Chapter 339: Blitzkrieg

The city of Lille, close to Belgium, is the economic, cultural, educational and transportation center of northern France, and is the fourth largest city in France after Paris, Marseille and Lyon.

When preparing for the game, Li Liang also saw on the Internet that the headquarters of the famous sports brand Decathlon is also located in the city of Lille.

Once upon a time, the first football equipment I bought in Haicheng went to Decathlon's factory store in order to save money.

The two sides began to warm up, and Li Liang found that this was a very beautiful modern professional football stadium, and the home fans who had entered the stadium also seemed extremely enthusiastic.

Jardim knew very well that just as he had arranged for someone to go to the Britannia Stadium in England to spy on Stoke City's home game against Tottenham, there must be someone from Tottenham in the stands here.

Seven Star Sports broadcast the game, and Tang Meng began to introduce the lineups of both sides.

Monaco lined up in a 4411 formation, with Germain in front and Silva behind him.

In the middle of the midfield is still the thunderous duo of Bakayoko and Fabinho, with Malian Adama Traore starting on the left and Dillard on the right.

At the back, Raj was right-back, with Siddibi replacing Edouard Mendy, who was out injured, at left-back. The centre-back duo of Glick and Rhemelson continued to start, with veteran Italian goalkeeper De Sanctis behind them.

Liu Yue began to introduce the relevant situation of the game to the audience.

Before Li Liang signed with Monaco, on April 10 in the first half of the year, on the same field, Monaco was bloodied by the home team with a humiliating score of 1:4.

Sidibi, who scored the fourth goal for Lille at the time, has now changed into a Monaco shirt.

Portuguese centre-forward Eder and French veteran Almafitano, who also scored at the time, were still in the home team's starting line-up today.

With five men in Monaco's starting line-up, including Raj, Jemmelson, Fabinho, Dillard and Silva, it is fair to say that the visitors were presented today with a completely new team.

They are now aware of the way Yaldim used Li Liang, and both believe that Li Liang will be used in the second half of the second half – and if the game goes well, he may even be hidden for the whole game - because there is a tough game at White Hart Lane in midweek, so there must be a grain of salt in his use.

Netizens who stayed up late saw that Li Liang did not start, and they were not enthusiastic, and the number of online people in the live broadcast continued to decline.

As the referee's whistle blew, nearly 50,000 home fans in the stadium let out a huge shout, and the game officially began, with Monaco kicking off.

According to the arrangement in the tactical class, Monaco pressed out as soon as the opponent was the main player at the beginning.

After a few passes, Fabinho passed the ball to Silva at the top of the penalty area, and seeing Silva shake off the defense with the ball, the Lille defender reached out and hooked him to the ground in desperation.

The free-kick was almost next to the top of the arc, with Sidibi and Traore both standing in front of the ball.

Lille's Nigerian goalkeeper Nyeyama was nervous and was well aware that his former team-mate Sidibi had a good grasp of the distance.

Li Liang looked enviously at Sidibi and Traore in front of the ball, according to the free kick tactics in front of the penalty area designed by Barros, both of them can shoot directly on goal, and the rest of the teammates are responsible for squeezing through the wall to increase the angle of their shots.

Toure flickered for a moment, but it was Sidibi who shot at goal. After a powerful run, he kicked a very fast curveball, just past the gap in the human wall that his teammates had squeezed through!

The ball speed was too fast, and after passing over the human wall, it flew directly to the goal, and the angle was also very tricky, Enyeama didn't have time to react, and he had to watch the ball go into the net while standing still!

1:0, Monaco took a lightning lead just 2 minutes into the game!

Sidibi opted not to celebrate after facing his old goal, bowing his head and returning to half-time surrounded by his team-mates.

Yaldim flailed his fists excitedly, and there couldn't have been a better start.

Sidibi's beautiful goal was like a slap in the face, and the home fans, who had been noisy all the time, immediately fell silent.

The game continued, and Monaco firmly held the initiative on the field.

Lille's head coach Frédéric Antonetti was shocked by the fact that the Monaco in front of him was completely different from the visitors who suffered a heavy defeat here in the second half of last season.

The home fans shook off the blow of conceding an early goal and began to shout hard again.

Unlike the excitement at the beginning, the fans hoped to use their cheers to help the completely passive Lille team turn around the decline as soon as possible.

The home side were able to hold their ground but were unable to mount a decent counter-attack, with Monaco in an almost semi-dominant squad in exceptional form and a significantly better team than the hosts.

Tang Meng praised: "It can't be said that the Lille team is not fully prepared, or the state is not good enough - it can only be said that Monaco played too well, and there was nothing to do about Lille at the beginning of the game." ”

Lu Yue also smiled: "Monaco has been 'enlightened' by Paris, it seems that after winning the leader at home, the self-confidence of Monaco's players has been greatly improved."

If this continues to play, the Lille team will be more than lucky, and I am afraid that they will lose the goal! ”

Lu Yue's words fell, and in the 17th minute, Sidibi, who was in excellent form, dribbled the ball to the midfield and passed to Fabinho.

The Brazilian took two steps, and suddenly there was a penetrating through ball, and the ball passed between Lille's central defender and left wing-back, only to see Dillard comprehend, striding forward, and instantly forming a breakthrough!

Fabinho's pass was so successful that Dillard kept the ball to the baseline and the defenders couldn't catch up, and he aimed for Germain in the middle to deliver a low ball with his right foot.

At the critical moment, goalkeeper Enyeyama rushed out and struggled to make a side save, the ball was blocked by him and bounced high, just in front of Traore on the left side, and the Malian decisively kicked the empty goal, 2:0!

Lille coach Antonetti finally couldn't take it anymore and rushed to the sidelines and roared.

Monaco, who are two goals ahead, are a little slackened. In the 34th minute, Lille counterattacked, Portuguese center forward Eder forced a breakthrough at the edge of the penalty area, and the ball fell to Senegalese defender Sanhar in the melee, and he directly did not stop the ball and half-turned and hit a beautiful volley with his left foot.

The ball made a strange arc and hit the crossbar hard past Monaco goalkeeper De Sanctis in front of him! There was a huge sigh from the fans at the stadium, and it was the home team's best chance of the first half.

The rest of the game was a break, and half-time went into the break.

In the locker room, Yaldim was very satisfied with the performance of his disciples, and he did not make any adjustments, but only said some words of encouragement.

The second half continued, with Antonetti making a rare substitution directly in midfield for two underperforming starters - No. 9 Benzia and No. 10 Amalfitano in midfield.

He added a striker to 433 in an attempt to further strengthen the attack in the second half.

The match restarted, and Monaco soon dealt another heavy blow to their opponents.

In the 47th minute, Monaco played a tactical training session-like coordination after breaking the ball: Fabinho received the ball from Bakayoko in the midfield, and passed it to Dillard, who inserted on the right side, Dillard took a few steps and crossed directly, Germain leaned on the defender and lightly unloaded the ball from the air, and did it beautifully to Fabinho, who followed in the middle.

The unmarked Brazilian on the edge of the box did not adjust, and directly bent his bow and shot with full power on the instep of his foot, and the ball hit the underside of the crossbar and bounced into the net, and Enyeama's full save was to no avail.

Amid the exclamations of the pitch, Monaco struck again to extend their lead to three goals.

Tang Meng and Lu Yue in the studio were also very surprised, Tang Meng said: "Monaco is in this state...... It looks like we're going to do something big this year! Staying in such a rising team is undoubtedly very helpful to Li Liang. ”

Lu Yue continued: "After this goal was scored, the players in Lille looked completely deflated, and Monaco should have no problem winning the game."

It is estimated that Coach Yaldim will consider replacing Falcao to find a feeling, and Li Liang is also likely to be sent to play for one or twenty minutes to maintain the state of the game. ”

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In the 62nd minute, Lille finally organized the first threatening counterattack of the second half.

The Lille player on the right side of the penalty area desperately pushed his teammate's long ball towards the middle, but Monaco goalkeeper De Sanctis came out but couldn't send the ball wide.

Sanhar waited for the goal and shook his head strongly, but Glick, who is 1.9 meters tall, raised his leg extremely shrewdly to block this must-have goal.

Sanhar was dumbfounded, unable to believe it.

In the 65th minute, Falcao, who had been recuperating for a month, finally made his first league appearance of the new season, and Jardim replaced Germain with him.

In the 75th minute, Monaco won a corner, Yaldim adjusted again, and Li Liang finally got the opportunity to play, he replaced Silva.

According to Yaldim's instructions, it was up to him to take the corner.