Chapter 468: The Prophet in the Locker Room
Li Liang had experience speaking in the locker room like this before.
First at T Big Field Field, then before the first virtual training match, and at the first tryout match for the Hurricanes Haicheng.
Right now he's facing a group of real teammates, a group of high-level professional footballers.
They have different cultural backgrounds, religious beliefs, and different skin colors, but they all have one thing in common -
None of them wanted to lose to Lyon.
Li Liang understands that the most important thing is to let everyone accept his ideas in the shortest possible time.
Cheering and cheering should be left to Falco.
He coughed softly, and the locker room fell silent.
Everyone looked at him and wanted to hear what the Chinese, who had been identified as the core of the team's attack in this game, had to say.
Li Liang took a deep breath, and then stood up: "Everyone, if everything goes well in the second half, we should be able to score at least two goals!" ”
Everyone in the audience, including Yaldim, wondered if they had heard it wrong?
Li Liang continued with a calm face: "So what we need to do next is not to concede any more goals."
If we can do that, the victory will be ours, just like the game against Tottenham! ”
This sentence evoked the memories of many people, and some people began to believe that such words seemed to be really convincing when they came out of Li Liang's mouth.
At the same time as Li Liang said his thoughts, the atmosphere in the away team's locker room became more enthusiastic.
Lyon's players were enthusiastic, and Genesio took advantage of the hot iron to fine-tune his tactics to the changes on the field.
Only Tolisso didn't say a word. He has been meditating on why the number 17, who had been running desperately, suddenly changed his style of play, and what can be clearly felt is that the number 17 is definitely intentional.
Garde in the stands said to Grimandi: "Monaco has a problem with mentality, now there is one less man, Lyon just need to maintain the advantage, it should not be a problem to win the game. ”
Grimandi nodded in agreement. He was a little disappointed that Mbappe, who he was focusing on, did not enter the squad for the game, and Li Liang's performance was not satisfactory.
He also had to cover up against Garder, and Lacazette, the secret object of observation that Professor Wenger had assigned to him, was also very mediocre.
Tolisso is in great form, but with the introduction of Xhaka, it is widely believed that Tolisso's future will not be an arsenal in a similar position and function.
At the beginning of the second half, neither side made any adjustments, which surprised Ancelotti, Gaudino, as well as Garde and Grimandi, as well as Tang Meng and Lu Yue in the studio.
After kick-off, Li Liang moved to the left wing, and Lemar was temporarily in the middle.
Genesio was initially unimpressed, thinking it was just a temporary trick, but then he found that Li Liang was playing as an orthodox left wing-back when Monaco was in possession.
Tolisso still followed the style of play in the first half, steadily maintaining the distance between him and Li Liang, and kept approaching and compressing Li Liang's activity space.
At the same time, what has changed is Li Liang's running style.
Tolisso found that his opponent was really only moving on the flanks when attacking, and his movement was still erratic, but only limited to going up and down the left flank.
He was shocked, and according to his understanding, the position that can best exert the attacking power of No. 17 is the position at the front of the penalty area in the middle.
Seeing that Li Liang fixed his position on the side, Tolisso was a little hesitant - isn't this Monaco abandoning its martial arts?
Bakayoko watched as Li Liang successfully drew Tolisso to the left and remembered what he had said in the dressing room.
Li Liang said very resolutely in the locker room: "My appearance means that our attack is mainly in the middle, so the focus of Lyon's defense is to block the connection between our middle and wing.
In the second half I would have left the middle and if Tolisso had come along, you, Timoé [Tiemoue Bakayoko], would have pressed forward to support Thomas and helped him to take out their number 29 (another midfielder, Tusar). ”
Tiemoue Bakayoko immediately pressed in stride, successfully receiving Lemar's return pass and then moving to Fabinho on the right.
Li Liang's move to the left did cause a subtle deflection of Lyon's defensive focus, and after losing the protection of Tolisso and Tusar, Fabinho easily started a succession with Silva on the right.
Silva used his pace to break through Morel's defence and then sent a low cross into a low cross that Falcao doaved to get forward and the Colombian headed wide with the interference of the fierce centre-back Mbiva.
The home fans let out a loud sigh and then immediately cheered and applauded, they were suppressed for a long time, and they were all happy to see that the home team had finally got the chance to shoot.
Lyon Chairman Olas in the VIP seat stood up nervously, but after seeing Falcao's header deflected, he sat down and laughed, and gave a thumbs up to Vasilyev and deliberately said: "Beautiful header!" ”
The Russians were a little annoyed and tilted their heads to the side and pretended not to hear.
From Li Liang to the left midfield, Ancelotti's eyes lit up, and seeing that Monaco finally played a smooth attack, he raised his eyebrows and said to Gaudino: "Look! Something seems to have changed! ”
The Lyon goalkeeper passed the ball directly to the right wing-back Rafael to attack, and Falcao suddenly started to scramble with Li Liang to grab the ball.
Monaco's defensive change caught Rafael off guard, and the Brazilian reluctantly gave the ball to López, who drove the ball over half-court, Glick won the ball and Bakayoko got the ball to play again.
Lyon's midfielders were a bit surprised, but Tolisso didn't hesitate this time and immediately returned to the middle and rushed towards the advancing Bakayoko.
He didn't believe that Li Liang could directly threaten the goal on the left side of the midfield, so he decisively returned to the defensive position of the midfielder to deal with Monaco's midfield attack.
Before he could run a few steps, Tolisso found that Li Liang had followed!
Li Liang decided to do the opposite, also using running to interfere with and destroy Tolisso's space of activity.
This makes Tolisso's defense more and more awkward, and if you ignore Li Liang's concentration on defending the other midfielders of Monaco, Li Liang, who is on the edge of his control area, could lose control at any time.
And if they turn their attention back to Li Liang, Tusar and Fekir are likely to repeat the mistakes of the past, allowing Monaco to replicate the threatening attack just now!
Tolisso's concern now is exactly what Li Liang followed up in his short speech in the locker room.
"Their number 18 (Fekir) didn't do a good job in midfield, he and the number 29 couldn't defend against Timoe plus Thomas and Fabinho.
One of their two wing-backs will definitely be attracted to me, and if Tolisso goes to support the number 29, then you give me or Bernardo [Silva] so that at least one of the two of us has a chance to get a 1-on-1! ”
Tolisso made an instant judgment that Bakayoko, who had the ball, had to be blocked.
He immediately rushed forward and Bakayoko did the same and passed the ball back to Lemar.
Tusar posted up, Lemar had already seen clearly, Silva's run down the right took away Gesar's defence, and Li Liang was flanked by Valbuena and Fekir.
Lemar wanted to move the ball to the right, but he suddenly found that Tolisso was moving to his right side at breakneck speed and getting closer!
Tusar had already leaned in and Lemar knew it would be too late to play the ball and that it would be difficult to protect it once Tolisso was also close to him.
Li Liang made two counterruns in a row, flashed the angle of catching the ball and reached out and shouted at the same time.
Lemar had already sensed the astonishing momentum of Tolisso rushing forward, and in desperation, he had to immediately cross the ball to the nearest Li Liang.