Judging from the post-match statistics, the Torino team has the absolute upper hand in the number of shots on goal (14 to 5), the number of shots on target (5 to 2) and the success rate of tackles (67% to 55%), but the possession rate is only 45.6%, nearly ten percentage points behind the visiting team, in addition, the number of fouls of 19 to 8 also shows that they actually have no better way to face Empoli's possession tactics, if it is not for the referee's scale is not so strict, there may be attrition.

In the dressing room after the game, the team doctor brought bad news to Li Mudi: right-back Zappacosta collided with the opponent's Butcher in the 89th minute, resulting in very painful calf, because there were no substitutions at that time, so he had to stay on the field and continue to persevere. After a simple examination just now, it was found that there seemed to be a suspicion of bone cracking, and it was necessary to go to the hospital in time to take an X-ray to confirm the specific situation, which made the coach of the team who was finally happy because he won the game very depressed, and everything was really not going well!

In the post-match press conference, Li Mudi praised Empoli and his coach Marttusello, saying that their tactical play is very advanced and brave, and they dare to stick to their own style at a time when football is becoming more and more utilitarian, which is definitely worthy of praise. This is not a compliment, but his sincere words, Li Mudi's original best tactics are also ball control and front-court suppression, but unfortunately this style of play needs to occupy an absolute advantage of technical ability to support, Castile can do it in La B B, Torino can only be suppressed by the other party in Serie A, this contrast is indeed too great. He can only play his tactics according to the characteristics of the existing players, and it will take several seasons to change the squad if the team can play exactly the way he wants to play. As for the cultivation of the young echelon, Li Mudi naturally will not forget the previous plan designed with Valentino Cairo, but the number of players in the existing two youth teams is too much, and most of them are "waste wood" with no future, so he can only ask the "prince" to clean up those who are not on his plan list as soon as possible, as long as this step is completed before starting the training plan.

Late that night, all 10 Serie A matches were decided, with Inter Milan winning a surprise 2-1 at home to the mighty Juventus in a surprise 2-1 home game, and after losing to Chievo in the first round of the league, the team seemed to be on the verge of regularity. Coach Frank de Boer was naturally unstoppable in his post-match interview, saying nothing about a reporter asking him what he thought of the Torino manager, but his expression at the time seemed to be completely dismissive. In addition, Fiorentina also won at home, where they won against strong rivals Roma. So far, after four rounds of league games, only 3 wins and 1 draw Napoli are still unbeaten, while Torino ranks ninth in the standings with 2 wins, 2 losses and 6 points.

However, the next day's edition of the "Roma Sports Newspaper" did not ignore the lackluster Li Mudi, and published a reporter's column entitled "The "Beacon" of Prophecy", which roughly reads: "Since ancient times, it has been rumored that there are many kinds of magical witchcraft in the ancient East, which can not only cure diseases and save people, pray for happiness, but also kill people thousands of miles away, and the most incredible thing is probably prophecy." Although those earth-shattering rumors seem to exist only in ancient books and even legends, the Turin coach from the Celestial Empire definitely thinks he is a master of prophecy, and when he first arrives, he wants to use this 'ability' to shock the Apennine Peninsula and make him quickly gain a foothold. Unfortunately, after just one month, those prophecies became similar to the 'guiding lights' in the casino, and they were all the opposite of what he predicted. He first praised Gasperini's superior ability, Atalanta will rise quickly after getting the manager, and the opponent's old club Genoa will be in a slump, but what is the reality? Atalanta lost all but one win in Torino, while Genoa is tied for second place in the standings with the Old Lady with 3 wins and 1 loss. ”

He then predicted that new Inter coach Frank de Boer would be out of class, but as things stand, while two wins, one draw and one defeat are not very impressive, it is not the time for the Nerazzurri to win five consecutive titles. With seven points from four rounds, which is a strong contender for European qualification, the probability of the Dutchman being sacked does not seem to be as great as the Torino boss had previously anticipated. And with Inter's form rising significantly in the recent period and the strength of the next opponents is generally weak, we have reason to believe that they are likely to form a lot of pressure on the top team in the early stage of the league, which really makes people wonder if Li Mudi's comments at the time were 'cursed'. ”

Because the arguments of the article have strong attraction, detailed and reliable arguments, cautious arguments and extremely logical, they have been approved by the majority of fans and netizens, and they have once again attracted a lot of black for the Torino coach.

After getting up early on Monday morning, Li Mudi first dialed the phone number of Baozi, and discussed with his dead friend a few domestic agent candidates who had been found temporarily, although Brother Hong Lei and Sister Xiaolei really helped to contact each other very carefully, but after all, the time was still short, and the two decided to wait a few more days to see if there was a more suitable candidate. After finishing his business, he once again opened various SNS software and checked what the latest friend movements were, and saw the messages sent by Lin Yuner and the private message to the Turin coach on Instagram and Weibo. Her previous TV series "The K2" filmed in Barcelona will be broadcast on TVN cable TV every Friday and Saturday night from September 23, Kimchi national time, and it is expected to have a total of 16 episodes. And at the end of the private message, it turned out to be a message that surprised Li Mudi: the song "Today", adapted from the "words" he passed to Sunny before, was actually selected as the OST at the end of this TV series, which is also a masterpiece by Girls' Generation captain Kim Taeyeon to once again consolidate her status as the "OST queen". Actor Lin joked in the postscript that Li Mudi was biased, and even wrote a song for the captain's sister, who usually had little contact, and asked if he had any ulterior thoughts about him, so that Li Mudi didn't know how to respond for a while, saying that it was all a coincidence made up by Sunny, would anyone believe it?

However, this little incident did not bother the Torino coach for long, because after breakfast, training was due. Since the league schedule this week is two matches a week, the team did not take a day off as the new coach customarily, but went straight to the state of preparing for the fifth round of opponents. In the morning training, the players were divided into two parts, the players who played more than an hour in the last round were still focused on recovering their fitness, and the rest were doing individual exercises and adjusting as usual. Sitting in the shade off the pitch, Muddy studied the midweek opponent Pescara while incorporating the FM system, and he hoped to continue rotating his squad for that game to get the three points that came to his mouth at minimal cost.

Delfino Pescara (1936), as the name suggests, was founded in 1936 and belongs to the city of Pescara, in the district of Abruzzo. Located in the middle of the Italian peninsula, it is a large bay in the Mediterranean Sea bordered by Marche to the north, Lazio to the west, Maurise to the south, and the Adriatic Sea (Mare Adriatico) to the east. There are no strong football teams in the region, and the overall football strength is at the bottom of the league in Italy, with Pescara being the club at the highest level.

However, the team's professional league history is not very good, since joining the professional league in 1940, the honor is only two Serie B titles and two Serie C titles, and the number of times they have qualified for Serie A is only seven seasons this year. Except for the 1987-88 season, the rest of the relegation was a one-year tour, and the relegation places were booked early, and this year, judging from the analysis given by various media before the start of the season, it seems that it is impossible to escape the doom of returning to the second division.

In the first four rounds of this season, Pescara only achieved a poor record of 1 draw and 3 losses, and "forced" another promoted team, Makrotone, with a goal difference, to rank in the position of vice leader of the standings. They were impressive in Serie B last season, finishing fourth in the promotion play-offs, but they did well in key matches, knocking out Novara and Trapani ahead of them to secure the last promotion spot. However, there are still a lot of problems for this team, and the previous impression is mainly that the attack is strong and the defense is weak, and last season's 69 goals were second only to the Serie B champions Cagliari, but the 52 goals conceded were also the most among the top 10 teams. However, the level of the second division is very different from that of the first division, and in terms of their ability, if the number of goals conceded in the new season is multiplied by 1.5 times that of the previous season, it will reach 78, which is absolutely impossible to relegate.

The team's head coach is former AC Milan defender Odor, who will be familiar to long-time fans, who took over his hometown club Pescara in the summer of 2015 and led the team to promotion in his debut season, but his coaching ability is still in its infancy, and there is nothing too good about it other than strong willpower. And in this summer's transfer period, the team basically retained the vast majority of the main squad that can only be considered inferior to Serie A, and it is difficult to do anything. But with the team's top scorer Gianluca Lapadula (Gianluca Lapadula) poached by AC Milan for 9 million euros, only the introduction of Udinese midfielder Viray and Inter Milan defender Biraghi was definitely a fatal blow to their attacking strength.

It should not come as a surprise that such a team that looks weak in attack and weak in defense has only managed one draw since the start of the season. However, it was this average that caught the attention of Li Moodi as they drew 2-2 at home to mighty Napoli in the opening round of the league, and it was the only game in which the latter had dropped points so far. After reviewing the footage of the game through the FM system, the Torino coach found that Pescara's counter-attacking tactics were very methodical, and the 173-centimeter-tall Libyan midfielder Ahmad Benali and the 171-centimeter striker Gianluca Caprari, who was bought from Inter for 8.15 million euros and returned on loan, were both players with outstanding speed and dribbling ability, and if they were not focused on prevention, they were likely to capsize in the gutter.

After carefully analyzing the technical and tactical characteristics of the opponent, Li Mudi communicated with the members of the coaching staff, and finally put out a 4-3-2-1 lineup based on defensive counterattacks. The goalkeeper is still the England international, with Bruno Perez, Moretti, Kastan and Avilar in the back four from right to left, the midfielders Vieves and Akwa, and the playmaker Basseri, with Jose Jesse, loan Juan Iturbe from Roma and Lucas Boyer, who scored the winning goal in the previous round.

Once the game began, Pescara, who were playing at home, tentatively crossed the halfway line and started to possess the ball when they noticed that their opponents had dropped back a lot. Fifteen minutes later, they found that the visitors were completely intimidated, so they gradually stepped up their attack, and the two full-backs began to get involved in the attack from time to time.

Li Mudi's idea is not to let the opponent play the counterattack tactics that he is usually used to, and wants to find flaws in the active attack that the home team is not very good at, and then use his own counterattack to treat others in the way of others. It's a pity that the idea is very good, but in reality, it encounters very big difficulties. The opposing coach Otto really has a certain ability, after he found that the only player with strong organizational ability on the Torino side was Barceli, he decisively instructed the 21-year-old midfielder Bryan Cristante (Bryan Cristante) to closely mark the core of the visiting team's midfield, and at the same time there was the veteran Aquilani from the side to help close the circle, resulting in Torino almost failed to play an effective counterattack tactic in the first half, and most of the attack was a single fight.

To add insult to injury, Ghanaian defender Akuwa also received his second yellow card of the game half a minute before half-time and was sent off, resulting in Torino having to play with one less man in the rest of the game. Li Muddy had no choice but to replace Iturbe with Benasi to maintain the number of defenders in midfield.

In the second half, the home team attacked and the away team defended, but Pescara's offensive ability was really average, and one more person failed to create any good chances. Instead, after the Torino boss replaced Boyer with the newly injured Belotti in the 66th minute, the team's attack improved significantly under the management of Barcelona and Benasi, and the visitors seemed to see a glimmer of opportunity to win.