Chapter Fifty-Six: Successful Promotion
The days go by day by day in training. Biquge.infoOn April 16, Bordeaux hosted Slavia Prague. Bordeaux won 1-0 away from home in their last game and can reach the final of the UEFA Cup today without losing. In this format, Bordeaux tickets are hard to come by. In the stadium, which was filled with spectators early, the 35,000-capacity Rekul Park Stadium is now too crowded to even fly into it.
In the home team's lounge, Vincent started his pre-match talk again.
"I won't say much about today's tactics, you already knew them two days ago. I don't have a request for today's game, and the club doesn't ask for it," Fan Shang listened to this, and saw the players below with a somewhat dazed expression, Fan Shang continued, "But, you see the fans in the stadium, they have a request, they are here to see Bordeaux FC win, they are here to see Bordeaux FC to advance." Any idea how much a ticket sells for outside now? The ticket sellers have already sold their tickets to close to 3,000 francs, and this is just ordinary tickets. The fans spend half a month or even a month's salary to watch us play, and if we win, of course the fans are happy, but if we lose, what will the fans think? Will they come back in the future? ”
Seeing that the players below began to cheer up secretly, Fan Shang smiled imperceptibly.
"Well, I beg you to win this game for the sake of the lovely fans and don't let them walk off the pitch with regrets. In the same way, I don't want you to walk out of the stadium with regrets. With that, he sat down in his chair and the rest was up to the players to figure it out.
With a desire to repay the fans, the Bordeaux players took to the pitch with great spirit, hoping to give the fans a victory with their performances today.
Although Bordeaux and Dudière were suspended due to accumulation of yellow cards, Bordeaux, who had home advantage, still defended tightly.
Throughout the first half, Bordeaux did not give Slavia Prague a chance, and although Slavia Prague had five shots on goal, none of them were on target.
Bordeaux's counter-attack in the first half was impressive. Taurott, supported by Zinedine Zidane and Witzger, threatened the box on a number of occasions, but he was still unable to cope with the encirclement of two centre-backs and goalkeeper alone.
In the second half, the two sides changed sides and fought again, only one minute into the opening game, Slavia Prague failed to attack, Taurott received the ball on the right side of the midfield, and quickly moved forward with the ball, and in the case of chasing soldiers and interceptions in front, he firmly controlled the ball at his feet. The Slavia Prague players did not dare to blindly make a tackle, so they could only withdraw step by step to their own penalty area with the rhythm of Taurot. Taurott dribbled into the box and found himself caught in the middle of three defenders, who bounced with the outside of his foot before the three could close him. The attacking goalkeeper pounced on the ball, but the alert Taurott did not stand still after completing the shot, but first foresaw that the goalkeeper would save and ran to the second landing point of the ball, Taulott rubbed lightly, and the ball rolled into the goal. 1:0 Bordeaux leads.
Rumble! The stadium was like a volcanic eruption, and the fans kept shouting Bordeaux and shouting the name of Taurott, who scored the goal. Taurott rushed to the back of Vincent without hesitation, and now as long as the players who are closer to Vincent like to jump on the back of Vincent after scoring a goal, this has almost become a tradition in Bordeaux. Fan Shang was not pretentious, and ran to the front of the audience with Taurott on his back to celebrate with the fans.
After Bordeaux scored, he once again contracted his defense, and Slavia Prague, who were already impatient, made matters worse, and there was no way to pry open the shell of the Bordeaux turtle.
On the contrary, Bordeaux's defensive counterattack made Slavia Prague break out in a cold sweat one after another.
In the 58th minute, Bordeaux sent a corner kick, the Prague Slavia goalkeeper came out and did not touch the ball, and Taulott easily scored the ball in front of the goal. As soon as he looked in the direction of the coach's bench and was about to pounce on Vincent, he heard the referee's whistle that the goal was invalid. He thinks the Bordeaux players were the first to ram the goalkeeper. Several Bordeaux players ran to explain, but the referee still insisted on his ruling.
Fan Shang was also not happy, "Our player and that goalkeeper are separated by 108,000 miles, where is the collision, where is the physical contact!" Fan Shang went to the fourth official to complain.
The fourth official had a good temper, and he didn't say anything serious, but just asked Fan Shang to return to his position. Seeing that the result could not be changed, Fan Shang could only shake his head and return to his seat.
In the 64th minute, Lizarazu suddenly dribbled forward and passed the ball to Zidane in the middle just after passing the midfield. At this time, Zidane was only a goalkeeper 40 meters in front of him. How could Zidane let go of this kind of opportunity, and after taking it to the penalty area, he scored in the face of the attacking goalkeeper. Then another whistle blew and the linesman ruled that Zidane was offside.
“Merde!” Fan Shang couldn't help but swear, he ran to the linesman and kept questioning him, "Didn't you see that guard dragging behind?" Vincent pointed to the defender of Slavia Prague defending Witzger, who had just clearly seen the defender dragging behind.
The linesman didn't speak, and the referee and the fourth official ran over to this side. The referee warned Fan Shang that if Fan Shang did not return to his position, then he would be given a red card. Fan Shang explained a few words, saw that several referees were indifferent, and returned to the coach's seat by himself.
In the final minute of the game, Slavia Prague had their best chance of the game. Free kick in front of 5 meters in front of the penalty area. Poborski stood in front of the ball and barely ran an inside instep free-kick. The ball went around the wall and went straight to the corner, and just as it was about to enter the goal, Yual flew to lift the ball off the line, despite the danger of hitting the post.
As soon as Yual landed, the whistle blew for the end of the match.
Bordeaux qualified for the final of the 1995-1996 UEFA Cup.
At the moment of the whistle, the stadium was already boiling, and now it was as if Bordeaux had won the championship, and the players were doing everything, some took off their clothes and threw them into the stands, some took off their shoes and threw them into the stands, some ran in circles around the stands, and some hugged each other to celebrate. The most outrageous of all was Lizarazu, who did not know where to get a Basque flag, draped it over his body like an Olympic champion and began to circle the field.
Fan Shang stared at the boss when he saw these crazy players and fans, and he was a little worried in his heart, he didn't want to be stripped naked. Just as he turned around and was about to flee to the lounge, several hands grabbed him, and then Fan Shang took off uncontrollably. He was tossed a few times, and as soon as he found some sense, he was thrown to the ground, and before he could react to what the players were going to do, Dudière was the first to press up, followed by the others one after the other.
"Don't press it!" Fan Shang shouted hoarsely under the crowd, but the excited players couldn't hear it now. Just when Fan Shang felt that he was about to suffocate, the players finally climbed down one by one.
Fan Shang is not good at teaching the players now, so he can only secretly remember in his heart that he must run far next time there is such a celebration.