Located on the Mediterranean coast of southeastern France, Nice is the capital of the Provence-Alpes-Cte Azur region, the capital of the Alpes-Maritimes department and the largest city in the department.

Nice is the second most tourist city in France after Paris, and one of the most attractive seaside resorts in Europe and the world, where the famous Lavender Fields of Provence are located.

The Nice Club was founded in 1904. In recent years, they have not only achieved outstanding results in the first team, but also become a benchmark for the youth training of French football.

This season, Nice have brought in Swiss Favre as head coach. He has coached Hertha Berlin and Borussia Mönchengladbach in the Bundesliga, where he has achieved great results.

In the 2014-15 season, Favre led Borussia Mönchenchen to a third-place finish in the Bundesliga.

Li Liang was already very familiar with this information, and from the very beginning of the game, he found that the players on the field of the Nice team exuded a significantly different momentum.

The Nice team put on a 352 formation, and Li Liangyi almost laughed when he saw the forward striker in Nice, and his depressed mood was suddenly relieved a lot.

This is Balotelli, nicknamed Super Mario, who is also nicknamed by many fans as a "problem child" who "loves to think about life on the field", and more Chinese fans like to call him "Ba God".

Unlike the Balotelli that Li Liang saw in the virtual training a few nights ago, the Ba God on the field in front of him was extremely active, and Li Liang's heart was only tense.

Li Liang sat in the stands and saw more clearly, with an overall rating of 79, Bakayoko operating in the area between Bakayoko on the left and Raj and Glick, and his speed, body, strength and skill at his feet completely dominated the Monaco midfielders.

What shocked Li Liang the most was Ba Shen's positioning, he always looked for opportunities at the defensive junction of the midfielders, and once his teammates attacked with the ball, he would immediately appear in a very ideal receiving position, which was not only convenient for teammates to pass the ball, but also directly threatened the goal.

Monaco's players were in great form, with Fabinho slotting into Nice's box shortly after the break, and receiving Sidibi's cross almost opened the scoring for the visitors.

In the opening stage, the two sides attacked and defended each other, at least from the scene, it looked like they were on par, but Li Liang felt that the situation was getting more and more serious.

He had already spotted in the stands that Nice had some pretty ruthless players in the squad.

The No. 31 Brazilian central defender Dante, who also has a "puffy head", is well-known to the world in the 2014 Brazil World Cup, when the host lost 1:7 to the German team, the Brazilian team's central defender combination is Dante and another more famous "unkempt" Luis.

After watching the scene for a while, Li Liang was amazed by the performance of Dante, who had a total rating of 80.

The Brazilian big man with slow central defense has a very strong defensive prediction ability, accurate card position, strong frontal interception ability, obvious air superiority, excellent tackles, and plays a good role in Nice's three-center-back body defense system.

In addition to Dent, Li Liang also found that No. 21 Pereira, who plays as a right midfielder and works closely with Bashen, is definitely a dangerous element.

The Portuguese, who is rated 78 overall, is not very tall, but he is incredibly fast, unusually agile and skilful in dribbling, and he and Balotelli complement each other on the left flank, putting a lot of pressure on the Monaco defence.

In addition, the No. 25 Frenchman Cyprian in the midfield and the No. 6 small Ivorian Seri both left a deep impression on Li Liang.

He couldn't help but hold his head in his hands and sighed - he should have had the opportunity to compete directly with these masters!

Vieira looked at Li Liang meaningfully and said with a smile: "Li, do you really want to play?"

It's a contradiction, which is why many big clubs will call the international break 'FIFA virus', which is a bit of a discoloration.

This is also really very contradictory, the vast majority of players want to get higher honors, more income, often only in the club; And if you want to play well in the national team, then you must have to pay a lot of personal sacrifice......"

Li Liang didn't have the heart to listen to Vieira's nagging, he watched Pereira's breakthrough on the field attentively, Ba Shen ran out of a wonderful space on the left side of the penalty area, the Portuguese quickly diagonally passed, Ba Shen carried Glick into the penalty area and forced the goal successfully, Subaic showed a brave save on the ball.

Li Liang let out a sigh of relief, he thought that this goal would be scored.

The audience was amazed, and Vieira took a few looks, then began to ramble again.

After a bit of scramble, the ball came to Pereira's feet, and he went straight to get past Bakayoko, but in desperation, Monaco tripped the rocket-like Portuguese with an outstretched leg from the back, and Nice won a free-kick on the left side of the pitch.

He hoisted the ball in front of the goal, and Monaco's defense suddenly had a short circuit, and the collective offside failed! Nice centre-back Baiss got out of an offside trap with a beautiful counter-attack and headed in a powerful header completely unmarked.

The ball passed Subasic who had no time to react and smashed under the crossbar and bounced into the net!

1:0, the home team took the lead in the 17th minute, and the stadium suddenly turned into a sea of joy.

Vieira stopped preaching and cursed angrily, causing bursts of boos from the surrounding fans.

Li Liang's expression became grim, and he realized that Nice's two threatening attacks on the left side were definitely not accidental, and they must have been specially arranged by the opponent before the game.

Sure enough, Favre stood in the command area on the sidelines and shouted loudly, and instead of shrinking the defense and counterattacking after the goal, the Nice team pressed the formation even higher.

Yaldim also motioned for his disciples to press, and the two sides engaged in a fierce battle in the midfield.

In the 30th minute, the away team eager to equalize made a passing error, and the Moroccan forward Belhanda of the Nice team quickly passed diagonally to the right side of the Bashen after the midfield, Bakayoko and Raj couldn't catch up, and the pressing Glick also completely lost his defensive position, and Rzemelson chased nearly 20 meters unsuccessfully, and saw Bashen volley at a small angle in the penalty area, 2:0!

The scene was boiling, watching Ba Shen, who pretended to be cool after scoring the goal, was surrounded by excited teammates, Vieira in the stands beat his chest, Li Liang was expressionless, but his heart set off huge waves.

Not to mention the 30-meter diagonal long pass just now, Li Liang is confident that he can do it, including Ba Shen, who observed the start of the run before the steal, which is not difficult.

The most terrifying thing is that after Bashen started, he only used three touches of the ball in a running distance of more than 20 meters - the first time in the high-speed running, he used his left thigh to "lead" the falling ball to the forward route.

The second time, in order to get rid of the relentless pursuit of Rhemerson, he successfully got rid of the opponent after accelerating the ball.

On the third occasion, in the face of the visiting goalkeeper who had blocked almost all the angles of his shot after the attack, he decisively volleyed into the far post and scored successfully, completely defeating Subasic with a theoretical dead corner.

Li Liang shuddered, this kind of almost perfect combination of man and ball at high speed was something he couldn't think of, especially the stop ball and the last shot, which was completely world-class.

The score was not changed for the rest of the first half, and the Monaco players didn't seem to react at all, how the opponent scored two goals with just three shots!

After the break, Jardim decisively replaced the completely limited Falcao and Moutinho with Germain and Carrillo, and switched the formation back to the more familiar 442.

Seeing this scene of substitution, Li Liang was even more frustrated - in the previous game, his playing order was before Carrillo!

But there is no regret medicine in the world, and I made a choice, even if I broke my teeth, I could only swallow it in my stomach.