Chapter 258: Is This Going to Collapse?

It's not that the original three main production companies of the movie are brain-dead and want to send money to Cambridge Film and Television, although the drama effect of "Iron Fist of Shame" is very outstanding, and there is the foundation of "Charlotte's Troubles", it stands to reason that the box office should have a good chance of breaking out. But until the moment when the movie is released and the file is down, no one knows whether a movie is profitable or losing. Of course, it is basically certain that "Shame" will make money, if even the signboard of Happy Twist is not good, then there will really be no other team with box office appeal in China.

But the key problem is that they not only hope that this film can make money and even sell well, but also have expectations that it will exceed those previous films, with a total box office of 1.442 billion "Charlotte", 1.614 billion "Hong Kong" and even "Beauty Girl", which ranks first on the domestic film box office list and earns 3.392 billion, are their goals. However, according to the prior assessment of internal professionals, the potential limit box office of "Shame" is probably between 1.3-1.8 billion, and there is hope that it will break hands in the second and third places, but it is impossible to catch up with Xingye's masterpiece.

As a result, these people hit the abacus on the Turin coach, who is currently popular in China, hoping to use the gimmick of the opponent's big screen debut to attract more audiences to this movie and contribute to the box office. The condition they gave was a 10% share, which is 8 million to 10 million soft girls with the current budget, that is, Cambridge Film and Television played this money to participate in cost sharing, and in the end, they could also get one-tenth of the total benefits obtained by the producer. Because I firmly believe that Li Mudi's appearance can bring at least 200 million yuan to the box office of the film, this ratio will definitely not make the original producer suffer, and if you don't get it right, you can make a small profit.

In Lin Zixu's view, this is also an excellent opportunity for their company to make contacts and enter the domestic film market, so his advice must be accepted. Li Mudi is not very knowledgeable about these aspects, and he doesn't know if his joining can bring benefits to everyone, but out of trust in the Happy Twist team and Lin Zixu, he still made a decision quickly and approved the project.

A week later, the contract was officially signed, and according to the latest script, Li Mudi will make a cameo appearance with his girlfriend in a scene during the hero's and heroine's study of art on the mountain. These two roles were originally given to Yin Zheng and Wang Zhi, who starred in "Charlotte's Troubles", which can be regarded as a tribute to the previous work, but it is different if it is replaced by Lin Li CP, who is popular all over East Asia, this gimmick can definitely detonate the entire Celestial Empire, and it is difficult to think of a big explosion at the box office.

After resolving the matter, the Torino coach was finally able to focus on football for the time being, and on the evening of March 28, Beijing time, the second game of the national team break began. A key matchup in the sixth round of the group of the Asian round of 12 is about to start in Tehran, and the national football team will challenge the Iranian team ranked first in the group. Due to the one-goal victory over the sworn rival Kimchi Country in the last game, thus seeing the hope of qualifying for the play-offs, the Chinese people who have been bruised in the past have once again turned their attention to this national football team, and they are all hoping that the new coach Lippi can lead his disciples to create a miracle.

There were also two warm-up matches between the Netherlands and Italy and France against Spain at the same time, so this time it was a TV, computer and mobile phone that broadcast live signals at the same time, a way that few people can do.

Compared with the inconsequential warm-up game, Li Mudi will naturally focus on the battle of Yitian, and he also hopes that the silver fox can rewrite his fate and help the Celestial Empire football get a chance to redeem itself, because he remembers that the result of the game before his crossing was 1-0, and the national football team regretted a small loss.

The opponent is currently the No. 1 strong team in Asia, and it is a big sufferer of the national football team, the two sides have only achieved a disadvantaged record of 5 wins, 7 draws and 12 losses in the previous 24 meetings, and the last five visits to Tehran's Azadi Stadium have all been defeated. In the face of such big difficulties, Lippi once again made some adjustments to the lineup, Wu Xi, Zhang Yuning and Gao Lin replaced Hao Junmin, Wang Yongpo and Wu Lei, who started in the last victory over Kimchi Country, and became the main force today, but the overall plastic surgery still maintained a 4-3-3 position, and it seems that he still wants to take all three points.

Carlos Queiroz, the head coach of the home team who has tapped Portugal's golden generation, served as an assistant to Lord Ferdinand and coached Real Madrid, also made small adjustments to the lineup that beat Qatar away a few days ago, with three personnel changes in the midfield, hoping to lock in the right to qualify from the group in advance while ensuring the physical fitness of the players on the field.

At the beginning of the game, the Iranian team's style of play was very unexpected by the domestic media, and they abandoned the team's good side attack, and instead focused on the middle of the attack. Among them, the main defender Ezatolahi plays an important role in the attack in the middle as the team's offensive and defensive hub. Just three minutes into the opening game, he tried to send a through ball in the middle of the midfield, and the ball passed through the two central defenders of the national football team to find the striker Tarimi inserted in the back row, but the ball was destroyed by a sliding tackle by Zhang Linpeng, who was in place in time. Although it failed to form a shot, the tactical arrangement of the opponent's main middle to seek the vacancy behind the national football defense has begun to emerge.

In the fourth minute, Zheng Zhida's front of the penalty area was given to Zhang Yuning, who shot angrily with his right foot, but the supporting foot slipped and the ball was put into an anti-aircraft gun. The ability of the striker is too weak, which has always been a major drawback of Celestial Football, but unfortunately there is no good youth environment, this problem can never be solved, even Lippi, can only sit in the coach's seat and shake his head, maybe he can only hope for Elkeson's naturalization.

After that, the game was completely integrated into the rhythm of the Iranian team, they first used high scrambling to hinder the national football team's backfield control, and then took advantage of the latter's midfielders' offensive and defensive characteristics, giving full play to the individual ability of their own midfielders, so as to actively get the opportunity to hold the ball and pass in the middle of the away team. In such a situation, several midfielders even dared to make bold attempts to break through many times, and then tried to undermine the midfield defense of the national football team.

In this game, Yu Dabao and Gao Lin, who started the national football team, focused more on offense, and their retreat and running position on the defensive end were obviously not as good as Wu Lei and Wang Yongpo, who started on the field, which was a big loss for the midfield protection of the national football team, and further enhanced the defensive pressure of Zheng Zhi, Zhang Xizhe and others.

At the end of the half, with the excellent performance of the starting goalkeeper Zeng Cheng, the national football team was able to maintain the score at 0-0. However, the close to 3-2 possession between the two sides, the 10-percentage point difference in pass success rate, and the comparison of shot statistics of 4-of-10 and 0-of-2 are all reminders of the difference in strength between the two teams. Li Mudi at this time thinks that the hope of winning away from home is actually a little too slim, the constraints of the weak forward line have led to the national football team simply not being able to pose any threat to the home team's backline, as a center forward Zhang Yuning in the first half of the forty-five minutes, did not get a chance to touch the ball in the penalty area, how to play?

Sure enough, Lippi, who was also unsatisfactory with his own offensive line, made two adjustments before the start of the second half, replacing Zhang Xizhe and Zhang Yuning with Huang Bowen and Wu Lei respectively, but this substitution was hit head-on before the effect could be seen.

In the 46th minute, after the national football team successfully won the ball in the backfield, Zheng Zhi handed the ball to Gao Lin in front of him, but the weak return pass of the Evergrande striker was easily intercepted by the opponent, and the home team launched a counterattack on the spot. Their straight plug on the right side penetrated the defense of the national football team, and after the ball was passed into the penalty area, Jiang Zhipeng could have safely pushed the ball out of the bottom line or back to the side again when no one was scrambling, but he was very surprised to push the ball back in front of his goal, which caused chaos in the penalty area. Tarimi fired a low left-footed shot from the right side of the penalty area to the right side of the goal, because the distance was too close and the power was great, Zeng Cheng was powerless to stop, and the ball slowly rolled into the goal after being saved by the goalkeeper, and the Iranian team finally got a 1-0 lead.

The fatal mistakes of Gao and Jiang directly led to the team falling into a comprehensive passive situation. Two minutes later, Wu Xi was injured on the bridge of his nose in the scramble and could not continue the game and was replaced by Yin Hongbo, which made the national football team use up three substitutions in less than 50 minutes of the game, which can be said to be worse.

After that, the Iranian team changed the offensive method of making a fuss in the middle in the first half, and began to launch frequent offensives on the side, especially on the right side, making Jiang Zhipeng's left defense line a key target for the opponent. Because Yin Hongbo has not yet entered the rhythm of the game, Jiang Zhipeng's mentality has been greatly affected after the team conceded a goal, so the left defense line of the national football team has been in turmoil for a period of time.

Fortunately, the veteran Lippi alleviated the passive situation by making timely changes to the team's lineup, he let Zheng Zhi retreat to the defence as a central defender, and changed the formation of the national football team to 3-4-3, which is quite the same system that Conte used at Chelsea this season. Due to the large retreat of the two full-backs in the defense, the defense line was actually composed of five men, and most of them quickly resisted the attack of the home team, and did not let the opponent take advantage of the victory to pursue the calculation.

However, due to the lack of technical players such as Zhang Xizhe and Hao Junmin in the midfield at this time, the national football team lacks midfielders who can organize with the ball, so it can only simplify the offensive end, try to reduce the midfield ball holding and cooperation, and shift the offensive focus to the side. Zhang Linpeng and Jiang Zhipeng continued to participate in the attack through active forward and backward running, but unfortunately the forward players could not complete an effective finish when they sent multiple crosses in a row from the wing. Yu Dabao, who is in the center position, is not good at high-altitude scrambling and physical confrontation, Gao Lin and Wu Lei, who have always appeared in the domestic league but have always become soft-footed shrimp in the international arena, are even more difficult to find on the offensive end, and Lippi, who has no substitution quota, can only look at the sky and sigh in the face of such a situation.

In the end, the score of 1-0 was maintained until the end of the game, and with the other two games of this round, Kimchi Country and Uzbekistan both won by one goal at home, Iran 17 points, Kimchi Country 13 points, and Uzi 12 points, and the top three points situation is almost unshakable. Syria, which has 8 points in the back area, may still fight, but the national football team with 5 points and Qatar with 4 points are almost hanging by a thread. If you want to qualify, you must not only win the last three games, but also count on the opponent to make consecutive mistakes, otherwise you will have to say goodbye to the World Cup again.

After letting go of the sad Celestial Empire football, Li Mudi turned his attention to the other two strong matchups. In the first blue-red matchup, the French team at the Stade de France used a large number of young rising stars, and people were amazed by the incredible depth of their talent pool. However, the more experienced matadors won 2-0 against the French, who played more directly and with more talent, thanks to a better understanding of the width of the pitch and a more cohesive attacking pass. Talented winger Deulofeu, who plays for Barcelona and spent the winter break on loan at AC Milan, was one of the brightest stars of the evening with an assist and a goal.

The opening Dutch-Italian game was like a remake of the previous game, with the same talented and seemingly promising Orange team playing an impressive technical stream on their home turf. However, it was the more experienced Italians who had the last laugh, and although Milan centre-back Romagnoli's own goal in the 10th minute put them behind early on, two crucial goals from Inter winger Eder and Juventus centre-back Leonardo Bonucci in the 11th and 31st minutes respectively allowed the visitors to go home with a victory.

Both of Torino's players were given the opportunity to play, Zampa Costa played the whole game as a right wing-back, while Belotti came on in the 53rd minute as a substitute for his friend Immobile, but unfortunately he couldn't get on the scoresheet, and the goal drought for the national team has reached 270 minutes, and the situation looks a little bad.

His sluggish form carried back into the club, and in the days that followed, it was clear to Li Mudi and his colleagues that the youngster's shooting sensation was in a serious dip, and they hurriedly adjusted their training program to solve the problem before the next league game began. However, judging from the results, it still failed to achieve perfect results, and Belotti's final kick always showed a feeling of not finding a crosshair. However, with no better options at hand, Li Mudi had no choice but to put him in the starting line-up for the weekend against Udinese.

The final result also proved that the Red Bulls were not fully prepared, as they bombarded 22 shots on their home turf, but had to accept a 2-2 draw against an opponent who had only eight shots on goal. Torino, who had drawn three in a row, were once again widened by Lazio and Atra in front of him, and European qualification looked to be slipping away from them, so it was no wonder that the next day's editions of Milan Sport and Roma Sport both published articles about the "Red Bull Collapse", and in the eyes of these media, Li Mudi and his team could enjoy fishing without desire.