The first round of the Coppa Italia and the fifth round of the Coppa Italia will be played in the middle of the second and third weeks of January, with the first four matches of the week having the seeded teams progressing to the next round. Roma beat Sampdoria 4-0 against Sampdoria who came on all substitutes, Napoli who won 3-1 against Spezia Calcio in Serie B with a semi-rotational lineup, and Old Lady, who also played all on the bench, beat Atalanta 3-2 against Atalanta, who wanted to do something, and only Fiorentina were in a lot of trouble, they beat Chievo in a red and yellow card battle with Zibeibei's penalty in the 90th minute.

The remaining four quarter-finals will be played on the 18th and 19th, one of which is AC Milan's home game against Torino, which means that after the league on the 16th, the two sides will start a second consecutive battle at the San Siro three days later. Therefore, after the 19th round of the league, Li Muddy and Montella will definitely put most of their energy into studying each other's tactics, and no matter which match, they will fight to win.

However, before this round of league games began, Li Mudi still had a surprise, the Torino club had reached an agreement with Palermo, the former will spend 4 million euros to buy 23-year-old central defender Gorda Rica from the latter, but the player will be loaned back to Palermo for the remaining half of the season and will not report to his new club until the final round of the league. In the deal, the Red Bulls paid cash and handed out Greek defender Tazittesdis, who had been loaned to Cagliari this season, to the Eagles.

In the summer of last year, Li Mudi, who was looking for a good central defender all over the world, asked the other party about Gordáric, but the Palermo president Zamparini, who wanted to take advantage of the Torino team's urgency to make a fortune, actually quoted a very exaggerated price, which completely angered the Torino coach, and the deal was cancelled. However, the current situation is completely reversed, the Eagles are currently in the bottom third of the standings with 2 wins, 4 draws, 13 losses, and 10 points, and have been pulled down by Empoli from the bottom of the fourth place by six points, and it seems that the probability of relegation has reached more than 70%. And if they fail to survive relegation, then the core players and potential young players in the current squad will inevitably be divided among other teams, and they will all have to be sold at a cabbage price. Therefore, when there was no shortage of immediate power in the central defender position, Zamparini started the idea of selling Gordarnica in advance in order to get more transfer fees.

In reality, Gordarica was poached by Sassuolo in the summer of 2017 for 4 million euros, and now Palermo has more Tazitesdis, and the Greeks are worth 2.5 million at the moment, and they have indeed earned it.

In addition to Goldanica, which has a potential value of 165, Li Mudi is also paying attention to the introduction of several other young talents, but unfortunately the process is not very smooth. Even without the help of scouting tools, established clubs with decades or even centuries of history are well equipped to judge the potential of young players.

For example, the German striker Timo Erner, who is very optimistic about the Turin coach, was born in March 1996 and was born in the Stuttgart academy, and was included in the transfer fee of 10 million euros by the "German Evergrande" RB Leipzig club last summer, and scored nine goals and four assists in the first 16 rounds of the Bundesliga, helping RB Leipzig, which entered the top league for the first time, beat Dortmund to rank second in the Bundesliga. It can be said that the whole of Europe is now paying attention to this rising star, Li Mudi naturally wants to take advantage of the fact that everyone has not taken action to see if he can pick up a leak, but unfortunately Valentino Cairo's inquiry was directly rejected, and the purchase cost assessment made by the FM system reached an astonishing 100 million, which made Li Mudi, who originally had to smash the pot and sell iron to accumulate funds, was completely confused, and had to reluctantly give up this super center who is likely to become the top three in the world in the future.

Fortunately, there are still a few names on the Torino coach's list of "demon boys" who have not been rejected by the club, if the remaining transfer funds can be used to successfully poach some young players with great potential, then the youth team of the Red Bulls will usher in a golden period, which will be a great thing for the healthy development of the entire club.

After the main goal was to focus on potential new stars, Li Muddy had no expense to bring in other star players who could bring instant power to the team, so the last remaining registration spot in the squad was finally determined to be Las Diarra. He asked Pantario Longo and Valentino Cairo to contact the French midfielder privately, and if the other party is interested in joining the Torino team, he can persuade him to terminate the contract with Marseille as soon as possible, although the Italian Football Federation's signing of free agents is not limited to the transfer window, but the registration to be able to play in the league will end at 24 o'clock on January 31, once missed, the player will not be able to play in the next league.

Coming back from France a day later revealed that Russ was excited about the opportunity to challenge the Italian football environment at the end of his career, and he was in need of a stable job to alleviate the current financial pressure, so the veteran would be happy to be part of the Red Bulls as long as the Torino club could offer him a reasonable annual salary and consistent playing time.

On 14 January, ahead of Crotone's home game against Bologna on the opening kick-off of the league round, the news of Las's termination of his contract with Marseille appeared in some media reports, but it did not attract anyone's attention. After all, in the eyes of the outside world, Claude Makelle II is too old to gain a foothold in Europe's top leagues, and a local sports newspaper in Marseille also claims that a number of Celestial Empire teams are interested in the former Real Madrid No.10, and it seems that his next stop will be the distant and mysterious ancient country of the East.

But no one noticed that Las Diarra had secretly flown to Turin with his family, and on the morning of the 15th, the former France international signed his name on a new contract. The contract has a base salary of €2 million before tax, which is roughly the same as his time at Marseille and runs until the end of the next season, on 30 June 2018, although the contract will be automatically extended for another year if the player is able to play more than 50% of the team's competitive matches in 2017-18.

When the Red Bulls' third signing was announced on the official website, the Italian and French media generally agreed that it was another terrible signing, and that there was no worse than signing Cherci. Russ hasn't been able to play more than 10 minutes in competitive matches for more than three months, and now he has serious problems with fitness, game feel and mentality, and with the fact that he has been at odds with the manager or even the club president in almost every team before, it's hard to believe that a thorn in the back can do anything good when he's old.

"Roma Sport", which has always stood on the opposite side of the Torino coach, even asserted that the addition of Cerci and Las Diarra will not only not enhance the strength of the Torino team, but will become a time bomb in the team, and it will explode one day, making the red bull a dead cow, and the Celestial Empire will also suffer a painful failure because of these two reinforcements, and even end their coaching career in European football.

However, the vast majority of the media and fans are not in the mood to discuss whether the Torino team's results will slip or not, and their attention is completely drawn to the upcoming match. Torino's clash with Milan is the last kick-off game of the Serie A round, with the remaining nine matches already having their own results. The biggest upset came at the Stadio Franqui, where Fiorentina beat leaders Juventus 2-1 at full-time to close the gap on the points behind the pursuers. In other games, with the exception of Lazio, who overcame Atalanta in a strong match, the top teams all emerged victorious, which is not good news for the Red Bulls, who are looking to compete for a top-five finish, and if they fail to win the Rossoneri, they will show a tendency to fall behind.

The starting line-ups for both teams were released before the pre-match press conference began, and there were a number of changes from the first meeting at the end of August last year.

On the away side, Academy graduate Davide Calabria (Davide Calabria), born in late '96, replaced Antonelli at left wing-back, while French winger Niang has completely lost Montella's trust and has been pushed into the transfer market, with Bonaventura making a cameo on the left side of the front. Compared with the San Siro in the first round of the league, AC Milan's changes in midfield are subversive, with all three of them changing, with youngster Locatelli starting alongside Bertolaci and Pasalic.

In Torino, Limaudi replaced Kastan with Ranocchia and formed a centre-back partnership with Rossettini, while the left winger started with Jose Jesse, while Rajadzic has been in poor form since returning from the winter break, and his seven-star work ethic could seriously affect his career. In addition, Ghana defender Akwa has been transferred to the Africa Cup of Nations and will be filled by veteran captain Vives, while Las Diarra has been on the bench on his second day in the club. The rest of the players were still the original main players, Joe Hart, Zampacosta, Barreka, Baseli, Benasi, Farke and Belotti.

As the referee blew the whistle for the start of the game, AC Milan, dressed in white away shirts, kicked off first, and their first attack was patient, and Bonaventur, who appeared in the left winger position today, dropped back very much, and with his help the visitors dominated possession in midfield, trying to use the pass ball to tear apart the home team's new defence. Torino, on the other hand, took advantage of the situation and played the defensive counterattack that he was good at, and Jesus's speed ability was a notch higher than Rajadzic's, so he was more threatening in terms of impact.

The Torino boys did not disappoint their supporters, and although the ball was always at the feet of the AC Milan players, the home side's defensive formation was very solid and there were no mistakes, while their first counter-attack came close to scoring.

In the fourth minute, Zampacosta intercepted Bertoraczi's through ball and passed it to Benassi who retreated, who took two steps and then kicked the ball into the visitors' half. Due to the power of this kick, the red babe who was at the front could not control the first landing point, and could only chase hard with Paletta, who was in charge of marking him. When the ball was moving towards the penalty area at a relatively fast speed, Milan's young goalkeeper Donnarumma chose to attack and clear, but his judgment was fatally wrong, when he jumped high on the penalty line and was ready to knock the ball out of the sideline with a single fist, he found that his body was out of the penalty area, at which time he would violate the rules once he touched the ball, and he would be sent off with a red card if he didn't make it. Therefore, the goalkeeper of the visiting team had to change his movements and leak the ball through, which also caused an empty goal behind him. Luckily, the ball was closer to Paletta, who cleared the ball before Belotti could get his feet on the ball.

The home team's counterattack was only involving three people, and there were only two passes, but the threat caused by it was so great that Montella couldn't sit still, and hurriedly ran to the sideline and waved his right hand, shouting to remind his players to concentrate, and at the same time try to interfere when they spot the opponent's long pass. Then it was still Milan who was more in possession of the ball, but Bonaventura was not as good as Niang in terms of individual assault ability, so their attack on the left side was still dominated by multi-person cooperation, and they failed to create good chances for a while in the face of Torino's dense defense, and could only try to test the luck of both sides with long-range shots.

In the opening six minutes, Calabria, who had inserted the assist, was intercepted by Zampacosta, and the ball went out of the bottom line in the entanglement, and the referee signaled a corner. Bonaventura's curling ball was denied by tall Ranocchia at the front post, and Calabria volleyed wide of the top right corner of the box to meet Vives' downfall on the edge of the box, and although it missed the target, it still looked threatening.

Torino, on the other hand, found a great opportunity to fight back two minutes later, and it was from a break in their own backfield that the home side formed a four-man counter-attacking squad in just five seconds. After being pulled open by the wingers on either side, Benassi sent a precise through ball through the AC Milan defence, and Belotti took advantage of the attacker's more aggressive advantage to beat the pursuing Romagnoli by half a position, and formed a chance to face the opposition goalkeeper from about 15 meters in front of the goal.

However, there is also a very dangerous situation for Red Beibei to continue to move forward with the ball, and if he is not careful, he may be stuck in the position or destroy the ball by the little Rome behind diagonally, so he chose to attack the goal directly in this position. Despite the force applied and the angle chosen, Donnarumma, who reacted quickly and skillfully at the goal-line, used his long arm to seal the shot and the home side once again missed a good chance to change the scoreline.