Mister Legend

Chapter 396 The history between opponents in the final

Although the team medical team believes that the specific conditions of the three wounded need to go to the hospital for more detailed examinations to get the results, but the FM system clearly shows the injuries of each individual.Ranocchia had a slight sprain to his right knee. Considering his past injury history, he will have to rest for at least two weeks; Dickman's right ankle sprain is much more serious. Although no bones were injured, ligaments and muscles were injured to varying degrees. , at least 20 days of truce; only Gourcuff is slightly better, although he was in pain at the time, it was just a flaw, but the tendon on the back of the ankle is also a part that needs attention, and a week of rest is the least.

Add Moretti, who fractured his right metacarpal, Falk, who suffered a leg injury in the Turin derby, and Silvestri, who suffered a nose injury last weekend, and Torino will have six players out this weekend. The league game against Crotone at home, the UEFA Europa League quarter-final against Lokomotiv Moscow next Thursday, and even the away game against Roma next weekend is very likely to maintain this situation, which gives the coach a lot of confidence. Arrangement of troops brought great trouble.

Other positions are easier to talk about. After all, they can barely find people to carry out rotations, but the injury of two local right backs leaves only the Englishman Flanagan in the first team as a usable player. Playing a 3-5-2 formation, and there is no substitute for right wing back, this is the biggest problem Li Moody is currently facing.

There are currently no good right-back seedlings in the youth training camp, but there is no other way in this emergency. Simone Ambrogio, born in 2000, was temporarily recruited to the first team.When I checked with scouting tools at the end of last year, the boy’s double value was 92 and 138. Combined with the feedback from the coach of the youth team, his future is not very bright. At most, he can play the main role in the lower reaches of Serie A and serve as a substitute in the mid-range teams. strength.

In order to make up for it, the Turin coach put forward a transfer proposal to the marketing department based on the club's financial budget. After a meeting and research, Valentino Cairo temporarily put down the relationship with several players who will become free agents in the summer. contact, and focused their energy on the introduction of players who temporarily joined the work schedule.Fifteen days later, the two clubs of Turin and Bari announced on their official websites at the same time that Giuseppe Scalera, a right back born in 1998, will join the Red Bulls on loan on July 2018, 7. One year, the cost is 1 euros, and the Turin team can choose to spend 25 million to buy it out before the lease expires.

Pulling the timeline back to the night of the semi-finals, the result of the Du-Ya battle did not surprise most people. Although the visiting team has a physical advantage and a stronger desire to advance, both sides have There is still a certain gap in the state of the season, not to mention that the Torino team still has the advantage of home court.Statistics after the game also showed that the home team’s small victory was not by accident. They had 54% of the ball possession rate. In terms of shooting, they were 11 of 4 and 7 of 3. Both sides hit the goal frame once. The only controversy That's where the penalty came.

At the press conference after the game, Gasperini talked about his views on the result of the game and the penalty kick. He said: "Torino is an excellent team, their strength is very strong, but We also caused some trouble for them, and the process of the game also proved the ability of our team. Although we failed to reverse the score and advance to the finals, the results of the semi-finals have satisfied everyone. Our energy It can be completely placed in the latter part of the league. That penalty? In my opinion, it does not exist at all. Mancini did not commit any obvious fouls, so such a result is a pity."

"Finally, I wish my good friend Li, and I hope he can have enough good luck in the final, just like Gomez hit the post today. Losing to the final champion is barely a consolation for us."

Li Moody believes that both sides have shown their respective levels, and the excitement of the game is worthy of the fans' attention. The only shortcoming is the injuries of the three players.He said: "This victory is the result of the hard work of everyone, especially the players who have overcome the fatigue of continuous combat and the unfavorable external environment after the heavy snow, and have shown their best form, which is worthy of praise. However, Ranocchia and others The injury also brought us a big problem in the future schedule. The team will still face the difficulty of a double match in the next two weeks, but each of us will do our best to strive for every good result. I hope Can live up to the expectations of the fans."

"Entering the Coppa Italia final again after 25 years is naturally considered a big achievement for the Turin club, but if you can't win the championship, No.2 is no different from being out in the first round. The most important test. Who do you hope will be your opponent in the final? Whether it is Juventus or AC Milan, they are both big names in domestic football and top giants with champion DNA. Although the results of the Rossoneri this season are not too outstanding, but The final is completely different. Their tradition will make this team reawaken and become extremely strong. So for us, no matter who we meet, it will be an extremely difficult battle, and the chances of winning are not optimistic. But we are well prepared and strive to fill in the club's honor book."

Three hours after the end of the Dou-Ya battle, the final opponent of the Red Bulls came into being. Their city rival Juventus defeated AC Milan 2-0 at home and scored the fourth consecutive round with a total score of 2-0. Reached the Coppa Italia final.The Italian Football Association then announced the schedule for the final on its official website. The time was set for May 5, and the venue for the match was still the Olympic Stadium in Rome.

This year is the No. 12 final in the history of the Turin team in the domestic cup (the Italian Cup in the three seasons of 1967-70 changed the knockout system to a double round-robin group stage between the top four, and the Red Bull won one championship and two championships. Asia, but because there is no real final, so it is not included), this number ranks fifth in the history of the event, second only to Juventus, Rome and Milan duo, it can be said that the performance is extremely good .But it's not enough to see their rivals in the same city.After eliminating AC Milan, the old lady has reached the final No. 18 times in history, and the Roma team, which has exceeded [-] times, occupies the top spot in this ranking.Moreover, their previous [-] championships and more than [-]% of the final winning ratio are also the highest among teams that have won more than two championships, and no one can come close.

But what is interesting is that the two teams from the same city that once ruled the Apennines peninsula have entered the finals a total of 1937 times this year and won 38 championships (including those already scheduled for this year). It was the second time in history that they met in the final, which is still very surprising.In the distant 5-2 season, Juventus defeated the Turin team [-]-[-] in two rounds, stepping on the corpse of their rival in the same city and won the first Coppa Italia championship in team history.

But if you study history carefully, you can easily find that this situation is not accidental.These two former overlords of Italian football, their respective peak periods were cleverly separated, and it is rare for them to be strong at the same time.The predecessor of the Red Bull was the Turin International Team established in 1891. His first peak appeared at the end of the nineteenth century. results) runner-up, and then they ushered in the first wave of Juventus's outbreak after their performance declined.The Bianconeri won a championship and three runners-up in the championship in 1903-06. At that time, the domestic king was Genoa.

In the ten years from 1920 to 30, the two teams in Turin City were close in strength and won a national championship respectively. The only meeting in the final of the Coppa Italia took place during this period, in the summer of 1938.

One thing worth mentioning is that in the 1926-27 season, the Turin team originally won the first Serie A championship in team history in July, but this title was deprived four months later. The reason is that the team played match-fixing.According to the "Gazzetta dello Sport" report, in the Turin Derby on June 1927, 6, the Red Bull bought Juventus defender Alemanti and finally won 5-2.Although it is impossible to judge whether there is an inevitable relationship between winning and buying the opponent's players (Alemanti scored the goal of Juventus, but the performance of the first and second half is considered to have a large contrast), but after the news broke , still caused an uproar in the country, and the Football Association revoked the title of the Turin team.This is also one of the only two times in the history of Serie A that the championship was vacant. The other time was the 1-2004 season when the championship title was deprived after the outbreak of Calciopoli. The one that lost the title happened to be Juventus.

When the time entered the 30s, the Bianconeri ushered in an invincible period in team history. They completed five consecutive Serie A titles from 1931 to 35, becoming the third team after Genoa and Vercelli. A dynasty team that won at least three consecutive championships.At that time, the Turin team could only rank in the middle of the standings, posing no threat to their rivals in the same city.However, Feng Shui took turns. Eight years later, that is, in the 1942-43 season, the red bulls turned over and sang. They formed the "God Team" and they won the championship in the next five seasons, and also won five consecutive championships. , established the "Great Turin Era".If it weren't for the cancellation of Serie A for two years due to World War II, the first seven consecutive championships would have appeared as early as 70 years ago.

The following script has been introduced before. On May 1949, 5, the Superga air crash directly broke all the bones of the red bull, and the blood was basically drained.Relying on the previous background, after the Turin team barely won the sixth place in the league in the 4-1949 season, it became a weak team and almost relegated to the second division many times, until the summer of 50 when it bid farewell for the first time in history. the top league.In the 1959 years after the end of the "Grand Turin Era", Italian football formed a situation in which Juventus and Milan duo three teams competed for hegemony, and Florence occasionally disrupted the situation.During the return to Serie A, the performance of the Red Bulls has been stable between sixth and No.15. Only in 10, they overwhelmed their rivals in the same city and won the third place in the league. But overall, they are still at a disadvantage in the derby. of.

In the following ten years, Juventus has always been in the top three ranks, and the Turin team, except for winning the third place again in 1972, has always been only wandering from fifth to No.7.Until the 1975-76 season, the legendary Luigi Radice (Luigi Radice) took over as the head coach, and the team lineup was also strengthened.That season, Puliqi, who led the scorer list of Turin players with 134 total goals in Serie A, and his striker partner Graziani won the Serie A Golden Boot and Silver Boot, helping the Red Bulls regain the top spot after 27 years. For the league throne, the runner-up at the time was the old lady.This is the team's seventh Serie A title and the last so far.

Relying on those outstanding players and Radice's coaching ability, the Turin team won another runner-up and a third runner-up in the next two years, and the championships belonged to their rivals in the same city. the closest period.But the good times didn't last long. After entering the 80s, Italy lifted the previous restrictions on foreign aid, which made the whole league full of vitality, and the name of "Little World Cup" gradually took shape.However, due to the weakness in capital, the Turin team did not have the opportunity to obtain strong foreign aid, and gradually fell into a disadvantage in the competition. Once fell into a trough.Only in the 1984-85 season, taking advantage of the general downturn of the strong Serie A teams, won a runner-up, and the rest of the time can only watch Juventus continue to jump up and down at the forefront of the standings.

In the 1986-87 season, with Maradona leading Naples to the Apennines as the dividing line, the Bianconeri began to enter a period of dormancy, and the results for four consecutive years were not ideal.But the results of the Turin team were even worse. In the 1989-90 season, they made a circle to the second division, but with the help of Enzo Schiff, Walter Casagrande, Martin Vazquez and Gianluigi Lentini and other strong players joined the team, and the team returned to the ranks of the top Serie A teams. In the 1991-92 season, the Red Bulls not only won the runner-up in the league, but also reached the final of the UEFA Cup historically. It was the extremely powerful Real Madrid that was eliminated in the semi-final.It is a pity that in the home and away two rounds of the final, they drew 2-2 with their opponents, but watched Ajax reach the top because of few away goals, thus missing the first top European trophy in team history.

The following year, the Red Bulls were 3-0 at home and 2-5 away. With the advantage of away goals, they won the fifth and so far the last Coppa Italia championship. After that, they fell into a nightmare that lasted for more than 20 years. Fortunately, they finally waited for Li Modi to come.

And Juventus, like their nickname "Old Lady", seems to be faltering, but in fact continues to move forward with great stability.From 1992 to 2006 before the phone call, they finished fourth only once and seventh once, and finished in the top three in the remaining 2007 seasons, including five championships.In the first year of returning to Serie A in the 08-2011 season, the Bianconeri returned to the third place position. After three seasons of adjustments, they started their six consecutive championships in the 12-[-] season.

For more than 100 years, when the two teams based in the same city of Turin seldom have the same strength, although every derby still attracts attention, most of them are the situation where one side has the absolute upper hand, which seriously affects the The excitement of the game.However, the results of the two teams this year are almost the same. Juventus’ lead is the smallest in the past 20 years, which makes everyone look forward to the final on May 5th. I hope it will be a classic worth remembering. Derby showdown.

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