Torino underwent a major overhaul this summer, with 16 of the 27 first-team players coming in from the new roster, which is extremely rare to happen in the top flight, and only those relegated teams will change their squad on such a large scale, which is the main reason why so many people are not optimistic about what the Red Bulls can achieve this season.

The team spent around 31 million on 10 new signings, while a total of 12 players were sold and a huge transfer fee of 50 million euros was received. After deducting the 20% withheld by the club, and then counting the additional expenses such as the signing fee paid to the player and the agent's benefit fee, Li Mudi's transfer funds that can be used are about 3 million, which basically has no effect. In other words, the door to Torino's summer transfer market has been completely closed, and financially, even if the marketing department breaks even, while the club as a whole has earned 10 million euros, if you count the new sponsorship contracts, it is definitely the most beautiful report card in the past decade.

Although the squad was determined before the start of the league, due to the fact that the time was still too tight, several players and teammates reported later had not yet formed the most basic tacit understanding, and Joe Hart even only experienced two days of training with the whole team, so Li Mudi naturally would not rush to send them out. So at 18:00 on the evening of August 21, in the first round of Serie A against AC Milan, many stars that fans were looking forward to were put on the bench, and some of them didn't even go with the team, which is a big pity.

The two cities of Turin and Milan are very close to each other, less than two hours by car, or 90 minutes sooner, but the team decided to take the bus to Milan in the afternoon before the game, and they will borrow Inter's training ground to adjust, which shows how seriously the club is taking the start of the new league season.

At the Pinettina training complex, which will be renamed the Suning Sports Training Center, the Torino team did not meet the Nerazzurri's coaching staff and players, who were only scheduled for the morning training day. Naturally, this is not to make room for the Red Bulls, but to leave for Verona early tomorrow morning to take on the league's first opponent, Chievo, and Lee's colleagues regret not being able to get a closer look at the giants' form. In this regard, the Torino coach does not care too much, through the FM system display, Inter Milan's players are generally not high, the state is also mediocre, away against the very good situation of the flying donkey army may have to kneel. And Torino won't meet Inter until the 10th round of the league at the end of October, so it's too early to say anything, so let's concentrate on preparing for this game against AC Milan.

To be honest, Li Mudi really doesn't think the current AC Milan team is strong. In the transfer period, they let go of players such as Shaarawy, Boateng and Matri one after another, but the new signings they brought in were all leftovers, and the most expensive was Paraguayan central defender Gustavo López, with a transfer fee of 8.5 million euros, which is a substitute. They still have some quality at the back, supernova Donnarumma's goal-line skills are top-notch, tall and quick-witted, and he is a strong contender for Italy's number one goal in the future; In the position of central defender, the combination of Paletta and Roma Gnoli is also very complementary, the former has outstanding interception ability and is good at physical confrontation, while the latter is attentive and very calm in handling the ball, although both of them are not top defensive players, but they can still be ranked in Serie A, especially Little Rome, only 21 years old, it can be said that he has great potential, but unfortunately Torino can't buy it; Guarding the two wings are two Milan academy graduates Luca Antonelli and Abate, who played for Torino for a season, both of whom are very well-rounded full-backs at both ends of the pitch and have the quality to be selected for the national team, but both are plagued by injuries. Overall, Milan's backline is in the top five of the league overall, as long as they don't suffer serious injuries.

In the midfield position, Montolivo, although still strong, is also a sick seedling; Bonaventura has some potential, but he is also an all-round player with no strengths, and the ceiling is only the second Candreva; As for the young defender Locatelli, Pirlo or Xavi Alonso II, who is widely favored by the outside world, still needs a short time to grow up, and he can't shoulder the team's responsibilities for the time being; The remaining Slovakia international Jurla Kucka, former hopeful Poli and Japanese Keisuke Honda are even more so-sovereign.

Milan's front line has been in constant flux, and after trying a myriad of domestic and foreign attackers in the last four or five seasons, they have finally established an attacking combination of Baka, Suso and Niang this summer. All three have excellent dribbling ability, but the weaknesses are also obvious, the two wingers are too far away from the goal, I am afraid that there will not be many goals, and Colombian center forward Baca has a good shooting ability, but the desire to attack is too strong, and it is easy to fall into the opponent's offside trap. Li Mudi thinks that this kind of tenacious striker is still easy to deal with, and has dug many big holes for him, just waiting for this kid to jump by himself. Regarding Milan's offensive ability, the Torino coach believes that it can only be regarded as a passing pass, and it is a little unreliable at critical moments, and it is likely that the team will not be able to get a ticket to Europe. But at this time, he never expected that his judgment was almost completely wrong in the evening game, and his face was also fanned into a pig's head.

This was the third Serie A game of the new season, with Roma beating Udinese 4-0 at home to get off to a good start in the opening game, before Juventus beat Fiorentina 2-1 at home to kick off a sixth straight title.

This coming to San Siro is the second time that Li Muddy has come to this football mecca since the Champions League final at the end of last season, but the last time was as a spectator, and this time as the coach of the away team, it feels like there is a big difference. Although he was also very excited as a spectator before, he was still emotionally relaxed compared to others because he clearly remembered the result of that match. But when he visited this stadium again today, he didn't know anything about the future game, and he had to challenge and fight by himself, and he would inevitably feel extremely nervous in his heart, and the sound of his heart beating fast even overshadowed the outside world, so that Li Mudi couldn't feel the surrounding situation at all, until a person came to his side.

The person who came was Vincenzo Montella, a former Italian international who had just taken over a new team in the summer, and the Torino coach who woke up hurriedly stretched out his right hand and shook the handsome man who looked very much like Oscar-winning actor Robert De Niro when he was young, and the two sides parted after a brief exchange of words, and each returned to the team's coaching box.

It's just that before the referee's opening whistle sounded, Li Mudi's mind kept reviewing the resume of the new Milan coach: don't look at Montella, nicknamed "Little Plane", is only 172cm tall, but he was also the top penalty killer in Italian football back then. Since starting his playing career in 1990 with his parent club Empoli, he has played for Genoa, Sampdoria, Roma and Fulham in the Premier League, scoring more than 200 goals in his career, including 141 in Serie A, ranking around 30th in history. It doesn't look like a good position, but given his low appearance numbers, a goal rate of almost 50 per cent would definitely be in the top 10 in Serie A history, beating Inzaghi and matching Vieri. It's a pity that the national team has not been reused, and the performance is also a mess, and in the end it has not been able to get a historical position comparable to its super scoring ability. After retiring from the Red Wolves in 2009, Montella went on to become head coach of Roma's Under-15s, acting first-team manager and later head coach of Catania, Fiorentina and Sampdoria before taking over the reins of AC Milan on 29 June this year. During his three years in Fiorentina, the team's results have always been in the fourth place, and it should be said that the coaching level is still good, at least much better than Mihajlovic.

Just when Li Mudi was still thinking about the opponent's coach, the game officially began. In addition to the local TV station in Milan, the CCTV sports station and the Xiaoshi sports network platform also made a live broadcast of the game at the same time, according to previous predictions, at this time, there will be about 35 million fans of the Celestial Dynasty in front of the TV or the Internet to watch the Celestial Empire head coach's Serie A debut, which is nearly four times the total number of viewers in Italy for a single round of ten games.

Montella unsurprisingly fielded the strongest line-up in a 4-3-3 pitch with the aforementioned front and back line-up, while Bonaventura, Montori and Kuczka were selected in midfield.

Torino also played in the away game, with a 3-4-3 formation, goalkeeper: Padelli, three central defenders from right to left: Kastan, Moretti and Rossetini, right wing Bruno Perez, left wing Avilar, midfield Vievis and Benasi, right winger Jesus, left winger Rajjadzic, center Belotti. The two wingers up front will change positions depending on the situation on the pitch, with Rajjdzic moving up the middle to play as a midfielder and Jesus going up front to play as a shadow striker, and the formation becomes 3-4-1-2, the same position Roma used when they won the title in 2000-01.

According to the analysis given by various media before the game, although everyone is still more optimistic about the home team, Milan only won 1 win in the first round of Serie A in the previous four seasons (1 draw and 3 losses), while Torino has been unbeaten in the first round of Serie A in the past seven seasons (3 wins and 4 draws), and there is only 1 goal conceded in the first round in the past five seasons, which can be called one of the best teams in the first round. However, looking at the historical records of the two teams, it is natural that the home team has the advantage of being far ahead, with an unbeaten record of 10 wins and seven draws against Torino in the league since 2001, and the last time the visitors won at the San Siro was back in March 1985, 31 years ago.

At the beginning of the game, AC Milan took advantage of the home advantage to frequently launch attacks on the away team's goal, and they took advantage of the weakness of the away team's back line to launch long-distance high-altitude balls from the midfield and backfield many times, trying to use Baka's impact to cause mistakes by the opposing defenders. However, fortunately, Li Mudi's preparation in advance was quite sufficient, the four midfielders were very far behind, and it was easy to defuse the opponent's attempt in the case of an absolute advantage in numbers, and on the offensive end, he used Hesse and Rajadzic to personally dribble several times to impact the two ribs of the home team, and the two sides were evenly matched on the court for a while.

In the 11th minute, Milan took the lead in completing the first goal of the game, French winger Niang burst into the penalty area after receiving a through ball from Montolivo, and volleyed vigorously into the left corner of the penalty area, but the angle was too positive and was easily confiscated by Padelli.

Two minutes later, Rajadzic's cross crossed the entire opposition defence, and Belotti was knocked to the ground by Paletta's physical confrontation as he rushed into the opposition penalty area to prepare for the ball, and the referee ignored the protests of the away coach and players, signaling that there was no foul and the game continued.

In the fifteenth minute, the home team almost scored a goal, Baca burst into the bottom line on the left side of the penalty area and passed back, Niang's volley from ten meters in front of the goal was slightly out of the goal, shocking the fans of the Torino team and the Celestial Empire supporters. Subsequently, Suso's left-footed long-range shot from the right rib on the counter-attack also went over the crossbar, and Milan's attack was a bit fierce during this period.

Just as Li Mudi stood on the sidelines to make adjustments to the team's tactics, Ljajic collided with Romagnoli in an attack, and injured his left knee so badly that the team doctor signaled that he could not hold on any longer, and carried him off the field on a stretcher. The visitors had to use up a substitution when the first half was less than 20 minutes, and the Spanish winger Iago Farke, who had warmed up for less than two minutes, was replaced, because he could not play in the front midfield, so the changes in the front field before the game completely failed, and the team's midfield possession ability dropped a notch all of a sudden, and Torino had to focus on the two wings to reduce the defensive pressure of the home team.

In the 38th minute, Li Mudi made a mistake in the offside tactics arranged before, and the Torino midfielder immediately played a beautiful counterattack after conceding the goal, Niang's pick pass directly penetrated the entire back line of the away team, Abate directly volleyed into the middle after high-speed insertion on the right side, Bacca flew to the top seven meters in front of the goal, and hit the ball into the lower left corner of the goal. 1-0, the Colombian striker continued his good form from last season, scoring in four consecutive rounds across the season.

The Torino coach originally thought that the offside tactic that could limit the opponent's offensive play turned out to be the key failure of the goal conceded, which is really helpless!