At noon on September 6, Li Liang turned off the computer in his apartment in great frustration, and he was not even in the mood to go to lunch.

In the second round of the just-concluded round of 12, the national team was finally forced to draw 0:0 by Iran, another strong opponent in this group, in the case of the home Fengyang Olympic Sports Center Stadium.

In this game, the Chinese team still discharged a defensive 532 formation, Gao Bohong abandoned the veteran Zhou Zhi, put the injured Zhao Linpeng in the position of central defender, and Zhang Mingjian started to play right back.

Midfielder Hao Jingmin replaced Wu Dong, and young player Jiang Yuning, who played for Vitesse in the Eredivisie team, replaced Su Ke and Wen Lei in the striker.

Wen Lei and Jiang Yuning both got good opportunities in the whole game. Especially Wen Lei, in the 71st minute of the second half, after receiving Zhang Xinzhe's beautiful through plug, he had successfully broken into the penalty area, but he was too hesitant again and missed a great opportunity under the joint defense of the opponent Hosseini and Beiranvande.

Li Liang couldn't believe it, Wen Lei's level has always been the only one among domestic strikers, why did he repeatedly fail to grasp the opportunities in these two games?

He soon discovered that Wen Lei's performance was just a microcosm of the entire national team.

From the player's point of view, he feels that the mentality of the Chinese team has changed subtly compared to the first game, and everyone's self-confidence has obviously been affected.

Facing the strongest opponents in Group A, South Korea and Iran, scoring 1 point in two games is actually not the worst result, and Li Liang's only concern is that the morale of the national team will be affected.

It wasn't until he received a call from Xiaoyu that his mood improved.

After two days of careful consideration, Xiaoyu finally accepted Li Liang's proposal and began to go all out to become a FIFA-approved player agent.

Lao Xu personally called Da Xiong, and when he heard that he was going to let Xiao Yu accept the brokerage contract in his hand, Da Xiong was very surprised. In the end, under the persuasion of Lao Xu, Da Xiong agreed.

Da Xiong and Li Liang both called Mr. Wu, and Xiaoyu's resignation application to Hurricane Group was successfully approved.

She began to pack her bags and prepare to go to Beihua City, where she was about to officially become a shareholder of Lao Xu's sports consulting and management company.

Lao Xu temporarily suspended the retirement plan, and he and Li Liang and Xiaoyu had already discussed - the company's affairs were gradually handed over to Xiaoyu to take care of, and once Xiaoyu successfully obtained the FIFA agent qualification, he completely transferred his shares to Xiaoyu and then retired.

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With the temporary disbandment of the national team, Li Liang and several acquaintances also got in touch.

They told Li Liang in a private chat that everyone felt that the two games were not without a chance to win, but for some reason, they couldn't fully reflect the hard training and meticulous preparation on the field.

Zhao Linpeng quietly told Li Liang that Sun Xingmin was indeed worthy of his reputation, and this guy was obviously playing in the first half of the Chinese team. When the South Korean team was passive, Son Heung-min began to exert his strength, and completely ended the hope of the Chinese team to score points with his strong individual ability.

Zhou Zhi also told Li Liang privately that he hoped he would maintain his good form in Monaco - several of their veteran players had summed it up and felt that the national team needed Li Liang!

Li Liang became excited, but he knew that everything had not happened yet, and he had to continue to wait patiently.

His team-mates at Monaco have also returned to the club after finishing their national team matches.

Falcao has recovered well from his injury, and he can already run with Li Liang and do simple exercises with the ball, and may be able to return at the weekend.

Mbappe has not fully recovered and is still able to jog under the guidance of Spinoli.

The Latubi base has once again entered a tense atmosphere of preparation for war. Starting on 10 September, three more games will be played in a row: away to Lille in the league on 10 September, away to Tottenham in the Champions League group stage on 14 September, and at home to Rennes in the league on 16 September.

This was especially the first official match of the Champions League, the midweek trip to White Hart Lane.

This match also has a special meaning for Li Liang, who is very eager to make his appearance.

Because he wants to know how strong Tottenham's South Korean star, Son Heung-min, a key figure in defeating the Chinese team in Seoul on September 1, can be?

Li Liang really wanted to have a head-to-head duel with him.

In the recent training, the monitoring data of Li Liang's body shows that the new training program is very feasible! This made Spinoli's team very happy, and everyone was full of confidence in Li Liang's physical improvement in the future.

Vieira, who originally thought that Li Liang was not suitable for practicing complex passing skills, now has completely changed his opinion of Li Liang. The qualities Li Liang showed in the matches against Fenerbahce, Nantes and Paris have already impressed him deeply.

He found that Li Liang had an amazing learning ability, and he had seen the technical moves used by his opponents, and Li Liang could always master them quickly.

What Vieira admires the most is that Li Liang dares to use these new learning techniques in actual combat, and he can often receive miraculous results.

Vieira began to systematically teach Li Liang more technical moves, and he also pointed out Li Liang's shortcomings - the lack of rhythmic change when controlling the ball and passing people on the court, which could become his obvious shortcomings when opponents understood this characteristic over time.

Unbeknownst to Vieira, after Li Liang learned a new technique, he would actually practice it repeatedly in virtual training every night.

As for the lack of change of tempo in possession of the ball, this is indeed a disadvantage of virtual training, and his opponents in virtual practice are all systematic replica players, who will always act according to a fixed routine.

All the personnel returned to the team, and Li Liang also saw the so-called "FIFA virus" for the first time - Mendy and Subasic both returned with injuries.

After a little adjustment, everyone was back into intense training, and the base of Latubi entered a state of imminent battle.

In the tactical class, Caldeira announced the squad for Lille. Excluding Mbappe and Lemar, who were already injured, plus Mendy and Subazic, Monaco has a total of four main players missing.

The good news is that captain Falcao has finally returned from injury, and he has been included in the substitute list along with Li Liang.

Listening to Caldeira's explanation, the Portuguese center Eder who is expected to start in the Lille team has attracted everyone's attention, and he is the main contributor to the last-minute substitute defeat of France in the previous European Championship final to help Portugal win the championship.

After Caldeira's speech, Sidibi, who has just moved from Lille this season, explained the main style of play and key players of his old club.

After they had all finished speaking, Jardim warned everyone that Lille was not an easy opponent to deal with.

In the last 6 meetings at home to Lille, Monaco have lost 5 of them and won just 1. Lille have scored a total of 14 goals in these six games, an average of more than two goals per game.

On 10 September, the Monaco team arrived in Lille, the largest city in northern France, the capital of the Nord-Calais region and the capital of the Noor department.

They arrived at the Pierre-Moruoy Stadium, which has a capacity of 50,000 fans, to begin preparations for the match that will start at 7 p.m.