Chapter 39 Really Awesome
He Ping was nagging to the TV audience how powerful Lyon is. Even if Metz just wanted to get one point, it was so difficult. At this moment, Chu Zhongtian, who was holding the ball, appeared on the TV screen. He looked up at the front and pushed the football out directly.
All the TV viewers saw his pass penetrated Lyon's defense and passed between Essin and Revier without any obstruction!
"Look at this ball..." He Ping quickly stopped his introduction and stared at the TV screen in front of him without blinking.
From the current shooting angle, they couldn't see what the ball was for, because there was no one there. Just when many people thought Chu Zhongtian was too anxious, a red figure suddenly penetrated into the penalty area and appeared in everyone's sight.
"Beautiful! Beautiful!! Ribery!" He Ping screamed.
The next story is very simple. Ribery received the ball, then adjusted the direction and shot. Although he swung his thighs, the shot was lightly bypassed goalkeeper Kupe and defender Chris who returned to defense, and fell into the empty goal behind them.
"Beautiful cooperation! Chu Zhongtian's corner kick directly cuts Lyon's defense like a scalpel!"
Chu Zuosheng watched the football enter the door, raised his hand, then screamed, shocking his wife next to him.
"So I said that the fans are all crazy..." she muttered, but she was also happy about her son's performance.
※※※The fans of Gerland Stadium did not react for a few seconds after Ribery scored. Most Lyon fans did not expect their team to concede the ball at home, while a small number of Metz fans did not expect that their team could still score and lead after being suppressed by their opponents for 30 minutes.
So Ribery's screams sounded particularly clear during the TV broadcast. He ran to the corner flag and shouted at the camera: "This is a greeting, Lyon! Ah ha!"
Then he turned around and pointed at Chu Zhongtian who was still in front of the penalty area: "Come on, man, this is your assist!"
Metz's players rushed over and surrounded him.
At this time, there was a clamor in the stands. Metz's fans were celebrating the goal, while Lyon's fans were yelling angrily: "Don't be too happy too early!!" Someone booed the referee dissatisfied with the referee, because Chu Zhongtian tackled Juninho before launching the attack and snatched the ball from the Brazilian's feet, but the referee did not express anything and allowed Metz to complete the attack. Lyon's players did not expect the referee to not swear and did not respond in time.
After seeing the ball in, Coach Fernandez stood up from his seat, raised his arms and rushed out. After a round, he came back and smiled at his assistant coach David Carre and said, "How is this? This ball?"
Carre was also very happy: "Very good! Very wonderful!"
He also did not expect his team to lead Ligue 1 overlord Lyon at the Gerland Stadium.
Fernandez smiled even brighter.
The coaching and benches of the away team Metz were jubilant, while the head coach of the home team Lyon, Regon, was very angry at the goal. In his opinion, Metz's offense was a complete foul and should not exist at all!
He roared at the fourth official: "That steal was a foul. Can't your people see it?"
The fourth official just shrugged him. In the game, everything that is listened to the referee on duty, even the fourth official can only play a role in game supervision and has no right to interfere with the referee's penalty. Even if the referee really makes the penalty inappropriate, he can only write it into the game report and submit it to the referee committee for them to make a judgment.
Lyon's players and their head coach had the same idea. When they realized that they had lost the ball, they ran to the referee and surrounded him for an explanation.
"That was clearly a foul!" Forward Fraud pointed to Chu Zhongtian who was celebrating the goal with Ribery, saying, "That boy tackled Juninho!"
"Ribary is offside!" Essin said this to the referee. In fact, he didn't know whether Ribery was really offside, but he wanted to say this and put pressure on the referee.
The referee pointed to his eyes and said to a group of noisy Lyon players: "Okay, gentlemen. My eyes are clear, I am sure that it is not a foul or an offside, the goal is valid!"
"Then you..." Gewu opened his mouth and sweared, but he was quickly pulled out by captain Juninho.
Despite this, the referee who had heard his swear words chased after him and showed Gewu a yellow card!
His penalty once again caused booing in the stands of the Gerland Stadium. However, it shocked the Lyon players very well.
This group of Lyon players dominated the Ligue 1 three consecutive times and were used to despising everything on the court, whether it was the opponent or the referee. Unfortunately, the referee was not afraid of them. He pointed at Gewu and said to him sternly: "Please keep your mouth in mind, boy! Don't think this is your home court, you can do whatever you want! Don't try to interfere in my work!"
Juninho had to come forward to smooth things over, push Gowu aside, and then explained to the referee: "He was just impulsive and absolutely did not mean to offend you... But I was indeed knocked down by the opponent's No. 30."
"He tackled the ball first, and you two happened to hit each other, so there was no foul." The referee explained to Juninho while recording the yellow card information in the notebook.
※※※ "Lyon's players have objections to this goal, but from my perspective, the attack was very clean. When Metz's No. 30 Chu tackled Juninho, it was neat and neat. When he passed the ball, Ribery did not have offside." The French Ligue 1 commentator finally said something good about Chu Zhongtian.
"Lyon paid the price for their carelessness in underestimating the enemy. They only lost one game in the league this season. Do they think they are invincible? After losing the ball, they don't think about how to defend, but protest with the referee. What's the benefit? They are all professional players and they make such low-level mistakes. It's so self-righteous."
The commentator criticized Lyon without any mercy.
The Metz players who had finished their celebration ran back to their half, Ribery hugged Chu Zhongtian and ran back side by side.
"It's beautiful, Chu!" Ribery gave him a thumbs up.
"You run beautifully, Frank."
The two flatter each other and laugh together.
It is indeed worthy of being able to contribute to Lyon's home gate.
After Metz's player landed, Fernandez asked his assistant coach David Carre to shout and warn the players to pay attention to defense and beware of Lyon's counterattack.
Therefore, the next tone of the first half was Metz defending to the death and Lyon attacked wildly.
Chu Zhongtian continued to guard Juninho, and kept his steps away. He decisively defended the front and defended the ball many times, which was very effective. In terms of flexibility, Juninho was not as good as Chu Zhongtian, and his explosive power was not as good as Chu Zhongtian, so he repeatedly let Chu Zhongtian defend the ball around and cut off the ball.
Chu Zhongtian's defensive strategy of taking the initiative is entirely because his physical fitness is better than that of the thirty-year-old Juninho, and he can succeed repeatedly. Many times, even if Juninho wants to prevent Chu Zhongtian from doing this, he is too weak to kick his legs and is not strong enough.
With Juninho curbing, Lyon's offensive threat was at least half.
In this way, at the end of the first half, the Lyon players walked off the court with a score of 0:1, and the Ligue 1 overlord had to lower their proud heads.
"Lyon is definitely unwilling to accept a defeat at home, and the second half is interesting." The French commentator said with anticipation.
Fernandez stood on the sidelines, and every Metz player who ended will receive his head-on encouragement and praise. When Chu Zhongtian walked out, Fernandez slapped him on the shoulder, "Good job, Chu. Although I didn't let you attack, as a player, sometimes you need to judge and decide actions on the court. This is especially true for a midfielder who needs both offense and defense."
Chu Zhongtian was praised by the head coach and felt even happier. He was full of fighting spirit in the second half.
In the locker room, Metz's players were still excited about the first half lead. Fernandez was not worried that they were too excited because after the lead, the players withstood Lyon's attack, which means that their mentality has not changed.
So Fernandez did not lower his face to criticize the players for being proud of them.
He only spoke up to the team's performance in the first half after everyone was talking about it: "You did a good job, but that ball was an unexpected surprise. In the second half, we continued to implement the tactics of defensive counterattack and focused on defense. Chu."
Chu Zhongtian straightened his back.
"Lyon will definitely make some adjustments in the second half. Your defense against Juninho was successful in the first half, but I believe there will be no such easy opportunity in the second half. Juninho may change positions frequently, and the referee may give them more set pieces. If Juninho is facing away from the offensive direction, he can pass whatever he wants, but don't let him pass the ball in the offensive direction. Do you understand?" Fernandez said.
Chu Zhongtian nodded: "I understand, sir."
※※Although Regon was very angry with the referee's penalty after Metz scored, he criticized the players during the break, thinking that the team's performance before conceding the ball was too amateur.
"You shouldn't have been entangled with the referee at that time! Instead, you should first think about how to defend!"
"We wouldn't have to throw that ball!"
"Now, we're going to be a chaser in the second half!"
"But it's no big deal, let's see how to deal with them in the second half..."
Next, Regon asked Juninho what he felt about Metz's defense at No. 30. Juninho honestly answered that No. 30 was difficult to deal with.
"He is very flexible, explosive, and strong, and he is very sad to pass him with his general skills."
Regon thought for a while, and then said to Juninho: "You don't need to pass him. Just open up a little space and you can pass the ball. In addition, his fierce defense will have many opportunities for fouls, tempting him to do this, and then get more free kicks, and you will know what to do next." Regon smiled.
Juninho nodded.
※※※There was fifteen minutes of the intermission. Zhou Xiaoxiang was not interested in the advertisements and the boring midfield comments. She tilted her body and fell on the sofa and fell asleep.
Chu Zuosheng heard his wife snoring suddenly and found that she was asleep. So he took a quilt out of the bedroom and covered her with his wife. Then he sat next to his wife, hesitating whether to wake her up at the beginning of the second half... When the second half of the game started again, Chu Zuosheng thought about it and turned the sound of the TV. Instead of waking up his wife, he gently straightened his wife's body and let her sleep on the sofa. He moved a chair and sat on the side to watch TV with concentration.
My wife actually doesn't understand football at all, and after watching so many games, she has not made any progress. She watched the game just because she missed her son, and the game was the only opportunity to see her son. As a fan father, he was watching the game, while his wife was not watching the game, but her son.
※※※After the second half, Juninho's range of activities became larger, and he did not try to avoid physical contact as Chu Zhongtian thought. Instead, he tried to turn around many times. Sometimes Chu Zhongtian was able to successfully cut off the ball, and sometimes as long as Juninho turned around, he stretched his foot and Juninho fell to the ground, he would hear the referee's whistle.
In the second ten minutes of the second half, he gave Lyon three free kicks.
Although Juninho has not been punished yet, who knows whether the next one will be in?
You should know that Juninho is a strong man who can use a free kick as a penalty kick.
If you are afraid of fouls, you must pay attention to your actions, which will greatly increase the chance of the opponent breaking through.
He can use various means to stop Juninho from breaking through or organizing an attack, but he cannot stop him from taking a free kick.
This is a dilemma... Juninho dribbled the ball from the middle this time. When he just ran through the middle circle, he met Chu Zhongtian. Chu Zhongtian was waiting for him to make fake moves. Unexpectedly, Juninho directly pushed the ball to the right and accelerated the breakthrough!
Chu Zhongtian was stunned for a moment and turned around to catch up. Juninho had already stuck his best position. He could only follow behind and would definitely make a foul if he wanted to intercept the ball.
Is it a foul or not at this time?
Chu Zhongtian quickly estimated how far away from the goal here was, about 30 meters. It should be safe to make a foul here?
After making up his mind, Chu Zhongtian put a hand on Juninho's neck, then pushed it down hard, and tripped it up again. Juninho fell down.
Regon rushed out of the court and waved his fists hard, and he let out a long sigh.
Fernandez shook his head, feeling helpless. He could score a goal within 35 meters, so he really couldn't blame his players.
"We're going to change the strategy, David," he said to the assistant coach next to him.
"Do you defend all?" Carre asked.
Fernandez's answer shocked him.
"No, we attack."
Chapter completed!