The next morning, Zhang Tiehan got up early to train.

In recent times, he has only spent a little time in fitness training, and others are doing some simple dribbling training, which has been increasing his sense of ball and slowly improving his footwork skills.

In terms of football skills, he still has a lot of room for improvement.

As time passed in the morning, other teammates also came to the training ground one by one. They talked about whether it was the draw of the European Champions League quarterfinals last night, and talked about their opponents Manchester United.

"This is the first time we are fighting with Manchester United..."

"First in history!"

"Yes, Roma has never played against Manchester United, they are very strong."

The same is true.

Rome has never played against Manchester United in history, and the two teams have no conflict in official European competitions. The biggest reason is that Rome has not had much experience in European competitions. They only have more time to play in the domestic league. The European League is still very difficult for Rome.

Two years ago, they had good results, but they were only in the quarterfinals.

At that time, Roma was unable to take a step forward twice in the second leg of the European Cup. They had too little experience in European competitions. Even though the team was not weak at that time, the experience and performance in European competitions were very related. Teams like Manchester United had extremely rich experience in European competitions. Even though Manchester United's strength declined a lot last year due to Beckham's departure, they were still very strong in European competitions. Manchester United's strength has risen steadily this season, and they are even more terrifying opponents.

Everyone was talking about Manchester United, and someone soon asked about Zhang Tiehan, who knew that Zhang Tiehan was once a member of Manchester United's youth training camp.

"Manchester United? Very strong." Zhang Tiehan said calmly.

Casano said in surprise, "Zhang? Are you not excited? You know, you are about to step into Old Trafford Stadium again!"

Zhang Tiehan rolled his eyes. "It's too early to be excited. There are still two and a half months left for the match against Manchester United." He was telling the truth, but in fact, he was already excited yesterday. You can't always be excited because of this.

Others thought Zhang Tiehan was very calm.

"Zhang is right, the game will be a long time."

"We'd better prepare to enjoy the holiday with peace of mind."

Everyone talked about the holiday again. It looked like there was no training at all, but the assistant coaches had no choice. Delren would return from Sweden in the afternoon, and there was nothing special about today's training. In fact, the assistant coaches, including many club staff, were ready to enjoy the holiday.

They all seemed to have forgotten that there was another game in two days.

...

On December 19th, the last league game before the Serie A winter break began, and Roma's opponent was Parma.

The predecessor of Parma Club was named after the Parma-born composer Vidy. Parma has been in the ranks of Class B for a long time until 1989 when coach Scala took charge of the coach. He has been struggling in extreme depression, and was demoted to Class D in 1965 and declared bankruptcy in 1968.

The bad luck keeps changing his name repeatedly.

In 1985, Parma, who ranked in the C-rank, welcomed an unknown new coach, Aligosaki, who was former Italian national team coach Saki. Saki led Parma to Class B in one fell swoop, and fully demonstrated his bold style in the following season. This attracted the attention of AC Milan chairman Berlusconi.

Among the players Saki uses, the most representative one is Meli, who was born in Agrigento and raised in Parma. Meli was even selected for the national team.

After Saki left Parma, Zeman took over the coach's seal. Zeman was dismissed after only commanding seven games.

Interestingly, the two most representative individual coaches in Italian football today are actually from Parma's disciples. Zeman took office in 1987, a milestone year in the history of Parma. In this year, Parmalat Dairy Food Company, a "lucky sponsor" of domestic skiing championships, Formula 1 and other events, became Parma's new shareholder.

Soon, coach Scala took office. From Scala, the general manager of Parmalat Dairy Food Company, who foreseen that Parma hoped, purchased another 20 percentage points of stock.

In 1990, Glenn, Tafarell and Brolin joined Parma, who qualified for the League Cup for the first time. In the first year, he won the Italian FA Cup. In 1993, Zora and Asprila shone brightly in the European Cup. Parma won the championship, fully demonstrating its strength. This relegation team of that year has now grown into a strong team that often ranks at the forefront of the league. In the 1994-1995 season, it defeated its old rival Juventus and won the League Cup for the first time, and regretfully lost the championship in the final decisive battle in the league.

With excellent performance, Parma has become one of the "Seven Serie A" that people talk about, but now the "Seven Serie A" has fallen apart. Strong teams such as AC Milan, Inter Milan, and Juventus are still strong Serie A teams. Roma and Lazio, who are in the center, have begun to decline, while Parma and Fiorentina have completely become weak teams.

Parma is a weak team.

If Parma and Roma had fought against each other a few years ago, it would have attracted the attention of all Italy. Now when the two teams faced each other, even if Roma had fallen to this point, people are still optimistic about Roma, just because Parma is even more weak this season. So far, they have only won four games in the Serie A, ranking second to last in the league.

Even though they have excellent shooter Alberto Girardino, they still can't win the game.

Facing Parma in this game, due to physical problems with many players of the team, Derenell had no choice but to send half of the main lineup. Totti, who returned from injury, led the midfield. In terms of tactics, Derenell did not make any challenge. He believed that with Roma's lineup, as long as he could play well, there was still a great hope of victory. After all, the opponent was only Parma, the second-last in the league, not to mention that Roma still played at home.

The media also believes that Rome has great hope for victory.

The main reason is that Parma is too weak. They only won one away game this season. Even though Girardino's goal efficiency has almost reached one goal, they cannot withstand their continuous conceding goals in the backcourt and conceding again. So far, their goal has been broken 41 times in the league, with an average of 2.7 goals per game. This number is "best" to the entire Serie A 18 teams.

"It is very difficult for Parma to defeat Roma at home. Roma meets such an opponent and can also make them spend a Christmas happily..." The Italian Sky Sports commentator used this sentence to evaluate the game.

In this way, the game between the two teams began.

The result was something no one expected. In just halftime, Parma's leading scorer Girardino scored two goals to help Parma take a 2:0 lead.

After the halftime break, Derenell had no choice but to replace Zhang Tiehan.

But Zhang Tiehan still couldn't stop Parma from scoring the goal when he came on the court. In the second half, Parma striker Degano suddenly exerted force and volleyed with a volley at 27 meters away from the goal. The score was changed to 3:0.

Next, Toti and Mancini scored a goal for Rome, but they were unable to rewrite the results of the game in the end. Rome suffered a failure in front of his own goal, which could be described as a disastrous defeat.

After Zhang Tiehan appeared, although he had been working hard, the team performed poorly. He only touched the ball in the second half, including three shots and kicked the crossbar without a single goal. This result made Zhang Tiehan helpless. After the game, the whole team of Roma was not very energetic.

They also wanted to use a big victory to bid farewell to the first half of the season, but in the end it was a defeat. And it was a helpless failure - the opponent was just Parma.

In half a schedule, sixteen Serie A games, Roma's score was six wins, five draws and five losses, with 23 points, ranking ninth in the Serie A. Juventus, ranked first in the league, achieved 13 wins, two draws and one loss, with 41 points. The difference between the two scores is almost a huge difference and cannot be compared at all.

In this way, the Italian media are even less optimistic about Rome.

Not only the league, but also the performance in the Champions League is not optimistic.

For Zhang Tiehan, this half season has been a chaotic season for him. On the one hand, he is working hard to adapt to the Italian environment, to the diet, living habits, language and the chaotic environment here compared to England. On the other hand, he also needs to adapt to the characteristics of Italian football and the tactical characteristics of the real top league team - Roma. He needs more running, more targeted passes and receptions, and more considerations for the overall team in the game, etc.

He is adapting to these things, and he is also working hard to perform.

As a result, Zhang Tiehan scored fourteen goals in the Serie A, and he also scored nine goals in the Champions League.

In the Serie A league, Zhang Tiehan is no longer the one who scored the most goals. On the Serie A scorer list, Parma's Giladino ranked first. He outspoken all scorers with his excellent efficiency of fifteen goals in 16 games. Inter Milan's Adriano's goal number also caught up with Zhang Tiehan and tied for second place with him.

Despite this, the Italian media was quite surprised.

If you only talk about the number of goals scored in Serie A, Zhang Tiehan is naturally nothing, but you should know that Giladino, Zhang Tiehan and Adriano are in different teams and environments. Giladino is the best star in the team in Parma. In every game, he himself accounts for more than 60% of Parma's shooting opportunities. In comparison, Rome has Casano, Montera, and the team's core Toti, and Zhang Tiehan have many opportunities, but in fact it is similar to Casano and others.

The same is true for Adriano. Inter Mira seems to be full of stars, but Adriano is definitely the most special one. In his performance at Inter Milan last season, Adriano has been called the "king" by Inter Milan fans. Although Adriano is only twenty-three years old, he is already the dominant of Inter Milan's locker room. In contrast, Zhang Tiehan is just an ordinary player of Rome, and Rome's dominance will always belong to Totti, which is an undisputed fact.

Therefore, Zhang Tiehan is considered an extremely special person among the three Sagittarius.

He did not have the status of "overlord" as a whole team, but was just an ordinary member of Rome, and was the youngest of the three. After Christmas and February, he was only twenty years old.

But in the Serie A, he can score goals with Adriano and Girardino.

In addition, Zhang Tiehan's goal numbers in the Champions League are even more amazing!

Nine goals in the group stage were enough to get him the Champions League Golden Boot in advance. In previous years, the Champions League Golden Boot scored only eight or nine, which was very rare when it exceeded single digits. It is said that many European bookmakers have stopped suppressing the Champions League Golden Boot, mainly because Zhang Tiehan scored too many goals. In contrast, Bayern Munich striker Ma Ke, Werder Bremen's Krasnich and Adriano's four goals are not worth mentioning.

In addition, Roma has entered the Champions League quarterfinals. Even if they can't pass Manchester United, they still have two games to play. Can Zhang Tiehan score in two games? Although the game has not started yet, many people are optimistic that he can score, which means that his goal number will definitely exceed double digits.

In the face of the goals scores of the two, the others had no competitiveness at all.
Chapter completed!