Chapter 53 Changes in Paris Saint-Germain
After Metz led two goals, Paris Saint-Germain was completely stunned. In the next ten minutes, they performed very well. They wanted to attack but had no overall idea. They just rely on a single person to do it. Roten basically stopped passing the ball. After taking the ball, he drove the ball from the wing and broke through. As a result, he was blocked by Metz players again and again. Everyone was professional players, and they all played in the top league. They wanted to pass the level alone? They were too underestimated!
You have no negotiation!
Until the end of the first half, Paris Saint-Germain did not get any good opportunities. Judging from their performance, it was hard to see that they still had hope of equalizing the score or even overtaking.
"If the players at Paris Saint-Germain have maintained this performance, I can boldly predict that Metz will win this game!" said the French commentator. "Their performance in the first half was a tragedy. I don't know what Laurent Fornier would do, but if I were him, he would definitely scold those bastards during the break!"
This is the commentary of Canal TV station, and the Paris broadcaster is even more rude. At the end of the first half, they scolded the trash performance of Paris Saint-Germain players, all of which should be pulled out and shot... No wonder the Parisians are so angry. In France, Parisians have always looked down on people from other places. They always call people from non-Paris region "outsiders", just like saying that you are a country bumpkin who has never seen the world. Paris is good, and everything in other provinces is bad.
For the fans of Paris Saint-Germain, Metz is a complete country bumpkin and is not worthy of being compared with the great Paris Saint-Germain. So the two goals behind the other provincial teams really make the Parisian feel intolerable.
At the end of the first half, when the players on both sides left the court, some Paris fans were yelling insulting Metz players. Ribery and Oblaniak, who scored the goal, became the targets of insulting by them. Of course, Chu Zhongtian, who assisted two goals, was unable to escape. Someone raised his middle finger to Chu Zhongtian and shouted: "Get back to your hometown, Chinese!"
Chu Zhongtian didn't hear it because it was only a few people. Before their voices came out, they were drowned in the singing and shouting of Metz fans.
Metz fans dedicated their cheers to the players who came to the field without hesitation.
Ribery trotted and came to Chu Zhongtian in two steps, waved to the fans in the stands with him, then hugged his neck and walked into the stadium intimately.
"Good job, man. It's their turn to be unlucky during the break, haha!"
Every Metz player who returned to the locker room was excited as if they had won the game.
“It’s so satisfying, haha!”
"Chu, your pass is amazing!"
"Ludovik, your shot is amazing too!"
A group of people brag about each other and laughed.
※※Compared with the joyful atmosphere on Metz, in the visiting team's locker room, Paris Saint-Germain's head coach Laurent Fornier was scolding his players.
"Look at your own performance in the first half! What are your minds thinking? Are you in Metz but your heart is in Marseille? Gentlemen! Gentlemen! Your opponent is Metz, not that damn Marseille!"
In fact, Fornier rarely scolds his players in the locker room. This time he is so excited that he can imagine how angry he is.
His team was beaten 0:2 by the weak Metz in the first half. If the score just made him angry, the process made him furious. Whether before or after the ball was conceded, his players did not show their due level.
"Simmark, if you lose the ball as soon as you are double-teamed by the opponent, I will consider changing you! And Kana! I told you to pay attention to your defensive actions, but it didn't make you so weak! Look at Metz's No. 30, how rampant is in front of you?" Head coach Fornier scolded the players one by one. At this time, he couldn't think of any other way to let him vent his emotions.
When Kana heard the coach's scolding, he clenched his fists. He admitted that his performance in the first half was very bad. He was not determined enough when facing Chu Zhongtian, and his momentum was not as good as before. He really needed to change in the second half. What am I afraid of him doing? I am Rorik Kana, a "killing machine"! He thought so.
"And Roten, can you not always lower your head and drive the ball! Look up your head, look in front, look behind, look at your left and right! Pass the ball and pass the ball! Do you still remember how to pass the ball? If you don't remember, I can teach you!"
After almost all the players were scolded, Fornier felt that his anger was relieved a little. Then he looked at the dejected player and knew that it would be useless to just scold the players. The scolding was just to let them know that their head coach was very dissatisfied with their performance. As a head coach, he couldn't just scold, he had to come up with a solution to the problem.
"Okay, everyone looked up." He clapped his hands and signaled everyone to listen to him. "We will adjust our strategy in the second half. Obviously, we stared at the wrong target in the first half."
He turned around and wrote a big Arabic numeral "30" on the tactical board.
"Their No. 30 player is the core of Metz's team, and I believe you all have learned this. If you don't understand this forty-five minutes, you can all go back to school and receive football training again!" Fornier said sternly at the players.
"So step up your defense against him in the second half! Don't pay too much attention to that Ribery. Without the pass from No. 30, he wouldn't have any threat."
"I don't care what you do, whether it's foul on him or double-teaming him. Anyway, he can't let him get the ball comfortably. He is the core of Metz. Many times Metz's players will pass the ball to him, and his position is relatively backward. If we can successfully counterattack on the spot, we can launch an attack directly at the front of their penalty area! So in the second half, you have to press the No. 30!"
※※※ Chu Zhongtian didn’t know how the Parisians would deal with him in the second half, and Fernandez didn’t know. He praised the team’s performance in the first half, especially Chu Zhongtian’s performance. Then he told everyone not to be happy too early, and he still had to play seriously in the second half. Although it is often said that one goal is not safe, two goals are not necessarily safe. There are many cases of two goals leading and finally being reversed.
"Please calm down and don't be too excited. There are 45 minutes left in this game. We cannot declare that we have won now. We should know that our opponent is not a team of Class C, but Paris Saint-Germain. Although they are not doing well this season, they are stronger than us."
Fernandez asked Chu Zhongtian to continue running more in the second half and connect the entire team. Then, when others didn't know how to deal with the ball, they passed the ball to Chu Zhongtian and handed it over to him to deal with it.
If you have time in front, you must be as aggressive as in the first half, because only in this way can you create an opportunity to score.
Then he told Chu Zhongtian that he would pass the ball forward more actively in the second half, because Paris Saint-Germain was eager to equalize the score and would definitely be very strong. And there would be a lot of room behind them. If they passed the ball directly and passed it to these balls, they could directly threaten the opponent's goal.
Finally, he said: "This game is very important. I hope you can play the last forty-five minutes well, and you must shrink in time in defense. When attacking, offensive players must also keep up in time. So forty-five minutes in the second half may be a test for your physical fitness, you must pay attention to this."
※※Wang Hao and Lin Beiyao talked about the first half game together. Wang Hao told Lin Beiyao, a pseudo-fan, where Chu Zhongtian's performance in the first half was exciting.
"Brother Chu's running and passing are great! You see, his running seems to be nothing great, it's just running. In fact, it's not that simple. Every time he runs, he can appear in the most comfortable position of passing and receiving the ball, so that when his teammates want to pass the ball to him, he doesn't even need to adjust and can pass the ball to him directly."
Wang Hao said to Lin Beiyao, but Lin Beiyao still felt that this was very abstract. Anyway, she couldn't see anything great about it.
Wang Hao envied Chu Zhongtian very much. He was a midfielder who organized the offense. He had excellent skills and good passes, but he was much worse than Chu Zhongtian in terms of running position.
Last month, he won the Silver Ball Award in the French Under-14 Youth League. This is good news. It has also attracted the interest of many media after returning to China. Before, Chinese media only paid attention to Chu Zhongtian and ignored him, a young player who also played for Metz. After winning the Silver Ball Award, he received more interviews than his predecessor, Brother Chu.
This should have been a happy thing, "But why not the Golden Globe Award?" He thought so after winning the award. So he paid great attention to Chu Zhongtian's performance, hoping that he could learn something from Chu Zhongtian's game that he did not have, such as efficient running.
"And, Brother Chu is getting more and more sudden when playing football... I'm not saying that his movements are hidden, I'm saying that he rarely looks up and looks around after getting the ball, and then exposes his intention to pass. You see, he didn't look at Oblaniak before his second assist, but he could know that there was a gap there, and Oblaniak would intervene. This is the suddenness of the pass... After I won the silver ball award, everyone praised me, but compared to Brother Chu, I'm still far behind..." Wang Hao sighed after saying a big message.
Lin Beiyao actually doesn't understand such professional analysis, but she is understanding. She patted Wang Hao's head gently: "Don't worry, you are younger than him, you will always have a chance. You are still young now, and you will be very powerful when you reach his age in the future!" She raised two fingers to Wang Hao and compared a "v" gesture.
"Thank you, Sister Lin." Wang Hao smiled at her.
Mathilde seemed very quiet a little far away. She couldn't find anyone around her who could chat with her. They were all fans. She was not a fan in strict terms. She only watched the game because there were Chu, her students, her friends, her... and other things, so she wanted to support Chu Zhongtian. So during the halftime break, she sat in her own position, drank water, and then looked around and took the time.
Unlike her, Belmont, who is watching football alone in the crowd, is much more active.
Paris fans insulted Metz players in the stands, allowing Metz fans to hear that the two sides quarreled across the two floors of police. Belmont was among them. While raising his middle finger high, he fought back against the provocations of Paris Saint-Germain fans with the radical fans around him.
The Parisians called them northern country bumpkins, and they called the Parisians a scumbag from the capital. Anyway, if the police were watching, it would be impossible to take off the seat and do it directly, so they could only enjoy the verbal pleasure.
"We are now leading you bastards with two goals! We have the ability to chase them in the second half, haha!" Belmont jumped and jumped.
The intermission time always passes quickly, especially when everyone is very excited.
The fifteen minutes passed in the blink of an eye, and soon Belmont threw the noisy Paris fans aside and turned his attention to the stadium. When he saw Chu Zhongtian appear, he howled excitedly again.
"I said, man, help me beat them!"
※※※After the second half of the game started again, Paris Saint-Germain launched a fierce offensive against Metz's goal. Metz players could feel a little different from the first half - Paris Saint-Germain had a stronger momentum and clear goals. The players could cooperate with each other, just like a team.
After Chu Zhongtian got the ball, he was snatched by Kana, and then immediately passed it to Simmark. Simmark did not stop the ball and directly passed it to the side. Roten made a cross, Pauletta headed the ball and the football came out.
This attack caused a false alarm among the Metz fans in the stands, and also made the commentator shout: "This is a normal Paris Saint-Germain!"
Chu Zhongtian found that after he got the ball, he would immediately be defended by the opponent without any mercy. Even if it was a foul, it didn't matter. Anyway, he couldn't get the ball easily, turn around, and pass the ball again. Especially Rorik Kana, his foot was very fierce, as if he had regained the style of a "killing machine". He took the ball several times and forced Chu Zhongtian to give up his control of the ball.
Sometimes he relies on his strong body and excellent ball protection skills to protect the ball, but he also loses the best opportunity to pass forward and can only pass the football horizontally or backward.
"Chu Zhongtian was focused on being guarded by Paris Saint-Germain's players, which affected his ball." He Ping also saw that Paris Saint-Germain was going to freeze Metz's core Chu Zhongtian.
Not only Kana, but even Simmark pressed him, and the strikers' retreat defense always put Chu Zhongtian in layers of siege.
For a while, he played in a very embarrassing manner. He knew that his opponent would step up his guard in the second half, but he didn't expect it to be so strict - no matter where he took the ball, at least one Paris Saint-Germain player would appear around him instantly, and then he would defend himself closely.
Chu Zhongtian's ball control skills can only ensure that he will not be easily cut off. He is not yet outstanding enough to get rid of the book's defensive players in an instant, and then pass five levels and kill six players, bringing the football out of the encirclement. So when he faces the opponent's close press, he can only focus all his energy on protecting the ball, and he can't organize the offense again.
Paris Saint-Germain coach Fornier nodded off the court - this is the effect he wanted.
After Chu Zhongtian was frozen, Metz's offense was paralyzed. There was no one around Ribery, but he couldn't get the ball. In the end, he had to run to the front of the penalty area to assist in the defense and get the ball. In this way, he was far away from Paris Saint-Germain's goal, and the threat to Paris Saint-Germain goalkeeper Letizi naturally became smaller.
Seeing that his team had gained the upper hand again, the two thousand Paris fans in the stands were excited again, and they shouted: "We are the strong team! And you are nothing, the country bumpkin!"
"We will score sooner or later, let's see!"
"We'll go to the League Cup next season, and you're relegated, haha!"
※※※ Chu Zhongtian was too fierce by Kana, and the boy kept kicking him behind him. In order not to let him hit the football, he had to push him with his hands, but this would not work, so the football could not always stay under his feet.
He passed the football to Proman and then ran his own position.
Promum glanced at Chu Zhongtian and Kana who continued to follow him, he hesitated for a moment and did not pass the ball to Chu Zhongtian. Although the head coach asked everyone to pass more balls to Chu during the break, it depends on the situation. In this situation, even if it passes over, Chu can't get rid of the opponent. What's the use? It's not that I'm passing it back to myself, it's better to launch an offensive directly to get rid of the current situation of being suppressed by the opponent!
Thinking of this, he passed the ball to Ribery in front, but the football was directly killed by the opponent's defender Pierre Fang Fan halfway.
Ribery ran over and found that the ball had not been passed at all. She waved helplessly, and then started to chase and participate in the defense.
After getting used to Chu Zhongtian's pass, Ribery found that he didn't know how to cooperate with Proman.
Fang Fan, who cut the ball down, handed the ball to Rorik Kana.
Since Kana was not polite to Chu Zhongtian, Chu Zhongtian naturally was not polite to Kana. Seeing him get the ball, he rushed up to grab the ball. As a result, Kana did not get entangled with him, but directly assigned the football to the side. Elmander, as a full-back with excellent offense, inserted it. When he received the ball, he used his skills to pass the defense and passed Ribery, who was not very good at defending, and did not go to the bottom, but chose to cut in.
After cutting in, he directly took a long shot, and the football was saved by Winby and gave Paris Saint-Germain a corner kick.
When defending the corner kick, Chu Zhongtian followed Kana in the penalty area. He knew that this kid was also an excellent header.
After Roten's corner kick was taken, he did not fall to Kana, but turned to the back point!
The forward Liu Boya, who was ambushing there, jumped high, and did not shoot directly, but flew the ball to the middle, and the central defender Yepas jumped up in place, and the lion shook his head!
Because Liu Boya's first header attracted the attention of Metz defenders and goalkeepers, when Jepez headed the ball to the top, no Metz player was competing for him!
Such a team is no difficulty for Colombia internationals, and the football flew into the goal from Winby!
The PSG fans in the stands cheered smugly, and they finally got a goal back, and the second half only started six minutes!
With thirty-nine minutes left in the game, Jepez's header rekindled Paris Saint-Germain's hope of entering the European arena!
Chapter completed!