Sampdoria have been in their best form this season in three years, with 37 points to their table, five points behind Roma and seventh in the table. Since the two teams with the most promising to reach the Coppa Italia final are the Torino duo, and both have basically secured European places, the sixth place in the league will get a place in next season's Europa League play-offs, which is still very attractive for the veteran sailors who have not appeared in Europe for seven or eight seasons.

Coupled with the fact that they are facing the Red Bulls, who have a hostile relationship with them, it is only natural that Jam Paul and his players will be hoping to get a win and keep the pressure on the team in front of them to end today's winning streak.

So without the disruption of a week's double game and the few injuries in the first team, the home team naturally sent all their main players into the game. The 4-3-1-2 position is the most common formation used by the team's coach Gianpaolo, and even against the mighty Juventus in the past, they have not changed their routine, and even won the victory, which is really not to be underestimated.

Compared to the first meeting between the two teams in mid-September last year, Sampdoria made a number of changes to their starting line-up today, with five players changing. With the exception of Viviano, the Italian goalkeeper who was unable to play due to injury at the time, most of the other players were promoted to the main team because of the interruption of the season to win the trust of the manager. However, in midfield, only Poland international Linetti replaced Belgian Prait, and the rest of the players did not change, and the two-striker duo still included veteran Quagliarella and Colombian Zapata, who had been in excellent form before.

Compared to the home team's all-out attack, the Torino side affected by the midweek cup game can only send a large number of rotation players, and Li Mudi also sacrificed a 4-3-1-2 formation today, and the opponent's position is carved out of the same mold. The goalkeeper is Casillas, the back four are Diekman, Moretti, Goldaniga and Dimarco, the three midfielders are Fabas, Tulalang, Musis, the forward is Gourcuff, and the two strikers Belotti are paired with Pellegrí.

Although this tactic has never been used by the Torino team before, it is also equivalent to a 4-4-2 deformation, when playing parallel positions, the team has not had a full-time full-back, and has also used four central players, plus two days ago also carried out key drills, so today's sudden change of tactics did not bring too much discomfort to everyone.

Li Mudi arranged his troops in such a formation, mainly to stabilize his own defense, because a large number of main forces were absent, so that the strength of the team was not enough to fight against the opponent. Moreover, it is an away game, which will be interfered by off-field factors, so it is more conservative to use three midfielders to protect the dangerous area at the front of the penalty area. The home team's attacking style is more based on breakthroughs in the middle and short passes, supplemented by long-range shots from the periphery, and the stunt that boasted of God's fame in Serie A is a variety of world waves, and this season's form is so explosive that the Red Bulls have to strengthen their defense in this area. Fortunately, with the experienced Gourcuff in charge of the attacking end, the impact of Belotti and Manuel Pellegri still has a chance to cause problems for the opposition goal.

However, no one expected that less than five minutes into the opening period, the visitors' pre-match plans would be ruined. In the process of fighting for a header, Pellegri and the home team's Argentine veteran Silvestre pretended to be full, and the eyebrow bone directly opened a big gap, and blood continued to gush out. After emergency treatment by the team doctor on the sidelines, the condition was still not ideal, and stitches could only be performed. In order not to make the lad too painful, the Torino coach decided to replace him with Falke, otherwise with eight stitches without the use of anesthetic, Pellegri under the age of 17 may not be able to survive.

The tentative phase between the two sides was not over yet, and the visitors lost a substitution, which was a black start for the Red Bulls, who already needed to keep a backhand. But today's bad luck was clearly not over, and in the 10th minute, Sampdoria took a one-goal lead with the first goal of the game through the goal guarded by Cassie and caused a huge cheer from the 20,000 spectators.

Falke's individual breakthrough failed the home left-back Mouru, who broke the ball and launched a counter-attack, and the ball was passed through a simple and quick pass to about four or five metres outside the arc of the Torino penalty area. Seeing that the situation was not good, Febas decisively stepped up to steal the ball and finally ended the counter-attack by bringing down the dribbler, but gave the home side a well-placed set-piece opportunity.

Lucas Torreira, who had just gotten up from the ground, stood behind the penalty spot after consulting with his teammates. When he heard the whistle for the free throw, he immediately completed the run-up and fired a powerful low shot with his right foot. For Sampdoria's information on free kicks and penalties, the Torino coaching staff naturally has a lot of research, at this distance, the opponent usually lets Ramirez or Quagliarella take the penalty, but this time it was a substitution. And Cassie just remembered that the coaching staff provided that Torreira liked to use the inside curling ball to hit the goal, coupled with his own on-the-spot judgment, he made an early move to the right.

However, to the surprise of most people, the Uruguay international actually played a little trick this time, using this low shot to cleverly pass through the gap in the human wall and go straight to the bottom corner of Cassie's left hand. Although the Torino goalkeeper pulled back in time and made a move to the left to pounce, it was still a late shot, allowing the ball to almost graze his fingertips into the net behind him. Watching the home team's players celebrate, the veteran goalkeeper, who has been in excellent form this season and has made many saves against the sky, couldn't help but shake his head, dissatisfied with his mistakes.

With the score behind, Li Mudi had to overturn all kinds of pre-game deployments and instructed the players to strengthen their attacks. The forward pressure of the away team's midfielders, although they have gained something on the offensive end, also gives the opponent more opportunities to counterattack. Especially after Jamboro was unwilling to adopt passive defensive tactics, both teams invariably chose to fight for the midfield and control the ball, which immediately caused the two sides to fall into a struggle, and the number of fouls also increased significantly. In less than 15 minutes, the referee gave two yellow cards to each team to remind the players to stay calm.

With Manuel Pellegri out injured, Torino had only one flanking spot in the opposition penalty area, making it difficult for the home side to trouble the side with his wide crosses. In addition, the strength of the rotation players is already a little different from Benasi and other main forces, and Tulalang, who represented the team for the first time, has not yet found enough tacit understanding with his teammates, so the Red Bulls' offensive often looks very imposing, but the actual effect is not ideal.

However, Li Mudi's luck has never been bad at all, and the rumors that he was favored by the goddess of luck are also well-known in the European continent. No, in the case of an injury to a player immediately after the opening, an unexpected refraction helped his team tie the score, which made Jamboul, who had gradually gained a psychological advantage, also shook his head again and again, lamenting that the opponent can always touch shit luck.

In the 25th minute, the Red Bulls' attack in the middle was heavily defended, and the continuous passes of Gourcuff and Febas always stumbled under the interference of the opponent, and there were several situations where the ball was almost broken. And it was these performances that gave Samp's defenders the illusion that a few more people involved in the press could completely disrupt the visitors' attack, so left-back Mouru involuntarily retracted two steps into the middle.

Gourcuff spotted the gap on this flank and with a big foot shift slotted the ball to Falke, who cut inside and cut inside to cross down the middle before Ferrari could get in on the line. Belotti, who secretly retreated from the penalty area, kept the ball on the top line of the arc, and it was directly a furious shot to meet the ball, and the ball hit the left leg of Linetti, who was standing near the penalty spot and was about to intercept it, and changed direction, just shaking the home goalkeeper Viviano, who had already made a save, and flew into the near corner of the goal from his left foot, which had fallen to the ground. 1-1, with this lucky refraction ball of Red Beibei, the Torino team stubbornly equalized the score in a very unfavorable situation.

After bringing the situation back to parity, Li Mudi came to the sidelines again and issued the order to continue to focus on defensive counterattacks, and the visiting players immediately returned to the tactics laid out before the game, giving up the ball they had fought for before, and the mid- and long-distance passes after the break in the back court also increased significantly. Belotti's header and Farke's flank attack kept the Samp players from pressing with all their might, and the two sides formed a stalemate, with neither of them able to create a dangerous attack before half-time and returned to their dressing rooms with a 1-1 scoreline.

During the short fifteen-minute break, neither team made any personnel changes, and even the tactics used did not change much. The home team still frequently used their usual multi-player cooperation in the middle, but they would occasionally surprise two wide crosses when there was a gap on the wing, but they were never able to get a second shot from the woodwork. They had a poor finishing performance today, with only one of six shots on the hour mark, and the prospect of scoring again was not promising. In order to improve the quality of the attack, Gianpaolo replaced Polish center Kaunacki and homegrown player Caprari in succession, but there is still no sign of improvement.

And Li Mudi, who was not under pressure because Inter failed to win the day before, can accept the result of the draw, even if the win can further consolidate the team's lead, but he is also content to get a point when using a large number of rotation players today. Therefore, when the situation on the field did not appear to be obviously unfavorable to the side, he put on the appearance of sitting firmly on the Diaoyu Tai, but when the opponent sacrificed the strong attack formation of the three forwards, Immobile replaced Belottti, the former's speed is more suitable for counterattack tactics, and after a few days of recovery, there is no problem with the current physical strength to cope with the last 25 minutes.

However, another unexpected event disrupted his confident state and brought the trend of the game to an unpredictable situation. In the 70th minute, Febas was half a beat slow in a tackle and stepped on Caprari's foot after the opposition player poked the ball away, and the latter fell to the ground in pain and rolled and yelled. Referee Gianluca Rocchi couldn't help but say something, trotted in front of the Torino midfielder, who was apologizing to the victim, showed him the second yellow card of the game, and then sent him off with two yellows and one red.

The Torino players, who thought that the sentence was a bit too heavy, naturally gathered around and hoped that the referee would show mercy, and Li Mudi, who was on the sidelines, also came to the fourth official to question the necessity of showing a yellow card, although there was no doubt about Febas's foul, but he did not mean it. Afterwards, he quickly apologized, and his attitude was very sincere, considering that he already had a yellow card on him, should the referee try to minimize the abnormal impact on the result of the game on the premise of maintaining the fairness of the game!

However, none of these actions could change the unfavorable situation in which the Torino team would have to play one less player for the remaining twenty minutes, and the two men quickly completed the exchange on the way back to the dugout by the assistant coach. After the first dead goal of the resumption of the game, Vukocevic came on to replace Farke, who had only come on as a substitute in the first half, and the formation of the team changed to 4-3-1-1, leaving Immobile alone to contain the home team's defence, and the rest of the team had to devote themselves to defence.

Faced with a god-given opportunity of 11 to 10, Gianpaolo naturally did not allow his team to be easily wasted, he waved his big hand, and the home team launched a crazy attack, and also replaced the exhausted Paraguayan veteran Barreto with local midfielder Vere in the 79th minute, wanting to score another goal in the last ten minutes and get three points. The use of this third substitution also forced Quagliarella, who suffered a suspected broken nose bone three minutes later, to continue to persist on the field, which more or less affected the performance of the strikers.

Torino's defensive quality has improved greatly this season, with even a multi-rotation defence stubbornly withstanding waves of attacks with the help of their team-mates and creating a chance to kill at the end of normal time. In the 89th minute, Goldaniga cleared the ball out of the penalty area, Gourcuff seemingly blindly kicked the ball straight to the left side of the field, and Baseli, who had just come on as a substitute for Tulalang, interfered with the opposition centre-back Silvestre for the high spot, allowing the ball to slip over their heads, just in time for Immobile to be cruising up front.

At this time, Sampdoria had only three players left in the half, in addition to the previous two, in addition to the Torino No. 10, who was running forward with the ball, there were another central defender, Ferrari, and central midfielder Linetti. The two defenders quickly found a tacit understanding in the face of Immobile's desperate breakthrough, Linetti stepped forward to mark the man, Ferrari kept a distance of about two meters to protect, and the three of them followed the route to the left of the middle to the vicinity of the penalty line.

Immobile, who knew that he was in a very disadvantageous situation with one against two, no longer tried too much after seeing that he could not get rid of the entanglement of the opposing defenders, after all, the 30-meter sprint made him have no physical strength to make complex movements after playing the whole game in midweek. After a clean and neat right foot outside the instep of the ball, he directly pulled his foot and volleyed, trying to take advantage of the sudden change of line to shake a small angle to let the ball pass between the two defenders. However, the ball hit Linetti's left arm, which was not close to his body, and the flight trajectory was seriously deviated from the direction of the goal, and the home midfielder was already inside the penalty area.

Penalty kick! This was the knee-jerk reaction of all those who saw what had happened, but the referee's whistle did not sound as expected. Immobile turned to look at Roki, who was standing less than ten meters in front of him, only to find that the latter had made a gesture to continue the game, and he immediately became angry. With an unbelievable look on his face, he ran to the referee who had already followed the football to the Torino team, trying to get a reasonable explanation for the opponent's decision not to award a penalty, but Rocchi simply ignored it and just blindly picked up the pace because another wave of the home team's offensive had started again.

Ferrari, who reacted first, scrambled to the landing spot and slotted a long-range pass to the retreating Torreira, who and team-mates made a few quick passes before bringing the ball to the edge of the visitors' box, with the Samp players clearly hoping to capitalise on the mood of the opposition to create a strike.

And just when Immobile seemed to be about to lose control of himself and was about to make a move to block the referee's body, Roki suddenly stopped and stopped the game with a series of rapid whistles. When the players on the field were all looking at him with a confused face, he showed very good physical fitness, walked quickly to the sidelines, and showed a red card to Li Mudi, who had been forcibly pulled away from the fourth official by several Torino coaches, and sent the Torino coach directly to the stands. With the boos and scolding of the audience, Li Mudi had to leave the coaching area under the "escort" of Sumfield and Zheng Xiaoyang, which was the first time he received a red gem card gift in his coaching career.