After taking a break to catch up with good friends, Li Mudi immediately returned to Italy, where the team will take on Ligue 1 powerhouse Marseille on Thursday evening at the famous Velodrome Stadium, which will be a crucial game that will set the tone for the final result of this semi-final. It's just that there have been a lot of disturbances to the Torino coach in the past few days, which slightly disrupted his previous plans.

Last Thursday, the British "Daily Mail" suddenly published an article announcing that Arsenal FC intends to invite Vieira, the former captain of the team and currently coaching New York City in the United States, to replace Arsene Wenger this summer, so that the news of the professor's departure instantly swept the entire British Isles.

And just when many people thought that this was another fake news, Wenger issued a personal statement through the club's official website the next day, announcing that he would step down as manager at the end of this season, thus officially ending his nearly 22-year Gunners coaching career. An uproar has finally arrived.

In a brief statement, he expressed his gratitude to the Arsenal club, staff, players, directors and fans, and concluded with the phrase "I will always love and support Arsenal" that brought tears to the eyes of all gun fans.

Subsequently, almost all the Gunners celebrities and current players, and the managers of many Premier League teams have stood up to express their respect and reluctance to the professor, and even Lord Frederm, who has enjoyed retirement for many years, made a rare appearance and praised his old opponent, which can be regarded as a change of direction to prove the greatness of Wenger.

Although he had long been informed of the news that the professor would leave after the season, after learning of his official announcement, Li Mudi would inevitably feel some unusual sentimentality, so he also wrote a tribute to his idol on social networking sites, and posted the "final meeting" that the two had agreed to in private. Who knows, while receiving praise from many Gunners fans, it also ushered in the criticism of many Atletico Madrid fans and Marseille fans, which was regarded as a small hype by the outside world.

It was only on Friday evening that Arsenal FC chief executive Ivan Gazidis held a press conference to officially confirm the departure of the team's meritorious manager. What is intriguing is that as a party, Wenger himself did not attend, which made the outside world smell a strange smell.

The Wall Street Journal's revelation on Saturday was an inside story of the change of Arsenal manager, pointing out that Arsene Wenger's resignation was not voluntary, but received an ultimatum from the Arsenal board, and if he did not resign, he would suffer the humiliation of dismissal. In the past year, Arsenal FC has actually been making unremitting efforts to "de-Wenger". Previously, Arsene Wenger's right-hand man, the club's chief negotiator, Dick Law, left the Emirates Stadium, and Victor Ackes, who joined the club's women's football team at the same time as the professor and worked in various roles for Arsenal for more than 30 years, will also leave the club after this season, which means that the club has completely changed.

I don't know how other people will react when they see these news, anyway, Li Mudi's heart is very uncomfortable, no matter what the team's recent record is, just looking at the contributions that the professor has made to Arsenal in the past 22 years, he has not been able to get the respect he deserves in the end, and the job of the head coach is really too difficult to do!

On Tuesday night, the first leg of the Champions League semi-finals was played first, and Liverpool at Anfield Stadium made a big show of power, taking a big 5-0 lead in the 68th minute of the game, showing the invincible momentum in the world. However, due to the laxity of the back line and the tenacity of the Roma players, the final score was fixed at 5-2, although the three-goal gap is not small, but considering the various reversals and near-reversals in the previous European games, Klopp's team obviously cannot completely relax, but their advantage is indeed large enough in theory.

The next night, at the Allianz Arena in Munich, Real Madrid, the defending champion of two consecutive years, won 2-1 away after playing an extremely bad game, which shocked the eyeballs. In this campaign, the Bundesliga hegemon mastered a possession rate of up to 60%, and it was far ahead of its opponents in shooting data. But the Polish striker Lewandowski, who has been rumored to be involved in a transfer scandal with Real Madrid, suddenly fell into an inexplicable slump, and the whole game was like sleepwalking, plus the home team injured Robben and Boateng in the first half, and broke the central midfielder Martinez in the second half, which is really unlucky.

In the end, with Marcelo's long-range shot and substitute Asensio taking advantage of the mistakes of the opposing defenders to fight back, Real Madrid won an away victory "without reason" and took the initiative to advance. However, with their narrowly beaten home game by Juventus in the previous round, the lead was not very reliable, and the suspense of this matchup was far greater than that of Liverpool and Roma.

However, after this campaign, the Galaxy also set a number of important records, becoming the first team to reach 150 Champions League wins, while also equalling Barca's record of 306 European victories. And Ronaldo also received a good news, although his previous record of scoring in 11 consecutive Champions League games was interrupted, but his 96th Champions League victory still allowed him to surpass former Real Madrid captain Casillas and become the player with the most wins in the history of the Champions League, which also added a heavy weight to his possible promotion to the road to becoming the king of the ball.

After watching the live broadcast of the game at the hotel in Marseille and sending congratulatory text messages to the Real Madrid soldiers, Li Mudi washed up and lay down to rest. Although he brought his own pillow that he was accustomed to at home, he found that his symptoms of poor rest after changing beds seemed to have become more and more serious. Although his biological clock still reliably gave a signal at around five o'clock, the Torino coach, who had been worried about the evening game, did not lie in bed and got up early, but his mental outlook was still relatively bad, and he kept yawning while eating in the restaurant, looking a little sluggish.

And many of the players in the Torino team have tired faces on their faces, and obviously they haven't been able to sleep well, and it seems that everyone still feels the huge pressure brought by the semi-finals. This can't be blamed for their lack of professionalism, after all, except for Casillas, a veteran who is full of honors, the rest of the team has never played to such a deep stage in European competition, and it is still difficult to maintain a normal heart in the face of a good situation that is only one step away from the final. This is also the weakest link of the young Red Bulls in the final four, they have too little experience in the tournament, and there are not many opportunities to play against foreign teams, and it is easy to have great fluctuations in on-the-spot performance.

And their opponent today, the Marseille team, is undoubtedly a veteran powerhouse with rich European experience, stable combat performance, and good at seizing all the loopholes of the opponent. So although the two teams are at the same level and are inferior to Atletico Madrid and Arsenal in terms of the odds of winning the title, bookmakers and most professionals are still slightly more optimistic about Ligue 1 teams in the odds of winning and losing in this set of matchups. After all, experience has always been more important in football and even in the entire sports circle, and the latter is often more important in the battle between pure talent and experience, let alone when the gap in the strength of the two sides on paper is not obvious.

Founded in 1899, Olympique de Marseille is one of the most prestigious clubs in French football and the world, having won nine Ligue 1 titles, 10 French Cup titles and three French League Cups. On top of that, the team won the only Champions League title in French history in 1993, an accolade that alone would have made them one of the faces of French football, from Lyon, who had won seven consecutive league titles, to Paris who now dominate the world.

The team's heyday was undoubtedly in the early to mid-90s, winning the domestic league for four consecutive years, and also beating the mighty AC Milan at the then Munich Olympic Stadium to win the Big Ears Cup. Butters, Desailly, Deschamps, Boksic, Worrall...... These people who have gone on to become world-class stars have been the main force of that Champions League winning team. And if you stretch back to the time frame when they lost to Red Star Belgrade on penalties in the final two years ago, Papan, Wald and Abedi Pele were all big names in world football at that time, and the team was definitely the best in Europe at that time.

It was only in 1993 that in order to ensure victory in the league and at the same time to preserve the physical strength of the main players to the greatest extent, the Marseille club actually bribed the players of the rival Valencian team. As a result, they were not only fined to deprive them of the Ligue 1 title that season, but also ordered to be relegated to Ligue 2 without promotion or European competition for one year, and the club's president, Benard Tappi, was sentenced to one year in prison.

The next drama is easy to guess, the tree is scattered, all the main forces are transferred to other places, and the invincible army that dominated France for a time cannot escape the end of collapse.

Fortunately, UEFA did not strip them of their Champions League title, giving Marseille supporters some comfort. But at the beginning of 2006, former Marseille player Edré broke the news to the media that before the Champions League final, Marseille players had been collectively injected with unknown drugs at the request of the coaching staff, and only German striker Rudi Worrall refused the order. Because other players at that time flatly denied this statement, after many years, the drug testing technology at that time was relatively backward, so the truth of the facts can no longer be explored in depth, but this undoubtedly has brought an extremely bad impact on the club, making everyone always consciously or unintentionally avoid 1993 when talking about the history of the Champions League, which is a football anecdote.

However, Marseille's luck is still good, first with the support of Adidas owner Rob Louis Dreyfus, and then in 2016 by the wealthy American businessman Frank McCourt, the team finally found some shadow of the Ligue 1 powerhouse. Although they have only won the league once in 2010 since entering the new world, they have won second and third places, and in 2010-13 they won the French League Cup three times in a row.

It's just that limited by their own lack of strength, as well as the strong rise of Paris, the revival of teams such as Monaco and Lyon, the results of the Marseille team in recent seasons have not been ideal, once fourth, once fifth, and once thirteenth, and the best is to go to the Europa League, and it has been four full years since they missed the Champions League.

As a result, they have increased their investment in reinforcements in the past two seasons, and the addition of Euro 2016 French midfielder Payet, experienced goalkeeper Mandanda, central defender Rami who has played for AC Milan and Valencia, and winger Florian Tovan, who has just been promoted to the Gallic Rooster international, have made this old powerhouse a title contender to be reckoned with in the eyes of the outside world before the start of the season.

However, the success of Paris still made this season's Ligue 1 lose its suspense early, but after losing Mbappe and other cores, Monaco is no longer majestic, which gives Marseille a chance to fight for a Champions League place or even a league runner-up. As of the end of last week, they have 69 points and are fourth behind Lyon on goal difference, while second-placed Monaco are just one point above them. Considering that fifth-placed Nice only have 50 points, the second, third and fourth places in Ligue 1 this season are just a competition between these three teams.

With only two Champions League draws and one qualifying spot in Ligue 1, one can imagine how fierce the battle between them is. And Li Mudi is also hoping that this factor can play a role in affecting the state of Marseille players during the semi-finals of the Europa League.

Unfortunately, at least before the start of the first round, his wish didn't come true. Haemophile, who played in the domestic league a day earlier than Torino, still beat Lille in the relegation zone 5-1 at home despite the rotation of four central and defensive players, and continued to maintain strong pressure on Monaco and Lyon without causing any decent difficulties for the team. Not only are the players injury-free, but even the physical exertion is not very high, and it is predictable that they will be in full condition in five days' time.

Compared with Zizou's metaphysics, which can continuously cause injuries or red card suspensions of opponents' generals (Neymar and Verratti in Paris, Pjanic and Mandzukic in Juventus, Bayern even injured four players in the back foot of Vidal who were damaged before the game, Zidane's "great skills" in the Champions League has become a topic of conversation among fans around the world recently), Li Mudi, the genuine "Oriental Wizard", seems to be a straw bag, not only did not succeed in making the opponent get a negative buff, On the contrary, it is the attrition of their own team, which is really incompetent.