Chapter 179: The Boss Killer Strikes Again (Second Update)

"The reasons why football has become the number one sport on the planet and that it attracts so many people who love and chase it are so varied that it's hard to put into words, but if you've watched last night's thrilling showdown, I think you'll understand why the editor-in-chief, who has always been calm and rigorous, allowed me to ramble here. Anyway, I love that black and white spherical object! —Corriere della Sera.

Frank de Boer's good fortune lasted less than three minutes, and I wonder how he felt when he experienced the journey from heaven to hell in such a short period of time. However, if the pre-match instructions from the Inter hierarchy to win are true, and if they do what they say, then perhaps the Dutchman will soon have to consider finding another job. It's a pity that at the post-match press conference, he and the club's manager Marco Fasoone were silent about the matter and did not respond positively, but we will continue to track the progress of this matter and broadcast it to the outside world as soon as possible, so stay tuned. - Milan Sport Newspaper.

"Lucky Celestial Man, Lucky Red Bull! With an absolute disadvantage of 24-8 shots on goal and 7-on-3 shots on target, they took advantage of what didn't seem like a chance to steal a draw from Meazza and one has to lament that such a thing as shit luck is real. Although the Torino team no longer had the unbeatable winning streak of the previous period, and it was so embarrassing to have barely forced their opponents to draw two games in a row, they managed to dominate the headlines yesterday because the Inter coach was likely to be knocked out by Torino. However, the current situation of the Celestial Empire coach should not be much better than that of De Boer Jr., after two consecutive draws, his team has a four-point gap from Juventus at the top of the table, not only overtaken by the Roma team, but also AC Milan, Napoli and Lazio behind him have touched his ass, as the opponent further understands it, I believe that the situation will only worsen. - Roma Sport.

"Coach Li Mudi has drawn with his two rivals in Italy in the last four days, and although it was a bit ugly on the field, the final result was completely acceptable. After these two big battles, we also have reason to believe that even if he has not really become a famous coach on a par with Mihajlovic and Frank de Boer, at least he is not too far from that position, and we are looking forward to how far the Torino coach can grow in the next Serie A league. - Torino Sport

Belotti scored 10 goals in eight games and continues to lead the Serie A scorers list in the new season; Dzeko then scored twice to tie the Torino center forward and share the title of top scorer; Icardi scored eight goals in 10 shots on target, and is the absolute efficiency king of European football; Add to that the likes of Gonzalo Higuain and Immobile, Italy's all-time leading scorers and league top scorers last season, and we're likely to have a super-kill this season. The bloody competition between the hands is definitely worth every fan's eyes firmly locked on the Apennine Peninsula. - La Repubblica

"There was a ridiculous incident at the end of Inter's match with Torino last night, when the visitors were celebrating their late equaliser, Serbian winger Rajadzic, who had sent an indirect assist to a corner, ran off the pitch and headed straight for the tunnel alone. From the footage we edited, we found that Coach Lee Muddy and his assistant Samfield stopped the player on the way together and asked him for the specific reason for his departure. However, about ten seconds after the team doctor Fertunato came running, Rajjdzic was allowed to return to the locker room, what was going on, I am sure that the audience who saw this scene at the time will be very curious. Although the Torino coach never gave a positive response to the matter at the post-match press conference, our newspaper hired a lip expert in time to restore the general content of the conversation through the mouth movements of several of them. The reason why the Serb left the game early is that he has diarrhea! And some of them had already gotten on his underwear, so he subconsciously covered his ass with his hands, and Rajjdzic managed to convince the head coach to agree to a 'big shot' with the words: 'Boss, if I can't get into the bathroom for a minute, then these white shorts will turn shit yellow!' 'Congratulations to Red Bull for avoiding the danger of his nickname being changed to 'Red Bull in', and please stay tuned to us in The Legend of Mister – no, 24 Hour Sun – for even more interesting details and gossip on and off the field. You know the name of the newspaper.

The next day's news media reported, arguably, as the sports version of the headline, and apart from a few people's bizarre points, most of the media still engaged in heated discussion and analysis on the topic of whether Frank de Boer would get a big package for the draw. However, because they have not been able to get a positive interview with Chairman Zhang, the club has the opportunity to have Chairman Zhang, so although everyone judges that there is a great possibility of changing the coach, no one really dares to make a conclusion with a conclusive tone, after all, there are still fewer things to be slapped in the face. Of course, there are also some tabloids that are not in the mainstream and fight for the danger that their faces may be swollen afterwards, and all kinds of revelations are there, which makes rumors spread on the Internet and debate for a while.

At this time, Li Mudi didn't have the heart to pay attention to the rumors outside, he didn't even read the next day's newspaper, and put all his energy into the eleventh round of the league against Udinese next Monday. As of the early hours of Friday morning, all the matches in the 10th round of Serie A have been over, although AC lost 0-3 away to this season's dark horse Genoa, making Torino open a point gap with it, but Roma, who were behind because of the win, won Sassuolo cleanly away from home, and occupied the second place with a two-point lead. In addition, Napoli also reached 20 points after a two-goal win at home to Empoli, as they are second to Torino on goal difference, while Lazio are only two points away from them, so it can be said that the situation is quite critical.

As for their next opponents, Udinese, who have been mediocre in recent seasons, having upset a Champions League qualification spot in 2011/12 and qualifying for the Europa League the following year, they immediately fell into a slump after two years in the limelight. In 2013-15, they finished 13th and 16th in the standings, and last season they narrowly managed to survive relegation by only one point over Carpi Football Club 1909, who played Serie A for the first time in more than 100 years. However, in this season, after a bad start and the dismissal of coach Agini, under the leadership of the old coach Del Neri, they gradually regained some form, the last three rounds only lost to Juventus by one goal away from home, and then won two 3-1 victories over Pescara and Palermo, and suddenly moved up to the twelfth position, and has already thrown off the relegation circle by eight points. For this sudden appearance of a strong opponent, Li Mudi naturally did not dare to be careless, and hurriedly seized the time to analyze how to deal with the other old fox.

But before he could sort it out, the outside media was still looking forward to the long overdue big news. At 17:45 on Friday evening, October 28, local time in Italy, Inter Milan Club held a press conference in the media room of the Meazza Stadium, announcing that he had terminated the coaching contract signed on August 9 with Dutch coach Frank de Boer, making his time in the team's coach's seat only 80 days, four days less than in reality in his previous life, and breaking the previous record of 88 days set by Gasperini. And because the manager was fired on his own initiative, Inter will still pay him the rest of his salary until June next year. At that time, the club will offer De Boer a break-up fee of 1.3 million euros. This money made him fly!

Then came the second big news when the Nerazzurri announced that they had signed a contract with former Lazio boss Italian Stefano Poili, who will be in charge until the end of the season. Stefano Pioli, who played for big-name clubs such as Parma and Juventus as a player, and was captain of the Purple Lilies team from 1989 to 1995, surrounded by world-class stars such as Barty, Effenberg and Laudrup Jr., but had few accolades, only the Serie B title in 1993-94. After retiring, Pioli first started with small teams, Salernitana, Modena, Parma, Grosseto, Piacenza, Sasssuolo, Chievo, Palermo, Bologna, really step by step, a year or two to be promoted, until 2014 won the attention of Lazio, which had a mediocre record, and became the coach of a first-class team in Serie A. That season, he led the Blue Eagles to a ticket to the Champions League play-offs, which was unanimously praised by the Italian media. Unfortunately, not everyone can be a winning general like Capello and Lippi, and Lazio, who finished eighth in the league this summer, cut the local coach who has been in the industry for many years but is just showing his debut, and his record of a 10-year contract in a row has been broken. However, fortunately, Frank De Boer's dismissal this time gave him another chance to prove himself again, if he can find a tacit understanding with the players as soon as possible, Li Mudi feels that with Inter's current squad, this is definitely an opponent with a lot of competitiveness for European qualification, and he has to guard against it!

Saturday morning's newspapers were swept up in both news, but contrary to the Torino boss's judgment, most still believe that Pioli is just a temporary replacement for Inter, who will pursue Atletico Madrid boss Simeone next summer, with Prandelli and Spalletti as the Argentine's replacement candidates. For this argument, Li Mudi believes that it is not possible to draw conclusions, De Boer's luck is too bad, Inter's next two opponents are Sampdoria in 16th place and Crotone, the vice president of the league, the probability of winning is very high, if he can hold on to these two games is likely to survive this crisis. The new manager, on the other hand, can take advantage of these two weak opponents to quickly find a sense of it, boost the morale of the players, and the results should gradually improve in the future.

But now is not the time to worry about others, facing Udinese, who has very average strength but terrible resilience, Li Mudi always feels that the confidence to win the game is not very high. In yesterday's training, right-back Silvestri and Spanish winger Jesus suffered injuries in training, although the diagnosis of the team medical team is not a very serious condition, but it is still necessary to recuperate for about ten days. This afternoon, the old captain Vives was suspected of injuring his knee again, and after testing, he was diagnosed with a partial injury to the medial collateral ligament, and once again hung up a month-long exemption card, which scared the coaching staff to urgently issue a decision to suspend the training plan.

The match against the Black and White Legion was scheduled for Monday evening, the penultimate kick-off of the league round, giving most of the teams an extra day to rest and adjust, which can be regarded as a reward for the strong support of the Celestial Empire fans. Compared to the home team that ended the tenth round of the league a day later, the Torino team also took advantage of the extra 24 hours of preparation, which originally made the outside world have been optimistic about their perfect opportunity to end the two consecutive draws and continue to put pressure on the first group. However, after three injuries in quick succession, even the bookmakers have slightly increased the odds for the visitors to take all three points, bringing the numbers of the three outcomes to a very close level, and a draw is considered to be perhaps the best reflection of the current comparison of the two sides.

Just when the Turin coach was still worrying about the deployment of the troops, he received a WeChat voice message from Lin Yun'er, who had just been promoted to his "confidante", before falling asleep that night. The little girl complained again that the OST written by Li Mudi before was still at the top of the major lists, which made the attention of the TV series scattered, and then told in a somewhat low tone that although the ratings of this drama are not bad, they are still much lower than the previous expectations of the TV station and the main creators. The average rating will reach about 5% (5.5 in Seoul and 4.8 in the whole country), and with only the last four episodes left, there is basically no hope of breaking into the top 10 ratings of TV dramas produced by TVN over the years, which makes actor Lin, who finally got a new drama contract in Kimchi Country after many years, somewhat frustrated. Li Mudi had no choice but to spend two hours barely comforting the other party, but early the next morning, he had to appear in the club cafeteria with thick dark circles under his eyes, which caused everyone to have all kinds of speculations that could not be easily said.