Empoli's overall strength is considered to be at the bottom of Serie A, and the odds of 750 are the sixth highest among the twenty teams, while the relegation odds of 2.25 are the fourth-lowest, behind Pescara's 1.25, Crotone's 1.5 and Palermo's 2. Judging by the numbers, it is clear that the bookmakers believe that the best case scenario for this team is to be relegated, and a little bad luck will have to meet in the second division next year.

However, if you are not optimistic, most people still appreciate their tactical play. Empoli has been trained by many coaches and has always been very unified in their tactical thinking. First, its biggest advantage is its strong midfield coverage, which ranked sixth in the league with 13,798 passes last season. For the most part, Empoli were able to control the ball and take control of the pitch, but a lack of creativity at the edge of the opposition penalty area was also a problem they had to contend with, otherwise they could really be a mid-table side in Serie A. In addition, in the case of not many attacking methods, set-pieces are undoubtedly Empoli's most relied on attacking weapon, 10 of the 40 goals scored last season came from set-pieces, which is a headache for opponents who are not strong in the ability to compete for the header, and it just so happens that Torino has this weakness this season.

Li Mudi emphasized at the beginning of the game that it is not easy to foul within 35 meters from the goal of the side, and for several key players, it is necessary to use the numerical advantage to wrap up, so in the case that the midfielder players dare not move too much and the opponent's ability to control the ball is really strong, the Torino team fighting at home has chosen the tactics of retreating and waiting for the opportunity to counterattack most of the time. With possession tied at 38 to 62 for the opening ten minutes, Empoli looked like the stronger side, but they really didn't have much to offer against the home side's dense defence. Gilardino has seriously declined in physical fitness due to his age, although his shooting and heading ability can still be 16 first-class level, and his prediction, concentration and running without the ball are also the top standards in the country, but it is difficult to create much threat in the Torino penalty area in terms of speed ability and physical confrontation. Another striker, Manuel Pucciarelli, is not slow, but he is not the type of killer who is good at facing the opponent's goal directly, and is more likely to use a wide range of runs to pull the air for his players, or to rush into a cross from the wing, and expect the striker to score less than 0.15 goals per game to break the deadlock.

As long as he is active in the home team's half, someone will be able to carry out the defense, and once he takes the ball into the 40-meter area, he will decisively carry out multi-person trapping, and will not give the slightest opportunity. It's not that the Torino coach takes this player too seriously, Saponara, who joined the Empoli academy at the age of 17, represented the team in Serie B a year later, and at the age of 19, he became the absolute main force in the team, so he was selected by AC Milan and transferred to the Serie A giants for 5 million euros. The following season he was loaned back to his former club to work, and he achieved a perfect record of scoring 11 goals in 36 appearances. After returning to the Rossoneri in 2013/14, there was a huge level of competition, with Muntari, Nocellino, Boateng, Flamini, Montolivo and Ambrosini being too big for the young Saponara to be a formidable opponent. He made just seven league appearances that season, almost wasting a year before being loaned back to parent club Empoli in 2014/15 until he was officially bought out last season.

In the last two years, Ōponara has scored 12 goals in 50 appearances in Serie A, especially last season, when he scored five goals and provided 11 assists in 33 appearances, making him an indispensable part of the team. In terms of his personal style of play, this player is not only able to attack with the ball but also organize teammates, and is excellent in dribbling, technique, passing and receiving and imagination, coupled with the speed ability on the passing line, worthy of the name "Little Kaka". For such a player with outstanding ability, it is natural to be 10,000 careful to deal with it, otherwise the consequences will be serious. But the good news is that half of Empoli's attacking organization needs this core player to deploy, and once he is frozen, then the team's overall offensive strength will be directly discounted, which can be fatal for the visiting team that is not strong in attack.

With the focus of the three midfielders and the help of two wingers who returned to the back from time to time to help their teammates, Empoli's possession was completed in their half for most of the time, and the penetration in the front court never created good chances, and the first shot did not come until the twentieth minute, but the home team took advantage of the counter-attack to form a three-legged attack, but unfortunately there was no threat. In order to have enough manpower in defence, both Rajjdzic and Farke dropped back and were too far away from the opposition goal when counter-attacking. Even with the individual quality of the two wingers, several of the visitors' defenders are not very bad in terms of speed ability, and even the central defender Andrea Costa has 14 speed and 13 explosiveness, so the counter-attack effect is not significant. In addition, the strength of Argentine teenager Lucas Boyer is definitely several levels behind Belotti, in addition to dribbling and receiving the ball, he is still very immature in terms of shooting ability and physical fitness, and it is difficult to take advantage of the opponent's old fritters.

So the scene is very boring, although the ball is constantly moving, but there are not many wonderful shots, but foul actions often appear. Torino's side resolutely implemented the strategic thinking of the manager's previous deployment, and was always able to put his foot down before the opponent entered the danger zone, so that the excellent advantage of the visitors' set-pieces could not be exploited; In response to a couple of quick counter-attacks by the home side, Empoli's side also resorted to tactical fouls to nifle danger near midfield. The number of fouls committed by both sides in the first half reached 10 and 5 respectively, and the home team also had more yellow cards, 3 against 2, with Baseli, Bareka and Boyer each one, while the visitors were right and central defender Giuseppe Bellusci, on loan from Leeds United, and Colombian midfielder Andrés Tello, who was on loan from Old Lady. Among them, Boyer was issued a topaz card in the 25th minute because of the counter-attacking action, and before half-time, Empoli central defender Costa was seriously injured and had to be substituted when he was scrambling for a header, which scared Li Mudi into a cold sweat, which If the referee sent off the Argentine in confusion for a while, the game would not be able to play. Fortunately, the mercy of others avoided the tragedy.

In the half-time analysis, Zhang Lu of Tianchao CCTV Sports Channel focused on praising the defensive intensity and excellent tactical execution ability of the two teams, while expressing regret for Belotti's absence due to injury, and he believes that the lack of forward strength will seriously affect the efficiency of the Torino team in the next game. Although the defensive strength of the home team is average, after the overall formation is recovered, the opponent's offensive line is completely killed at the expense of offensive power; The visitors' defensive capabilities are already stronger than their opponents, and they can also have a clear advantage in the face of Torino's declining attacking strength. So when both sides are stronger in defense than in attack, the game is very dull, and either side needs to use a secret weapon to break the deadlock, otherwise the balance is difficult to break, and the result of a draw seems inevitable. Of course, if Joe Hart's big gift comes up again, Li Mudi will have to accept the bitter consequences of two consecutive defeats.

Zhang's analysis is very accurate, if this game continues like this, the score of 0-0 may really be maintained until the end. After all, Empoli's foundation is too thin, there is no so-called secret weapon at all, and Torino is the top scorer absent, without this nuclear-weapon level threat, it is difficult for others to get a good opportunity in the opponent's penalty area. However, for the change of the situation in the second half, Li Mudi naturally has his own plans, according to the timely detection of the FM system, it can be clearly found that the physical fitness of many important players such as Saponara and Gilardino of the away team has problems, as long as they can survive until the opponent can no longer run, they can let go of the siege. Therefore, the Torino coach told the Argentine teenager Boyer in the dressing room, telling him to stay calm and avoid being sent off, because he needs to be at the front as a bridgehead in the final attack, and there are no other center forwards in the team.

At the start of the second half, Torino changed their strategy slightly in defence, allowing Saponara to take the ball alone, trying to cut off the connection between him and his teammates, forcing him to dribble for a long time, which greatly depleted his physical energy. Gilardino only had an endurance of 11, and in the 65th minute of the game, he basically couldn't support it, so he could only grit his teeth and fight at the critical moment, and the rest of the time was walking around the field. Empoli coach Marttusilo had to replace two key players in Bosnian striker Rade Krunic and Liechtenstein defender Marcel Büchel in succession, and changed the formation to 4-4-1-1 to start defending in an all-out effort to get a valuable point away from home.

Li Mudi, who had been waiting for this opportunity for a long time, naturally did not let the opponent easily retreat, and then replaced Baseli and Bruno Perez, who was in poor physical condition, with Jesse and Zappacosta, changing the formation to 4-2-3-1, and Rajjdzic changed to the central midfield. In this way, the offensive power of the front court has suddenly increased to a level, and the effect of combining the side and the center has become more and more obvious. In the final 20 minutes of the game, Torino formed a one-sided siege posture, pushing all 10 players of the opposing team except for striker Puciarelli back into the half.

In the 74th minute, Rajjdzic and Farke completed a kick at the edge of the penalty area, the latter caught up with the ball near the baseline after entering the penalty area, and was knocked out of the bottom line by the visiting defender Berluski with the ball at the moment when he was about to stop the ball. The referee refused to award a penalty and instead awarded a corner to the home side, which provoked unanimous dissatisfaction among the fans and the Torino club.

In the 76th minute, Benassi fired a long-range shot from 334 meters away from the opponent's goal in the middle, and after the refraction of the opposing player, it grazed the right post and missed, and a huge sigh rang out in the Olympic Stadium.

In the 80th and 81st minutes, Torino had two strikes in the space of two minutes, and after Jesus's forced shot from a tight angle was blocked by Polish goalkeeper Lukasz Skorupski, who had been loaned from Roma by the visitors, the corner was headed over the bar by Rossettini. Although Empoli is in an extremely passive situation, the goal still looks safe, but the offensive side is completely abandoned, even the striker Puciarelli also stood in the middle of the midfield, and substitute striker Krunic formed the first defensive barrier, not allowing the home team's midfielders to easily send shells to the front.

With two centre-backs and midfielder Vives at the back, Torino kept all seven players in the siege and sent crosses from both flanks, while being resolute in the race for the second spot, shooting directly from distance when they had the chance. However, it was really difficult to find opportunities in the crowd-filled penalty area, and even long-range shots were almost blocked, without posing any real threat to Skorupski.

Just as the home team's supporters were expecting the results of the attack again and again, only to be disappointed again and again, the fourth official held up a sign on the sidelines for three minutes of stoppage time, and the game was about to go to the end of 90 minutes. Rajjdzic won a free-kick on the right side of the pitch and took advantage of the opposition player's subconscious desire to complain to the referee when he suddenly sent a quick free-kick, and Hesse cut in at high speed on this side to take the ball four meters before kicking in a half-high cross. Caught off guard, the visiting players rushed to scramble for the spot, and in the first half, substitute Costa came on at centre-back Barba to barely push the ball out of the box under the onslaught of Boyer, who was waiting at the top of the penalty area, Benassi waited squarely, and he unloaded the ball perfectly with his chest and swung his right foot directly into the goal. The ball headed straight for the right side of the goal, and although Skorupski had a number of players in front of him to interfere with his vision, he reacted instantaneously and managed to block it with his left hand with a side-to-side pounce. But no one expected that the rebounding football would appear in front of Boyer, who was getting up, and the Argentine striker, who was half-crouching, was stunned for a few tenths of a second and subconsciously hit the bouncing ball with his knee and touched it back to the goal. At this time, the Empoli goalkeeper tried to struggle to get up and react, but unfortunately it was still a fraction of a second, and the raised right foot failed to touch, and the ball still hit the net behind him. At 1-0, Torino finally rewrote the score at the end of the first ten seconds of stoppage time, which was almost a stunner, and the entire Olympic Stadium was boiling over as everyone celebrated the too difficult goal.

Empoli, who conceded the goal in the last moments, really lost the desire to attack, and the manager and many players on the pitch put their energy into arguing with the referee whether the goal was suspected of offside, and the game was delayed for a minute and a half, and the visiting players were shown three yellow cards before the kick-off was resumed, but there was only one minute left for them to equalize. The whistle blew when Joe Hart dragged a big kick into the opposition half, and Torino secured their second league win with a lucky winner.