Chapter 365: Goodbye, Miha

With Las Diarra's maiden goal at Torino, the Red Bulls had a two-goal advantage on the road, and with more than an hour to go on, and with one person sent off before half-time, the situation at the moment was nothing but a good one, and I believe most people would not think of using other words to describe it.

However, Lazio is a traditional Italian powerhouse after all, although there are not many honors in history, and it is difficult to make any breakthroughs in domestic and foreign competitions in recent years, but the heritage is still there. In the face of this desperate situation, their players did not despair, but gritted their teeth again to burst out the little energy left, and even played a sharp attack after the restart, so that the unprepared away team could not come up with an effective response for a while.

In the 67th minute, Anderson crossed the middle after successive passes on the right, and Serbian midfielder Milinkovic Savic, who had played a world wave in the previous game, ignored the blocking of the two Torino players in front of him, and fired a powerful burst straight into the corner of the goal. Casillas threw himself into the air with a hideous face, but his outstretched right hand still couldn't touch anything but air. Fortunately, Torino had good luck today, or Lazio's luck was too bad, Savage's shot with a slight curvature of the inside spin, just after dodging the away goalkeeper's save, then slid past the post, and flew off the bottom line at a distance of maybe less than two or three centimeters, making the supporters of both sides instantly form a state of joy and sorrow.

The Torino team was secretly glad to have Lady Luck to help while having palpitations; On the Blue Eagle side, he was so sorry that he couldn't do more, sighing, holding his head in his hands, and cursing constantly in his mouth, and his mood was very low.

The visitors, who escaped the game, were a little more distracted, and after a subsequent goal kick, they made a mistake with their own half, and Caicedo, who did not spare his energy, found a chance to cut the ball directly from Benasi's feet. After the two men exchanged feet, the ball was bounced and controlled by Alberto, who immediately drove the ball down the middle and towards the opposition goal.

Taking advantage of the change in pace and direction, the striker, who came through the Sevilla Academy and played for Barcelona's B team, showed that he can thrive in Italian football, where Espanyol has struggled to gain a foothold, and against two powerful centre-backs, Ranocchia and Canneman, Alberto found his way into the box between the two men, and after an acceleration he shook off two defenders to form a one-on-one movement. Eventually, about five metres to the right of the penalty spot, the Lazio striker picked the ball over the head of the attacking Cassie, and the ball obediently fell into the net of the Torino team like a puppet under the acrobatic master. 1-2, the home team caught in the Jedi created a chance for themselves to escape, and the process was so wonderful that the commentators on the broadcaster praised it.

Li Mudi was naturally very dissatisfied with the goal conceded, and he came to the sidelines and roared a few times, reminding the players to focus all their attention on the game and not to make similar mistakes again. If it weren't for the carelessness of the backfield just now, the opponent would not have gotten this opportunity at all, and if the 0-2 score could continue for a while, Lazio would have completely lost hope of equalizing, the players' mood would have fallen to the bottom, and the game would have been completely closed.

However, after recovering a goal, the flame of hope that has been extinguished by the opponent will quickly rekindle, and the morale boost will give them mental strength, so that the impact of physical fatigue will gradually decrease, and maybe they can really rely on the motivation to get a point until the last minute, causing more problems for the Red Bulls.

Faced with this situation, Li Mudi naturally could not sit idly by and watch his opponent overturn, he immediately replaced Benassi and Belotti with Lucas Boyer and youth youngster Edla, and then replaced Flanagan with Baseli, and the formation immediately changed to 4-3-3. The more dynamic Boyer can use a wide range of runs to increase the receiving point to disrupt the home team's high-intensity pressing, while on the offensive end, the Argentine winger's relentless back and forth impact can further drag down the opponent's defense, making Lazio have to worry about conceding the ball again, thus reducing the investment of troops in the frontcourt.

The change worked very well after two or three minutes, as Mobile and Baseli each had a chance to get their feet on target, and although neither of them were on target, it was enough to keep the home team busy. Seeing that his own defence was a little shaky, Miha had no choice but to let several midfielders retreat some distance to protect the danger zone, as the visiting coach wished, and the crisis of the Torino team was completely resolved.

After about ten minutes or so, the Blue Eagles players who had been ten or eleven for nearly forty minutes finally ran out of energy, and except for the three new players who were replaced in the second half, the rest of the starters had lost the ability to sprint. In this state, it is very difficult to defend your own goal, let alone score a goal.

However, the Torino players quickly let the opponent no longer have any illusory illusions about the outcome of the game, and in the 82nd minute, the Red Bulls scored another goal, which sealed the victory and completely silenced the 20,000 Blue Eagles crowd in the stadium.

Parolo's long pass was intercepted by Las Diarra, and the visitors immediately launched a counter-attack that was not very fast, but Lazio's midfield was really unable to defend back at this point, so the attackers formed a threat situation at the edge of the box. After attracting the attention of a number of defenders on the right flank, Barceli calmly knocked the ball across the middle before the opposition formed a scramble, and the right winger Edla, who switched there, took a left-footed collar and dodged the angle and fired straight with his foot. The shot followed a similar trajectory to Russ's previous goal, and after drawing a very clear arc, it bypassed the flying Strakosha and crashed into the home side's net. 1 to 3, the suspense is gone.

Torino were not too aggressive in wanting more goals in the next ten minutes, including stoppage time, as the quarter-finals of the Coppa Italia would be played in three days' time, and with the three points secured, there was no need to risk more energy or even injury in pursuit of a big win that didn't mean much. In the end, Lazio was unable to recover, losing to Torino at home, and the league has not won four consecutive rounds, plus the twelfth round has been postponed, and the points have been stretched to more than 10 points by the first group.

In terms of technical statistics after the game, the visiting team had a big advantage in all aspects because of the red card, especially in terms of shooting, they were far ahead of the opponent's 4-of-10 with 7-of-16. However, before Keita was sent off, it was actually the home team that had to have some upper hand, and it was said that the referee's controversial decision changed the final outcome of this strong conversation, which also caused heated discussions after the game.

After the game, in the interview area on the side of the field, Parolo expressed his dissatisfaction with the referee to the broadcaster's reporters, who he believed was the latter's wrong decision that caused the team to lose the game. 'Everyone in the pitch felt he should have watched the video of the penalty but instead he opted to show us a red card and Kanneman told him there wasn't much physical contact between the two sides and that Keita's physical contact wasn't enough to send the Torino centre-back to the ground, so it shouldn't have been a red card. It's usually the players or coaches who make mistakes that make the team lose the game, but this time it was because of the referee, and we couldn't keep the balance of the system in the ten-man game, so we were counterattacked by the opponent. ”

Luis Alberto, who was interviewed later, also poured out his bitterness: "This kind of thing has happened to us more than once, although it takes a lot of hard work to win the opponent, but at least we have to be able to compete with eleven people, and in the face of the Torino team with 12 people, the Blue Eagle can only raise their hands and surrender." ”

In the post-match press conference, although Mihajlovic did not directly criticize the work of the referee team, he also attributed the reason for the defeat to non-team problems. At the same time, the Lazio coach also criticized Torino centre-back Canneman and manager Li Mudi, believing that the red card was triggered by the Torino team's intrigues.

"They couldn't withstand the attack of the Blue Eagles under normal circumstances, so they had to use such dirty tactics to try to beat us, and unfortunately, the referees were negligent and ruined the game. This vile behaviour should be punished, otherwise football will continue to be tarnished, and if the Football Association can make a decision on a replay, then Lazio will be ready at any time, even if we are back on the pitch immediately, as long as all 11 players are on the pitch, we will let the other side know who deserves to win the game. ”

The next morning, Lazio general manager Tare, also expressed his dissatisfaction with the referee in an interview with the reporter of Roma Sport. "Tonight's game is a big scandal! It's not the first time, Lazio is always targeted. We didn't lose to anyone in terms of performance, and I hope we can decide our own fate, not that mistakes can't happen, but you can't do them one after another! It was clearly a handball foul, but we didn't get a penalty, the leading scorer was sent off, and even Canneman said it wasn't Keita who knocked him down, but the red card still appeared. It was supposed to be a good chance for us to catch up on the top, but now it's all ruined! ”

Later, the retired former Italian Golden Whistle Rizzoli also gave his opinion on the controversial penalty decision in the Battle of the Eagle and Bull in an interview with La Repubblica, and he believed that Giacomelli and the entire referee team did not choose to watch VAR replays to decide whether there was a penalty, and they were also very uncalm when dealing with the clash between Keita and Canneman. His remarks also caused various media and networks to raise questions about the current level of referees in Italy, making the relevant personnel feel very passive.

In response to the constant criticism and accusations of the Blue Eagles, the Italian Football Federation issued an announcement on the afternoon of the second day after the match, which did not mention any explanation related to the misjudgment of the game, but punished Lazio for repeatedly criticizing the referee, and Parolo, Alberto and Tarere all received a fine of 2,000 euros. This figure is obviously very small for this accusation, which proves that the Football Association also knows that the decision of this game is indeed debatable. As one of Italy's key training whistles, Giacomelli not only missed the quarterfinals of the domestic cup, but also did not show up in many rounds of the league until four rounds later.

Just when everyone was actively commenting on the various controversies in this game, Li Mudi, who had just watched Inter Milan's live broadcast of the third-division team Podnonone after a penalty shootout at home, was shocked by the news prompt that popped up in the FM system in his mind, because Mihajlovic was actually out of class!

While the Torino coach was roughly looking at the brief information given by the system, Valentino Cairo called and informed the former of the big incident. After hanging up the call, Li Mudi immediately turned on the computer and found the official website of the Lazio club to check the detailed report, which was really not a prank. After losing to the Red Bulls, the Blue Eagles, who had basically lost all their chips, lost 2-3 to Fiorentina in the quarter-finals of the Coppa Italia, which made the club's hierarchy completely lose patience with the Serbs, and the decision was made.

The team's new manager was quickly finalized, and Simeone Inzaghi, who had played for 10 seasons in the team and coached several youth teams since retiring, became Lazio's new head coach.

A reporter named Natson for Roma Sport also disclosed an unconfirmed message on his personal website, speculating that Miha's dismissal may be related to the timing of Anne Frank's previous comments. At that time, the former Lazio coach said something that caused a lot of strong dissatisfaction among people of Jewish descent. In the past two days, a recording of the chairman of the Blue Eagle has been exposed by the media, the content of which is that Lotito brought flowers to a local synagogue in Rome to express his apology in order to calm the incident, but he was dissatisfied with the simple reception arrangement of the church, and even said, "Only the deputy of the Jewish priest is present?" It's really not worth going, so let's continue to pretend like this", which immediately aroused the anger of the Jews.

In order to suppress the big trouble caused by the exposure of the recording, Lotito arranged the dismissal of the team's head coach, hoping to take this opportunity to cause trouble, let Miha attract everyone's attention, and he could get enough time to deal with the trouble about the recording.

Although this statement is a bit absurd, it has also been recognized by a small number of people, so that in the next few days, Lazio's change of coach has become the hottest topic in the entire Apennine Peninsula, and Li Mudi, who "assisted" Miha's dismissal, has also been mentioned many times, and the name of "manager killer" on his head has once again been recognized by everyone.