Chapter 110: The First Half of the Season Ends
The process does not need to be described too much, and the reason why Toldo was able to save Onopko's penalty was naturally related to the small note handed to him by Bucirini. Pen | fun | pavilion www. biquge。 info It's all about the shooting habits of Spartak's players that the Prato scouts have collected over the past month.
Although Chen Lin has various immature and inexperienced aspects in running the club, he also has a unique point, that is, he attaches importance to game intelligence, firmly believes that "knowing oneself and knowing one's opponent, and will not be defeated in a hundred battles", and he attaches great importance to the investment in the scouting department when he takes over Prato. Up to now, the scouting department headed by Pugli has 16 regular professional scouts and more than 20 part-time scouts from all countries and continents. These scouts are constantly feeding back the news that Prato needs, and the intelligence is even down to the recent psychological state of the opponent's players, and the technical habits are naturally the focus of attention.
Therefore, this penalty shootout was doomed from the beginning. Compared to Prato, the Spartacus team due to financial constraints, the pre-game intelligence gathering only found a few games of Prato, and it was also the game video before the fight at the beginning of the season, when Prato's main lineup was simply changed compared with now.
Another thing that made Argentine coach Sabel wrong was that the young players who played Prato on the free throws seemed to have better psychological quality than the old players under his command, which surprised him even more.
Actually, this is also the peculiarity of the Prato players. Looking at the current players of the Prato team, all of them may be very young, physically and technically immature, but all of them are future figures in the football world, and their minds are simply certain.
Toldo's own penalty saving skills are very outstanding, coupled with the artifact "small note" in his hand, it was supposed to be a five-round penalty shootout, and the Spartak team only played four players before the game ended. With all the Prato youngsters on the spot-take, Spartacus had two penalties saved by Toldo, who was unsurprisingly named the man of the match with Montella after the game.
The match was voted one of the top 10 classic memories by Prato fans many years later, and in addition to the shocking reversal, it was also one of the main reasons why two classic songs were born in this game. "Blue Heart" has since become Prato's team anthem, and the beautiful melody has made it sound every Prato home game since then. And "stand'up" has become Prato's battle cry, with a majestic melody and easy-to-remember lyrics, making this song more popular than "Blue Heart". Every time a tournament is played, every time a team is in trouble, this song is bound to be sung by the fans and lead the team to victory time and time again.
The footage of the match was later broadcast on a number of local television stations in China, and many Chinese fans who did not know Italian preferred the English version of "Stand'Up" to the all-Italian version of "Blue Heart". This situation is not only happening in China, because the three major European Cups have been broadcast in many countries, this song has also spread around the world at the fastest speed, becoming one of the classic background music that must be used in many large-scale sports events, many fans who originally did not know much about Prato, are because of this song began to know Prato, like Prato, and finally fell in love with Prato all their lives.
Another important aspect of this match is that it seems to shatter the gloom that has shrouded the Prato team this season, and the sun of victory once again shines on the land of Prato.
In the second division at the weekend, Prato, who had played two games a week and fought continuously, beat Pisa at home with a score of 3:1. Since then, the momentum of Prato has been out of control, defeating the second division powerhouse Ancona 2:0 away, Reggina with young players such as Perrotta 4:2 away, Cesena with talented midfielder Ambrosini 3:2 at home, Piacenza who is ranked first 2:1 away, Vicenza under the command of "Little Zhuge " Guidolin 1:0 at home, and Hellas Hellin at home 3:0 against Tomasi's parent team Verona, winning a wave of seven consecutive victories.
With this frantic victory, Prato finally moved up to 6th in the league table before the winter break, rejoining the race for promotion to the first division.
And in this wave of winning streaks, what makes Chen Lin most pleased is the growth of several Chinese young players. Previously, because of the large number of players with outstanding strength in the team, several Jianlibao players such as Sun Chenghai and Li Tie did not have many opportunities to play, and many times they could only return to the youth team to participate in the youth league. During this time, due to the punishment of many main players by the team, Sun Chenghai and Li Weifeng had to grit their teeth and go up, even including the European Cup Winners' Cup knockout match against Spartac.
Under the training of this high-level competition, the strength of several young players has grown rapidly. You know, these games are not the commercial friendly matches played by the Jianlibao team in Brazil in history, almost every game is related to the fate of the team, every game is a fight to the death with the opponent, there is no mind to breathe a sigh of relief, no mind to think about what will happen if you slack off, only use your brains to do your part well, in order not to drag down your teammates and not become a loophole for the team.
It's like whipping a few Jianlibao youngsters, making their strength go up after trying their best in every game. Especially Sun Chenghai and Li Weifeng, who have the most opportunities to play, originally because neither of them joined the first batch of Jianlibao teams in history, so after Chen Lin changed history and brought the two to Italy, the potential value of the two grew at the fastest rate in the Jianlibao team. And this season, the potential value of the two has increased by leaps and bounds, and they have caught up with Li Tie, who has been carefully taught by Deng Jia, and Li Qiyu, who has been carefully studying and imitating Inzaghi.
As the game progressed, the shining points of several Chinese youngsters were gradually revealed, whether it was Sun Chenghai's excellent offense and defense, Li Weifeng's excellent header and the spirit of daring to fight, or Li Tie's immortal physique, Li Qiyu's sense of smell in front of the goal was not inferior to Inzaghi's, which made many Prato fans like them, including not only Chinese fans, but also local Italian fans, and they also gave the four of them a nickname, called "Chinese Four Little Dragons".
Now that all four have adapted to the rhythm of the second division, they are no longer the team's offensive and defensive black holes, at least when they come off the bench, it will no longer make people feel scared. The arrival of the winter break also means that the punishment of several players who were less serious in the fight incident is over and can be re-added to the team's squad, and Prato will welcome the fateful second half of the season with a new attitude.