, and the strength of the midfielder has not been fully discovered.Fans and the media began to complain about the team's various problems after the game, and pointed their finger at the old Turin coach, but it was of no use, and his position was still strong.

After the eight rounds of the group stage, the Spanish team has secured at least a place for the play-offs in advance with 22 points, followed by Italy with 19 points. Since Albania has only 13 points behind them, the Azzurri only need to win from Macedonia in the next round. Get a point on your body, you can ensure the top two in the group.Of course, there are still some people who are dreaming, hoping that the Matadors will overturn the gutter in the next two games, so that Italy will have a chance to qualify directly as the first in the group, but judging by the probability, I hope Really not big.

After the national team's match, all the international players rushed back to the club immediately, because in four days, the third round of the league will start, and there is really not much time left for them to recover their physical fitness and practice with the team .

This round of Serie A has two more interesting strong dialogues, one is Lazio vs. AC Milan at home, and the other is Sampdoria vs. Roma at home with impressive performance in the new season.However, later this Friday, the Guria region where Samp is located issued an announcement, predicting that there may be heavy rain in the weekend, and an orange rainstorm warning was also issued.From Saturday morning, a heavy rain fell on the entire area, and it did not abate until the afternoon.For the safety of the public, this game was announced by the Italian Football Association that it could not be played as usual, and the make-up match was temporarily scheduled to the end of January next year.

Roma's official website subsequently released a message, announcing that the team would no longer go to away games as planned, but would stay in the base camp to prepare for the UEFA Champions League group stage in the middle of next week.Sampdoria's official website stated that fans will be refunded within the next few days.However, this situation is not surprising to the locals. This area is often affected by bad weather and the game is interrupted or even cancelled. Last season, Genoa's game against Fiorentina was terminated after only 28 minutes. In February and September of 2015, one game each was postponed.Therefore, only nine games in this round of Serie A will be played this weekend, which can be regarded as a small special case.

Since Juventus will play in the Champions League on Tuesday night, according to convention, their game will be held first on Saturday.As a result, with some reservations, the old lady still defeated the visiting Chievo with three goals, achieving a three-game winning streak at the beginning of the new season.Dybala and Higuain each scored a goal and showed good form. The former also continued to lead the scorer list with five goals.

The rest of the games will be played on Sunday. Inter Milan, who played in the afternoon, will face the challenge of the newly promoted Maspar at home. Somewhat vulnerable.Icardi's fifth goal of the season and Perisic's icing on the cake helped Spalletti also get a three-game winning streak after taking over the team.

At the same time as this game kicked off, Atlanta's home game against Sassuolo. Gasperini's team finally recovered their winning code. They relied on a tight overall With cooperation and tenacious fighting spirit, Sassuolo was reversed 2-1 and finally won the first victory of the season.

At 15:21 local time, at the prime time of 88:100 pm Beijing time, the Turin team played, and they will challenge Benevento, one of the newly promoted teams, in the away game.This small club, which was promoted to Serie A for the first time in [-] years, is based in the Campania region, and the straight-line distance from Naples is less than [-] kilometers.Under the leadership of coach Marco Baroni, they miraculously achieved two consecutive jumps after they made it to Serie B for the first time last season, which really attracted the attention of many people.

However, in the first two games of their debut in the top league, they failed to reap any surprises, but a 1-2 and a 0-1 loss were not ugly.Among them, the 53-year-old head coach Baroni, who came from the Fiorentina youth training camp in the player era and then played for Udinese, Roma, Lecce, Naples, Bologna and Verona, has indeed contributed a lot. When playing in the second division, he preferred to use the 4-2-3-1 offensive style of play, but he made adjustments immediately after the upgrade. The 4-4-2 position can make the team's defense more stable. It seems that for The strength of the team, this inexperienced coach still has a deep understanding.

But even though they are nicknamed Stregoni, they are already prepared to be extremely passive when facing a strong team like the Red Bulls, even if they are playing at home, even if the referee on duty is not very fond of playing cards Rosario Abiso is good for their high-intensity fighting, but facing the Turin team, which has rotated some main players in preparation for the Europa League debut in the middle of the week, it still looks so embarrassing.

The starting lineup sent by Li Mudi is Casillas, Dickman, Goldaniga, Kanneman, Bareca, Baselli, Lars Diarra, Vukocevic, Falk, Parigi Ni and Immobile, the formation is once again resorted to 4-3-3.This half-main half-substitute mixed lineup needs to be looked up to in front of Benevento, who lost the main goalkeeper and top scorer of last season, and the midfielder Cataldi, who was loaned from Lazio in the summer, is also injured. .

In the end, with Immobile's brace and Falk's goal in stoppage time, the Red Bulls defeated their opponent 3-0 in the away game. While achieving three consecutive victories, they also continued to maintain the only Gold without conceding a goal.In the technical statistics of the whole game, the visiting team got 67% of the ball possession rate. In terms of shooting, the team scored 19 of 8 and 9 of 3. It has a big advantage. It is reasonable to complete a game.

After the game, many media spoke highly of the Red Bulls, who had hidden their main players for many times and were able to win easily. To use it as a classic case of transfer operations, in short, it is a flattery.

At the same time, at the end of several other games, Naples also defeated Bologna with three goals in the away game, becoming the fourth team to win three consecutive victories.In addition, Cagliari and Udinese beat Crotone and Genoa by one goal at home respectively, and won their first wins of the season; Fiorentina, who had also lost two consecutive games before, finally started to show off. The ball blood washed the newly promoted Verona, and Pioli also used this big victory to relieve the pressure of getting out of class.

The final final game was the Blue Eagles against the Red Blacks. As a result, Mikhailovich led the team to play a magical game under the unfavorable situation that the main technical data almost fell behind. They relied on Keita in the second half. A hat-trick within 10 minutes, plus Alberto's subsequent push, once led four goals ahead of AC Milan, which was in good shape at the beginning of the new season.Although the latter was eventually pulled back by Montolivo, it did not play any role in the overall situation. The final score of 4 to 1 not only rekindled Lazio's confidence in hitting the top four in the league, but also poured cold water on the media and fans who had been singing praises to Montella's team before.Facts have proved that they still need a lot of work to do if they want to re-attack the league championship.

After the three rounds of the league, Juventus, Torino, Naples and Inter Milan also won three matches and ranked the top four in the standings in order of goal difference and number of goals scored. This is also Li Moody's team After a lapse of ten months, it occupied the second place in the league for the second time. Lazio, with 2 wins and 1 tie, is closely behind the first group, followed by Sampdoria and AC Milan with 6 points, and the former still has one game less.The situation in the relegation circle is also unclear. Genoa, Sassuolo, Crotone and Verona all have only one point. Benevento, which started with a three-game losing streak, is in a duck egg state, and the situation is not optimistic.

After resting at the hotel in Benevento for one night, the Turin players were divided into two groups. Some of the players who did not enter the squad for the Europa League match in the middle of the week returned directly to the club. They have a day off to deal with personal affairs or relax for a moment.The rest of the team members, together with other people who rushed over last night, directly took the flight at noon on Monday, and then flew to Vienna, the capital of Austria, via Rome. The Red Bulls will play away at 19:2017 on Thursday night. The team - Austria Vienna (Austria Vienna), this is the first round of the group of the 18-[-] European League, the Europa League.

The opponent was the runner-up of the Olympiad League last season. In history, it is a local tycoon full of honors. It has won 24 domestic league titles and 27 domestic cup titles. Together with Rapid Vienna, it has become the most representative team in Austria. Against the giants in the same city.It's a pity that they have nothing to write about in the European arena. The best result is the 40-0 defeat at the feet of Anderlecht in the final of the European Cup Winners Cup 4 years ago. Before the restructuring In the UEFA Cup, he has entered the quarter-finals twice, but it is a pity that he failed to go further.On the contrary, in the previous Champions Cup, they reached the semi-finals in the 1978-79 season. In the end, they lost 0 to 1 to the Swedish team Malmö in the two rounds and failed to enter the final.

There was one official confrontation between Turin and Vienna, Austria, in the 1971/72 knockout round of the European Cup Winners' Cup in the 1-0 season. In the end, the Red Bulls successfully advanced 0-0 at home and 1-2 away.However, the Italians were not proud for too long. After scoring eight goals and scoring four goals, they were eliminated by Glasgow Rangers [-]-[-] in two rounds, ending their European tour that year, and the Scottish team finally won that tournament. Cup Winners Cup Champion.

On the evening of the 11th, Li Moody's team arrived in the Austrian capital. This is their second visit here within a month and a half. At the end of July, the team once held a warm-up match here and defeated Rapid Vienna with six goals. .At this time, they came to prepare for the away game many days in advance, and they also received great help from this club. Vienna quickly provided the training ground to the Turin team, hoping that the latter could give their rivals in the same city a head-on blow.

And the final result of this game did not disappoint the supporters of the Fast Club. The 3-4-1-2 formation that Li Mudi sacrificed also showed super strength in the European arena. With Belotti's hat The trick, and the icing on the cake by Benassi and Parrigini, gave the Red Bulls a 5-1 win.At the same time, this is also the first European appearance after losing to Zenit in the quarter-finals of the 2014-15 season, and their answers are almost perfect.

With four wins and four wins at the beginning of the new season, they scored 13 goals and conceded only one goal. The performance of the Turin team could not be better.When the results of this large-scale victory were reported back to Italy and China, almost all the media began to publish high-profile praises for them.Among them, "Turin Sports News" commented: "Although it is not clear whether this team can reach the heights of the old Turin era, at least now they let everyone see signs of resurgence. Looking forward to the young Li The coach can lead this young team, and at the end of the season, he can still surprise everyone."

However, in the face of praise from all directions, the Turin coach remained calm enough. When he just got off the plane and had not yet walked out of the airport gate, he accepted an interview from a reporter from Corriere della Sera and made a response to everyone's praise. Responded: "The season has just started, we still have more than 30 league games and many other competitions to play, the current victory or defeat does not mean anything at all, any team has a chance to rush to the forefront or fall to the bottom. Therefore, Let's focus and prepare for every game, because victory doesn't come by itself."

(End of this chapter)