The time soon entered February, because of the Spring Festival, this month is naturally the most important time of the year for the people of the Celestial Empire.

And since Chinese New Year's Eve is the day after the weekend match day, the Torino club has also rearranged the inside and outside of the station, especially the stadium, in accordance with the ideas of the past two years, so that the ubiquitous Celestial Empire elements have been in people's eyes since the end of January.

As the team's results this year exceeded most people's expectations, and the attraction for Malaysians has also increased compared to last year, the Italian Ministry of Tourism has even estimated that at least 150,000 Celestial Empire tourists will visit the Apennine Peninsula during the Spring Festival holiday, and most of them will use Turin as a base on their itinerary.

The consumption that so many local tyrants will bring will naturally be an astronomical amount, how can it not make the local ZF attach great importance to it, after some operation, the whole city has a little New Year's flavor, which is extremely rare.

However, as a descendant of Yan Huang, Li Mudi does not have too much heart to enjoy this Spring Festival at this moment, and Juventus is chasing after him, so that his team cannot have the slightest chance to dare to relax.

On Saturday 2 February, the Bianconeri, who started the game, continued their excellent form after the winter break with a three-goal win at Cagliari, and temporarily closed the gap on Torino to two points.

In the face of such tremendous pressure, the red bull obviously has to hold his breath, even if the difficulty is great, he has to grit his teeth and knock down one opponent after another. Otherwise, if you fail to resist this breath, everyone's hard work in the previous six months will be immediately wasted, which is difficult for every member of the club to accept.

The next day, the twenty-ninth day of the lunar calendar of the Celestial Empire, that is, the penultimate day of the Wuxu year, Li Mudi led the team to welcome the rival Sampdoria at home. As a result, after a brutal 90-minute battle, they won 2-1 with great difficulty, completing the season's double against the club's number two arch-rival.

It's just that defensive midfielder Vukocevic also followed in the footsteps of Cassie in the game, ate the red jewel card, and was directly sent off for using dangerous moves. The Montenegro international will face the same two-game league ban as his own goalkeeper, but the Spanish veteran will be back in a tough conversation with Inter Milan two games later, and he will have to miss that crucial game.

And after the departure of Muthiss, the team only has two reliable candidates left in this important position, and Vukocevic is now suspended, and the burden falls on Ascarcibal's shoulders. Fortunately, the Argentine young man's condition can be said to be so good that he has no friends during this period of time, and he can play world-class almost every game, which still reassures the coaching staff.

It's just that the side effect of his sudden rise is also very obvious, that is, it has attracted the attention of many big teams, and the FM system shows that almost all European teams with prestige above the Torino team have become interested in Ascarcival, which makes Li Mudi also have a bit of a headache.

But fortunately, the transfer period has just ended, as long as those rumors can not interfere with the state of the player, he can't control too many things, after all, even if he will stay, it can't stop people from pursuing better personal treatment and the recruitment of many giants.

After a brief celebration of the New Year with his parents and fiancée, Lee led the team to central Italy on the second weekend of February, where they won 4-0 from Empoli on the fifth day of the Lunar New Year. Belotti scored a hat-trick in the game, the first solo triple goal by a Torino player so far this season.

Due to the team's tactical arrangement, after contributing the league's top scorer for two consecutive years, the Red Bulls have basically announced that they have missed the third consecutive championship of the honor. After the match with Empoli, the team's Red Bebe, who scored the most goals in the league, only scored 14 goals, not only behind Icardi and Dzeko, but also far from Cristiano Ronaldo, who was suspected of cheating.

However, in terms of the wide distribution of firepower, then the Torino team is the absolute No.1 in Serie A, ranking the third highest in the entire league of 57 goals, there are 18 players on the list, including an own goal, which can also be regarded as a small miracle in the football world.

However, under the pressure of Juventus, not many people will pay attention to this record, and less than three hours after Torino's big win on the road, the Bianconeri sat at home to thrash Chievo 6-0 to bring the gap back to five points, and the rivalry between the two city teams began to show a fierce momentum.

No, this kind of high-intensity confrontation has also continued from the league to the European competition.

The following week, the 2018/19 Champions League quarter-finals kicked off, with Torino City's two teams coming on two days apart to start their knockout journeys.

Shortly after the final round of the group stage at the end of last year, the first-leg knockout squad for the two European competitions was officially announced by draw.

Juventus, who easily topped the group, are the clear favourites to win the title and have been placed on a weaker side: Valencia. Although the Spanish side have consistently performed well in the Champions League, the huge difference in quality between the two sides makes the suspense of this group matchup really not too big, and only the craziest gamblers will put their chips on last season's La Liga team.

As for the other three Italian teams who also finished second in the group and reached the round of 16, their luck was not great. The Roma team, which almost upset all the way to the final last year, encountered the powerful Bundesliga hegemon Bayern Munich, and the prospects are very worrying; Napoli, who have little experience in Europe, is even more lucky, and even drew Barcelona, although Boss May returned home in the World Cup in Russia and almost cut off the dream of impacting the king, but in the club, he is still invincible, and the outside world is unanimously optimistic that the Catalan team can easily advance to the quarterfinals.

Compared with the above two difficult brothers, the difficulty of the Torino team in the first round of the knockout round is not too much. Although the French giants Paris Saint-Germain has always been evaluated as "an expert in the civil war and an outsider in the foreign war", this life has not been able to dig up a new generation of football king Mbappe because of Li Mudi, but in the case of retaining the front trident of Neymar, Di Maria and Cavani, and hoarding a number of world-class stars in the midfield, the strength of Paris is still unquestionable, and the red bull must burst out with 120% energy if he wants to climb over this mountain.

Judging from the first leg of the meeting between the two sides, the Torino team sitting at home did not choose to give up the Champions League because of the huge pressure from their rivals in the league, and Li Mudi sent a set of the best team he could come up with, obviously not just going to go through the knockout rounds.

In the frantic cheering of the fans at the scene, the Torino team played the tactics of solid defense and quick counterattack arranged by the head coach to the fullest, and if it were not for the Filipino goalkeeper Areola of the visiting team who made at least three key saves, the final score difference would never have been as weak as 1-0.

At the other end of the pitch, the attacking line of Grand Paris was not vegetarian either, and Casillas also staged a number of godlike plays, leaving the victory at the Stade Olimpic. Especially in the last 20 minutes of the game, the French giants who were behind by one goal almost launched a tidal attack, and the former Real Madrid captain intercepted high-altitude balls and attacked very decisively several times, leaving no chance for the opponent to take advantage of. He, along with Immobile, who scored a golden goal, was the biggest contributor to the victory.

However, the first leg was only one goal away at home, a result that can only be said to be above and below the passing line, and the second game at the Parc des Princes three weeks later will obviously be a problem for Li Mudi.

The prospect of promotion for their city rivals is much more fantastic, with Cristiano Ronaldo's habitual performance in the Champions League helping Juventus to a 3-1 away victory, with one foot already on the threshold of the quarter-finals.

But until then, Torino's energy will have to be focused on how to take down Inter Milan's arch-rivals.

On 13 February, the Red Bulls, who returned to the domestic arena, not only failed to simply reminisce about the joy of winning in Europe, but instead canceled their usual post-match break and went straight to the Nerazzurri's tactical drills.

Four days later, facing Inter Milan, who were eight points away from their own side and still retained some hope of winning the title, considering that the players' physical fitness was not all at their best, Li Mudi rarely lined up a conservative 4-4-2 formation, with Dickman and Boyer acting as the two wing-backs, apparently hoping to strengthen the defensive strength on the field. However, this idea did not help the home team to gain even the slightest advantage, not only in attack because of the lack of support from the two wings, but also in the defensive end, because the opponent did not have to be too distracted in the backcourt, so that they could put more energy into the front court.

The most important thing is that although Boyer is very defensive among the wingers, but in the face of Perisic, who was in explosive form today and deliberately switched to the left side to play him, the Argentine young man is also powerless, if it were not for the help of his companions, he could really kneel on the ground and sing conquest. Throughout the first half of the game, no one should have questioned Boyer when he was completely beaten by his opponent.

In this way, after the half-time anti-away drama that few people could have expected before the game, with the help of the stable performance of the Torino team's back line and some luck factors, Li Mudi's team was able to maintain a 0-0 deuce and did not dig a deeper hole in the second half. However, even this result is believed to make the extremely supporters of Juventus who are watching the live broadcast a small wave of celebration, because it is difficult to find a reason for the Red Bulls to win just by looking at the performance of the first 45 minutes.

However, those who are singing the bad are underestimating the strength of this team, especially its coach Li Mudi, after the accumulation of the first two seasons, Torino has been carefully tuned in this Celestial Empire. He has grown into a top European team that no one can beat lightly. The victory over Atletico Madrid in the Europa League final, the beating of Real Madrid in the UEFA Super Cup, the dominance of the Serie A standings for four and a half months in the past six months, and the defeat of Juventus twice in the league and the Italian Super Cup, will naturally give them a lot of self-confidence.

So when the home team changed their formation back to 3-5-2 before the rematch (replacing the starting right wing-back Dickman with Issa Diop, the original two full-backs Silvestri and Bareka became wing-backs, and Bruno Fernandes replaced Boyer with striker Bruno Fernandes), the team's overall possession of the ball in midfield immediately improved by at least one level, and the tactics were no longer as defensive as they were in the first half, although they would also play defensive counter-attacks when the opposition pressed out, but when the ball was at their own feetThe offensive end has also become more aggressive.

Especially with the Portuguese international's role as a link between the forward line and the midfield line, the Torino team has more ways to get caught up in positional battles. First of all, the three lines that Inter had pressed very high before were forced back to the position where the two sides were in a position of parity, widening the distance between Icardi and other strikers and the goal guarded by Cassie, and reducing the number of times the opponent entered the dangerous area of his side. After that, he suddenly started to exert power from the 65th minute, and played a wave of continuous offensive high. tide, completely crushing the away team to the point where they can't raise their heads.

When Ascarcibal, who had scored more than once before, kicked a long-range shot from 30 meters away on the crossbar of the Inter goal, causing Handanovic to break out in a cold sweat, Spalletti finally couldn't sit still and ordered all the players to retreat, holding on to the status quo of the draw. Picking up a point at home to the league leaders is not a perfect result for the Nerazzurri who are still trying to keep their title hopes alive, but at least it is acceptable.

However, Si Shuai's conservative strategy was met with a blow in the 78th minute, when Mobile took advantage of a scuffle to rewrite the situation with a clever stab from inside the six-yard box to give the home team the lead.

After falling behind by one goal, Inter Milan had lost the reason to defend and only then resumed their investment in the attacking end. However, Li Mudi took the opportunity to replace Immobile with Lucas Moura, a fast forward man with full fitness, and pulled the fierce Belotti back to the midfield, and the team's attacking routine only played the new Brazilian, allowing him to rely on speed to impact the two central defenders of the visiting team who were not slow to turn but had a lot of physical exertion.

Although this move is very monotonous and lacks variety, the power generated in this time period is very huge, and if you can catch one of the three or four chances, you can completely kill the suspense of the game.

In the end, in the mentality of Inter hoping to press all the way, but there was a bit of a mouse, the score of 1-0 was maintained until the referee blew the half-time whistle, and the Torino team defended their home stadium with great difficulty and got this very valuable three points.