Chapter 404: Encounter Nemesis
As time went on, the Juventus players returned to the squad and after training in Saudiillon, the team went to Reggio Emilia for the TIM Triangle Cup, where Zhang Yuan played 45 minutes against AC Milan and scored a goal, but they lost the game. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. biquge。 info
Then against Sassuolo, Zhang Yuan was on the bench, Tevez and Llorente combined in the attack, and this game was lost again, so Juventus finished bottom of the triangle cup, while promoted Massasolo won the title, which was quite a surprise.
After the Triangle Cup, Juventus embarked on a trip to North America, where they will compete in the International Champions Cup this summer, which is a great opportunity to make extra money and expand the club's presence in the region.
However, Juventus' performance in this competition as the new Champions League champion was not satisfactory, and Wade's on-site cheering did not bring good luck to Zhang Yuan, who did not score a goal in this competition.
In the final analysis, Zhang Yuan himself is very relaxed psychologically, Conte does not attach importance to this event itself, he is serious that this is a good opportunity for training, and he has also made a lot of adjustments in the tactics of the 352 formation, and Zhang Yuan does not pay attention to such a warm-up game, he cherishes his body.
After the North American tour, Juventus returned to Italy, not to Saudi Arabia, but to Vinovo for the final stage of training, Serie A will be rekindled on August 24, for Juventus FC they need to continue their dominance in the domestic arena, as the team is not relaxing.
Before the start of the new season, the club organized a dinner, during which President Agnelli encouraged everyone to keep up the good work, not to sleep on the credit book, every day is a new beginning, every season is a new beginning, every championship is special, and everyone should not think that this year will be easy because of last year's success.
The more he said, the more severe Mr. Chairman said, during this period of time, the team's warm-up results were poor, and the warm-up games themselves were not important, but they could reflect a lot of problems, among which the spirit of the Juventus players was not enough, which is an indisputable fact.
Agnelli was very angry when he heard that Zhang Yuan had only scored one goal in a series of games, he felt that this guy must have a problem with his mind and relaxed, as a club, of course, he didn't want such a thing to happen, so it was quite necessary to ring the alarm bell for the players before the start of the new season.
But in fact, Zhang Yuan did not relax, at most he just thought that it was not cost-effective to injure himself in the warm-up game, don't look at him all the time, but the arrival of Tevez still gave him a lot of pressure, because Tevez is really good.
In the warm-up game, he didn't go all out, but it doesn't mean that Zhang Yuan was slack in training, he was also very strict, so Conte was not worried and he didn't talk to Zhang Yuan all the time.
The transfer market is also very lively during this time, and the biggest news in the European transfer market this summer is the movement of Paris Saint-Germain and Manchester City, which are not bad for money, and the other is the movement of the two giants of the Western Super League.
Barcelona announced a bombshell news as early as the closing stage of last season, Brazilian star Neymar joined for 57 million.
Among the young talents of the younger generation, Zhang Yuan is not an outlier, Neymar is the most famous, many teams in Europe coveted him a long time ago, Real Madrid is also very interested in him, Lafayette's virtue has never changed, he likes to be in the front court, but unfortunately they lost to Barcelona in the end.
One is nothing more than money, and the other reason is nothing more than a style problem, just like Maradona's successor, Brazil's successor Pele is also cut stubble after stubble, the previous Pele successor Robinho's days in Real Madrid can only be regarded as decent, Neymar naturally has to carefully consider whether Real Madrid's style is suitable for him, after all, he is as thin as Robinho and has good skills.
Real Madrid saw that Barcelona won Neymar naturally can't sit still, what kind of person is Lafayette, it is absolutely against Barcelona, Real Madrid has set its sights on another target, Gareth Bale, and now the transfer news is flying all over the sky, but whether it will work out or not will have to be seen again.
Italian football is not calm, Napoli's president De Laurentiis started a binge buying mode, Zhang Yuan did not want Higuain to go to Napoli, but he eventually went, of course, he himself of course preferred to join Arsenal, but unfortunately Wenger is still reluctant to pay, Napoli spent 37 million euros to introduce Higuain, which is a lot of money.
As for the reinforcements of other teams, it is not worth mentioning, Napoli has Cavani's transfer fee at the bottom, and the current net investment has not even exceeded that of Juventus.
Juventus also carried out transfer operations mainly to sell people, Matri transferred to AC Milan, and Vucinic went to the UAE League, he has just turned 30 years old, but he has won the league Champions League, he has no regrets, when the UAE League offers the temptation of high salaries, he also succumbs, Juventus is of course happy to let go.
Quagliarella may also leave, but there is no news about him recently, mainly because of the personal treatment.
Before the start of the first round of the season, Juventus first played a Super Cup match with Lazio, in which Conte chose Tevez and Zhang Yuan to partner in the front, compared with Zhang Yuan, Tevez and his teammates are obviously much more rusty, but on August 17, the Super Cup game, Tevez still scored a goal, which fully reflects his super individual ability, of course, the biggest shining point is Zhang Yuan, scored twice, helped the team beat Lazio at the Olympic Stadium in Rome, which is regarded as revenge for being kicked out of the Italian Cup by Lazio last season。
Before the Super Cup, many media were not satisfied with Zhang Yuan's performance in the summer warm-up matches, criticizing whether Zhang Yuan had lost the motivation to move on, but in this game Zhang Yuan hit back the doubters with two goals, Zhang Yuan is still the same Zhang Yuan, has not changed at all, and is still the most reliable killer of Juventus.
After the Super Cup, the major media were full of praise for Zhang Yuan, Tevez was also praised by the outside world, Conte has not yet made up his mind, and the outside world has already listed Juventus's starters in the new season, Zhang Yuan and Tevez are strong.
On the evening of August 24, the first match of the new season for Juventus was played at the Marassi Stadium in Genoa, unlike last year, which started the journey of Juventus' new season from the road.
Derio Rossi took over Sampdoria last season and lifted Sampdoria out of relegation, finishing the season with 42 points and 14th in the table, which is quite good for a promoted team.
However, Sampdoria, like many Serie A teams, is a master of little money, they sold a lot of money in the summer window, but they didn't spend much money on recruitment, just bought half of Gabbiadini from Juventus, and they spent 5.5 million, which is their biggest expense so far.
This way of spending money also makes them not very optimistic about the outside world, you must know that in the football world, it is really difficult to play without money.
But for Juventus, Sampdoria is a bitter master, oh, no, it is Genoa This place is Juventus's bitter master in recent years, since 10 years later, Juventus has not tasted victory in Sampdoria, although Juventus won the championship last season, but suffered a double kill of Sampdoria at home and away, which can be described as a shame.
So this game, Conte attaches great importance to it, he really sent Zhang Yuan and Tevez as expected by the outside world, the back line is still the same Buffon, Barzagli, Bonucci, Chiellini, in addition to Marchisio is absent due to injury, the rest of the personnel are exactly the same as last season.
Before the start of this game, the weather was not beautiful, it rained on the spot, although Juventus took the initiative after the opening, but Sampdoria chose a more ferocious defensive method, frequently adopted foul tactics to prevent Juventus's advancement, plus Juventus has always belonged to the pass and control style of play, the field was slippery, there were many mistakes in the first half, and it was stunned that it failed to break through Sampdoria's door.
If you want to talk about good performance, you can only talk about Zhang Yuan, Zhang Yuan and Buffon were the only players who performed well in the first half, Buffon was idle, and Sampdoria was difficult to attack him.
Zhang Yuan rushed forward and created a few threats for Sampdoria, but his luck was a little lacking.