In the evening, the whole team of Bordeaux went to stay in the hotel, only Miku followed Liu Ting back to his home, it was not that Liu Ting did not invite others, on the one hand, Liu Ting's house was not big and could not accommodate many people, on the other hand, those energetic guys who lived in the hotel could easily find women.

Miku looks in bad spirits, Liu Ting knows that it is because of the matter of retirement, and anyone who has been in the same job for more than ten years and suddenly wants to retire will feel uncomfortable, even if that job has brought you sadness and pain. What's more, football brings not only the sadness and pain of defeat, but also the excitement and joy of success.

Liu Ting found two bottles of red wine and came out, and then Miku drank the wine in his heart alone, and spit out the words, Liu Ting listened silently alone.

"Liu, you must not let people call you anyone's successor, the second for the rest of your life, just like me. I was very happy when I was called Zinedine Zidane II, when I was just a young player who had been promoted from the lower leagues by Bordeaux, Zidane had already moved to a big club like Juventus, and it was an honour to receive a title like Zidane II. ”

"But then I led Bordeaux to the Ligue 1 title, which is something that Zidane didn't do, but everyone is still saying, look, he played really well, and he really deserved Zidane II. At this time, I began to hate this nickname, but after all, Zinedine Zidane had already led France to win the World Cup, and I wanted to get rid of this nickname and need more achievements to prove myself, so I went to play in Italy. ”

"On my first day at Parma, I was greeted by a huge crowd of fans outside the training ground, and I was very happy at the time, only to find out later that they were coming to see how capable Zidane II was, and Zidane was the most famous star in Italy at that time. Two seasons at Parma were terrible, only one Coppa Italia was won at Parma, and I had to leave Italy, where I felt the football environment was not for me. ”

"I moved to Germany, and in Bremen, I found the same environment that suited me as France, and when I led Bremen to the Bundesliga title and the German Cup double in '04, I found that I still couldn't shake off Zidane II's hat, because Zidane had already won the Champions League at Real Madrid, and a team like Bremen didn't have the strength to compete for the Champions League."

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After a day in Monaco, the Bordeaux squad quickly returned to the club, with two games to go before the winter break, a home game against Marseille in the round of 18 of Ligue 1 and a final match against Greek side Panionhos in the Europa League group stage.

Marseille's recent form has started to recover, at least not in the relegation zone, having risen from 19th to 13th, and Marseille are on a rebound in form.

Marseille is also the only team in France that has won the Champions League, speaking of which the French are not as fanatical as the British or Italians, but they have really contributed to the development of football, the Ballon d'Or selection was initiated by the French media, and the World Cup and the Champions League were also proposed by the French, ironically, after so many years, only one French team has won the Champions League. And after Marseille won the Champions League that year, the match-fixing case broke out, and many people also proposed to abolish Marseille's Champions League champion, but in the end it was not passed, but Marseille was still forced to be relegated, the French championship was deprived of that year, and the qualification to participate in the Toyota Cup, the predecessor of the European Super Cup and the Club World Cup, was also awarded to AC Milan, the runner-up of the Champions League.

In fact, Marseille in the early 90s was the only French team that had the potential to become the same top giants as Barcelona, Real Madrid, Manchester United, Bayern Munich and so on, when Marseille won five consecutive Ligue 1 titles and were the top contenders for the Champions League title, reaching the Champions League final twice in three years. Maradona was very brave in Napoli, but Napoli had limited strength and was never able to compete for the highest honor of the Champions League, Maradona once indicated to Napoli that he would be traded to a team that could compete for the Champions League, and the team Maradona wanted to go to at that time was Marseille, because the strongest team in Europe was Marseille.

But when Marseille won five consecutive Ligue 1 titles and reached the Champions League final for the second time in three years, Marseille's president, Tàpie, made the stupidest decision in Marseille's history – bribing his opponents. Marseille were on high ground in Ligue 1 and the Champions League, four points ahead of second-placed Paris Saint-Germain with two league games remaining, and only needed a penultimate win to win the Ligue 1 title, and Marseille reached the Champions League final at that time. Marseille president fears a repeat of the Champions League final two years ago, when Marseille lost to the Yugoslav side Red Star Belgrade, who were not favored at the time, and lost 0:0 to Red Star in the final and to the opponent on penalties.

This time, in order to allow the team to get more rest to win the Champions League, the president of Marseille sent someone to bribe Valenciennes, the opponent of the penultimate round of the league, so that Marseille, who sent substitute players, defeated Valenciennes 1:0 to win the championship one round ahead of schedule, and the main team of the Marseille team also got two rounds of time to rest, and the rested Marseille relied on a header from the French striker Mr. Papin, the top scorer of the Champions League for three consecutive years, in the Champions League final to kill AC Milan and win the Champions League. But two days after the game, Marseille's bribery of Valenciennes broke out, Marseille was deprived of the Ligue 1 championship that year and forced relegation, and the top European players in the team left one after another, and Marseille, which topped Europe, became the dust of history.

In fact, Marseille didn't have to bribe their opponents to win, at least there was no problem in winning the Ligue 1 championship, even if it was really not enough to rest enough in the final, Marseille was more likely to win, Marseille's strength was recognized, and it will soon become a top giant in Ligue 1, just like Bayern in the Bundesliga. Take 10,000 steps back, even if it is really defeated by AC Milan, Marseille still has the strength to make a comeback next year, when Marseille's Papin and a group of top players went to AC Milan after Marseille was relegated, and then AC Milan reached the Champions League final for three consecutive years.

Speaking of which, Marseille is the team that is most likely to become a top club in Ligue 1 at the beginning.

There is also a small detail, Marseille's relegation has a manager who has benefited from it, and that is the then Monaco manager - Arsene Wenger. Marseille were stripped of the title, but second-placed Marseille rivals Paris Saint-Germain were unwilling to accept the title and represent the Ligue 1 team in the Champions League. At that time, the Champions League was a real Champions Cup, and only the champion of each league could participate, so Monaco, ranked third, came off the bench to participate in the Champions League, and Wenger actually led Monaco to the last four of the Champions League in one fell swoop, so he became famous.

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On the evening of 17 December, Bordeaux hosted Marseille.

"Now the penultimate round of the first half of the 2007/2008 Ligue 1 season Bordeaux home against Marseille game, Marseille this half season is not good, in the league once fell to the 19th position, originally everyone felt that the league was not good in the Champions League group stage to qualify, but with the bottoming out of Liverpool in the same group, the first three rounds of the group stage won 2 wins and 1 draw Marseille actually lost three consecutive defeats and only won a group third, Now all Marseille have to do is rush back to the European zone to fight for next year's European competition. Adrian Baptiste, who was commentating on the game, said about the situation at Marseille.

"Bordeaux sent a 433 formation in this game, the back four are Jurieti, Planus, Henrique and Chalme, the main central defender Diavala was injured in the first two days of training and cannot play, Brazilian defender Henrique played with Planus, Bordeaux's captain Diarra also suffered from the flu before the game and could not play, the midfielders are Miku, Wendell and Fernando, and the forward trident is Cavinagh, Belion and Liu Ting."

Liu Ting looked at the Marseille players opposite when he played, only Nasri and Cisse are players that Liu Ting remembers, Nasri has not yet gone to Arsenal and Van Persie to form the North London Four Gentlemen, Cisse has played for Liverpool, and in the warm-up match with the Chinese team before the 06 World Cup, Cisse was broken by Zheng Zhi, a Chinese player who now plays for Charlton Athletic in the Championship, and the whole leg was broken and bent and deformed at that time, which looked a little terrible.

"The game between the two sides has begun, Marseille kicks off first, Senegalese striker Niang kicks the ball to Nasri, Nasri dribbles the ball, and a long pass directly? Nasri adjusted a step and made a long pass directly to the front to find Cisse, who took the ball and passed it back to Niang, who was fast to follow, and shot from distance!! Goooooal！！！ Strike!! The ball is in! Marseille broke through Bordeaux's goal in the opening minute only, strictly speaking it was less than a minute, it should have been more than 50 seconds, Marseille scored a goal in a scramble, it was incredible, Marseille's precedence. "There was a roar from Baptiste at the beginning of the game, and the Bordeaux fans who had just turned on the TV saw that their team was already behind, and looking at the time of just over 1 minute, did everything go wrong?

The Bordeaux players on the field were also shocked, they were attacked at the beginning and were scored!

Marseille coach Eric Gretz on the sidelines was cheering, all this developed according to his expectations, he arranged for the Marseille team to start with a scramble, if he could score a goal, Marseille's former coach Almont Eamon was out of class after coaching Marseille 9 rounds of league games, because his record was 1 win, 4 draws and 4 losses, it took several games after Gretz took over Marseille to make Marseille start to improve, but lost in the Champions League group stage with a good qualifying situation, Gretz wants to secure his managerial position at least one European place at the end of the season, preferably a Champions League place, so he has to fight for every game.

Marseille's strength is not necessarily much stronger than Bordeaux, or away from home, Marseille just happened to be out of the Champions League group stage morale is not high, you have to think of some way, the opening attack is not a way, the success of the attack can improve the morale of Marseille by the way to hit the opponent, and the chances of winning Bordeaux away are many.