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Lazio defeated Genoa 3:0 in the Italian Cup and successfully advanced to the quarterfinals. M
After the game, David Silva became the focus of media reports.
Because of his outstanding performance in the game, he was treated unfairly at the Ballon d'Or ceremony.
He is a Spanish player, but the Spanish and Italian media are all standing up for him.
They continue to mock FIFA's black box operation and amateurism.
And FIFA can no longer say anything about this issue, they can only remain silent. With their status, it is indeed difficult for them to say anything.
Do you admit that you really did it?
Don't be kidding.
Only a fool would do this!
The main reason is that when they decided to do this before, they didn't think that they would run into a stupid head coach. In order to seek justice for their players, they actually ran to the award ceremony and spoke wildly, and even nakedly criticized FIFA when they were interviewed by reporters...
If they were met by them, they would have nothing to say, so they could only act like turtles.
They believe that after a while, when the rumors have passed, Lazio will naturally stop.
But when they saw Platini really start to plan the UEFA Golden Ball Award, they were still very unhappy.
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After the Italian Cup with Genoa, the next Italian Cup quarter-finals will be on January 26. Lazio drew Naples, and they will play away in this game.
Before that, Lazio needs to play three league games, one of which is a make-up game.
The 20th round of the league. Lazio's opponent is Sampdoria.
In the end, Lazio, who was at home, won the game 1:0 and won their 18th consecutive victory this season.
While Lazio was making great strides in the league, the performance of the Chinese national team was also very good.
In the third round of the group stage,
Gao Hongbo's Chinese national team played a tacit ball with Uzbekistan.
The two sides tied 0:0.
The Chinese team beat the host Qatar. Qualified in the group stage!
Changsheng was very happy. He really did it. This was a change of fate. He not only changed himself. He also changed the Chinese team!
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Both sides seemed to fight hard in the game, but the forwards wasted a lot of opportunities.
So no one scored.
So even though Qatar beat Kuwait 5:0 in another game, it was meaningless.
After the game, Changsheng burst into tears: When will Chinese football be able to eliminate West Asian teams, or the host country, by playing the ball!
He believed that Gao Hongbo must not have contacted Uzbekistan in this game, because this must be a tacit understanding and consensus - the host country must not be allowed to enter the knockout stage, then it's over. Once the host country breaks into the knockout stage, it will at least be the semi-finals, so there will only be three teams in the top four. The host country is the most annoying.
Based on this common understanding. The Chinese national team played a tacit ball with Uzbekistan.
But because there was no contact. Whether it was a phone call or a private meeting. There was nothing, so there was no need to worry about the AFC investigation.
Qatar must be very angry now, but they are not in a position to express it.
Because if they express their anger, it will seem unreasonable - who stipulated that the host must enter the knockout stage? If they don't enter the knockout stage, it will be a match-fixing and black whistle, and there is an inside story.
Uzbekistan has already qualified in advance, and they really have no reason to continue to go all out. They have to consider the knockout stage, and it is normal to hide more than half of the main players.
Although the Chinese team tried very hard, the striker did not bring shooting boots today, and the shooting state was not good, resulting in repeated waste of opportunities and failure to score goals, which is also quite normal - Gao Hongbo's Chinese national team does have such a problem, that is, the striker is weak.
There is nothing wrong with the result and process. If you, Qatar, want to make trouble, it is unreasonable.
So Qatar can only complain in their hearts, and can't even complain in the media.
Because if they say it, it will also give people a handle.
This is why Changsheng burst into tears.
In the past, even if Chinese football played match-fixing, it was very amateurish, and it was completely no match for the West Asians.
Now we can also play such a high level of "match-fixing"... It's really a big improvement!
The Chinese team and Uzbekistan jointly eliminated Qatar. There is no host in the quarterfinals, and the pressure on other teams is relieved.
Because no one wants to meet the host in the knockout stage, whoever meets it will be unlucky.
Now that the host is gone, they can finally play a normal game.
For Gao Hongbo, the Chinese team's qualification in the group stage can be regarded as the completion of the basic goal.
With this result, he believes that Gao Hongbo's position as coach should be stable.
At least, whether it is Wanda or the Chinese Football Association, there will be no reason to dismiss Gao Hongbo.
For the current Chinese national team, what is considered a successful pass? That is to qualify in the group stage.
It is completely unrealistic to expect the Chinese team to win the championship, but qualifying in the group stage should be very important in the minds of many people.
Although it is not at all, fans and the media don't care so much.
The level of Chinese football has long been inferior to that of Asia, but many people still have the impression of Chinese football in the early 1990s. They think that no matter what, the Chinese team should have no problem qualifying in the Asian Cup group stage.
Little do they know that with the strength of the Chinese team, they should have set off firecrackers to celebrate if they qualified.
Still fantasize that Chinese football is at the forefront of Asia?
Twenty years ago, it was an old calendar.
The last time the Chinese team qualified in the Asian Cup group stage was the Asian Cup held at home in 2004. At that time, the Chinese team was the host. Not only did they qualify in the group stage, they also made it all the way to the finals, but they lost to Japan in the end. They were defeated by a handball from the Japanese team.
Later, in the 2007 Asian Cup, under the leadership of Zhu Guanghu, they failed to qualify in the group stage and were eliminated.
If it weren't for the help of Changsheng this time. If it had developed according to the normal trajectory, the Chinese team should have stopped in the group stage.
This is the true level of Chinese football.
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January 20th is the league make-up match, which is the 16th round of the league of Lazio.
That match was postponed to now because Lazio went to participate in the Club World Cup.
But in fact, it doesn't matter whether this match is made up or not. Anyway, Lazio is nine points ahead of the second place.
Although Juventus will face Lazio at home in the 16th round of the league.
But Juventus' performance this season is really bad, and it is completely unworthy of the title of "strong team". Their match with Lazio is naturally not a "strong dialogue" or "focus battle".
The head coach of Juventus this season is Del Neri.
Del Neri was favored by Juventus management because of his outstanding performance when he led Sampdoria last season, and eventually became the head coach of Juventus.
But this appointment did not bring good luck to the Zebras.
Juventus coached by Del Neri performed well in the first half of the season. Before the winter break, they had eight wins, seven draws and two losses, and accumulated 31 points, ranking fourth.
But after the winter break, Del Neri's Juventus suddenly collapsed.
They first lost to Parma 1:4 at home. Then they lost to Naples 0:3 away.
Fortunately, they beat Bari 2:1 in the last round of the league. Otherwise, Delneri's life would be even worse.
But even so. Delneri's life is already very difficult.
If Juventus's performance continues to decline, his final fate will definitely be "resigned".
Originally, Juventus did not like to change head coaches frequently.
But since the "phone gate" incident, Juventus has been fluctuating in performance. It has gradually fallen into a vicious cycle of "changing coaches when the performance is not good, and the results are worse after changing coaches".
In four years, they have changed five head coaches.
At first, after the team was relegated, Capello abandoned Juventus and went to Real Madrid.
Deschamps was appointed to lead the team to compete in the Serie B league, and won the championship and promotion ahead of schedule.
However, because of differences with the club's new management on the future planning of the team, Deschamps submitted his resignation after leading the team to win the Serie B championship two rounds ahead of schedule, and sadly ended his coaching career at his old club.
Deschamps left the team, and the experienced "tinker" Ranieri led Juventus to play in the Serie A.
Ranieri was the coach with the best results and the longest coaching time at Juventus during this period.
Ranieri's Juventus once entered the Champions League, but because he could not handle the relationship with the locker room well, he was eventually dismissed and went to Rome.
After Ranieri, the team replaced Ferrara as the interim head coach, but unexpectedly Ferrara performed well in the two games in the last stage of the league and led the team to two consecutive wins, so after the new season, Ferrara got a formal two-year contract.
However, Ferrara only led the team for half a season. As the season progressed, the fatal weakness of the Italian young coach's lack of coaching experience gradually emerged, and Juventus's record also showed a trend of opening high and closing low. Faced with the dilemma of poor league results and elimination from the Champions League group stage, the Ferraris headquarters had to announce another coaching change, replacing Ferrara with Zaccheroni, who had been successful in Udinese and Milan. However, Zaccheroni's appointment failed to reverse Juventus's decline. The Bianconeri finally only won the eighth place in the league, the worst record in history, and of course bid farewell to the Champions League. Zaccheroni handed over the coaching seal as expected.
After a failed season, Juventus made personnel changes from top to bottom in the summer of 2010. Agnelli, who served as the club chairman, dug Marotta from Sampdoria as general manager, and also brought in Del Neri, the magical coach who led Sampdoria to outstanding results.
But who would have thought that after playing well for half a season, Del Neri's performance plummeted.
Is Juventus's coaching position cursed?
"Torino Sports Daily" once talked about this issue.
Asked if the Juventus coaching position is cursed, whether it is the experienced old hand, the newcomer Ferrara, or the champion coach Zaccheroni, and now Del Neri, none of them can stay in the Juventus coaching position for too long. Zaccheroni and Ferrara were kicked out before they even had time to warm up.
The match against Lazio may be a match for Del Neri to save his position.
If Juventus can not lose to Lazio at home, it will be considered an excellent performance - this is really sad to say, with Juventus's status in Italian football, since when can it be considered a success to draw with Lazio at home?
But this is the fact.
No one expects Juventus to beat Lazio now.
Being able to draw with Lazio is a victory.
In fact, there is no team in the whole Europe... no, the whole world that can draw with Lazio.
They have maintained a perfect record in the league this season, and have also won all the games in the Champions League group stage and the Club World Cup.
If the European Super Cup and the Italian Super Cup are included, it is even more victory, victory, victory, victory.
In this case, if Juventus can really draw with Lazio, it will definitely be a remarkable achievement, and it will definitely be on the front page of the entire European media the next day.
Del Neri can also prove his ability and gain public support with the draw in this game, thereby ensuring his position as the coach of Juventus.