In the new tactics adopted by Li Mudi this season, it has become obvious to some that he is not as reliant on the top scorer in Serie A last season as he used to be, except when he needs to attack, he always likes to partner Immobile with a faster striker to make the most of the team's counter-attacking power.

There hasn't been much controversy about the Torino manager's approach before, because the red babe, who has suffered a knee ligament injury several times this season, is really difficult to play a big role in the counter-attacking tactics. Although his speed ability has not decreased compared to before, because he will involuntarily worry that his old injury may recur when he starts at full speed, the Torino No. 9 has greatly reduced the use of long-distance high-speed running, and has become more and more oriented to a point-grabbing center.

The Red Bulls' counter-attacking tactics require frontcourt players to have excellent speed ability, and judging from the current roster configuration, they do still lack a fast horse forward, which is one of the aspects that Li Muddy needs to carefully consider in this summer's recruitment.

It's just that with the current players alone, Falke and Jesse are still barely up to the job, but considering the latter's long-term slump this season, most people still think that it will be Falke who will replace Belotti naturally, but the result is so unexpected.

Li Mudi's choice naturally has his reasons, after a long period of training and self-adjustment, Heqiu Wang, who has not been able to get many opportunities to play for a whole year, finally found some form in the last month and a half of the season. In June last year, Jesse and his girlfriend Ola welcomed the birth of their son Nian, but because he was born prematurely, Nian was born with a serious congenital disease and has been receiving treatment in the hospital. At the end of January this year, Jesse, who was determined to come to Italy on loan to find opportunities, suddenly made a decision to announce his breakup with his girlfriend, which triggered a strong counterattack from Ola, who even issued an article directly accusing Hesse of being a scumbag who abandoned his wife and children.

Let's not mention whether this kid's behavior is in line with moral norms (this guy had his first son with his then-girlfriend when he was nineteen years old, and now it's just a repetition of the past drama, and it's not an exaggeration to say that he is a scumbag), but the son's illness and the emotional entanglement with his girlfriend are indeed one of the most important factors that lead to his sluggish state like the Celestial Empire. With the news that Nian's condition has stabilized from the hospital a month ago, Jesus' psychological pressure has been greatly reduced, coupled with the continuous guidance of the team's head coach, the genius who was once regarded by Real Madrid fans as the new Ronaldo has shown signs of recovery.

After playing more than ten minutes in the previous two rounds of the league, Li Mudi detected through the FM system that Jesse's competitive form has shown a rare peak, and it is better than Falke, which also gives the Torino coach the confidence to dare to send him on the field at such a critical moment.

And when the Spanish winger came on for just a minute and a half, his first touch of the ball came close to sealing the win. Bareka broke down the left and sent in a low cross, and Immobile at the front post completed a brilliant back-heel pass with a defender behind him and himself facing the goal, and the ball changed direction after his touch, just in time for Jesse, who had just run to the penalty spot.

Instead of making adjustments, some of the running kings went straight to the bottom right corner of the visitors' goal with a left-footed half-turn and volley, a shot of great power and angle, but it couldn't get past goalkeeper John Bailey. The veteran Marseille, who had been clawed twice by his team-mates today, made a quick move to the ground, stabbing the ball with the fingers of his left hand, causing it to change the line and finally hit the post and fly off the line, and the Torino team missed a golden opportunity to extend their lead.

Just when the home team was feeling sorry for this, the referee blew the whistle to stop the game, and it turned out that Marseille midfielder Morgan Sanson had accidentally strained his right thigh muscle when he was struggling to run to Hesse's side to intercept the opponent's shot. After a brief review by the team doctor, it was announced that he could no longer hold on, and Rudi Garcia had to play the second card in his hand, with 32-year-old Portuguese centre-back Rolando coming on and Gustavo returning to his familiar midfield position.

This substitution also had a huge impact on the subsequent trend of the game, almost changing the fate of both teams.

In the 70th minute, the unusually active Payet once again targeted the home goalkeeper's weakness to strike, he burst into the box on the right side and used a series of feints to shake off a small angle and send a high curling cross, Towan, who switched to the left, suddenly stepped forward to the back post and headed a lob with a header. Casillas, who is a short goalkeeper, scrambled to his back and lifted the ball off the crossbar in a thrilling way that scared the home team's supporters.

After getting up, Cassie yelled at his compatriot Diego Llorente, who had just made a mistake out of position, reminding him that he could not be negligent any longer, showing a strong leadership temperament and receiving unanimous praise from the sideline coaching staff.

And then Payet's corner kick is not known whether it was intentional, it ran directly to the dead corner of the back post like a shot, Cassie once again used his quick reaction to block the ball out of the bottom line, but he also collided with the goalpost, fortunately there were no symptoms of injury, otherwise the Torino team would be in big trouble.

Within a quarter of an hour after Sarr's own goal made the game 2-0, Marseille significantly stepped up their attacking efforts, and under the leadership of their core Payet, they launched a series of attacks on the home team's goal, and won four attacks, three corners and two well-placed free-kicks.

The Red Bulls' counter-attacking strategy was also implemented by the players, but the speed of the opposing defenders was generally not slow, and except for Hesse's volley, they were not able to find other good opportunities. However, with the arrival of veteran Rolando, there was finally a potential loophole for the visitors to exploit, and after a dead goal, Li Muddy laid out the latest tactical requirements to the players through Silvestri, allowing two strikers to take turns to attack the very slow central defender, and strive to end the suspense of the game in the next game.

It's just that Immobile and Jesse didn't wait for the opportunity to implement the manager's arrangement, and the defensive weakness in their eyes used an assist opportunity to help Marseille regain the advantage of promotion, but this process was really unacceptable to the Red Bulls.

In the 77th minute, the visitors' corner kick was pushed out of the box by Diego Llorente, and Cameroon midfielder Zambo Anguiza ignored Benasi's block, and hit a powerful volley from the right side of the box arc, the ball changed direction shortly after leaving his feet, flying straight out of the bottom line, more than 20 meters away from the post. Just as Cassie was about to put the ball running over by the caddie on the line of the small penalty area to send a goal kick, the referee Karashov signaled that it was a corner kick from the Marseille team, which caused dissatisfaction among the Torino players.

Benassi walked up to the black-clad judge and said he hadn't touched the ball, while left centre-back Canneman said the shot had hit the leg of the opposition's left winger, Ocampos, and it was a clear goal kick. At the same time, the slow-motion replay of the broadcaster also clearly showed that the ball did hit the Argentine teenager who was trying to dodge the change of direction on the right knee, and the referee's decision was wrong.

However, a corner kick will not have much impact on the score on the field in everyone's eyes, so after just ridiculing a few words of UEFA's negative attitude towards the introduction of the VAR system, I will not delve into it. After seeing that the referee had no intention of changing the decision, the Torino players did not dwell on it any more, because misjudgments often occur, and if they have to fight on the basis of reason every time, they will have to lose the game directly because of the three penalties sooner or later.

It's just that almost everyone didn't expect that the Marseille team used this undeserved corner kick to break through the home team's goal and completely reverse the situation of the two sides to advance.

Payet sent a corner from the right and went straight to the middle of the penalty area, but as a result, a number of players from both sides interfered with each other in the process of fighting for the landing point, and neither of them could touch the ball. However, Vukocevic, who was guarding the back point, was shaken by the player in front of him, and he actually slipped under his feet and lost his center of gravity, so that Rolando, who was originally blocked behind him, unexpectedly became the first person to touch the ball after the penalty taker. And the veteran obviously didn't realize that the pie would really fall from the sky, and almost subconsciously raised his right foot to "end" the ball to the home team's goal in an extremely awkward motion.

As a result, the attack was really wrong, and after several consecutive bounces, it went straight to the bottom right corner of Cassie. The legendary Spanish goalkeeper was unable to turn the tide despite his best save, and the ball hit the side-netting inside the goal after touching his fingers. 2-1, 2-2 on aggregate, Marseille took the initiative to get a ticket to the final in Lyon after scoring this crucial away goal.

It just didn't wait for the visitors to start celebrating, and the Torino coaches and players quit, and they probably wouldn't have protested too much about the misjudgment of that corner until the opponent didn't score, but now it's a completely different story. Almost all of the home team members gathered around the Russian referee, Karashov, and protested strongly against his miscalculation.

Outside the field, Kevin Sumfield, who has always been calm, almost failed to suppress the fire, but when he saw the team boss rushing towards the fourth official with a grim face, he immediately sobered up as if he had been poured a basin of cold water. He immediately summoned Paul Scholes and others, who were blocking the substitutes who were trying to rush into the field, and stopped Lee before he could spit out expletives in a rage, avoiding Simeone's tragic fate last week.

However, these reactions did not have any effect on the rewriting of the scoreline, and although there have been cases on the football field where the referee has changed the decision after confirming that the goal was valid, it is clear that such a ridiculous thing will not appear on the stage of the Europa League semi-finals. Even if Karashov knew afterwards that he was wrong, he had to grit his teeth and stick to the wrong judgment, otherwise he would be slapped in the face of the UEFA who assigned him to officiate the game, and if he didn't get it right, he would directly interrupt his law enforcement career.

Therefore, even though the more than 26,000 Torino fans in the stadium have been creating huge boos like when a plane lands, and all kinds of Italian national curses have been included in the microphone set up by the broadcaster in a row, the red bulls, who have suffered this major grievance, finally have to accept this reality and continue the game. As for the strike? It's a table-flipping practice, and even if you quit football altogether after the game, you can't do it, because if you don't follow even the most basic rules of the game, you won't be accepted by the whole society anymore.

The urgency of the situation made Li Mudi calm down quickly, and he immediately arranged for the use of the third substitution, and then shouted to the players on the pitch to forget about the goal as soon as possible and launch a final attack towards the Marseille goal.

In the 81st minute, Febas, who came on with the manager's latest instructions, replaced Vukocevic, and the formation of the Torino team did not change much, but when it came to attacking, Benassi and Febas both appeared in the area closer to the opponent's penalty area, forming a double forward position. With wing-backs on either side almost turning into wingers, and two strikers who are always roaming in front of and behind the opposition defence, the home team will have at least six players ready to press into the opposition's hinterland, and a strong attacking frenzy will directly push everyone except the central striker back into the field.

In the 85th minute, Rudy Garcia also used French midfield veteran Gregory Sertic to replace Greek center Mitroglu, only allowing the wingers on both sides to play a quick counterattack when they had the opportunity to appear, and completely set up a bus in front of his own goal.

However, it may be that God does not want to see a team that relies on misjudgment to advance in the final, and with two minutes left before the end of regular time, the Torino team, who had been besieging the opponent's penalty area but had never been able to create a great chance, finally forced the limits of the Marseille players and snatched back the initiative that decided their respective fates from the opponent's hands again.

Torino's left wing-back's cross was headed over by Lamy, Benassi picked up the second spot and split on the left again, Bareka crossed diagonally into the box for the second time, but still couldn't find his team-mate, and after Belotti went off, the rest of the home team's front-line players were not very good at aerial work. However, Marseille's goal-scorer Rolando couldn't get the ball over the top this time, and the ball was still in the box.

In the crucial scramble, Febas was the first to touch the ball, and the young centre-midfielder, who is on loan at Real Madrid, replicated Marcelo's god-level stop in Real Madrid's meeting with Bayern Munich, almost like a magnet effect, and firmly controlled the ball at his feet. He then used a feint to trick Zangbo Anguiza, who was trying to intercept, and immediately flicked the ball to his right front side, and immediately completed the connection with great speed, and volleyed a powerful right-footed shot into the bottom left corner of the goal.

John Bailey, who was in excellent form today, also reacted in time, swooping down on his lower right with both legs, and according to his prediction in a very short time, he should be able to make a successful save.

But what he never expected was that the moment the ball flew to the line of the small penalty area, a leg wearing crimson socks suddenly appeared on its path, and the black and white football collided with the inside of the toe and directly came to a 90-degree turn, and flew in the other direction of the Marseille goalkeeper's save. Even though John Bailey shook his legs in the air in a desperate struggle to block the refraction, the blind cat failed to touch the dead mouse this time, and the ball rushed from his feet into the net.

When the referee blew the whistle and pointed his finger to the centre circle to signal that the goal was valid, the Stadio Olimpico in Turin was finally boiling again, and everyone knew that the Red Bulls' ticket to the final had slammed into their pockets, and all they had to do was fasten the damn buttons.