Chapter 263: New Season

With the help of Mbappe and Pasalic two friends, in just one week, Li Liang has become familiar with everything about Latubi's base. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info

Spinoli gave Li Liang a ticket to play at Lyon on May 8, and he arrived early on the day of the game at the Parc Olimpic, Lyon's new home stadium, along with Mbappe and Pasalic who were not on the list.

Before the start of this round of matches, Lyon and Monaco were tied on 62 points, and Lyon ranked second in the Ligue 1 standings with a far lead goal difference.

Ligue 1, one of the top five leagues, has a total of three places in the Champions League, with the top two going straight to the Champions League main stage, and the third place will start preparing for the Champions League qualification round early in the summer.

As in La Liga, with Zeratan Ibrahimovic, Thiago Silva, Angel? Di Maria and Edinson? Edinson Cavani's powerful Paris Saint-Germain club was jokingly called by fans as a squad bully who participated in the "French Super League" alone.

The remaining 19 teams are called Ligue 1. The remaining teams with the top points are still fighting for the only remaining place to qualify directly into the Champions League at the end of the season.

Now, with two rounds remaining, this game is decisive – the winner will surely secure second place in the league, while the loser will be struggling to reach the quagmire of Champions League qualification in the summer.

Before the game even began, the nearly 60,000 home fans in the stadium began to chant in unison.

Unlike the match against Leicester at the Etihad Stadium that Li Liang witnessed three months ago, Li Liang deeply felt the strong momentum of the home team even when neither side played in this game.

While being deeply shocked, Li Liang couldn't help but think about what it would be like to feel if he had accepted the invitation of the Lyon team at that time?

But there is no if, and now that he is a member of Monaco, then Lyon is the opponent of his own team, and he must beat when he meets in a narrow way.

The only regret is that he can't personally participate in this crucial fight, and Li Liang has already found that it is really uncomfortable to be able to watch from the sidelines.

The game finally got underway, with Lyon surprisingly fielding a squad led by young players, while Monaco continued to respond with a regular line-up.

In the third minute of the first half, Lyon's star Alexandre Lacazette provided a brilliant assist from teammate Rashid Gesar to quickly break the deadlock and take a 1-0 lead.

Li Liang was stunned, it was hard to imagine that the dialogue between two powerhouses who were famous in all of Europe was broken at the beginning of the scene.

Five minutes later, the imposing Lyon team organized the attack again, receiving an assist from teammate Sergi Dald, and Lacazette scored another goal to make it 2-0.

Li Liang, who was full of shock, glanced at Mbappe and Pasalic with a look on their faces, and all three of them had expressions of disbelief. Someone among the surrounding fans recognized Mbappe and began to taunt loudly: "Kid...... It's unfortunate that your vacation was ruined...... Prepare well for the Champions League qualifiers......"

Li Liang found that Mbappe was trembling all over, and he was obviously angry to the extreme. Li Liang didn't say anything, and hugged Mbappe's shoulders tightly, and Mbappe nodded gratefully to him.

Needless to say, Li Liang understands Mbappe's feelings very well at this time, because from the first goal conceded, Li Liang's legs have begun to tremble irrepressibly.

In the 23rd minute, after a reckless foul, the Monaco team's 2.03-meter-tall Ivorian giant center Rasina Traore was sent off early, accumulating two yellows and one red, and the Monaco team completely lost the last hope of recovering the defeat.

Even Li Liang could see that Traore took the initiative to apply for the exit. With the whole team in a state of "waiting for death", the Ivorians themselves chose to leave the game.

In the 34th minute, Gesar, who had an eye-catching performance, assisted central defender Yanga Mbiwa to score, 3-0. The visitors were now in a state of collapse.

Then in the 35th minute, Alexandre Lacazette scored a brace and the big screen showed a glaring 4-0.

Li Liang stood up and told Mbappe and Pasalic that he wanted to leave and didn't want to watch it anymore. He could not tolerate the slaughter of his team in such a form.

Pasalic persuaded Li Liang, and amid the laughter and ridicule of the home team fans around him, Li Liang sat down with a flushed face.

He secretly vowed that one day, he would complete his revenge on this stadium with his own hands.

Just before half-time, 37-year-old Portuguese veteran centre-back Ricardo Carvalho finally pulled a point back for the visitors, 4-1.

In the 59th minute after the rematch, Lyon's Mbiwa also scored a brace, 5-1.

In the 80th minute, Lyon's red-star Alexandre Lacazette finally completed a hat-trick to lock the score at 6-1.

In the end, in the midst of the horror of 60,000 fans at home, Lyon's youth team won an incredible victory at the Parc Olimpico stadium, thus securing the league runners-up ahead of schedule and earning a valuable place directly into the Champions League.

This defeat also made Li Liang unable to let go for a long time, and it was also the first time he experienced this kind of humiliation.

When he came to the base of Latubi alone in the evening, he worked out "crazy" in the gym alone.

From the night he encountered the system, from the first training, Li Liang has embarked on a completely different path in life.

If all this hadn't happened, he would have continued to live silently in the first-tier city of Haicheng, living a 9-to-5 life, continuing to indulge in the game every day, indulging in his otaku world.

But now, after an incredible six months, he has become a professional player who plays in the top five leagues. Football has changed him, from the inside out, making him stronger and more unconvinced, and more and more like to challenge himself.

Li Liang was so focused that he didn't notice that Yaldim was standing outside the door of the gym, silently watching him.

Yaldim did not alarm Li Liang and left quietly. By the end of the season, there were signs that the team was getting out of control, and as a manager, Jardim could not tolerate such a humiliating defeat.

There is no chance of revenge this season and Jardim are well aware that the current Monaco squad needs to make a very big change.

A week later, on 15 May, Monaco ended the 2015-2016 season with a 2-0 win over Montpellier at the Stade Louis II, finishing third with 65 points from 17 wins, 14 draws and 7 losses.

Li Liang did not go to watch the game live, and the defeat in Lyon stung him deeply, and he was the first to arrive at the base of Latuby every day for the week, and then the last to leave.

Li Liang knows very well that for the rest of his teammates, this season is over.

And for myself, it's just the beginning.