Chapter 149: Easily pass

Four days later, Turin will face the challenge of a strong rival Siena, and Livorno will also face Pescara.

In this year's Serie B, Torino is ranked first and is expected to win the league championship. Livorno is now ranked eighth and is expected to win a place in the upgraded playoffs.

However, in the Italian Cup, both Turin and Livorno are just vulnerable small roles compared to those in the Serie A. No matter which team advances to the next round, the opponents they meet will be the Serie A team that ranked higher last season, and their strength is far above these two Serie B teams. Faced with such a strong opponent, it is difficult for both Serie B teams to win the game.

This means that no matter which team wins this game, it will be difficult to move forward.

Therefore, compared with the Italian Cup, which is difficult to achieve, the two Serie B teams value their results in the league more.

When the league competition is getting hot, when facing a one-week double match, both teams do not pay much attention to the Italian Cup held in the middle of the week. In order to better prepare for the weekend's league, both Turin and Livorno chose to use the substitute to play in this Italian Cup.

Because this round of Cup is a contest between two Serie B teams, the system does not generously give experience bonus coefficients. However, the basic experience of this game still reaches 300 points, the same as the experience of a Serie B game.

Since you don’t have to worry about physical strength, Chu Jiang still hopes to play.

Head coach Lerda had no objection to Chu Jiang’s request. Lerda now obeyed this proud disciple.

On December 1, the Olympic Stadium in Turin, the single knockout match of the fourth round of the Italian Cup qualifiers started here on time. Turin took his home court and welcomed his opponent Livorno in the Cup.

Although the importance of the game is not very high, the Olympic Stadium still sold 12,000 tickets. Because the Torino team's market is very popular this season. Because the team's record this season is gratifying, fans of Torino all like to come to this stadium to watch the game.

During the game, facing Livorno's substitute lineup, Chu Jiang said there was no pressure at all.

Facing those peers of Livorno, Chu Jiang is like a super giant on the court. Although he is younger than many young substitutes and youth team players on the opposite side, his strength is much better than these peers.

Although Livorno's substitutes were very proactive in winning the main position for themselves in order to use their performance on the court, they were very active on the court. However, the opponents they encountered were too strong.

Under Chu Jiang's command, Livorno's players could not find the opportunity to attack the Turin goal head-on. And the sporadic shooting opportunities they finally found would be perfectly blocked by Chu Jiang without any mercy.

The visiting team was unable to start the offense, but the defense was in a hurry.

After only halftime, Livorno was beaten 3:0 by Turin under Chu Jiang.

Among them, Chu Jiang scored two goals by himself. Facing Livorno's substitute goalkeeper, Chu Jiang took the free kick more easily and happily. The perfect arc ball, one shot is accurate!

The Italian Cup is really a blessed place for Chu Jiang!

Chu Jiang's first official debut in the Apennines was in the Italian Cup. In that game, his perfect performance touched the team's head coach Lerda and also gave Turin fans a very good initial impression. This game laid a very good foundation for Chu Jiang to become the main player in Turin later.

In his second Italian Cup, Chu Jiang scored a hat-trick with a free kick and became famous in one game! Since then, he has officially become the darling of the media, attracted the attention of countless big clubs, and has a certain reputation in Italy and the whole world.

And in today's game, he scored two goals in just 45 minutes!

In the two and a half games of the Italian Cup, Chu Jiang scored a total of six goals, and his goal efficiency was so high that he could be called the king of the cup!

During the halftime break, Lerda directly replaced Chu Jiang with David Bashi. He hoped that this disciple's good condition could contribute to the team in the critical upgrade battle. Such an irrelevant game is not worth Chu Jiang's squandering his luck.

Although Chu Jiang has not been satisfied with his playing, as a professional player, he still respects the coach's decision.

However, despite sitting on the bench, Chu Jiang was still one of the focus of the audience.

In the second half, the big screen of the stadium would occasionally transfer the camera to Chu Jiang, giving him a big close-up, especially when Torino won a set piece in the frontcourt.

Whenever Chu Jiang's image appears on the big screen, the Turin fans at the Olympic Stadium will not hesitate to their applause and cheers.

In this stadium, Chu Jiang will always be the one they support the most!

Especially after some media disclosed that Chu Jiang refused the invitation from Juventus Club for their reasons, the love for Chu Jiang reached its peak.

As the mortal enemy of Juventus club, Torino has been doing quite badly over the years and has never had the chance to fight back against this old opponent on the court. Therefore, Chu Jiang's move has given many Torino fans great comfort.

In the second half, Turin fans kept singing the fan song dedicated to Chu Jiang to express their love for Chu Jiang. Although he was not on the court, he was still the protagonist of the court in the hearts of the fans.

Due to Chu Jiang's exit, Livorno players finally regained their rhythm. With unremitting efforts, they finally broke through the goal guarded by Bashi and scored a goal. In the second half, the Torino team also scored a goal by Stefanovic.

In the second half, the two teams tied 1:1.

In the end, Torino eliminated its league rival Livorno with a 4-1 score at home and advanced to the Italian Cup main match. Their first opponent in the Italian Cup final will be decided by drawing lots in January next year.

After the game ended, Torino immediately shifted its focus to the upcoming league.

In the next round of the league, Torino will continue to sit at the Olympic Stadium and welcome a strong opponent, Siena.

In Chu Jiang's previous life, Siena won 21 wins, 14 draws and 7 losses in 42 league games this year, and finally won the second place in the league, directly advancing to the 2011-12 Serie A.

Even more rare is that in 42 rounds of the league, Siena scored a total of 67 goals, the team with the most goals in the entire Serie B League, with four more goals than Padua and Novara, who had the second strongest attack power! On the defensive end, Siena conceded only 34 goals, making it the second-last team in the league with the second-last goal conceded, and only one more goal than Valese, who had the least goals conceded!

Both offense and defense are excellent, this is what you mean by this team!

The team's head coach Conte, who led them to upgrade successfully, switched to the Serie A giant Juventus in the new season, leading this unlucky giant back to the top of the Serie A standings! It can be said that Conte also perfectly proved his head coach's talent in Juventus.

Therefore, the team that the Turin team is about to face will be handsome and fierce, have extremely strong combat power, and is a very powerful opponent.

For the Turin team, the ace shooter Bianchi is still recovering from injury, while Dambrosio is suspended for accumulating yellow cards, and the lineup is not complete. Faced with Siena's strong challenge, the only reliance of the Turin team is their genius goalkeeper, Chu Jiang!

Before the game began, Siena's coach Conte began to launch a psychological battle against the Turin team.

As the soul of the Turin team, Chu Jiang of course became the target of Conte's focus.

When other teams launch psychological warfare against Chu Jiang, they will all detract from his ability, or attack on the risk of the goalkeeper taking a free kick.

However, their psychological warfare is not effective.

As an excellent head coach, Conte is different from them.

In an exclusive interview with Turin Sports Daily, Conte praised Turin's goalkeeper Chu Jiang, calling him the best young goalkeeper among the Serie B goalkeepers and a rare talented player. Most of the credit for Turin's results today was because of him. Without Chu Jiang, Turin would have nothing and would not have the strength to strive for upgrades with other teams.

Football is a team game, and no matter how strong his personal ability is, it will not dominate everything. Obviously, Conte's one-sided exaggeration of Chu Jiang's role is obviously malicious. He just wants to make the players of the Turin team, especially the offensive players in the frontcourt, feel dissatisfied with Chu Jiang in this way.

In a team, all the glory is occupied by a goalkeeper. For players in other positions, especially forward players who often act as the team's savior, they may not be convinced. And this is exactly what the scheming Conte wants to use!

That alone was not enough, and Conte's tricks did not end there.

In the following interview, Conte continued to praise Chu Jiang for his performance, saying that he no longer has an opponent in the Serie B League and should take the initiative to seek greater challenges. He also said that the Juventus club he had played for is a very great club and is also interested in Chu Jiang. If Chu Jiang can go to Juventus, he will get the personal pass from the world's number one goalkeeper Buffon and will improve very quickly.

In the interview, Conte spared no effort to tempt Chu Jiang to join Juventus. In his remarks, it seemed that once Chu Jiang joined Juventus, he would be just around the corner. He also believed that a poor and short club like Turin was not worthy of the tall, handsome and rich Chu Jiang...

Conte also spared no effort in the relationship between Chujiang and the Turin club, as well as the Turin fans.
Chapter completed!