Chapter 134: The protagonist's task is to slap his face

The match against Chievo is a friendly tournament to commemorate the 37-year-old veteran striker Sergio Pellissier, who was born in the Turin Academy but grew into a star in Serie A at Chievo, and is about to start the fifteenth season of the Flying Donkey Army (Chievo's nickname), so in the game, the attitude of the two sides is still very kind and friendly, the physical confrontation is not too intense, and it is more about running in new tactics and new signings.

However, compared to the stumbling side of Torino, the home team, which finished ninth in Serie A last season, naturally looked very comfortable. Coach Rolando Maran has been in charge of the team for two seasons, and his tactical style of play has long been mastered by the players, and because of last year's satisfactory results, coupled with the impact of financial difficulties, they have not changed much in the new season, except for the purchase of last season's loan right-back Fabrizio Cacciatore from Sampdoria, and the rest of the newcomers have not yet been able to enter the starting lineup. Therefore, it is natural that the teamwork and tactical proficiency are far stronger than the opponent. This gap is directly reflected on the pitch, the home team players are at a disadvantage in terms of individual ability, but in terms of overall they are more than a level higher, although there is always a feeling of being a little stretched in the face of the opponent's excellent individual performance, but it is still a good use of the team's strength to block the opponent's attack, so that Torino's 11 shots on goal and 5 shots on target are all useless. They scored the only goal of the game from a second-half corner kick by substitute veteran Gambellini, thus giving Red Bull a second straight defeat in the warm-up game.

In this game, Li Muddy made a small change to the formation of the formation, he changed the position of the front three to a single midfielder and a double striker, allowing Jesse's area of activity to drag slightly behind Belottti, but with a wider width, acting as a shadow striker, completely ceding the two wings to the two Brazilians Bruno Pérez and Avilar who were inserted in the back. Judging from the effect of the actual battle, this arrangement is still somewhat threatening, but it is still subject to the problem of mutual cooperation, and there are too many mistakes, and the number of errors in these three games for the Torino team is 24, 20 and 22 respectively, far exceeding the opponent. Through the FM system, it can also be seen that the three common formations set by Li Mudi for the team 3-4-2-1, 3-4-1-2 and 4-3-2-1, the adaptability of the players is all below 70%, and the four back positions that Ventura rarely discharged in previous seasons have only mastered 55%, and the situation is not optimistic.

However, as the team's lineup has basically stabilized, Li Mudi has extended the training time of daily tactical drills, and I believe that before the official start of the new season, it is still promising to increase the adaptability of the three sets of formations to about 90%. Assistant coach Samfield is also very confident that the black-faced god has been focusing on this aspect these days, and the players who have been glared at by his "eyes of death" are working harder and harder, and the understanding between the players seems to be improving to a degree that can be seen every day.

The atmosphere in the team is good, and both the coaching staff and the players know that the main problem with the poor results in the previous warm-up games is not because of the poor quality of the new manager. However, the outside world did not see it that way, and more and more media began to criticize Torino's operation this season, starting with the "uncaused" termination of the football director, the sale of the captain and other former players, the signing of the new coach who was seriously inexperienced and capable, and the unfavorable recruitment, and many other problems, all the way to the president Urbano Cairo. At this time, Li Mudi also found that something was not quite right in the development of the situation, and Gines, who had returned to Spain, called him and told him to be careful about his words and deeds at present, and not to give the media other tricks. In the evening, Valentino Cairo came to the team's head coach's apartment, and the two talked about the incident after eating the instant noodles cooked by Li Mudi.

It turned out that someone was doing something behind the scenes, and the team before the Cairo family took over Turin had the industrialist Simenelli, who had been gathering strength after surviving the industrial crisis of the year, plotting to wait for an opportunity to take back the club. According to internal sources, Cimenelli's family has teamed up with Alessandro Moggi, known as Little Moggie, whose father is known as the ruler of Italian football for more than two decades, and has a wide range of connections that ordinary people can hardly imagine. The first thing they planned was to oust the current president, Urbano Cairo, by inducing the fans into trouble, and then take over the entire Torino club through capital operation. The original plan was not to be implemented at this time, but should have waited until the team's results reached rock bottom and the fans' discontent accumulated to the strongest. However, Li Mudi's joining brought a huge amount of corporate sponsorship from the Celestial Empire, resulting in the original valuation of only more than 100 million euros in the Turin club was instantly raised by the bank, and the latest valuation became 140 million, nearly 40% more out of thin air, which immediately made Siminili and others, who had been preparing for a long time, panicked, and they were afraid that there would be any more variables in the future, so they had to launch an offensive in advance.

Although the Turin coach who finally figured out the cause and effect didn't say anything, he was very angry in his heart, and he became an excuse and loophole for others to attack his opponent, which is simply too deceitful! Didn't you criticize me for not being good enough, for not being strong defensively, and for not bringing in good signings? Okay, I'll show you what the level of this Torino team is like right now!

Just when the outside world continued to spread all kinds of negative news against the Torino club, Li Mudi issued the most severe ban order and training plan to the team, all the team's internal staff and players are not allowed to be interviewed by the media in the near future, and the daily practice time has been extended from the previous five and a half hours to six and a half hours, plus each player's single exercise, they are not tired into dead dogs at the end of the day. The club's hierarchy, especially Mr. President, has been using his status as a media mogul to fight back in various media outlets, proving that their operations this summer are absolutely solid and reliable, and time will tell.

So how long will it take to correct the name of this Turin team? Li Mudi's answer was four days.

At 17 o'clock local time on the evening of August 4, Red Red Bull ushered in the fourth warm-up opponent of the season at its home Olympic Stadium - the Jumilia football team from Group 4 of the Spanish League C2, which was the team acquired by Tang Hui and Li Xiang.

As a result, under the witness of 7,000 home fans and several media reporters, the Red Bulls, who were full of firepower, washed away their opponents from afar with an 11-0 bloodbath, which made everyone stunned. The team was given four goals by Red Bebe, two goals by He, one goal by Vallejo, one goal by Benasi, one goal by Bruno Perez, one goal by Obi and an own goal by the opponent.

At full-time, Torino managed 78% possession, 32 shots on goal with 17 of them on target, 8 corners and over 70% tackle success rate and header success rate. And only two shots were made in the whole game, and the number of fouls was 9 to 31, and the front court players who defended Humilia had no temper.

After the game, the two Celestial Dynasty fellows who did not come to the scene to help the game made a direct long-distance call, laughing and accusing Li Mudi of being too ruthless and being too unsympathetic to his own people. The Torino coach also admitted his mistake with a smile and promised to have the opportunity to treat the two in the future to make amends. However, the two sides can still clearly recognize the difference in strength shown in the game, and Tang and Li also humbly asked the little brother Li Mudi about some problems in the team's lineup and tactics. The Torino boss, who has always been outspoken, said: "With Jumilia's current quality, it is unrealistic to want to be promoted next summer. There is nothing to say at the tactical level, the manager has his own personal philosophy, although the ability of the players is not very good, but the competitiveness of the team in La B B is generally not strong, and there will be a lot of opportunities after the young players have grown up, so what is lacking now is the accumulation of time. After all, you are the owner of the team, there will be no big problems, unlike my brother, who works for others, there can be no slackness, and you have to be criticized by the outside world all the time, hey! ”

The live broadcast of this game was spread through the Internet, so that more people who paid attention to the Torino club saw the power of Red Bull, and many fans who had been fooled by the media immediately changed their position, thinking that it was the most correct choice to remain neutral for the time being and wait for future development. However, the media, who looked down on the head coach of the Celestial Empire and was bought by Cimenelli and others, were not willing to let this fail, but even more frantically accused Jumilia's boss of being from the Celestial Empire, who had come to play a match-fixing game to help their compatriots survive the crisis of confidence. However, many people raised objections on the Internet, thinking that it was just a warm-up game, and it was worth taking a vacation, and it was meaningless at all. As a result, the media made a big fuss about the strength of the two sides, devaluing the teams in the Spanish third division as worthless, believing that if a team of their level joined Italian football, they might not even be able to play in the Serie Ding League, and the big win in Turin did not have the slightest technical content. This statement immediately sparked a scolding war between Italy and Spain, and the media and fans and netizens on both sides continued to belittle each other's football level, and there was a great deal of scolding the opponent as a dog. The posture of not withdrawing troops before the unwittingly deviated from the topic of criticizing the high-level leaders of Turin and Li Mudi, and it was to the extent that 800 horses could not be pulled back.

The Italian media's assertion that Torino was not strong ended in Madrid two days later, when Solari-led Castilla defeated Serie B mid-table side Bari 5-1 in a hearty 5-1 warm-up match at home.

However, those who are "anti-Lee Moody" will not be silent, and on August 7, Roma Sport published a lengthy interview with Lazio's new head coach Mihajlovic. In the article, the former Serbian legend expressed his opinion on the Torino club with whom he has been rumored to sign a contract, and he believes that the Red Bulls' summer can hardly be called a success, after the disintegration of the once upper-middle level of Serie A, the team has not bought a replacement replacement, and the defensive danger is too great. In addition, the team's offensive line does not have enough stars, and it is difficult to hold on to Belotti as a center forward until the end of the season. As for players on loan from Real Madrid, such as Jesus, Miha believes that the Spaniards have never had a tradition of success in Italy, so these are failed recruitment operations. He also revealed to the media that he got the news from within the club, and some players who had the opportunity to join the giants had to be kept in the team because of someone's forced blocking, which was extremely fatal to the river crab atmosphere within the team. Finally, he made his predictions for the results of two teams in the new season: Lazio, the top three in the league, the strong contenders for the Coppa Italia and at least the last four of the Europa League; Torino, who can survive relegation or even unfortunately relegated to the second division, has the most in the first round of the Coppa Italia; As for the new manager of Torino, he had never heard of this name before, so it is not convenient to comment.

Throughout, the new Lazio coach didn't belittle the Torino coach too much, but his superiority over the Celestial Empire was revealed all the time, as if the other party was only qualified to be a student in front of him, and he didn't know where this self-righteous arrogance came from. In this life, because of Li Mudi's crossing, he failed to take over Turin and get a high salary, so he had to take over the coaching whip of his old club Blue Eagle with a "half-price" annual salary of more than one million euros. Although the strength of the team is much stronger, the loss of money still makes him dissatisfied with the Turin club that did not choose him and the coach of the Celestial Empire who robbed him of his position, and completed such a visit under the provocation and arrangement of people with intentions.

In this regard, the next day's "Torino Sport" naturally could not be intimidated, and also published an article to refute it, but not only for any purpose, did not criticize Miha himself too much, but only defended his various views, and at the same time alluded to the "Roma Sport" bad intentions, trying to shake the confidence of the Torino club for the new season. Li Mudi speculated afterwards that it may be that Urbano Cairo still has illusions about the Serbs, and feels that he may have to invite the other party to coach the team in the future, and he can't tear his face for the time being.

The counterattack of the media and the club is not mentioned for the time being, and Li Mudi's face slapping action can't wait any longer, revenge must be taken as soon as possible!

On 8 August, Torino hosted their fifth warm-up opponent of the season, former Serie A side Modena, who had just been relegated from the second division last season, and the home side once again went on a big show to beat all the previous disdains to a pig's head with an 8-0 victory.