Li Mudi, who once again walked perfectly from under the noses of the paparazzi, sat on the plane back to Turin, and his mood was not bad, but there was always a faint sense of sadness lingering. Barty spent nine years of his career in the best form of the city of Florence, but he became a "traitor" and only reconciled with the fans there after more than a decade, but the statue was never recovered. And what about yourself? He should not coach in Torino until retirement, after all, it is a rare animal to be able to coach a club for more than five consecutive years, and those who have been in charge for more than ten years can be called legends. When I leave the city, what will the fans say about my deeds here, and will they erect a statue in my honor? Or is it like the usual situation, scolding yourself for bringing disaster to the team...... Li Mudi couldn't help but fall into deep thought on the plane......

After coming out of the airport, Gines was driven back to his original apartment by Gines, who had not been to Italy for a long time, and yes, the Torino boss decided to move back to the club from today. Although living in the dormitory can get rid of the entanglement of unscrupulous media to the greatest extent, this is not the posture that a professional head coach should have, blindly avoiding can only make the other party more intensified to bully the door, under the persuasion and teaching of the agent boss, Li Mudi also felt that it was too much to live in a good house rented at a large price, but it was too much to hide in the simple dormitory, so he resolutely chose to go back and sleep in the soft big bed for a few days.

Since it had been a long time since I had been back here, there was really no one around the apartment to keep an eye on, and the group entered the house without any problems, and the house had been cleaned by Genes in the morning, and it was very clean and tidy. This time, along with the Spanish agent, there is also an agent assistant and a professional bodyguard, the former is called Pablo Javier del Pino, who will be the personal assistant of the Torino coach, responsible for the preparation and collation of all foreign speeches, of course, the errand work is also his, acting as a temporary agent in the absence of Gines; The latter's name is Angelo Forcina (Angelo Forcina), a native of Italy, a private security officer recruited by Gines through a relationship, who served in the Italian special forces before retiring, and is naturally not bad, responsible for Li Mudi's usual security.

In order to avoid Ginez's non-stop catch, the Torino coach turned on the TV as soon as he returned to the sofa in the living room after entering the bedroom to change into a more comfortable casual suit, which happened to be the third round of the World Cup European qualifiers Group G between Macedonia and Italy, and it was now the 69th minute of the second half, and the score was 2-1 that most people expected, and the home team was ahead. Compared to the game against Spain three days ago, Ventura rotated the other seven starters in midfield, in addition to retaining Gianluiga Buffonga's three centre-backs. The front line has finally used the former Torino combination of Belotti and Immobile, and the five players in the midfield, Candreva, Bernardeschi, Verratti, Bonaventura and Desiglio are also famous in Serie A, everyone is good, but this lineup is led by Macedonia, which is ranked 146th in the world and has a population of just over 2 million, which is incredible! Even the well-informed Gines couldn't help but be dumbfounded.

Li Mudi directly took out his mobile phone and began to search for information in the first 70 minutes on the Internet, and Belotti scored his first goal for the national team in the 24th minute, which was gratifying. Fourteen minutes into the second half, striker Ilija Nestorovski, who had just joined Palermo this summer, and left winger Ferhan Hasani, who had previously played for Wolfsburg in the Bundesliga, scored two goals to put the score in the lead. Then Ventura was furious, and in the 64th minute, Nicola Sansone, who had just transferred to Villarreal, and Lazio midfielder Parolo replaced Purple Bebe and Bonaventura.

After the adjustment, the Azzurri still did not improve, facing all 11 players to defend Macedonia could not play any exquisite cooperation, can only rely on individual ability to eat the opponent, once controlled the ball for three minutes in a row but failed to finally form a goal. However, the home team's players were already in a state of physical fitness in the final stages, and they still made fatal mistakes under the continuous onslaught of Italy. In the 75th minute, Belotti's clever movement created a direct chance for his partner to shoot directly from close range, as Mobile scored the third goal of his international career and brought the two teams back to the same line. But just when the morale of the Italian team was boosted and they were ready to make persistent efforts to overtake the score, Ventura once again didn't know what was wrong, and replaced the goal-scoring red babe with Eder, who had been in a goal drought for five months, which directly made the Turin striker and Li Mudi outside the TV look black.

Compared with the latter, who can directly vent his scolding and brain-dead, Red Beibei can only sit back on the bench obediently with all kinds of helplessness. In the 59th minute of the last game against Spain, Pelle was replaced by Immobile, and the television footage captured the moment when Ventura was about to shake Pelle's hand, Pelle ignored it and went straight back to the dressing room. After the game, the Italian media also criticized Pelle's behavior, and as a direct person, Ventura just shrugged helplessly after the incident and did not say anything. However, it can be seen from pressing the Luneng striker on the bench in this game that the old fox's heart must be very unhappy, so Belotti really didn't dare to show the head coach any face.

Eder's effect after playing is really not as good as Red Babe, and there is no tacit understanding between him and Immobile, so they can only fight separately. Just when everyone thought the game would end in an upset draw, the Lazio striker seized a golden opportunity in the first minute of stoppage time to make it 2-3 with a brace, and Italy narrowly avoided the tragedy of being opened up by Spain. After three rounds, the two traditional powerhouses are tied on seven points, with the Matadors topping the group on goal difference, Albania and Israel tied on six points, while Macedonia and Liechtenstein are both bottom of the three-game table.

The next day, that is, at three o'clock in the afternoon of the 11th, Li Mudi came out of the training ground where the group confrontation game was being held, walked into the video analysis room alone, opened the Internet and began to watch the national football team's away game against Uzbekistan. Gao Gui knew that this opponent was not easy to deal with and the criticality of this ball, so he replaced the 3-5-2 formation he had been using with a 4-4-2 formation, and added a full-time defensive defender Cai Huikang on the defensive end, so that the intention of stabilizing the defense and waiting for the opportunity to counterattack was very obvious. In addition to replacing Gu Chao, who made a fatal mistake in the last game with Yang Zhi in the goalkeeper position, Zhang Lin's cumulative yellow card suspension also made Du Wei and Feng Xiaoting form a central defender partner; And only Hao Junmin is the starter against Syria among the players in the midfield, and the other five have all made adjustments, I don't know what kind of medicine is sold in the gourd of Gao Gui?

The home team is also absent from the main team, defender Ismailov and midfielder Heinrich who play for the Tianchao Yatai team are also suspended because of accumulated yellow cards, and the central defender Klimets and striker Sergeyev who play together for Guoan both started the game, and there are really many acquaintances on the field.

After the start of the game, the home team's offensive and away team defense situation was reflected in the first time, although the national football team's four midfielders and four defenders looked close and impermeable, but the opponent quickly found an opportunity to break the national football defense line through exquisite off-ball movement, but because the number of defenders was too dense, it was not a good opportunity for a while.

In the fourteenth minute, the seemingly calm state was broken, and Sun Ke, the frontcourt tandem core who had high hopes for the high coach, was hit by a head-on knee in a scramble with Hashmov, and could not continue to hold on to the game and was replaced by Jiang Zhipeng, so far the team attack of the national football team has basically not appeared again.

In the 20th minute, Uzbekistan finally found a good opportunity, central midfielder Jeparov stepped forward into the ribs of the penalty area, attracted the defender Cai Huikang, who was actively following up the defense, and tried to help the right-back Zhao Mingjian to wrap up. However, after Cai Huikang left the midfield position in the middle, no one in his area filled in for him, and Jiang Zhipeng, who replaced Sun Ke, did not have the consciousness to fill the vacancy behind his teammates after leaving, exposing a huge space in front of the national football team's penalty area, and at the same time completely leaking the opponent's core player Akhmedov (also translated as Akhmedov). Uzbekistan's No. 9 easily took the ball when unmarked in the middle, shook off the central defenders who grabbed it, and sent a very beautiful ball to Bikmaev, who was inserted at high speed at the back post. Unfortunately, the latter's technique was a bit rough, and he didn't deal with it well when he stopped the ball, and it took two consecutive adjustments to completely control the ball, but it was too late, and he missed this great opportunity with a burst shot when the away defenders rushed to block it.

Ten minutes later, the defense of the national football team was broken through again, Akhmedov forced a breakthrough on the left side to kill near the bottom line in the penalty area, and then inverted the triangle of the horizontal knock, the defenders of the away team in the penalty area were like being clicked on the acupoint, watching the unmarked Sergeyev volley with his left foot at the front of the small penalty area, if it wasn't for Yang Zhi's excellent selection to seal the ball, the score would have been rewritten. If the last game against Syria exposed the dilemma of the national football team's weak forwards, this game confirmed that their backline is also a mess, and they are really powerless to complain.

Of course, it does not mean that the men's football team of the Celestial Empire really does not have the strength to resist at all, but in the face of their only few counterattacks, the home team forced individuals to dribble to the non-threatening side or used tactical fouls in advance to defuse them, and the effect was not ordinarily good. In the 38th minute, the national football team directly counterattacked after a steal in the backfield, Jiang Ning wanted to pass the ball to Wu Lei in front of him after receiving the ball near the middle circle, and then followed up at high speed, if it succeeded, it would form an excellent opportunity to play two. It's a pity that the home team's defender Islom Tutahuev simply passed the ball, and a sharp rush knocked Jiang Ning to the ground, and at the same time received the first yellow card of the game, the crisis was resolved at the beginning.

Since the gap between the strength of the two teams in the first half has been so obvious, and the offensive ability of the national football team has been proven to be almost zero, why not just retreat and swing the bus with all the staff and strive for a draw? What's the use of keeping those two strikers who are completely unthreatening? It's a pity that I still want to try if I can steal three points away from home, and I can't put my mind right, this is gambling with the luck of not conceding a goal in the first 45 minutes! As a result, they will naturally be woken up mercilessly.

In the 50th minute, Dewey's header at the back was wrong, and Shomurodov sent a precise diagonal line that slid between a number of away players, and Bikmaev on the left did not waste another opportunity this time, he burst into the penalty area and shot directly with his left foot into the far corner of the goal without stopping, and the ball hit the inside of the post and drilled into the net, leaving Yang Zhi helpless. Just five minutes into the second half, Uzbekistan led 1-0.

As soon as this goal was scored, Li Mudi knew that the general trend had gone, and the national football team was bound to strengthen the attack if it wanted to score a goal to get the score back, but after weakening the defensive ability, it could not resist Uzbekistan's offensive at all, so he could only lose the ball again. And the loss of this game basically means that they have no hope of qualifying, although I feel distressed for the high director in my heart, but in this case, even if the gods come, they may not be able to turn the tide, so everyone still washes and sleeps. So he closed the computer without waiting for the restart, and only used his mobile phone to connect to the Internet to check the text live broadcast of the game at any time, and then returned to the training venue, just in time for today's training match is not over. After exchanging a few words with the assistant coach Sumfield, who was sticking to his post, and observing the competitive state of the players, it was time for today's work schedule to end, and everyone could clock out and leave work.

Just as the Torino coach was about to pull out his phone to check the final result of the game, the phone rang first. Li Mudi took it out and looked at it, almost jumped up, and muttered at the same time: "What is the situation?" ”