When Parma defeated Liverpool and won the European Super Cup, the whole of Italy and England were filled with disbelief.
"How could Liverpool lose carelessly at this time!"
England attributed Liverpool's loss to Liverpool being too careless when playing football, ignoring the fact that Liverpool was simply suppressed by the whole game. Although in this game, Parma scored two goals, the number of shots and the number of passes,
The number of interceptions is superior in all aspects, but because Parma is not a strong team, in their view, this is due to Liverpool's carelessness. If Liverpool had not been deceived by Parma and mistakenly thought that Parma was not a rough team,
How could they lose?
This issue is the issue that the English media pays the most attention to.
Li Bin was also forced to ask questions by many reporters.
"Coach Li Bin, before the game, you said that rough defense and headers were only used by weak teams. However, your team won the victory by relying on rough defense and headers.
. Can you explain why you did this?"
Facing the reporter's question, Li Bin just shrugged, "Yes, that's what I said... We are the underdogs. Compared with Liverpool, aren't we the underdogs?"
Such words left the reporters speechless. Saying such shameless words directly left the media speechless... However, what Li Bin said was right. Compared with a G14 team like Liverpool,
Parma is naturally considered an underdog. There is nothing wrong with what Li Bin said, but it sounds really awkward!
Before the game, Li Bin's words were very aggressive, and Italian football has always looked down upon British football. Li Bin's words were provocative to the Liverpool team no matter how you look at them. Therefore, everyone thought that he wanted to
He wanted to give Liverpool a bad look, but who would have thought that his idea was to use this method to confuse Liverpool, and then defeat Liverpool with a more brutal style of play?
This approach really makes the English media want to scold them but they don’t know how to scold them. Could it be that scolding Li Bin for plagiarizing England’s privilege of playing rough football? This kind of power is really undisputed...
"Parma's football is really too barbaric..."
The English media kept complaining after the game. But the Italian media all looked gloating.
"I never thought that one day we would hear English football criticizing Italian football for being too rough..."
English football has always been complained about by the whole of Europe for being rough, but only the English consider themselves to be tough. In this game, it was rare for the English to suffer such a loss, which naturally made the Italians laugh with joy.
Such a shameful thing also made the other side of the game feel dejected and had nothing to say when being interviewed. Benitez, who was being interviewed, could only lower his head and say a few words, "It doesn't matter."
After saying "This was an accident", he stopped talking. When Gerald and others were interviewed, they also complained a few times and had nothing to say.
However, although Liverpool lost the European Super Cup, they were still not too discouraged. After all, for a wealthy team like Liverpool, although they did not win the championship, it is not a worry. After all, the Super Cup is not something
A particularly important game, they are the Champions League champions. With the Champions League in hand, who will remember the Super Cup?
This is actually the case: Although they lost the European Super Cup, Parma returned to Italy directly after winning the championship, while Liverpool still stayed in Parma at this time, waiting to participate in the Champions League draw for the new season. At the same time, Gerard
Germany also took over the honor of the best player in the Champions League.
Compared with the Champions League, the European Super Cup still seems a little inferior.
After returning to Italy, Italy was celebrating that they had once again won the European Cup.
"Facts have proved that Italian football is still one of the most outstanding leagues in Europe. Our strength is still unmatched by leagues such as England. Although there was the defeat of Istanbul last season, it was just Anche
It was just Lottie's own mistake, but when it comes to real strength, Italy is still stronger than England."
Because this is the European war, after all, it represents Italy's honor. Nowadays, the Italian media are relatively polite to Li Bin. Moreover, after winning two championships, the Italian media have also recognized his abilities.
"After all, coach Li Bin has stayed in Italy for a long time and learned the essence of Italian football..."
"It's really not easy. After winning these two championships, the Italian media will finally stop judging us."
After Li Bin sighed to Esposito, Esposito was also a little confused, "Do you care what they say? I thought you didn't care about the nonsense of the media."
"Of course I don't care, but if we are criticized too much, can our players have no impact? I don't want to fight the media. It's not just to keep the players in a good mood, don't let them always
Living under pressure is what we should do."
Li Bin knows that as a foreign coach, he has been greatly ostracized when coaching in a place like Italy. The best way to prevent others from ostracizing him is to fight for the interests of Italy. Only in this way,
Only then can others have a good evaluation of him.
And if the evaluation is good, the pressure on the players will naturally be reduced. After winning two championships, Italy now has a much better evaluation of itself, which will save the team a lot of trouble.
After arranging this matter, Li Bin also led the team into the new season.
"Parma showed great strength in the game against Liverpool, which also gives us reason to believe that Parma should be able to achieve good results in the new season..."
After Parma won the European Super Cup, the evaluation of Parma also changed a lot for a while. Many people believed that Parma might be able to get a good ranking in the new season. The betting companies also adjusted their predictions again for this reason.
They predicted that Parma should be able to get a spot in the European competition, ranking fifth or sixth.
However, Li Bin also believed that this new estimate was still too low. Since he was looked down upon by others, Li Bin also thought that he would make a good start to the season at the beginning of the season and show it to others.
look.
He has this confidence: Parma's schedule is pretty good. In the first half of the season, several strong teams met at home: Roma at home in the fourth round, Juventus at home in the fifth round, and Fiorentina away in the eighth round.
In the twelfth round, we played Inter Milan away, and then, in January, we played Milan in the eighteenth round.
In the first few rounds, they sold people aggressively, so that Palermo, which was eliminated in the UEFA Cup preliminaries, newly promoted Empoli, and Chievo, which did not achieve enough results last season.
Such a schedule is relatively easy. Moreover, there are only a few games in the UEFA Cup. One nearby game is against a Danish team, and then there are four group matches. However, there is not much in the UEFA Cup.
It’s a strong team, and the competition format is quite ridiculous, so just winning two games in the group stage is relatively easy.
"Since the game is not difficult, then give me the momentum I should have!"
In the first game of the league, Parma faced last season's sixth-placed Palermo - last season, Palermo and Parma were always contenders for European spots. At the beginning of this season, Parma and Bale
The two teams from Mo were facing each other, and they were also the organizers of the schedule, so they wanted to watch the excitement on purpose.
I originally thought that this arrangement would be a lively battle, but no one expected that from the beginning of the game, Parma completely suppressed Palermo.
"Parma showed unimaginable strength in this game. Palermo simply did not have enough strength to cross the midfield, and their wings were completely suppressed by Parma. They seemed to have no strength at all.
Can’t fight against Parma…”
Last season, when Parma and Palermo played, the two sides played 3-3. Although Parma was able to repeatedly break through Palermo's gate at that time, their defense was also beaten by Palermo.
Mo has penetrated many times. However, this time, the situation has changed a lot. Parma's three midfielders completely told the opponent what it means to be closed. Toure
Sometimes there are loopholes in the sweep with Melo, but at this time, after Parma deployed a Tachinadi in the midfield, he connected the back line backwards and connected the two central midfielders forward.
, the left and right ends are connected to the two wings. He supplemented the most important link of Parma and made Parma's lineup even more impeccable.
In the game against Palermo, almost after halftime, Palermo gave up resistance. This summer, they sold a lot of people. I thought it would be difficult for Parma, who was also hemorrhaging, to resist, but who knew, both sides would be able to resist.
In the encounter, Parma completely overwhelmed them and they were unable to get up.
The game passed under such a situation. At the beginning of the second half, Parma finally scored the first goal. After a series of cooperation in the frontcourt, Rui Costa's through ball
After passing the ball into the penalty area, Milito got the chance and turned around quickly to get rid of it and score Parma's first goal.
After scoring the goal, Parma's attack became more fierce, but because of their own anxiety, they were never able to score a goal. It was not until the end of the game that Kluivert, who came on the bench, passed back to Rossi.
After the kick, Rossi's shot turned the score into 2-0.
Parma won the first game like this. Although the team still didn't have enough tacit understanding, they still managed to win a 2-0 victory.
Compared with their score, what is more concerning is the great momentum they showed, and the situation in which they had the upper hand is even more surprising.
"Parma's strength is surprising. In their first game, they defeated Palermo with a completely suppressing style of play. Their season is worth looking forward to. On the contrary, Palermo's strength has declined this season.
They were really good and they didn't play well. They were suppressed by Parma and played very badly..."
In the newspapers, there was immediate praise for Parma and criticism of Palermo. However, Palermo quickly proved that their strength was not bad. In the second round, Palermo met Internazionale.
In Milan, he defeated Inter Milan with a clean 1-0.
Obviously, it's not that Palermo is too weak, but that Parma is too strong.