In Fiorentina's 3-4-2-1 formation, Kalinic is a single striker in the front field, Ilicic on the right side has a large range of activities, and can take care of both the side and the middle, only Valero seems to be a left winger, but he is actually a forward midfielder, because his speed is generally not suitable for moving on the wing. Therefore, the assault and cross from the left side still have to rely on the left wing-back Milic inserted in the back row, which is also their biggest weakness, and the goal Torino just now was planned on this side. So after the restart, the home team's players still grabbed the medicine as they were directed, still making a fuss here, pressing Valero fiercely, and then focusing on attacking the left side of the visiting team.

However, Paulo Sousa and Purple Lily's on-court core reacted quickly, and after a foul and a dead ball, the two men exchanged two words on the sidelines before adjusting their positioning. Valero swapped places with Bernardeschi, who had previously played as a right wing-back, bringing Zi Bebe, who mainly plays as a right winger but also a left winger, to the left side of the field, and the task of organising the tandem was also shared by the two central midfielders of Colombia international Sanchez and Croatia international Milan Badelj. After such a change, the high-intensity siege of the Torino team completely lost its effect, and the Spaniard had retreated to the midfield line, and any more grabbing would only make his defensive position porous, so Li Mudi waved his hand: Let's go back and swing the bus. So in the next game, the field showed the usual routine of Torino this season, and the whole team was waiting for an opportunity to prepare for a counterattack.

Fiorentina's attacking power seems to have improved after Zibeibei switched to the winger position, but without Valero's tandem ball, they still rely more on their individual ability to attack the Torino defense on both flanks, with the two wingers sending crosses many times, and even the Spaniard, who temporarily occupies the right wing-back, has two 45-degree diagonal passes into the penalty area. Unfortunately, with the combined efforts of the two centre-backs, Kalinic couldn't find much to take advantage of, and after almost six or seven crosses from the wing, he only managed to form two shots, one was deflected off the woodwork, and the other was easily denied by Joe Hart because he couldn't make a difference.

On the contrary, the home side's occasional counter-attacks looked a little more threatening, with Rajjdzic and Farke repeatedly using their individual abilities to inflict considerable damage on the opposition defence. Because Valero on the right side is not a professional defensive player, and Milic on the left side has limited ability, the defensive pressure on the two wings of the Purple Lily is a bit high, and the two wingers in Torino always deliberately avoid the defensive area of Sanchez and Badelgi and directly challenge the three central defenders of the visiting team. The visitors' right-hand centre-back, Serbian Nenad Tomovic, was okay with speed and was able to maintain a close balance against his national team team-mate Rajadzic. However, the left central defender Salcedo is in some trouble, once Milic is passed by Farke, he will have to face the Spanish winger's assault directly, Astori will be involved in the red bebe, unless it is a last resort, it will not be easily replaced, in most cases the Mexicans themselves will have to solve the problem.

Fortunately, Fiorentina's possession has always been relatively good, so that the home team can not easily play a lethal counterattack in the midfield, but their own attack is nothing to praise, several shots are either blocked by defenders or deflected, and the siege for a long time has not allowed the home team's goalkeeper to sweat even a drop, and there is really no sign of being able to equalize the score. In the 36th minute, Brazilian centre-back Kastan was half a step slower in the scramble and knocked down Benardeschi, not only receiving the first yellow card of the game, but also giving the visitors a direct free kick 34 or 5 meters from the goal and a little left in the middle. However, Zibeibei's direct attack still flew high into the sky, and the two goals couldn't get in when stacked.

In this way, there were not many fouls from both teams, and the game went smoothly, and before we knew it, it was halftime and the two sides returned to their respective dressing rooms with a score of 1-0. Judging from the technical statistics of the half, the two sides are almost equal in terms of the number of attacks, shots, fouls and corners, but in terms of pass success rate and possession, it is clear that the visitors have the advantage, and it has almost become a replica of the previous round of Torino against Roma. So the commentators and guests of the Italian national television, the local TV station in Turin and the two major broadcast agencies of the Celestial Empire, who were responsible for broadcasting the game, all agreed that Li Mudi's tactics were quite practical, and the first three opponents who visited the Olympic Stadium seemed to have difficulty seeing the hope of winning, even if it seemed that there was a big advantage on the field, it was not decisive, and the Torino team always found opportunities to play a wonderful counterattack. And once Li Mudi's team takes the lead, the opponent falls into absolute passivity, unless there is super strength, it is difficult to increase the offensive intensity while ensuring that the defense will not have problems again. The guest invited by Italian national television today, the legendary god of war Batistuta, proposed that Fiorentina replace a high striker with excellent header ability, and carry out high-altitude bombardment against this weakness of the Torino defense.

Paulo Sousa did make changes to his line-up before the start of the second half, but instead of replacing a centre-forward with a good header as Barty suggested, he replaced the starting right winger Ilicic with Mauro Zarate, a small Argentine striker who returned to Italian football from the English league in January this year, and Bernardeschi returned to the right flank, and Valero, who barely showed anything after 15 minutes of the first half, returned to the middle to take the central midfield position, and Fiorentina's formation changed to 3-4-1-2. In the Portuguese's view, adding an attacking player near the edge of the opposition box would disrupt Limdoudi's previous deployment and make Torino's defence look at the same time. However, the home coach was quick to respond, first directing both wingers to drop back to the halfway line and then getting more involved in the defence, and then replacing the goal-scorer Falke with Juan Iturbe, the team's fastest player, on the first dead ball in the second half, and adjusted the position of the counter-attack to Iturbe up front, Rajjdzic was the receiving point behind him, and Belotti was more involved in the midfield pressing. This tactic appears to be abandoning the positional attack, using the new Paraguayan winger to threaten the opposition's defence with the advantage of speed, so that they do not dare to press too high, so as to relieve the pressure on the defence.

Standing just 176 centimetres tall, Zarate's ability to score goals is not his strong suit, and he had a chance to top the pack in his first season with Lazio in Serie A, scoring 13 goals in 36 appearances. However, as other teams became familiar with him, Salat was largely unable to make waves in front of goal in the following seasons, and only contributed a total of 13 goals in the next four seasons. He is more likely to play more on the wing, especially as the inside cuts in the two ribs often cause some headaches for opponents, thus helping his teammates to get easier space to shoot. To put it simply, this guy is a-stirring stick on the front line, although his own strength is average, but he can always create a little chaos on the opponent's defense, and if you really don't pay attention, he can still surprise from time to time with his acceptable dribbling and running.

Of Torino's two starting centre-backs, Rossettini has good pace and will not suffer when it comes to marking such players, but Kastan, who is on loan from Roma, has been a little slower, especially in terms of flexibility, and he can easily be used by diminutive opponents to take advantage of his quick disguise. Li Mudi had no choice but to let the team's midfield step back a little more, so that Ghanaian Akwa, who had just been suspended, focused on the Argentinian.

Just as the visitors were starting to make a fuss down the middle, Torino took advantage of their urgency to make a simple and effective move. Badergui made a mistake in the passing of Belotti in the face of his frantic scramble, and the ball went directly out of the sideline on the right side of the home team. The Serbian made another surprise move after stopping the ball, he directly rubbed a high overhead cross with his right foot, and when Benassi unloaded the ball in the opponent's penalty area, the Fiorentina defenders all raised their hands to signal that the ball was offside, while watching the Italian midfielder directly face their goalkeeper from a distance of four or five meters behind Benasi.

Although the goal-kicking is not the strength of the midfielder as an organization, after suffering from the lack of finishing ability of the midfielders last season, one of the most important training items after Li Mudi came to the new club is that the players will not easily waste good opportunities, so after about three months of intensive practice, Benasi's shooting ability has increased from the previous 11 to the current 12, although the improvement is not large, but it has played a very key role at this moment. He led the ball forward, so that the distance between himself and the ball was perfect for swinging his legs, and then glanced up at Fiorentina goalkeeper Trusanou, who was not sure if the ball was offside, and kicked a powerful right foot with his right foot when the opponent was not fully prepared. The ball passed under the armpit of the away goalkeeper who made the conscious save and slammed into the net. 2-0, in the fifteenth minute after the opening, the home team scored a goal, and I don't know if there will be any legends such as "fifteen-point curse" in the future.

The one-goal gap was easy to kick back, but now that the two goals are behind, the Purple Lily, from the coaches to the players on the field, feel that the confidence to score points away and even win has been seriously shaken. Although losing two is also a loss, losing three is also a loss, at this time they should continue to strengthen their attack, and if they can break down the home team's defense as soon as possible, there may still be a chance, after all, there is still half an hour of regular time. However, their scruples Li Mudi has guessed a little, that is, they don't want to pour out of the nest and make the defense full of holes, so it is likely to become a goal battle where the two sides hurt each other, and from the perspective of the counterattack efficiency of the Torino team, it is really impossible to say which side will score more goals at that time.

After trying to maintain the original attack plan for a few minutes, Paulo Sousa finally made up his mind in the 68th minute, replacing Benardzchi and Badelji with his academy striker Khouma Babacar from Senegal and Uruguay international and central midfielder Matías Vecino, changing the formation to a 4-3-3. Valero dropped back into the middle of midfield, Tomovic moved to right wing-back and Milic dropped back to left wing-back. Up front, Kalinic and Babakar played as a central striker, while Zarate roamed nimble on both flanks. Fiorentina had made some 20 crosses from the flanks in the hour leading up to the game, but only a handful of effective attacks were formed, and now they have been even more active on both flanks with the addition of a 184-centimetre black centre-forward with good bounce. Presumably seeing that the defensive quality really needed to be improved, Paulo Sousa instructed Milic to go crazy forward, handing over most of the defense to central midfielder Alexis Sanchez on the left and Astori at left central defender.

Not to mention, after such an adjustment, the visiting team's play at both ends of the offensive and defensive ends has really improved a lot, after all, they are still more adapted to the play style of the back four, if they can play like this at the beginning, it is really hard to say what the score will be. Faced with the increasingly passive situation on the field, Li Mudi also made repeated moves to adjust the lineup, first replacing Rajadzic, who was a little physically exhausted, with Febas replacing the physically exhausted Rajadzic, changing the formation to 4-4-2, forming a midfield with a midfield and three central defenders, coupled with Belotti's physical counterattack, increasing the intensity of defense. In the 80th minute, the last substitution was used, allowing Vallejo to replace Kastan, who was yellow carded, but this substitution gave the opponent a good chance.

In the 84th minute, left-back Milic, who had been lacking in two points, did not choose to continue to break down the flank under the watchful eye of Bruno Perez, but suddenly sent a 45-degree cross that crossed Vallejo's head and was met by Babacar, whose header went straight to the far corner, so Joe Hart did not react. 2-1, Fiorentina's eleventh goal of the whole game finally had a harvest, but it came a little late. In the next three minutes of injury time, in the face of the Torino team who retreated with all their members, the purple lily could no longer do anything, and had to accept the end of a goal defeat when the referee blew the final whistle. Li Mudi's side once again managed a hard-fought win with just 38.2 per cent possession, and they even led Fiorentina in shots on goal and shots on target, which also sparked a lot of media discussion after the game.