"Hey, Mary, why are you here?" Before Christmas Eve, Wen Jie obviously didn't expect anyone to come looking for him.

After all, it's Christmas Eve, and everyone is busy with their friends and family celebrating Christmas.

Originally, Wen Jie was ready to spend the holiday alone.

Marilyn giggled and said, "I knew you must be practicing again, what a desperate geek!" Unfortunately, my parents are on a business trip abroad, and I am also alone on this holiday, and it just so happens that you are also alone, so let's spend it together tonight. ”

Regarding Marilyn's proposal, Wen Jie said: "Okay, then you wait for me, I'll clean up." ”

For this 16-year-old boy, it is definitely a very happy thing to have someone to accompany him.

Looking at this sunny teenager, although he is still 2 years younger than himself, Marilyn has never regarded him as a younger brother, especially in the past six months, his progress is too great, and his performance on the court is simply a real man.

In her heart, she had already regarded Wen Jie as a real man!

"I really didn't expect him to be able to establish himself in the team at such a young age! All of a sudden, he became the main force of the team! The 3 goals of the team in the last round of the league are all related to him, which is simply amazing! Whether the team can be promoted or not has a lot to do with his performance! Hopefully he can help the team get promoted to the first division. ”

As soon as the idea came out, Marilyn was taken aback by herself.

At the beginning, when she went to pick up Wen Jie at the train station, she was very optimistic about this thin boy, and she would not put the hope of team promotion on this boy, but now, she actually pinned the hope of team promotion on Wen Jie, how could this not make her startled?

After walking out of the training base with Wen Jie, she was still immersed in the team's promotion in the second half of the season.

As a Montpellier native, Marilyn certainly hopes that the team will be in Ligue 1 next season, after all, it will be a matter of glory for the whole of Montpellier.

On Christmas Eve, Marilyn and Wenjie didn't do anything special, they first had a meal and then watched a movie in a private theater.

When they were separated, a sweet feeling began to ferment in the hearts of the two.

On January 2nd, all the players of the Montpellier team ended their short break and began to prepare for the French Cup match against Donkkoy at home.

For the team's first match after Christmas, Montpellier fans filled the Ramonçon Stadium to see first-hand the moment when the team qualified for the last 16 of this season's French Cup.

The last time the team won the French Cup was back in 1990, and it has been 19 years now.

More than 30,000 fans at home were cold when they saw the team's starting list.

"What the hell does the manager want to do?! Why doesn't there be a main player in the starting list? It's all kids from the reserves! Donkkoy is just a team in the third division, as long as we play half of the main level, we will be able to beat them and advance to the round of 16 of the French Cup! ”

Rahm, a die-hard fan, was indignant.

Lahm is right, with the strength of the Montpellier team, as long as they play the whole game, even if the level of performance is a little lower, they can beat the Donkkoy team on their home turf.

Before the game, everyone thought that Montpellier would definitely beat their opponents and advance to the round of 16 of the French Cup!

In fact, the day before the game, when Girard told the players that he planned to send a reserve team to play this cup game, everyone, including Wenjie, was very puzzled.

What is the manager here for? Aren't all honors to be fought for? Why did you have to give up this cup so quickly?

In cup competitions, there are often upsets, and maybe they can make it all the way to the final!

In this game, which is almost guaranteed to reach the round of 16, how can you say give up and give up?

In the eyes of the players, the children of the reserve team have not experienced the baptism of the professional arena at all, although the opponent is a team from the third division, but everyone brings all the main force of the team, and the strength of Dunkkoy is by no means comparable to these children of the reserve team.

Roman Pitawu, captain of the team, said: "Boss, why are we sending young players from the reserve squad on the pitch? We're fit and we're going to win this game! ”

Girard explains:

"Send you on the field, and I'm sure you'll be able to defeat your opponents! But have you ever wondered if we go further in the cup and we're going to have a good momentum in the league, which game are we going to give up? Cup? Or is it a league? For a small team like ours, the goal has to be clear.

This season, we have only one goal – to reach Ligue 1! In order to achieve this, as the head coach of the team, I had to make trade-offs! Last season's Sedan team is a case in point.

They reached the semi-finals of the French Cup, but at the critical moment of competing for the title, due to the clone cup, they lost the competition with their promoted opponents, and finally regretted missing the opportunity to be promoted to the first division.

In order not to repeat their mistakes, we must make trade-offs! ”

Girard's words made everyone ponder.

Yes, their goal this season is to be promoted to Ligue 1, the cup is too fortuitous, maybe they can break into the final, or even win the final French Cup, but if the price is not to be promoted to the first division, they will not do it!

All the players agreed to Girard's trade-off strategy.

As soon as the game began, the players of the Donkkoy team launched a fierce attack on the Montpellier goal.

The young players of the Montpellier reserve team were still too young, and after surviving the 30 minutes of bombardment by the Donkkoy team, they finally conceded the first goal in the 31st minute of the game.

Although the young players played very hard in the later games, their physical strength always seemed so weak in the real game.

In the latter games, they did not concede another goal, but they also did not equalise.

In the end, Montpellier lost the match and unfortunately did not qualify for the round of 16 of the French Cup!

After the game, Girard was questioned by a lot of people, especially the Montpellier fans.

Extreme fans even shouted for Girard to leave class.

A cup defeat has caused Montpellier to be criticized, whether it is in the media newspapers or TV columns, and experts agree that Montpellier will not be promoted to Ligue 1 at the end of the season.

Everyone is looking down on the future of Montpellier!

In your home stadium, even a team in the third division can lose, it's really shameless!

If it goes on like this, how can it be promoted to Ligue 1? It's a fool's dream!

Girard asked the players to ignore everyone's misfortune and just keep training and take care of the consequences alone.

But even so, Wen Jie can see that in the past few days, his teammates have still been disturbed by the outside world, and they always seem so absent-minded when they usually train.

This obviously does not bode well.

In the confrontation, the talent energy absorbed by the Great Sage system from his teammates was obviously much lower than before.

This is also a piece of evidence.

The team will face a league game on the 10th against Tours.

Tours are now sixth in the league, just five points clear of Montpellier, and their strength should not be underestimated.

And the Tours team has a very strong record on the road, which is a very difficult bone to gnaw.

Everyone was unanimous in their opinion that Montpellier would suffer two defeats in a row!