From the very beginning of the game, the Torino team played very poorly, and Jesse got a chance to fight offside in the sixth minute, but the linesman mistakenly raised the flag, and Li Mudi jumped on the sidelines. Eight minutes later, Falke was kicked to the right calf in a scramble, and the shin guards failed to protect him, so he had to be replaced by Cherch by the manager.

After the first half, the home team has been in control of the game, but because Cherci has not yet returned to a better form, the Red Bulls put the main attacking impact point on the left side of Jesse, which also gives the Udinese players the opportunity to set up the defense in a very targeted manner. Even so, Torino still had a lot of chances on goal, but Belotti felt bad enough and wasted a number of good chances to give the visitors a chance to breathe.

Del Neri, who had just started in the second half, unexpectedly instructed the visitors to launch a wave of hard-hitting attacks, causing confusion at the Torino backline. In the 49th minute, Czech fringe international and central midfielder Yankto ran into the penalty area with the ball on the left side, ignoring the response of three other teammates on the right side, and suddenly shot directly with his feet, and the ball flew into the upper left corner of the goal, catching Joe Hart off guard. Udinese, who played away from home, took a one-goal lead in a passive situation, and TV commentators described it as a classic goal from a tight angle in the European Championship that year.

The home team had to increase their attacking investment, and the two full-backs appeared in the midfield even more often than at the back, but due to the poor form of their own goal kick and the opponent's solid defense, they never found a way to score, but the opponent seized the opportunity to play a fatal counterattack.

In the 68th minute, Udinese broke the ball at the back and launched a long pass, and Argentine winger De Paul, who switched from Valencia last summer, sent a through ball through the home team's defence. Centre-forward Zapata, who made his Colombian international debut last week, burst into the box and slotted the ball in front of goal after being interfered with by Rossettini, and Croatian striker Perica, who is on loan from Chelsea, followed up in the middle and almost opened the net on the goal line. At 0-2, the visitors' blitz extended their lead to two goals.

At this time, the entire Olympic Stadium in Turin seemed to have become the home stadium of Udinese, the home fans basically did not smile, and the singing that had not stopped before was completely gone, and everyone could not believe what was happening in front of them. Li Mudi watched helplessly as Rossettini rolled on the ground in pain, presumably twisting his ankle when he fell to the ground to put a tackle, and a minute later, veteran Moretti came off the bench as the home side suffered a second injury loss in the game.

However, no one could have realized that this substitution would blow the horn of the home team's counterattack, and the old guy's first touch of the ball helped the team to pull one back.

In the 71st minute, Cerci's cross from the right created a corner, Benassi drove near the penalty spot and was headed out of the box by the visiting defenders, and Torino regrouped the attack. Jesse forced Swiss right-back Widmer one-on-one on the left side, and after entering the penalty area, he knocked on the middle of the triangle, and Baseli directly kicked the goal, which was blocked by the Udinese player with his body. The ball bounced back to the feet of Moretti, who had been involved in the previous corner, and he immediately fired a furious shot. The away goalkeeper Skufeter, who had already made a save, got up quickly, but the shot was too close to him, with great power and extremely difficult angles, and in the end he was unable to return to the sky, and the home team took advantage of this slightly unexpected opportunity to close the score gap.

Taking advantage of this opportunity, the Red Bulls immediately launched a tidal attack, and under the impact again and again, Udinese's previously excellent defense finally cracked. In the 83rd minute, Zampacosta sent a precise 45-degree cross from the right, Belotti pressed Widmer in front of the goal, and the ball smashed into the top left corner of the visitors' goal like a cannonball. 2-2, Torino stubbornly equalized the score. It is worth mentioning that this is also the first time that Red Babe hit the target in this game, and the efficiency of 1 of 7 is really difficult to be satisfied, but this goal can be regarded as a redemption.

Then Delneri waved his hand and the visitors began to defend with all their strength, but finally withstood the home team's frantic onslaught, keeping the draw until the referee blew the whistle.

The three draws in quick succession replicated the situation in the first half, when Torino also played three 2-2 games in a row with Lazio, Inter Milan and Udinese on the verge of reaching the top of the table with a five-game winning streak, and since then they have not been able to touch Champions League qualification again.

And with all the games in this round of Serie A all over, the situation of the Red Bulls has become precarious. The fourth- and fifth-placed Blueeagles and Atalanta both won on the road, extending the gap to at least three points behind them, but the Coppa Italia winners are all in the top five, leaving the remaining team sixth in the league and a chance to play in the Europa League play-offs.

However, God still didn't kill the Torino team, and the Milan duo also had a big upset this weekend, the Rossoneri were held to a 1-1 draw away by vice-captain Pescara, giving the latter a ninth point; The Nerazzurri were even worse when they were beaten 2-1 by Sampdoria in Meazza and missed a good chance to shake off their rivals.

Turin Sport commented the following day, expressing little optimism that the Red Bulls could return to European competition next season, believing that the team's recent form has struggled and if they don't recover in time, they are likely to be silent all the way.

The atmosphere at the club has also become less favourable, with the chairman Urbano Cairo, who had just signed a large sponsorship, in a bad mood because if the team does not qualify for the Europa League, the incentive clauses proposed in these sponsorship contracts will not be triggered, and the club will lose at least 10 million euros in additional funds.

And if the club owner is not happy, how can the staff below be happy? For the next week, the entire Turin club site was enveloped in a very oppressive atmosphere, and it was rare to see unbridled smiles.

And at this unusual moment, the British "Guardian" broke the news that Chelsea had made an offer of 60 million euros (equivalent to 51 million pounds) for Torino striker Belotti, in addition to a floating clause of 40 million euros, but was decisively rejected by the opposing club.

It is pointed out that in the thirtieth round of the Premier League on Saturday afternoon, London time, the Blues at Stamford Bridge were beaten 2-1 by Crystal Palace, who were only four points above the relegation zone, after 24 shots from the game. Among them, Spanish center Diego Costa's performance of 1-of-9 made Conte furious, and the player also received a yellow card for excessive action in the game and was almost sent off, which made the Italian national team and the former manager of Juventus start to change the striker.

However, Torino director Pantario Longo, speaking to reporters later, expressed the chairman's consistent view that they would not sell the star for less than 100 million euros.

Although the transfer of Belotti has been temporarily quelled, rumours and poor performances in recent times still put a lot of pressure on the Torino players, and Li Mudi and his colleagues have to devise various activities on a daily basis to mobilize everyone's emotions. First of all, on Tuesday and Wednesday, all the coaching staff and first-team players watched the two Coppa Italia semi-finals live, but unfortunately their support of Roma and Napoli won 3-2 at home, but they still did not get a chance to advance, and the Old Lady and the Blue Eagles both reached the final and will launch the final sprint for the championship.

The next day, they watched a strong matchup together in the final stage of the NBA regular season on Thursday daylight, and the Cleveland Cavaliers, who finished first in the East, beat the second-placed Boston Celtics by 25 points at home. James played eye-catchingly, and his multiple violent dunks drew exclamations and cheers from the Turin boys. So on this afternoon, Li Mudi temporarily rented the training ground of the Torino basketball team and organized a friendly basketball game.

The level of basketball in Europe is second only to the black people in the NBA, and more than one level higher than that of Asia, but the countries with strong basketball power are very different from football. Except for the former Soviet Union, which ruled the entire Europa and even the world in the past few decades, most of the countries that have been able to make a difference in the European Championship and the Champions League in the past two decades are a few countries that collapsed from the Soviet Union and Greece.

However, since winning the second European Championship in 1999, the Italian men's basketball team has not been able to achieve any decent results in the biennial competition, only reaching the semi-finals once in 2003, and then falling into a complete slump. The club side is also in the driver's seat, having won the European Basketball Champions Cup in 1957, but after the 2000 restructure into the Champions League, the Italian side only reached two finals in the early days. Bologna Vidivic won the title in 2001 and finished runners-up in 2002 and have not been a European powerhouse since.

When it comes to the Torino basketball team, it is an out-and-out underdog, having just returned to Serie A last season, they changed their original title sponsor last year and are now renamed Fiat Torino. So far this season, they sit eighth in the table and are on the verge of making the playoffs, in a situation similar to that of a football team.

Although the two sides are from the same city, they do not have much intersection with each other on weekdays, because the popularity of the two sports is still quite different. When the Red Bulls players walked into the indoor basketball hall, they were cheered by many basketball players, especially Belotti, who was everyone's idol. The head coach of the basketball team, Vituc, also stepped forward to have a brief but cordial exchange with Li Mudi, and then the two sides went about their own affairs.

Although the players of the football team rarely play basketball as adults, their physical fitness is still there, and although they can't do the work of dunking, they look quite decent when they play seriously. First did a warm-up, and then Li Mudi signaled everyone to combine freely, play half court in a group of five, and the first team with seven goals won the victory. The knockout rounds are determined by a draw of lots, and the only winner is determined, and the referee is the assistant coach of the basketball team.

For a whole afternoon, everyone was completely happy in the basketball hall, and the smiles finally returned to everyone's faces, and the previous nervous state was basically swept away. The next few days of training were slowly back to normal, and the coaching staff expressed confidence that they could end a three-game winless run at the weekend.

Li Mudi's side temporarily handed over the affairs of the film and television company to Lin Zixu, except for the video chat with Lin Yuner for about half an hour every night, the rest of his personal affairs were put down, and he focused his energy on studying Cagliari's tactics. And then it turns out that when you are able to stay focused on your work, the rewards will come naturally.

At 3 p.m. on Sunday, April 9, before Torino played Sardinia's only Serie A team at the moment, Li Moody received good news. In Atalanta's home game against Sassuolo at an earlier point, the latter relied on a tenacious defense and a little bit of luck to draw 1-1 with the mighty Poseidon Son, giving the Red Bulls hope of catching up.

The battle at the Santa Elia Stadium was a testament to the visiting coach's flexible tactical approach, switching from his usual 4-3-3 to the starting two wingers, Jesé and Rajadzic, in the opening midfield area, changing the team's stance to a defensive 4-2-3-1 formation. Cagliari coach Massimo Rastelli, who mistook it for his opponents, had a plan to attack, but a counter-attack from the visitors in the 18th minute made it clear to him. Torino played a delicate combination in the middle, Belotti cleverly smashed the ball with his back, and Rajadzic dribbled to the top of the arc and scored with a world-class long-range shot, and the visitors' lead came early.

After the home team's main striker Borriello went off due to injury, their attacking power was sharply reduced, and the red bulls, who were under a sudden decrease in defensive pressure in the remaining time, rubbed on the ground, and in the 39th and 53rd minutes, Belotti and Acwa scored goals each to widen the gap to three. Ghana's goal from the back could have been a sensation of a world wave, and his burst from outside the box was so fast that goalkeeper Rafael couldn't stop the long-range shot towards the middle.