In the 31st round of the Ligue 1, Monaco's opponent Bastia.

Since Monaco will welcome Dortmund's visit at home in the middle of next week, Ranieri also chose to rest Xu Qi.

After all, the opponent is not particularly strong. With the current strength of Monaco, some of the main players will beat Bastia. Moreover, Xu Qi will also sit on the bench. Once the team's offense is unfavorable, Ranieri will still let Xu Qi play to help the team continue the league's winning streak.

After all, for the current Monaco team, the league championship is actually a relatively close target, and it is a pleasure to congratulate them on the Champions League to reach the semi-finals.

This game was a bit difficult to solve. Bastia was very active in this game, and the team now has many old friends that Xu Qi had played against before.

For example, Squillac, who once played in Seville and Arsenal, and Romalic, who played in Seville, and even Cice, who had encountered Zheng Zhi's leg break and later confronted Xu Qi on the Premier League field for the Queen's Park Rangers. They are all in Bastia now.

Moreover, they all got the chance to start.

However, these balloon stars naturally could not resist the Monaco's offensive, although they defended a zero-to-zero through tenacious fighting in the first half.

But in the second half, with J Ronaldo coming on as a substitute, he directly helped the team take away a victory with a good show of scoring twice.

Before the Champions League starts, J Luo also showed his good form, and Xu Qi has another good helper on the offensive end.

Xu Qi expressed his great joy in this regard, after all, his opponent is the powerful Dortmund, the runner-up in the Champions League last season.

If the team has multiple teammates in excellent form on the offensive line that can share his offensive pressure, the team can definitely surprise Dortmund.

For this Dortmund, Xu Qi wanted to fight.

In fact, last season, Xu Qi represented Manchester City and Dortmund having a record of fighting, but his condition and physical condition had a serious decline at that time, which did not help the team win.

And after the game, he was ridiculed by Dortmund coach Klopp, which made him quite unhappy at the time.

And the opportunity to take revenge is now.

Many media outlets also pulled out Klopp's mockery of Xu Qi, in order to create an atmosphere where Xu Qi and Klopp are incompatible.

Such sharp questions were also asked before Klopp.

Before the game, facing sharp questions from some French media, Klopp's personality certainly would not admit defeat. Even if he repents, he would not admit defeat and say that he was wrong at that time. In order for the team to continue to maintain their desire and confidence in victory, he must firmly repeat his views at the time.

"Maybe Xu Qi is in good shape recently, but I don't think he can play the main player in my team now. I have watched his recent games. To be honest, this is a guy who doesn't like passing. My coaching idea is team football. Every player in our team is serving the team, not the entire team serving the individual." Obviously, Klopp is still insisting on his point of not looking down on Xu Qi.

Regarding such a question, the reporter naturally went to Xu Qi to repeat it like a little bit.

Xu Qi curled his lips and didn't want to respond very much. After all, he really doesn't like to play with things like verbal trouble, but it's not his personality to not fight back. After all, Klopp doesn't admit defeat, so he can't admit defeat.

"I have scored some goals in many recent games, and that's because my teammates are helping me. They trust me. Our team has been playing team football all the time, but our team football Mr. Klopp doesn't understand. As for what he said, I can't play the main player in their team, I think he's better thinking about whether he can afford my salary."

Obviously, although Xu Qi doesn't like talking, he has never given up.

Since the other party was coming towards him with great force, he naturally had to fight back without hesitation.

Now, under the media's hype, this game is even more highly anticipated.

In fact, Klopp also wanted to use some psychological warfare before the game to influence Xu Qi's mentality, but Xu Qi has played in professional leagues for many years. This provocation is meaningless to him at all. He doesn't care at all, but he just looks forward to the game more.

At the same time, coach Ranieli also had a special talk with Xu Qi. After the talk, Ranieli felt relieved.

Ranieri can also believe Xu Qi's psychological quality. After all, Xu Qi has experienced peak troughs and ups and downs, and Klopp's move cannot defeat him.

In recent days, Ranieri has led the players to study many videos of the "Hornets" Dortmund's game, and Monaco has basically understood this opponent.

Indeed, they are indeed very strong in terms of overallity, and the personal abilities of several players in the frontcourt are also very strong, especially Reus, Lewandowski and Aubameyang.

Last season, they had a Golden Boy Award after Xu Qi, named Gotze, but Gotze has joined Bayern Munich this season.

However, in order to deal with Goze's departure, Dortmund signed another midfielder, Xu Qi's former teammate Mkhitaryan!

In this game, the showdown between Xu Qi and his former teammate Mkhitaryan was also a highlight. When Xu Qi became the ace of the Donetsk Miners, Mkhitaryan still had difficulty getting the opportunity to start. After Xu Qi left, Mkhitaryan quickly became the core player of the Donetsk Miners and eventually joined Dortmund for 25 million euros.

Now, Mkhitaryan has become Dortmund's midfielder.

The two also met after entering the Stadium of Louis II. The two former Donetsk miners also greeted each other with a smile and casually talked about their recent situation.

Now, although the two were chatting with smiles off the court, they would probably not give in to a ticket to the semi-finals of the Champions League next time.

Moreover, according to the starting list announced by both sides, the two former Donetsk miners are all on the list.

For a time, this game aroused more expectations.

Such an important game, TV5 will naturally be broadcast live. After all, Xu Qi is in a hot state recently, and Dortmund has performed very well in recent seasons, which has attracted a considerable number of fans' attention.

The players on both sides also made some preparations in the locker room. After equipping all the equipment they should bring, they walked out of the locker room and came to the player passage, waiting for the moment they entered the stadium.

On one side is a red and white robe, and on the other side is a cool blue and black outfit. The first leg battle of the Champions League quarter-finals is about to begin.
Chapter completed!