Chapter 86 The real commander
The tactics Fernandez has created for Metz in this game are not static. He asked Metz to launch a fierce attack on Lyon's hinterland as soon as he came up. Although Metz lost the game because of his attack against Lyon in the first two matches this season. But this time the situation is different.
Fernandez asked the players to attack Lyon after the start of the game, but did not let them attack for 90 minutes. His plan was to take advantage of the start of the game and Lyon was caught off guard when he was not focused. Fight for the goal so that once he established a lead, he could shrink his defense line and fight against Lyon against defensively and slowly get rid of it.
Lyon must not believe that after losing to them twice in a row, Metz dares to play against each other. No matter what aspect of analysis, Metz should play defensive counterattack. If they really think so, Metz is happy to give them a "surprise".
In the side pick before the game started, Lyon won the kick-off. Metz had to wait patiently until the ball transfer.
Lyon did not take their opponent Mets seriously at all. Generally speaking, after the game begins, both sides should have a process of adjusting their state, looking for the rhythm of the game, and testing each other. However, after Lyon kicked off in this game, he launched a fierce attack on Mets' hinterland. This can be clearly seen from their passing style - they did not pass back and forth with their feet back and forth, but were more penetrating and more adventurous forward passes.
After Juninho got the ball, he passed the ball forward to the young forward Benzema who started the game.
Because it was a cup match and his opponent was not strong, Lyon did not line up all the main lineups to play in this game. Lyon head coach Hollier gave young players more opportunities, such as he let Benzema and Ben Alfa start at the same time, but he still sent the main team on the defensive line.
Benzema is a very talented player. He is now more mature than last season. He also has more opportunities to play than last season. So far, he has played eleven times in the league and scored one goal. He has played once in the Champions League and scored his own winning goal in the Champions League. He has played five times in the domestic cup and scored two goals.
Benzema is characterized by fast speed, strong body, good at dribbling, good at shooting and passing, comprehensive skills, and no obvious shortcomings.
Such a young forward is now the greatest pride of Lyon City, and the limelight has even surpassed Ben Alpha, a talented player of his age.
After getting the ball, Benzema faced Mess' defense line without any hesitation, and he chose to force a breakthrough!
Benzema, who is confident in his skills and speed, did not take Mes' captain Bobby Coni seriously at all.
In fact, Bobby Coni is not weak at all, but he still seems a little difficult when facing Benzema's newborn calf.
As soon as he turned around, Benzema pulled apart his body.
Benzema thought that after he broke through Metz's captain, he would be able to successfully rush into the penalty area. But unexpectedly, there was another person next to him - a black-haired guy wearing Metz's No. 8 jersey.
Chu Zhongtian has been staring at Benzema since Lyon kicked off. Although Lyon's starting striker also had a Brazilian Fred, his intuition told him that the young boy wearing Lyon's No. 19 jersey was even more threatening.
Sure enough, Juninho handed over the football to Benzema at the beginning, not to his Brazilian fellow.
Since the football was transferred to Benzema, Chu Zhongtian ran over. Seeing that the captain Bobby Coni was easily broken through, he also accelerated and rushed over. He stuck Benzema's running route in the inside line. If he continued to dribble the ball, he could only lead to the corner flag area, otherwise he would have to force one-on-one with him - Chu Zhongtian was not afraid of such a duel.
"Benzema thought he had made a breakthrough, but now he is facing a difficult opponent - Chu! Chu is the core of Metz's organizational offensive attack, but his long-term performance in offense makes it easy for people to ignore another reality, that is, he is actually a midfielder and a midfielder who is good at defense." After a season and a half, the French commentators have become fully familiar with Chu Zhongtian, a Chinese player. Now when they accept the game, there has never been a situation where they completely ignore Chu Zhongtian's contributions - if they are obsessed with it and continue to ignore Chu Zhongtian, then Metz's game will basically be unable to explain.
"Chu is pushing Benzema outward..."
Benzema was thinking in his heart whether he would forcibly pass the annoying person in front of him - he has been squeezed to the wings. He was originally in front of the penalty area after breaking through Bobby Coni, but now he has become on the side of the penalty area. It is so tragic.
If you don’t break through, you can only get a corner kick. This is not the result that Benzema wants to get.
He suddenly stopped urgently, intending to shake Chu Zhongtian away and then break into the penalty area from the inside. But just as he stopped urgently, he found that the No. 8, on the inside, had also braked suddenly. The two of them seemed to have agreed in advance, and stopped urgently at the same time!
Benzema was a little surprised. He felt that there was no obvious sign before the emergency stop. In order to deceive his opponent, he did not even slow down... How did that guy guess it?
He didn't know that when he was planning to stop urgently, Chu Zhongtian's intuition told him about this. So while Benzema was stopping urgently, no, even before he stopped urgently, Chu Zhongtian's brain had already ordered his body to slow down and stop urgently... He stopped urgently but was not fooled, and it would be difficult to break through again. Generally, the forward who took the ball at this time should hand the football back to his teammates, and then cut the running position at a free time to look for the next opportunity.
But Benzema did not do this, he was very confident in his skills. Even in this case, he still planned to force himself.
Started again, Chu Zhongtian also started, continuing to get stuck in the inside line, and squeezed him outward.
This time Benzema plans to rush to the bottom line and then sneak in from the bottom line.
This time, when he made another false move to break through, Chu Zhongtian did not cooperate with him and was shaken, but directly tackled! His tackle was very decisive, without any hesitation, and stomped at the football between Benzema's legs!
Looking at Chu Zhongtian's aggressive tackle, Benzema gave in a little because he was worried about injury. His right leg should have wafted the football behind Chu Zhongtian, but because he was worried that Chu Zhongtian's tackle would break his ankle, he withdrew his foot.
Chu Zhongtian seized this opportunity, fell sideways and hooked the football under his feet.
Scoop the ball!
In order to avoid the snatch, Benzema went to the side. Chu Zhongtian did not give him the chance to turn around and snatch him back, and quickly got up from the ground.
In fact, when Benzema saw that the football was not shoveled out of the baseline by the opponent, but stayed in the court, he turned around and grabbed the ball. However, he obviously underestimated the speed of Chu Zhongtian getting up from the ground. When he turned around, Chu Zhongtian had already completed the movement of getting up to protect the ball. Then Benzema had no choice. He had a slight move that could be a foul.
Chu Zhongtian successfully cut off Benzema's ball and made the Metz fans in the stands cheer for a while, and the commentator also praised Chu Zhongtian's unforgettable defense this time.
It's nothing great to cut off Benzema's ball, but it's not enough to let the football go out of bounds after it is cut off. It's a test of its skill.
Chu Zhongtian, who cut the ball, did not continue to dribble the ball. Lyon's full-back and front-line attack rushed up. With one Benzema, the three people were bound to form an encirclement against him. He successfully cut off Benzema's ball before, which was considered a hero. If the opponent intercepted the ball again, the hero would become a bear.
When Chu Zhongtian saw Bobby Coni who came back to pick him up, he passed the football out of the crack of the human being and ran forward by himself.
In this way, the Metz team got the ball one minute after the start of the game.
Metz, who got the ball again, began to implement the tactics formulated before the game - playing against Lyon!
※※※ Chu Zhongtian always keeps his thoughts in mind: his teammates lack confidence in defeating Lyon, so he, Ribery, Menez and a few others need to raise their confidence for everyone.
Coach Fernandez's tactics are very good at his thinking - he used the attack during the start of the game to cause trouble for Lyon and let his teammates see that Lyon is not an invincible giant.
He doesn't believe that Lyon can be better than Chelsea, and he doesn't think that Mes is currently inferior to an amateur team.
Chu Zhongtian ran to the midfield and left the position of the midfielder. However, he did not see the scene where Mahamadu Diara came to him, because Lyon did not allow Diara to start in this game. Not only that, they did not even line up any of the midfielder starters. The four people who started in the midfield were Thiago, who was in the middle, and three attacking forwards - Ben Alfa, who was on the left, Juninho in the middle, and Gowu on the right.
The four such midfielders have a lot of attack power, but they are a little bit miserable in defense.
The only one who can defend is Thiago, who is not a full-time defensive player.
Therefore, when Chu Zhongtian ran up, only Thiago was paying attention to him from a distance, but did not force him up at the first time. Thiago is not the main player of Lyon this season, and he has not fought with Chu Zhongtian on the court. His understanding of Chu Zhongtian may be more from some instructions from the media and coaches, and lacks first-hand information.
He obviously knew nothing about Chu Zhongtian's power.
Juninho knew very well who Chu Zhongtian was. He retreated from the position of an attacking vanguard, turned around and ran towards Chu Zhongtian, preparing to interfere with Chu Zhongtian when he was receiving the ball, or directly intercept the ball, if possible.
After Chu Zhongtian received a pass from his teammate Proman, he did not dribble the ball, but passed it to Menez in front. The attack was organized by Menez.
Menez's position is between the front midfielder and the forward, and can be used both at the front and at the front. How he handles the ball is entirely his business, so Chu Zhongtian doesn't care. Anyway, coach Fernandez has already advised Menez to deal with the ball decisively and not to drag it out. Chu Zhongtian believes that with Menez's talent, doing this well is enough to threaten Lyon's goal.
Menez was hanging and passed the fake fax. After Chris was running away, he passed the ball. Unfortunately, Ibisevic and Menez did not expect to go together. They ran away when they first made a fake pass. When Menez passed the ball again, the Bosnian was offside.
After a few more times, Chu Zhongtian quickly handed the ball to Menez to complete the task of organizing the offense.
Lyon players began to realize that the offensive organizer of this game was not Chu Zhongtian, but the young genius who was as famous as their "Lyon Double Stars".
Juninho was a little surprised, but he quickly reacted - maybe Chu Zhongtian's task was to defend himself? He thought of the scene of his first fight with Chu Zhongtian. As soon as the game started, Chu Zhongtian rushed up to give him a very impressive self-introduction.
In the end, the Chinese player who called himself "Chu Zhongtian" evened the score with a header and took a point from the Gerland Stadium.
He was very successful in the first half of his defense, and it seemed that Mess's head coach still had such an idea... In the subsequent games, Chu Zhongtian's performance also proved this - every time Juninho got the ball, the person who went up to guard him was Chu Zhongtian, not Promenade.
※※※In fact, Menez was quite surprised. Before the game, Coach Fernandez asked him and Chu Zhongtian to decide who would be responsible for the organization depending on the situation. If Chu Zhongtian is closely guarded by the opponent, he will do it himself. If he is taken care of by the opponent, Chu Zhongtian will do it. But seven or eight minutes into the game, he felt that Chu Zhongtian basically had no defensive pressure... But since Chu Zhongtian wanted to organize the attack, then come. He was not afraid of taking responsibility.
But he had no idea of cooperation with Ibisevic and others. Coach Fernandez asked him to handle the ball cleanly before the game. He was very obedient and neat, but he didn't master the timing and rhythm of passing the ball well. Either he passed too early or his teammates ran too early.
In terms of control of the team and grasping the timing of passing, he is really not as good as Chu Zhongtian. Although he can use his feet to push oranges, Chu Zhongtian cannot. But what's the use in the game?
Chu Zhongtian has been hiding behind the scenes, carefully observing Lyon's defensive position in this game and Thiago, an opponent he is not very familiar with.
When he received the ball, Juninho would come up to defend, but now he basically doesn't care. Thiago has focused more on the active Menez in defense. Although Menez has not performed much since the start of the game, I believe that Benzema and Ben Alpha must have warned their Portuguese team before the game to pay special attention to this kid of their age.
After Chu Zhongtian observed for eight minutes, he finally decided to take over the banner leading the team.
Menez is actually just using it as a shield, misleading his opponents to think that he will only defend with peace of mind in this game, and the real organizer is Menez.
In fact, this is not the case.
When Metz attacked again, Chu Zhongtian waved to ask for the ball in the middle circle. Ribery knew what he was going to do when he saw Chu Zhongtian take the initiative to ask for the ball for the first time in this game. So he passed the ball back without any superiority.
When Chu Zhongtian received the ball, Lyon's midfielder Thiago still focused on Menez's sideways running.
Menez was indeed reaching out to Chu Zhongtian for the ball, which further confirmed the speculation of Lyon players - the core of Metz in this game was Menez's boy!
Chu Zhongtian raised his foot and made an action to push the football to Menez. Thiago ran towards Menez in advance, thus making way for the middle.
Chu Zhongtian stopped his foot the moment he kicked the football, then swung the football forward with a fake shot, and he wanted to drive the ball straight to Huanglong!
Thiago was shocked and quickly turned around and rushed to Chu Zhongtian again. Seeing him approaching him, Chu Zhongtian kicked the football with his outer instep to Menez who was pulling it aside while dribbling the ball.
After passing the ball, Chu Zhongtian did not stop, but accelerated and rushed in, looking like he wanted to play two and one with Menez.
Thiago did not go with Chu Zhongtian, but went to make up for the position of central defender Chris. Because after seeing Menetz get the ball, Chris pushed out, so the area he was originally responsible for was empty.
Thiago has to ensure that this opportunity will not be used by his opponent.
At this moment, Menez passed the football between Chris and Thiago. The passing direction was Chu Zhongtian!
The second Lyon central defender, Brazilian Kakapa, rushed up when Menez passed the ball to Chu Zhongtian. He knew that Chu Zhongtian would catch the ball, and he might shoot from a long shot next, or pass the ball to Menez, who played two-by-one with him... so he must not catch the ball.
Kakapaco is different from Thiago. He has played against Chu Zhongtian three times. Chu Zhongtian scored one of their goals last season. Essin, who replaced him as the starting center back at the time, did not defend Chu Zhongtian, so he let the kid score a header. Since then, he has been paying attention to Chu Zhongtian.
He knew that Chu Zhongtian was a dangerous person who could be ranked in the top three at present, so he must be guarded against it.
Ibisevic was in front of Chu Zhongtian, looking to catch the ball. After passing the ball, Menez continued to penetrate in, as if he was about to compete with Chu Zhongtian for sophomore.
Just when everyone thought Chu Zhongtian would catch the ball and then send the ball to the area in front of him, he spread his legs and walked straight from the ball!
Kakapa never expected Chu Zhongtian to miss the ball! Did he have eyes behind him know that he was going to come up to defend him?
The football passed by Kakapa, and his gaze turned to the space behind him. In the gap he left behind, a red figure appeared there. He did not see the person's appearance, but he saw his number - No. 10!
"Frank Ribery! He received the ball in the penalty area and shot!"
Hollier wants to be glad that when he confirmed the starting lineup before this game, he did not take Kupe out of the starting lineup. Because he lost Ribery, this was called a sudden shot. It was Kupe that made a wonderful save and used his fingertips to push the football out of the bottom line!
"Excellent save! Gregory Coupe! I didn't expect that the most threatening attack after the game started actually came from Mets! Ribery's shot almost brought a goal to the visiting team!"
Kakapaze looked at Chu Zhongtian, who was very disappointed with his hands holding his head with complicated eyes.
First of all, this was a very beautiful offensive cooperation, secondly, I was fooled by this No. 8. Once again, if it weren't for Kupe's outstanding performance, Lyon would have fallen behind at home!
He suddenly understood what Menez was the core player of Metz in this game, fake! Metz had never changed the commander, and their real commander was still this No. 8, Chu!
Chapter completed!