At halftime, Li Mudi was not carried away by the good situation of leading by two goals, but repeatedly asked the players to tense their nerves and not make low-level mistakes to let the opponent easily get the opportunity to counterattack.

With the two teams not familiar with each other and having never had an official head-to-head record before, the Torino boss had to use the two knockout rounds against Real Sociedad and Borussia Dortmund as a reference to prevent the visiting striker from gaining a full start to attack his own penalty area.

Therefore, after the rematch, the home team still did not take advantage of the good situation to continue to suppress, but put the three lines in a relatively conservative position, not in a hurry to fight for more goals, and strictly implemented the "safety first" strategy arranged by the head coach. Red Bull Salzburg was also frightened by the efficient offensive of the Torino team, and after suffering a loss at the end of the first half, they did not dare to invest more troops in the attack, which made the field fall into a stalemate for a while, and there were no bright spots for more than ten minutes.

However, the 2-0 score is still more delicate, it is neither 1-0 to give hope to the lagging side, nor is it 3-0 to kill the suspense of the game (of course, a week later, the score is also unsafe), but full of variables. For the leading home team, 2-0 is just the bottom line they can accept, but they will certainly not be satisfied; The away team will feel a series of unstable emotions, the difference between the two goals does not seem to be large, but if you want to complete the reversal, you must score at least two goals in the second leg and not concede goals, which is actually very difficult. And UEFA matches also recognize away goals in extra-time, so even if the aggregate score is equalized in regular time, it cannot be taken lightly, because the opponent only needs to score one goal to occupy a huge advantage.

Therefore, in general, the away team that is behind will be more reluctant to accept the score of 2-0 than the team playing at home in the first leg. As the game entered an hour later, Marco Rose could not hold back and instructed Salzburg to strengthen the assists on both flanks, trying to stretch the Torino team's defensive formation a little wider and create space for their own attack in the middle.

In the 62nd minute, Schrager, a visiting centre-forward who was more advanced than at the beginning, suddenly hit the goal with his foot about 35 meters away from the home team's goal after receiving a pass from his teammate on the wing. Although it was still quite a bit over the crossbar in the end, the power of the long-range shot and the choice of angle were good, and the 20-year-old, who had just become an Austria international a few days ago, showed that he does have the potential to grow into a star.

A minute later, Benasi's misplaced pass gave the opposition a chance to make a comeback. The visitors played well as a team, with striker Dabur, who was just outside the arc of the penalty area, smashing the ball to his left after a succession of passes from three players. Suddenly, the left-back Ulmer shot directly into the far corner of the goal without stopping the ball, and although the angle was not awkward, it was extremely fast. Luckily, Cassie reacted well to intercept the ball with a sideways pounce on the ground, and then reacted quickly to get the ball into his arms before Gulblanson came up to try to make a follow-up shot.

The Red Bull Salzburg players, who were gradually playing with their senses in the offensive end, relaxed a little mentally and were caught by the keen home team. In the 65th minute, the visitors, who had almost all the possession during this period, reversed their feet in the midfield and pulled the opponent's defensive formation in search of opportunities. However, the only three Torino attacking players who remained near the halfway circle suddenly resorted to a siege tactic that caught the opponent off guard.

Benassi was joined up by Immobile to get the ball out of the hands of visiting Mali midfielder Haidala, who immediately dribbled forward at high speed, while the latter slid diagonally to the right front to take away a centre-back who was intending to make up for the defence. When Benassi arrived at the top of the visitors' penalty area, the danger zone was a three-on-three situation, but the chasing Hajdala was clearly unable to interfere with the home team's attack in the shortest possible time.

As Calleta Karl had been pulled to the right by Immobile's movement, the only remaining centre-back, Lamalho, had to step forward to block when he saw the Torino midfielder make a kick-and-shoot move, and the result was that he was deceived into losing his underwear. Benassi flicked the ball to his left side, and Belotti, who was always ready to catch the ball, sent a push directly with the arch of his right foot, and the ball hit the right calf of goalkeeper Valker, who had already hit the line of the small penalty area, and bounced off his crotch into the net, and the score immediately became 3-0.

The goal essentially destroyed the last bit of luck for Salzburg, who had to score at least one goal in order to keep the suspense of the second leg back at home a week later, otherwise it would be too difficult to complete the comeback. So while the home team players and fans were still celebrating at the Stadio Olimpico, Marco Rose motioned to a number of substitutes to speed up their warm-up and replaced two players in one go shortly after the restart.

The young Austrian striker Wolf replaced Hajdala who had just made a fatal mistake, and the other player on the field was an Asian face, born in 1995, Japanese striker Takumi Minamino replaced Gulbranson, who was in average form today, so that the commentators and guests of the live broadcast party of the Celestial Empire who were broadcasting the game at this time had mixed feelings.

Needless to say, the situation of the players of the Celestial Empire staying abroad is well known, although it is not the total annihilation, but it is basically almost gone. Zhang Yuning, who was the most promising before, has completely sunk in Germany, since last summer by the Premier League team West Bromwich Albion inexplicably spent a huge amount of 7.2 million euros to bring in and directly subloan to Bremen in the Bundesliga, this young man who is regarded as the future star of the national football team has not been able to play in even a formal club competition, which can be said to be a waste of good growth time. As for Wei Shihao and other young players, they have already chosen to return to China for development, and there is almost no possibility of entering European football again.

However, our close neighbors have been expanding their circle of survival in the world's top football circles in the past two decades, not to mention the star-level figures who play in the five major leagues of Serie A, Bundesliga and the Premier League. In the Austrian team of Red Bull Salzburg alone, there are two, in addition to Takumi Minamino, there is also a Kimchi country striker Hwang Hee-chan born in 1996. What's even more terrifying is that the status of these two people in the team is not low, although they can't shake the position of the two main players, but everyone can get a lot of playing time.

As of this game, Takumi Minamino had made 35 appearances this season, contributing ten goals and nine assists. The younger Hwang Hee-chan also has 30 appearances, scoring 12 goals and providing three assists. Considering that they are only rotation players in the team, and have spent a lot of time in non-central forward roles, we have to admit that these two youngsters have really performed well, far surpassing their peers in the Celestial Empire.

Turning his gaze back to the playing field, the addition of two new forces made the attacking energy of the visiting team explode in an instant. In particular, Takumi Minamino, who is only 1.74 meters tall, showed an amazing high ball quotient, running back and forth between the Torino team's backline, creating a certain amount of interference for the experienced Ranocchia and others.

In the 71st minute, Wolf distributed the ball to Schmid in front of the right on the halfway line, and then accelerated forward as if to complete a collision with his team-mate, attracting a lot of attention from the home team's players. Schmid won the ball and made a through feint, then saw the space at the edge of the penalty area and handed it to Takumi Minamino, who had just come on the pitch, with a precise pass. The latter resisted Kanneman's pressure behind him and cleverly slammed his heel to send the ball to Dabur at the top of the arc.

The Israeli striker did not choose to force a breakthrough in the face of the bag of Ranocchia and Tulalang, but seemed to pull out his foot and shoot angrily after pretending to pluck the ball, and after deceiving the defender's center of gravity, he sent a wonderful diagonal pass with the outside of his right foot, which just allowed the Japanese striker on the right to successfully counter offside and get a great opportunity to face the goalkeeper one-on-one.

Rising star Takumi Minamino and veteran Casillas, who was once the best goalkeeper in the world but is now past his prime, met on the right side of the small penalty line, the former calmly choosing to push the ball into the near corner, while the latter fell to the ground very quickly. In the end, it was the old Spanish legend who won slightly, and although his left hand couldn't fully save the ball, the bottom half of his palm still played a blocking role. After a fierce confrontation with the goalkeeper's gloves, the ball slammed into the turf and then bounced high into the net past the home team's last line of defence, but it grazed the outside of the post and went out of the line. The red bull escaped this in a thrilling way!

Li Mudi was very annoyed by the team's mistake, he rushed to the sideline and yelled twice at Barreka, who had just failed to recuperate, and then reminded everyone not to be careless. Two minutes later, he replaced Tulalang and Belotti with Musis and Farke. The French veteran's fitness is quickly depleted in high-intensity runs and requires a new midfielder to guard dangerous areas at the edge of the box; There are two reasons for the replacement of the red babe, one is that the Torino coach is ready to completely change the tactics to a defensive counterattack, Falke and Immobile have a more obvious speed advantage, and the second is to save strength for the league against Inter Milan at the weekend, the three-goal lead is already very stable, and there is no need to risk conceding goals to strengthen the attack.

The home team that has fully recovered is still relatively good in terms of defensive strength, and did not let the opponent get a good chance to attack the goal within ten minutes, but everything is afraid of accidents. In the 83rd minute, right-back Reiner sent a cross, the ball flew high and floating over the Torino team's penalty area, and no one could fight for the landing point, just as everyone turned their eyes to the far end to see who could control the second landing point, the referee's whistle sounded abruptly.

The 37-year-old international referee from Romania, named Ovidiou Hartgan, went so far as to blow the elbow of Torino centre-back Ranocchia, who had been stuck in the process of grabbing the point just now, with an elbow to the face of visiting striker Dabur. After the penalty was awarded, the home team was given a yellow card to the No. 4, causing unanimous dissatisfaction among the whole of Torino. However, no amount of boos from the fans in the stadium could shake the referee's will, and Wallon Berisha deceived Casillas, who is known for his penalty-saving skills, and sent the ball firmly into the bottom right corner of the net to level the score at 3-1.

This score is more favorable to Red Bull Salzburg than the previous 2-0, despite the same point difference, but at least one away goal, the home game has a margin for mistakes, and the chances of promotion have increased by at least five percentage points.

However, before the fans of both sides could fully digest the emotional changes caused by the goal, the home team shocked everyone with a wave of rapid attacks after the restart, and once again pulled the difference between the two teams back to three goals.

Immobile kicked off the ball in the centre circle back to Benasi behind him, and a simple exchange between the latter and several other team-mates such as Vukocevic lured away the visiting players who wanted to take advantage of the morale boost to score again. And just when four men crossed the halfway line and pressed high, Moussis suddenly burned the fire into the visitors' half with a through ball, and Benassi cleverly struck Falke on his left with his right foot with his back to the attack, while avoiding Samaseku's tackle.

Falke, who won the ball, dribbled forward at high speed from 45 yards away from the opponent's goal in the middle, used his speed to shake off Schrager, and then shook off the replacement centre-back Calleta Carr, and drove all the way into the penalty area. With Immobile on the side, another visiting centre-back was unable to return in time, and the home winger was given a one-on-one chance. Falke, who burst into the line of the penalty area, met the attacking goalkeeper Valker and sent the ball under the latter's body into the empty net with a very easy push, 4-1, the Red Bulls quickly gave a powerful counterattack after conceding the ball, and refused to create a suspense of promotion, at least at this time.

The Salzburg players, who were stunned by the ball, did not regain their spirits until near the end of the game, but the two strong attacks they organized failed to produce results, and the Torino team seized the opportunity to play a counter-attack again. Unfortunately, Mobile lacked a bit of luck with a low-angle volley from the right in the first minute of stoppage time and grazed the far post, otherwise the bookmakers could have closed the promotion bets on this matchup.

In the end, the Red Bulls defeated the Austrian league champions 4-1 at home in the first leg of the Europa League quarterfinals, and one foot has already entered the threshold of the final four.