Chapter 337: Opportunities and Injuries

Torino's seventh round of Serie A fixtures are scheduled for Sunday afternoon, with less than 64 hours to adjust and prepare for their Europa League fixtures, and are in an extremely tense state no matter how you look at it. Fortunately, they played both games at home, saving them the pain of traveling, which can be regarded as a blessing in misfortune.

But bad luck still befell the team uninvited, just when Li Mudi finished the post-game press conference and was about to rush back to the apartment to rest immediately, assistant coach Sumfield blocked him outside the door of the locker room and reported a news that stunned the team coach: Belotti was also in a car accident!

According to Sumfield, Red Babe was driving home from the club's parking lot after training for the game when he drove out of the gate and encountered a group of enthusiastic fans taking photos and asking for autographs. In this case, he did not notice another car coming around the corner, and as a result, the two sides collided. Thankfully, the speed on both sides was not high, and Belotti's Range Rover suffered some damage, but he himself did not suffer any physical injuries. However, because of the impact of this incident, the mentality of the Torino striker must have fluctuated a lot, and it also frightened the club's management.

This is the second traffic accident in Torino in a few days, following Farke's car accident last week, which resulted in minor injuries. However, it was obviously unreliable to ask a priest to exorcise the demons, and the higher-ups had to hold an emergency meeting early the next morning to study how to prevent such an incident from happening again. Aside from the club's measures, Li Mudi criticized Belotti's negligence by name before the start of the team's training session on Friday afternoon, and reminded everyone very seriously to pay attention to safety in their daily lives, and he did not want to see anyone affect his condition on the pitch because of something like this.

Fortunately, everyone also attaches great importance to their own safety, after these two accidents in a row, there were no other accidents in the team for a long time, and after a few weeks of heated discussions, the discussion on the Internet about the curse of the Torino team has all disappeared, and everything has returned to normal.

Due to the overall strength of the next opponent Verona, although there is not much time left for the team to prepare, Li Mudi, who has already formulated the corresponding tactics in his heart, still easily completed the two-day training arrangement, and everyone must work overtime to practice, and they can clock out on time every day.

The former enjoyed a rare vacation accompanied by his daughter-in-law-to-be, and happily returned to Mallorca to rest, so that her son could welcome his girlfriend back and take the opportunity to enjoy the beautiful world of the two. But this plan, which sounded perfect, came to an abrupt halt before it began, because on Friday night, Lin Yun'er, who had just returned to Italy, received a call from her agent in Kimchi Country, and the producer of a TV series came to the door, hoping to invite her to play the female lead.

Since the drama is scheduled to be broadcast on KBS TV in Kimchi Country in early December this year, filming will start at the end of October, and it is considered that there will be time for the actors to familiarize themselves with the script in advance, so whether to accept the invitation or not will be decided by October 3 at the latest, after all, there is still time for the other party to find a replacement. And once she agrees to act, Lin Yuna will have to immediately return to Asia to meet the crew, discuss the script and run in with other actors, at least until mid-January next year, there will be no time to accompany her boyfriend, which is obviously extremely bad news.

Although he was very reluctant to let Lin Yuner leave, Li Mudi also knew very well that this TV series was a good opportunity that his girlfriend could not miss, not to mention how much it could help her improve her status in the entertainment industry, at least it could bring greater benefits in terms of ratings and getting rid of the positioning of youth idols, so he tried his best to persuade Lin Yuner, who was a little hesitant, to return to China first to read the detailed script and then make plans.

At present, the producer has only sent a rough outline of the content, and the plot shown above looks rather old-fashioned, which is nothing more than a pure love story that spans hundreds of years of time and space, and the male protagonist does not hesitate to challenge the dangerous fate in order to protect the heroine. And the screenwriter and director of the show are people who don't know the Turin coach (of course, in terms of his social circle, they don't know much about the film and television industry in Kimchi Country, the actors are better, and these behind-the-scenes workers do not know much), even Lin Yuner probably knows what works those two have done before, but it seems that the results are very average.

However, what makes Li Mudi optimistic about the prospects of this drama is the cast that has been roughly determined. The actor Jin Laiyuan, the female No. 2 Xu Zhizhi, and the female No. 3 Zhang Meiji, these three people are all good actors in the backbone of the kimchi country, both in terms of topic and their own acting skills, they may be able to break out once with Lin Yun'er, whose acting skills have always been criticized by the outside world.

Although Zhang Meiji, who is approaching 60 years old, is not well-known among the younger generation of audiences, she is a super winner of the three major film awards in Kimchi Country - Qinglong, Da Zhong, and Baeksang Best Actress; 33-year-old Xu Zhizhi is also a veteran artist for sixteen or seventeen years, with very rich experience, even if he plays supporting roles in most film and television dramas, he still leaves a lot of impressive roles, and his popularity in China is very high; As for Jin Laiyuan, some old viewers who are familiar with kimchi dramas should be very familiar with it, "The Love of the Red Bean Girl", "Men and Women in the Attic", "Love at Harvard", "My Little Bride", ...... These famous dramas are all medals on his body, although he failed to become the top kimchi star for various reasons, he was called an "old drama bone" by the outside world before he was 37 years old, and his acting skills and reputation are extremely guaranteed.

I believe that there should be no problem with the script that these excellent actors can fancie, if they miss this good opportunity, they will definitely regret it in the future. After her boyfriend's reasonable persuasion, Lin Yuner naturally made the decision to return to China after thinking about it for a night, and after getting up in the morning, she directly booked the noon flight, and after saying goodbye to Li Mudi, she reluctantly stepped on the flight back alone. The Torino coach took advantage of the lunch break to see off the plane, although he was smiling all the time, but his heart was mixed, and the two sides had to be unable to get along with each other for months.

Originally, during the national team match day holiday in early October, Li Mudi planned to return to Spain with his girlfriend to accompany his parents and meet Zizuraul and other friends. But because of the invitation to this new drama, Lin Yuna had to leave Europe early, resulting in the bankruptcy of the plan. Fortunately, the man quickly made a decision, and flew back to Asia within three days of the team's holiday after the match with Verona, and stayed with his girlfriend for two days. After all, the distance between Italy and Spain is very close, and everything can be handled easily, and things that are not important can be postponed for the time being.

And so, after a hasty change of personal plans, the time came to the last weekend of September, and the seventh round of Serie A kicked off, starting with two lesser-eyed matchups on Saturday. Udinese, who had only won 1 and lost 5, finally bounced back in this game, and they beat Sampdoria who have played well in the new season by four goals at home, giving manager Del Neri a little more stability. However, Gianpaolo did have a reason to complain after the game, because the away team was awarded three penalties in a game by the referee when they occupied 64% of the possession time, and many people felt that the old sailors lost a little unjustly.

In the second match, thanks to Palacio's goal, Bologna won 1-0 away from home, following on from Sassuolo in their last game. Donadoni's side have won two and drawn one of their last three games, including a surprise win against Inter Milan. The losing Griffins were in a predicament at the beginning of the season, with a record of 2 draws and 5 defeats allowing Juric to replace Delneri as the top of the Serie A coach list, and if he can't lead the team to victory, maybe the first manager to be sacked this season will be born in the near future.

That night, the Italian Football Federation announced the latest edition of the national team 25 squad, and only two strikers in the Torino team, Belotti and Immobile, were selected, and many players in the team still had no way to serve the country. It is worth mentioning that the three right-backs/right-wing-backs D'Ambrosio, Darmian and Zampacosta, who have previously played for the Red Bulls, are all on this list, and on the evening of October 6, the Azzurri will face Macedonia at the Turin Olympic Stadium, when the three veterans of the stadium will return to their hometowns, which can be regarded as a gimmicky topic for the outside world.

At noon on Sunday, the first kick-off game of the day was played at the São Paulo Stadium, and in the end, with superhuman absolute strength, Napoli still beat Cagliari with three goals after only six of their 25 shots on goal, completing the best team record of seven consecutive wins in the opening game. And they also became the first team in Serie A history to win all seven games in the first season and score 25 or more goals, in addition, the White Dolphins have scored at least three goals in each game, and counting the four games at the end of last season, Napoli's consecutive 3+ goals in league games have been expanded to 11 rounds, which is the most ferocious offensive firepower in the whole of Europe, which makes outsiders staggered.

At 15 o'clock in the afternoon, five games kicked off at the same time, namely Inter Milan away to Benevento, Chievo at home to Fiorentina, Lazio at home to Sassuolo, SPAL and Crotone in the relegation zone and Torino at home to Verona. Leaving the other games aside, let's focus on the city of Turin. Before the game, when the visiting winger Celci walked into the stadium with a ball boy in his hand, the home fans gave him a round of applause. Chelch, who spent last season on loan at the Red Bulls and regained some form, bowed in all four directions of the stadium with tears in his eyes to express his gratitude to the fans who still love him, and it became a moving classic scene in major European media reports this week.

Although he has not won a game since the opening 2 draws and 4 defeats, Verona coach Pezia's courage is still very commendable, and he still lined up a 4-3-3 attacking formation against the strong Torino team, hoping to suppress the home team's strong attacking ability with attacking and attacking again. It's also about keeping their somewhat weak backline too exposed to the fire of powerful strikers such as Belotti and Immobile, while also playing to their own attacking output. In the past summer, Verona successively introduced Cerci and Lee Shengyu, known as the "Messi of Barcelona's pickle country", in the front court, and also loaned the 17-year-old center forward Moses Keane with unlimited potential from Juventus, plus the original Pazzini and other good players in the team, they really can't be underestimated.

However, Li Mudi still took out the rotation plan that had been formulated a long time ago, and did not make any adjustments on the spot. In the 3-4-1-2 start, Kassi, Benassi and Immobile returned to the squad in midweek, with Gorda Rica and Diego Llorente partnering young centre-back Bonifaczi, who was making his first senior appearance, with Silvestri, Vukocevic, Musis and Bareka in midfield, and Belotti up front. With the exception of Ranocchia, who suffered sudden knee soreness before the game, and Baseli, who was suspended due to a red card, the rest of the players who played were considered to be starters in the team, and it seems that the determination of the Torino coach to take the three points is still unquestionable.

At the beginning of the game, the visitors really put a lot of troops into the attack, as the outside world expected, and they really did a good job, forming four consecutive attacks in ten minutes, some of which were anti-guest-oriented. However, Li Mudi naturally will not let the team at the bottom of the standings continue to be presumptuous on his own turf, he instructed the two central midfielders and Goldaniga to use their bodies to squeeze the opponent's space when facing the flexible and skilled Moses, resulting in the young man who is 1.82 meters tall but weighs only 68 kilograms suddenly can't find his rhythm and can no longer make waves in the home team's backline.

Chelsea, who mainly operate on the right side, is difficult to play well because the defenders they face are all former teammates who are very familiar with him, and the visitors' next attack can only rely on the left winger Algerian Faris. However, he only occasionally caused minor problems under Silvestri's watchful attention, and Verona's attack soon ran out of power.

After seeing that their defence was gradually solidified, Torino's attack began to work well, as Mobile and Belotti tested the reflexes of the visiting Brazilian goalkeeper Nicolás, but both missed the goal.

Just when the home team's offensive was as strong as a wave, as if it could rewrite the score at any time, the unexpected happened. In the 21st minute, Belotti collided with the opposing Uruguayan central defender Cáceres when he was dribbling the ball, and the Torino No. 9 lay on the grass with his hands on his right knee and wailed. When Li Mudi saw a red cross in front of his love name through the FM system, his mood naturally fell into a trough, and what he was most worried about still happened.