Regarding the legendary "devil schedule", it means that a team encounters strong enemies continuously for a period of time, or it means that a team fights continuously in a very short period of time. Anyway, it is either a head-on game or a wheel battle that is enough to drag down your strength.

In every league and every team has their devil schedule. In England, it is generally considered a devil schedule around Christmas, and many strong dialogues are arranged at that time, and the competitions are also very intensive, with double matches a week, or even three matches a week.

There are also Ligue 1 and Metz.

From the Lorraine derby with Nancy on September 17th to October 22nd, Metz played six tough games in more than a month: they challenged Nancy on September 17th away. Although their opponents were not strong, they were a very important and popular Lorraine derby. Metz won 3:1 in this game. Then on September 21st, Metz played against Ausselle at home and lost 1:2.

On the evening of September 24, in the ninth round of the league, Metz challenged Marseille away. There were only two days between them and their home match against Ausserl. The team took a car from Metz, almost the northernmost end, to Marseille at the southern end early in the morning after the home match against Ausserl.

On October 1st, in the tenth round of the league, Metz returned to home court and faced Bordeaux. Bordeaux did not perform well last season, but his performance so far this season is still quite excellent, ranking sixth.

On October 15th, in the 11th round, Messi's opponent was Monaco.

On October 22, in the 12th round of the league, Metz welcomed the current Ligue 1 leader Lyon at home.

If Mess is the relegation team last season, then the points for the next few games are not in their plan. The relegation team only needs to make sure they can get the points they should get. For example, against weak teams and direct competitors who are relegated, you must have that point, preferably three-pointers. It is thankful to be able to get one point in a game with such a strong team. Generally speaking, losing a game will not get a single point.

But Mess has ambition in the new season. With Frank Ribery, Chu Zhongtian and bought Menez, if he still doesn't even have the power to fight back against a strong team, then it's better not to spend money to keep these players.

Jean Fernandez hopes to test the team's abilities in this devil schedule to see if they have the strength to challenge stronger opponents and pursue greater goals.

On the evening of September 24, Menez started the game away and played forward with Reynolds, but his position was more flexible and was not limited to the forward position. Jean Fernandez allowed him to change his position freely in the game according to the actual situation. Sometimes he could serve as a left forward, sometimes he could play a guest midfielder, sometimes he was a center, and sometimes he was a shadow forward.

In this game, Chu Zhongtian met an "old friend" - Rorik Kana.

Because he had a falling out with coach Fornier in Paris, Kana turned to Paris Saint-Germain's rival Marseille in the national derby. With his outstanding robbery ability and never retreating momentum, he became the absolute main force as soon as he arrived in Marseille.

This game was his third duel with Chu Zhongtian. Naturally, the two sides had a collision like Mars hitting the earth in the midfield. It was still a desperate way for each other to play.

The commentator said this was a showdown between the "Marseille Killing Machine" and the "Messe Lions".

The match between Marseille and Metz is also related to Fernandez. He almost went to Marseille this summer. If he wanted to go to Marseille, Ribery would definitely not stay in Metz. He would choose to go to Marseille with his mentor.

Now that nothing happened. Fernandez and Ribery did not go to Marseille. They challenged the strong rivals in southern France as part of Metz.

This game was very fierce, perhaps because both sides had a hot midfielder in the midfield. Cana was all-out to deal with Chu Zhongtian, and Fernandez asked Menez to play more midfielders to help Chu Zhongtian share the pressure. Unfortunately, Menez and his teammates were not tacitly in cooperation - it was not that they did not cooperate, but that they did not have tacit understanding. Later, Chu Zhongtian had to take over the task of organizing the offensive again.

In order to make Chu Zhongtian run away, Marseille head coach Albert Emon replaced Nasri in the second half to strengthen the offense.

Chu Zhongtian received a yellow card on him in order to defend Nasri. However, Kana also received a yellow card in order to defend Chu Zhongtian.

Menez finally returned to the position of the shadow forward. As a midfielder, he did not cooperate with the whole team well enough and was of no use.

In this game, both sides scored 0:0. No one scored a goal.

Being able to take a point from Verodrome (stade_vélodrome) is already good for Metz, who is still running into the team, so at the post-match press conference, Fernandez was satisfied with the team's performance. A reporter asked why Menez, who was once transferred to the reserve team, started in this game and played the whole game.

Fernandez replied: "First of all, I didn't relegate him. I just felt that he needed to accumulate some experience in the reserve team now. Secondly, Menez is a very important member of the team, and it is normal to play all over the game."

His words set the tone for Menez's affairs.

Metz's players all understood that no matter whether they wanted it or not, Menez became a member of the team again. And just like he had pampered Ribery, he loved this somewhat rebellious young player. He would give up the irrelevant ordinary player for Menez, but would never give up Menez for the sake of ordinary players.

※※After drawing with Marseille, Metz returned to their home court, the Santa Forian Stadium. There they waited for their opponent in the tenth round of the league - Bordeaux, the third in the league.

Menez still started in this game, and because of his bad movements, Proman, who was suspended for one game by a red card and another one of the suspensions, also returned to the team, strengthening Metz's defense in the midfield. Chu Zhongtian can finally organize the midfield without restraint.

Chu Zhongtian did not encounter any resistance in the midfield in this game, but he met a long-standing star - Denilson. The Brazilian dribbling master who set the highest transfer fee in the world at the time had just joined Bordeaux freely this season, but looking at his performance in the game, Chu Zhongtian knew that it made sense that he was abandoned by Betis.

He still buried his head in the game showing off his fancy moves that were useless. Those tricks are rarely tricked. The defenders knew that as long as they did not move their center of gravity, they would not be beaten by Denilson.

Chu Zhongtian also used a very fierce tackle to tackle the football from Denilson's feet during the game. The referee did not call him a foul. Denilson, who was led to the ground by Chu Zhongtian, waved his arms very angrily and lay on the ground and was unwilling to get up.

He must be complaining that the rules do not protect the master like him who creates artistic beauty... Chu Zhongtian looked back at him and felt a little pity for this man.

His former dribbling once brought many beautiful memories to his childhood self, but now he is just a coward who is lying on the ground and unwilling to get up to face the battle.

In this game, Menez was very active in the position of the shadow forward. He also assisted Reynold and scored a goal, which was also the only goal in this game.

Before he assisted Reynold, Metz passed four consecutive kicks, Chu Zhongtian Ribery Chu Zhongtian Proman. Finally, Proman was handed over to Chu Zhongtian again. Chu Zhongtian did not rush to touch the ball this time, but suddenly paused, disrupting Bordeaux's defensive rhythm, and then passed the ball to Menez who ran to the position, and Menez finally completed the assist.

After winning against Bordeaux, Metz scored 14 points in ten rounds of the league. The Devil's schedule has passed two-thirds, and Metz has performed very well in four games.

Such performance also gave Metz players great confidence. In the next game, Metz challenged Monaco away. In this game, Metz and Monaco had a fierce attack. Both sides scored a total of six goals in the 90 minutes of the game, and the final score was 3:3. In the words of the media, it was "the brave Metz tied the same brave Monaco away."

Chu Zhongtian assisted one ball and instigated one ball, and participated in two of the three balls. Menetz faced the team that Mes had the most favorable impression of him this summer, and scored his first goal since joining Mess. He made a beautiful single pass, which was the goal that Chu Zhongtian did not participate in.

After scoring, Menez took off his jersey and ran desperately, and he received a yellow card for this. But all the doubts about him were shattered by this beautiful goal. The goal seemed to have shattered an invisible wall blocking him.

Ribery also scored a goal in the game. He received a wonderful pass from Chu Zhongtian. After the horizontal wheel belt opened up the space, he suddenly took a long shot, and the football flew into Monaco's goal. His sharp breakthrough made Macon unable to find North.

Adebayo also scored a goal in the game, but instead of refusing to celebrate after the goal, he cheered indulges because he scored a goal from Monaco to equalize the score. The score was 1:2 before he scored, and the home team was temporarily behind.

At Monaco's home court, Louis II, was able to score three goals in Monaco, and allowed Monaco to tie the score to 3:3 until the last four minutes. Although he did not win the game, Metz's performance won unanimous praise.

However, Francesco_guidolin was scolded by Monaco media after the game, saying that if it weren't for the mistakes of Metz's defenders in the last moment, Guidolin would have achieved a shameful failure at home. In fact, the process was not a shame, but the shame was that they actually lost to a weak opponent like Metz.

Despite the participation of Ribery and the highly-watched genius of the French national youth team, Metz has not changed their image as a "weak team" in the eyes of others.

※※※The last game of the Devil’s schedule is home against Lyon.

The last time the two sides fought, Chu Zhongtian flew to the top at the last moment of his home court, and tied the score to 2:2. That point was proved to be a very critical point in the later relegation battle.

But this time Lyon came prepared and did not ask Metz to perform the final miracle of equalizing the score again.

Although Lyon sold their midfielder Essin to Chelsea for a record 38 million euro transfer fee this summer, this Lyon is still strong for Metz.

They left Mahamadu Diarra, Juninho, bought Fred, promoted Ben Alfa and Benzema to the first team, got Thiago from Chelsea, and bought Norwegian high center forward John_carew from Turkey's besiktas. The team's strength was not affected, and it can even be said to have risen instead of falling.

Facing Lyon, who had the strong cuts, Metz seemed very embarrassed. Even at home, Fernandez's request for the team was always the winner.

As a result, Caru, Juninho, Wiltord and Maluda scored one goal each, while Ribery scored only one goal on Metz, which saved some face for the team.

In the end, Metz lost to Ligue 1 overlord Lyon at home with a big score of 1:4. This was the most painful defeat they had encountered in the Devil's schedule.

Considering the strength gap between the two teams, this score difference is normal.

The entire Devils schedule is over, let's settle the score. I won two games in six games, tied two games, lost two games, and got eight points. This result was a "surprise" for Metz fans - they were pessimistic before that team thought that the team could only get three points in the game against Nancy.

After the twelve rounds of the league, they ranked 14th in the league. This ranking and points are not high, but when they think about the most difficult schedule, they will know how valuable the fifteen points should be. Next, Messi's opponents are Rennes, Ajaccio, Lens, Troyes, Toulouse and other mid- and lower-level teams. Messi, who dares to attack with Monaco at the Louis II Stadium, is not afraid of these opponents.

After the Devil's schedule, the Cup is coming soon.

On October 26, Metz went away to challenge the opponent Sedan of the French League Cup 16th final.

This game made Fernandez not pay attention to it. He planned to use it to give the players a rest and adjust their state, and did not force the results.

Let the main players relax after experiencing a series of high-intensity and high-level leagues, and at the same time give substitutes and reserve players more opportunities to play.

So in the game against Se Dang, except for Chu Zhongtian and Menez and goalkeeper Winby started, Mes' starting lineup was almost changed. Goalkeeper Winby wore the captain's armband in this game. Menez's starting lineup was the same as Chu Zhongtian last season - both of them needed more games to adjust their state and physical fitness. Chu Zhongtian started because he didn't need to rest, his physical fitness was fine, and he was also eager to participate in the game.

Mess, who had only three main players, lost 0:1 to Se Dang on the road.

Chu Zhongtian hopes that the team can go further in the cup so that he can play more games. Unfortunately, he and Menez cooperate many times but failed to break through Se Dang's goal. Se Dang retreated at all and counterattacked Messe's defensively. In the 60th minute, Algerian international Nadir Belhadj scored the only goal in the game and eliminated Messe.

In this game, Chu Zhongtian and Menez who participated in the game could not let go. In the 13th round of the league on October 29, Metz challenged Rennes away.

Chu Zhongtian and Menez performed well, and Chu Zhongtian assisted Menez to score the first goal. Finally, he got anger that he was eliminated in the League Cup.

Then Ribery assisted Ahn Jung-hwan and scored the team's second goal. It is worth mentioning that this is the second goal of the Korean scorer this season. When he joined Metz at the beginning of the season, he was yelled by the Korean media as "the ultimate solution for Metz's poor offense." Unexpectedly, after playing for three months in the new season, he only scored two goals in ten games... Despite this, this second goal still made the Korean media cheer, believing that the era of Ahn Jung-hwan is finally coming... Yes, they have shouted several times, and each time is "this time will definitely come."

The Koreans are still cheering for their national hero finally breaking the three-month goal drought. Metz has once again expanded its lead.

This time the goal was Captain Chu Bobiconi, who took advantage of a corner kick to score.

Before this game, Rennes' ranking was above Mets - Mets ranked 14th in fifteen points and Rennes ranked 17 points. But no one expected that Mets would lead so easily. They led three goals in the first half, and Rennes was beaten without the strength to fight back.

Rennes won't get a goal back until the last minute of the game, but it was useless.

Metz defeated Rennes 3-1 at home, and the points turned into 18. The ranking jumped to tenth without playing in the league in the same round, squeezing Rennes out with one point advantage.

As time entered November, Metz defeated Ajaccio 2-0 at home in the fifth league. Metz didn't spend much effort on the second-last team.

But for Chu Zhongtian and Fernandez, there was another bad news in this game - Chu Zhongtian received a red card in the game and was directly sent off.

Chu Zhongtian had a tactical foul in the game, pulling down the opponent's forward who was already in a one-on-one position from behind. Although he prevented an almost inevitable goal, the referee showed a red card. In this way, he would miss the team's next round of league-the 15th round away challenge to Lons.

Lance is a team that is in the upper middle level. Judging from Mess' current state, it is hard to say whether the game will win or lose. If you want to win, you need to work hard.

"Okay, Chu. Take this opportunity to rest."

"I don't need a break, sir."

"Of course I know that your body does not need rest. I mean letting your heart rest. The following season is still long..."
Chapter completed!