Chapter 271: Champions League Qualifying Squad

One day later, Monaco moved to another Swiss town, Mehring, where they faced their sixth opponent in the warm-up match, Basel, a Swiss Super League powerhouse who is well-known throughout Europe. Pen fun and pavilion www.biquge.info

Although in the post-training test, Spinoli was surprised to find that Li Liang's physical condition had recovered rapidly, but for the sake of safety, Li Liang still sat on the bench first in this game.

Both teams fielded a predominantly young squad and the two sides quickly got into the groove, with the game opening up and closing in one after another.

Monaco were the first to break the deadlock, with Brazilian striker Gabriel Boschlia seizing the chance to score with a left-footed shot from the lively Brazilian striker. Basel then hit the back of the net and hit the Monaco post twice.

Li Liang sat on the sidelines and watched excitedly, but after half the game, the coach did not mean to change himself at all.

It wasn't until 15 minutes before the end of the game that Li Liang, who was already eager to try, was sent on the field to replace the goal-scorer Boschia.

The excited Li Liang found out that something was wrong as soon as he got on the field! Although after observing the whole game, I already knew the performance of my opponents and teammates, but I couldn't get into the state for a long time.

He visibly felt that his speed of thinking and his body's reactions were beginning to be out of sync. On the field, the brain reacts, but the body will always be inexplicably at least half a beat slower!

Compared with his teammates and opponents around him, Li Liang seemed to be slow and hesitant in his intentions, completely unable to keep up with the pace of the game.

Fortunately, in the final stage of the game, Monaco retreated from all sides, and Li Liang's aberration did not affect the trend of the whole game, and the score of 1:0 was maintained until the end.

Yaldim looked at the embarrassed Li Liang and smiled. He turned sideways to Spinoli and said: "This guy's 'fuel tank' is empty, adjust his training plan during this time, let him store more energy for the new season!" ”

As soon as the game ended, Li Liang immediately found Spinoli and asked frustratedly: "Carlo, I don't know what's wrong, I feel terrible in the game just now!" ”

Spinoli smiled and replied, "Lee, have you ever fought?" Li Liang was stunned, not knowing what Spinoli meant.

It wasn't until Spinoli asked solemnly again that Li Liang understood that he was seriously questioning himself.

Li Liang thought about it, he had a gentle personality since he was a child, and he was a "good boy" in the eyes of everyone, he had never fought, but he had a lot of experience in being beaten.

He was just about to answer: "No" - but suddenly remembered that before coming to Monaco, on the morning of his farewell match, he faced the thugs found by Jiu Ye's men in the outfield of the 10,000-person stadium!

Li Liang replied slowly: "Carlo, I've beaten!" Spinoli laughed and said, "Good, how did you react after the fight?" ”

Li Liang immediately recalled that in the hospital ward, when facing the two police officers who had made notes for him, his spirit was relaxed, and he suddenly began to tremble violently and irrepressibly.

The two young police officers said they were going out to smoke and left Li Liang alone in the room for a while before Li Liang slowly regained his composure.

Could it be that Spinoli is referring to this? Li Liang's eyes widened suddenly: "Carlo, I don't know why at the time, I couldn't stop shaking, and it took a long time to return to normal." ”

Spinoli put away his smile and replied solemnly: "It's called a 'stress response'. When you're fighting, the mental tension is high, the sympathetic nerves are overexcited, and a large amount of adrenaline is quickly secreted into your bloodstream.

All of this leads to a rapid increase in blood flow, blood pressure, oxygen consumption, and muscle tension.

When the crisis ends, your body will pay the price for this super-strong 'state of mobilization' – it will begin to respond accordingly and repair the systems...... So there's the kind of reaction that you said. ”

Hearing Spinoli's professional explanation, Li Liang suddenly realized, he immediately reacted again, and couldn't help blurting out: "Wait, Carlo, are you saying that the match with Sporting Lisbon also gave me a stress reaction?" Impossible, right? ”

Spinoli patiently went on to explain: "In a state of stress, people can behave in two ways: one is to immediately fall into chaos and mess up everything; There is also a way to play at a super level and get out of trouble in time.

The state of stress is dominated by physiological changes, and at the same time there are special reactions of psychological components. Mental reactions are difficult to metricalize, and this is a very important factor in what we usually call a player's 'state'.

Luckily, Lee, you reacted better and tougher against strong opponents on the field, which of course took a big toll on you – including mentally.

So at the moment you need a certain amount of time to adjust and recover, which means that you are not used to this kind of high-intensity competition in a row. ”

Li Liang was a little anxious: "Carlo, is there any way to solve this problem as soon as possible?" Spinoli finally smiled again: "Of course there is – that is, plenty of rest."

You see Bernardo (Silva), Joao (Moutinho), Camille (Glick), even such a high-level player, don't they all need enough rest after playing the European Championship?

Keep training hard, and the more high-level competitions you experience, the more mentally and physically you will adapt.

By the way, there will be a major opportunity soon, and I hope you can take it! That way you'll get more rare opportunities to exercise. ”

After speaking, Spinoli looked left and right, and whispered: "Lee, don't tell anyone my last sentence!" ”

In the evening, as soon as Li Liang saw the embarrassment at the virtual Latubi base, he immediately asked about it.

Embarrassed, he replied disdainfully: "Liangzi, didn't you already find out that there are many differences between virtual training matches and real games?" How can you still ask such a childish question! ”

Li Liang soaked for a long time before he learned from Embarrassment that it is impossible for any player in the system to have an independent personality, and the special character traits shown by everyone come from Li Liang's subconscious.

Even including the super reappearance rookie Henry with a distinctive personality, it also comes from all the information about Henry obtained in Li Liang's fan career.

Although Li Liang felt that he did not deliberately remember anything, the fragments of this information had always existed in his subconscious, and the system just "pieced" together a vivid Henry according to these fragments.

Li Liang finally has a better understanding of the system: in the virtual training of the system, he can quickly recover his physical state, but he cannot restore his mental state synchronously; It can simulate the technical and tactical characteristics of real games, but it cannot reproduce the ubiquitous real and huge mental pressure.

One day later, on 18 July, UEFA held the draw for the third round of the 2016-2017 Champions League qualifying round.

Monaco had poor luck in signing and were drawn against Fenerbahce, a traditional powerhouse in the Turkish Super League, with Monaco playing away and then home.

On July 28, Monaco will first head to Istanbul's Saraggio Stadium, known as "Purgatory". Play the first round of a two-legged match.

From the moment the lottery results were announced, Li Liang felt that the whole team was shrouded in a solemn atmosphere.

Pasalic quietly told Li Liang that the Fenerbahce team is very strong and is a "hard bone" that no one wants to encounter in the third round of qualifying.

He also told Li Liang that after returning to France, the club will confirm and report the list for the third round of qualification for the Champions League on July 27.

And everyone's performance in this series of warm-up games in Switzerland will also become an important reference for the coaching staff to determine this list.

On 19 July, Monaco continued to face Zenit St. Petersburg St. Petersburg, their strongest opponent in Switzerland, in Merlin, which was also their final warm-up match of the summer training.

Subasić, who had already returned from the game, was called into the starting line-up, while Silva was on the bench.

Jardim fielded their strongest line-up against a strong opposition, and Monaco were in excellent attacking and defensive form in the first half. Li Liang, who is still sitting on the bench, knows very well that the 11 people on the field will definitely be in the 25-man squad.

He was very nervous and didn't know if he could be selected by the coach for this list. Li Liang was so nervous that he had forgotten what Spinoli had whispered to himself to keep it a secret.

Monaco, who were in good form, headed in front of goal from Lemar before the end of the first half, when Falcao met Lemar's cross from the left and headed the ball to the next goal.

At the beginning of the second half, Yaldim changed almost the entire starting lineup except for Subaic and Raj, and Li Liang was also placed in the attacking forward position on the left side.

Zenit, who had also made changes, gradually regained the initiative and began to use their two flanks to frequently attack Monaco's substitute defence.

What Yadilm quietly paid attention to was that Li Liang's performance was decent, and he almost became the most threatening attack point in the front court under the fierce pressure of the opponent.

Zenit quickly capitalised on a series of mistakes by Monaco's young substitute full-back to score twice in a row.

During this period, only Li Liang's two long-range shots in front of the court posed a threat to the Zenit goalkeeper.

Yaldim made another substitution, first replacing the in-form Subažić and then bringing on Liliang with Pasalic with 15 minutes remaining.

Li Liang was extremely frustrated – he thought he had failed the coaching staff and had lost the chance to play in the first Champions League game of his career (albeit not the main one).

Seeing Li Liang walking down with his head down, Yaldim remained silent and nodded slightly to Spinoli, Spinoli got up knowingly and picked up the water bottle and handed it to Li Liang, and then said softly: "Li, congratulations, you have passed!" ”

Li Liang's eyes widened suddenly, and he suddenly remembered what Spinoli had said before!

He immediately turned his grateful gaze to Jardim, who looked intently at the field, as if he didn't care about him in the slightest.

Before the end of the game, Zenit scored another goal to win 3-1 against Monaco.

Immediately after the game, the Monaco team returned to their base in Latubi and immediately began to prepare for two crucial do-or-die battles against Fenerbahce.