Quick 直す／買収する，八百長をする: Zeman turns last-place Pescara around in 3 days
ROME (AP) - Turnarounds don't get much quicker than this.
Three days after he was 雇うd, Zdenek Zeman coached last-place Pescara to its first 完全な 勝利，勝つ of the season by a 得点する／非難する／２０ of 5-0 - the first time the Abruzzo club has won with a five-goal 利ざや in Serie A history.
"All I can do is thank the lads because we only had three training 開会／開廷／会期s together but they showed that if we dedicate ourselves and if we stay 焦点（を合わせる）d we can do 井戸／弁護士席," Zeman said after the victory over Genoa on Sunday. "We broke the （一定の）期間."
Pescara coach Zdenek Zeman follows the Serie A サッカー match between Pescara and Genoa, in Pescara, Italy, Sunday, Feb. 19, 2017. (Claudio Lattanzio/ANSA 経由で AP)
For its only other "victory" this season, Pescara was awarded a 3-0 勝利，勝つ over Sassuolo in August because Sassuolo used an ineligible player. Sassuolo had won 2-1.
Previous coach Massimo Oddo was 解雇する／砲火／射撃d last week after six 連続した losses - in the last two of which Pescara had 譲歩するd a total of 11 goals.
So on Thursday, Pescara rehired the 69-year-old Zeman, a chai n-smoking Czech coach known as "the Bohemian" who had guided the club to the Serie B 肩書を与える five years earlier with a 記録，記録的な／記録する number of goals.
Known for his all-out attacking style and 4-3-3 形式, Zeman's 衝撃 was 即座の.
After an own-goal five minutes in, Gianluca Caprari - the only 抵抗 from Zeman's first （一定の）期間 at Pescara - 得点する／非難する／２０d two, English-born Libya international Ahmad Benali 追加するd another and 20-year-old Alberto Cerri got his first Serie A goal.
The result 誘発するd the 解雇する／砲火／射撃ing of Genoa coach Ivan Juric.
"Zeman doesn't say much but when he does speak he's very （疑いを）晴らす," Cerri said. "He told us to （疑いを）晴らす our 長，率いるs and give our all."
Pescara is still 11 points from safety with 13 matches to go but it's only one point behind penultimate Crotone and two points behind Palermo. The goal is to catch Empoli, which is 10 points ahead.
"It doesn't depend only on us, it depends on how the others do, too," Zeman said. "We would need the three squads ahead of us to 立ち往生させる and us to leap 今後. 加える, we still have to 直面する (Serie A leader) Juventus so we already have one いっそう少なく match 利用できる - even though we'll try to 勝利，勝つ that one."
Zeman, who will turn 70 before the end of the season, has a long history with Juventus. He （刑事）被告 the Turin 力／強力にする of 麻薬 乱用 nearly 20 years ago when he coached Roma, 誘発するing a years-long 裁判，公判.
In 2004, Juventus 内科医 Riccardo Agricola was 罪人／有罪を宣告するd of 治めるing banned 実体s, 含むing the hormone EPO, to Juventus players from 1994-98, and was 手渡すd a 一時停止するd 宣告，判決 of 22 months. He was （疑いを）晴らすd on 控訴，上告 a year later.
Zeman left Pescara in 2012 to return to Roma, which was an 申し込む／申し出 he said he "couldn't 辞退する." But memories of his first （一定の）期間 at Pescara, when the club 得点する／非難する／２０d a Serie B-記録，記録的な／記録する 90 goals in 42 games with a team that featured 現在の Italy internationals Ciro Immobile, Lorenzo Insigne and Marco Verratti - made it 平易な for him to come 支援する.
Zeman said he 相続するd a squad in poor physical c ondition.
"We're going to have to work on that 面 a lot," Zeman said. "The important thing is that the lads don't think the season is over."
Pescara's hard-核心 "ultra" fans stayed away from the Genoa match in 抗議する at the squad's poor results.
"I would have liked for them to have come out and given us a 手渡す," Zeman said. "I hope we can 納得させる them to return."
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Pescara's Ahmed Benali, 権利, 得点する／非難する／２０s during the Serie A サッカー match between Pescara and Genoa, in Pescara, Italy, Sunday, Feb. 19, 2017. (Claudio Lattanzio/ANSA 経由で AP)
