After Bologna's home defeat to Torino, the remaining seven Serie A first-round matches were all over on Sunday night, with AC Milan, who are considered by the bookmakers to be the third favourites to win the title (the first two being Juventus and Napoli, of course) beating last season's relegation narrowly avoided relegation by three goals away from home to Crodonne.

Sampdoria narrowly beat promoted Benevento 2-1 at home, Sassuolo drew a clean draw at home to Genoa, and Chievo reversed Udinese 2-1 away.

In the two strong conversations, Atalanta, who won the Europa League last season, lost to Roma by one goal at their home stadium and failed to show good momentum at the start of the season. Inter's 3-0 home win over Fiorentina has become the most watched competition in this round of the league, and Spalletti's first game played at a level that impressed the outside world, making his name as the number one tactician in Serie A even louder, but many still doubt what heights the Nerazzurri can reach without much reinforcement in the summer, which still needs time to test.

The biggest upset came from Mihajlovic's team, Lazio sat at home and hit 24 goals, and was re-killed by Spal who returned to Serie A after half a century to get an invaluable point, which caused countless media to criticize the Blue Eagle coach after the game. Most people think that selling Immobile to rival Torino in the summer is the worst decision, in this game, Keita, who was about to have high hopes, missed two golden opportunities to make a single knife, and naturally could not avoid being angry by netizens, but he and the head coach of the team expressed after the game that the team was just unlucky today, and there was no problem of lack of offensive power, and I hope everyone can be patient and wait for the rebound after that.

After the first round, Juventus and Milan are tied at the top of the table on goal difference, with Napoli and Torino in fourth and fifth, followed by Sampdoria, Chievo and Roma, who also won. Icardi and Quagliarella, who also scored two goals, topped the scoring charts and laid a good foundation for the competition for the top scorers in the end.

Torino's next opponent is Sassuolo, and the Nerazzurri have suffered heavy losses this summer, starting with the meritorious manager Di Francesco being poached by his old club Roma, and the team's top scorer Fodrel and midfield core Manuel Pellegrini have also joined the Red Wolves, although they have returned some euros, but they have not gained much in terms of reinforcements. The club chose to let former Perugia coach Butchi, who has a lackluster resume and serious lack of experience in Serie A, take over the reins of the team, and the players only renewed the contracts of a few of last season's main players, and bought out striker Falcinelli on loan from Crotone, which failed to effectively make up for the loss of the two absolute main players who left the team. Therefore, in the eyes of Li Mudi, Sassuolo this season really has little ability to cause problems for their team, especially at the Olympic Stadium, and the Red Bulls should be relatively easy to win the opponent.

So a rather bold plan came to the Torino manager's mind, and he would rotate the squad in the second round of the league game, which would not only eliminate the frustration of the players who did not get a chance to play in the first round, but also allow a few core players to recuperate, and even slightly suppress their desire to play. Hopefully, there will be a big explosion in the face of a strong enemy. According to the information collected by the scouting team and the information provided by the FM system, Li Mudi has a general understanding of the formation and tactics used by Sassuolo's new coach Butch, and then made targeted arrangements in this week's training, and when it is not clear to the outside world, the starting team of the Torino team in the next game actually has a more accurate model in the practice match. However, it's not too late to wait for the pre-match presentation, so let's turn our attention to the European play-offs in midweek.

On Tuesday and Wednesday, the penultimate week of August, the final round of play-offs for the Champions League and Europa League were final, with Napoli and Lazio beating their respective opponents to advance to the group stage. Skipping the Champions League, which has nothing to do with Torino, the draw for the group stage of the 2017-18 UEFA Europa League kicked off at 13 o'clock local time in Monaco at the Grimaldi Convention Centre in Monte Carlo on August 25, when the new president of UEFA, 48-year-old Slovenian Alexander Ceferin, attended the draw ceremony.

The 48 teams that qualify for the main round will be divided into 12 groups, and after six rounds of double round-robin, the top two teams in each group will advance to the next stage and join the Champions League group stage of eight groups of 32 teams to participate in the knockout draw, followed by the official matchup in the cup format until the championship and runner-up final.

The 48 players in the competition include 16 teams that qualified for the tournament by virtue of their domestic cup or league rankings, 22 teams that qualified for the qualifying tournament and 10 teams that went out of the Champions League play-offs. All teams are divided into four pots according to European points, and one team is drawn from each pot to form a group, and teams from the same association cannot be in the same group. As Ventura led the team to the knockout stage of the Europa League three seasons ago, coupled with Serie A's outstanding performance in Europe in the past two seasons, the Red Bulls just beat the Romanian league champion Bucharest Star by 0.031 points and finished last in the first seed, making them lucky to avoid strong opponents such as Arsenal, Zenit St. Petersburg, Lyon, Villarreal and Bilbao in the group stage.

In the end, thanks to the Europa League (including the previous UEFA Cup) top scorer and legendary Swedish striker Henrik Larsson, and the ambassador of the final, Abidal, the results of all 12 groups were decided within 15 minutes, and all but one team was happy.

Since the Europa League participants include teams from small European countries and are divided into 12 groups, it is usually difficult to produce a group of death, but this season there is one unlucky egg in Italy's three teams. Atalanta, who have reached European competition for the first time since 2001/02, have been drawn into a strong group as they have been placed in Pot 3 by UEFA due to their low European points, while the top two teams in Group E are Lyon and Everton, and Gasperini's luck is bad enough. With the exception of Cypriot side Limassol in Pot 4, the other three teams in this group are all strong and it will be difficult to judge who will come out on top.

Lazio, who managed to qualify through the play-offs in one round of the play-offs, are lucky enough to be regulars in European competitions, so they have a high number of points and are also seventh among the teams in Pot 1. Miha's side have been drawn from Group K, with the exception of last season's Ligue 1 runners-up and Malang Sarr, who has always been the favourite of Balotelli and Li Mudi, the rest of the Belgian side Zultwallergem and the Netherlands' Vitesse are weaker, and it should not be too much of a surprise for the two top five leagues to appear together.

As for Li Mudi, who has always been evaluated by the outside world as "Lady Luck is always by his side", there is no doubt about his luck at this critical moment, the overall strength of Group D where the Torino team is located is not strong, Austria's Vienna, Croatia's Rijeka and Greece's AEK Athens have no strength to threaten the top seed in the group, and the Red Bulls' group first should be very stable. The bookmakers then offered them a low odds of 3.97 to qualify from the group, proving that last season's minimum goal of reaching the knockout stages of Serie A was likely to be easily achieved.

A little mention here, another group that is recognized by the outside world as having a lot of suspense is Group H, Arsenal, Belarusian hegemon Borisov, Bundesliga Cologne and Red Star Belgrade with many historical honors are together, except for the Gunners who are considered slightly stronger, the remaining three teams have a chance to qualify, and once the professor is not careful, the possibility of losing the first place in the group also exists.

The Europa League schedule was also announced, with the six rounds of group stage on 14 September, 28 September, 19 October, 2 and 23 November and 7 December. The draw for the knockout rounds will take place on December 11 in Nyon, Switzerland; The final will be held on 24 May 2018 at the Parc Olympique in Lyon. Li Muddy hopes that his luck will continue to be like this, and he will not draw a strong opponent in the subsequent knockout rounds, and perhaps it is not completely impossible to lift the championship trophy of this continental competition at the end of the season. You see, the group draw has just been completed, and he hasn't played even a single game, and he's starting to daydream on his side, which is really ambitious!

At noon on Saturday, August 26, the Italian national team coach Ventura announced the latest edition of the national team squad, the blue team will face Spain and Israel on September 2 and 5 respectively, these are two very crucial Russian World Cup European qualifiers, especially the first game, the outcome directly affects the two world giants who can directly qualify as the group leader, who will have to play the play-offs, and leave the fate to the home and away duel.

In this list of 25 players, it is still Juventus players who play the leading role, counting Bernardeschi, who has just transferred, as many as 5 of their players have been selected for the national team, and all the local defenders of the Bianconeri have been selected, if Bonucci has not joined AC Milan, it will create a miracle. With two new signings including Antonio Conte and the return of veteran Montolivo, the Rossoneri followed the Old Lady with four selections, and the club tied with them for the second most output is Torino! In addition to Zampacosta and two strikers who have already established themselves in the national team, the inclusion of midfielder Baseli is definitely the highlight of this list, and with both Parolo and De Rossi suffering minor injuries that have had a big impact on the team's organisational ability, Ventura has finally turned his attention to his old club and called up the youngster, who has been performing well in the past two seasons.

Of course, some people are happy and some people are worried, Benacy, who played an eye-catching role in the new position of the midfielder in the first round of the league and provided an assist, had to hide in the corner alone after congratulating his friend. After Li Mudi took over the team, the two playmaking midfielders were actually at the same level, with equal statistics on goals and assists, and their contributions to the team on the field were also difficult to judge. But in the eyes of the national team coach, it seems that he is still more optimistic about Baseli, although he doesn't pay much attention to it, but the national second team formed before has made Baseli serve as the core of the midfield, and this time he has officially put on the sacred blue jersey, and Benassi has been left behind.

Li Mudi saw all this, and after this day's training, he left a player with a strong smile alone, encouraging him to work harder in future training and games, and using facts to prove that Ventura's choice was not perfect, and not recruiting the best midfielder in Italy at the moment into the team was the biggest mistake made by the old coach. It's hard to say what kind of effect will be received after a lot of chicken soup for the soul and a motivational encouragement, but the FM system shows that Benasi's personal form has indeed improved, plus a happy encouragement for the club manager, if there are no accidents, this kid's respect for Li Mudi should increase.

However, Benassi is not the only one who is not in a good mood because he was not selected for the national team, since joining the Red Bulls this winter, Ranocchia, is the third-highest central defender in Serie A during this time, but he still failed to impress the heart of the national team manager, and the former Inter captain who is less than six months away seems to be a little confused about when he will be able to return to the Azzurri. But fortunately, his psychology is still relatively mature, and he did not show too many mood swings, and he still played steadily in the afternoon training, winning everyone's appreciation, and it is precisely because of him that the defensive strength of the Torino team will grow by leaps and bounds in the past six months, and the name of the backbone of the defense is well deserved.

On the afternoon of the next day, the Red Bulls once again withstood the 28-degree heat on their home court, and defeated Sassuolo, who had undergone a major lineup change in the summer, 3-0 with a "second team" lineup with a set of rotation players, which surprised almost all the Italian media. "La Repubblica", "La News", "The Courier" and other influential comprehensive media praised the strength of the Torino team after the game, and it can still have such an excellent performance when most of the main forces are hidden, and Juventus, which has won six consecutive championships, is nothing more than that!

Li Muddy himself thinks that this week is really perfect, and if it can continue like this, maybe the team can really create a result that no one expected.