Chapter 7 Warm-up Match

At 5:00 p.m. on August 13, 2006, Juventus will play at the home Alpine Stadium, ushering in Pescara, the last warm-up opponent before the Coppa Italia.

Like the previous warm-up games, there were still not many fans present, and the stands seemed a little empty.

The main lineup sent by Deschamps is: goalkeeper: Gianluigi Buffon

Guards: Alessandro Birindeli, Robert Kovacs, Jean-Alain Bumson, Giogio Ziellini

Middlefielder: Claudio Macchisio, Giuliano Genikeda, Mateo Paro, Pavel Nedvede

Forward line: Alessandro del Piero, Marcelo Sarajevo

442's formation

Li Yu sat on the bench and looked at the main players warming up on the turf of the Alps Stadium. Her heart was extremely throbbing. After an extremely cruel experience, Li Yu longed for the court, eager to start, and long for applause. To win all this, it was up to him to seize every opportunity in the future and use his feet. Speak with more goals to win.

"Opportunity, sir, you give me everything in the future, and I will definitely seize it!" Li Yu was ready to play with her life before the game.

The atmosphere before the game is very relaxed. Because there are too many players playing with the team, a large group of players are sitting on the bench, which seems to be much more crowded than in the official game. Some simply sit on the sidelines.

LEE, remember what you said! After scoring a goal on the field, you have to keep your promise!" Trezeguet, who started today, sat on the bench at this moment and said to Li Yu because of a small strain in the pre-match training.

"Of course, if I get the goal bonus, I will cash it." There is no such clause in Li Yu's contract, and he replied cunningly.

Trezeguet, who obviously didn't know, was satisfied.

"Ha ha, don't listen to him. There is no goal bonus in this guy's contract terms at all." Paul D'Celli, who is also a young player, said cunningly.

...

The referee whistled the game, and Juventus started the ball first.

At the beginning of the game, the ball was quickly transferred to the foot of Nedvid on the right by Pierre. The Czech veteran received a ball and got rid of the opponent's left-back Antonelli's forced robbery, quickly dribbled the ball to the penalty area, and made up for the defense of Carloza with a flying shovel, shoveling the ball out of the bottom line...

With a very big tackle, Pescara's strategy in this game is to concentrate on defense and rush, waiting for Juventus to make mistakes.

The beginning of the game was extremely dull, and the dead ball was always interrupted. Pescara's opening tactics successfully dragged Juventus into the foul quagmire he set.

Watching their players being kicked down by the opponent again and again, less than 10 minutes after the opening of the game, the fans in the stands began to boo. Obviously, they were very dissatisfied with Pescara's hacking tactics.

With the deepening of the game, it soon became a half-time attack drill for Juventus. Pescara concentrated all his troops in his own half and carried out intensive defense in the midfield and the front of the penalty area. They had no desire to attack at all.

Deschamps stood on the edge of the field and roared, waved his arms excitedly, and motioned the team members to press on. The reason for his anger was very simple. This so-called warm-up match was more like a real second division.

"Damn it, who contacted the warm-up opponent? Pescara is so ambitious that she is completely fighting hard!" After commanding, Deschamp stood on the sidelines and kept cursing in his heart.

The Juventus guard line began to attack the midfield according to the coach's gesture, compressing the opponent's defensive space little by little.

Pescara's intensive defense successfully survived the opening 15-minute attack, and their players' defensive movements became bigger and stronger, and they became more and more confident.

The game seems to be going in the direction that Pescara wants.

In the thirty-first minute, Juventus Marcicio and Paro made a simple two-by-one in the midfield and finally formed a breakthrough. He took the ball two steps and did not give the ball to Piero, who was inserting forward, but began to take a long-range shot at the front of the penalty area. The ball deviated from the goal and flew to the stands...

In the face of opponents who are not at the same level, Juventus failed to play the strength of the strong team. The boos of the fans once again sounded in the stands. This time they are booing their home team.

Hearing the boos of the fans, the Juventus players on the field began to be impatient and frequent long-range shots.

Deschamps was very dissatisfied with the team's performance on the court. He could even imagine how the major media would comment on himself and his team tomorrow. He turned back and began to glance at the bench. Before half, he began to consider a replacement.

"Can I play now?" Li Yu found that the head coach glanced at himself and had some thoughts in his mind.

But it was Valery Bodynov who finally stood up to warm up. In order to strengthen the strength of the front line this season, Juventus rented a Bulgarian young genius from Florence.

In the fortieth minute of the first half, Deschamps replaced the sleepwalking Sarayetta with Valery Bodynov.

As the captain of the field, Piero worked very hard on the field today. He really wanted to use a goal to boost morale, but the other player's rough rushing action made it difficult for him to play, and no one wanted to see the injury in the pre-season warm-up match.

When Piero was at a loss, just after playing, the erratic Bodinovli made a technical breakthrough in Luchi, advanced with the ball to the front of the penalty area, and followed him to Carloza vigorously to...

A free kick in the front court, Piero took the free kick and shot. A beautiful arc crossed the wall and flew directly to the upper left corner of the goal. The opposing goalkeeper Spadavicia was powerless with this extreme free kick and could only watch the ball get into the net in the air.

GOAL! A wonderful direct free kick.

The prince of the Bianconeri proved himself again with a goal and saved the team at the end of the first half.

The fans in the stands were boiling in an instant and shouted in unison, "Del, our knight, our prince." (" The prefix "Del" means aristocratic blood in Italian, which may imply that Piero will become the absolute superstar of football, the world's first sport.)

Maybe the first half was dull for too long, and the fans began to sing Juventus songs again:

"Juventus Juventus Tus Landia, the city of Turin is looking forward to Sunday"

"Juventus Juventus and Juventus Landia City of Turin cheers for you every Sunday"

At the end of the fans' singing in the first half, the expected score did not appear, and the opponent's tenacity exceeded everyone's expectations.

Deschamps took the lead in walking into the locker room of the stadium with a black face.