After reaching the quarterfinals of the Coppa Italia, Prato has also had a smooth ride in the league and the third division. Pen | fun | pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 InfoDue to the large lead in the first half of the season, Spalletti, under Chen Lin's hint, sent Li Xuanyu and Li Tie on the field almost every game. In the early days, the two were still a little uncomfortable because they were immature, which led to some ups and downs in the league results. However, with a strong backline led by Toldo, it was difficult for the opponent to break down the Prato team's goal, so that Prato could not win, but most of them could get a draw. As a result, Prato has always maintained an undefeated record, and the psychological pressure of Li Tie and Li Xuanyu has gradually been released, and they slowly understand and integrate into Spalletti's tactics.

Especially Li Xuanyu, perhaps because of the recent contact with Inzaghi, he has learned a lot, so that his strength has improved very quickly, and he has scored 4 goals this season, although it is not a lot, but considering that he is only 16 years old, it is already commendable. Even the Chinese community in Prato knew about the 16-year-old Chinese genius.

Although Li Tie is not as dazzling as Li Xuanyu, he can often be seen Deng Jia guiding him on the side of the training ground. The influence of this kind of words and deeds is slowly highlighted little by little, in addition to training hard, Li Tie's time to think when he usually plays football has increased significantly. In fact, Li Tie's brain is not stupid, otherwise he would not be a coach in the future. Chen Lin has always believed that the most lacking of Chinese players is not physical and technical, but playing with their brains, which is the advantage of the yellow race, but the national football team has lost the only advantage.

As for the offensive core of the team, with Vieri and Inzaghi attacking the cup, Yang Chen naturally became the guarantee of Prato's scoring. This season, Yang Chen has improved a lot, continuing to maintain last season's hot scoring form, so far, he has scored 13 goals in the league, ranking third in the scorer list.

Throughout January and February, Prato retained an impressive record of seven wins and four draws, continuing to lead the League I Group A leaderboard, and will be a 13-point lead over second-placed Perugia, with almost certain that Prato will once again advance to the top of the rankings.

Perhaps inheriting its luck after beating Ancona, Prato met Venezia in the quarter-finals of the Coppa Italia against a side who had previously beaten Juventus. This time, Prato did not repeat the mistakes of the previous game, and they played with great poise, comfortably beating Venezia 2-0 to advance to the last four. Vieri and Inzaghi scored one goal each, and the two were gradually dubbed the "Prato Twin Stars" by the media.

In this case, Prato ushered in the first title match of the season, with Perugia battling for the third division of the Cup.

Perugia is a city in central Italy, located 170 kilometers north of the capital Rome, belonging to the Umbria region, less than 150 kilometers from Prato, and only an hour and a half by car. And to the excitement of the players, they can travel on the team's new bus this time.

The team's new bus is a Scania DOX80 with a 13.7-metre double rear axle chassis with a K320 chassis, a 320 hp Scania engine and a new OptiCruise gearbox. The car was originally installed with 59 seats with adjustable backs, and after a month and a half of modification at the Fiat car rebuilding plant in Turin, it finally became 28 seats, each seat has an arc of independent rest areas, its own stereo and a small 7-inch TV, three-point seat belts, and players can lie down and rest in the car without disturbing others.

The color of the bus was painted in blue and white with a golden spear from beginning to end, alluding to the bravest team spirit between the sea and the sky, and the advertisement on the body was won by the famous Florentine wine company Lan Fei.

Sitting in a comfortable bus, the Prato players had no intention of resting, and they were very excited along the way, and soon arrived at Perugia, the destination of the battle. The first inhabitants of Perugia were the Umborians and Etruscans. It was conquered by the Romans in 295 BC after the Battle of San Tino. During the Second Punic War, Hannibal defeated the Roman army on the shores of Lake Trasimeno. Then, in 40 BC, during the civil war between Marc Antony and Octavian, the Etruscan city of Perugia was destroyed.

After the fall of the Western Roman Empire, the region was under constant contention between Ostrogothic and Byzantium, while the Lombards founded the Duchy of Spoledo in 571. In the middle of the 13th century, Carlo the Great conquered most of the region, which was then presented to the Pope, and then gradually formed the Papal States in the 14th century until the 18th century by annexing the territories of some minor tyrants. As the French Revolution swept across Europe, it became part of the Roman Republic, and Napoleon became a dependency of Napoleon's empire and was incorporated into the Kingdom of Italy in 1860.

Speaking of Perugia's team history, it was founded before Prato. The club was founded on 9 June 1905 as a result of the merger of two teams named U.S. Codimio, and Libadas. And both in the past and in the present, this team has a lot of ties to Prato.

The greatest player in Prato's history and the current vice-president of the club, Paulo Brown. It was in Perugia that Rossi reached the pinnacle of his career. The 1978-1979 season was one of Perugia's biggest explosion and the most glorious year in the team's history. This year, the team won 11 and drew 19 unbeaten throughout the season, and finished second in the league behind AC Milan by just three points. Paulo from Vicenza. Rossi scored 13 goals in 28 appearances for Perugia this season, making him the biggest contributor to Perugia's runners-up finish in the league. You know, Perugia's unbeaten record this season is also the first time since the establishment of the Italian top league that a team has ended the league with an unbeaten record. It wasn't until AC Milan's 1991-1992 season and Juventus' 2011-2012 season that they did it again.

However, Perugia then ushered in a dark period that lasted for more than a decade, with the Totoneiro scandal in 1980 deducting five points. Rossi was also accused of being involved in a gambling scandal and was suspended for three years (later reduced by two years). As a result, in the 1980-1981 season, Perugia collapsed, and after the league ended, it ranked second from the bottom of the league with a record of 5 wins, 13 draws and 12 losses, and was relegated.

However in the new owner Luciano. Under the leadership of Gauci and the decorated coach Giangiani, Perugia once again embarked on the road to revival. Historically, Perugia would have been promoted to the second division this season, and then two years later magically promoted to the first division in third place, and all the way up to the International Toto Cup. And the meritorious players in that Perugia team like Jonti, Materazzi, and Grosso have all been poached by Chen Lin to Prato, but Perugia still has Gattuso, Agraini and others. In addition, Ma Minyu, who now plays for the Prato team, has also joined Perugia in his history.

It's just that unlike Perugia, who is still walking and climbing hard, Prato is already strong and strong, and he can become a dragon just by waiting for the wind and clouds to meet. Therefore, although the match was held at Perugia's home stadium, there was still no suspense about the result.

This season, Prato and Perugia have met twice in League C1, both times with Prato winning. In order to compete for the championship of the C Cup, Perugia can be said to have done his best at home, and Galinia, knowing that its strength is not as good as Prato, regardless of the pressure of the home fans, put on an unusually conservative dense turtle formation, intending to ensure that no goals are conceded at home, and then go to the away game with Prato to try their luck. Therefore, despite Prato bombarding around the goal, Perugia has always maintained a defensive scale of at least 10 people in the backfield, and even Prato took the initiative to lure and relax the midfield scramble, Perugia has always refused to launch a large-scale attack. However, Ma Minyu's earth-shattering long-range shot shattered Perugia's attempt, and the Perugia home fans were stunned to see the heavy artillery that kicked out from 40 meters away, but cut straight through the sky, as if it was completely unaffected by the earth's gravity and did not fall in an arc!

Perugia, who lost 0-1 at home, wanted to score two goals in Prato away from home, which was undoubtedly an impossible task, so they lost their morale in the second leg of the game at the Bisencio Stadium, and lost 0:3 cleanly, Ma Minyu, who performed well in the last game, assisted Inzaghi to score a goal again, and the other two goals were scored by Donighe and Vieri for the top corner. Prato also won the first trophy in the club's history with an aggregate score of 4-0. (The first place in Group B of League C II will not be awarded the championship trophy)

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