In this game, Miha used a 3-5-2 formation, intending to put enough pressure on the visiting Torino team in the midfield, using high pressing to break the latter's rhythm of possession while also allowing himself to get more opportunities to attack.

Li Mudi still maintained a 3-4-1-2 position, because last week's European competition made all the core main players get a rotational rest, so this league can not be too much to worry about, directly come up with the strongest set of lineup to meet the enemy. Goalkeeper Casey, a back three of Diego Llorente, Ranocchia and Caneman, four midfielders Silvestri, Vukocevic, Las Diarra and Jon Flanagant, forward Benassi and two strikers Immobile and Belotti. In particular, Liverpool-based loan player Flanagan was once again offered a starting spot due to Barreka's injury, Dimarco played the full midweek game without being at his best fitness, and the England full-backs were more able to protect the backs in the face of the hosts' attacking prowess.

Sure enough, Lazio took advantage of the home advantage and pressed out from the start of the game, with Keita and Luis Alberto forming a forward line, supported by excellent midfielders such as Milinkovic, Savage, Parolo and Reva, and continuously attacking the goal guarded by Cassie. In the third minute, right wing-back Montenegro international Marusic's cross gave the Senegalese striker a chance to head home, but Ranocchia's jump interfered with it, so that the lion's head flick could not be pushed into a good angle and was saved into the arms of the Torino goalkeeper.

Two minutes later, Alberto's return gave Parolo a chance to shoot from distance about four or five meters to the right of the edge of the box, and the Italian international's powerful shot was full of power, and on the way it rubbed against Canneman's leg and made a slight touchline, which caught Cassie off guard. Unfortunately, this time luck did not take the side of the home team, the ball grazed the right post of the Torino goal and flew out of the bottom line, Lazio unfortunately missed the goal, causing the home team fans to mourn, but the atmosphere was not too strong.

I don't know what the specific reason is, but the number of fans who came to the Olympic Stadium in Rome today was very small, almost only three or four percent of the attendance, which made the Torino fans who accompanied the team on the away side seem to be quite impressive. For security reasons, the supporters of both sides were separated from each other in the stands, but they did not show any weakness in the provocations and fights between each other, and they all kept waving flags and shouting slogans to cheer for their teams.

After about ten minutes of the game, in the face of wave after wave of attack from the opponent, Li Mudi came to the field and instructed his players to move all three lines back, and compress the distance between each other, using the dense numerical advantage to prevent the home team from passing smoothly before. If he wants to drop back some distance to make room for a forced impact, the experienced Lars will be in charge of marking one-on-one, and the French defender will not even have to think about his own area, as long as he is in the own half outside the penalty area, he will stick to the striker's side like a plaster, and not let him live comfortably for a second.

After restricting the striker's play a little, Torino were able to deal with the attacks of other home players. In terms of cracking the opposition's high pressing, after more than a season of training and several personnel changes, the passing and receiving ability of the visiting midfielders has made great progress, and after the coach instructed the two forwards to retreat often to meet their teammates, it is relatively easy not to allow Lazio players to make a successful tackle in their own half. After about ten minutes of useless work, the home team with a lot of physical loss took the initiative to give up this tactic, and everything returned to the normal rhythm of attack and defense.

Just when the two sides entered a very stalemate state of mutual containment, the situation on the field changed irreversibly because of an accident, and indirectly changed the fate of some people.

In the first minute of first-half stoppage time, Vukocevic made a mistake in his pass in midfield, and Lazio seized the opportunity to play a counter-attack. Keita received a pass from team-mate Lulic and slotted diagonally into the visitors' box from the left, shook off Vukocevic with a series of feints, and then crossed with his feet. However, the ball did not fly towards Alberto, who was outflanked in the middle, but just off his foot hit Vukocevic's outstretched right hand, which changed direction, and Kanneman, who came from behind, kicked a big kick into the Thigh of the Blue Eagles striker and bounced off the line, and the latter fell to the ground due to the impact. Seeing this, the other home players hurriedly raised their hands to indicate that it was a deliberate handball in the penalty area, that a penalty should be awarded, and that measures such as yellow cards should be added.

However, to the surprise of the Lazio supporters in the stadium, the referee of the game, Italian whistle Giacomelli, actually stretched out his hand to say that it was just a goal kick, no handball foul, no penalty, and no yellow card, which completely angered the Blue Eagles. On the field, captain Lulic led four or five home team players to try to surround the referee to plead, and Mihajlovic on the sidelines first roared a few words loudly into the field, and then turned back to the fourth official and angrily accused, and about 20,000 fans at the scene booed continuously, expressing their strong dissatisfaction.

The other party was also at a loss at this time, Li Mudi and others were a little far away from the place of the incident, but they probably still saw that the flight trajectory of the cross had changed, and they also felt that Vukocevic's handball should exist. Although Giacomelli's current decision is extremely strong for his side, there is VAR this year, and everything is clear when people look at the replay, and the result can change 180 degrees at any time. So the coaches of Turin stood together and watched the changes, while Li Mudi was also discussing with the assistant coach how to adjust the backward Torino team once the penalty was blown.

Just when the commentators of the broadcaster were also waiting for the referee team to watch the video replay, the situation on the field changed dramatically. Keita, who fell to the ground, did not get up in a hurry, but sat on the lawn and tidied up his shin guards, waiting for a while to take the penalty, but he slowly cleaned it up, and did not wait for the result that he thought would happen, and the whole person was not calm in an instant. Canneman, who had just smothered him to the ground, walked up to him and motioned for the home striker to hurry up and Torino was about to take a goal kick. Seeing this scene, a sudden wave of anger rushed through Keita's dantian with lightning speed, and he quickly got up and rushed to the Argentine central defender, who was stepping back into the midfield and muttering about the Lazio players trying to cheat the penalty kick, very low-level and so on, as if he was about to clash with him.

And just when the two were about to collide face to face, Kanneman, who was a little frightened by the home team's forward's rush up, was distracted, garlic was mixed under his feet, and Keita's chest was not very strong to hit him, the Torino defender actually sat on the turf with a butt, looking as if he was directly knocked to the ground by the opponent. Why do you say it's such a coincidence, this scene happened to be seen by Giacomelli, who still hadn't gotten rid of the entanglement of the home team's players, and the famous whistle that the Italian Football Association focused on cultivating suddenly blew a series of piercing and rapid whistles, and quickly ran to the place of the incident in the penalty area.

It was so sudden that almost everyone didn't react in the first place, and it wasn't until the boos in the stands escalated again that Keita relented and hurriedly defended his actions. When the other home team players ran over to dissuade the referee from retracting the penalty, Canneman, who got up, also came to Giacomelli and signaled to him that his fall was not caused by the collision of the opposing striker, and the physical contact between the two men was not so strong. However, even the explanation of the "victim" did not change the opinion held by the stubborn referee: penalty, no! Keita, soff!

Seeing this situation, Miha was completely crazy, he actually wanted to rush into the field to theorize, but fortunately he was tightly held by the two Lazio coaches, otherwise he would not have escaped the fate of being expelled. After the game resumed, neither player could draw attention from the impact just now, and dealt with the remaining minute of stoppage time in a bit of confusion, and then rushed back to their dressing rooms to adjust their form.

To be honest, even Li Mudi was confused at this time, and he didn't understand why Giacomelli, who had never had any stake in the Torino club, would be so helpful today, it was like some insider trading. But the whole of Italy knows that in addition to Juventus and the referees have been some kinds of news rumors, other teams really don't have the ability to let these black-clad judges help, if the referee really has the meaning of favoritism, then it should be dissatisfied with Lazio to act like this. Of course, if you want to say that he is not capable enough and misjudged so obviously, Li Mudi has nothing else to say, although he is a senior referee who has been in the industry for ten years, and has been ranked first many times in the selection of the best referee of the year, and even won the second place once.

But don't think about things you don't understand, at least the current situation is definitely a great opportunity for the away team, and one more person will be played in half the game, if you can't take all three points home, it is estimated that Li Mudi can punish himself with a month's salary to express his dissatisfaction with his incompetence. So in the fifteen minutes of the break, he reassigned a new task to the players, to attack more actively in the future, take advantage of the opponent's situation that the opponent had to switch to defense to grasp the ball, and at the same time can strengthen the pressing in the front court, and strive to return the other way with the same pressing methods adopted by the home team at the beginning.

In the case of the rematch, Miha did not make any personnel adjustments, and in the case of ten men, he still dreamed of defeating his opponent, and naturally refused to further reduce the number of midfielders when the score had not changed. However, in the face of a wave of strong attacks by Torino players, he obviously felt that the defensive system of the back three was gradually unstable, and hurriedly called the right-back Basta to warm up, and decided to replace the Serbian international in a few minutes, first stabilize the defense and then consider the attack. But before this substitution was executed, the Red Bulls scored, and this point in time was called a miracle.

In the 54th minute, Immobile suddenly played a wonderful solo pass after receiving a pass from Benassi in front, he dribbled the ball out of the bag of two opposing players, all the way to the bottom line on the left side of the penalty area, and then suddenly kicked back to cut inside and dodge the angle to send a cross. The ball hit the thigh of Angolan centre-back Bastos and bounced back in front of the Torino 10, only to see him nimble past the Dutch centre-back De Vrij who came back to make up the defense, and then swing his right leg at great speed and volley directly into the far corner, the ball slid quickly past the hands saved by the home goalkeeper Strakosha and crashed into the net. 0-1, Torino took a temporary lead thanks to an unparalleled individual performance by a super striker poached from their opponents.

After the score was rewritten, there were loud boos in the stadium, and the fans seemed to be dissatisfied with Immobile's killing. The killing of the old owner also appears to be a protest against the club's poor transfer deals in the summer. Even if the scorer did not make a celebration out of personal feelings, he still could not avoid being reprimanded as Judas by the Blue Eagle supporters, and he must have mixed feelings at the moment.

Taking advantage of the dead-ball chance a minute later, Miha finally made a change to the line-up, replacing Bastos with the original Basta, and also replacing the starting right winger Marusic with Brazilian winger/striker Anderson. After three minutes of replacing Brazilian midfielder Rewa with Ecuadorian centre-forward Caicedo, Lulic dropped back into the defence and the home team's formation changed to 4-3-2, still leaving a strong impact up front, trying to capitalise on the opponent's mistakes to equalise the score.

However, the numerical disadvantage still made the fitness of Lazio's players worsen, especially when the visitors pretended to strengthen their defense after taking the lead and hoped to maintain a one-goal advantage, which made the former's mentality slacken to a certain extent. In the 64th minute, a sudden wave of high pressing by the Torino frontcourt players disrupted the rhythm of the home team's passing and receiving coordination, and mistakes occurred immediately. Lulic was met by Belotti's frenzied interception on the left, and after seeing Benassi running towards him, the Lazio captain had to choose to play quickly to his team-mate in the middle. However, this short pass with added power was not controlled by Parolo, but was directly stopped by Las Diarra, who suddenly stepped forward, and the French defender immediately ran towards the opponent's goal with the ball himself.

The former Real Madrid No.10, who has rarely chosen individual dribbling in recent years, actually has a certain ability to dribble, and after he took two steps forward on the right side, he saw Romanian defender Radu come up to block it, and wiped the opponent with only one inward change of direction, which surprised all defenders. Covered by Immobile's run, Russ continued to dribble diagonally to the top of the middle of the box and took advantage of De Vrij's hesitation to mark the Torino striker before suddenly kicking a long-range shot with his left foot. The ball made a beautiful inward curl into the top left corner of the home goal, and Strakosha made an unforged save that could not stop the world's wave, giving the French veteran a stunning goal that was enough to rank in the top three of the best goals of his career.