In the second leg of the other Champions League quarter-final against Real Madrid and Juventus, Bayern returned to their home stadium and exchanged a blank with Sevilla, reaching the semi-finals with an aggregate score of 2-1.

The draw for the Champions League semi-finals will take place at UEFA headquarters on Friday evening, Swiss time, with Liverpool, Roma, Bayern Munich and Real Madrid – the four best teams from different leagues who have been the best performers this year meet their last opponents before marching to the NSK Olympic Stadium in Kyiv. However, on Thursday night, the Europa League semi-finals would be announced at the same time, attracting the attention of many news outlets and fans.

At 21:05 local time on April 12, at the Red Bull Stadium, the rematch between Red Bull Salzburg and Torino ignited on time. Despite a 4-1 defeat in Italy a week ago, the Austrian league giants clearly showed no hope of qualifying, and manager Marco Rose even forfeited last weekend's domestic league game in order to prepare for the day's game, resulting in a narrow 1-0 defeat away to Linz in the rotation of the team. However, Red Bull's advantage in their home country is too huge, and they still hold the top spot in the Olympic league table with an eight-point advantage, and they don't care about the wins or losses of one or two games.

In contrast to last week's first-leg meeting, Rose not only changed the formation from a 4-4-2 parallel position in the midfield to a diamond position, but also strengthened the attacking power. He also made two changes to the starting line-up, all in midfield. South Korea international Hwang Hee-chan has taken the place of Norway's fast Magulbransson and will partner the team's top scorer Israeli Dabur up front. In addition, Malian midfielder Samaseku was removed and replaced by German midfielder Reinhold Jabau, who is of Congolese descent, and the playmaker who is good at organising and passing the ball has been in the midfield position since the opening kick-off, and is responsible for feeding the two strikers with shells.

As for the Torino team, they just used all their strength to defeat Inter Milan four days ago, and while consolidating the third place in the league standings, it also caused the team's main core to consume a little more physically. In order to avoid injuries due to fatigue, Li Muddy made a modest rotation of the starting lineup in this European competition. In the 3-5-2 position, the goalkeeper is still Casillas, who has been in hot form lately, the central defender is composed of Goldaniga, Diego Llorente and teenager Bonifaczi, the five midfielders from right to left, Dickman, Tulalang, Febas, Vukocevic and Dimarco, and the two strikers are Immobile and Pellegri.

It is said that it is a three-centre-back system, but in fact, in the course of the game, the Torino coach asked the two wing-backs to retreat more to the defensive line to participate in the defense, so the visitors played 5-3-2 most of the time. This is the first time in his coaching career that Li Mudi has used this kind of bus tactic, which is considered to be a red fruit, and he has not used a back five strategy even against strong opponents such as Juventus and Napoli.

Everything is because Barcelona was reversed by Roma by three goals two days ago, and Real Madrid was almost overturned, although I don't believe in fate and the like, but the miracles that were thought to be difficult to happen have been staged in reality one after another, which still makes Li Mudi feel a lot of pressure. With Red Bull Salzburg set to launch a frenzied attack today inspired by the performance of the two Italian teams, the physical condition of the core players of this side is not at its best, and it is impossible to replicate Zizou's idea of attacking against attack, so the Torino coach can only come up with the most reasonable method to deal with it.

However, if after seeing this set of starters, the person who thinks that the Red Bulls have given up on attacking attempts like Barcelona did two days ago may be slapped in the face. Li Muddy is by no means Valverde's overly conservative style of coaching, he just hides his sharp fangs in certain situations, and if the opponent is negligent, then Torino's best quick counter-attack will show everyone what is the lethal weapon they rely on to reach the top of Serie A for the second year in a row.

In the first minute, Torino launched a blitzkrieg with the ball in possession, with Fabas splitting the ball to the right, and Dickman saw that the home team's defenders seemed to be not concentrating, so he suddenly sent a long diagonal pass directly through the opposition's defence. Unfortunately, due to the need to avoid the defender's control range, the power of this pass is a bit too large, and the angle is not too suitable, even if Immobile has been desperately chasing it, it has not succeeded in the end, otherwise it is likely to form a single knife situation directly facing the goalkeeper.

Almost caught off guard from the start, the Red Bull Salzburg players were not going to rest on their laurels, cheering on nearly 30,000 supporters at home, and began to mobilize the visitors' defence with a large number of passes, waiting for opportunities to find loopholes to exploit.

Marco Rose's tactical philosophy is somewhat similar to Maurizio Sarri's thinking, although the formation used is different, but the same pursuit of fast and flexible movement and passing in the front court, and both like to use the backfield players to initiate attacks. Originating from Red Bull Brazil, centre-back Lamarjo has been the man to dominate the ball, and he has been able to make the most passes in a game he has played in general, not only because of his status as a descendant of the Red Bull Group (he has played for the majority of his career so far for Red Bull Group-related teams), but also because of his passing and vision of 13, which is one of the key reasons why the team can quickly burn the fire into the weak parts of the opposition half.

In the fourth minute, it was Lamalho's pass that helped the forward midfielder Schrager break through Vukocevic's interception, and the latter's exquisite through ball allowed Hwang Hee-chan to burst into the Torino penalty area and shoot directly with his right foot. Fortunately, Cassie always kept enough attention to block it with a brilliant side save, and Dickman dropped back in time to shovel the ball off the touchline and completely defuse the danger.

After that, the home team had more than 70% of the ball, but struggled to find a way out against a large Torino defence, with a few crosses from the flanks barely managed, and the landing point was easily controlled by the likes of Gordaniga, who had a clear advantage in height. In the 11th minute, Yapola went to the right and fought all the way to the bottom line against Dimarco's interference, but finally forced his foot to send a cross that could not find his teammates in the box. Neither of their strikers was very good at working at height, and Dabur struck Goldaniga in the face with his hand as he fought for position, almost causing a clash between the two sides.

Seeing that this road did not work, and the penetration of short passes in the middle was difficult to receive due to the opponent's heavy guards, Red Bull Salzburg chose to take the initiative to retreat, hoping to lure Torino's overall formation forward and leave enough space for the two strikers to move.

The Red Bulls, who are unwilling to be in passive defense, also took the opportunity to strengthen their investment in the offensive end, and Fambas repeatedly mentioned the organization work in the forward position, so that the visiting team gradually attacked the opponent's dangerous zone more often, and the offensive and defensive rhythm of the game suddenly changed faster, and the excitement has also been greatly improved.

In the sixteenth minute, Febas sent a 45-degree diagonal long pass on the left side, Pellegri chose to head back after fighting for the landing point, and Vukocevic, who followed up outside the penalty area, stopped the ball on his chest and directly shot a violent long-range shot, but unfortunately hit the leg of Schrager who was blocked and popped up on the bottom line. Three minutes later, Dimarco's first assist came close to a breakthrough when Japo, who had to bring down the left wing-back in Torino and give them a well-placed free-kick, before Fabas drove the ball near the far post and Diego Llorente interfered with the home team's centre-back Calleta Carr in a tussle before the second penalty was cleared out of the box by a defender.

In the twentieth minute, because Mobile broke through with the ball on the right side and was knocked to the ground by Ulmera, the referee from Slovenia, Skomina, still did not show a yellow card, but only awarded a free kick, which made Torino very dissatisfied. Fabas then crossed the ball into the box, but Goldaniga, who had a high success rate in today's aerial duel, headed the ball high and missed a good chance to open the scoring.

Two minutes later, Red Bull threatened Casey's goal with a corner, but Calleta Carr's header went just wide of the post, sending the home supporters sighing with regret.

After that, Febas played a solo game of his own, dribbling the ball all the way into the box, only to be cut off by Lamarjo before he could make the next move. The home side then counter-attacked, but Dabur almost replicated what had just happened in the opposition midfield, receiving a pass from a team-mate in the box, but Diego Llorente was too hesitant to handle the ball. Japo won the ball on the left and used a series of shakes to break past Dickman and immediately sent in a low cross, but the landing was still under the control of the Torino centre-back, and Bonifaczi appeared in time to push the ball off the line.

The game was played in a state of attack and defense between the two sides, and after half an hour of unknowingly, the Torino players, who were slightly less physical, took the lead in the first bottleneck period, and Li Mudi immediately instructed everyone to retreat in order to deal with this relatively unfavorable situation.

As soon as the visitors were back in full swing, Red Bull Salzburg's attack was also in a difficult situation, and although several players in the midfield were in excellent form at the start of the game, Yapo and Dabur were unable to find a comfortable way to play due to the heavy investment in the defensive end. It was not easy to gain some room for free play during the period when the two sides launched an attack, but now it has disappeared, and morale will naturally be affected to varying degrees.

And as time goes by, the situation of falling behind by three goals on aggregate will bring them more and more pressure, so in desperation, Marco Rose did not care about the danger of conceding the goal, and ordered the team to attack with a big wave of his hand. The forward arrival of the two full-backs did add to the attacking options of the Red Bulls, who at one point laid siege to the heart of the visitors' penalty area, but the defence was also full of holes, and Torino found the opportunity to play two threatening counter-attacks to almost end the suspense of promotion early.

In the 40th minute, Tulalang broke the ball and drove to the front of the field, and the two strikers of Immobile and Pellegri completed a wonderful collision against the wall. The Torino No.10 found a cross from a team-mate and fired a left-footed volley into the box after leaning on Lamalho, but the ball was unexpectedly denied by Walker.

Two minutes later, the home side's corner was punched out of the box by Cassie and Febas immediately instigated a counter-attack. He dribbled the ball down the right flank and crossed diagonally into the box after encountering a defender, where Pellegri's clever back-heel effort gave Immobile a fleeting chance to shoot. Unfortunately, the latter's left-footed shot was interfered with by the home team's goalkeeper who came in time and failed to kick the right position, and was caught in front of goal by Valker, who turned back to make a second reaction.

Immobile Mobile, who missed two golden chances in a row, lay on the ground in regret and refused to get up for a long time, and his self-esteem as a super goalscorer made it difficult for him to accept the fact that he played a bad half, but fortunately he adjusted his emotions in time and finally recovered in the second half.

At half-time, the two sides played out 0-0 in the first 45 minutes, and the aggregate score remained 1-4, and the Torino team was very close to qualifying for the last four of this season's Europa League.

In terms of statistics, except for a lead of almost seven or eight percentage points in possession, the rest of the two teams are similar, especially in the field of shooting, although Red Bull Salzburg is slightly ahead, but in terms of the level of threat, it is undoubtedly the visitors who have done better. Li Muddy has a reason not to make adjustments to his tactics and lineup during the break, and if the opponent can't break down the defensive formation he has laid down, then it is also in the interest of the Red Bulls to let the game continue at the pace of the first half.

In the rematch, neither side made personnel changes, but the home team once again accelerated the pace of passing and possession, hoping to seize the time to score and keep the hope of a comeback. It's just that the over-impatience psychology has also led to the deformation of technical actions, such as when the second half was just more than 60 seconds old, Red Bull fought for a corner kick opportunity, but the veteran Ulmo sent the ball directly out of the far sideline, and the pressure on the players was obvious.

Even if the opponent's attack is not efficient, Li Mudi obviously will not allow himself to be pressed to the ground and rubbed hard, he still has the idea of scoring an away goal, so Immobile has always been cruising in front of the midfield line, waiting for the opportunity to come.

In the 49th minute, Tulalang's flying tackle cut off Berisha's cross, and Dickman got the ball and sent a precise long pass from 45 meters away, because Mobile used his speed to get stuck in position, and hit a right-footed end shot from 14 meters away from the goal on the right side of the penalty area, which was blocked by Valker.

Although they failed to score, it was a quick and efficient counter-attack that clearly hit the heart of the home side, and in order to avoid another danger in their own goal, their two full-backs had to rotate to stay at the back to help the two central defenders assist the defence, which reduced the pressure on the Torino defence by another point. The situation of the game has developed more and more in favor of the Red Bulls, and Li Mudi on the sidelines has also developed the feeling that everything is only under his control, and he has begun to prepare for the smooth promotion to the semi-finals.