Taurus is there. Quick and compact, good at suffering when necessary, dangerous in his total vertical kick. If we evaluate the extreme level of difficulty of the adversary, we can write that it was a seratona for the new Taurus that is shaping Mazzarri. The final result is almost nothing and the 3-1 deficit at home of Liverpool, vice champion of Europe, even leaves a bitter taste if you think that the third goal of the Reds arrives at 87 'with the formations distorted, until then, by sixteen substitutions.
With the players in the field, the first half was balanced and the result was long in the balance. Confirmation and progress: Anfiled's night tells us that this Taurus will be a hard bone for everyone.
There is nothing about summer football in the temple of Anfield and maybe that's right: high rhythms, intensity to a thousand, even a pinch of malice are true European night. The stage requires it, the prestige of the evening requires it. In Taurus that gets shorter and stretches like an accordion, which recomposes itself when it's time to suffer against the vice champions of Europe and that hurts when it accelerates towards Alisson, there's the whole month of study and work done with Mazzarri between Bormio and Filadelfia.
They are traced, we clearly perceive the game codes of Walter-thought: the Taurus holds the field with the humility of those who know he must suffer, but also with that shamelessness of those who do not abandon the idea of trying in front of us to one of the strongest teams in Europe. The distances between the departments are calculated to the millimeter, the defense is very careful, the midfield is a propeller continuously at the right laps in raising the rhythms when needed. The bull of the first half, who returns to the locker room below 2-1, is a great figure deservingly out of the applause of the five hundred fans arrived from Turin.
Yes, really true: it is a bull already in the Rock version. Who has studied and sweated so much, and Mazzarri's lessons have certainly not ended here, but the road seems to be really the right one. High thumb.
So far the Toro had played five pre-season friendly matches (all won and without conceding), but this was of course the most demanding and prestigious test, against a Liverpool later in the preparation and with the horizon already debut in Premier. The opportunity to check the level of growth of this group in view of the very hard start of the championship with Roma, and to experiment with the inclusion of new faces caught by the market. And, speaking of new ones, the Brazilian Bremer is well positioned on the defensive center-right next to Nkoulou: Manè is a very uncomfortable customer, but he manages to buffer him in advance and block the escape routes.
Meïté's constant growth in midfield confirms: the physique is powerful - and this was known - but also the technique and the vision of the game are a promise of great hope. The 3-5-2 is the score on which Mazzarri has beaten like a hammer in this first month of preparation and the script could not change tonight: before Sirigu there are Nkoulou in the new role of defensive director, with Izzo on the center and Bremer on the other side.
Berenguer on the left is the special observer, De Silvestri is the certainty that is confirmed in a good state of form, in midfield Rincon is the man devoted to the race and the sacrifice with sides Meïté (left) and Baselli. Iago sews the spaces between the midfield and Belotti.