Chapter 90: Crisis of Situation
Ling Feng couldn't help but spit as he watched Ikpeba unscrupulously dance on the edge of the forbidden area and didn't know the indigenous dance of Africa to celebrate.
He was really powerless about the ball just now, Saint-Germain's backline was a little worse, even Henry, who had not grown up, was enough to give his own backline a headache.
But the main thing is that after the two-goal lead, the vigilance of all the players drops, so as to give the opponent a chance.
Shortly after Saint-Germain kicked off again, the referee blew the whistle for the end of the first half, and at 2:1, Saint-Germain led by one goal.
Contrary to the result, however, the Monaco players were all excited, while many of the Saint-Germain players had frustration on their faces.
"We have to find a way to boost their morale." Ling Feng muttered.
'We did a good job in the first half,' Fernandes cheered up in the lounge: "You can't blame you for conceding a goal, but I don't want it to happen again in the second half. ”
"I have something to say." Ling Feng stood up, after wearing the captain's armband, Ling Feng looked like him, and his prestige was enough, as soon as he spoke, everyone's eyes were focused on him.
"In the second half, they will definitely attack," Ling Feng seemed to be recounting something that had nothing to do with him: "Monaco's strength is very strong, in Ligue 1, their overall strength can be compared with us, so in the second half, all the defenders must resolutely kick the ball, and there can be too many sticky ball movements, otherwise once they seize the opportunity, it will be difficult to get rid of it." ”
Everyone nodded, now only one goal ahead, anything can happen, not to mention, in the first half, the Trezeguet, who has been playing well recently, has not played, and his height in the second half is also a problem.
Meanwhile, in the next lounge, Lille was also encouraging the morale of the Monaco players, bringing on Trezeguet in the second half, replacing a midfielder with Legwinski and switching to a front three, albeit with Anderson slightly back and teaming up with Thierry Henry as wingers on both wings, while also being involved in defence.
Lille also knew in his heart that only a desperate gamble could win the game, and the main arrangement in the second half was to go on the side, using the height of Trezeguet in the middle to strike Saint-Germain in the air.
Lille's arrangement is no longer in line with the technical tenets of the French team, but is closer to the bottom cross style of the Premier League team.
When the players of both teams came back to play, Fernandes looked at Monaco's new line-up and frowned a little, the opponent was about to give it a go, and he must not back down at this time.
Ling Feng also saw Monaco's intentions, it seems that the second half of the game is not something that can be solved by defense, the side is originally a difficult area to defend, it is impossible to completely limit the opponent's attack, the only way is to fight against them to see whose attack is more fierce.
Saint-Germain drove the ball out, and Djokaeff and others immediately began to dazzle in midfield.
Several of them were technical players, so the ball was basically in place, and the Monaco players were not close to each other, and the ball was immediately handed to the feet of another person.
Under the command of Ling Feng, the two fullbacks also pressed up, which immediately expanded the attacking surface of Saint-Germain, and also made the Monaco players even more exhausted.
Ling Feng and Djokaeff's cooperation in the middle was unstoppable, seeing the opportunity, Ling Feng stuffed the ball to the side, Domi quickly followed, and in a blink of an eye, he brought the ball to the left side of the opponent's penalty area.
However, Domi didn't cross and instead passed the ball back to Djokaeau, who flicked the ball over the head of the opposition defender and into the box, but Loko followed up with a shot that Barthez saved and Monaco escaped.
Henry received Dumas's clearance and was ready to break through from the side quickly, and now that Ling Feng is not there, he can play freely.
However, Henry's wishful thinking seems to have been wrong, although Ling Feng went up, but the midfield of Saint-Germain has long regarded him as a dangerous person, Le Guin has been staring at him heavily, and when Henry has not stopped the ball, he broke the ball off the sideline with one kick, destroying this excellent counterattack opportunity for Monaco.
Ling Feng gave Le Guin a thumbs up, and the thirty-year-old French veteran made a gesture that reassured Ling Feng and forced Henry again.
Under Le Guin's rich experience, Henry was basically cut off without holding the ball steady, which made Henry very depressed, if he held the ball steady and started to start, this old guy would definitely not be able to catch up with him.
At the same time, Fornier is also guarding Anderson on the other side, preferring to break the ball off the line rather than give him a chance to counterattack quickly.
However, such one-on-one defense did not last long, and after Saint-Germain's attack was once again cleared by Monaco's defenders, Anderson thought of a way to get rid of it.
He didn't stop the ball and pushed it back to Collins who was inserted in the back, and Collins didn't stop the ball and stuffed the ball directly behind Vernier, so that after a two-one-one, Fornier had lost Anderson's position.
Anderson quickly broke through to the side, because the fullback Cobbs stepped forward to attack, the defense on the right side was empty, and Argreno, who was making up the defense, did not dare to kick, so he could only block Anderson's position with his body and prevent him from entering the penalty area.
However, Monaco's tactic is to cross from the side, Anderson accelerated through Argreno's defense and passed the ball into the penalty area, Trezeguet in the middle jumped high and shook his head to attack the goal, but because Anderson's ball was a little strong, Trezeguet's top position was not very good, and the ball deviated slightly from the goal.
But even this scared Fernandez into a cold sweat.
Saint-Germain continued to attack, and Saint-Germain, who had failed in the first few shots, slowed down his speed again, in Ling Feng's words, even if he flew away, he couldn't give Monaco a chance to attack quickly.
But Monaco's defenders seemed to have been stimulated, and they were already out of breath in the first half, but now they are more vigorous, and one by one they are not afraid to die to block Saint-Germain's long-range shots.
After Ling Feng shook off a defender, another player immediately followed, and after passing him, the first defender got up and followed, in the small area in front of the penalty area, Saint-Germain was stunned from the middle, but the Monaco defenders often turned the mistakes of Saint-Germain's attacking players into their counter-attacks.
If it weren't for the good performance of Saint-Germain's backline and some luck problems, Monaco would have knocked on the door of Saint-Germain.
Ling Feng tried his best to pull the offensive range apart, attracting the opposing player to step forward, he handed the ball to Collins who assisted on the wing, Collins generally glanced at the position of the frontcourt player and stuffed the ball straight to Rai in front of him.
The Brazilian leaned on the opponent's defender Bronteo, and suddenly turned his body at the moment when the ball reached his feet, and Bronteo was flashed by Rai and immediately lost his position, Rai took the opportunity to break through to the bottom line and hoisted the ball, Loko in the middle did not compete for the Monaco defender, and the ball was cleared again.
Ling Feng hurriedly grabbed the first landing point, and couldn't help but shake his head, the opponent's defense was too strong, the middle lane couldn't be hit, and the side couldn't pose a threat, so it wasn't a way to go on like this.
Thinking about it, Ling Feng's movements at his feet were not ambiguous at all, he exchanged the ball with his two feet and passed Collins who came up to rush, and then Ling Feng took the ball forward, and then followed up with a powerful long-range shot.
The ball flew straight towards goal, but De Yeto bravely headed it over the touchline in the middle and Saint-Germain had the chance to take a throw-in.
However, Deyeto was not comfortable with a beating, the strength of this shot was too great, and his head was "buzzing", but he couldn't rest at this time, Deyeto immediately got up and stood up in his position.
"You can't even shoot from a distance, there are too few chances." Ling Feng sighed secretly and ran up to catch the ball, now there is no good way, he can only take one step at a time, continue this cooperation to see if he can open the opponent's defense.
Fornier threw a throw-in and Djokaeff passed the ball back, and he also knew that he couldn't rush at this time, anyway, he had to take a one-goal lead, and if he couldn't extend the score, he had to keep the win, so it's always good to control the pace of the game.
Fernandes frowned, the second half had been fighting for twenty-five minutes, and although Saint-Germain had always dominated the attack, they were unable to break through the opponent's goal.
Although the score was ahead, it was as if the mountain of desire in his heart had fallen, but there was still something delicate to hold on, so that it could not fully reach the earth, and Fernandez felt very uncomfortable.
Fernandes looked at Mboma on the bench next to him, should he be replaced for a final victory? But now the score is ahead, as long as the score is kept until the end of the game, it is a victory, there is no need to weaken the back line in order to score an extra goal.
People are like this, when they are about to win, they lose their adventurous spirit, but there is nothing wrong with it, because many things in the world are unpredictable, even the reborn Ling Feng is the same.
Saint-Germain is still in possession of the ball, but Rai is already a little tired, Djokaeff and others are not much better, Fernandez frowned, since he doesn't plan to fight, replace Rai with a defender, there are less than twenty minutes before the end of the game, and it is good to stabilize the defense.
But at this time, the mutation happened, Rai withdrew to the midfield to get the ball, but was squeezed by the same withdrawn Ikpeba with his body, the tired body of the Brazilian veteran is naturally not as good as the African macho, Rai was immediately squeezed away, but the referee signaled that it was a reasonable collision and there was no foul.
Ikpeba didn't even look at the referee, he quickly broke through with the ball in front, Ling Feng immediately came up to block, but the Nigerian seemed to have suddenly been called by the Lord, and he stumbled the ball when Ling Feng touched the ball, and went straight to the penalty area of Saint-Germain.
It's dangerous!
Thierry Henry and Trezeguet quickly stepped in, and Anderson was not far in front of Ikpeba to involve the Kobbs defence, and the rest was a three-on-three situation.
Ling Feng immediately started chasing back after not cutting off the ball, but Ikepeiba also knew that it was impossible for Thunderbolt to hit people twice in a row, so he hurriedly gave the ball to Trezeguet in front of the penalty area.
The tall French center forward was equally delicate at his feet, gently pulling the ball, dodging Argrino's pressing, and then swaying the ball sideways, successfully attracting the attention of the Saint-Germain defenders, and then knocking the ball lightly with his heel, the right side of the penalty area behind him was just a gap!
At this time, a white figure rushed out, it was Henry!
Henry's speed was extremely fast, Domi didn't have time to react at all, Henry squeezed past him, Henry, who met the ball, raised his foot to shoot, at this time Domi also quickly followed, and shoveled it at the moment when Henry raised his foot......
The referee blew the whistle and did not hesitate to give Domi a red card and awarded Monaco a penalty.
Fernandes hugged his head depressedly, and the situation on the field was reversed at once, the penalty kick was a must-score for Monaco, and he was sent off by a player, and the next game was not good!
Belgian Sheifo made it to a 2-2 draw.
With less than 20 minutes remaining, the two sides were back on the same page in terms of scores, and in terms of numbers, Saint-Germain had one less than their opponents.