Li Mudi's Intercontinental Professional Certificate in Coaching was obtained about a month ago, but it took so long to integrate that the evaluation of his ability in the FM system has improved. In the information checked on New Year's Day, the specific attributes of the Torino coach have become: attacking: 17; Defensive: 5; Stamina: 3; Goalkeepers: 2; Tactical: 18; Technique: 14; Mental Training: 16; Academy: 15; Adaptability: 18; Willpower: 14; Player knowledge: 13; Youth Knowledge: 13; Discipline Requirements: 14; Personnel Management: 14; Motivation: 13, compared with the previous all-round improvement, especially in terms of tactical literacy, it is already world-class and moving towards the top.

In the past few days of training and pre-match preparation, Li Mudi obviously felt that his use of various tactics was more reasonable, and he knew more tricks, and he was no longer as proficient in the three axes as before, such as side crosses, mid-range shots, and direct passes. At this time, after standing on the sidelines and carefully observing the opponent's defensive position, he decisively asked right-back Zampacosta to actively insert an assist to help Falke create pressure on Peruso.

Sassuolo's three strikers are unlikely to pose a threat to the visitors, with 22-year-old right winger Li Qi – no, Federico Ricci – who came through the Roma academy and was a brilliant performer at Crotone in Serie B last season before joining the Nerazzurri on loan this summer. Due to an unexpected injury, Green Babe was unexpectedly given a temporary place in the team's main position, but in the previous 15 appearances, he only contributed two goals and no assists, and clearly did not have the strength to start in Serie A.

The home side's starting left winger, Politano, also came through the Roma academy, but he actually had to play with his left foot inside on the right flank. Politano, who had been a decent performer in the early stages of the league, was also hampered by injuries before the winter break, and was out of action for five games straight away, and is now in much form since his comeback, with a counter-attack in the 17th minute that was ridiculously deflected. As for the Frenchman Gregoire Defrel in the central striker position, he scored a total of 13 goals in 50 appearances for Sassuolo in the last round of the league, and he cannot be a weapon for the team to attack the city.

This is because the threat of the opponent's forward line is not too great, Li Mudi dares to let the full-back's assists be more bold away from home, and on the other hand, the reason is that the state of the Torino defenders is generally better than that of the attacking line, so Zampacosta's forward insertion will not cause too much problem for the defense of this side.

Torino's change paid off after three or four minutes, with Peruso clearly unable to cope with the visitors' two-man bombardment, Sassuolo's left midfielder Antonino Ragusa had to pull up to his left to help with the defence, and there was plenty of space in the area he was left behind. Benassi and Baseli seized the opportunity to attack the position many times, and played a number of concise small combinations with Farke and Zampacosta to find an opportunity to get off the ground.

In the eight minutes from the thirtieth minute, the Torino team formed five consecutive attacks in this area, but unfortunately everyone's crosshairs were thrown thousands of miles away, and none of them made the home team's goalkeeper Consili make a save.

After discovering that the situation was not good, the home coach Di Francesco was not slow to react, he sent left winger Politano back to the midfield as a left wing-back, and let the 1.68-meter-tall but unusually agile midfielder Stefano Sensi (not related to the former Roma president) also move closer to the left, and defused the Torino team's killer move by increasing the number of defenders. Although this came at the expense of a certain amount of attack, Sassuolo's attack was not much better before, and the forward line without the support of his midfield team-mates only had two reluctant attacks, and Joe Hart had to do his own running and jumping to warm up while his side was attacking, otherwise his body would have stiffened.

Later, Li Mudi also tried to take Zampa Costa back to the defense line and let Avilar on the left side assist, but the home team with experience in dealing with it could catch the medicine according to the prescription, and after the mirror operation, the away team still did not let the away team find a good opportunity on the side, and the game ushered in the referee's whistle.

In the midfield statistics given by the broadcasters, Torino dominated possession with more than 60% of the ball, and 13 attempts on goal in the half were also very prominent, but the zero shot percentage proved that the players did feel very bad under their feet. Sasssuolo, on the other hand, did a good job at the defensive end, with a success rate of over 65 per cent of their headers and a 70 per cent success rate of tackles, far outperforming their opponents, and barely giving the visitors a chance to get off their feet.

In the locker room, after arranging several sets of playing styles to be used in the second half, Li Mudi seized the remaining time to adjust the mentality of the players. The shooting effect is so bad, not only because everyone feels wrong, the state is not good and the opponent is pressing, but also because of psychological factors. Although there is no good way at this moment, the Torino coach still "forced" De Leo and other two coaches to share the troubles of the holiday as a boss, which made most of the people present happy.

Perhaps the only thing that didn't make fun was Rajadzic, as the Serbian winger, who had two misses, three bad passes and four tackles in the first 45 minutes, was replaced by the head coach with Jose Jesus before the start of the second half, and had to sit on the bench in the rest of the day to watch his team-mates play.

At the start of the second half, Torino's new Heball King began to take on the role of attack, and although Lirola was also very fast, his lack of experience still made the latter feel a little scrambled against the Spaniard, who was excellent in small technique and speed.

In the 49th minute, after Jesse broke through with a beautiful croquette, the inside cut attracted Acerbi's reinforcement, and he cleverly chose to pass the ball backwards behind the penalty spot, and Belotti, who ran in time to get in front of the reacting Dutch centre-back Leschet, half-turned and pumped a powerful shot with his left foot. Although Consili couldn't touch anything after falling to the ground and outstretching his arm, the ball couldn't get into the net as he hoped, grazing the left post and flying off the baseline, and the slow motion showed that the ball did make slight contact with the framework, and the Torino team missed their best chance yet.

The entire home team fans at the Mapei Tricolor Stadium gasped in fright, causing the air pressure in the area to drop instantly, and it was only after seeing the ball hit the billboard that they came to their senses. And Belotti regretfully knelt down in the field with his head in his hands, and his eyes revealed a look of extreme disbelief, as if to say that the ball could not be scored!

The Torino players, who were demoralized by the goal, began to make a couple of mistakes in a row, and Sassuolo's attack to turn the tide of the game did not pose much of a threat, but Politano still managed to get their first shot on target in the 53rd minute.

Seeing that the opponent seemed to have the intention of attacking, the coach of the visiting team instructed his players to move the whole formation back to see if they could play some counter-attacks. However, the home team's players strictly followed Francesco's deployment, and never easily passed the ball if it was not a particularly good opportunity, so they basically did not make any unnecessary mistakes, once the Torino players stepped up their pressing, they passed the ball back to the back and even kicked it to the goalkeeper, and the ball in their own backfield consumed the opponent's physical energy. In this way, the Torino team, which cannot play a quick counterattack, can only grind positions with the home team on the offensive end, and it is difficult to complete the task of scoring when the shooting footwork of the players in the front court is generally unreliable.

Li Mudi then adjusted the offensive tactics on the field again, Belotti retreated to the position of the midfield, two wingers and two central midfielders and full-backs who took turns to use him as a wall to complete the two-one to get rid of their respective marking players, and then they could either dribble into the penalty area individually, or choose to pass directly to the space between the home team's central defenders and full-backs to create opportunities for Hesse and Farke to cut forward. It looked a bit complicated, but it only took two or three kicks to make a move really messed up the Sassuolo defence, and before Di Francesco signaled to retreat again, the visitors had three more good chances on goal, but except for the red babe who finally kicked into the arms of Consili once, the rest was out of the woodwork.

In the 70th minute, the coach of the home team found that there might be problems if he continued to defend like this, so after Belotti made a big counter-attack in front of the court and was shown a yellow card warning by the referee, he replaced Politano with Berardi, who had just recovered from injury and had not found his best condition, and then replaced Ricci with Alessandro Matri, a center forward who had played for Juventus and AC Milan, which brought a certain degree of threat to the Red Bulls on the offensive end. So that the away team no longer dares to be as big as before.

Green Bebe completed a one-two with Aquilani as soon as he came out, using his speed to brush Avillar and deliver a precise cross, but Matri was not a centre-forward who was good at grabbing points, and was unable to squeeze past Rossettini when he scrambled for a header and was pushed out of the box by the latter. The ball was picked up by centre-back Ragusa at the top of the box, and he didn't stop the ball and kicked a long-range shot straight at goal, but it was not able to get out of the angle, and was punched wide by Joe Hart.

Sassuolo, who has the core of the attack, began to strengthen the fight in the midfield, and the Torino side was strong against strong, and both sides moved a little too much for a period of time, Berardi, Ragusa, Akwa and Baseli received yellow cards one after another, and Kastan was also injured in the 80th minute and was replaced by Vallejo, which made the actions of both sides gradually converge.

The visitors, who still had the advantage in midfield, still got a lot of offensive statistics in the final stage of the game, but unfortunately due to their impatient mentality and poor luck, none of them were able to hit the range of the goal frame, not even refracted anything, and the final whistle could not rewrite the score on the field. In the end, the two sides exchanged blanks in the busiest game for the caddies, and neither could start the next journey with a good start after the winter break.

In the post-match technical statistics, Torino had only one of the 28 shots on goal, and the lowest shot on target rate (3.57%) was set in a single game with 27 shots on target and shots on target without zero, also setting two new Serie A records. After the game, in the face of questions from many reporters at the press conference, Li Mudi really felt angry and ridiculous, and joked when answering questions that it was better to shoot on target at that time, at least to break one less record.

This kind of record should no one like to be held by themselves, but the players worked very hard in the game, and today it was like hitting the evil and just couldn't find the right head, so it seems a bit too much to criticize them harshly. But now it is certain that the rest of the next day will definitely be gone, and the daily training will be extended by half an hour, specially used to practice shooting, all the players have to participate, I don't believe that I can't practice all the time!

In the first game after the winter break, the teams were not in the best condition, except for the experienced old women, of course. However, compared to Torino, the luck of the traditional powerhouses is really good, and after Napoli's stunner, Inter Milan's comeback victory at the same time as the battle of Saduk also came just before the end of the game. In the evening's game, Lazio and AC Milan scored the winning goals by a narrow goal, one in the 88th minute and the other in the 90th minute, and Roma relied on the opponent's own goal to get the three points. Fiorentina, who kicked off the ball last, replicated the miracle of the White Dolphins, who struggled to reverse Pescara with a brace from Barcelona loanee Cristian Tello, and the final goal happened to come in the 95th minute.

With all of Torino's rivals winning in this round, the standings have changed, with a 4-1 win at Chievo's Atalanta overtaking Lee's side in sixth place. Starting with Napoli in third place and going all the way to the Red Bulls in seventh place, the gap between each adjacent team is only one point, plus Inter Milan and Fiorentina, who are gradually recovering their form, the battle for a European ticket in Serie A is also very rare in history.

After this round of matches, half of the season has officially been completed, and from the 20th round of matches, the teams will switch home and away matches according to the first round of matchups, and the second half of the season for Torino will start with a home game against the Rossoneri on the evening of January 16. In response to the 2-3 defeat to San Siro, Li Mudi and his players have been waiting for this opportunity for revenge for a long time.