Chapter 242 Even the Champions League cannot stop the big devil from advancing!

Li Mo's "wild words" before the game caused an uproar in French football.

Although Montpellier sold several main players who won the championship this season, including Giroud, the team's top scorer and assist leader last season, and their strength has dropped a lot, but no matter what, Montpellier is the French Ligue 1 player this season.

The league's cards in the Champions League.

Li Mo's unequivocal declaration of victory stung the local sports media in Montpellier, and with subsequent support from many French media, Montpellier fans suddenly became angry.

Li Mo did not expect this turmoil, nor did the Sheffield United players and Speed.

In fact, no matter who the opponent is, Li Mo will always say something like that in an interview.

Otherwise, should I humbly say that I am here to learn Montpellier’s tactics?

If you don't want to win the Champions League, then you might as well give up your spots to other teams.

Faced with the attacks from many French media, the media in England were also unhappy and launched counterattacks one after another.

Both sides are aware of the reporter's tricks and the topicality the media wants, but the English side feels that the French media has gone a bit "over the line" this time.

Take a look at the video that was reported.

There was only one clip where Li Mo shrugged and said with a smile, "There is only one winner in this game, and that is Sheffield United." Due to the shooting angle, Li Mo's demeanor seemed a bit casual, as if he was looking down on Montpellier.

But the real situation is that before Li Mo said this, he also said that Montpellier is difficult to deal with, but they will go all out and are not here for vacation in France.

If the complete clip was released, it would be a perfectly normal interview expressing determination to win.

But after cutting out the previous paragraph, it appeared that Li Mo's attitude was very arrogant. It can be said that Li Mo was completely fooled by the reporter who interviewed him this time.

This is what makes England's sports media unhappy.

Li Mo is now only one Premier League trophy away from being able to legitimately become the top star of the Premier League. It is no problem for him to engage in verbal wars in Premier League games to attract the attention of fans, but the French media has smeared Li Mo.

Isn't it equivalent to provoking the Premier League?

We can scold and ridicule the stars of our league, but not outsiders!

Before the game even started, the British and French sports media started to quarrel.

From the afternoon of September 17, when Li Mo's interview video was released, to the start of the game on September 18, the British and French media and fans of both teams were quarreling on the Internet.

Faced with this situation, Speed ​​directly asked all players not to accept any more interviews from reporters until the end of the game.

Li Mo also laughed out of anger.

This is the first time he has encountered such a situation.

It can only be said that he didn't think low enough about the media's offline. He was able to do it by showing half of the interview video, which exceeded his expectations.

Fortunately, this turmoil won't last long. The game is about to start the next day. As long as he wins the game, Li Mo doesn't have to say anything. The English media will slap the French media with loud mouths.

On September 18, at 19:00 local time in France, in the bustling Lamontson Stadium, enduring the huge noise and noise, Li Mo and his teammates meticulously followed the assistant coach in doing pre-match warm-ups.

As the first Champions League game of the season, Montpellier's home fans seemed very enthusiastic, filling the home court to a full house. Of course, Sheffield United fans also contributed a lot.

After many previous negotiations and communications, Sheffield United finally obtained 5,000 away tickets. In addition to the tickets purchased by fans who added money privately, almost 7,000 Sheffield United fans came to the scene.

Although they still couldn't compete with the more than 20,000 home fans, Sheffield United's 7,000 fans also sang the team song and tried their best to cheer for the Sheffield United players present.

As the focus of the pre-match news controversy, Li Mo naturally became a thorn in the side of Montpellier fans.

It's just a warm-up now. As soon as Li Mo takes the ball, there will be bursts of boos in the stands, which makes the Chinese reporters on the sidelines very angry.

However, sports reporters in England are more direct. Many of them speak with English in their mouths, as if they were covered with honey, which makes the Chinese reporters very happy to hear them.

Radio 5 also sent on-site commentators and guests today.

During the national team game a few days ago, Liu Jianhong's passionate commentary made his voice hoarse, and he is still recovering. Therefore, Duan Xuan will be the live broadcast commentator today. The special guest is Yan Qiang, and He Wei will continue to do the on-site interviews.

task.

Radio 5 has spent a lot of effort to obtain the broadcast rights of the Champions League this season. However, with Li Mo’s performance last season and Sina Sports’ huge success in explaining the Premier League, Radio 5 gritted its teeth and spent a lot of money this year. First, it will broadcast the Champions League.

The broadcast rights for the game have been purchased, and the Premier League is still negotiating. Even if the negotiations cannot be made this season, the matter should be finalized next season.

Without him, Li Mo's success and Sina Sports' decent traffic last season made Wutai executives restless.

The huge traffic means a lot of advertising fees, and there is no need to worry about ratings when Li Mo plays games. As long as Li Mo leads the team to the Champions League knockout rounds this season, Channel 5 will make a lot of money.

The timing of the Champions League matches is really too bad for the Chinese audience, but at this moment, looking at the soaring ratings recorded in real time backstage, several top executives of Channel 5 are completely relieved.

At the front line of the stadium, He Wei, who was standing on the sidelines, was reporting the situation to the camera. Behind him was the half-field where the Sheffield United players were staying, and the camera would focus on Li Mo from time to time.

"This stadium, which has produced Laurent Blanc, Eric Cantona, and Carlos Valderrama, will face a strong challenge from Sheffield United today. The fans of Montpellier still support

The team they love is as good as ever, but "

He Wei's on-site reporting was still very stable and brilliant, but at this moment, the Chinese fans were paying attention to Li Mo behind the camera.

After the players from both sides finished warming up, Li Mo also walked over, smiled, waved to the camera, and said hello to He Wei.

But now he had to go back to the locker room to do the final mobilization with Speed, so he couldn't waste too much time, so after a brief greeting, Li Mo jogged to keep up with his teammates and walked into the player tunnel.

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Sheffield United, from the coaching staff to the players, had been preparing for this game for a long time. Needless to say, it was important. Speed ​​only emphasized in the last ten minutes not to underestimate the opponent and make as few unnecessary mistakes as possible.

In more than 20 days, the coaching staff has collected as much information as possible about the Montpellier team.

It has to be said that it was a miracle that Montpellier was able to outdo local tycoon Paris Saint-Germain and win the championship last season. As a grassroots team, Montpellier created a miracle by winning the league title in its third season after being promoted to Ligue 1.

, also called the "Kaiserslautern" of France by the media.

They play a pragmatic style of football and rely on tacit cooperation and teamwork to defeat opponents one after another who are much more valuable than themselves.

In this team, Giroud, who scored 21 goals and sent 12 assists last season, is naturally the absolute core and arrowhead of the offense.

If Giroud is still in Montpellier this season, Speed ​​may have to specially develop double-team tactics to deal with this high center forward.

But Arsenal's move made Giroud give up the temptation to play in the Champions League. Without Giroud, Montpellier's offensive threat dropped sharply. For Sheffield United, there is no need to develop a defense specifically for a certain player.

Tactics.

That's not necessary.

The gap in strength between the two teams is huge. Even though Montpellier was the French Ligue 1 champion last season, they sold the player with the thickest legs in the team after winning the championship. It can be said that this season, Montpellier and

Montpellier last season was completely two teams.

The only thing Speed ​​is worried about now is that when the game starts, Sheffield United players will make unforced errors due to nervousness.

Another one is the referee’s whistleblowing scale.

If he plays normally, he still has great confidence in his disciples.

Li Mo also knew what Speed ​​was worried about, so during the final mobilization, he first calmed down his teammates and then boosted their morale.

They want to win this game, win neatly, win beautifully, and win without any suspense.

They have no experience here, and the same goes for Montpellier. It’s the first time for everyone to play in the Champions League, so it makes no sense for you to adapt faster than me.

At this point, Sheffield United and Montpellier are on the same starting line, and as long as Sheffield United is familiar with the rhythm of playing football, they will drag Montpellier into the quagmire of strangulation tactics.

With expectations and a bit of anxiety, the Sheffield United players finally shouted loudly to cheer themselves up. Under the leadership of Li Mo, they also walked out of the locker room one after another. They were only one step away from entering the Champions League.

Far away!

Li Mo stood at the front of the team, not squinting. After a few minutes, the Spanish referee signaled the players from both sides to follow him. Li Mo was shocked. After taking a deep breath, he strode out of the tunnel.

Accompanied by the deafening drumbeats and vocals, the players from both sides lined up. Hearing the Champions League theme song for the first time at the scene, Li Mo felt goosebumps all over his body, and a surging passion filled his heart.

emerge.

The same is true for the players standing next to him. Bell, who has participated in the Champions League before, is a little more "calm" at the moment.

If Li Mo hadn't caught a glimpse of Bell's hands clasped together behind his back, he would have almost been deceived by his calm expression.

"This is the Champions League! Even if it's just an ordinary group match, its meaning is completely different from the league. No wonder Arsenal fights desperately to grab points and compete for fourth place at the end of every season."

After sighing in his heart, Li Mo felt sorry for Arsenal.

Arsenal's performance last season could not be described as tenacious. They were so badly beaten by Manchester United in the early stages of the league. Despite the crisis of successive losses, they were able to slowly climb into the top four in the middle and late stages.

There was a period of time in which they even outperformed Sheffield United.

After finally getting the fourth position, they were squeezed out of the Champions League due to Chelsea, and had to play in the Europa League this season. Speaking of which, this can be regarded as the butterfly effect brought by Li Mo.

But Li Mo could only say sorry to the factory in his heart.

The rise of Sheffield United is bound to change the structure of the Premier League. The era of chaos has arrived early. The strong will be strong, and the weak will perish. In order not to become a stepping stone for other teams, Sheffield United can only trample other teams under their feet.

Already.

However, Li Mo is also confident that he can lead Sheffield United to achieve better results in the Champions League. At least, it will not be weaker than Arsenal, right?

Then set a small goal first and qualify first in the group!

After setting the goal in his mind, Li Mo suddenly felt excited.

When you feel a little confused on the road of struggle, setting a target for yourself will really work.

It's just pitiful for our factory. After Li Mo led the team to rob the Champions League qualification, Li Mo also used it as a target to surpass. The tool factory was hammered.

At 19:45 in the evening, after a simple pre-match ceremony, the referee on duty blew the whistle to start the game on time, and the 2012-2013 Champions League season officially started!

Amid the roaring cheers of the home fans, Montpellier played a little cautiously and did not attack immediately after kick-off.

On the one hand, Giroud's departure made them a little uncomfortable and they couldn't find anyone to attack. On the other hand, they were also a little nervous.

Winning the French Ligue 1 championship is already unimaginable for these players. Standing in the Champions League now, it is definitely not possible to say that the legs are weak, but nervousness and apprehension are inevitable.

Sheffield United launched a high-position press from the beginning.

As a defender, Sheffield United now has much less pressure to bear, so they simply let go and press.

Being accustomed to playing in Ligue 1, Montpellier was very uncomfortable facing Sheffield United's defensive intensity and high-intensity rhythm.

To put it bluntly, the style of Ligue 1 is Latin, with technology prevailing, and the intensity of the competition is much worse than that of the Premier League.
To be continued...