Making this decision was just a simple choice for Li Mudi, but for the Torino club, especially for the president Urbano Cairo, it completely overturned its bright future plans. It's just that they are constrained by the clause in the contract that "if there is a disagreement on the transfer matter, the manager's opinion must be respected", and they have to watch a large amount of money gradually move away from them, which is naturally extremely bad.

So after privately entrusting the director Pantario Longo to persuade Li Mudi to reconsider the idea of selling Belotti, the chairman of Turin was busy dealing with his other personal affairs, playing a routine of not seeing and not being annoyed.

But the manager was in no mood to care about other people's complaints, and after dealing with the lobbyist in a few words, he gave the club's prince a task to focus on the progress of AC Milan's financial crisis.

Through the usual understanding and the auxiliary tips of the FM system, Li Mudi believes that "Brother Li" should not easily transfer the shares of the Rossoneri that he finally got his hands on, which means that this traditional giant is likely to be on the verge of a huge financial deficit, whether it will change hands again, there is a good chance of being forced to sell the stars in the team to fill this big hole. The red bull can be prepared in advance, and whether he can get any benefits from it when he sees it, after all, it is a horse without night grass and no fat!

After "arranging" the job, the Turin coach left Italy with a relaxed face, and continued to Russia to complete his part-time job as a commentator.

At the same time, the second round of the group stage of the World Cup is also going on in an orderly manner. Salah, who has enjoyed a lot of glory in the past year, but left the stadium due to injury in the most important Champions League final, finally chose to make an early comeback without recovering to 100 per cent, but in the face of the strong impact of the hosts, even the resurrection of the pharaoh could not turn the tide. After two rounds, Egypt joined Saudi Arabia as the first two teams to miss out on the knockout rounds, and Salah's rise to the top of the game has suffered another major blow.

In Group B, Portugal and Spain were also worried, with both victories, but the 1-0 scoreline and the team's poor performance against Morocco and Iran, who were far inferior to them, still sent a chill down the hearts of many fans who fancy them as favourites to win the tournament.

It's just the Argentine supporters who are clearly the saddest of the pack, and after an unexpected draw by Iceland in their opening game, the Pampas Eagles suffered a 3-0 defeat to Croatia at the Nizhny Novgorod Stadium in the face of a must-win, or at least a draw. If it weren't for the African brother Nigeria's powerful victory over Iceland, who had half a team of amateur players, the World Cup journey of the plum king and a number of world-class stars would have ended early.

Brazil and Germany, who played later, also won the game, but the process was extremely difficult. The Samba Army did not score twice until stoppage time to beat the so-called fish belly Costa Rica; The Germans came close to repeating Argentina's mistakes, and if it weren't for Kroos' free-kick in the 95th minute, the defending champions would have been in danger of hanging by a thread.

However, before the lottery players vented their anger at being cheated with a large amount of money again, the final round of the group stage broke out a lot of big upsets, making the questioning of match-fixing the hottest topic in the Celestial Empire during this period.

After the rankings of Uruguay and Russia in Group A have been completely determined, the top two Portuguese and Spanish teams in Group B will have to go all out in the final group game in order to avoid an early meeting with the South American powerhouses. But at such an important moment, the European Cup champion two years ago failed to show a performance in line with the player's value because the number one star Ronaldo was focused on by the opponent, although it seems that there are some luck factors in the stoppage time when the Iranian team used a penalty to equalize, but from the whole game, they are indeed far from reaching the World Cup, and there are many doubts about whether they can pass through Uruguay.

However, even though Portugal had already played so badly, they still came close to topping the group because Spain were even worse. Hierro, who was appointed on the verge of death, has proven to be unfit for the job of head coach after three group games. After the change of coach, the Matadors suddenly came to a cliff-like collapse, after the last round was almost forced to draw by the Iranians, this round was also fought until the last minute by substitute striker Aspas to score the equalizer. Although he barely qualified as the first in the group with the advantage of scoring more goals and entered the lower half of the competition, Li Mudi could only reluctantly veto his previous judgment, and his second home country did not have the strength to win the championship.

After that, the "tacit ball" between France and Denmark also attracted a lot of scolding. Fortunately, Argentina's thrilling advance slightly saved the image of this World Cup in the minds of the majority of Celestial Dynasty fans, but Nigeria's performance in the first 86 minutes still won the respect of the world. Although stumbling on the final train to the knockout rounds, facing a strong French side in the quarter-finals, perhaps only the most determined Messi fans would think they would be the favourites to advance.

The biggest upset of this World Cup came on the night of June 27, when the German chariot, which won the championship in Brazil all the way four years ago, had no way to take the Taiji Tigers, who had lost the first two stops, as long as they could win by more than two goals. Although the Germans had 74 per cent possession and 28 shots on goal throughout the game, the number of hits was extremely low and not much better than their opponents.

As a result, under the effect of impatience that could not be attacked for a long time, their defense made big mistakes one after another at the last moment, and was beaten by Kim Young-kwon and Son Heung in stoppage time, and finally fell to the last place in the group, bidding farewell to the title defense trip in this extremely humiliating way. Germany also became the third defending World Cup champions to fail to make it out of the group stage after Italy in 2010 and Spain in 2014, turning that situation into a curse.

After this game, Ke Jie, the world champion of Go in the Celestial Empire, posted a Weibo on the Internet, defending the kimchi country that was accused of being too dirty by the Chinese people because of the largest number of fouls, which caused countless "patriotic" netizens to spray angrily. In a follow-up interview a few days ago, Li Mudi also expressed the opinion that "the strength is not as good as others, how can you play if you don't play tougher", which was turned out by some people, and wanted to pull him, the "traitor" who married the wife of the kimchi country, over for criticism. Fortunately, most Chinese people still distinguish between right and wrong, coupled with the deliberate low-key handling of major media, so that this turmoil quickly dissipated invisibly.

After the top 16 were all released, the Torino coach was once again invited to CCTV's front live broadcast room in Moscow, and was "coerced" by the host to give his prediction for the top eight teams: France beats Argentina, Uruguay beats Portugal, Spain beats Russia, Croatia beats Denmark, Brazil beats Mexico, Belgium beats Japan, Sweden beats Switzerland, Colombia beats England.

As soon as this conclusion was revealed, it immediately attracted strong doubts from countless Mero fans and Three Lions fans, and Li Mudi's title of "betting light" was once again ridiculed, giving some new fans the illusion that his predictions were so outrageous and that his coaching ability might be exaggerated.

But it turned out later that after entering the knockout round, the Torino coach's prediction accuracy was far stronger than that of the group stage, which was full of upsets, at least compared to Zhan Jun, Zhang Lu, Huang Jianxiang and other recognized football professionals, he guessed more games.

At 17 o'clock in the evening of June 30, at Kazan Stadium, Li Mudi and his commentary partner He Wei watched the most watched matchup since the start of this World Cup. And two hours later, he said goodbye to one of the two best players in the world today, and at the same time witnessed the process of Mbappe, a talented new star, officially stepping into the ranks of top players, which can be said to be a lot of emotion!

Argentine coach Sampaoli, who was rumored to have been vacated by the players, changed his formation again today, and for the fourth game in a row, he lined up a completely different combination of midfield. He had previously tried Sergio Aguero's strategy of playing as a single striker and Messi and Higuain as two strikers, and the formation changed from 4-2-3-1 to 3-4-2-1 to 4-4-2, but the results were not very satisfactory. So in the face of the strong opponent Gallic Roosters, he came up with a more aggressive 4-3-3, putting Messi directly in the center position, and putting Aguero and Higuain on the bench, which was unexpected by most people.

And Boca teenager Pavon, who was only confirmed to be in the 23-man squad at the last minute, appeared in the position of starting right winger, and this courage is also difficult for ordinary people to achieve.

It's just that this lineup configuration that obviously wants to replace defense with offense still failed to help the South American powerhouse open the door to the quarterfinals. Compared with the idol "madman" Bielsa, Sampaoli obviously still retains a certain amount of sanity, but in the case of a certain degree of scum in the backline, the Argentine team still failed to withstand the sharp counterattack of the French fast horses. Even though Di Maria and Mercado had a 2-1 lead at the start of the second half, the shortcomings of the defensive end in the face of the Frenchman's infrequent but highly efficient fast-passing tactics made it impossible for the Pampas Eagles to soar above the Nine Heavens again.

Lionel Messi, who plays as a central striker, has been sealed by his own manager's tactics, and his small size is clearly not able to put much pressure on Raphael Varane and Umtiti when he is in a position. But once the quasi-ball king chose to retreat to respond, there was an embarrassing situation in the opponent's penalty area where there was no Argentine player to grab the point, which made him have no historical dribbling and world-class passing ability, and he could only fall into the circle of French players again and again, and rarely played in the regular time of the game.

However, Deschamps really gave him a chance, after the score came to 4-2, the former French national team captain deserved to have coaching experience at Juventus, and he had the traditional style of an old woman. Seeing that game time was running out, he opted to replace Antoine Griezmann and Kylian Mbappe in quick succession, leaving the least mobile centre-forward Giroud on the pitch. This completely made the Argentine defense no longer feel a trace of pressure, and they could put all their energy into a crazy counterattack.

First, Messi, who was almost silent for the whole game, sent a delicate pass to help Aguero, who came on as a substitute in the second half, to seize Varane's mistake and successfully pull a goal back, and the game went on in the 93rd minute.

And when the last minute of injury time came, the Argentine team played their most beautiful team attack in this World Cup, and the veterans, who had a clear advantage in experience, with an average age of more than 30 years old, finally sent the ball to the opponent's small penalty area after a series of long and short passes. It's a pity that Mesa's volley failed to kick the right part and came with an anti-aircraft gun, otherwise once the game was dragged into extra time or even a penalty shootout, the outcome was very likely to be completely different.

It's just that there is no if in the football game, and the plum ball king, who has led the development direction of the football concept of several generations, and his blue and white team, have left the journey of this cup tragically and helplessly. Since 2006, he has lost four consecutive Hercules Cups, which has also cut off his dream of competing with Pele and Lao Ma.

Messi, who has reached the age of 31, will probably miss Qatar in four years if there is no accident, which is a little too cruel for a superstar who has dominated the entire world football for more than a decade. It's just that when the current group of fans are old, when they sit in the rocking chair and explain to their grandchildren and even from their grandchildren the many past events they experienced when they were young, they should not forget the blue-red and blue-white No. 10 that once brought him infinite joy and pride, and it will be a memory worth remembering for a lifetime.

Four hours later, Cristiano Ronaldo, another Portuguese superstar who is also proud of today's football, also seemed to follow the footsteps of his lifelong enemy Messi under the arrangement of fate to end his last World Cup game. Cristiano Ronaldo, who is two years older, was treated very similarly to Messi in the game against Uruguay, and the opponent's focus and team-mates were not strong, so that the president who was calling for wind and rain in the club was unable to change his life.

It may not be just a coincidence that the two superstars, who have almost monopolized the idols of more than 99% of the world's football fans, said goodbye to the world's largest football event on the same day.

Mbappe, Asensio and other new generation of superstars began to show a rush to seize power, and the era belonging to Melo has entered the final stage, which can be said to be one less game. Whenever I think of this situation, Li Mudi's heart is filled with an indescribable emotion, perhaps the most real life!