Chapter Eighty-Nine: Three Encounters with Monaco
After Xifu got the ball, he was about to transfer to Ikpeba on the wing, when suddenly his feet were empty and his body flew out.
Xifu fell to the ground, looking in amazement at the white-haired No. 46 running forward at a rapid pace, and there was only one question in his mind: "When did he come here?" ”
Henry also looked at Xifu depressedly, just now Ling Feng decisively gave up on him, a beautiful flying shovel cut off Xifu's ball, the whole process did not hesitate at all, the last tackle was even more beautiful, and it was easily broken when Xifu was defenseless.
Ling Feng handed the ball to Rai on the side, the Brazilian knocked directly to the front with his heel, Djokaeff quickly inserted it, and gently picked the ball into the penalty area, and Loko in the middle followed up with a header, but when the ball was topped, Loko was interfered with by the Monaco defenders, and there was no top position, and the ball was easily obtained by Barthez.
Loko made an apologetic gesture to Djokaeff, Djokaeff smiled and didn't speak, anyway, the game had just begun, and this opportunity was originally chosen.
Ling Feng didn't speak, turned around and ran back, Luo Ke and the others glanced at each other, Ling Feng's state today was a little abnormal, but it didn't look like a bad thing.
Barthez kicked the ball out, Ling Feng violently pressed Collins next to him with his body, jumped high to grab the first landing point, Djokaeff quickly retreated, and padd the ball forward with his heel when the ball did not land, Ling Feng followed again, completing this two-on-one cooperation.
Ling Feng gently tossed the ball with his thigh, to make a right knock action, Dumas was really fooled, his body moved to the left, Ling Feng slammed to the right at this time, the foot just unloaded the ball, a series of actions like a cloud, and by the time the Monaco defenders reacted, Ling Feng had already quickly killed to the edge of the penalty area.
Leonard immediately filled in the position, he believed that with himself in front and Deyeto behind him, even Ling Feng could not break through the defense of two people at the same time.
His conjecture was not wrong, but one thing to note was that Ling Feng had to break through before he could shoot?
Ling Feng leaned on Leonard with half of his body, and knocked the ball inward with his right foot, but the opponent had already taken precautions and stretched out his foot in advance to block Ling Feng's path of knocking the ball.
The moment he touched the ball, Leonard was overjoyed in his heart, he could break this ball nine times out of ten, in a one-on-one battle with Ling Feng, it was indeed a great thing to be able to break Ling Feng's ball.
But to his surprise, the ball did not pop up, but jumped on the spot, Leonard wanted to stretch out his foot to poke the ball out, but the white-haired man next to him was amazingly powerful, he couldn't move half a point at all, and his outstretched foot almost touched the ball, but it was that little difference, Leonard just couldn't remove the danger.
At this time, Ling Feng moved, and he didn't see him make any moves, he just raised his left foot and fired a powerful volley at the ball that was bouncing in mid-air.
"Can he fight with strength?" This was a question that flashed through Leonard's mind, but this question was quickly answered by Ling Feng with practical actions.
Just the second after Ling Feng shot the ball, Leonard heard an elongated "GOOOOOOOOOOOOOOAL" and the cheers of the fans in the stands.
Could it be that this goal was scored?
Leonard slowly looked back and saw Barthez clutching the turf on the ground in frustration, while the ball was still bouncing on the ground.
In the eighth minute of the opening game, Ling Feng knocked on the door guarded by Barthez with a volley from outside the penalty area.
Judging from the slow motion, this ball was hit at the right time, Barthez's vision was blocked by Leonard, and Deyeto was on the other side, Ling Feng's half-turned volley he had no ability to block at all, and could only watch the ball fly into the door.
Ling Feng excitedly kissed No. 46 on his chest, while the fans in the stands chanted together: "LING, CHINE!" LING,CHINE! ”
Ling Feng was very moved, the fans in Paris were so good to him, even if he was about to leave, they were still encouraging themselves, and they didn't blame themselves.
Ling Feng stopped his celebratory movements and bowed towards the purple sea in the stands, a huge No. 46 jersey showing a sea-like spray under the dance of thousands of fans.
1:0, Saint-Germain temporarily leads.
After conceding the goal, the Monaco team did not panic, they still played unhurriedly in the front court, or rather, they had expected this to happen before the game, and it was acceptable to fall behind. But the game has just begun, and no one can say what will happen next.
Monaco's midfield strength is no worse than that of Saint-Germain, of course, provided that in the absence of Ling Feng, the coordination organized by Henry, Anderson and Ikpeba and others seems to be smooth, and they can basically tie with Saint-Germain on the field.
What they lack, though, is a player who can change the situation on the pitch in an instant, and Thierry Henry can't do that at the moment.
Ling Feng seemed very active, doing area defense around the arc of the midfield, Henry wanted to attract him to the side, but he took the ball three times in a row and was broken by Ling Feng, and had to give up this idea, he was not qualified to attract Ling Feng alone at present.
The two sides started a tug-of-war in the midfield, often seizing a gap in the opponent's back line to stuff the ball over, but it was quickly destroyed by the opponent to follow, basically from the middle can not be played, but if you go to the side, the headers of both sides do not have any advantage, and the side ball is often wasted.
Both sides relied on their possession to disrupt each other's rhythm, hoping to create a killing chance when the opponent pounced on the ball.
That's the benefit of a technical team, no matter what kind of team they come across, they can control the tempo of the game and pull the opposing defenders out of the way as long as the ball passes through the opposition half.
However, the premise of this style of play is that it must bypass the last barrier in front of the opposing central defenders - the midfield.
Ling Feng's current position is basically a back midfielder, under his tight defense, the individual one-on-one pass is basically unable to get rid of him, if the ball is passed to the side, then it is difficult to form a threatening attack in the middle, can only cross the bottom, but such a cross can not bring any threat to the backlines of both sides.
Opportunities are created by people, and gaps and other things must also be pulled out by cooperation.
Ling Feng is a demon in the eyes of the Monaco players, no matter what kind of ball it is, he can easily deal with it, and what is even more terrifying is that once the ball is cut off by Ling Feng, then it will be followed by Saint-Germain's counterattack - Ling Feng's vision is too wide.
Half an hour into the game, several of Monaco's defenders were already gasping for breath, and under the wide range of shifts and fast breakthroughs of the opponents, their physical exertion was really high, and more importantly, their psychological pressure was too great, because every now and then the opponent would intervene through a gap.
In contrast, Saint-Germain's players are much better, after all, when attacking, they mainly follow their rhythm, and the attacking players do not waste much energy, just poor opponents' defenders.
Djokaef saw his chance for another beautiful through ball that passed between the two Monaco defenders and rolled straight into the box.
Loko stepped forward again, but De Yeto and Leonard followed up with a close defence, not blocking the ball but keeping Loko out.
The referee blew the whistle and awarded Saint-Germain a free-kick in the arc in front of the penalty area.
The fans of Monaco suddenly hugged their heads and cried, which was unreasonable! A free kick in this position was no different from a penalty kick for Ling Feng.
This scene made the commentator very depressed, and couldn't help but smile bitterly: "We can often only see such a scene when the referee awards a penalty, it seems that Ling's free kick threat has been equated with a penalty, but when the penalty is not scored, Monaco still has a chance." ”
Barthez shouted and commanded his teammates to expel a wall of six people, he couldn't be hit again, he was the one who was hit the hardest in the previous two games, Ling Feng's "S" arc and a corner kick had already hit him hard, Ling Feng scored at this time, but to score another classic free kick Barthez had to hit his head on the post.
Ling Feng looked coldly at the Monaco players hurriedly standing according to Barthez's instructions, and a sneer appeared on the corner of his mouth, unless you can call five people like Yao Ming and O'Neal from the NBA to be the human wall, otherwise......
The referee blew the whistle for the free throw, and Ling Feng slowly started to start, and the meat shields and Barthez only felt the pressure explode, just waiting for Ling Feng to shoot this shocking kick.
Ling Feng's foot touched the ball, but it didn't draw the arc as he imagined, and even the direction in which the ball rolled was not the goal, but the outside of the penalty area.
Djokaev received Ling Feng's pass and gently cushioned the ball with his thigh, the ball went around the defender's head and landed on the right side of the goal, and before the Monaco defenders could react, Rai quickly flashed out and hooked the ball into the gate with a beautiful flying volley.
1:0! In the thirtieth minute, Saint-Germain doubled the lead with a beautiful free-kick.
"This goal reminds us of Sweden's free-kick match against Romania at the World Cup in the United States," the commentator exclaimed excitedly: "But this goal is more difficult than that goal, Raj's volley is much more beautiful than Brolin's, this goal is enough to go down in history!" ”
This free-kick tactic was arranged by Ling Feng before the game, and it was originally used as a trick after he and Djokaew left, when Saint-Germain did not have a penalty taker, but it was used in advance at this time.
In other words, if it weren't for Ling Feng's penalty, Monaco's defenders wouldn't necessarily have relaxed their guards on others.
The fans in Monaco felt hurt, this, what did they do, they all thought that Ling Feng was going to hit the goal directly, but he made a free kick cooperation, isn't this obviously deceiving the fans' feelings?
The most frustrating of all was Barthez, not to mention that Rai's volley alone would have ranked this goal among the best goals of the year, not to mention a classic free-kick combination.
Barthez has already begun to imagine that the free-kick being replayed after the game was the same as the two brilliant goals in two games, but why is he always the victim?
Monaco coach Lille smiled bitterly on the sidelines, Ling Feng brought too much pressure to the backline, especially such a free kick, everyone thought that Ling Feng would choose to shoot directly, even he was no exception, but this guy always does something unexpected.
Fernandez nodded slightly, Ling Feng seemed to be much more mature now, no longer piling all the responsibilities on himself, and trying his best to create opportunities for his teammates. If this situation continued, Ling Feng's threat would be greatly enhanced, and no one could predict what he was going to do next, or what kind of way he would do it.
Fernandez couldn't help but be a little jealous of the Hamburg team, Ling Feng was already strong enough, but now it seems that he has gone to another level, their luck is really not ordinarily good!
Time is being consumed little by little, and Monaco are a little anxious, if the two-goal deficit remains until the second half, then they will not be able to play well in the rest of the game, at least, they will have to pull one goal back.
Saint-Germain, who led by two goals, couldn't help but relax a little at this time, and even Ling Feng's scramble in the midfield slowed down, after all, no matter how good a person's physical strength is, it is impossible to run actively all the moments of the game, and the tiger has a nap, let alone a person?
Such an opportunity is what Monaco is looking forward to, five minutes later, Xifu took the ball and shook the front of Le Guin into the penalty area, Ling Feng hurriedly followed the defense, who knew that this was exactly what Xifu was waiting for, Ling Feng rushed up, then the pressure on Henry on the right side was immediately reduced, Xifu seized this opportunity to toe lightly before Ling Feng rushed up, and stuffed the ball to the right side.
Ling Feng suddenly felt bad, Domi was not Henry's opponent at all, and was squeezed out of a position by Henry's body, and then Henry used this gap to pass the ball to the center of the penalty area.
Saint-Germain's defenders are all outside the penalty area, a position far from the goal, a "three-regardless" zone that neither defenders nor goalkeepers can reach.
Saint-Germain's defenders and goalkeepers all chased the ball when a figure rushed past Negerti who was chasing him back, and before Rama could touch the ball on the ground, the ball flew softly over Rama's head and into the goal.
Ikpeba!
At the end of the first half, Ikpeba seized on a hole in the Saint-Germain defense and stubbornly pulled the score to 2:1!