On July 27, Torino's first warm-up match of the new season was played at the Stadio Silvio Piola, home of Novara, whose satellite club of the Red Bulls arranges such a game every year to be similar to a teaching match, in order to find tactical and co-ordination gaps for the players of both sides.

In the Serie B promotion play-offs that ended in early June, Novara unfortunately lost in the semi-finals, unfortunately missing the last ticket to Serie A. In the 2018-19 season, Empoli, Parma and Frosinone, who emerged through a brutal play-off, will be the new faces of Serie A. These three teams also happen to be in the top three of the Serie B standings, which is in line with the comprehensive performance after a long season.

As a result, in this friendly warm-up match in which the two sides agreed not to limit the number of substitutions, as many as 26 players of the Torino team appeared on the field, and three formations were practiced alone. Looking at it this way, the 2-0 finishing score will not be particularly abrupt, after all, it is about five successful Red Bulls still firmly controlled the situation of the game most of the time, although there are many mistakes between the new signings and the old players, but they are all within the normal category, and there is no dissatisfaction among the fans.

Four days later, it was a copy-and-paste format, with Li Muddy leading the team to the home stadium of satellite team Vercelli at the Silvio Piola Stadium (the same name as Novara's home stadium, both named after Italian football superstars, but not a stadium), to complete the second warm-up game of preparation. As a result, in this game, the performance of new signings such as Bruno Fernandes was significantly improved compared to the previous game, and the team finally scored a total of six goals, which can be regarded as the first appearance in attack.

However, the man of the match was awarded to Hou Yongyong, who joined the home side on loan from the Red Bulls, and the Celestial descendant not only did everything a central midfield should do in 60 minutes of playing time, but also created an own goal for young French centre-back Isadiop with a cross. In addition, he hit the Torino post with a long-range shot from 25 yards out, which was highly praised by members of the visiting coaching staff.

It's just that the competitive pressure of the Torino team in the central midfield position this season is too great, and it is difficult to squeeze out time for the young player who has just turned 20 years old, in order to allow him to get enough game training and grow up as soon as possible, Li Mudi still decided to loan him to his satellite team, hoping to harvest a stronger future star in a year.

For his half-compatriot, the Torino coach has always been optimistic about his development situation, and because he is a Chinese descendant and has the same roots, he has always hoped to realize the full potential of the other party as much as possible. It's just that if there are no huge accidents, this season should be the last year for Li Mudi to coach the Red Bulls, which direction will develop in the future, and whether the new coach will still pay as much attention to Hou Yongyong's cultivation as he does, which is unknown at the moment. Therefore, he could only follow the objective law and choose the most suitable way for Hou Yongyong's growth at this stage.

However, as time went on, the chances of the Norwegian boy, who was originally from the Central Plains, becoming a naturalized player of the Celestial Empire, gradually decreased. While it may still be too early to be selected for the Norwegian national team, the youngster has already shown the potential to become a second-rate midfielder in Europe under Limmudi, and even if he can't establish himself in the Nordic country's senior squad for two or three years, there has always been a habit in the West to identify young talent with multiple nationalities (or possibly a change of nationality) in their chosen zone early on.

For example, Spain's Thiago and Munir and other former Barcelona monster boys with dual citizenship were called up by the Spanish national team at a very young age and have an appearance record. The latter also complained to FIFA before this World Cup and wanted to represent Morocco, but the result was naturally unrealizable.

Therefore, once the Norwegian team avoids the loss of talent and lets Hou Yongyong wear the jersey of the senior national team in advance, then the Celestial Empire will completely lose this excellent midfielder who is standard Han Chinese in terms of yellow skin and living habits in private. In this regard, Li Mudi is also in a hurry but has no way, he is just a slightly famous football coach, and he does not have the slightest right to decide the future belonging of a player of Celestial Descent descent, but the uncles of the Football Association don't know what work they are busy with every day, and they really can't see anything serious, which makes people feel extremely resentful.

Okay, let's not talk about the unpleasant topics and return to the pre-season warm-up games for Torino. Over the next two weeks, the Red Bulls played a friendly against Eredivisie side The Hague and Premier League promoted Wolves. These two clubs are controlled by Celestial Dynasty Capital, and the relationship with Li Mudi is naturally extraordinary, whether it is to meet friends with football, or to use the fame of the new European League champion to help the other party attract attention, anyway, the Torino team in these two games is still based on the run-in team lineup, 3-0 and 1-0 victories are just incidental results.

On 15 August, the annual UEFA Super Cup kicked off at the Al Kirk Arena in Tallinn, Estonia, for the first time in four years, without being scheduled on the second Tuesday of August.

The match will be played against last season's Champions League winners Real Madrid and last season's Europa League winners Torino. The former has won the title of "king of kings" for two consecutive years, and this time he naturally wants to complete the triple crown hegemony; The latter is the first time in history to participate in this event, and it is a complete newcomer.

Judging from the overall strength of the two teams, it is natural that the Spanish giants have a certain advantage, even if Ronaldo has left, and the other two in the BBC combination are only sitting on the bench because they are deeply involved in the transfer turmoil, most of the team's players are not in the best physical condition after the previous warm-up matches with Manchester United, Juventus and Roma, but the young squad that the new coach Hulen Lopetegui has focused on building after accepting the team still leads a wave of youth storm.

Although different starters were scheduled in the previous warm-up games, the frontcourt combination of Mbappe, Asensio, and Isco (or Vazquez) still showed a very explosive impact for a certain period of time. And Ceballos, who has never been able to find a place under Zizou before, seems to have regained the aura of his former role in Betis, and under the combing of him and Kroos, people have also seen the shadow of the Belgian national team's multi-point forward attacking routine from Real Madrid's style of play.

The tactics of the Torino team in many previous games are also considered to have learned the advantages of the European Red Devils, making the tactical styles of the two participating teams in this UEFA Super Cup very similar, which can be regarded as a small highlight. Because of different styles, the outcome of a duel may not prove too many problems, but if the two sides use a set of playing styles, it is a direct competition for the overall strength of the team and the coach's command ability.

The former head coach of the Spanish national team knew very well that he was not the right person for the coach of the Galaxy in Lafayette's mind, and it was only because he couldn't find a better person that he played a transitional role, which naturally raised the bottom line of the team's record to a higher margin of error than usual. If it is put in last season, Lopetegui knows very well that he will not be able to get the support of the club when he performs badly at the beginning of the league, and Zidane can survive until the team's form recovers, and he can only be fired early.

Therefore, winning as many honours as possible will play a positive role in protecting the stability of his position, and the desire of the new Real Madrid coach to win the first title of the season (although the UEFA Super Cup has not always been taken seriously by the giants, but at least it is also a continental title) is still very strong.

As for Torino coach Li Mudi, on the one hand, he wants to add more confidence to his team by defeating this strong opponent in front of him, which will have a very important impact on the future challenge of Juventus hegemony in the league. In addition, this is also a demonstration of Lafayette, who told the latter that he never thought of his name when he was looking for a new head coach all over the world but was rejected in a row.

With the first round of La Liga coming next weekend, Real Madrid's lack of quality is understandable, and Torino, who are set to play their Serie A opener in five days' time, have also opted to play as much as they can, and their thirst for honour has not come as expected. So with both sides putting in 100 per cent of the game, the game was more exciting than the strong conversations in the World Cup that had just ended, and the fans really enjoyed the charm of the sport.

Soon after the opening, the two teams engaged in a fierce battle in the midfield area, and although the three-time Champions League winner was in a 4-3-3 position from the submitted appearance, when the team did not control the ball, wingers Isco and Asensio on either side dropped back to help their teammates set up a siege.

However, after getting Andre Gomez and Bruno Fernandes, two Portuguese international-level midfielders with very delicate footwork, the Torino team's ability to control the ball in the midfield has also been greatly enhanced, and Real Madrid only Casemiro's ability to tackle the ball is relatively good, and the rest are below the average level of defensive ability, after many rapid transmissions, they basically broke the opponent's pressing strategy.

It's just a similar scene on the other hand, with only one defensive midfielder Vukocevic starting, and even with wingbacks on both sides to assist, there is nothing too good for the world's top masters such as Kroos, who is more powerful in passing and control.

In short, both sides are still using active running to strengthen their fighting strength in the opening stage, even if they can't grab the ball directly, they will also bring serious interference to the opponent's attacking organization.

And when this kind of overly physically demanding way of fighting becomes unsustainable after the fifteenth minute or so of the game, the strikers on both sides can finally find a chance to show their skills. Among the five central defenders who started on both sides, only Varane and Kanneman's speed is relatively good, and the remaining four players, especially the two central defenders of the Torino team, Ranocchia and Glick, are not very flexible types, and Real Madrid captain Ramos, who was also a "high-sensitivity central defender" in the past, can no longer afford to compete with Immobile in a continuous short-distance sprint at an age when youth is gone.

As a result, the attempts to reach the opponent's defensive line began to increase over the next period of time, but this option also brought a lot of mistakes, and the opponent's counter-attack began immediately, and it was the turn of their own backline to be tested.

In this way, the situation on the court began to become more and more tense and exciting, and the speed of the ball even made the audience make it seem that they were watching the table tennis ball back and forth.

This is not to say that the two head coaches will only use this routine, but they all coincidentally choose to deliberately use the game to practice in this game that is not too important and has a little warm-up nature, so as to strengthen the proficiency of their respective players in this tactic.

It wasn't until the 75th minute of the second half, when the Torino team rewrote the score to 2-1 with a lucky refraction from substitute Baseli, that Li Mudi ordered the team to strengthen their defense and maintain the lead.

Real Madrid went on a frenzied attack, but with the loss of their most reliable scorer in the past nine years and the substitution of future star Kylian Mbappe after scoring a goal, even if Julen Lopetegui's side were in complete control of the ball in the final moments and had six strikes in 10 minutes, they were unable to knock on the door of the team's former legend Iker Casillas.

In the end, the Torino team of the European Super Cup successfully won the championship for the first time in history in this intercontinental cup competition with average attention and importance. In addition to interrupting Real Madrid's plans to achieve a third in a row, it also added a title to their club's newly changed book of honours, which is really not many people will fancy this accolade, but it is still enough to make them happy for a while for Red Bulls fans who have not won the title for many years.

Compared with the victory of the game, Li Mudi is more satisfied with the team's run-in progress, and under the bonus of his medal effect, the Torino team was able to adjust the competitive state to a more ideal level before the start of the new season of Serie A.