Chapter 53 Three Battles

With the help of Contrado's insistence, Chu Jiang changed into a new residence.

Originally, Chu Jiang did not plan to change his residence. Although the room is smaller and slightly smaller, it is still enough at present. Chu Jiang does not have too many requirements for living conditions.

But Contrado doesn't think so. In his opinion, a spacious and comfortable residence can bring good mood to players and is beneficial to training and games. Moreover, Chu Jiang's existing residence is far away from his teammates, which is not convenient for communication and communication outside the field. Also, the residence is poorly confidential now. If Chu Jiang becomes more famous in the future, he will easily encounter secret photos of paparazzi. If the media exposes some "prostitute recruitment" and "friendly wife" to Chu Jiang's public image...

Chu Jiang burst into tears when he heard this. What is this and what, he had no plans for that. However, it is undeniable that what Contrado said makes sense.

What is professionalism? Contrado is synonymous with professionalism, and Chu Jiang was easily convinced by him.

After wandering around Turin for two days, Contrado set up a new home for Chujiang, a high-end five-bedroom apartment. The new home is not far from Ogbonna's house, about 200 square meters, and also comes with a gym. The most exaggerated thing is that the master bedroom is very large. In the words of Contrado, this big bed is enough for Chujiang to do what he loves to do...

After finding a new home, Contrado continued to stay in Turin for two days, preparing for Chu Jiang's future diet and daily life in detail. The content includes when to get up every day, how to make a morning run, what to eat for three meals in the morning, middle and evening, where to eat, how much exercise you will be in the gym every day, how to take care of your body after each game, and even what leisure club you will not meet reporters... etc.

In a sense, he is like Chu Jiang’s personal butler.

After making everything arranged, Contrado had a long talk with Chu Jiang. After learning about Chu Jiang’s football career plan in detail, Contrado suggested that Chu Jiang should not think so much first, stand firm in the main position of the Bulls, strive to maintain a good state, and further improve his technical level. If there are good opportunities in the future, he will help Chu Jiang choose a route that is more conducive to Chu Jiang’s career development.

Contrado also told Chu Jiang that through his own information network, there are several Serie A clubs observing Chu Jiang. He did not say which ones were, and told Chu Jiang not to think about these things at the moment, so as not to be disturbed by rumors to train and play mentality.

In the end, Contrado also explained some precautions for Chu Jiang, such as drinking and smoking in moderation, preferably not touching; working and resting should be normal, and not greedy for bartenders; doing certain adult activities, remember to bring condoms... When you are with Chu Jiang, he can always make Chu Jiang's face flushed. Western concepts are indeed different from those of Chinese people in many aspects. They will talk about some things openly, not as implicit as Easterners.

After explaining everything, Contrado left Turin. After all, he was not Chu Jiang's nanny. Chu Jiang's growth depends on himself. Contrado only plays an auxiliary role at most.

Soon, Torino, which won three consecutive victories, welcomed its next opponent in the league, away against the newly promoted team pescara.

Due to Chu Jiang's suspension and Ogbonna's injury, head coach Lerda recruited the reserve team's former main goalkeeper Morelo and the newly recovered central defender Platali to the roster.

Despite the absence of two main players and despite the away game, Lerda is still confident in the upcoming game. Because Pescara is mediocre and her goal this season is only to relegation. The Bulls are not only stronger than their opponents, but also after three consecutive victories, the team is in full swing.

Not only Lerda thinks so, but even the local media in Turin and Pescara hold the same view: in this game, Turin will easily win.

However, the game was not as smooth as the Bulls.

Although Pescara is a small team, since this round is against the traditional strong team Torino, this game still attracted nearly 9,000 fans to watch the game. With the cheers of home fans, the home team was not afraid of visiting strong opponents and directly launched an attack with the opponent.

In the first half, the two teams fought fiercely for 45 minutes and then exchanged a blank sheet. However, as soon as the second half began, Pescara caught the Bulls who played away. Within the first ten minutes of the game, the home team, the striker Soddimo and midfielder Cascione, successively broke through the goal guarded by Bashi. It is hard to say that these two goals are the responsibility of goalkeeper Bashi, because he has tried his best.

2:0, Pescara unexpectedly took the lead!

In the subsequent games, Pescara directly controlled the dominance of the game, making the Turin dizzy. In the end, the Bulls suffered a defeat after three consecutive victories.

After the game, Pescara's big mouth chairman De Cheko said excitedly, "We have five obvious scoring opportunities, but Turin has nothing. If we play 5:0, it won't surprise me, but I can barely accept the 2:0 score!"

Lerda was furious. He criticized all the players for regressing, and also criticized frontcourt players Ivenko and Lazarevic one by one. After criticizing frontcourt players, Lerda vented his anger on the backcourt players, believing that they had made mistakes in their set-piece defense.

Obviously, this unexpected defeat deeply hurt the head coach.

Despite losing this confrontation with the weak team, the media and fans of Turin did not criticize the team very much. After all, the last derby consumed too much physical strength, and the absence of Chu Jiang and Ogbonner did affect the strength of Turin.

During the mid-week open training match, many fans still came to the training base in Turin with flags to cheer for the team to cheer for the players. In the crowd, Chu Jiang saw Sylvia again. However, Ling Tingting did not come this time. Chu Jiang didn't care. After all, the girl was not very interested in football enough, and she was just a little curious.

On October 1, Torino welcomed another newly promoted team at home, Portogruaro from the Veneto region.

Although Porto Guaro just defeated Ascoli in the last league game, to borrow the words of the team's chairman, the team "successfully relegated this season is like winning the championship for us." This is an absolute weak team, from the head coach to the players, most of them played in the Italian C1 or C2 leagues last season.

Not long after the game started, the Bulls scored the first record for the team after a clever cooperation between Sgrigner and Bianchi. With this goal, Torino led the first half with a score of 1:0.

Not long after the second half, the opponent's central defender Madaschi contributed an own goal, expanding the Bulls' lead to two goals. Although Altinier, who came on the bench ten minutes later, scored a goal for the team, they finally lost the game with great regret.

Why is it said to be "very regretful"? Because Turin did not perform well in this game. Faced with such a weak team, Turin's main players were all on the court, but they only relied on their own gifts from their opponents to win the game. There was no convincing performance of the team in the game. Therefore, the Olympic Stadium in Turin showed boos for the home team for the first time!

After the game, Lerda expressed regret for the fans' performance, but he also admitted that the Bulls did not play well.

The visiting goalkeeper Rossi simply said, "Turin is very strong, but I didn't see it today."

Despite winning the game, Torino did not satisfy its supporters. A week later, the Bulls in poor form will usher in the biggest obstacle on the road to upgrade, against Atlanta away!

Atlanta is a team with one of the best youth training systems in Italy. There are countless outstanding players from this team, such as Philippe and Inzaggi, who are known as "super Pipo" by AC Milan, and Inter Milan's "eye-in-arms" Jen Paul and Pazini, in addition to Montolivo and Gattuso, who are famous all over the world, including the Bulls' top star Bianchi, who were all from the Atlanta Arsenal.

Atlanta, which was just relegated from Serie A last year, has of course the slogan this year to return to Serie A. As a Class B team, Atlanta sold more than 1.60,000 season tickets at the beginning of the game, ranking first among Class B clubs. At the beginning of the team’s relegation, many Serie A teams wanted to divide up the outstanding players in Atlanta, but they were rejected by the team’s management.

In this team, Serie B super goalkeeper Consigli, Serie B's best defender Manfretini, and the midfielder and forward line are also top Serie B. In Serie B, if Turin is compared to a luxurious battleship, then Atlanta is an aircraft carrier!

In Turin history, the Bulls have never beaten Atlanta away in the second division. In this game, Turin continues this embarrassing historical record.

In the 6th minute of the game, the home team's Padonen took the lead. Then, Sgrigner scored a goal for the Bulls in the second minute. Seeing that the whole game was about to end with a draw, in the last minute of injury time, forward Tiripoch, who was from the Turin youth team, scored a goal to defeat the Bulls for his new boss Atra.
Chapter completed!