Chapter 064: Challenge the Team at the Top of the Leaderboard!

Wen Jie's bus had already started, and he could only fold his hands through the window to express his gratitude to the fans.

"Jay, the fans really like you." Although the words of the team's captain Roman Pitau were not specified, they contained the high expectation that Wenjie would stay in the team.

"Captain, I understand." Wen Jie nodded.

'All right, lads, let's focus on it, we're going to play Nîmes away and the league is over with eight rounds to go, so I want you to play the last eight games.' Girard said.

Their opponent in the 31st round of the league, Nimes, is now 16th in the league, which is not very strong, and the Nimes team has a poor home record.

Montpellier have just picked up a comeback win and all are fanciing them to get a win on the road.

Even manager Girard was optimistic about the outcome of this game.

The Nîmes team have won Ligue 2 once in their history, dating back 59 years.

However, no one expected that the away Montpellier team would be scored twice in a row by the opponent when they scored one goal first, and unfortunately lost the game with a score of 1:2.

At the post-match press conference, a reporter was scathing at the Montpellier players on the pitch.

As the journalist criticised, it was a Montpellier player who started the pitch and played poorly, including Wenjie, who did not play to the level of their last league game.

"May I ask Coach Girard, did your players underestimate the difficulty of this game, which caused them to be a little overt on the field, and then they lost the game?"

Girard retorted:

'My players played really well and I took the main responsibility for the defeat in this game. It was because I underestimated the difficulty of the game, there were problems with the tactics, and all the losses were borne by the coaching staff, not the players. ”

Girard has taken all the blame on himself, he has to protect his players, and before the next league game is against the league leaders, Lens, he has to adjust his players' form.

Don't put too much pressure on the players! This will greatly affect their performance!

In the other matches of this round, the leader Lens defeated the fourth place Strass in the league with a score of 4:1;

Bolegni, who are ranked second in the league, won a hard-fought 3-2 away win over Claremont.

As a result, since Lens, who are ranked 1st in the league, and Bolegni, who are ranked 2nd in the league, both won this round of the league, while Montpellier, who are 3rd in the league, lost this game, the points gap between Montpellier and Bolegni has reached 4 points, and the points gap between Lens at the top of the table has reached 5 points.

If Montpellier can win against Lens, they will close the gap on the top team, the gap between the two sides will be two points, and the league is not over yet, Montpellier have a good chance of winning the Ligue 2 title this season.

Although Montpellier lost, Strass team, who are ranked 4th in the league, also lost, so the gap between the two teams is still 5 points, and Montpellier is still in 3rd place in the league and is still in the promotion zone.

In the 32nd round of the league, the home game against the top team - Lens, you can't lose again, and if you lose again, you will be thrown away by the opponent, and it is very difficult to recover 8 points in the next 6 rounds.

For Montpellier, they are undoubtedly the one to challenge!

Although they lost to a relegation team, Montpellier did not receive much criticism from the fans, especially Wenjie, whose play in this game was almost invisible, but the fans still supported him and hoped that he would stay in this team.

The city of Lens has a permanent population of only 70,000 people, and the club was founded by a group of secondary school students, although the year of formation was 1906, it was not until 1907 that they were registered with the French Football Federation, and they became a professional team in 1934.

The club's first Ligue 1 title came in 1998, when the team beat Metz by 68 points to win the 1997/98 Ligue 1 title, and Leclerc was undoubtedly the most successful coach in the history of Lens.

In 1998, the team beat Metz 1-0 in the French League Cup final.

Compared to Montpellier, Lens is undoubtedly a team with a championship pedigree.

Moreover, last season, Lens also played in Ligue 1, and they only lost to their opponents in the last round of the league, only to be relegated to Ligue 2 by 2 points.

However, they have been very good in Ligue 2 this season, especially under their manager Jean-Guy Warrimi, who have dominated the top spot from the 5th round of the league and are still top of the Ligue 2 until the 31st round of the league!

Everyone is looking for them to be back in Ligue 1 at the end of the season.

In the 32nd round of the league, Montpellier's home match against the top team Lens was also rated as the most noteworthy game in this round of Ligue 2.

At the end of the 31st round of the league, a reporter asked Lens coach Jean-Guy Varimi:

"Mr. Manager, what do you think of Montpellier, the opponent in the next round of the league?"

Jean-Guy Warrimi said domineeringly:

"I already know the result of their match against Nimes, I didn't expect them to lose 1-2 away to a relegation team, if they play against us in such a competitive form, then I can only say sorry to their players and coaches, they are not our opponents at all!"

Lens had just won a big win on their home turf against fourth-placed Strass in the league, which is why Jean-Guy Varimi would be so confident.

"Mr. Manager, what do you think of the 17-year-olds in the opposing team? There are rumors that a team in the Bundesliga has offered a transfer fee of up to 1.5 million euros, which is definitely a high price for a 17-year-old player. ”

"It's true that in Ligue 2 there has never been a young player who has been valued at 1.5 million euros, but Mr. Journalist, as you said, this is just a rumor, as for what the truth is, I think only the person concerned knows.

I haven't seen the youngster play live, but I would say that I always think that our team's back line can withstand the test of any team in Ligue 2, especially our number 3 defender Anlil, who is only 17 years old this year! But he's already a regular in our team!

Our young players are no worse than each other! To tell you the truth, there are also teams that have offered a transfer fee of up to 2 million euros for Anlil, and I would love to see if their No. 29 attack is strong, or our Anlil defense is strong! ”