After checking the text live broadcast platform on the computer, Li Mudi confirmed the authenticity of this bizarre score, although the odds given by the bookmaker before the game were indeed slightly optimistic about Real Madrid, but who would have thought that the Serie A overlord would fall behind by three goals at their home stadium!

Rather than rushing to see how all three goals were scored, the Torino boss focused on Allegri's role, analysing how to adjust to make up for some of the disadvantage, although there was no suspense about the score at this point in the situation of progression to the last four. Well...... At that time, Li Mudi really thought so, not knowing that the miracle was almost staged a week later, and at the same time, another miracle did become a reality, slamming him on the cheek, and at the same time making him develop a habit of never letting up unless he got a lead of four or even more goals in the future.

At this time, the game time came to the seventy-fifth minute, Dybala has been sent off for ten minutes with a red card, but the Bianconeri, who have played one less, cannot choose to retreat to defend with all their members, because with a three-goal gap to visit the Bernabeu, the face of Real Madrid, the world's most powerful anti-counter tactics, the consequences are simply unimaginable. Therefore, Li Mudi also agrees with Allegri's judgment, that is, to continue to maintain a certain offensive deterrence in the opponent's court, wait for opportunities to find the opponent's mistakes, and at least recover a goal.

However, the reality is cruel, with Pjanic's cumulative yellow card suspension and Dybala's red card depriving Juve of the core that can play the role of playmaker. Sandro and Douglas Costa, who are on the two wings, have good individual assault ability, but they can't lead their teammates to play; Higuain is the quintessential finisher in front of goal, with even the substitutions of Mandzukic, Cuadrado and Matuidi lacking the ability to deliver key passes, leaving the home side often in a solitary situation.

The absence of one man also depleted the remaining players' physical strength, and mistakes began to increase frequently, giving Real Madrid a lot of good opportunities in the final stages of the game. Had it not been for the visitors' goal that disappeared after the third, Mateo Kovacic's push shot over the crossbar in the 86th minute and Cristiano Ronaldo's close-range kick in the first minute of stoppage time could have snuffed out Juventus' last breath.

In the end, with Ronaldo's brace and Marcelo's "pass into the goal", Real Madrid, which strives to complete the Champions League three times in a row, defeated the opponent defeated in the final last year by three goals away from home, and has stepped into the threshold of the semi-finals with half of his body on one foot.

After sending a congratulatory text message to his friend Zizou, Li Mudi began to use the replay function of the TV to watch the matchup from the beginning, hoping to study the key factors of the Real Madrid manager's surprise victory.

Zinedine Zidane replicated the starting line-up from last year's final and changed the parallel 442 position that he had previously used many times in the league, giving Isco, who had shone in the national team a few days earlier, more room to play. Isco, who was previously angrily denounced by the Spanish media and some fans as a cancer of the team, used his super combination of ball ability, with the help of Kroos and Modric and other players, to play a fast and sharp transmission tactic, and successfully broke the home team's strategy of pressing high. Coupled with the weakness of Juve's incomplete lineup, as well as the huge disadvantage of conceding goals soon after the opening, and even the barb world wave of the domineering president, it led to a large score difference.

The Torino coach naturally appreciates the tactics used by his friends with active running, concise and efficient passing, multiple offensive initiation points, and a high degree of variant combination, but his own team cannot copy it, in addition to the difference in the overall style, but also because of the gap in the player's ability. You must know that the header Belotti in the past two seasons is very good, but in front of Ronaldo, he can only bow down, and Benasi, who is the best in the Red Bulls in terms of passing ability, is at least two levels away from Real Madrid's world-class midfielders, otherwise there would have been no old woman in the position of the hegemon of Serie A.

Although he was unable to learn the advanced tactics of the world's top teams, Li Mudi also learned some things from this game, especially about the pace of the game and the offensive options in the defensive counter-attacking tactics.

In the two games on the same day, the old and spicy Bayern did not let Sevilla once again stage a good show of defeating the strong with the weak, and the Bundesliga giants got the ideal result of 2-1 away from home, and the suspense of this group of confrontations is not too big.

However, no one expected that the two encounters on the second day would also have a big score. If Barcelona's 4-1 home win over Roma was expected by some, Liverpool's three-goal home win over Premier League leaders Manchester City almost upended the outlook on life of the majority of self-proclaimed veteran fans. Although the Blues' performance in Europe has not been very consistent, with the world's top coach Pep Guardiola in charge, their lead in the league is so huge, this fiasco did come a little too suddenly.

After the first leg of the Champions League quarter-finals, the four places to advance to the semi-finals have almost been locked in advance, which is very rare in recent years. However, except for the Premier League derby, the results of the remaining three games are also in line with the odds given by mainstream bookmakers, and the teams that are favored by more people before the game have the upper hand, but the difference is more than everyone imagined.

Li Mudi naturally hopes that the Torino team can also get a big victory in the first leg of this round of knockout rounds, so that the second meeting between the two sides next week can directly lose suspense, and his team can take a breath in the difficult schedule of two matches in a row, so as not to directly break the nervous nerves.

But after a closer look at the opponent he was about to face, he still couldn't figure out how such a team made it all the way to the quarterfinals of the Europa League, which left the somewhat perfectionist Torino coach constantly struggling with his heart.

Red Bull Salzburg, formerly known as Austria's fourth largest city founded in 1933 (in fact, a small town with a population of only 160,000), was acquired by a well-known beverage brand in 2005. The team's roster of honour is full of trophies that have been accumulated since the 90s, which means that they have been a big player for more than 60 years since they were founded.

However, since winning their first domestic league title in 1993-94, they have shown signs of upward mobility, winning two more league titles in the next three years, earning enough capital to be spotted by Red Bull and have since reached the top.

Since becoming an affiliate of the Red Bull Group in 2005, the team has become the dominant player in Austria, winning eight league titles in 12 years, finishing runners-up in the remaining four years, and winning five domestic cups, becoming the country's third-largest club after Rapid Vienna and Vienna in just over a decade.

However, the level of Austrian football is still somewhat unmatched in continental Europe, although according to the FIFA national team rankings released in mid-March, they have a good result of 28th, but it does not mean that the strength really meets this status. At least in Li Mudi's eyes, Serbia, Egypt, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Norway and other teams ranked behind them all have the strength to overturn the Austrians. And it can be seen from the fact that the Celestial Empire national football team can rank 65th, how unreliable this ranking system is, and it really doesn't have much reference value.

In terms of the latest European points released by UEFA, the Austrian league is only ranked eleventh, with a big gap from Turkey and Belgium in front, and the specific points are only less than one-third of the top La Liga, which shows that the overall strength of the league is really not strong, and it will inevitably make people look down.

Even Red Bull Salzburg, the country's dominant player, will not be paid much attention to him until the end of this season's Europa League quarter-finals, and the teams in the top five leagues see it as a big package, believing that they can easily win it.

However, it is not to blame that everyone looks at people with colored glasses, because the past history of this team shows the outside world that they are fish belly in European competitions. Due to the multiple league titles and the problem of league standings, Red Bull Salzburg almost every year of European competition starts with the Champions League play-offs, and except for the 1994-95 season, the other 12 times are defeated and kicked into the Europa League. It doesn't matter if the opponents in the play-offs are from well-known powerhouses or teams that are weaker than them.

In a dozen or so Europa League appearances, they have not been able to do well, and after a shock defeat to Inter Milan in the 1993-94 UEFA Cup final, RB Salzburg never made it past the second round of the knockout rounds, mostly in the group stage. So no matter how you look at it, the rulers of this Austrian league are the best representatives of the nest, and it is no wonder that teams from other countries look down on them so much. Even if they advanced all the way to the quarterfinals this year, the outside world has never improved their recognition, and it is unanimously agreed that the Torino team has drawn a lottery and can easily enter the semi-finals.

It's just that after studying the promotion of Red Bull Salzburg, Li Mudi vaguely felt that this opponent did not seem to be as simple as it seemed on the surface. In the group stage, they were drawn to the most evenly balanced Group I against Marseille, Turkey and Portugal, and it was widely believed before the game that Ligue 1 sides had a clear advantage, with the other three teams competing for another qualifying spot. However, the end result was that the Austrian team won the group by a large margin, and Marseille narrowly finished second in the group. In six games, Salzburg scored seven goals, not strong in attack, but only conceded one goal to beat all 48 participating teams, making it an extremely difficult opponent.

In the first round of the knockout round, they drew Real Sociedad in La Liga, although the latter is a mid-table level in the league, but naturally it is not an easy opponent under the aura of strong Spanish football. In the end, the two sides fought twice, and the Red Bull team narrowly won 4-3 to advance, which was somewhat unexpected by the bookmaker and the public, but it did not make any splash, after all, the strength of the two teams is not much different, and whoever loses and wins is considered within the normal range.

When they drew Borussia Dortmund in the round of 16, the general reaction was that a big score was very likely, after all, the Hornets had a ferocious offensive firepower after the loan signing of Michy Batshuayi, and they eliminated strong rivals Atalanta in the last round, and the morale was high, and Red Bull Salzburg could only be reduced to a half-cooked steak. But when the two-legged clash ended, people were surprised to find that the aggregate score was only 2-1, and the team that reached the quarterfinals was not the Bundesliga giants that have always been favored, and this face was beaten a little hard.

Some so-called pundits immediately began to study what had happened in those two games, and the result was simple: Red Bull were very sharp on the counter-attack, making two more shots on goal than Borussia Dortmund with a total possession of just 37 per cent over two legs. And it was with this not a new move that they knocked on the Hornets twice at West** Stadium, and used counterattacks in the second leg of the home game to contain the opponent's intention to launch a fierce attack and keep the victory.

Dortmund's strength can be said to be obvious to all, so I don't need to talk about it here. Although they were knocked out of the Champions League group stage, it was because of the strength of their opponents that no matter who meets the defending champions and Tottenham who can push Juventus to the brink, it is difficult to guarantee qualification. Therefore, the Hornets who were kicked in the Europa League are still a first-class team in the eyes of people, even if they have sold Dembele and Aubameyang, but after all, they still have stars such as Reus, Schurrle, Gertz and Weigel, and the younger generation of Pulisic, Akanji, Dahoud and Maximilian Philip have also grown up, and it can be said that the strength is still there.

To be able to knock out such a resurgent veteran (the Hornets are on a twelve-game unbeaten run in the domestic league during the time the two teams have met), and Red Bull Salzburg deserves more attention. However, the general opinion of the outside world is still optimistic about the easy victory of the Torino team, because Li Muddy has a deeper knowledge of counter-attacking tactics, and from the overall strength comparison of the two sides, it is also the Red Bulls who clearly have the upper hand. In the case that the secret weapon of the Austrian championship is no longer mysterious, few people are optimistic that they will stage a counterattack again, and the football field is still a stage that relies on strength to speak.