After the date, after sending Yuan Xiao onto the train back to Milan, Liu Feng returned to the restaurant.

After greeting the Piacenza fans who were dining downstairs with a smile and simply greeted him, he went upstairs and went back to his room to adjust his condition.

Tomorrow, Piacenza's training will continue, and the team will prepare for the last game before the winter break. In the 17th round of Serie A, they will face Bologna who is coming to challenge at home.

After losing to Napoli, Piacenza's ranking in the league has dropped from third to fifth fourth, ahead of him, Napoli, which was one point ahead, and Inter Milan and Juventus were closely tied after the start of the game.

Behind him is Milan, who has already begun to make efforts to approach the main Serie A Champions League. After the last round, Milan was only one-point difference behind Piacenza and was full of momentum. It can be said that although the next round of the league is the winter break, once Piacenza loses, their ranking will definitely decline.

This is naturally not good news for Conte's plan to consolidate the team's ranking in the first half of the season, so in his opinion, the game against Bologna is absolutely not to be missed.

So, the next day, after the training restarted, the young coach directly strictly required the players' training requirements. From warm-up to group training in various positions, Conte was like a gentleman holding a coach in a private school patrol on the training ground. Once any player has any performance problems, he will be scolded by him.

Throughout the morning, Piacenza's training was very conscientious. Even Scapelli, who had always been in training, seemed much more honest after being criticized by Conte. Obviously, at this time, no one wanted to touch the coach's eyebrows.

Therefore, from the first day of resuming training, Piacenza's tone for preparing for Bologna was set, and at the same time, the players' attitude towards the last game before the winter break also became tense from the beginning.

In this way, everyone started a training life that was necessary for professional players' careers. With the team's tactical exercises and various cooperation step by step, time passed by bit by bit, and soon, six days came to an end.

"You have performed great these days." On the afternoon of the sixth day, Conte stopped training in advance and gathered the players in the tactical conference room. He had always been serious on weekdays and had a slight smile on his face. Obviously, he was very satisfied with the attitude of the players in the past few days: "So today we announce the big list in advance, and then you can go back and rest early."

"Okay coach!" The players naturally had no objection. After responding to Conte, everyone calmed down nervously and began to listen to Conte's roster.

In the Serie A, the number of players registered for each team before each round of the game can only be 18, and the number of players in the Piacenza team is far more than this number. Therefore, every time, no matter whether the player is positioned as a main player in the team or a substitute player, the coach will be very nervous when the roster is announced. After all, this is related to whether he can play in the next game.

However, after nearly half of the league has been held, the roles of the players in the Piacenza team have been almost decided. Unless there is a wave of injuries when playing against Naples in each game, or the coach announces a rest, the determination of the main players is generally sure. Even if there are minor changes, they will be changed according to the different formations arranged by the head coach.

In this round of game, after the last round of injury wave passed, Conte's use of it would be much more abundant, so he still made a very quick move when arranging the roster players. The difficulty was how to arrange the starting eleven players, because he found that every player was in good condition this time.

"We will use the formation we practiced yesterday in this game, 4213." He pulled over the tactical speech board around him and put a few stamps on it. This was the final arrangement he made after studying the Bologna team's conventional tactics.

"So I will need two midfielders in this game, one in charge of organization and the other in intercepting the midfielder."

After briefly talking about his requirements, Conte officially began to announce the starting list after reading all the rosters.

First, in the forward position, Flokari, who sat on the bench in the last round of the league, regained the opportunity to serve as the starting center, and then the left and right wings were two commonly used players of the team, Liu Feng and Aubameyang.

In the midfield position, beyond everyone's expectations, Nocerino, who had recovered after the last round of rest, still did not get a starting opportunity. After Conte arranged Naingran as the team's front midfielder position, he arranged Marchisio and Tozka as the team's double midfielder respectively.

Obviously, this decision took a lot of courage, because Tozka was the culprit of Piacenza's loss in the last round of the league. Napoli won with a score of 2:1, and those two goals were the first breakthrough from Tozka in the first half.

It can be imagined that after the starting list is officially announced, Conte will definitely be criticized by some people.

In fact, after Conte announced that Tozka would continue to be on the starting list, the team members were also a little surprised, and even Tozka felt a little incredible because he knew that the gap between him and Nocerino was actually very large.

"Torzka, I hope you can show your form in the second half of the last round of the league. After Claudio participated in the team's offense and organization, you are the first line of defense in front of our back line."

However, Conte turned a blind eye to everyone's puzzled eyes and looked at Tozka with a firm look: "I hope you don't let me down."

"Okay boss!!!" Conte's eyes gave Tozka a booster. Since the head coach chose him, he had to wince even if he had no reason.

Finally, on the back line, Conte sent Piacenza's strongest defensive lineup now, Scapelli and Astori returned to the double center back, and Desilvestre and Wolfel served as left and right full-backs.

When the last starter was announced, Conte said a few simple words and announced the disbandment, obviously he wanted to devote all his energy to tomorrow's game.

"Eggio, believe in yourself. Since the boss chose you, it means you have that ability."

As the players were packing up and about to leave, Liu Feng walked to Tozka. He observed Tozka's uneasiness after Conte announced the starting list. As the captain, he had the responsibility to calm his teammates' emotions at this time.

"Yeah, the captain I know."

Tozka broke out in his heart after Liu Feng came to talk to him. You should know that if anyone in the team had the greatest opinion of him in the last round of the game, he would definitely score such a shocking goal but lost the game.

After all, no player wanted to add a sentence when introducing his wonderful goals: Unfortunately, he lost the game in the end.

But at this moment, looking at Liu Feng's sincere smile, Tozka's uneasiness completely dissipated, and his expectation for tomorrow's game slowly rose: "I won't let you down in tomorrow's game."
Chapter completed!