Chapter 50: Opponents in the Playoffs

After all the reserve team matches in the three groups of ABC are over, the teams that will participate in the playoffs will also be announced.

In Group A, the first place is Genoa Reserves, the second Juventus Reserves, the third Fiorentina Reserves, the fourth Torino Reserves, and the fifth Sampdoria Reserves.

The five teams in Group B that qualified for the playoffs are Varese Reserves, Atalanta Reserves, AC Milan Reserves, Inter Milan Reserves and Chievo Reserves.

Only four teams in Group C have qualified for the playoffs: Roma Reserves, Lazio Reserves, Catania Reserves and Siena Reserves.

Third to fifth places in Groups A and B, and third and fourth places in Group C, the eight teams will first be drawn to determine their qualifying matchups. After two rounds of matchmaking, the two teams that win will compete in the Grand Final.

This is the format of the 2010-2011 Italian Reserve League. At the moment, Italy does not have a nationwide reserve league, so it can only be played in this way with a division and then a playoffs. Nor is it like in Spain, where reserves can play in the lower leagues.

Before the start of training, the players of the reserve team changed their clothes in the dressing room, rested, adjusted their mentality, which was somewhat disturbed by the overabundance of last night's life, and sat down to prepare for the upcoming training session. Before the start of training every day, this room is full of things like this, and there is nothing special.

That is, until assistant coach Casirio pushed the door open with a piece of paper in his hand and attached it to the white magnetic tactical board with a magnet.

"The results of the playoff qualifiers."

With that, he turned and walked out of the dressing room, leaving time and space for the players.

He went out on the front foot, and someone on the back foot came up to him.

"To whom are we concerned?" Someone didn't join in the fun, just sat on the bench and asked his teammates loudly.

"Our opponent is ......" at the front was Alberto Massi, who got stuck before he could finish his sentence.

"What's wrong? Alberto, what the hell? Goalkeeper Tozzo joked that his remark drew laughter from the rest of the dressing room.

"Get out of the way, I'll come and see ......" Kosticic squeezed Marci away and shouted, "We're away against AC Milan!" ”

"Oh, you can go to the training base of the wealthy family to see and see!" Someone whistled.

But soon a strange atmosphere spread in the locker room - everyone turned their eyes to Gao Zheng.

Gao Zheng raised his hands: "What do you see me doing?" I'm not familiar with the AC Milan reserve team anymore, I don't know their staffing, tactical arrangements or whatever......"

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On the sidelines of the training ground, sports manager Tosi stared at Gao Zheng, trying to see something different from him.

"See what, Mr. Manager?" Bruni next to him asked.

Tossi frowned and stared for a while before shaking his head and said, "Maybe it's because I don't usually pay enough attention to Gao, and I don't see the difference between him and him......"

"That's right, he's acting normally."

"He should know who we're going to be in the next fight, right?" Tossi asked.

'Alfredo has put the table in the dressing room.

"That's weird...... Surely he doesn't mind that? ”

"How could you not care?"

"Then why ...... now?"

"That's exactly what he cares about, Mr. Manager." Bruni sighed.

Tossi looked at Bruni, "Can you finish it all at once?" Don't let me act like an idiot. ”

Bruni smiled when he heard Tosi say this: "Of this team, Gao wants to beat AC Milan the most. But that's why he has to stay focused, both in training and in games to beat AC Milan. Are you looking at the heights and not noticing that our other players are all more impetuous than usual in training, Mr. Manager? ”

Tosi listened to Bruni say this, and then turned to the other players, and after a careful observation, he saw at least three cases of voluntary mistakes in training.

"This ......"

"They were already thinking about the game in seven days, but Gao was only focused on the training in front of him, and that's the difference between them. Mr. Manager, I don't want to pour cold water on it, but the fact is that there is a big gap between us and AC Milan, and if we don't focus on the training in front of us, we don't expect us to be able to beat AC Milan in the first round of qualifying. ”

With that, he pulled out his whistle, blew the whistle to pause the training, and then strode onto the court.

Soon Bruni's roar rang out on the training ground, a world away from his calm face......

In the midst of this roar, Bruni turned his gaze back to Gao Zheng.

Many players were scolded by Bruni and buried their heads deeply, only Gao Zheng, like a person who had nothing to do, looking around leisurely, there is really no difference between him and him in peacetime......

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At the end of training, Massie was still crying as he walked out of the dressing room and across the parking lot, and today they were scolded by the manager and then punished and fucked to the point of exhaustion – in the words of coach Bruni, leaving them with no energy to think about things they shouldn't think.

"Don't think too much, Alberto, you have to pay your full attention when you train, you see I didn't get scolded by the coach." Gao Zheng also comforted him. "Looking at your performance, I thought you were abandoned by AC Milan......"

"yes, I can't figure it out. It's you who are abandoned, why can you be so calm? Marcy glared at Gao Zheng.

As soon as Gao Zheng opened his mouth, he saw a familiar figure outside the gate.

He shouted in surprise: "Uncle Guo?!" ”

The middle-aged man who was standing with his back to the gate turned around and also saw Gao Zheng, with a smile on his face: "Xiao Gao, is the training over?" ”

"Yes." Gao Zheng pulled Marcy and introduced to Guo Wei, "This is Alberto Marcy, you have seen it before." ”

"Hello, it's nice to have a friend like you in the locker room." Guo Wei said in Italian, reaching out and shaking the other party.

"Hello." Marcy said goodbye to Li Gaozheng very interestingly, "I'll go first." ”

Gao Zheng waved his hand: "Go, don't think too much, stay focused, Alberto, focus is the most important thing." ”

"I will, Great Demon King." With that, Marcy ran away. "I'm willing to do anything for the sake of victory!"

"What did he just call you?" Guo Wei is very strange.

"Uh......" Gao Zheng briefly introduced the origin of this nickname.

After listening to it, Guo Wei laughed: "Don't say it, this nickname is good!" It seems that you are getting along well with your teammates, so I am relieved. ”

Gao Zheng smiled: "Uncle Guo, what you said, where do I get along with people?" You see I'm in Sassuolo, didn't I know one in a day? ”

Gao Zheng took the initiative to mention Sassuolo, but Guo Wei was a little embarrassed, after all, this was a time he didn't want to think about.

But Gao Zheng didn't show anything unusual: "Speaking of Sassuolo, Uncle Guo, do you know that their reserve team and Sampdoria reserve team are still in the same group, but I haven't met them." It's a shame that I can't catch up with Berardi's kid......"

It's a shame you couldn't beat them on the pitch, right?

Guo Wei thought in his heart, and then said, "Let's go, get in the car, I'll invite you to dinner." Let's talk slowly at the dinner table. ”

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PS, France won, in line with my prediction, a narrow win by one goal.

This is basically the case when the strong teams in this World Cup play the teams that look weak.

I didn't know the result of the match between Argentina and Croatia at the time of the update, so that's the real highlight of tonight!