The City Stadium in Florence, which can accommodate 45,000 people, was packed with seats.
About 42,000 people here are fans of the home team Ferenc, and less than 3,000 are fans of Leeds City from afar.
More than two thousand people couldn't do any tricks in front of the Ferenc fans.
In fact, it stands to reason that more Leeds City fans should come.
However, the Italian side only gave Leeds City fans 2,800 tickets for safety reasons.
The reason for safety is actually nonsense.
If English football hooligans are notorious, Italian football hooligans are no less notorious.
When Ferenc fans went to the away game, Leeds City Club did not give them more than 2,000 tickets.
The Flanders Stadium can only accommodate 30,000 people, but Ferenc was allocated 5,000 tickets.
So it is obvious that Ferenc does not want Leeds City fans to come to the away game to cheer for the team. They have tried their best to create an almost perfect home atmosphere.
In fact, they did it.
Before the game even started, it was like a pot was boiling in the City Stadium.
Everyone knows that English fans know how to create an atmosphere, but in fact the Italians are not weak at all.
If the English like to use singing to ignite the atmosphere of the game.
Then the Italians are really good at "igniting" their home court - literally lighting it on fire. They will use all kinds of fireworks and flares to make their home court look like an erupting crater.
Red, orange, and green fireworks and flare smoke filled the sky above the stadium, causing the PM2.5 value at the scene to explode.
Chinese fans must be deeply impressed by the foggy Serie A match broadcasts in winter. In some games, you can't even find the football when watching the live broadcast, which makes people wonder whether the players on the field can see each other - if one team is wearing white
The jersey might just become optically invisible on the field...
It feels like watching the Silent Hill Football League.
Although today's game is not that exaggerated, there are also purple and yellow fireworks in the stands - those are the colors of Ferenc's home jersey. Ferenc is also nicknamed the "Purple and Gold Army".
Now the purple and gold team has assembled their strongest lineup, and with the support of fanatical home fans, everything is ready and ready.
Singing, roaring, plus smoke and fire spreading throughout the stadium...
After the sound and light effects were put on, the atmosphere of this home field was great.
But this means nothing to Leeds City's players.
After all, they have seen home stadiums with more visual impact than this one.
One of the benefits of participating in European competitions is that you can gain more knowledge.
After going to Turkey, Leeds City players now feel that there are few home stadiums in the world with a more terrifying atmosphere. No matter how powerful it is, it is almost as good as the Turkish team's home stadium.
So facing the Ferenc fans who almost set their home stadium on fire, the Leeds City players seemed calm...at least on the surface.
Hulay looked calmly at Mauro Albertazzi who walked up to him. The latter walked up to him, stretched out his hand, and shook hands with him.
This is the routine before the game.
Even if the next two teams beat their brains out, they still have to shake hands before the game to express "friendship first, competition second."
Because every player knows very well that this is just a formality, they are very perfunctory when performing this procedure. It is said to be "shaking hands", but actually "touching hands" may be more appropriate.
One side stands still, and the other side's players come over one by one, without stopping, and touch each other's hands with each other, which is considered a handshake.
"High fives" might be more appropriate.
Unless the relationship is particularly good, for example, two people are friends but play for different teams, and they take the opportunity to shake hands to chat, greet, and say hello, that is normal.
As for those who have a grudge... they may not even hold hands and just skip it, which saves time.
Albertazzi and Hulay were not close friends, and it was not possible to say they had any hatred.
So in the first round of the match, the two people just shook hands with each other, without any other communication.
But today, when Albertazzi walked up to Hulay, he took the opportunity to shake hands, stared into his eyes and said, "I told you, Hulay, don't even think about scoring points with me."
After saying that, he left without staying much.
If the people around them didn't pay attention to them, they might not know that Albertazzi also said something to Hulay.
But Ferenc center back Nicolo Serafini, who was following Albertazzi, knew.
After Albertazzi finished saying this, he saw Hulay staying in place.
He was obviously frightened by Albertazzi's words.
Think about Albertazzi's 18 successful saves in the last game... Anyone else would be stupid.
Serafini naturally knows that Hulay is the winner of the Premier League Golden Boot, the World Cup Golden Boot, and the Best Young Player Award in Europe...with so many auras, he is a top talent among young talents.
Such an outstanding person must be very proud and confident.
As a result, he was completely shutout in the last match against Albertazzi. After the game, he was made up of jokes by so many fans and media and made into a video mocking "Whip the Corpse".
You must have suffered a very heavy blow in your heart, right?
Maybe, the self-confidence that was hit is gone, and it is entirely possible to start doubting yourself...
Thinking of this, Serafini even felt a little sympathy for Hu Lai in his heart.
There are more than one or two "geniuses" whose confidence was destroyed by Albertazzi.
"Iceberg" Albertazzi has been a standout since the youth team. He has faced countless opponents who are also standouts, and many of them have been beaten by him and lost all confidence.
For example, Marco Rossini, a talented midfielder who plays for the giant Insoubre, is only one year older than Albertazzi, so the two grew up almost in sync with each other and played against each other many times.
This time, they became a pair of "old rivals".
But this organizational midfielder actually started as a forward in Insoubre's youth team. He once scored 89 goals in one season and was hailed as a "genius forward".
Why is he now an organizational midfielder?
Because he met Albertazzi.
In many confrontations with Albertazzi, the talented forward did not take any advantage. In the end, he was directly beaten in the forward position and lost his confidence.
However, after he later switched to playing midfielder, he regained his confidence and feeling. Otherwise, it's hard to say how his career will go in the future.
Rossini is now a regular rotation player in the first team of Insoubre. For a twenty-year-old, he can play in the first team of a wealthy club so quickly, which is already a very good development... After all, there are still many and
The young geniuses at the same time could not even play in professional games.
Seeing that Hulay was in a daze, Serafini ignored him, went around and shook hands with the next Leeds City player.
※※※
While Albertazzi was speaking to himself, Hu Lai heard the emotionless mechanical sound in the system space.
But he didn't pay attention. His attention was entirely attracted by Albertazzi's words just now.
The sentence itself is actually nothing special.
It's nothing more than what Albertazzi said to himself at the Best Young Player in Europe award ceremony.
What worried Hulay was that Albertazzi, the "iceberg", actually started a psychological war with him before the game.
Of course, it's also possible that it's not some psychological warfare, but it's just that you just want to say this to yourself.
But no matter what the reason was, in Hulay's view, as soon as Albertazzi said these words, his personality in his mind collapsed.
The persona of the Italian super-genius goalkeeper who stood between heaven and earth as arrogant and cold as an icy peak collapsed.
During this period, the media were wildly boasting about Albertazzi's "genius" and "iceberg personality", which made Hu Lai really think that this boy was a chosen one, who could be as strong as iron before he was twenty years old, no matter what
Be able to remain calm and calm in any situation.
Especially the eighteen saves in a single game are truly astonishing. Moreover, after each save, he neither punched nor roared, which was a sure thing.
Invisibly, it also consolidated Albertazzi’s “personality”.
As a result, his words today made Hu Lai realize that Albertazzi was not a real iceberg, and he could not really be as calm as he said.
This discovery is actually very important.
Because that means that in this game, Albertazzi's heart has fluctuated, ups and downs... In this case, there are loopholes to exploit.
Keeping three clean sheets in a row, helping the team defeat the new club he will go to next season, setting a record in the Europa League, and being praised all over Europe... How many people can truly maintain a normal mind after experiencing these things?
Hey……
Hu Lai felt that the snow on the top of the legendary iceberg had begun to melt.
Oh wait?
He suddenly thought, had he heard other sounds just now?
By the way, the system...
System dad!
Hu Lai burst into tears.
How long has it been since the World Cup?
Nine months!
In nine months, he had only seen one mission, and it was the Asian Cup mission that ultimately failed.
Dad, do you know how I got here these nine months?
Except for the fixed points earned from goals, all of them went out. For the Asian Cup alone, 700,000 was spent, and all ended up wasted.
Now he keeps all the points in his hand and doesn't use them anymore.
When he returned to the national team to participate in the China Cup, he did not use any props. This championship was entirely the result of the team's own efforts.
In the club, apart from using three [Spirit Cards] for Junpei Morikawa at the beginning, no points have been used anymore. Even in these two games against Ferenc, he endured the use of useless [Spirit Cards], [Lover]
red rope] this kind of thing...
Being so stingy is naturally because there are no new tasks coming and there is no way to get a lot of points. The points you have in hand will become less as you use them, so don’t use them if you can.
If he could not enter the system space at any time, Hu Lai might have thought that the system had left him...
So when Hu Lai realized that the system had just issued a new task, he was overjoyed - if it doesn't open for three years, it will last three years if it does open!
Thinking of this, he entered the system's task log.
In fact, before he clicked on the mission log, he had guessed that it was most likely related to Albertazzi.
And needless to say, he will definitely allow himself to score a goal against Albertazzi in the game.
That's all. Can any other flowers be produced by this kind of task?
"Mission: The highest mountain is a man-made peak. Alpine climbing originates from the Alps. It is a huge challenge to quickly conquer a mountain peak without the help of fixed ropes, high-mountain transportation equipment supplies and oxygen bottles. It only relies on climbers to carry a small number of tools and supplies to be self-sufficient.
.But the sense of accomplishment gained after a successful challenge is also huge. Therefore, you are required to complete the task without the help of any system props..."
Hu Lai snorted when he saw this.
Without the help of any system props?
Of course, this is no big deal. I haven’t been doing this for the past few months! Besides, since I want to defeat Albertazzi, of course I have to defeat him myself, which makes sense!
Is this a special prompt from the system?
Even without this restriction, I would not use props!
Now adding this restriction seems to look down on him - what about guarding against thieves?
After complaining about the system in his mind, Hu Lai continued to read:
"...mission goal: score a hat trick against Albertazzi in this game."