Chapter 200 The Serie A Battle of Heavenly King Mountain comes early

Chapter 200 The Serie A Battle of Tianwangshan comes early

On the evening of January 1, local time in Italy, Udinese visited Empoli. Goals from Di Natale and Vidmon helped the team defeat the Serie A Blues.

This is Di Natale's 14th Serie A goal this season, second only to Bruno Fernandez who scored 15 goals.

Di Natale's career Serie A goals have reached 219 goals, gradually leaving behind Altafini and Giuseppe Meazza, and quickly approaching Gunnar Nordahl, the third highest scorer in Serie A history. .

This victory allowed Udinese to continue to lead the Serie A standings with a 6-point advantage before facing a head-on showdown with Juventus.

At three o'clock in the afternoon on February 2, local time in Italy, a focus match of the 1st round of Serie A kicked off at the Friuli Stadium. Udinese, the top player in the standings, faced off against Juventus, the second-place player in the standings.

In the eyes of many media, this is the battle of the kings of Serie A this season. The result of the game is likely to directly determine who will be the Serie A champion this season.

Since Udinese has established a 6-point advantage in the standings, if they can defeat Juventus at home, the advantage will be further expanded to 9 points. With Udinese's stable performance this season, it will be difficult for Juventus to have a chance to turn around.

Even if the two sides draw in this game, as the season progresses, the balance will increasingly tilt towards Udinese.

But if Juventus can defeat Udinese at the Friuli Stadium, the point difference between the two sides will be reduced to 3 points. Juventus has a chance to tie at any time, or even overtake Udinese in the standings.

It can be said that this is a game that no one wants to lose.

Juventus can no longer afford to lose, and for Udinese, they want to win the Italian top league championship trophy for the first time in club history. This is also a must-win game!

However, this battle at Tianwang Mountain came too early. After all, this is the 21st round of Serie A!

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The news before the game was relatively friendly to Udinese. Their main players had no injuries or suspensions, allowing Guidolin to field the strongest lineup.

For Juventus, Marchisio is suspended and Vidal and Asamoah are absent due to injuries.However, given the thickness of Juventus's bench, the injuries of these three people will have little impact on the team.

After Salah joined, Guidolin has become more and more fond of arranging a 442 formation. Di Natale and Salah partner up the striker, and then the four midfielders form a diamond position. This game is no exception.

For Juventus, Allegri changed to three central defenders, with Evra and Lichtsteiner on the wings. Roberto Pereira played for his old club, with Tevez and Llorente partnering up front.

In the home team's dressing room at the Friuli Stadium, Guidolin threw the tactical board on the table. He stared at his players and said slowly but firmly: "In this game, I only have one The requirement is to win!"

What? Udinese wants to beat Juventus?

If this sentence was said two years ago, people who heard it would probably laugh out loud and think they heard what an exaggerated joke.

Who are Udinese? A small team from the border area of ​​Italy, although it has been competing in Serie A for a long time, it has never won the Italian top league championship in its more than 100-year history, and the team's honor room is also empty.

Who is Juventus? Won 30 Italian top league championships and 9 Italian Cups, dominating Italy. At the same time, it has also won 2 Champions Leagues, 3 UEFA Cups and 1 European Cup Winners' Cup. It is one of the five teams in European football that has completed the Grand Slam honors. It is a well-known top club in the entire world of football.

Therefore, from the perspective of anyone with a clear mind, Juventus is almost a behemoth in front of Udinese. It is almost impossible for the latter to win against Juventus.

However, in the past two seasons, Udinese under Guidolin has set off a black and white storm in Serie A, and has also used its excellent record to make people look at this small team from northeastern Italy with admiration.

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Regardless of whether Udinese really has the strength to chase the first top league championship trophy in the team's century-old history, no one will definitely regard Udinese as a weak team anymore.

The most practical situation now is that before the start of the season, Juventus, which was regarded by the media as the top favorite to win the Serie A, currently has 14 wins, 5 draws, and 1 loss, with 47 points. Although it ranks second in the Serie A standings, it is behind Uzbekistan at the top of the list. Dinés scored 6 points and was tied with Udinese at home in the first round of the match between the two sides.

In fact, since last season, Juventus can no longer gain any advantage in the matches between the two teams.

Last season, the two teams met 4 times in Serie A and the Europa League. Udinese's record was 2 wins, 1 draw and 1 loss. Even the game Udinese lost was actually a strategic move by Udinese. The other draw was also the result of extensive rotation in the first leg of the Europa League semi-finals after Udinese gained a clear 3:1 advantage at home.

Therefore, Udinese is now fully qualified to shout the slogan of killing Juventus. At the very least, if the media hears this, they will not say that Guidolin is too arrogant.

Of course, it’s hard to say yet what the outcome will be.

<divclass="contentadv">Before the game, the media's predictions for this game were relatively cautious, and there were even considerable differences.

Some media believe that Juventus is in poor condition and Udinese has a good chance of winning; while some media believe that Juventus is the strongest in Serie A. If this game plays to the level it should, it will win away from home. There is great hope; and more media believe that the two teams are more likely to draw. Udinese is in excellent form, and although Juventus is not doing well recently, it is indeed very strong, and recently There are signs of recovery.

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Before the game started, Juventus head coach Allegri and Guidolin shook hands on the sidelines and exchanged greetings. The two talked and laughed and seemed to get along. Finally, they shook hands and said goodbye.

The head coach of Juventus praised Udinese for playing well and praised Guidolin as a talented coach, saying that this game will be difficult for Juventus.

Guidolin complimented that Juventus is just not lucky enough for the time being. Under the leadership of Allegri's outstanding coaching talent, they will definitely be able to find a path to victory as soon as possible. In this game, Udinese will meet Against a respectable team.

Both of them were relatively polite and seemed to show sympathy for each other, but when they turned around, both of them had serious expressions.

Both sides are extremely eager to win!

In this game, Guidolin's Udinese team must win in order to maintain their advantage in the standings. And Juventus also wants to win. They must chase points as soon as possible to avoid being completely thrown away by Udinese. open.

The starting lineups of both sides for this game were also displayed on the big screen in the stadium:

Udinese (442):

Goalkeeper: No. 31 Kanizis;

Defense line: No. 2 Cancelo, No. 5 Danilo, No. 3 Maguire, No. 75 Erto;

Midfielder: No. 4 Kante, No. 27 Vidmont, No. 19 Guillerme, No. 8 Bruno Fernandez;

Forwards: No. 10 Di Natale, No. 20 Mohamed Salah.

Juventus (352):

Goalkeeper: No. 1 Buffon;

Defense line: No. 4 Cáceres, No. 19 Bonucci, No. 3 Chiellini;

Midfielder: No. 26 Lichtsteiner, No. 37 Roberto Pereira, No. 21 Pirlo, No. 6 Pogba, No. 33 Evra;

Forwards: No. 10 Tevez, No. 14 Llorente.

Guidolin was sitting in the coach's seat, holding Juventus' starting information in his hand. Looking at the name on it, the player's information, the position he was good at, and his characteristics would immediately appear in his mind. Even career resume and so on.

"Juventus fielded the strongest lineup they could field," assistant coach Diego Portolucci said to Guidolin.

"This will be the strongest opponent we have ever encountered." Guidolin nodded.

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Twenty-eight minutes into the game, the score on the field is still 0:0, and neither side has scored a goal.

Because this game was so important, both sides played very conservatively. The primary goal was not to concede the ball.

Udinese's formation was 442 on the surface, but after the start of the game it was 4312. Vidmont and Guillerme were positioned deep behind, forming a three-back midfielder with Kanter.

Juventus is similar. Although the initially announced formation was 352, in fact it was 532, and the two wing-backs Evra and Lichtsteiner were completely full-backs.

"The game has been played for twenty-eight minutes. In terms of the number of fouls, Udinese has committed eleven fouls and received one yellow card. Juventus has committed nine fouls and received one yellow card." Beautiful commentator Dilita Leotta said, "Although the score is 0:0, we can see the intensity of this game from the data."

Both sides are accumulating forces in the midfield and want to compete for control of the midfield. On the court, people are overwhelmed from time to time, especially on Udinese's side. Guidolin seriously warned Vidmont and Guido before the game. Lierme, in today's game, they must do their best to help Kanter defend.

In such a fierce game, both sides fought hard and it seemed that no one was sure of breaking the opponent's goal. At this time, a flash of the player's football talent finally changed the course of the game.

Bruno suddenly dribbled the ball from the center, and Juventus midfielder Pirlo stepped forward to intercept.

Bruno was about to break through from the center, but he suddenly passed the football and it was Guillerme who caught the ball.

After Guillerme got the ball, he knocked it back to Vidmon. He turned around and ran forward. Vidmon flicked his ankle and passed the football.

People thought that Widmon passed to Guillerme, who was already running, but they didn't expect that Widmon passed to Salah on the right.