"I tied 2:2 away and scored two away goals. Tottenham Hotspurs has a great chance of advancing to the semi-finals!" The highlights of the League Cup that just ended yesterday were being played on the TV. It was said to be "highlights", but in fact, most of the time I spent talking about Tottenham. The English media will not be interested in non-national teams, and the same is true for England fans.

So thanks to Tottenham's blessing, everyone in the Wimbledon bar, was able to learn about Chu Zhongtian's latest situation.

"Fortunately I'm not a Tottenham fan." Someone in the bar pointed to the TV and said, "I hope Mess advances!"

"But this seems quite difficult... Tottenham has two away goals. If Mess wants to advance, he must first ensure that Spurs will not score at the White Hart Lane Stadium, and then score another goal..."

"Fortunately, the result of their fight in the first round was not 0:2, otherwise Mes would really have no hope..."

"Why must Mess advance? We are not Mess fans. I think as long as Chu performs well, it's enough."

"You idiot! If Mes is eliminated, we will not be able to see Chu's game!"

Someone taught the person who said this.

The League Cup is broadcast live in England, but not in the Ligue 1. Because of the League Cup, the people in the Wimbledon Bar watched several games of Chu Zhongtian, but if Metz was eliminated in the League Cup, it would be impossible for them to watch Chu's game.

Now, because Messe is not playing well at home, Tottenham has taken the lead. After the game against Messe, the English media are optimistic about Tottenham's path to advance.

In the reports on the League Cup in England, they are unanimously optimistic about Tottenham. The top and bottom of the Tottenham team themselves are full of confidence and hope for advancing to the semi-finals.

Now, the TV show immediately cut into the footage of reporters interviewing Tottenham players after the game.

"Hey, Robbie, stop and answer a question!" The TV reporter warmly greeted Robbie Keane who walked down the court in the mixed area.

Keane obediently stopped and stood in front of the reporter's camera.

"You scored two goals away in this game. Will this help you advance to the semifinals?"

Keane nodded: "It's a lot of help. I was able to score two away goals so smoothly in the away game. To be honest, I didn't expect it..."

"So now do you have the confidence to get the team to the semifinals?"

Robbie Keane laughed: "Of course!"

The people in the Wimbledon bar started yelling again: "Mes is so inauspicious this time!"

"Will this be the last time we've seen Chu's game this season?"

Boss John knocked on the table hard, and the bar gradually became quiet. Everyone turned their heads and looked at the owner of the bar.

"I said guys, please calm me down! The game hasn't started yet. It's too early to say who wins and who loses? I think this is our opportunity. In such a difficult time, Chu needs to cheer from us! So in the stands of the White Hart Lane Stadium, everyone will give me all the energy to cheer for Chu!" Boss John said, waving his fists, "Did anyone forget the song we wrote for Chu? Sing it to him then!"

The people in the bar laughed. It was such a good idea!

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"From today, until the day before the second leg of the League Cup, it was practiced twice a day." On the first day after the game, Fernandez announced his decision. "This is a punishment. A punishment for you that bad forty-five minutes last night."

Then, before the training began, he said: "Don't warm up first, let's watch the game video. I'll analyze for you what you did not do properly in the game with Tottenham."

He did not mention the weekend match with Monaco at all. It was a strong enemy. Now he was ignored by Fernandez. He was not proud of underestimating the opponent, but he did not prepare for the weekend league at all.

Now the team's League Cup journey has reached a very critical moment. If you are negligent, you may bid farewell to the League Cup. Since you have made the decision to specialize in the League Cup and give up the league, you will naturally ignore the league with Monaco.

Fernandez wants everyone to know how difficult the team is now.

In the weekend's match against Monaco, he let all the main players rest and sent them to the second team. As a result, the team lost to their opponents with a score of 1:2 away. Fortunately, Metz's other competitors in the league either lost or tied in this round of the league, so Metz's ranking has not changed, and he is still fifth.

After playing against Monaco, Metz returned to home training for two days, then set off to fly to London, preparing to challenge Tottenham Hotspur on the away game and also challenge fate.

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When the plane landed at London Heathrow Airport, Chu Zhongtian let go of his seat belt and stretched. He was back, and he had never been here since he returned to London during the first Christmas holiday in Mays. After all, it has been almost two and a half years.

I don't know how the old friends in the Wimbledon bar are doing. He is still concerned about Wimbledon Athletics because this team has an official website. Although the team is amateur, the website is managed very hard. Every game will have on-site reports of text and pictures, including players from both sides, goal time, substitution time, which player received a yellow card, which player was sent off... All of these are much more professional than Mets' official website... The part of Mets' official website about the game, except for writing about the game and the lineup of both sides.

With the blessing of the website, Chu Zhongtian can still understand the situation of Wimbledon Athletics at any time. He knew that in the season he left, that is, in the 2004-05 season, Wimbledon Athletics participated in the Ismian League One and finally advanced to the Ismian Super League as a champion. This is the seventh league, which is only two levels away from the professional league.

But in the 2005-06 season, the team suffered a Waterloo, ranked fourth in the Ismian Premier League, and eventually lost in the upgrade play-offs.

The season is almost over, and the team is currently ranked fifth. If nothing unexpected happens, they will also participate in this season's upgraded playoffs. I just don't know if the team can eventually overcome the playoffs.

Although Chu Zhongtian has left the team, Wimbledon Athletics is the place where his football career started. His two seasons here have allowed him to know many people, opening a door to another wider and more exciting world in front of him. So he has a deep affection for this team. Even if he leaves the team, he is no longer a Wimbledon Athletics player, and he still keeps attention to this team because he is now a Wimbledon Athletics fan.

Every year he uses his name to donate to the club's fan foundation. Now he goes to the Wimbledon Fan Foundation to miss the list of donors and his name. At the same time, as a donor member of the foundation, he also has a voting right, but he has never used it before...

Like him, Emily Emily, who is currently busy filming in the United States. She is a veteran of the Fan Foundation. She has donated money to the foundation every year since the team was established. When she became famous, the amount of donations she donated became more and more.

Unfortunately, Chu Zhongtian came to London to compete, not to travel, otherwise he could go back to Wimbledon to see his old friends in Wimbledon bar and watch another Wimbledon competitive game.

As the team walked out along the exit passage, light boxes of famous London attractions were hung on the walls on both sides of the passage.

Ribery glanced at it: "London, ha! Chu, you're back to home!"

"My home court is in Wimbledon, not in North London." Chu Zhongtian shrugged. London is huge. Even if Mays' teammates want him to be a tour guide in London, he can only refuse because he is only familiar with Wimbledon. He has been in London for several years, and he has never even set foot in most other places except Wimbledon.

"What a pity." Ribery muttered when he said this, "I thought there would be some British people cheering us up at that time..."

"Don't be foolish, Frank." The person who followed the conversation was captain Bobby Coney. "You have to know that the British hate the most is our Frenchman. This is the real away game. Our fans are only two thousand. If you want to cheer us up, their voices are not enough..."

The White Hart Lane Stadium can accommodate 36,200 people. Compared with 34,200 people, it is not enough to be stuck between the teeth.

England fans are known for their fanaticism, and this game is indeed difficult to play.

After leaving the airport, the team took a bus to the hotel, had a short rest, and after dinner, the team went to the White Hart Lane Stadium for training to adapt to the venue.

Why choose the evening time to train? Because tomorrow's game time is at night. In order for the players to feel the game, warm-up training is also arranged at about the same time. This helps to adjust the player's physical function to burst out during the game. This is also a simple way to scientifically train the player's condition - if the physical condition is not good, the game condition is naturally not good.

Just like when Chu Zhongtian just went to Metz to play in the reserve team, he seemed very tired because his physical function did not adapt to the schedule of the weekend game. Later, after several months of adjustment and training, he slowly adapted to this rhythm. On the weekend, his physical condition was the worst after the game ended on Monday. When they entered the rest period, they would use a confrontation game to adjust their physical condition, adapt to the rhythm of the game, and let their body reach a small peak. Then they would recover and have a big explosion on the weekend. This is why frequent weekly double games affect the physical condition of players, so it is very appropriate for the team to say that the players are in poor condition when facing intensive schedules, because their body automatic adjustment system is in disorder and they cannot explode when needed.

The players of the Metz team met a lot of media when they turned on the White Hart Lane Stadium where the flood lights were turned on.

What surprised Metz players was that on the away game, they found that the number of French media was no less than that of the English media playing at home.

French reporters with big noses rushed up and asked Metz's players in French with local accents: "I lost two goals at home and it's hard to play away. What are your countermeasures?"

“Are you confident to advance?”

"What are the team's plans for the moment?"

...

In addition to French and British journalists, there are several Asian-faced journalists. At first, Chu Zhongtian thought they were all here to interview him, but he found that some of them were not exactly the same as the Chinese. Although the differences were not different from those in the eyes of Westerners, East Asians themselves could distinguish them. The eyes of those raw faces were smaller than those of the Chinese, the bridge of the nose was closer, and the mouth was smaller.

Chu Zhongtian recalled it in his mind, and then found a suitable template specimen from the memory bank and met the people in front of him - Koreans.

He once had a Korean teammate. Although Ahn Jung-hwan didn't look like that, it was not ugly from the aesthetics of the Chinese. However, most of the Korean journalists who went to the Furyan Stadium and training base to interview Ahn Jung-hwan outside the Holy Mountain Furyan Stadium and training base look like this.

So these people are Korean journalists, and they should be interviewing Tottenham's Korean player Lee Yongpyo here.

But it was strange. Mess was adapting to the venue now, not Tottenham. Li Rongpyo was probably still in the hotel room at this time. Why are these Korean reporters coming to Bailu Lane Stadium?

He quickly understood why.

In a free interview with the players after training, Chu Zhongtian just answered the question from a Chinese reporter, and then came up with a Korean reporter and asked Chu Zhongtian in a less refined French: "About this 'Asian Derby'..."

Chu Zhongtian was stunned by the other party's first words - "Asian Derby"? What a great courage... But why is this an Asian Derby?

The reporter continued: "...the first time I played against Tottenham, what do you think of Korean player Lee Rongpyo?"

It turns out that it is because of this... Chu Zhongtian figured it out. It turns out that because Metz has an Asian player like him, and Tottenham also has an Asian player Li Rongpyo, so this game became an "Asian derby". It seems that the random use of "derby" is not only in Chinese media, but also in Korean media are not willing to fall behind...

Chu Zhongtian thought about Li Rongpyo's performance in the first round of both sides, and what kept flashing back in his mind was "Li Rongpyo was passed by Ribery!" "Li Rongpyo was passed by Ribery again!" "Li Rongpyo was broken by Ribery again!" "Li Rongpyo has found the weakest point in Tottenham's defense, and he kept rushing to the sidewalk guarded by Li Rongpyo!"...

He actually wanted to say something that would help Asian unity, but his mind was empty and he couldn't make it up no matter how he made it up. His mind kept echoing what head coach Fernandez said to them during training just now: "Lee is a weakness in Tottenham's defense line, and we can make full use of it..."

So he uh, and said, "He works hard and has good physical fitness... Well... You know, physical fitness is very important in modern football... My friend Ribery likes him very much."

Korean reporters heard that the French internationals like Lee Rong-pyo very much, their eyes shining and their cheeks flushed. Obviously, they think that being liked by such awesome person definitely means Lee Rong-pyo is very capable. They are very happy because Korean football has ushered in a new glorious period in the past two years - their two internationals Park Ji-sung and Lee Rong-pyo have joined the Premier League teams, among which Park Ji-sung joined Manchester United, which is well-known all over the world. This makes the Koreans very proud. If Chu Zhongtian was not the core player of Metz, they would probably be very arrogant when facing Chu Zhongtian. Even now, they have some psychological advantages - Tottenham where Lee Rong-pyo is in the form of promotion is ahead of Chu Zhongtian, and Chinese players will soon bid farewell to the European arena, while Lee Rong-pyo and Park Ji-sung will shine in Europe!

Seeing them like this, Chu Zhongtian quickly turned around and walked away. He didn't dare to face the question from the Korean media: "Can you talk specifically about how Ribery likes Li Rongpyo?"

Tell them that Ribery likes Lee Rongpyo because he can always easily break through this Korean international in the game?

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After the players received interviews, Fernandez also accepted a collective interview with reporters.

What the media cares most about is how Metz should deal with such an unfavorable situation, whether to give up or fight to the last moment?

"We have no choice but to strive to make a difference in this game. My team will not give up so easily." Fernandez answered reporters.

"So you plan to insist on offensive football on the away game?" asked a reporter.

In response, Fernandez nodded and admitted: "Yes."

There is nothing to hide, because this problem itself is nonsense. After conceding two goals at home and the opponent scored two away goals, they hope that Metz will not suppress the attack, because even if they draw 0:0 at home, Tottenham will advance. So when conceding two away goals, attack is the only way.

Perhaps the offense will cause problems in the defense line and will eventually be captured by the opponent. But at least there is still hope of winning. If you don’t attack because of worrying about conceding a goal, you will not even have a one-percent chance of advancing.

Just like when Leverkusen challenged Mess away, because they conceded two goals at home in the first leg, they knew that pressing on the offense would cause problems in their defense line and might continue to concede the ball, but they still chose to attack Mess away.

As a result, Metz, who likes offensive football, finally lost 1:3 tragically on the away game. Although the German bravely scored one goal, Metz hit back three of them.

In terms of insisting on offensive tactics, Metz may repeat Leverkusen's mistakes, but they have no other way than to do so.

No wonder the English media are optimistic about this game. Tottenham players also expressed their relaxed mentality during an interview.

Metz finally tasted the feelings of the Leverkusen players.

This is really a football version of "I'll pay it back sooner or later"...

After the interview, Metz's team took a bus to return to the hotel where they stayed. There was no nightlife. All the players were urging by the coach to get off the bed and prepare for the next night's game.

"Good night, Chu." Before going to bed, Ribery said good night to Chu Zhongtian, who was living in the room opposite them at the door. "At this time tomorrow, I hope we will say good night with a smile, or we don't need to say good night at all, ha!"

"Good night, Frank. I hope so too." Chu Zhongtian waved his hand and closed the door.

If you win, you really don’t need to say good night, because they must have not been asleep at this time, and they may be celebrating the promotion at some point...
Chapter completed!