Chapter 363: Another Lottery

In fact, Li Mudi has no prejudice against Wei Shihao himself, where the young man goes to play is his own right, except that Luneng Club can pursue it on the training fee, it has nothing to do with others. And to be honest, this player's individual assault ability is still very outstanding in the current Celestial Empire football, in addition, after staying abroad for a few years, he has cultivated the self-confidence to dare to release his full ability on the field, which is difficult to see in domestic players, which is the key to his ability to stand out.

However, the player's physical fitness is relatively average, in addition to the speed can reach the average level of Europe, both strength and flexibility are typical Celestial Dynasty player characteristics, and there is no advantage in front of European players. Take his touted "Cristiano Ronaldo-style" breakthrough as an example, without those top defenders, these defensive players in the Torino team alone, as long as they pay enough attention, it is difficult to be easily rid of them, let alone be passed. Even the slower veterans Moretti and Goldaniga and other central defenders can use simple prediction and card positioning to prevent Wei Shihao from being at a loss, maybe the young man can still show something at home, and it is indeed not enough to see it in a top league like Serie A.

After learning that there was no need to get into any trouble because of the rejection of the brokerage company with a deep background, Li Mudi also breathed a sigh of relief, although he was abroad all the year round and didn't have to care too much about the influence of the other party, but after all, there are still many relatives and friends in China, don't annoy these no. Law none. If the guy of the sky is a burden to others, it will be too difficult to do.

And after temporarily solving this sudden accident, he can finally focus all his attention on the next league. Because the Coppa Italia match will be played in the middle of next week, due to the viewers' ratings and the fitness of the players, this weekend's league is once again divided into three days, Atalanta, Lazio and Torino, the three teams that participated in the Europa League on Thursday night, will kick off on Monday, especially the direct confrontation between the latter two will be the main axis of the round, the final start, so before the start of the game, the results of the other nine matchups have been released.

If Inter Milan were able to hold Juventus to a draw, with barely a single threat to attack, it gave the pursuers outside the top three a reason to rejoice. So on Sunday afternoon and evening, when Roma and Chievo away and Napoli played Fiorentina at home, the mood of managers such as Li Mudi, Mihajlovic, Giampoo and even Gattuso was like eating a bowl of ice cream on dog days. This is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to chase points, everyone is holding back their energy to get the three points, and the result is basically satisfactory to everyone, except for Sampdoria's 2-2 draw away to Cagliari, who have improved after the change of manager, AC Milan and Atalanta both won 2-1 against their respective opponents, narrowing the gap with the teams in front of them, although the difference is still desperate.

Benevento, who won the first point in Serie A in the team's history in the last round, lost 0-2 away to Udinese, and while continuing to stay in the bottom of the standings, the latter's new coach Oddo ushered in two consecutive wins after losing to the mighty Napoli on his debut, proving that the vision of the club's top management is indeed worthy of praise from the outside world. The other game that attracted some attention after the incident was Sassuolo's 2-1 home win against Crotone, because after the game, the latter issued an official announcement announcing that the resignation of former manager David Nicola had been approved by the club, and the seventh manager to be sacked in Serie A this season was born.

In fact, after the 0-3 defeat at home to Udinese, which Otto had just taken over, in the last round, the media has been reporting that Crotone will make changes, but because the problem of the new coach has not been resolved, it has been postponed for another week, and it is also to give Nikola, who made great contributions to the team's relegation last season, a chance to redeem himself, but unfortunately he still failed to get the desired result.

After losing to Sassuolo, Pythagoras has been surpassed by the same point SPAL because of the small goal difference, and officially fell into the relegation circle, the situation has become very critical, and a change of coach is inevitable. However, the successor still does not seem to be decided, with the names of Debiassi, Zenga, Corantono and Di Carlo all linked to Crotone, while Sky Sports Italia broke the news on Monday morning that Nesta, who left Miami FC not long ago, is also one of the club's options. The 41-year-old former Lazio and AC Milan legend has not had a very good coaching record in the United States, with only 35 wins, 16 draws and 20 defeats, but some media have previously said that he is willing to return to work in Italy.

However, before Monday night's Serie A game began, the name of the new manager was revealed, and former Italian international and Inter Milan legend Zenga will take over the reins of Pythagoras. The 57-year-old local hero, who has coached more than a dozen teams including Red Star Belgrade, Catania, Palermo and Sampdoria, is still rich enough. He struggled to manage Wolves in the Championship last summer and left in less than three months, and stayed at home until he was given the chance to do so.

Leaving aside the possibility of a change of manager, Crotone will be able to make a radical change, and the clock will be set back to noon on Sunday, when the draw for this season's Champions League quarter-finals and Europa League quarter-finals was held at UEFA headquarters in Nyon, Switzerland. After less than an hour and a half of operation, the results were officially released, and the corresponding schedule was immediately announced.

First of all, in the Champions League, Real Madrid's second place in the group really made them suffer, and they met the powerful Paris Saint-Germain in the first round of the knockout round, and the hope of winning a third consecutive title was further reduced. The "bad relationship" between Chelsea and Barcelona is really deep, the two sides have met in the Champions League for the seventh time in history (in fact, in the last ten years), six of which are in the knockout rounds, each time is a Mars collision with the earth-style duel, and it is full of various controversies.

Compared with the extremely unlucky La Liga team (Sevilla also sadly drew Manchester United), the only two remaining Italian teams are lucky, the old lady faces Tottenham Hotspur, which is the main youth storm, and has a relatively big advantage in terms of experience and team cooperation, and Roma is lucky to draw Shakhtar Donetsk, one of the weakest teams in the round of 16, and the hope of successfully advancing is still quite large.

Later in the Europa League knockout draw, Serie A teams will have mixed their fortunes, with Torino facing defending Bulgarian champions Ludogorets and Lazio facing Romanian side Steaua Bucharest. And Atalanta's luck was the worst, they actually drew Dortmund, who were kicked out of the Champions League, and this round of duel is to win, I am afraid that they will have to peel off the skin. Napoli, who are also out of the Champions League group stage, is also unlucky, the opponent is another Bundesliga team, RB Leipzig, and the White Dolphins are still the unfavorable schedule of the first away and then the host, fortunately, their strength is superior, as long as they play normally, it is not too difficult to advance.

The first leg of the Europa League will be scheduled for mid-to-late February, just in time for the Lunar New Year of the Celestial Empire, which makes the Torino coach who wants to take the opportunity to spend time with his family very dissatisfied, but he is powerless to change anything, so he can only accept it. The Champions League, which has one round less fixture, will not be able to decide the quarter-finals until mid-March, which has brought a lot of trouble to the participating teams.

Shortly after the draw, a number of bookmakers updated their Europa League odds, with Arsenal and Atletico Madrid tied for first place at 5.5 to 1, Borussia Dortmund third at 11 to 11, and Lazio and Napoli in fourth to fifth place. Torino are tied for seventh with 1 to 26, and the four teams considered to be on par with them are Lyon, Sporting Portugal, Villarreal and Zenit St. Petersburg, which should also be said to be good. If it weren't for the limited identity, Li Mudi really wanted to take out 100,000 euros to buy his team to win the championship, and if he failed, the loss would not be big, but once he won the bet, a year-and-a-half-year salary (after paying taxes) would be in hand, and this way of making money was still cost-effective.

On Monday afternoon, in Rome City, when Li Mudi had just finished lunch and was about to return to his hotel room to study Lazio's tactical play, Zheng Xiaoyang caught up, and the latter informed the team boss of the latest news from China: Beijing Guoan Football Club officially stated that it wanted to introduce the new national football star Wei Shihao.

The 22-year-old is currently on fire in domestic football, which will naturally attract the peeps of many local tyrant clubs who have suffered from the Football Association's U23 policy. With only one year on loan at the end of December this year, he will surely become a favourite for other Chinese Super League teams. SIPG hopes to keep this potential star who looks like he will support the future national football forward, but just this morning, some media claimed that Wei Shihao's agent really offered him a transfer fee of 100 million yuan for a soft girl as Zheng Xiaoyang said, which is obviously difficult for the Modu team to accept, even if they are already one of the richest clubs.

However, this price frightened SIPG, but it could not prevent the domineering exposure of Guoan, who directly released the wind and declared that Ronaldo must win the Celestial Dynasty. A 100 million soft girl is converted into about 13 million euros, buying a Celestial Empire player, this price, Li Mudi is completely speechless. However, the fact that a team took over Wei Shihao can be regarded as dispelling the last worry in the heart of the Torino coach, and he can finally not worry about retaliation for messing with the operation of that brokerage company.

At the pre-match press conference in the evening, something unexpected happened again, stealing a lot of scenes from the game that was about to kick off. After a round of regular questions about this matchup, a reporter mentioned to Mihajlovic that there were some incidents in the stadium in the home draw with Roma in this round of Chievo, hoping to get a response from the coach of the Blue Eagles, but the result surprised everyone present.

During that match, some extreme fans on the sidelines went so far as to hold a portrait of Anne Frank wearing a Lazio jersey, a move that caused an outcry from the Jewish community in the city of Rome. American Parlotta, the president of the club of Rome, also strongly condemned the phenomenon in front of the media after the game, and decided to wear a special jersey in midweek to commemorate one of the most influential figures in the history of mankind in the world (according to the American Times).

And when the reporter wanted to get some comments on the matter, the Lazio coach actually replied: "Anne Frank? I'm sorry, I don't know who she is...... I haven't read the media reports, I can't talk about this topic, I'm sorry, please forgive me for my ignorance......" This stunned everyone under the rostrum.

As far as the name of this woman is concerned, even Li Mudi, who is a member of the Celestial Empire, has known it for a long time. The atrocities of the Pure Massacre and the vigorous promotion of Jews after the war, the book "The Diary of Anne Frank" is not a household name in the world, but it should have been exposed to anyone with a normal academic life. However, Mikhailovich, who was a European and had never left the continent in his life, even claimed in public that he did not know the name when there had been many years of commemoration of that person and that book, and the least sin would have to be that he was uneducated, and that if someone with a heart caught the handle, he could be accused of "anti-Semitism".

After that, the news spread on the Internet, and everyone basically agreed that Miha's ignorance had refreshed their limits, and this joke-like incident became a hot topic among netizens in the next few days, until another big event happened after the game......

Not to mention the coach of the home team who provoked a lot of trouble before the game, Li Mudi has always been worried about how to strengthen the defense of the opponent's forward players in the following games. It can be seen from the FM system that Keita, who has been in a goal drought for five consecutive games, is in a blast today, and his fitness is also in full shape due to last week's rotation, and he has the ability to take a good game against the Torino players. On the other hand, on his own side, although he can play all the main forces except for Musis and Barreka, the competitive state of the backfield players is generally mediocre, and they may not be able to stop the Senegal international who can be called world-class in strength and speed.

Although he doesn't want to take the initiative to show a weak response, it now seems that after the opening, he still has to sacrifice defensive counterattack tactics, otherwise it is likely to usher in a big defeat at the opponent's home stadium, which will be too big a blow to the team's plan to hit the top three in the league.