Put aside the situation about the national football team for a while and turn your attention back to European football. Less than two hours after the Asian qualifiers, the European competition was played against each other, with the six teams from Group G also competing against each other.

Spain were the biggest players in the group, Liechtenstein, and they slaughtered the weakest opponent in the entire European continent 8-0. The matadors had 34 shots on goal, which was like a shooting drill, and in the end Morata and Aspas both scored twice, and Ramos and Isco also scored a goal; Another underdog, Macedonia, surprised by a 1-1 draw at home to third-placed Albania to cement Italy's advantage in qualifying for the play-offs.

The Azzurri were seated at Sassuolo's Mape Tricolor City Stadium at the same time, beating Israel 2-0, and it was no one else who contributed to the team, officially the Torino team's striker duo Belotti and Immobile. In the 53rd minute, Candreva forced a cross from the right side in the face of two people, and Immobile, who was unmarked at the back post, easily headed the ball into the top corner of the goal, 1-0, Italy took a somewhat difficult lead. In the 74th minute, Belotti received a cross from the wing of his former teammate Zampacosta, pressed the opponent's central defender, and smashed the ball into the net, helping the team seal the victory completely.

Despite winning against a somewhat difficult opponent, it was a bit disappointing for Italy to score just two goals from 9 of their 24 attempts on goal, with Ventura's style of play being very rigid, with the midfield not fully unearthed, except for wide crosses that were straight behind the opposition. Fans and the media began to complain about the team's problems after the game, pointing the finger at the old coach of Torino, but it was useless, and the position of the coach was still solid.

After eight rounds of the group stage, Spain has 22 points and has already secured at least a place in the play-offs, Italy is close behind with 19 points, and with Albania only 13 points behind them, the Azzurri only need to get a point from Macedonia in the next round to secure the top two in the group. Of course, there are still some people who are dreaming that the matadors will overturn in the gutter in the next two games, so that Italy will have a chance to qualify directly as the top of the group, but according to the probability, there is really little hope.

After the national team game, the international players rushed back to the club as soon as possible, because the third round of the league will start in four days, leaving them with a lot of time to recover their fitness and train with the team.

There are two more interesting strong conversations in this round of Serie A, one is Lazio at home against AC Milan, and the other is Sampdoria at home against Roma with an eye-catching performance in the new season. However, later this Friday, the Guria region, where Samp is located, issued an announcement predicting the possibility of heavy rain in the area over the weekend, and also issued an orange rainstorm warning. From Saturday morning, a heavy rain fell on the entire region and showed no signs of abating until the afternoon. For the safety of the public, the match was announced by the Italian Football Federation as unable to be played as usual, and the make-up match was temporarily scheduled until the end of January next year.

Roma's official website also announced that the whole team would no longer travel to away games as planned, but would stay in their base camp to prepare for the Champions League group stage next week. Sampdoria's official website said that it would arrange for fans to refund their tickets in the next few days. However, this is not unsurprising to the locals, as the region is often hampered by bad weather that can lead to interruptions or even cancellations, with Genoa's match against Fiorentina being halted after just 28 minutes last season, and one postponed in February and September 2015. Therefore, only nine matches in Serie A will be played this weekend, which is a small exception.

As Juventus will be playing in the Champions League on Tuesday night, it is customary for their match to be played first on Saturday. As a result, with some reservations, the old lady still beat the visiting Chievo by three goals, achieving a good record of three consecutive wins at the beginning of the new season. Dybala and Gonzalo Higuain have shown good form with a goal each, with the former continuing to lead the scorers with five goals.

The rest of the game was left on Sunday, with Inter Milan hosting promoted Maspar in the afternoon, who were somewhat vulnerable to the old Serazzurri despite their impressive first two performances. Mauro Icardi's fifth goal of the season and Perisic's icing on the cake helped Spalletti get off to a great start to a three-game winning streak after taking over.

Kick-off coincided with Atalanta's home game against Sassuolo, where Gasperini's side finally found their winning code, relying on a tight overall combination and tenacious fighting spirit to defeat Sassuolo 2-1 and finally get their first win of the season.

At 15 o'clock local time, at 21 o'clock in the evening Beijing time, the Torino team came out and they will take on Benevento, one of the promoted horses, away from home. The club, which was promoted to Serie A for the first time in 88 years, is based in the Campania region, less than 100 kilometres from Napoli. Under the leadership of coach Marco Baroni, they miraculously achieved two consecutive jumps after reaching their first Serie B league last season, which really attracted the attention of many people.

However, in the first two games of the top flight, they failed to get another surprise, but one 1-2 and one 0-1 were not ugly losses. Among them, the 53-year-old manager Baroni, who came from the Fiorentina academy as a player and later played for Udinese, Roma, Lecce, Napoli, Bologna and Verona, is indeed a big credit, he prefers to use a 4-2-3-1 attacking style of play when the team is playing in the second division, but immediately after the promotion, he made adjustments, and the 4-4-2 position can make the team's defense more solid, it seems that the coach who is not very experienced still has a deep understanding of the strength of the team.

But even though they are nicknamed Stregoni, they are ready to be extremely passive against a strong team like the Red Bulls, even if they are playing at home, even if the referee on duty is Rosario Abiso, who is not very fond of playing cards, and it is a little good for their high-intensity scrambles, but it is still so embarrassing against a Torino team that rotated some key players in preparation for their Europa League debut in midweek.

Li Mudi sent out a starting line-up of Casillas, Diekman, Goldaniga, Canneman, Barreca, Baseli, Las Diarra, Vukocevic, Farke, Parigini and Immobile in a 4-3-3 formation. This mixed line-up of half main and half substitutes is also something to look up to in front of Benevento, who has lost last season's main goalkeeper and top scorer one after another, and has suffered injuries to the core of the midfield from Lazio in the summer.

In the end, thanks to Immobile's brace and Falke's injury-time goal, the Red Bulls won 3-0 away from home, winning three in a row while continuing to maintain the only golden body in the league without conceding a goal. In the technical statistics of the whole game, the visitors had 67% possession and had a significant advantage in shots from 8 of 19 and 9 of 3, so it was reasonable to get a finish.

After the game, many media spoke highly of the Red Bulls, who could easily win the main team after hiding many times, and they all thought that Li Mudi's transformation of the team this summer was very good, and his many transactions could be used as classic cases of transfer operations, in short, it was a tout.

At the same time, Napoli also beat Bologna by three goals away to become the fourth team to win three consecutive games in a row. In addition, Cagliari and Udinese won their first games of the season by a single goal at home to Crotone and Genoa respectively. Fiorentina, who had also lost two in a row, finally started to shine as they thrashed promoted side Verona by five goals away from home, and Stefano Pioli also relieved the pressure of the dismissal with this big win.

The final match was played by the Blue Eagles against the Rossoneri, and with the main technical stats almost completely unfavourable, Mihajlovic led his side to a magical game, with Keita's hat-trick in the second half under 10 minutes and Alberto's subsequent push to give them a four-goal lead over AC Milan, who had been in good form at the start of the new season. Although the latter was eventually pulled back by Montolivo, it did not play a big role in the bigger picture. The final score of 4-1 not only rekindled Lazio's confidence to challenge for the top four in the league, but also poured cold water on the media and fans who had been singing praises to Montella's team. As it turns out, they still have a lot of work to do if they want to re-challenge for the league title.

After three rounds of league matches, Juventus, Torino, Napoli and Inter Milan also won three games, ranking in the top four of the standings in order of goal difference and goals, which is also the second time that Li Mudi's team occupies the second place in the league after ten months. Lazio are close behind Group 1 with two wins and one draw, followed by Sampdoria and AC Milan, who are on six points, with the former still having a game in hand. The situation in the relegation circle is also uncertain, Genoa, Sassuolo, Crotone and Verona all have only one point, and Benevento, who started with three consecutive defeats, is in a duck egg state, and the situation is not optimistic.

After a night's rest at Benevento's hotel, the Torino squad split into two groups, with some of those who did not make it to the midweek Europa League squad returning to their home for a day off to take care of personal matters or relax. The rest of the squad will join the rest of the squad on Monday's noon flight to Austria's capital Vienna via Rome on Monday noon, where the Red Bulls will take on Austria Vienna, the team named after the country and its capital, in the first round of the 2017-18 Europa League at 7 p.m. on Thursday evening.

The opponent was last season's runners-up in the Austrian First Division, and the history is full of honors, with 24 domestic league titles and 27 domestic cup crowns, and together with Rapid Vienna, they are the most iconic pair of Austrian giants. Unfortunately, when it comes to the European stage, they have nothing to write about, and their best result was a 4-0 defeat at the feet of Anderlecht in the final of the European Cup Winners' Cup 40 years ago, and they reached the quarter-finals twice in the League Cup before the restructuring, but unfortunately they could not go further. On the contrary, in the previous Champions Cup, they reached the semi-finals in the 1978-79 season, and finally lost 0-1 to Swedish side Malmo in the last two legs, and failed to reach the final.

Torino and Austria Vienna have had an official meeting in their history, in the 1971-72 European Cup Winners' Cup in the quarter-finals, in which the Red Bulls qualified 1-0 at home and 0-0 away. However, the Italians didn't stay complacent for long, as they were knocked out 2-1 over two legs by Glasgow Rovers in the second quarter, ending that year's European campaign and the Scottish side eventually won the Cup Winners' Cup.

On the evening of the 11th, Limmoudi's team arrived in the Austrian capital for the second time in a month and a half, having beaten Rapid Vienna by six goals in a warm-up match held here at the end of July. Arriving at the away stadium several days in advance was also supported by the club, with Vienna quickly offering the Torino team a training ground in the hope that the latter would be able to give their city rivals a head start.

The final result of this match was not disappointing for the Fast Club supporters, and the 3-4-1-2 formation presented by Li Muddy also showed its superior strength on the European stage, with Belotti's hat-trick and Benassi and Parrigini icing on the cake, the Red Bulls won the opening game 5-1. It was also their first European appearance since losing to Zenit in the quarter-finals of the 2014/15 season, and they were almost perfect.

With four wins in four games at the start of the new season, scoring 13 goals and conceding just one, Torino's performance could not have been better. When the results of the big victory were reported back to Italy and the Celestial Empire, almost all the media began to publish high-profile praise for them. Among them, "Torino Sports Newspaper" commented: "Although it is not clear whether this team can reach the heights of the former Turin era, at least now they have let everyone see the signs of a resurgence, and I hope that the young Coach Li can lead this equally young team, and at the end of the season, it can still surprise everyone." ”

However, in the face of praise from all sides, the Torino coach remained calm enough, and when he had just gotten off the plane and had not yet walked out of the airport gate, he gave an interview to the reporter of Corriere della Sera, and responded to everyone's praise: "The season has just begun, we still have more than 30 league games and many other competitions to play, and now the victory or defeat does not mean anything, any team has a chance to rush to the top or fall to the bottom." So, let's focus and prepare for each game carefully, because victory doesn't come on its own. ”