Football: Take away half of Boss Mei's skills at the beginning

After winning Perugia with some luck, Parma's next opponent is the stronger Empoli.

Before the start of this season, his odds of promotion were the lowest, which means that his paper strength is the strongest.

Although Empoli was a little slow in the opening few games, in the hearts of Apolloni and Alessandro, Empoli is their biggest competitor.

And this game has also attracted a lot of attention.

In the preview of the game, many experts gave their opinions and believed that the game would end in a draw.

Although Parma has won four consecutive games, in their opinion, Empoli is gradually getting on the right track.

They won Ascoli 3-0 in the last game, which greatly boosted the team's morale.

Therefore, Parma is likely to face a complete Empoli in this game!

And the result of this game will also have a great impact on the promotion situation.

After all, this direct competition between competitors can be regarded as a six-point battle.

This game was held at Parma's home stadium, Ennio Tardini Stadium.

Three days before the game, the tickets were sold out, which is very rare for a Serie B game.

Apolloni still used his 451 formation in this game, but this time he put Matteo in the starting lineup.

Empoli used a 4312 tactic.

Goalkeeper Gabriel, the back line of Utsai, Mayeta, Lopete and Pascual lined up, midfielders Brighi, Castagneti, Sagechi and Lorenzo Lolo, and forwards Caputo and Mchedlidze.

Among them, Matteo paid the most attention to their forward Francesco Caputo.

The Italian striker is now 30 years old, which is the mature age of traditional Italian strikers.

However, his first half of his career was really ill-fated. Not only did he not have the glory of those young famous players, he almost retired because of gambling.

But now he is finally on the right track and has performed very well since joining Empoli.

And Matteo also remembered that in the original timeline, he became Empoli's thigh in this season and eventually helped Empoli to be promoted to Serie A.

Although Empoli was relegated soon afterwards, he was valued by Sassuolo and became the thigh of the striker in those years of Green Barcelona, ​​and was even selected for the national team in the end.

And Matteo also told the defense to be careful of this person before the game.

Soon, time came to the moment when the game started.

With the referee's whistle, the game officially started.

Because the two teams were a little afraid of each other, neither side was eager to attack at the beginning.

So in the first 20 minutes, the game was quite dull.

And Parma also encountered the situation that Perugia encountered in the last round, and it was obviously not possible to play like this at home.

So they began to take the initiative to attack the opponent.

And Empoli stabilized the defense line and looked for opportunities to counterattack.

It must be said that Empoli's 4312 formation is indeed very good at protecting the defense line, and Parma even had no way to deal with them for a while.

Especially Mateo, who was trapped in a circle of people taking care of him in turn, which made him very uncomfortable.

Now he is not yet sixteen years old, and his strength is still a little worse than that of an adult.

So he rarely went head-to-head with his opponents in previous games, which is also a way of playing to his strengths and avoiding his weaknesses.

But at this time, Empoli's defense surrounded him and narrowed his range of activities, which forced him to physically confront the opponent, which undoubtedly magnified his disadvantages.

Affected by this, Parma's offense never had too many good opportunities.

On the contrary, Empoli seized the opportunity and began to use the opportunity to counterattack and threaten Parma's goal.

In the 34th minute, Empoli intercepted the ball in the backcourt, and they quickly handed the ball to the front midfielder Lorenzo Lolo.

Lolo saw that the middle road was not easy to develop, so he took the initiative to dribble the ball to the left.

The left-back Pascual behind him had already quickly come up, ready to meet his teammates at any time.

When Lolo saw him coming up, he immediately passed the ball back to him.

Pascual got the ball and directly passed it to the middle of the penalty area!

Mchedlidze touched the ball at the front point, and the ball fell at Caputo's feet.

Although Di Cesare had already stuck to him, making it impossible for him to kick the ball, he suddenly made a move to pull the ball and turn around, moving his whole body to the other side, thus flashing a shooting space!

Di Cesare was shocked and wanted to turn around to block it, but it was too late. Caputo had already swung his legs quickly., and shoot the ball towards the goal!

The ball was already in the penalty spot, very close to the goal. If it were an ordinary goalkeeper, he would probably not be able to save this shot.

However, this time Vicario's reaction was very quick. He had already made a prediction when Caputo pulled the ball and turned around. At the moment the ball was kicked, his figure had already fallen to the ground!

When the ball came to the goal line, his palm reached out, pushed the ball hard, and saved it from the bottom line.

This is simply a world-class save!

Vicario's performance is becoming more and more stable now, which adds another big gate to Parma's defense.

Although this goal did not go in, it also fully proved Caputo's ability.

Mateo couldn't help thinking that his level has already surpassed Serie B.

No wonder he can perform well in Serie A in the future.

Seven minutes later, Empoli made a comeback again.

This time they seized Parma's pass error again, and the front midfielder Lolo took the ball to the front court.

When Rossi pressed forward, Lolo quickly passed the ball to Caputo in front.

After Caputo took a few steps forward with the ball, he suddenly chose to pass it straight!

Mchedlidze understood and immediately received the ball behind Gatti and immediately began to accelerate forward!

This has formed a one-on-one situation!

Facing Vicario's attack, he directly chose to push the ball!

But Vicario had predicted the ball path, and he stretched out his foot to block it, just blocking the ball!

However, Caputo had already rushed over at this time, and this time he was facing an empty goal!

He did not hesitate and volleyed directly!

The football flew into the goal without suspense!

One to zero, Empoli took the lead away!

The Parma fans at the scene were silent, and only a small group of away fans were celebrating wildly there.

After scoring, Caputo made his signature celebration move, a six-six-six gesture on his lips, and I don’t know what this symbolic meaning is.

Mateo couldn't help but shook his head. He didn't expect that he would suffer at the hands of Caputo in the end!