Fernandez's tactics for Metz in this game were not set in stone, and he demanded that Metz launch a fierce attack on Lyon's heart as soon as they came up, although Metz lost the first two meetings this season because of their attack on Lyon. But this time it was different.

Fernandes asked his players to play against Lyon after the game started, but they didn't keep them battling for 90 minutes. His plan was to try to take advantage of the start of the game when Lyon was out of concentration and catch the opponent off guard. Strive for a goal, so that once the lead is established, you can shrink the defensive line and play a defensive counterattack with Lyon, and slowly grind down.

Leon must not have believed that after losing to them by two big scores in a row, Metz still dared to attack. No matter how you analyze it, Metz should play defensive counter-attack. If they really think so, Metz is happy to give them a "surprise".

In the pick-up before the start of the game, Lyon won the right to kick off. Metz had to wait patiently until possession shifted.

Lyon did not take their opponent Metz seriously at all. Generally speaking, after the start of the game, both sides should have a process of adjusting their state, finding the rhythm of the game, and testing each other. But in this game, Lyon, after kicking off, launched a fierce attack directly into the heart of Metz, which can be clearly seen in their passing style - they are not back-and-forth crosses, but more penetrating and risky forward passes.

Once Juninho got the ball, he passed it forward to young striker Karim Benzema, who started the game.

Because it was a cup competition and the opponent was not strong, Lyon did not play with a full squad in this game, and Lyon manager Houllier gave more opportunities to young players, such as he let Benzema and Ben. Alfa started at the same time, but on the defensive line he still sent the main team.

Karim Benzema is a very talented player and he is a bit more mature today than he was last season. I also have more appearances than last season. To date, he has made eleven league appearances for Lyon, scoring one goal. He made one appearance in the Champions League and scored his first goal in the Champions League. In five domestic cup appearances, he scored two goals.

Benzema is characterized by his speed, physical strength, good dribbling, good shooting and passing, well-rounded technique, and no obvious shortcomings.

Such a young striker is now the greatest pride of Lyon City, and the limelight even surpasses that of Ben, a talented player of his age. Alpha.

After getting the ball, Benzema faced the defense of Metz, without the slightest hesitation, he chose to force a breakthrough!

Benzema, who is confident in his technique and speed, has no regard for Metz's captain Bobiconi.

In fact, Bobiconi is not weak, but he still struggles against Benzema, a newborn calf.

As soon as he turned around, he was opened by Benzemara.

Benzema thought he would be able to break through the captain of Metz and run into the box. But he didn't expect another person to be next to him immediately - a dark-haired guy wearing the No. 8 jersey of Metz.

Chu Zhongtian has been staring at Benzema since Lyon's kickoff. Although Lyon also started the game with Brazilian Fred up front, his instincts told him that the young kid wearing the number 19 shirt was more threatening.

Sure enough, at the beginning, Juninho handed over the football to Benzema and did not give it to his Brazilian countryman.

From the moment the football was transferred to Benzema's side, Chu Zhongtian ran over, and when he saw that captain Bobiconi was easily broken through, he also accelerated at the same time, blocking Benzema's running route on the inside, and let him continue to carry the ball to the corner flag area, otherwise he would have to force one-on-one with him - Chu Zhongtian is not afraid of such a duel.

"Benzema thought he had broken through, but now he is facing a difficult opponent - Chu! Chu is the playmaker at the heart of Metz's attack, but his attacking performance for a long time makes it easy to overlook the reality that he is actually a midfielder, and a defender who is good at defending. "After a season and a half, the French commentator is already fully familiar with Chu Zhongtian, a Chinese player. Now when they accept the game, there is no longer a situation where they completely ignore Chu Zhongtian's contribution - if they are obsessed with continuing to ignore Chu Zhongtian, then the game of the Metz team will basically be unable to explain.

"Chu is squeezing Benzema out ......"

Benzema was thinking about whether to force past this annoying person in front of him - he has now been squeezed to the side, he was in front of the big penalty area after he broke through Bobiconi, and now he is on the side of the big penalty area, which is too tragic.

If you don't break through, you can really only get a corner. This is not the result that Benzema wants.

He suddenly made a sharp stop, intending to shake Chu Zhongtian away, and then burst into the penalty area from the inside. But just as he came to a sudden stop, he noticed that the Metz No. 8 on the inside also came to a sudden brake. As if they had agreed in advance, the two of them stopped at the same time!

Benzema was a little surprised, he felt that he didn't have any obvious signs before the emergency stop, and he didn't even slow down at all in order to deceive his opponent...... How did that kid guess?

How did he know that when he was about to make an emergency stop, Chu Zhongtian's intuition told him about it, so at the same time as Benzema stopped urgently, no, even before he made an emergency stop, Chu Zhongtian's brain had already ordered his body to slow down and make an emergency stop...... I stopped the other party in a hurry but was not fooled, and it was difficult to break through again. Normally, a striker with the ball at this time should return the ball to his team-mate and then cut through the position and look for the next opportunity.

But Benzema didn't, he was confident in his skills. Even in such a situation, he still intends to force himself.

started again, and Chu Zhongtian also started, continuing to get stuck in the inner line, squeezing him outside.

Benzema intends to rush near the baseline this time and slip in from the baseline.

This time, when he made a feint to break through again, Chu Zhongtian did not cooperate with him to be shaken, but directly tackled! He made a very decisive tackle, without the slightest hesitation, and stomped at the football between Benzema's legs!

Looking at Chu Zhongtian's aggressive tackle, Benzema retreated slightly because he was worried about injury, his right leg should have been riding the football behind Chu Zhongtian, but because he was worried that Chu Zhongtian's tackle would break his ankle, he retracted his foot.

Chu Zhongtian seized this opportunity, fell sideways to the ground, and hooked the football to his feet.

Tackle the ball!

Benzema dodged to the side to avoid the tackle. Chu Zhongtian didn't give him a chance to turn around and grab back, and quickly got up from the ground.

In fact, when Benzema saw that the football was not shoveled out of the bottom line by the opponent but stayed in the stadium, he turned around and grabbed the ball as soon as possible, but he obviously underestimated the speed at which Chu Zhongtian got up from the ground. When he turned around, Chu Zhongtian had already completed the action of getting up to protect the ball. Then Benzema couldn't help it, and the slightest movement of him when he was stuck in a position could have been a foul.

Chu Zhongtian's success in cutting off Benzema's ball made the Metz fans in the stands cheer for a while, and the commentator was also full of praise for Chu Zhongtian's leaky defense this time.

Cutting off Benzema's ball is nothing remarkable, but breaking it off and not letting the ball go out of bounds and regaining possession is a test of skill.

Chu Zhongtian, who broke the ball, did not continue to dribble the ball, Lyon's fullbacks and full-backs rushed up, plus one Benzema, and the three of them were bound to form a circle around him. He successfully cut off Benzema's ball before, and if he was cut off by the opponent again, he would be a hero.

Chu Zhongtian saw Bobiconi who came back to pick him up, so he passed the football out of the crack, and then ran forward by himself.

In this way, the Metz team got possession of the ball just a minute into the game.

The Metz team, who regained the ball, began to carry out the tactics that had been laid out before the game - to play against Lyon!

※※※ Chu Zhongtian always kept his thoughts in mind: his teammates are not confident enough to defeat Lyon, so he and Ribery, Menez and a few others need to bring up their confidence for everyone.

Coach Fernandez's tactics are very good for him - to use the opening period to attack and cause problems for Lyon, so that his teammates can see that Lyon is not an invincible giant.

He doesn't believe Lyon can be better than Chelsea, and he doesn't think Metz is inferior to an amateur team at the moment.

Chu Zhongtian ran to the midfield and left the position of the back midfield. However, he did not see Mahamadou. The scene of Diarra running towards him, as Lyon did not start Diarra in this game, and not only that, but they did not even start any of the midfielders. The four men who started in midfield were Thiago in the middle and three attacking forwards, Ben on the left. Alpha, Juninho in the middle, Govu on the right.

The four midfielders are full of attacking power, but they are miserable defensively.

The only one who can defend is Thiago, who is not yet a full-time defensive player.

Therefore, when Chu Zhongtian ran up, only Thiago was watching him from a distance, but he did not force him up at the first time. Thiago is not the main player of Lyon this season, he has not played against Chu Zhongtian on the field, and his understanding of Chu Zhongtian may come more from the media and some instructions from the coach, and lack of first-hand information.

He obviously didn't know anything about Chu Zhongtian's power.

Juninho knew very well what Chu Zhongtian was, he withdrew from the position of attacking forward, turned around and ran towards Chu Zhongtian, ready to interfere with Chu Zhongtian when he received the ball, or directly cut the ball, if he could.

After Chu Zhongtian received a pass from his teammate Promans, he did not carry the ball more, but passed it to Menez in front. The attack was organized by Menez.

Menez's position is somewhere between a midfielder and a striker, and can be used as both a midfielder and a striker. How he handles the ball is completely his business, and Chu Zhongtian doesn't care. Anyway, Coach Fernandez has already told Menez to be decisive in handling the ball and not dragging the ground. Chu Zhongtian believes that with Menez's talent, doing this well is enough to threaten Lyon's goal.

Menez hung in and faked the pass, got past Chris, and then passed the ball. It's a pity that Ibisevic and Menez didn't think to go together, they ran away when he faked the first pass, and when Menez passed the ball again, the Bosnian was already offside.

After that, Chu Zhongtian quickly handed the ball to Menez and asked him to complete the task of organizing the attack.

Lyon's players are beginning to realise that the attacking playmaker of this match is not Chu Zhongtian, but Menez, the young talent who is on par with their "Lyon Twin Stars".

Juninho was a little surprised, but he quickly reacted - that Chu Zhongtian's task might be to defend himself? He thought of the scene where he fought Chu Zhongtian for the first time. As soon as the game began, Chu Zhongtian rushed up to himself and introduced himself to him that impressed him.

In the end, the Chinese player, who called himself "Chu Zhongtian", equalized with a header and took a point from the Stadium in Gersland.

He was very successful defending himself in the first half, and it looks like the manager of Metz still had that idea...... In the subsequent game, Chu Zhongtian's performance also proved this - every time Juninho took the ball, it was Chu Zhongtian who went up to mark him, not Promans.

※※※ In fact, Menez himself was quite surprised, before the game, Coach Fernandez asked him and Chu Zhongtian to decide who would be in charge of the organization according to the situation. If Chu Zhongtian is closely guarded by the other party, he will come by himself, and if he is taken care of by the other party, Chu Zhongtian will come. But seven or eight minutes into the game, he felt that Chu Zhongtian basically didn't have any defensive pressure...... But since Chu Zhongtian wants to let himself organize the attack, then come. He's not afraid to take responsibility.

It's just that the cooperation between himself and Ibisevic and others is not yet the point. Coach Fernandes let him handle the ball cleanly before the game. He was very obedient and clean, but he didn't master the timing and rhythm of the pass. Either you pass it early, or your teammates run early.

In terms of the control of the team and the timing of passing, he is really not as good as Chu Zhongtian, although he can use his feet to bumble oranges, but Chu Zhongtian can't. But what's the use of that in the game?

Chu Zhongtian has been hiding behind the scenes, carefully observing Lyon's defensive position in this game and Thiago, an opponent he is not very familiar with.

In the past, when he received the ball, Juninho would come up and defend it, but now he basically cares about it. Thiago, on the other hand, has focused more on the more active Menez in defence. Although Menez hasn't had much of a good performance since the start of the game, I believe that Benzema and Ben before the game. Alpha must have warned their Portuguese team to pay special attention to this kid their age.

When Chu Zhongtian observed for eight minutes, he finally decided to take over the banner of leading the team.

Menez is actually just using it as a shield, misleading the opponent into thinking that he will only defend with peace of mind in this game, and the real playmaker is Menez.

In reality, this is not the case.

When the Metz team attacked again, Chu Zhongtian waved for the ball in the center circle. Ribery saw Chu Zhongtian take the initiative to ask for the ball for the first time in this game, and he knew what he was going to do. So he passed the football back without superiority.

When Chu Zhongtian received the ball, Lyon's midfielder Thiago still focused on Menez, who was running laterally.

Menez is indeed reaching out to Chu Zhongtian for the ball, which confirms the speculation of the Lyon players - the core of this game Metz is Menez's boy!

Chu Zhongtian raised his foot and made a move to push the football to Menez, and Thiago ran towards Menez in advance. Thus getting out of the way.

Chu Zhongtian retracted his feet the moment he kicked the football, and after shaking a shot, he turned the football forward, and he wanted to take the ball and smash Huanglong!

Thiago was shocked, and hurriedly turned around and pounced on Chu Zhongtian again. Seeing him moving closer to him, Chu Zhongtian kicked the football with the outside instep to Menez, who was pulled to the side, in the process of dribbling the ball.

After passing the ball, Chu Zhongtian did not stop, but accelerated and rushed in, seeing that he was going to play a two-to-one game with Menez.

Thiago did not follow Chu Zhongtian, but went to fill the position of central defender Chris. Because Chris saw Menez get the ball, he pushed it out, so that the area he was originally responsible for was empty.

Thiago has to make sure that this one gap will not be exploited by his opponents.

It was at this time that Menez passed the ball between Chris and Thiago. The direction of the pass is Chu Zhongtian!

The second Lyon centre-back, Brazilian Kacapa, pounced on Menez when he passed the ball to Chu Zhongtian, and he knew that Chu Zhongtian would receive the ball, and then he might shoot from distance, maybe pass to Menez, who was playing a one-two with him...... So he must not catch the ball.

Kakapaco is different from Thiago, he has played against Chu Zhongtian three times, Chu Zhongtian scored a goal against them last season, and Essien, who replaced him as the starting central defender at that time, did not prevent Chu Zhongtian and let the kid score a header, and he has been paying attention to Chu Zhongtian since then.

He knew that Chu Zhongtian was a dangerous person who could be ranked in the top three at present, and he had to guard against it.

Ibisevic was in front of Chu Zhongtian's diagonal front, looking like he was about to receive the ball, and Menez, who had finished passing the ball, continued to insert in, really looking like he was going to be one with Chu Zhongtian's sophomore.

Just when everyone thought that Chu Zhongtian would catch the ball and send the football to the area in front of him, he spread his legs and stepped straight over the football!

Kakapa didn't expect Chu Zhongtian to choose to leak the ball at all! Could it be that he has eyes behind his back and knows that he is going to come up to defend him?

The ball swiped in front of Kakapa, his gaze turning to the space behind him. In the space he left behind, a red figure appeared, he didn't see the man's face, but he saw his number—ten!

"Frank. Ribery! He received the ball in the box and shot! ”

Houllier will be glad he didn't take Kupe off the starting lineup when he decided on the starting lineup ahead of this game. Because in the face of Ribery, it was a sudden shot and it was Kupe who made a wonderful save and pulled the ball out of the line with the tips of his fingers!

"Brilliant save! Gregory. Kupe! I didn't expect the most threatening attack after the start of the game to come from Metz! Franck Franck Franck Ribery's shot almost gave the visitors a goal! ”

Kakapa, on the other hand, looked at Chu Zhongtian, who was very disappointed with his head in his hands.

First of all, it was a beautiful attacking combination, and secondly, he was played by this number eight, and again, if it wasn't for Kupe's excellent performance, Lyon would have fallen behind at home!

He suddenly understood, what Menez is the core player of this game, fake! Mace has never changed commanders, and their real commander is still this number eight, Chu!

(To be continued)