After Caldeira's explanation, Li Liang and his teammates know that Marseille's home stadium this season is definitely not ordinarily strong.

They are unbeaten in nine games, six wins and three draws at home, and recently won three consecutive home games.

It is worth mentioning that eight of these nine games have kept clean sheets, conceding only one goal in total, and conceding an average of just 0.11 goals per game at home, ranking first among the 20 teams in Ligue 1.

In the tactical class, Caldeira analyzed that Marseille would inevitably launch a strong attack at home, and assigned everyone a very detailed defensive task, except for Li Liang to stand in the middle.

Although he didn't say it explicitly, everyone, including Li Liang, understood that the coaching staff would prefer him to invest more in the attack.

As is customary, Jardim began to speak at the end of the tactical lesson: "I know that you must be thinking about the match at the Parc des Princes (home of Grand Paris) in two weeks' time!"

Marseille is our first game in the second half of the league season and the toughest opponent we have faced before we leave for Paris. This game is also crucial.

Marseille have conceded just one goal at home in the league and we hope you can help them change that record! ”

After playing away to Paris on 29 January, Monaco will host Nice, who had beaten them, five days later.

Jardim knows very well that counting Marseille, these three league games, one home and two away games in 20 days, will be crucial to Monaco's final trend in the league.

He concluded: "I don't want to say it, but if we can get at least four points in these three games, I believe there is a real chance to knock Paris off the throne this year!" ”

The classroom fell silent and everyone could hear their own breathing and heartbeat.

It was the first time that Jardim, the leader of the Monaco team, had made a declaration to his disciples that he wanted to win the championship.

In this Monaco team, only a handful of players with championship experience, such as Falcao, Moutinho and De Sanctis, have won the title.

This dose of strong medicine shocked the players, and finally convinced everyone that this year is the best time to do big things!

On the evening of January 15, Li Liang and his teammates went to the Velodrome Stadium in Marseille.

Marseille is a 2,500-year-old city that is the second largest city and the third largest metropolitan area in France. It is also the largest commercial port in France and the largest in the Mediterranean, with a very beautiful view.

Built in 1935, the Stade Velodrome is the largest club football stadium in France.

The stadium has undergone three major renovations, hosting the 1984 European Championship and the 1998 World Cup.

In anticipation of Euro 2016, the Stade Velodrome has been expanded from 60,000 to 67,394.

Marseille was once one of the symbols of French football and the only French team to have won the Champions League. But since the match-fixing scandal in the 90s, Marseille have never been back to their peak.

In the previous 4-0 home win over Marseille, Li Liang did not play. Therefore, Li Liang was very happy to get the opportunity to start in the away game against Marseille this time.

During the warm-up, the home team played several huge TIFOs in the stands (referring to large banners or puzzles that can cover the stands, and the giant jerseys, flags, puzzles, banners, portraits, etc. seen on the pitch can be called TIFO), and most of the home team fans were wearing blue and white Marseille jerseys, and the shouts were deafening.

Li Liang looked around and became more and more excited, not only because the atmosphere was getting higher and higher before the game, but also because he was pleasantly surprised.

The Portuguese's Silva has risen again to 83 from 82 in training yesterday!

Li was secretly happy in his conscience, he understood that the Portuguese was in very good shape, and it was worth making some articles around this guy in the game.

Gazi took Mu Zhaoge to the stadium early.

In his pre-match press conference, Marseille's new coach Rudy Garcia, who has been in charge for more than two months, answered a question with a hint of murder: "Monaco played very well in the first half, we conceded three points at their home stadium a little over a month ago, so let's see what happens in today's game. ”

Jardim's outlook on the game is succinct and forceful: "Marseille are very difficult at home, but we are in very good form and hopefully we can have a good result in the end. ”

Seven Star Sports continued to broadcast the game live, and after Tang Meng and Lu Yue got the starting lineups of both sides, they were very happy to see Li Liang in the column.

Netizens generally believe that Marseille at home is "unprovoked", and Monaco will win this game without losing it.

The game finally began, Monaco lined up 4231, the main left wing-back Mendy was suspended for a red card, and Siddibi took his place, Almami Toure played at right wing-back, and the rest of the positions were elite.

Li Liang was still placed in the middle by Yaldim, behind Falco.

The home team responded with 433.

At the beginning of the game, Marseille's midfielder began to focus on defending Li Liang in the middle.

Garcia was clearly similarly inspired by Lyon, pressing Monaco's midfield from the start.

Caldeira has already responded to this, seeing that the Marseille team began to encircle Li Liang, Bakayoko and Fabinho took turns to press, Silva and Lemar also continued to move closer to the middle, and the help of teammates greatly relieved the pressure on Li Liang.

Li Liang was a little surprised in the tactics class, he found that the tactics formulated by Caldeira to help him open up space by his teammates were basically the same as the adjustment method he improvised in the training session at the Nanping Sports Center a week ago.

It was the rest of the midfield teammates who counter-pressed, using early runs and key positions to break up the opposition's siege.

After a fierce battle with Tolisso, Li Liang felt that Marseille's midfield pressure was not difficult to deal with.

The most important thing is that when he listened to Carlo Ancelotti's position on Tolisso, who was still only a standing substitute in Bayern's midfield for the time being, he already had a deep understanding of what was waiting for him in the next game in 2017.

After the guidance of the two masters, Ancelotti and Lippi, coupled with many consultations with Madanilo during the national team training camp, coupled with his own thinking, Li Liang's understanding of the game has quietly changed.

After several battles, Garcia was surprised to find on the sidelines that instead of successfully freezing No. 17 like the Lyon team, he made him more and more active!

He immediately commanded the two wingers to adduct at the same time, leaving only the veteran Gomi in front.

Li Liang understands that keeping himself on the field means that other teammates must put more effort into defending and maintaining the overall formation.

It's time to give them back.

In the 17th minute of the game, Sidibi threw a throw-in on the left side of the front, and Li Liang stopped the ball directly to Bakayoko, who was receiving next to him, against the opponent's midfielder Lopes.

Before he received the ball, he saw Lemar waiting in front of him to cut forward.

Li Liang immediately turned around and brushed Lopez and began to accelerate the crosscut, which immediately took away Lopes and Marseille's right winger Tovan.

Li Liang stopped sharply and changed his yearning to run back, and Marseille midfielder Vainquiur, who was closely following Bakayoko, hesitated and rushed towards Li Liang.

Because Garcia repeatedly emphasized before the game that the most important thing in the defense of Monaco No. 17 is "space".