The Champions League has been postponed, and Reeves, who has returned to the league with accolades, is in trouble.

In the eighth round of Ligue 1, Lille hosted last season's eighth-placed Nice team, although the Blue Coast team ranked far lower than Lille in the last league, but the difference between the two was only 4 points, and at the same time reached the final of last season's League Cup, the strength should not be underestimated.

After coaching Lens last year, he built this small team into a team with great tactical execution, standing out from the perennial relegation zone and finishing eighth in Ligue 1 and runners-up in the League Cup.

Antonetti also has an identity, that is, Ancelotti's cousin.

The day after Milan's draw away from Lille, coach Carlo Ancelotti did not return to Italy with the team, but received a warm welcome from Antonetti.

While enjoying the food, Ancelotti talked about his cousin's next opponent - the Lille team, and Ancelotti was a little unwilling to beat the Lille team, and he decided to give his cousin some tricks to heal his wounded heart.

Several weaknesses of the Lille team were pointed out, and Ancelotti was still unsatisfied, and Reeves was also pointed out to the weaknesses.

'Reeves' kid has a lot of skill at his feet and if the ball goes to his feet it's going to be dangerous and it's hard for your players to defend him completely. So you have to keep the ball at his feet. ”

'It's not hard to do that, his header is a weakness, his team-mates give him the ball at his feet, you just have to put people on the ground. If he gets the ball, then he doesn't have to rush too much, pile up the defense to break through, put long shots and passes, he is not Ronaldo, let him burst out. ”

According to his cousin's intelligence, Antonetti tailored a set of tactics to defend Reeves.

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1 October 2006, Stade de Lille

The weather was cool, but Reeves was irritable because he didn't have a good game.

The underdogs in his eyes, Nice, gave him a slap in the face, and the tight and targeted marking made Reeves disappear from the broadcast camera.

When Lille attacked, there was always a defender on the line between the ball and Reeves, blocking Reeves' path to receive the ball.

In addition, the Nice team arranged a defender named Kante to mark closely in this game, this Kante is not the meritorious defender of Leicester City's miraculous championship in the future, just the same name, but it is also very difficult, fast and dirty. When Reeves was off the ball, N'Golo Kante stayed on his feet, and when Reeves had the ball at his feet, several defenders near him quickly closed in on him, and of course, there was a player on the perimeter of the encirclement who was lagging behind.

So in the game, Reeves, who was invisible most of the time, only had a chance to touch the ball through counter-tackles, but Reeves, who grabbed the ball, quickly gave away the ball again.

For example, near the end of the first half, Bodmeier's long-range shot was blocked by the Nice goalkeeper, the ball was cleared out of the box by the defender, and Nice striker Musilu received the ball at the edge of the box and was about to turn and dribble the ball to counterattack, Reeves took advantage of it and cut the ball away from behind. However, as soon as he took two steps with the ball, he fell into a siege, and the ball was quickly taken away by the opponent.

There are many ways to break down this kind of targeted defense, and tacit passing and flexible breakthroughs are very effective.

But neither of these things is something that Reeves can do now.

Tacit passing requires solid passing skills first, which Reeves does not lack, but he also needs to be familiar with the movement of his teammates, which Reeves lacks.

Flexible breakthroughs are even more difficult to achieve, and passing can be achieved through long hours of team training, and flexible breakthroughs are completely incompatible with Reeves' breakthrough style. Reaves is not the type to change direction in small steps, and he is not flexible enough, and it is difficult to get past multiple defenders in a small area to take the ball out.

Reeves, who lacks these two points, is no threat under Nice's targeted defense.

So Reeves was impatient, impatient like never before, he couldn't see hope, he felt like he was in a quagmire, struggling to no avail, but sinking deeper and deeper.

So far, in 60 minutes of play, he has 2 shots on goal and two long-range shots that are not on the line, which is a losing statistic for a striker.

Reeves never imagined that he would be in trouble with the small team of Nice.

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Nice coach Antonetti was very satisfied with the defense against Reeves today, this talent touted by the outside world made him very jealous before the game, no one has yet found a way to freeze Reeves, and he has not been sure of this before. It wasn't until his cousin Ancelotti taught him that he was a little relieved, after all, his cousin's reputation was over there, and his team had played against each other, so he knew this talented boy very well. Antonetti believes that according to his cousin's method, he will definitely be able to freeze Reeves.

And now, he really did it himself, successfully freezing Reeves, which has not been done by many strong teams in Ligue 1.

Although there is credit to his cousin's intelligence, it is his own team that freezes him after all, and Antonetti is full of complacency.

As for the frustrated Reeves on the field, Antonetti has no mercy, there will always be people who will be frustrated, and this is the case in professional games.

Lille coach Puel has a solemn expression on his face, he knows Reeves' weaknesses, and he also knows that these weaknesses will be caught sooner or later, but he didn't expect it to be so fast, Reeves' team training has just improved, but it is not enough to cope with the game, and today's performance on the field shows this. If you have enough tacit understanding with your teammates, you are not afraid of falling into the bag defense.

Puel looked at Antonetti, the head coach of the visiting team not far away, and he still underestimated this rookie coach, the other party studied Reeves very thoroughly, and studied Lille's tactics very deeply. It's not just Reeves, but other attack points are also restrained everywhere, and it's really strange how the two meetings last season didn't show that this guy's coaching ability is so outstanding.

Looking at the time on the scoreboard, it's only 60 minutes, but Puel has already moved the idea of replacing Reeves.

With Reeves locked up after another rebound, Puel finally made the decision to make a substitution.

Fowegue replaces Reeves!

Reeves saw that he was going to be replaced, he shook his head helplessly, he knew that this was the right decision, he couldn't help the team on the field at all, and some blamed himself for today's performance, this was the first time he performed so badly since he played the game, so that he felt shameless in the face of the fans who came to the stadium to cheer for him, Reeves lowered his head and walked to the sidelines.

But the home fans still gave Reeves a round of applause, the temporary downturn did not affect Reeves's status in the hearts of the fans, the fans' eyes were bright, Reeves was just affected by the opponent's target, he was as strong as ever on the field, crazy and ran at all costs, this attitude of the game deserves applause.

To the tolerant applause of the fans, Reeves and Forwegue, who replaced him, exchanged high-fives and walked to the bench.