With the Champions League group stage scheduled in midweek, the two teams that need to fight for points across the league will be able to start on Saturday night. Even if it was not the main team, Juventus still beat the vice-president Pescara by three goals at home, allowing everyone to see the huge gap between the main position and the deputy position. On the other hand, Napoli, who also excluded a lot of rotation players, won 2-1 at Udinese away from home, ending a two-game winless streak and continuing to put pressure on the leading group. For the rest of the matches, except for the all-important Milan derby, which was moved to Sunday evening, the rest of the games will be played at noon and afternoon on the same day. However, for the Great Celestial Empire, which was six hours later than Italian time, it would have been better to kick off before the afternoon, after all, it was too painful to get up at 3:45 in the morning to watch the game. In order to get a higher number of viewers from the Far East, the Italian Football Association arranged the Torino team's game at 19:30 Beijing time very "humanely", but the Italian team that played at noon said that this was too bad, this should have been everyone's lunch time, and their biological clocks were disordered!

It's a pity that in the face of huge commercial interests, the club and the players are not very many. Quan can complain, but he has no choice but to accept his fate. However, in the Apennine Peninsula in late November, the minimum temperature at night has reached below 10 degrees Celsius, which is not an environment suitable for strenuous exercise, but the maximum temperature at noon is still 16 or 7 degrees, and the activity is quite comfortable. So from this point of view, Li Mudi thinks it can be regarded as a gain and a loss.

Crotone FC (. Located in the city of the same name, Crotone belongs to the southernmost part of the Apennine Peninsula, Calabria, and is the closest region to Sicily. The level of football in the region is commendable, and although there are no top teams, there are still a decent number of professional teams, as well as another team that has played in Serie A for many years, Reggina.

Nicknamed Pythagoras and Squali (because of the two sharks on its crest), Crotone was founded in 1923 and played in the Italian professional league from 1947 until promotion to Serie B in 2000-01. After more than a decade of ups and downs, they finally secured a promotion spot today on 30 April with a draw with Modena, giving them a glimpse of the best of football for the first time in their history. However, the promotion process was not perfect, and they were able to qualify for Serie A thanks to former Inter Milan and Palermo assistant coach Ivan Juric. The former Croatia international midfielder, born in 1975, played for Crotone in Italy's second and third divisions between 2001 and 2006. Juric, who took over the reins after finishing 17th in the second division last summer, used his very flexible on-the-spot command and a strong focus on overall coordination to bring Crotone to the reins in a short period of time. Coach has been a strong team, finishing in the top two from the sixth round onwards and then topping the table for 21 rounds. Unfortunately, he dropped the chain at the last moment, played a wave of 2 draws and 1 loss and was overtaken by Cagliari, and finally missed the first second division championship trophy in the club's history.

However, while there was speculation about whether they would be able to avoid relegation in their first trip to the First Division of the new season, Juric was poached by another old club he played for, Genoa, to replace Gasperini, who left Atalanta. The "Serie A Buddy" had to find a new captain, and in the end, former Bari coach Davide Nicola, who had played only 15 Serie A games in his 19-season career, was lucky enough to make his first Serie A appearance as a coach.

This summer, the club's financial strength is really limited, the team has invested less than 2 million euros in the transfer market, and after selling last season's top scorer, Croatian Ante Budimir, to Sampdoria, their recruitment is more concentrated in the lower leagues, and the ability of new signings is clearly lacking. According to Li Mudi's previous use of scouting tools, the highest ability value of the whole team in Crotone is goalkeeper Alex Cordaz (Alex Cordaz), the 33-year-old veteran who has only played once for the Nerazzurri in four years of youth has only 125 overall ability, but the goal-line skills are still good, and last season he played all 42 league games for the team, with 21 clean sheets, and was the first contributor to the team's promotion.

Before the start of the season, the media predicted that Crotone was the favorite for relegation, and only one of the ten media involved in the evaluation at that time believed that they could be relegated in a thrilling 17th place, and the strength was indeed not recognized by everyone. And because the Ezio Schida stadium has a capacity of less than 10,000 people, it does not meet the requirements of Serie A, so Crotone will play on Pescara's home ground for the first four home games at the beginning of the season, and the loss of home advantage at the start is definitely not bad news for the promoted horses. Thankfully, after more than three months of emergency expansion, including the off-season, the stadium was able to return to its home when it was able to increase its seating capacity to 12,500 ahead of the ninth round of the league against Napoli. However, after 12 rounds, they have only 1 win, 2 draws and 9 losses, and can only be ranked second from the bottom of the standings in front of Pescara, who are still struggling for a win. However, fortunately, Palermo and Empoli in front of them are also playing a mess, which retains the possibility of avoiding early relegation, and from the current situation, these four teams are basically locked in the relegation circle of the players, and only one of them can finally go ashore, which is really tragic!

However, Li Mudi and the Torino team are not enough to pity others, facing many strong opponents step by step, they vow to take all three points on this kind of fish belly, otherwise there is really no chance to snatch a ticket to the European competition between a group of strong opponents.

The home team's starting line-up was first announced, still the usual 4-4-2, with all of the main players in the squad taking action without injury or suspension. However, there are five players on loan from outside, and there is no buyout clause, which means that the squad will still have a big change next year, which also confirms that the club does not have a long-term plan and will find it difficult to establish itself in the top flight.

Torino's starting lineup was submitted before the pre-match press conference, and Li Mudi really rotated several positions according to the previous opportunity. In the 4-3-3 position, goalkeeper Joe Hart, in the backline: right-back Zampacosta, central defender Rosstini with Vallejo, left-back Avilar, three midfielders: Akwa, central midfielders Benassi and Fabas, and the front three: right winger Iturbe, left winger Iago Farke, center forward Belotti.

After the opening, Crotone played a counter-attacking tactic as everyone had predicted, leaving only two homegrown strikers near the midfield circle, both on loan from Sassuolo: 25-year-old Diego Falcinelli and 24-year-old Marcello Trotta, with the rest of the squad focused on stopping the visitors from playing in dangerous areas. When it comes to attacking, the home team also uses Trota's header ability to disrupt the visitors' backline, Falcinelli's speed is not slow, and the two midfielders who will be inserted in time to respond: central midfielder Leonardo Capezzi (Leonardo Capezzi), who is on loan from Sampdoria, and former Italian international (Raffaele Palladino), who has good dribbling skills, can also have a significant impact on the Torino defence.

It can be seen that Nikola and his players have been studying their opponents for a long time, and have developed extremely effective defensive tactics against the visitors' two wide assists. The Crotone full-back basically used the method of blocking crosses as much as possible, and if it didn't work, he let the opponent's wide players cut inside and let the players in the middle help defend. As a result, the Torino players had to be in a state of twist every time they kicked the ball, most of the time they could only play the ball in a vulgar manner, and sometimes had to adjust the arc and power drastically, so that the success rate went all the way down, and at the worst time, there were six consecutive crosses that failed to find Belotti. After strangling the visitors' usual wide cross tactics, the home team hoarded a large number of defenders in the middle, making it difficult for the Torino players to find space in the front court, and they could only retreat to their own half to adjust after the attack failed. And once their possession area is back to the halfway line, the home players will not be engaged in fierce scrambles and it looks like they are happy to accept a draw. And once the away team starts attacking, Crotone will also wait for the opportunity to intercept and then organize a counterattack, which is quite a kind of meaning that the enemy does not move, and the enemy moves to kill him.

At half-time, with a time ratio of almost 1 to 3, the number of shots on goal was exactly the same eight, and the number of shots on target was two for the home team against the opponent. Yes, in the first 45 minutes, Torino's players hit the target just once, with the vast majority of the final kicks coming under intense defensive pressure and unreasonable choices. In the face of this situation, Li Mudi really doesn't have too many solutions, after all, in the case of a number of main players resting in turn, the strength of the substitute players needs to be improved. However, there is no such thing as an airtight defence, and the Torino boss is confident that the opposition will make mistakes in the game, as the defenders will have to spend more energy than the attackers, especially in the case of a one-sided fall, which will become more pronounced in the later stages of the game. As long as their players can be patient and constantly test the limits of the opponent, opportunities will always arise, and even the best of the Italian national team will not dare to say that they can maintain their concentration throughout the game, let alone a weak team like Crotone, who concedes an average of two goals per game.

However, it seems that the Torino coach has not been cleared of the negative buff of "being slapped in the face" for a while, no matter how many routines the away players have tried, they have not been able to get the damn ball into the opponent's goal, and the starters on the field have shot records except for Joe Hart and Rossettini, the score is still 0-0, and the defense in front of them today is like an impregnable wall. However, due to the fact that the physical condition of the opposing players can be observed at any time through the FM system, Li Mudi has been sitting on the ground in the coach's bench on the sidelines, and has not stood outside the sideline as he usually does when he is anxious, which also calms down the Torino players who have been unable to attack for a long time on the field.

The Torino coach will be back in Madrid for his intercontinental professional certificate exam in the middle of the week, so he spent the two days in his free time reviewing his knowledge. And the reason why he is sitting there now with a calm appearance is not only because he has a lot of confidence that the team will be able to score after all, but also because he is trying to apply the psychological knowledge in books to reality. He had always thought that these things were also used to prepare for exams and get certificates, but after more than a year of feedback from front-line coaching, they can sometimes come in handy. Just like today's "pretend B" mode, it has brought a lot of positive effects to the psychology of the players, so that they have not been completely unbalanced because they can't successfully score goals, and finally wait for the moment when the opponent makes a mistake.

In the 80th minute, after Avilar's cross was headed out by the opposing centre-back, the home team immediately launched a counter-attack, but the Torino team quickly did not give the opponent any chance to take advantage of it, and Crotone had to enter the positional battle. However, Swedish midfielder Marcus Rohdén's pass was intercepted by Akwa, and the Ghanaian quickly passed to Falke in front, and Belotti and substitute Argentine striker Boyer also accelerated to the front, and the counterattack from Torino's side formed a three-on-five situation in front of the side. The Spaniard dribbled the ball to about 13 or 4 meters in front of the penalty line, and sent a straight ball through the middle under the bag of a number of home team defenders, Belotti cut in between the two central defenders to form a single knife, and successfully fired a low shot into the near corner from the left side of the box. 0-1, the deadlock on the field was finally broken. However, judging from the slow-motion replay provided by the broadcaster, Red Beibei seemed to be suspected of offside, but because it was between lightning and flint at the time, the linesman did not see it clearly, and even the players of the home team did not take the initiative to signal, resulting in a situation where the situation was already in the boat.

Eight minutes later, Boyer dribbled the ball horizontally in two steps in the opposition penalty area, and accidentally stabbed the ball to Belotti on the left under the interference of the defender. 0-2, Torino completely sealed the win.