Although the Torino team defeated the weakest vice-captain as they wished and got the planned points, most of the other strong teams in this round of the league have also won, so the situation of the Red Bulls in the standings has not become more favorable, and the final ownership of European qualification has not yet seen anyone stand out.

Napoli continued their unbeaten run in the last thirteen games, beating Genoa 2-0 at home to a 10-game winless streak, and the latter also dropped down the table, only five points ahead of fourth-from-bottom Empoli; Roma beat Crotone by the same scoreline away from home, who suffered three defeats in a row (including a replay-game) after a big win over Empoli, and the prospects of relegation were bleak again; Coincidentally, Juventus also won Cagliari by two goals away from home, with Higuain scoring all the goals. The three 2-0 scores also made the top three positions and points difference unchanged from the previous week, but the old lady's 20th win still allowed them to hold the Red Wolves with 53 points and the White Dolphins with 51 points with 60 points, and this consistency in picking up points against the weak team is also what the latter two teams are currently lacking.

The teams in Group 2 also got the three points, and Fiorentina rebounded sharply after returning to home, beating Udinese by three goals; Inter Milan defeated Empoli 2-0 in Meazza, and after the new coach Pioli took over the coaching, they won 10, drew 2 and lost 2, rising rapidly, making everyone dare not underestimate; Atalanta played Palermo at the bottom of the table in this round, and the result was a clear advantage on the field, and the final 3-1 victory continued to keep up with the top teams. Only AC Milan and Lazio were the only ones who did not decide the winner, and the Rossoneri came away 1-1 away from home with a huge 9-23 deficit in goals, but neither side was happy with the result. If you don't advance against the current, you will retreat, and after the opponents have won, this point really seems to be a drag.

In addition, Chievo's 3-1 away reversal of Sassuolo was also a big upset, Di Francisco's team performance was much worse than last season, and there was already a faint sound of him leaving class; In the other game, Sampdoria miraculously reversed the hapless Bologna 3-1 at home, who led for 64 minutes, before the home side scored three goals in just 100 seconds in the 82nd and 83rd minutes, creating no small miracle. Jamboro's side also took the opportunity to win three in a row and continue to move up the rankings.

Torino are fourth in the table with 47 points, followed by Inter, Lazio and Atalanta on 44 points, while Fiorentina and AC Milan are eighth and ninth with 40 points. Leading Group 3 is Chievo on 32 points, followed by Samp on 31, Sassuolo on 30 and Udinese on 29, while Cali Ali 27, Genoa 25 and Bologna 25 look to be relegated for now. In the relegation circle, Pescara is doomed to have no luck with 5 points, Crotone with 13 points and Palermo with 14 points are also a pair of difficult brothers, only Empoli has 20 points, and it seems that he is the most likely to go ashore.

Although the team's current results are very good, with five wins and two draws in the last seven league games, they are not only temporarily in the leading position in the competition for Europa League tickets, but also faintly see the door of the Champions League, theoretically a four-point gap is nothing for the remaining 14 games. However, Li Mudi is extremely clear that the next month from February 19 is the critical period of whether he can have the last laugh, and his team will face five opponents in turn: Roma, Fiorentina, Palermo, Lazio and Inter Milan, of which except for the Eagles in the middle, which is a soft persimmon, the rest can be called strong opponents. In the difficult first round, Torino's form was at a peak, with three wins and two draws to the surprise of most people, laying the foundation for their place at the top of the table.

However, with the recovery of these teams after the winter break, some industry insiders have begun to look down on the situation of the Red Bulls, and even their own mouthpiece "Torino Sport" is also giving fans a vaccination, claiming that as long as the team does not fall behind the fifth place by more than three points after playing Inter, they have the opportunity to use the advantage of the schedule to complete the overtake, even if they can only finish sixth, there is a great chance to get a substitute place in Europe.

The quarter-finals of the Coppa Italia have all been completed on 25 and 26 January and 1 and 2 February, with no upsets, and the current top three plus Lazio have successfully advanced to the semi-finals. Excluding the quality factor, there is a 75% chance that this season's cup winner will be a team that will qualify for next season's Champions League, and the Europa League qualification that comes with this title will transfer to the top of the league in sixth place. In other words, as long as Lazio can't win the Coppa Italia for the seventh time in the team's history, then there will be one more ticket to the European competition, which is definitely excellent news for the already one-sided Milan duo, Atalanta and Torino. Therefore, in the subsequent two-legged semi-finals of the Italian Cup, presumably these teams will cheer for the Roma team, hoping that the Red Wolves can defeat their rivals in the same city and advance to the final, creating a more favorable condition for everyone.

Until then, however, Roma have been a big headache for Limdoudi, and Spalletti's side are in peak form, winning six of their last seven games, five of which have been clean sheets, apart from a surprise defeat to Sampdoria two games ago. The player's career as a manager in the Fiorentina Academy was too average to play in the third division, but his performances after retirement made his name spread across the continent. His first job was four years of hard work at Empoli, and then led the team to two consecutive promotions to Serie A, and then took over Udinese to help the little zebras qualify for the Champions League every year, thus gaining the Red Wolves' recruitment. The three years from 2005 to 2008 were a crucial period for him to become a world famous coach, although there were fewer opponents who were greatly injured by the phone, but the league runner-up for three consecutive years and the gap with Inter Milan was gradually narrowing, or showed the world the coaching ability of Si Shuai.

But after inexplicably taking over the Russian Premier League team Zenit St. Petersburg, his personality collapsed a little, and the Siberian Tigers, who had brought huge trouble to Bayern and Real Madrid in the Champions League, and won the Europa League (then called the League Cup) and the European Super Cup (defeated the old man's Manchester United) turned into a nest under his leadership. Although he won two championships and one runner-up in the league in three years, he turned into a soft-footed shrimp in the European arena, and his results fell year after year, and then there were scandals of match-fixing and kickbacks in the buying and selling of players, which made the Italian coach have to step down and hide in his home to avoid the limelight.

However, Spalletti returned to the mountain after a 22-month break to prove that he is still immortal at his old club Roma, so that the Red Wolves, who had fallen to fifth in the standings at that time, were out early in the domestic cup competition, and barely qualified for the Champions League group stage with six points in history, immediately changed their old looks, although in the end they were still two points behind Napoli and only finished third in the league, but the team's morale has returned to the level of the previous top team, and no one dares to underestimate them.

Of course, the coach is not perfect, although his tactical design can be called the best in the whole of Italian and European football, and the training is extremely targeted, almost all of them are adjusted to each opponent, unlike most other managers who rely more on assistants or collective strength to deal with it. However, his ability to control the field is almost a mess, and his style of play is very good-looking but he rarely has the confidence to complete the reversal in a desperate situation, which is an important reason why Roma has not been able to become the top giant, from this point of view, Si Shuai and Professor Wenger are the same type.

But even if the opponent has such a problem, it is not the current Torino who is qualified to look down, the current Roma team is indeed the top three in the league, the offensive power is third, the defense ranks second, and the offensive and defensive ends are very good, even if there is an FM system in hand, Li Mudi has no confidence to say that he can win the opponent. Judging from the comparison of the strength of the two sides, except for the center position of Belotti and Dzeko are basically at the same level, the Red Wolves have an advantage in other positions, even after joining Ranocchia, the Red Bulls' defense is only the level of the middle and upper reaches of the entire Serie A, far less reliable than the opponent's defense. Although it is not necessary for anyone to win a football match if they are strong, it is really difficult to complete the counterattack if they are completely suppressed by the opponent in all aspects. Without luck and the help of their opponents' own mistakes, facing a Roma team who were determined to avenge the 3-1 defeat last September, the Torino coach could only think of some unique moves that could play a surprising victory.

However, just two days before the start of the game, the strong opponent created a super-topic of suspected civil unrest on its own, causing people to shift their attention away from the upcoming game. Spalletti's contract expires this summer, so a reporter intercepted the Roma boss outside the club's gate after the day's training session and asked him about a contract extension. But I don't know if he didn't hear the question clearly or deliberately provoked trouble, so he replied: "If Totti wants to continue playing, he should renew his contract." And after being reminded by the reporter who was already confused, another sentence came: "Ah! That's not what you're asking me about? But I want to say ah! The important contract for Roma is the player's contract, not the coach's contract. Then he drove away, leaving behind a group of reporters who were too surprised to close their mouths.

The feud between Spalletti and Totti could almost be published as a book, and the war of words between the two sides has not stopped since the former put the Roma captain on the bench on a regular basis in February last year, and the wolf king, who has always been reluctant to make irresponsible remarks in the media, went out in an interview and angrily denounced the team's manager for being unfair to him. Since then, the relationship between the two has fallen to a freezing point and has become the most famous pair of opponents at the moment.

The news immediately spread throughout Italian football, and many media and experts came out to interpret it, and finally got roughly three possibilities. The first is that Si Shuai really thinks that the Wolf King's stay will help the river crab atmosphere in the locker room, and only if the latter renews his contract can he have no worries, and then consider his contract extension. However, this view is considered to be the most untenable, and Spalletti is known to have an awkward personality that often speaks sarcastically and rhetorically, and often has to think backwards when listening to him. Considering the tense relationship between the two men, it seems that there is no reason for him to support the Roma captain at this time, so it is very likely that he is talking back.

Therefore, the second point of view is that the Roma coach is forcing the club to remove the team's flag, and the sentence about the important contract is also interpreted as "If I can't solve the contract issue of Totti, I will not open contract renewal negotiations with the team", which is undoubtedly forcing the palace. However, according to the report of "Roma Sport", if the Wolves choose to retire this summer, then the Roma club will offer him the position of technical director with an annual salary of 600,000 euros, which will bring more trouble to the future coach of Shuai, and the drama of the power struggle may be staged. Therefore, if analyzed in this way, this view is also a bit unreliable.

The third possibility then arises, where Spalletti is actually using Totti's contract renewal to cover up his own plans to leave Roma. It was previously reported that Allegri wants to raise his salary by another level when he renews his contract in the summer, but his current annual salary of 9 million euros is already one of the best in the history of Serie A. Juventus management believes that the team's dominance in the league does not have much to do with the manager, after all, the old lady is ahead of other teams in terms of hardware and software. To put it mildly, they could all be in the top of the table if they were coached by a different dog, so the club was reluctant to agree to the current manager's request for a pay rise, so there were rumours that the boss could replace Allegri. The Roma coach is not too emotionally intelligent and does not want to break with his old club before everything is clear, so he uses Totti as a shield to delay the start of contract extension negotiations and wait for the follow-up progress on Juve's side.

All in all, whatever was on his mind when he said that, Roma's internal problems did get the attention of the whole European football community, and it was widely believed that it created a very good upset for Lee's side, as evidenced by the bookmaker's adjustment of the match odds. However, after checking the competitive status of the opposing players through the FM system, the Torino coach said that it is better not to be too optimistic.