On June 22, Rimini welcomed Genoa from afar, Genoa is in the northwest of the Italian peninsula, and Rimini is considered to be in the middle, it is indeed a long way.

Naturally, there will be no shortage of enthusiastic fans at the scene, Docilia is wearing Rimini's red and white jersey like other fans, Mai Xuewen is by her side like a bodyguard, like in China, afraid that her girlfriend will be eaten tofu, but the fans around her are dense, and it is inevitable to be eaten tofu.

Docilia is very excited, but she is apprehensive in her heart, many fans have the same psychology as her, there is a reason why the media is not optimistic about Rimini, one of the reasons is that Rimini's own strength is not as good as Genoa, the second reason is that Rimini has never played any play-offs before, and he is 108,000 miles away from the play-offs, Genoa is an old powerhouse, and in the 04-05 season of Serie B, they will return to Serie A as Serie B champions. However, after the investigation of the Italian Football Association, they played match-fixing in the last round, and finally sent them to the third league, but the heritage of the old strong team is reflected at this moment, they immediately returned to Serie B in the next season, that is, in the 05-06 season, and won the third place in the league in the 06-07 season. The third reason is that Rimini is too civilian, there is no star in the team, Zhang Yuan is definitely not a star, and now his name is at most a genius child, while Genoa has several famous stars, and the flash of inspiration of the star at the critical moment may affect the trend of the game.

Docilia pushed Mai Xuewen with her hand and asked, "How is Zhang Yuan doing?"

"What's going on?" Mai Xuewen asked rhetorically.

"I mean what's the state, like the mental state?"

"Oh, he's always been fine!

"Do you think he'll score this game?"

Mai Xuewen shrugged, raised his hand and pointed to the sky and said, "Then you should ask God, I don't know!"

"Hey, I just asked you, not God!" Docilia stretched out her hand and twisted Mai Xuewen's arm, foreign women will also be coquettish.

"Ouch, I, I said, of course I will score!" Mai Xuewen tried his best to free his arm from Docilia's clutches, woman, really, did I say that I can enter if I can, then I don't just change my career to become a fortune teller.

Docilia is satisfied, this is the answer she is looking forward to, the answer she wants! Many fans regard Zhang Yuan as Rimini's hope for promotion, the key!

No wonder they think so, Zhang Yuan has scored 13 goals for Rimini in the second half of the season, and has contributed several assists, every time Zhang Yuan stands up at a critical moment, whether it is a goal or an assist, although Zhang Yuan has also lost and drawn in Rimini, but overall his winning rate in Rimini is still quite high, and in the first round of the play-offs, Zhang Yuan scored in both home and away games, so fans will regard Zhang Yuan as a key gentleman, as long as Zhang Yuan can score, Rimini has hope.

So many fans at the scene held up the "Lightning Boy" sign and sang the song made up for Zhang Yuan.

Although it is Serie B, after playing for half a season, Zhang Yuan will never be as ugly as he used to be away from home, just like Richiuti taught him, he turned a deaf ear to everything, and even if the shouts of the home team fans were for him, he learned to listen to them. If he can't do it, he will talk to his team-mates, for example, today he couldn't do it at all, because it was the first leg and he thought it was important and important, so in the tunnel he chose to chat with Jada next to him.

After the ceremony was over and the game officially began, Akori was completely confused, because Genoa did not use the usual 343, but 352, more precisely, 3511, the striker was Di Vaio, the approximate forward was Adelton, the five midfielders had two wing-backs, three central midfielders were in the middle, and three defenders were behind.

Gasperini is not a fool, on the contrary, he is a very capable coach, it is impossible not to know where Genoa's disadvantages are, Genoa's central defense has some holes, the reason is that Genoa's central players are not strong in defense, on the contrary, their organizational skills are not bad, what to do? It is possible to increase the number of defenders to fight, but Gasperini really does not have an ideal candidate in his hands, so he chose a path that he thinks kills two birds with one stone, adding an organized midfielder and reducing a striker, the first is to form a local advantage in the middle, and the second is to increase the organizational midfield, which can further strengthen the penetration of the middle, and set Genoa's main attack direction as the middle.

So he arranged it that way, and in fact his arrangement caused problems for Akori and Rimini, big trouble.

Rimini's central defense mainly relies on two midfielders, but the two midfielders are very difficult to face three central midfielders and one Adellton, who retreats from time to time, it should be said that it is very difficult, like a slip circle in the warm-up, it is difficult to steal the opponent's ball, and it is easy to penetrate. Once Richiuti and Moscaldelli on both sides leaned into the middle, the opponent played the ball to the wing, turning the attack from the middle into a wide attack, Adelton is still a key figure, he is slow, but he passes the ball well, he can also protect the ball, and he plays a big role when switching between Genoa wings, Rimini did not mark him personally, which was a mistake.

In the 10th minute of the game, Genoa scored, Genoa midfielder Juric and teammates cooperated with the ball to Rimini penalty area, Polkia pulled him down from behind, the referee awarded a free kick, the ball was about 30 meters away from the goal, which is a long way, but Genoa's left forward Honduran player León's free kick was very tricky quickly, directly over the wall and into the upper right corner of the goal, Handanovic failed to save the goal.

Genoa, who was playing away, took the lead, and the fans couldn't believe that such a far free kick actually went in, it was because they underestimated Genoa's offensive methods, Genoa's free kicks were very good, and the team's Adelton and Leon were all masters of this, and they also staged this kind of free kick direct goal in Serie B.

Akori also ignored this before the game, but even if he paid attention to it, it was useless, Porkia's foul was necessary, he didn't foul, and immediately the opponent was three players Juric, Adelton, and Di Vayo faced Rimini's two central defenders, and he had to start early, but he didn't expect Leon to be able to play so far.

Looking at the crazy celebration of the Genoa players, Zhang Yuan was very depressed, he couldn't say that he didn't work hard, he ran very actively, but Genoa controlled the midfielder in hand, and his midfielder's support for him was almost zero, and the Genoa central defender was Crishitto was nakedly attached to him, no matter where he went, he followed him, at least to drive Zhang Yuan to the center circle, not to let Zhang Yuan catch the ball, in fact, the number of touches of Zhang Yuan in the first 10 minutes was embarrassing zero.

Akori felt that if he didn't make adjustments, he really had to wait for death, how to adjust? He really couldn't find a better way, and he changed it to 352 himself? This one he didn't think about well, Rimini changed to 352, Genoa is likely to adjust to 343 again, the center of gravity of the attack was adjusted to the wing, hitting Rimini's two sides, the opponent also had a good side hand, moving the ball to the side, playing the three central defenders in the wing, which also made Rimini uncomfortable.

After thinking about it again and again, Arkori decided to take another approach, which was to recycle the formation, bring the midfield and the defence closer together, so as to put the defensive area at the front of the big penalty area, and rely on the back and midfield to contain Genoa's midfield penetration, although doing so may be besieged, but Akori has no better option now, at least he didn't think of it.

Zhang Yuan and Jada in the front court will definitely be more alone, but Akori can only pin his hopes on Zhang Yuan now.

After adjustment, Rimini's situation seems to be much better, mainly with the contraction of the defensive area, Genoa's middle pass and cut cooperation, has been greatly restricted, but they are not in a hurry, they are the lead, so Gasperini's response is to try to control the ball at his feet from the periphery to his feet, Zhang Yuan also returned to his own half to participate in the defense, but his defense is really bad, that is not his strong point, it can only be said that it is better than nothing for Rimini.

Then the whole first half passed like this, the score was 0:1, and Genoa took the lead in the away game.

After a depressed first half, Akori really couldn't find a good way, but it was not a way to keep it like this for a long time, and what to do in the second half, this question kept circling in his mind, didn't he attack?

At the beginning of the second half, Akori made tactical adjustments, not attacking himself is the idea, that is only attacking, but not attacking, if Genoa grabs the defensive hole again and scores another goal, Rimini is really finished. Therefore, the two defensive midfielders still do not come forward, but the two full-backs Richiotti and Moscardelli have to go up, and the team should use more long balls to avoid short passes being surrounded by Genoa and attacking Genoa's defensive gaps.

He arranged it this way, but in the second half Genoa also made adjustments, completely adjusted the offensive formation to a defensive formation, the advantage of the 352 formation is that you want to attack, the two sides of the midfield can be a little forward, once you want to defend, the two sides can be recycled as fullbacks, Gasperini is not stunned, the knockout game is not a league, you can attack unscrupulously, it doesn't matter if you lose one or two games, as long as you win more, so he will make adjustments in the second half, for Genoa one goal advantage is very large, as long as the away side keeps the advantage of one goal is a very good ending, even if the play-offs do not consider the home and away goal advantage at all, but Gasperini is confident that Rimini will not be able to score two goals at Genoa's home stadium.

In this way, Akori's arrangement has no effect, and even if it does, it can only depend on the on-the-spot performance of the players on the field, and it is a pity that Rimini's players have no shining performance on the pitch.

Akori wanted to advance the formation, but he was afraid of Genoa's counterattack, so he hesitated, and as a result, in the last ten minutes he replaced Baruso, replacing Cristiano, intending to give some support in the midfield, but it was too late, and Rimini still couldn't find any absolute chances.

The final score was 0-1 and away Genoa emerged victorious, with Rimini's men working hard, and while creating some chances, none of them were absolutely good chances, and ultimately couldn't stop Genoa from taking a win away from their home stadium.

Such a result naturally made Docilia and the fans sad, but they still treated the Rimini players who came off the field with applause and cheers, and the players did their best.