At 16 o'clock in the afternoon on Friday, December 1, Li Mudi, who announced the early end of the day's training mission, did not return to the apartment, but went to the conference room with several colleagues, followed by many players, where everyone will watch the live broadcast of the 2018 World Cup finals group draw ceremony in Russia through a projector connected to a computer.

The ceremony took place in Moscow's Kremlin and was hosted by England legend Lineker and renowned Russian journalist Maria Komandenaya, while the eight draw guests were Banks, Maradona, Blank, Cafu, Cannavaro, Fran, Puyol and the host country, Simonyan of Russia.

Russian President Vladimir Putin and FIFA President Gianni Infantino took the stage to deliver a speech first, followed by a female singer who is said to be quite famous in the local area. After Klose, the representative of the last World Cup champion German team and the top scorer in the history of the World Cup, entered the scene with the Hercules Cup in his hand, it was another Russian dance performance, which made everyone quite anxious.

Fortunately, after almost 20 minutes of foreplay, the draw ceremony finally officially began, and after Lineker introduced the rules of the draw, the eight guests began to perform their duties, and soon the teams of the eight groups were placed in turn in order amid the exclamation of the audience and the comments of the broadcaster's commentator.

The results of the draw were: Group A: Russia, Saudi Arabia, Egypt, Uruguay; Group B: Portugal, Spain, Morocco, Iran; Group C: France, Australia, Peru, Denmark; Group D: Argentina, Iceland, Croatia, Nigeria; Group E: Brazil, Switzerland, Costa Rica, Serbia; Group F: Germany, Mexico, Sweden, Kimchi Nation; Group G: Belgium, Panama, Tunisia, England; Group H: Poland, Senegal, Colombia, Japan.

Judging from this result, Brazil and France have the best luck, and there is little suspense about winning the group. Defending champions Germany are also not bad, as long as they can play consistently, it will not be a problem to qualify for the top spot. As for the Iberian Peninsula derby in Group B and the "Premier League civil war" between Belgium and England in Group G, although it will look more miserable, the other opponents in the group are weak, so the chances of strong teams joining hands to qualify are also very high. Only poor Argentina was once again caught in the group of death, and when they saw the result, the two pampas men, Canneman and Boyer, frowned and looked unhappy.

However, for the majority of the Italians, who are no longer in the home team, they are just enjoying the fun of this football feast at the highest level as a regular fan, and they are also hoping for more groups of death so that the group stage will not be too boring. However, they also have a common belief, that is, the Swedish team should not qualify, and it is better that the pickle country should not qualify, and the Italians, who have always been cautious, are very vindictive.

Li Mudi believes that his second home country Spain has not had much luck, and although qualifying for the knockout round should not be a big problem, it is definitely not good news to compete with the new European Cup champion for the top spot in the group. The Matadors' backline has been inconsistent since Puyol's retirement, and with the dispute between Real Madrid and Barca's players, it may still be difficult to reach the end next year.

Finally, the schedule for next year's World Cup has also been announced, with the opening ceremony and opening match taking place on the evening of June 14 local time, and the final scheduled for July 15. Considering the time difference, the kick-off time of most games is not bad for European fans, but there are some on the Celestial Empire side that have to be watched in the second half of the night, which causes some problems for the Torino coach who is preparing to return home for vacation during the World Cup. But it's too early to say that, and we'll see how it happens.

After watching the draw, everyone left the club's residence, what should they do, and then the analysis and predictions released by the media have nothing to do with them, and if you want to watch the quadrennial football boom, you still need to wait until six and a half months later, and everyone's thoughts will be focused on the club. The Red Bulls are about to embark on a very difficult year-end fixture, and their first opponent after entering December is Atalanta, who struggled with them until the last minute last season.

Although the opponent's form has been very inconsistent after a summer of adjustment, and is currently in 10th place in the standings with a record of 5 wins, 4 draws and 5 losses, it looks like it has fallen silent after an explosion, but there have been occasional strong performances such as a 5-1 win over Crotone and a 2-2 draw with Juventus. Moreover, Gasperini's coaching ability has been widely recognized by the Italian football world, and no one dares to say that in his tune. Teach, will the son of the sea god regain the feeling of being in a burst of form last year.

So ahead of the weekend, Li Mudi and his colleagues have been making tactical arrangements, hoping to win on their home turf and boost the morale of the whole team before facing the two fierce rivals of Lazio and Napoli in the future. For this reason, the Torino team lined up their strongest squad in this league game, in the 3-4-1-2 position, the three central defenders were Caneman, Ranocchia and Diego Llorente, who had the best defensive effect before, and the central midfielder was Baseli and Las Diarra, and the Frenchman was in excellent form in recent days, so he was able to squeeze out Vukocevic as the starter. The rest of the players, such as Cassie, Belotti, Immobile, Benasi, Bareca and Silvestri, are all on the scene, vowing to upset Atlanta on their doorstep.

One thing to mention in particular is that the Torino players did not wear the traditional crimson shirt, but instead wore a rare green special edition jersey, incarnating as a "green red bull", an event specially prepared by the club to commemorate the first anniversary of the air crash of Brazilian team Chapecoense. Having suffered such a catastrophe as the Supega air crash in its history, the Torino club was very sympathetic to Chapecoense, who had suffered a similar tragedy at the end of last year, and the top management convened a meeting for the occasion a month in advance to agree on the commemoration ceremony.

The traditional jersey of the Brazilian team is green, so the Red Bulls have created 1,500 special edition jerseys for today's event, which are not only for the players to wear during the game, but also for sale, and all proceeds after deducting the cost will be donated to the families of the victims of the club Chapecoense. This act of kindness has also become a hot event in Italy and Brazil this weekend, and has won unanimous praise both in football circles and among the people.

Before the game, the senior management and team members of Chapecoense FC, who appeared as special guests, joined the Torino team players, who were also wearing green shirts, in the center of the stadium with their hands and shoulders in a circle, bowed their heads, and followed the prompting of the host to join everyone present in a minute of silence for the unfortunate. Immediately, the whole stadium burst into applause, offering everyone's most sincere blessings and encouragement to the two clubs, who had just formed a close partnership. And this scene was watched by people in various countries around the world through the live broadcast signal of the broadcast agency, and the true meaning of football or sports was revealed at this moment......

However, the next main drama greatly surprised people, and no one expected that the home team would win this game that was originally considered to be very suspenseful. After just 20 minutes of kick-off, they took a two-goal lead, and they also had an absolute advantage in terms of technical statistics, turning the entire Olympic Stadium into a sea of joy.

In the ninth minute, the Torino team played a wonderful combination in the front of the opponent's penalty area, Silvestri accurately found Immobile at the back point with a cross from the right, and the home team's No. 10 header was ferried to Belotti on his right, who carried the visiting team's central defender Caldara without stopping the ball and directly headed it back to the left of the penalty area, which was equivalent to completing a header against the wall with his forward teammates. Immobile stepped forward in time to shake off another centre-back Toloi, who had been marking him, to form a one-on-one stance, and then faced Atra's goalkeeper Berisha, who had no choice but to attack, and easily picked the ball into the net from above the latter who fell to the ground, in a handsome process.

In this game, the coach continued to use his preferred 3-4-2-1 formation, which was intended to strengthen the possession of the ball in midfield in order to weaken the number and intensity of the home team's attack, so that there was hope that the stadium would be able to get out of the stadium that was gradually becoming the home of the devil. However, after two meetings last season and this summer's warm-up matches, coupled with the fact that he has been studying the tactical characteristics of this opponent based on the data provided by the video and FM system in the past few days, Li Mudi has basically mastered the tricks of how to crack the concept of the away team. He simply asked his players not to take the ball in the midfield area, and went over the opponent's strong point to hit the ball directly to the front line, using Belotti's excellent bridgehead characteristics and Immobile's excellent passing ability to simplify the attack.

And this move really achieved excellent results, the configuration of the back three looked so embarrassing in the face of the direct impact of the main striker partner of the Italian national team, forcing the visiting midfielders to drop back to help the team make up for the defense. In order to avoid the distance between the three lines being stretched too much, their forward position had to be moved back by about five or six meters, which reduced the defensive pressure on the Torino team a lot, and they could invest more troops in the offensive end.

In the 19th minute, it was left wing-back Bareka who had a bold press to assist that caused chaos on the right side of Yatra and his low cross hit the legs of visiting centre-back Frule and bounced right in front of Belotti on the edge of the penalty area in the middle. Torino's No.9 fired a left-footed volley into the top left corner of the goal with a slight external spin like a cannonball, and although Berisha had made the best save, it was still tragically the backdrop for the world's goal, crashing into the net from what was theoretically a dead corner. 2-0, the home team's two goals were more exciting than the other, and their supporters could not be happy.

Faced with the disadvantage of being two goals down after 20 minutes of kick-off, it was difficult for even a good manager like Gasperini to respond forcefully, and he could only instruct his players to retreat first, so as not to let the opponent, whose morale had already reached the peak, take the opportunity to go on the next goal, otherwise the game would really be no suspense at all. Sure enough, Torino created three more good chances in front of the opponent's goal in the next six or seven minutes, but unfortunately they could not score again under the stubborn defense of the visiting team.

The situation on the field then entered a stalemate, seeing that the wave of strong attacks failed to win the opponent, the home team did not continue to make similar attempts, after all, behind the tide of attack, the physical consumption of their own side is also quite large, can not use all their strength at this time, to bring hidden dangers to the second half. The Atalanta players took advantage of their own technical characteristics to master more time on the ball and formed a few slightly threatening attacks, but none of them were fruitful. The 2-0 scoreline was taken into the break, and the technical statistics of the two sides were fairly even, but the Torino players' ability to take advantage of their chances was obviously much better today, so they were able to have the actual upper hand.

At the beginning of the second half, the coach replaced Kurtic, who had been almost invisible on the pitch before, with Slovenian striker Ilicic, who joined the team from Fiorentina in the summer, and handed over the responsibility of playmaking to the newcomer. However, the loss of two key players in the summer, Conte Jr. and Kessie, and the lack of suitable players to replace them, made Atalanta's killer move to the top five of the league last season: the wing assault and the middle back row to fight for the second place are no longer powerful. Under Torino's solid collective defence, the visitors had a lot of possession, but it was almost difficult to cause major problems for Casillas' goal, but they made another mistake in their impatience and completely conceded the victory of this game.

In the 65th minute, Benassee's corner kick from the left side was driven into the small penalty area, and Atalanta's defenders collectively had a short circuit, which unexpectedly left Diego Llorente, who is 1.86 meters tall and has no bad heading ability, in a state of being unmarked. In the face of this gift, the Spanish central defender naturally smiled happily, and he jumped high and smashed the ball into the goal, so that Berisha, who was too close to resist, to pick up the ball from the goal again with a helpless face. 3-0, this score directly killed the game.

However, shortly after kick-off, Bareka sprained his ankle in an accident, and Li Mudi had to frown and replace the former with Dimarco, who was later diagnosed by the team doctor that the Torino left-back would miss at least two weeks, which was really bad news. Then the Torino coach, who was worried about the injury of the core, replaced Immobile and Barceli one after another, and began to prepare for the next games. The arrival of young players brought vitality to the overall coordination of the home team, but also brought sluggishness to the operation, Edra in the 84th minute a pass error gave the opponent a chance to counterattack, Petagna picked up the right side of the penalty area, Ilicic inserted the ball and faced Cassie alone, calmly pushed the ball into the top right corner of the goal, and pulled a goal back for the visitors, which was considered to save some face.

In the end, the Torino team, wearing a special green shirt, won at home to Atalanta, a tough opponent, and after a disappointing draw at AC Milan in the last round, they started the final month of 2017 well.