(a)

"Asian Games? Patton, are you sure you're going to this kind of event? Gasperini scratched his head.

Chen Zhuo nodded lightly and said, "Head, I'm almost 30 years old, and it's the first time I've represented a regional team in an international competition......

Gasperini expressed his understanding, he stretched out his hand to take the schedule handed over by Chen Zhuo, the schedule of the Asian Games is very intensive, Hong Kong team against the United Arab Emirates on November 7, Hong Kong team against Uzbekistan on November 9, Hong Kong team against Bangladesh on November 11, and then on November 15 and 16 two days to play 16 into eight, November 19 to play eight into four, November 23 to play semi-finals, November 25 to play the final.

"Two weeks!" Gasperini looked embarrassed, he stood up and walked to the wall to check the Serie A schedule, which was a double game a week for those two weeks!

Chen Zhuo will leave after the ninth round on October 31, and that game is at home against Inter Milan.

Chen Zhuo will be absent in the 10th round on November 7, away to Palermo, and the second game will be at home to Bologna on November 11, and these two times will be ironclad.

Next up is the away game against Cagliari in the 11th round on November 14, if Hong Kong team wins the round of 16 and enters the knockout round, then Chen Zhuo will not be able to come back in this game, and this possibility is also there.

In the home game against Juventus on November 21, if you insist on squeezing time, you can catch up with this game immediately after Chen Zhuo finishes the eight-in-four game on November 19. Even if the Hong Kong team achieves a miracle to reach the semi-finals, then they will fly back to Hong Kong immediately after the game. It will also allow him to make time for the semi-finals on November 23, as for the long flight of about 13 hours and the jet lag. Then he had to figure out how to overcome it himself.

Next, in the away game against Brescia on November 28, even if the Hong Kong team plays the final, Chen Zhuo can catch up.

"Fuck, I seem to know that Milan Weishenme is going to loan you for half a season." Gasperini shook his head and sighed.

Gasperini needs to reschedule Jihua, and at the same time agreed with Chen Zhuo that Chen Zhuo will be brought back in any case for the 12th round match against Juventus on November 21, although it is possible that Chen Zhuo will only be arranged to come on as a substitute in that game. But the premise is that the suffering of long-distance bumps of more than 26 hours round trip requires Chen Zhuo to find a way to overcome.

Chen Zhuo expressed his understanding and acceptance of this request.

"And, Patton!" Gasperini patted Chen Zhuo on the shoulder, pointed to the schedule on the wall and said: "In the nine rounds before you left, 5 home and 4 away, my jihua, is at least 6 wins. 18 points! Boy, complete this goal and leave! ”

If you have 18 points in 9 rounds, it should be a top three result, Gasperini's request. It's a bit high, indeed.

"Mark my words, Patton!" Gasperini patted Chen Zhuo on the shoulder and said, "You can only create miracles. One miracle after another, one impossible task after another! Because you're starting too late. Now you can only catch up with your lost time this way! ”

Chen Zhuo nodded solemnly and said, "Head." I'm going to do my best to win every game! ”

(b)

The opponent in the second round of the league is the famous "flying donkey" - Chievo team.

In the 90s, many Serie A teams wrote legends on the European stage, and Chievo was also one of them, qualifying for the UEFA Cup as a promoted horse, which was the "Chievo miracle" of the year, and it was also the only record that Juventus' current coach Del Neri could get, but that was 10 years ago.

Ten years in Hedong, ten years in Hexi, and now Chievo, the only one who can make them talk about things is their old captain, Pelissier, who is known as the "Killer of the Giants".

Born in 1979, Pelissier is 31 years old, 1.75 meters tall and weighs 76 kilograms, and he doesn't have the temperament and appearance of an idol king, but he only appears in the list of goals that kill big clubs at certain moments of the year - remember, just like his nickname, "Big Killers......

Pelissier made his first Serie A appearance at the age of 23, at a time when Totti and Piero were already legends, and now in his eighth Serie A season, he has scored a total of 13 goals in the previous seven seasons against the big four giants of Milan, Juventus and Roma, which is a remarkable number. Even Pelissier's first career hat-trick came against Juventus, and he was always able to perform at a high level against the giants, which is also the most legendary thing about Pelissier.

The current Chievo is no longer the Chievo who entered the UEFA Cup to create the "flying donkey miracle", the manager Pioli is a newcomer without any qualifications and brilliant records, and there are no big stars in the team who can override the team as a whole, after a calm summer on the surface but in fact redoubled their efforts, the Chievo team is looking forward to a good start to the new season.

Chievo are a defensive-minded team, conceding just 42 goals last season, the fifth-fewest in the league, the other four being the top four, Milan, Roma and Champions League qualifiers Sampdoria. Chievo, meanwhile, are a team that don't attack well, with just 37 goals scored in the whole season last season, the second-fewest in the entire league, and Livorno, the only one to score fewer goals last season, has been relegated.

The stats of 37 goals scored and 42 conceded throughout the season also make it clear that Chievo are a team on the brink of the relegation zone. Chievo narrowly escaped relegation last season with 12 wins, 8 draws, 18 defeats and 44 points, but they finished eighth in the league with 6 wins, 3 draws and 21 points away from home, which is one of the few stats they can be proud of.

Chievo and Re|Na|Ya|are no strangers to each other. There aren't too many grievances between the two mid-table teams either, with last season's record against Chievo being unbeaten with one win and one draw. Gasperini has always had a psychological advantage over this team.

The key problem is that Chen Zhuo's performance in the warm-up game after Chen Zhuo joined was too eye-catching. The victory over AC Milan and the French champion Marseille, and the away draw with the treble winner Inter Milan after two goals down, all of this made the heat become the target of the teams in the middle of Serie A.

The tenacious defense, coupled with Perissier's super-level play of "being strong when it is strong", are the two fierce rivals of the heat today.

(c)

Oh, and one more thing. In the game against Juventus last season, Chievo was upset 1:0 with Perissier's goal, but the most limelight in that game was not Pelissier, but the Uruguayan striker Granoche who partnered with Pelissier in the front line.

In the game against Juventus last season, Granoche single-handedly injured three Juventus defenders, almost causing a riot in the stadium!

That famous bloody battle was played in the middle of last season, in the 6th minute of the opening 6th minute of the 20th round of Serie A on January 17, 2010. Juve defender Grigra was bleeding from his nose and slow-motion showed that the Juve defender was hit by Granoche's swinging left arm in a header with the Uruguayan striker in a header and held on for more than 20 minutes. Grigra was replaced.

In the 59th minute of the game, French defenders Zebina and Granoche, who replaced Grigra, fought for the top, and the Uruguayan raised his right elbow hit the Frenchman in the head. Bleeding again, Zebina put on a thick bandage, changed his jersey and continued to play. Granoche only received a yellow card, which caused great dissatisfaction among the Juventus players.

68th minute of the game. Granoche broke through on the left side of the pitch and knocked down the scrambling Cannavaro, and the Juve defender was carried out of the field for treatment when his nose was hung by the Granoche heel spike when he got up, bleeding profusely, and the bridge of his nose was taped to the game, and it was only then that the Chievo coach replaced the Uruguayan to avoid more conflicts.

(iv)

This game is exactly the same as that "bloody battle", just 5 minutes into the opening game, in a header from a corner kick of the Chievo team, Granoche and the main central defender of the Heat team, Ranocchia, collided together, the latter's nose bone was broken, directly lifted out of the field, Gasperini was forced to make the first substitution, replaced by Dainelli as the backbone of the defense.

At the end of the first half 19 minutes, when the granoche midfielder broke through Veloso, he raised his elbow again, and the eyebrow bone of the Portuguese midfielder was broken, and blood splattered everywhere, making Gasperini reluctantly replaced the old captain Marco Rossi to stabilize the mentality of the players on the field.

After the successive injuries of Ranocchia and Veloso, the emotions of the players inevitably seemed impatient, and the actions involuntarily fought, and the retaliatory tackles and collisions also made the referee frequently yellow cards, and the rhythm of the game was very messy.

In the 35th minute of the first half, Granoche stepped up the offensive after stealing Crishitto on the side, and at the critical moment, Kaladze made another mistake and gave Pelissier a chance to make a single shot, and the giant killer did not miss the opportunity, and the Chievo team took a one-goal lead away from home.

Soon after, when the old captain Marcolosi received Chen Zhuo's pass with his back, he did not return the pass but tried to turn around and get rid of it, but was keenly cut off by Pelissier......

At the end of the first half, the two main players of the home team went down injured, and they fell behind by two goals on the field, which was even more difficult than the situation against Inter Milan in the warm-up game.

This half-time game also allowed Chen Zhuo to fully understand the profound connotation of the phrase "there is no weak team in Serie A", just like Chievo, who has the worst attacking power, they are also extremely difficult to deal with when they launch a madness. (To be continued......)