The heated debate about the Torino derby continued until the second leg of the Europa League 16 knockout round in midweek, when no other news in the football world made a splash in Italy, except for the national team.

On Wednesday afternoon, the Italian Football Federation officially announced that the head coach of the Under-21 team, Di Biagio, has been appointed as the interim manager of the Italian national team, and he will lead the Azzurri to two warm-up games against Argentina and England respectively during the first international break of the year. Since Ventura's resignation in November 2017, the Italian team has finally ended the embarrassing situation of vacant head coach, although it is not yet certain whether the coach will be successful.

Fans familiar with the end of Serie A's glory days at the end of the last century should have some influence on the name Di Biagio, who was born in 1971 and made his debut in the Lazio academy, but did not go well in the early stages of his career, and could only play in some weak teams until he joined Roma at the age of 24. After moving to Inter Milan in the summer of 1999, Di Biagio shaved off all his hair and finally became a well-known star at home and abroad with a fierce and bald appearance.

A defensive midfielder and occasional cameo at centre-back, he played a tough style and was a regular in the Italian national team before Gattuso grew up, representing the Azzurri at the 1998 World Cup in France, the 2000 European Championships in the Netherlands and Belgium and the 2002 World Cup in South Korea and Japan. After retiring in 2007, Di Biagio worked as a sports commentator for a while, and after obtaining his coaching certificate, he began coaching Italian youth teams of various ages. Since 2011, he has been the coach of the U20 team, and two years later he was promoted to the U21 team.

This time the national team coach selection, whether it is the media, fans, or insiders of various football associations, is actually unanimously optimistic about Conte's second arrival. However, after a period of negotiations, the Chelsea boss made it clear that he wanted to stay in England, at least to complete his current contract, which does not expire until next summer. After the only unanimously agreed candidate withdrew from the competition, no one else in the list of candidates for the new coach could get such a high level of support, and in the end, the Football Association chose Di Biagio on the grounds of "having rich experience in coaching national teams", but it seems that it is difficult to get much recognition from the feedback from the outside world.

On the day the news was announced, a number of websites launched a vote on whether the appointment was correct, and more than half of the participants expressed great disappointment, and more than 20% were ready to wait and see with a doubtful attitude, and about a quarter chose to support it.

And some celebrities have also come forward to express their views on the new coach, although most of them still send their blessings because of personal relations or the relationship with the Football Association, but there are also those who choose to express their opinions directly. Former member of Italy's World Cup-winning team, Gentille, made it clear in an interview with a radio station that Di Biagio's coaching performance in the youth team was unconvincing and that he was not worthy of the position of coach of the Italian national team. Correspondingly, Mihajlovic, who was fired by Lazio and was idle at home, jumped out unwilling to be lonely and expressed his support for his old rival on the field, but there was also a hint of self-promotion in his words, which seemed to want to take this opportunity to find a new job.

The Torino coach was also asked by reporters for his views on this incident, but he did not respond on the grounds that he did not know the specific situation, and his team's affairs were already too busy, so how could he still be in the mood to pay attention to other irrelevant things.

On 22 February, the Thursday after the Turin derby, the Red Bulls will face Ludogorets on their home turf with a 3-0 lead on the road to Ludogorets on their home turf.

On Tuesday and Wednesday, the final four matches of the first leg of the Champions League quarter-finals were also informed, with Bayern Munich scoring five goals to defeat Besiktas, Chelsea and Barcelona at Stamford Bridge to score 1-1, Manchester United and Sevilla away to a goalless draw, and the pre-match favourites have laid a good foundation for promotion. Only Roma lost 2-1 away to Shakhtar Donetsk, but it was acceptable because of a valuable away goal.

Although today's opponent is weaker and the result of the promotion due to the score of the first leg should not be a surprise, through the opponent's move to bring all the main players to Italy, and the good competitive form of Ludogorets players shown by the FM system, Li Mudi still does not dare to take it lightly. Even if you don't want to get a big win, you have to at least make sure that you don't lose at home, firstly to maintain good morale, and secondly, because you can't let down the fans who have always supported the team. Therefore, under the premise that the opponent in the league at the weekend was not too strong, the Torino coach still put several main players in the starting line-up, and did not repeat the scene when the final round of the group stage was full of rotating players.

And at noon on this day, that is, a little more than seven o'clock in the evening of the Celestial Empire time, a piece of good news finally came from the Winter Olympics in the Kimchi Country. Celestial Empire short track speed skating athlete Wu Dajing won the men's 500m race with a world record of 39.584 seconds, winning the first gold medal for the Celestial Empire team at the Winter Olympics, and at the same time, it was also the first gold medal won by the Celestial Empire men's short track speed skating team at the Winter Olympics. Li Mudi watched the whole championship process through a live webcast, and when he saw Wu Dajing riding on the track and throwing off the other three opponents for a distance of five or six meters, he almost jumped up excitedly, and immediately after Wu Dajing hit the line, he took out his mobile phone and posted a congratulatory message on social media software such as Weibo and Instagram.

After more than a week of "black whistle turmoil", the Chinese people, including the Torino coach, can finally breathe a sigh of relief, although they are not as important as the number of gold medals they did many years ago, but if they end this world's highest sports event with zero gold medals, and they have suffered so many grievances, everyone must feel very sorry in their hearts. And Wu Dajing's champion also slightly alleviated the resentment of the people of the Celestial Empire against the Kimchi Country, and most of the abuse and accusations on the Internet were replaced by sarcasm and disdain, which also made Lin Li CP black fans, who had been active for more than ten days, gradually lose the space to make waves, and Li Mudi and the two of them survived this public relations crisis in a thrilling way.

At 21 o'clock in the evening, this game should be the least watched by the outside world today, and Ludogoretz, who was in a 4-2-3-1 formation, did not just come to go through the motions as everyone expected, but really showed all his strength, and it seemed that he didn't just want to get out decently. Similar to the first leg between the two sides, they also used a tactical style of play that used multiple possession to find holes in Torino's defence, which is indeed very rare for a small country team playing away from home (this refers to the overall level of football that is not a traditional powerhouse).

The 3-5-2 position used by Li Mudi can be easily adjusted between the offensive and defensive mentality, so after seeing that the opponent chose to take the initiative to attack, he signaled his players to follow the situation and play a defensive counterattack. The two wing-backs, Dickman and Dimarco, both dropped back a little bit to play the role of wing-backs, while Vukovevic and Baseli were also firmly anchored to the edge of the penalty area, rarely getting forward when it wasn't particularly good, and only Gourcuff was free to move around in the midfield area, feeding the two strikers Belotti and Manuel Pellegri as they switched from defence to attack.

The visitors' lone striker position was difficult to find opportunities under the dense defensive strategy of the Torino players, forcing the other three frontcourt players to press forward as much as possible to keep the pressure on the home team's defence, and the two midfielders also had to rotate to the midfield line to receive possession from their teammates. As a result, Ludogorets' defensive formation is always in a relatively incomplete situation, and Li Mudi's offensive tactic is to use the impact of the two center forwards to constantly hit the opponent's two central defenders, and create a lethal chance with this simple and direct method.

In the ninth minute, Torino launched a quick attack after the ball broke off at the back, Gourcuff's pick pass allowed Belotti to rush in front of the visiting Romanian central defender Morty and rub it against his striker on the right, Pellegri sent a cross from the side against two defenders, and Red Bebe volleyed from about 13 meters from the goal on the left side of the box, but was blocked by Morty. Followed up to the outside of the penalty area, Gourcuff took the lead to grab the second touch, and it was directly a powerful long-range shot, but the angle was not tricky enough, and it was obtained by goalkeeper Bron. This was the first wave of the game that formed the offensive of shots on goal.

The rest of the game was dominated by the visitors possessing more possession and patiently looking for a chance to open the scoring, while the home side counter-attacked with the individual ability of the players and the simple interplay of several men while defending solidly, but the stalemate lasted for a long time until the 29th minute, when the score changed.

It was Ludogorets who made a mistake in the possession of the ball up front, and Baseli received a tackle from a colleague and delivered the ball to Belotti from 40 metres away. The latter stopped the ball with the arch of his foot very beautifully, broke through along the left wing at high speed, and did not use any feints about 10 meters before reaching the baseline, and directly crossed with his feet. The ball went straight to the back post at breakneck speed, and the outflanked Manuel Pellegri showed his potential for a promising position, judging where he would end up in a very short time, struggling to reach out with his right foot before the opposition goalkeeper and defender and almost poked the ball into the net on tiptoe.

As soon as the goal was scored, all the Torino supporters were able to put back their hearts that had been slightly hung up, and the visitors would have to score four goals in a row with a little more than an hour remaining to complete the comeback, which was obviously hellish for them. However, the Bulgarian league champions still showed tenacious style and indomitable fighting spirit in the next games, even though the chances of promotion were very slim, but their players never slackened at all, and still tried their best to pursue a goal.

Just before half-time, right-back Siciño set up a good chance for the visitors to get an assist from the middle, and his cross from the middle found Brazilian countryman Marcelinho (both names are the same as the former Brazilian star, which is a coincidence), but the latter's volley from inside the box line was inexplicably missed, squandering a good opportunity to threaten Torino's goal.

Shortly after the start of the second half, Li Mudi made adjustments to the players on the field, because the overall score advantage was quite obvious, so the young players or new signings of the team, such as Parrigini, Tulalang and Hesse, all got some playing time. In particular, the king of Heqiu appeared in the Olympic Stadium again in a crimson jersey after nine months, and was warmly welcomed by the fans at the scene.

The battle between the two sides in the last 45 minutes was also evenly matched, with both sides defending reasonably well, but each having a couple of chances to open the scoring. In the 57th minute, the away team crossed from the right, Goldaniga judged that there was a fatal mistake, and the ball leaked in front of the point, and Polish striker Sverczyk fired a half-volley from ten meters in front of the goal and went straight to the corner of the goal. Later, taking advantage of a mistake between Tulalang and his teammates, Sverchok intercepted the ball from the left rib and burst into the box, and then volleyed a powerful left-footed shot that was blocked by the attentive Kannemann at the near post.

Ludogorets also tested their own defence after missing two chances in quick succession to score, but the difference in quality between the players made the difference. Turin were in full control of the pace of the game in the final quarter of the hour, taking advantage of the home advantage and the fitness problems of the opposing players to take advantage of the possession of more than 70 per cent of the time they spent in this period.

In the 85th minute, Jesse's forced break down the middle was blocked, and the ball was also broken down the wing, and the inserted right wing-back Dickman sent a diagonal cross, and Gourcuff burst into the box and slotted home from the right. The visiting goalkeeper was distracted by the player in front of him and made a slightly slower save by half a beat, only to barely save the ball outside the goal, allowing Manuel Pellegri to finish the empty net with ease.

In the end, the Red Bulls won 2-0 at home, 5-0 on aggregate, and reached the round of 16 of this season's Europa League. This is the first time they have come to this stage after a three-year hiatus, but it is clear that this year's goal is not just to visit.