Chapter 228: Farewell and Great Victory
Judging from the technical statistics of the whole game, this is really a terrible matchup, the water and low temperature make the players on both sides not even play at the level of fifty percent, adding up to a total of only 17 attacks on goal of which 5 shots on target, if not impossible to do at all, it is estimated that many viewers will want to refund the ticket.
However, Li Mudi didn't have the heart to pay attention to whether the game was exciting or not, and he didn't care about playing some ugly games when he was sure to win. However, after shaking hands with Empoli boss Marttuschelo, the Torino boss hurried back to the dressing room, feeling really bad in the rain and there were a few important things to ask about. Fortunately, he was relieved by the first news, and after a more detailed examination, the team doctor confirmed that Belotti was fine, and that the previous severe pain was only a hard injury, and that there were no structural problems with his muscles. Red Beibei, who has been receiving a physiotherapy massage in the locker room after the game, smiled embarrassedly after seeing the boss come over, and his reaction was indeed a little overactive at that time, which scared everyone a lot.
After comforting his number one striker, Li Mudi and the coaches reminded the players who had just entered the house to take a hot shower to expel the cold in their bodies.
Because the game was too lackluster, coupled with the non-stop moderate rain, everyone was not interested, so the post-game press conference ended hastily. This was exactly what the Torino coach wanted, and after the others took the bus to the hotel, he also took a taxi to another high-end hotel, where his parents and Lin Yun'er had already arrived early to wait for him to have dinner together.
The purpose of letting the second elder fly over from Mallorca is very clear, that is, to let them meet their son's girlfriend, after all, both of them have to go through this step after the relationship is formalized. Lin Yun'er's time is very tight, and she will return to Kimchi Country tomorrow, and Li Mudi has to coach the game again and can't leave, so she has to trouble the two old men to come over in person. His parents had just returned to Europe from the Celestial Empire for the Spring Festival, and had just received a good news call after a day of rest on the farm. The son's marriage has always been a problem for the two of them, and now that someone is finally willing to accept him, it naturally makes them happy enough, even if the other party is the most ordinary and ordinary person, there will be no problem, not to mention Lin Xiaolu, a super big magnesium aluminum! And this magnesium aluminum's EQ is still super high, a small mouth (when she doesn't laugh, the mouth is still quite small) coaxed the second elder to be very happy, and directly recognized this daughter-in-law, Li Mudi's status once again fell to the extent that he could get the money for the phone.
Although it is not very common in real life to have a daughter-in-law and forget about a son, the Torino coach is still very happy about the current situation. Although it is freedom of love, if a relationship is not approved by the families of both parties, especially the parents, it is difficult for two people to go to the end safely. But when he thought that he was going to Kimchi Country to meet the future old Taishan, Li Mudi's mood became apprehensive again, and that kind of fear seeped into people when he thought about it, and he didn't know if he could pass that level smoothly.
The next day was the team's rest day, so after returning to Turin in the morning, the team members were free to move around. The Turin coach did not go back directly, but flew to Milan with his parents and girlfriend, and after visiting a few attractions there, he found a very authentic mountain city hot pot restaurant, and the four of them enjoyed a meal of Celestial Empire food together. In the evening, the two flights left the Apennine Peninsula with Li Mudi's relatives, and he also got into a car from Forsina and returned to his apartment in Turin. Before parting, the couple, who had just confirmed their relationship, had agreed that the national team break in late March would bring a small holiday, when the Torino coach would fly to Asia to meet Lim Yun'er's father and sister.
Because the Spring Festival holiday has ended, and Empoli's strength is very weak, so although the live broadcast of the Serie A league is still the prime time of Sunday evening on the side of the Celestial Empire, the ratings have dropped sharply compared with before, according to statistics, less than 5,000 Celestial Empire fans watched the live game in front of the TV and online platforms, which dropped by more than 50% on the first day of the new year. However, the big news announcing the romance still made the Turin coach the focus of the domestic Internet and media, although the number of black fans has increased, but the topic has indeed crushed a number of stars. Advertisers are happy to bloom, have to its domestic agent Lin Zixu proposed to renew the contract in advance, was temporarily shelved by the latter, with Li Mudi's age and the current results of the Turin team, the rise in value is inevitable, if you want to develop the business career in the most rational way, you can't be too anxious, this truth is really clear to Lin Zixu, who has 20 years of work experience.
There is also a small episode in the middle, on Monday night, when Li Mudi was about to rest, he received a phone call from China, and when he picked it up, it turned out to be Mr. Wu Gang, who became popular with the drama "People" in the second half of last year. Mr. Wu first laughed and teased the Turin coach for his recent very unkind approach to occupying the headlines of many media and not giving others a way to live, and then explained the reason for this call. He has just participated in the internal preview of "Wolf Warrior 2", and believes that the film is very good, and the box office is very likely to hit the billion mark, and he also regrets that the Torino coach missed this investment opportunity.
In April last year, when the filming of "The People" had just ended, Mr. Wu had already received the script of this patriotic military action movie. He was very optimistic about this drama at that time, and wanted to introduce Li Mudi, who had a very good relationship with the crew of "The People", to Wu Jing, thinking that if he could increase some investment, the movie might be shot better, and the investors could also make a lot of money, wouldn't everyone be happy. But when Li Mudi asked Baozi to come forward to contact, he found that Wu Jing was no longer in the embarrassing state when he filmed the first part before, due to the outstanding performance of "Wolf Warrior 1", this sequel attracted various companies to compete for money before the filming started, in order to repay the personal debt he owed before, he even had to reserve a part of the investment share for his friends in advance, and Li Mudi and they couldn't get involved at all.
But at that time, everyone didn't have any feelings of regret, after all, there is no bottom on what this movie can become, but who knows that such a magical box office record will be created in the future, as soon as this matter is mentioned, Li Mudi and Baozi feel a little painful in their hearts, but they can only silently accept the regret of wrong.
Leaving aside the unpleasant stuff, let's turn our attention back to this round of Serie A, where all 10 matches in round 23 have been concluded with the final set of fixtures on Monday night, and the situation in the table has changed somewhat.
There were three big games this weekend, starting with Napoli's recent in-form thrashing Bologna 7-1 away at goal, and did so with just 14 attempts on goal in the game. Hamsik and Mertens scored hat-tricks respectively, with the latter soaring to 17 league goals, keeping pace with Belotti with 20 goals.
Not to be outdone, Lazio, who competed with Torino and other teams for European qualification, defeated league vice-captain Pescara 6-2 while playing away from home. Parolo, a midfielder who has just turned 32, was the subject of media attention after the game, knowing that he had only scored one goal in the 22 rounds before this season, and Immobile claimed in an interview: "There was a god possessed this night. ”
The final big win came at home to the Red Wolves, who beat Fiorentina by four goals to continue to put pressure on leaders Juventus at the top of the table. In this campaign, Bosnian center forward Dzeko also scored two goals, and his total number of goals also came to 17, and the competition in the scorer list is no less than that in the standings!
None of those games managed to dominate the sports newspapers on Monday morning, however, as the Old Lady beat Inter Milan by a narrow goal thanks to Cuadrado's long-range strike just before half-time, winning the second leg of the Italian derby of the season and avenging a 2-1 defeat away last September. The loser's city rivals were also unlucky, with Montella's side being beaten 1-0 by Sampdoria with a home advantage. On this night, the tears of the city of Milan contrasted sharply with the laughter of the cities of Turin and Rome.
Since the next opponent of the Torino team is Pescara, who is still difficult to win, and the strength is very different, Li Doudi and his players have always been in a relatively relaxed state during this week's training. However, the relaxed mood of the team boss was seriously disturbed before it lasted until the weekend, and the "Milan Sports Newspaper" published on the morning of the 9th reported that even if the termination fee was as high as 100 million euros, there were still many giants interested in signing the 23-year-old striker Belotti in the Red Bulls. It is reported that Torino president Cairo and Real Madrid president Fiorentino will meet next week, and the two sides may discuss the transfer of Belotti.
If other clubs expressed their desire to buy red babies, Li Mudi would not have reacted much, after all, the number of liquidated damages was there, and no one could really easily come up with such a large amount. But Galeries Lafayette is an exception, he (or Real Madrid) is not only rich, but also very willful, coupled with a lot of bad history of poaching and price reduction, maybe only pure "black shops" like Lyon and Benfica can resist his attack. Thinking that the number one striker he relied on was likely to join the Spanish giants at a "cabbage price" and then sit on the bench there, the Torino coach couldn't help but shudder in his heart, and hurriedly took out his mobile phone and made a call to his good friend Zizou to ask if the transfer had already started.
Fortunately, the loyalty of the Real Madrid coach is still very reliable, he has pressed the main striker of the Spanish national team Morata on the bench in order for his favorite Benzema to start, and it is impossible to introduce a high-level striker to increase the competitive pressure of his French countryman, so this deal will never be successful. This completely relieved Li Mudi, and after letting Valentino Cairo urgently find Belottti's agent Sergio Lanchi, he finally resolved a turmoil at the very initial stage. Although people always say that the "children's dream" is powerful, if there is no guarantee of play, a star of the level of Red Beibei will not choose to join a top giant, after all, if you can't play, everything will be a floating cloud.
The two midweek games were not as good as other strong teams had hoped for, with the Old Lady holding on to close to 80% possession and eventually beating relegation side Crotone by two goals on the road; AC Milan was fortunate to win Bologna with Croatian midfielder Pasalic in the 89th minute, knowing that they only had 5 shots on goal in the whole game, only a quarter of the opponent's, and other statistics were also comprehensively behind, and it was not easy to get three points.
It was the second weekend of February, and the 24th round of Serie A was in full swing, and the Red Bulls, who were still the first to kick off on Saturday, welcomed Pescara on their home turf. In order to better prepare for the crucial game against Roma away next week, Li Muddy once again offered a big rotation in this game. France, Rosstini returned to the starting line-up and will join teenager Balllejo at centre-back, while Avilar, Febas, Maximilian Egerstein, Rajadzic and Cerci have also been featured. Akwa, who finally returned from the Africa Cup of Nations, along with Moretti and Farke, all came off the bench in the second half to find some competitive form in the game.
Turin, who played in a mixed lineup of half main and half substitutes, won all three points in a goal shootout, with Belotti's brace, Rajadzic's shot from a tight angle, Falke's goalmouth grab, and Spain's Vallejo's maiden goal in Serie A that made the fans in attendance and in front of the TV and online platforms cheer the home team's goal five times. However, they also had various problems on the defensive end, and Pescara, who had only averaged 0.74 goals per game, scored twice in a row, which made Li Mudi very angry and criticized them fiercely after the game. However, the 5-2 score is still the Red Bulls' third big win of the season, and fans can keep their joy alive until next weekend.