Chapter Thirty-Three: Definitely

  A thrilling comeback left more than 10,000 fans in attendance at the Olympic Stadium in a state of frenzy, singing songs to praise the Bulls and express their excitement and love for the team. This victory successfully rallied the team's popularity, which had been somewhat scattered due to two consecutive losses, and brought the distance between the fans and the team closer together. Tonight, the team and the fans became an inseparable whole at the Olympic Stadium.

  Sitting in the stands, there was also a number one fan of the Bulls, Torino's new chairman, Kaylo. Seeing the team's energy bursting out in adversity, Kaylo was delighted, especially after Chu Jiang came on stage, which made his eyes shine. This young Chinese boy, although he was brought to the team by him, but to be honest, at that time he did not have too high expectations for Chu Jiang. Now, a thought really arose in his heart, a thought of keeping that Eastern youth thoroughly in Torino.

  A team that has experienced great ups and downs, life-and-death struggles is the easiest to form cohesion. Having experienced the joy of winning the Italian Cup, the disappointment of losing two consecutive league matches, and today's thrilling comeback within 20 minutes, this new Torino team with many new players is slowly beginning to take shape as a cohesive unit.

  What kind of impact will this team have on the Serie B league this year? No one knows now, but at least it can be confirmed that the current Bulls and the Bulls in Chujang's previous life are already two completely different teams!

  The previous world's bull, after 120 minutes of fierce battle, relied on two penalty kicks and a red card to narrowly eliminate the Italian C3 team Cosenza; while Chujang's bull won a big victory within 90 minutes!

  The previous life of the bull, two consecutive defeats in the league, and the third match against Crotone was only tied at the last minute, earning a narrow and pitiful draw. After three rounds, they had only scored 1 point, ranking third from the bottom in the entire league. The team was also in turmoil, with people's hearts scattered. Now, Chujang's Bulls completed a super reversal within 20 minutes at the Olympic Stadium, successfully achieving an exciting victory after two consecutive defeats, and rapidly rising in the rankings while injecting a strong shot of motivation into the team, making the whole team united and cohesive!

  The Bulls are like new now! And all this can't be attributed to the joining of Chujang! The butterfly effect of Chujang is evident from this!

  After the match, the two head coaches accepted brief interviews with reporters on site. The focus of media attention was naturally concentrated on Chujang's super free kick and Evanko's brilliant shot to kill.

  Facing visiting journalists, Bulls coach was over the moon with praise for Zhu Jiang, Ewenke and even the entire Dalian team, and even commended the away team's performance, showing great demeanor.

  Layden was naturally very happy. If it weren't for this victory, perhaps at this moment he would be busy responding to the journalists' endless questions, asking when the Bulls would finally get their first win, and when he would step down! It's precisely because of this hard-won victory that Layden was able to successfully keep his position as coach, and face the media interviews with such calmness and composure, even earning praise from the journalists. How could he not be happy?

  In the midst of excitement, Lyle's heart couldn't help but feel a sense of gratitude, a gratitude towards Chu Jiang. That unremarkable little guy, that young man who had never been trusted by himself, was the one who successfully directed this thrilling comeback drama, bringing victory to the team while also helping Lyle retain his position as coach.

  "Perhaps I should give him more chances." Lyra thought to herself.

  The visiting team's head coach, Mericheni, was not so happy. Watching the cooked duck fly away and even biting himself in the end, how could it not make Mericheni extremely depressed?

  "I hope Lecce can always rely on a substitute goalkeeper's incredible performance to win the league championship!" Mericeni said with a sour tone and quickly left. The current coach of Crotone, who has only scored two points in three league matches, is not having a good time.

  The theme of the report on Torino's official website for this victory was "Miraculous comeback", accompanied by a photo of Zhou and head coach Liedholm embracing passionately. This is the second time that Zhou's photo has appeared on the homepage of Torino's official website, following the elimination match in the Italian Cup.

  For Chu Jiang's performance in this game, all media gave him high praise after the match.

  Turin News Flash believes that it was Chu Jiang's appearance that allowed the Turin team to reverse the decline on the field. Chu Jiang's wonderful direct free kick was also the finishing touch of his brilliant performance throughout the game. Moreover, the Bulls' counter-attack goal also benefited from Chu Jiang's tactics. Therefore, Turin News Flash gave Chu Jiang a score of 8 points as the highest in the whole game, believing that although he only played for 20 minutes, he was undoubtedly the biggest contributor to the Bulls' victory and should be chosen as the best player of the game.

  Tuttosport's view was different from Tuttinews, Tuttosport also confirmed that Chongqing performed well in both offense and defense, but believed that Ivanko, who scored the winning goal for Torino, should be the biggest contributor to the Bulls' victory. Ivanko has scored three goals in four games of the new season of the Bulls, is the best player in the Torino team. Therefore, Tuttosport gave the honor of the best player of the game to Ivanko who shot the decisive goal.

  While Datasport awarded the best to Sgrigna, who contributed two assists, the best in the heart of Tuttosport were Ljaji? and Chongjiang, who made substitutions.

  No matter how to evaluate, Chu Jiang's performance is obvious to everyone. In all media scores, Chu Jiang's lowest score was also the second highest in the game with 7.5 points. With this game's outstanding performance, Chu Jiang once again conquered Turin's sports media.

  At the same time, in the Italian section of domestic football media, a detailed introduction to Chu Jiang finally appeared. Many domestic football figures are discussing that somewhat unfamiliar dream-seeking youth. In the domestic football world, Chu Jiang has gradually gained some fame through his own efforts!

  At Jianghai City International Milan Football School, Chujiang became the pride of the school. Every time the school held a large-scale meeting for all teachers and students, Principal Moyan would take Chujiang as an example for all students to learn from.

  When people praised Chu Jiang, his parents felt as sweet as if they had eaten honey. On days when their son couldn't accompany them, the old couple developed a habit of collecting all news reports related to Chu Jiang. Chu Jiang's father even learned how to use a computer and go online, searching for videos of the Dongguan team's matches on the internet, saving all the parts with Chu Jiang playing on his computer, and from time to time opening them up to watch and appreciate together with his wife.

  At the same time, Chu Jiang in Duling was calculating the experience points he had gained over this period of time.

  After the Italian Cup qualifying match against Cosenza, Chujang's experience value had already risen to 315 points. However, in the subsequent league matches, Chujang did not get a chance to play and could only rely on six days of training per week to slowly accumulate his experience value. Until the third round of Serie B against Crotone, Chujang had accumulated a total of 180 experience points.

  In this Serie B match, although Chu Jiang only played for 20 minutes, due to his outstanding performance, the system still generously gave Chu Jiang 450 experience points, equivalent to 1.5 times the basic experience value.

  Thus, Chu Jiang's current experience value suddenly rose to as high as 945 points.

  945 points can be exchanged for 3 low-level attribute enhancement points, which can increase Chu Jiang's attack attribute from 5 points to 6 points, or increase the hand-throwing ball attribute from 2 points to 5 points.

  However, Chu Jiang did not choose to do so. At this stage, Chu Jiang does not feel that his goalkeeper skills are insufficient and has no strong desire to continue strengthening his goalkeeper attributes. If he were a mature and experienced goalkeeper, he might have chosen to slowly strengthen all his weaknesses, making himself flawless. But Chu Jiang is different; as a 17-year-old boy, he lacks necessary planning for his future development. In his eyes, he can only see things that produce immediate results, such as free kick techniques!

  If there's one thing that has brought the greatest benefit to Chu Jiang, it must be his free kicks. With this skill, he won the favor of Corsi, defeated Inter Milan youth team's main goalkeeper Bardi in a 1-on-1 confrontation, and became a hero for Torino in the Italian Cup and Serie B third round.

  So, Chu Jiang's top priority is to enhance his free kick skills. The 20-point value can no longer be increased, so Chu Jiang chooses to continue enhancing the "Free Kick Technique"! Currently, this skill is only at the primary level and can increase the free kick goal conversion rate by 5%. According to the description of this skill, if it is upgraded to intermediate level, it will increase the free kick goal conversion rate by 8%!

  Although Chu Jiang's current free kick conversion rate is 100%, he can't guarantee such a freakish conversion rate if he encounters top-notch goalkeepers in the Italian Serie B. Therefore, he decided that his next goal is to improve his "free kick skills" from beginner to intermediate!

  According to the system prompt, upgrading the "Arbitrary Ball Skill" level requires four skill exchange points. Since each time a skill point is exchanged, the required experience will increase. Therefore, the 945 experience points that Chu Jiang currently has are only enough for him to exchange two skill points. Two more are still needed to meet the requirement of four skill points!

  At this point, Chu Jiang's desire to gain experience points became even stronger.

  One day of training is only 10 experience points. The basic experience for a game is as high as 300 points. If you get the MVP, that's as high as 600 experience points, equivalent to two months of continuous training! If you can get two consecutive opportunities to play in the Italian B league and work hard to get two MVPs, maybe it will be enough to exchange for the remaining two skill exchange points!

  So, Chu Jiang's heart couldn't help but look forward to the next match even more.

  Torino's next match will be in a week, against Sassuolo, a traditional power of Serie B.

  After three rounds, Sassuolo currently ranks tenth in the league standings with a record of one win, one draw and one loss. Notably, Sassuolo's defense has only conceded two goals in the three games so far. In the first round of the league, Sassuolo even defeated another promotion contender Livorno 4-0.

  It's worth noting that Livorno was just relegated from Serie A last season and was considered a hot candidate for promotion this season. Unexpectedly, such a "Serie A-level" strong team was actually defeated by Sassuolo in the first round of Serie B at their home stadium. This shows that Sassuolo's strength should not be underestimated.

  Away against strong team Sassuolo, which goalkeeper will Lierda start with?

  This question, Chu Jiang had no answer in his heart. Although he performed very well in the previous game, whether he could move Lyle and win the starting position, Chu Jiang had no confidence at all. After all, only the head coach had the right to choose and decide on the lineup for the match. What Chu Jiang could do was to train hard, seize every opportunity to play, and convince the head coach with his performance.

  At the same time, what is the idea in the mind of Bulls coach Lyle? Which goalkeeper will he send as the main force? Is it still conservative to choose Bashi to guard the dragon gate, or will he suddenly promote Chu Jiang to the main force?

  Lyle was also pondering this question, and he already had a preliminary answer!