Chapter 142: So They're Here
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No one guessed correctly that Chu Zhongtian would shoot with his feet after making a move to break inside, so when Chu Zhongtian suddenly shot, Ledley, who was defending him. Kim and Paul, who is in charge of goalkeeping. Robinson, none of them reacted. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. biquge。 info
Football streaks across Ridley. When Jin was around, he realized that Chu Zhongtian was shooting, not a pass.
Robinson was even worse, as a goalkeeper, he should have been fully focused on preventing the opposition from shooting. But when he saw that it was Chu Zhongtian who took the ball, he would always glance at the other players of Mace. He knew that Chu Zhongtian was the core of Mace's organization, and many goals were planned by him. So he didn't think that Chu Zhongtian would shoot at all, so he became an unlucky goalkeeper who had to pick up the ball from the goal three times in a game.
He lay down on the ground, staring at the sky in a daze, letting the cold rain fall on his face. The soccer ball lay in front of him on the side of his head.
Behind him, there is the stand where Metz fans gather. The people there were bouncing around and cheering for the goal. Looking at Robinson who was close at hand, they gloated.
Chu Zhongtian, who scored the goal, bypassed Ridley, who was standing. Kim, running to the stands behind the billboard, where it was all crimson. He didn't have to worry about celebrating and being hit with a hard object by the people in the stands. He ran to the billboard and shook his fist at the people in the stands.
He was thrilled because he knew that Mace had already advanced to the semi-finals!
"Glasgow! Glasgow!! The Metz fans in the stands were even more ambitious, chanting the names of the cities where the final was being held, as if their team had already qualified for the final.
Tottenham's White Hart Lane stadium has a capacity of 36,200 people, and this game came with about 33,000 Tottenham fans, with fewer than 3,000 Metz fans and a few hundred neutral fans.
Before Chu Zhongtian's goal, the White Hart Lane stadium was the territory of Tottenham fans, they kept singing and cheering, and booing, just like dogs like to pee to show that this is their territory, and Tottenham fans also used this way to tell Metz fans from afar that this is their territory, don't want to do any tricks here.
But when Chu Zhongtian scored, their protection of the territory failed, and the White Hart Lane Stadium became the world of Metz fans.
They sang and danced and cheered for their team's advance to the semi-finals.
Joining them were the people from Wimbledon, who shouted Chu Zhongtian's name after singing "its_my_chu".
Terry. Eames also heard the song, and instead of being surprised by it, he laughed.
Chu Zhongtian came back to play the game, how could his former friends not come to see him?
He didn't sing along with the fans, but he stood in the middle of a crowd of Tottenham fans and applauded Chu Zhongtian's goal. When a Tottenham fan glared at him, he shrugged his shoulders and said to the man: "We were eliminated, but don't you think it's really a good goal?" ”
"It's not over yet!" The Tottenham fan shouted angrily.
Eames ignored him and he understood the mood of the Tottenham fans.
After a while, the old man turned to him and said, "But it's really wonderful......
※※※ When Chu Zhongtian waved his fist at the Metz fans under the stands, the players of Metz also rushed up and surrounded him. They slapped Chu Zhongtian's shoulders, back, and head vigorously.
"Haha! Well done, Chu! You're fucking beautiful! Did you see those stunned Tottenham players? I love their expressions! ”
'Now they have lost all hope and they have to score four goals in the remaining time, but it's absolutely impossible!'
"Yes, if we let Tottenham score four goals in 26 minutes, it would be the biggest insult to us!" The man who said this was the centre-back Sammy. Traore.
"We've won, guys! It's a win! ”
"Where do you go next? Glasgow? ”
"Go ahead! Go to Glasgow! Go to Hampton Park! ”
After celebrating their goal, the Metz players dispersed and ran back to their respective positions.
And Chu Zhongtian looked up and searched in the stands, looking for his old friends who had sung and cheered him up before.
It's a pity that the time was short, and he didn't find out. He could only wave his hand at the stands and beat his heart, indicating that they had received this friendship.
"Chu scored his second goal in the League Cup, and although it didn't score much, it helped the team seal the win completely. Tottenham would have to score four goals in a row in the remaining time to progress, and not allow Metz to score again, which I think even the most hardcore Tottenham fans would think is impossible......
"Tottenham have been sentenced to death by Chu's goal! While this may be upset for Tottenham fans, I have to say: the game has been in garbage time since then! ”
'It was a crucial goal and when they were two goals down, the Spurs players were confident of equalising because Metz did it when they were two goals down in the first half. But three balls...... Completely shattered the confidence of the Tottenham players! Four goals in a row? I don't think it's going to be done! ”
Commentators from all over the world are expressing their opinions and commenting on Chu Zhongtian's goal. almost one-sided praise of Chu Zhongtian.
It's a pity that the UEFA Cup matches are not broadcast in China, so there are no Chinese in the commentator team here. But it doesn't matter, several local TV stations in China are said to be considering buying the broadcast rights for this season's UEFA Cup final, and as long as Chu Zhongtian's Mace can reach the final, they will do it.
Although CCTV will still not broadcast the League Cup, fans across China will be able to watch Chinese players in the League Cup final through their own provincial TV stations, and Chu Zhongtian will also become the first Chinese player to reach the final of the three major European cups - counting the cancelled European Cup Winners' Cup, in the history of several decades, there has not been a single yellow-skinned and black-haired Chinese player in the finals of the three major cups. Chu Zhongtian will be the first person, such a great gimmick, even if he spends more money to buy the broadcast rights, it will be a sure profit for the TV stations.
After the restart, it was clear that the Tottenham players had not recovered from the blow of conceding the third goal and were sleepwalking on the pitch.
And their head coach Martin. Joel wasn't much better, standing on the sidelines in despair, not knowing how to make adjustments to the team. In fact, I don't blame him, in the current situation, it is useless to make any adjustments. To score four goals in 26 minutes is too low...... If Tottenham can really do that, he'll go buy a lottery ticket tomorrow.
How exactly do Tottenham players fall into sleepwalking? Look at their Jenas actually passing the football directly to the feet of Jaiovi, and you can see it.
Yayiovi, who received the ball, was still a little surprised and didn't know what to do, and then he heard Chu Zhongtian shouting behind him: "Pass the ball to me!" ”
The Boyovi Union kicked the ball back with his heel.
After Chu Zhongtian received the ball, he organized an attack again, and after three passes and two downs, the football fell to the feet of Ibisevic. Ibisevic forced a turn to shoot, Robinson pounced, the ball hit the post and bounced back, only to bounce back into Robinson's arms, and he didn't do anything, and the ball was back in his hands.
"Ahh Tottenham's luck is really good, otherwise this goal will be scored again, it will be 4:0! What a pity! ”
'The whole Tottenham team is sleepwalking, only their goalposts are still fighting...... It's ironic! ”
"I'll hit the Spurs post after the game to give them the team's highest score!"
Losers have no human rights, everyone can ridicule them wantonly, who calls them bad?
It's also a pity that Ibisevic didn't score, and he put his head in his hands. He got boos from the Tottenham fans – you've all scored three goals, what do you want? Isn't it too many goals?
Martin. Joel was woken up by Ibisevic's shot and rushed to the sidelines to shout at the Tottenham players inside: "What are you doing! Cheer me up! Cheer up! Attack, attack!! ”
Tottenham's players also felt that their previous performances were too amateurish, and in any case, the game was not over yet, so they still had to work hard. Regardless of whether the final result is satisfactory or not, at least there will be no regrets after working hard.
So Tottenham launched a slightly tragic counterattack, launching wave after wave of attacks on Metz's goal amid the singing of Tottenham fans.
There is a lot of pressure on Jayovi as a defensive midfielder. Tottenham players can see that among the two midfielders, Yaiovi's ability is the worst, and Chu Zhongtian's side is the strongest. Of course, the persimmons were going to pick up the soft pinch, so they rushed to the area that Yaiove was in charge of. Chu Zhongtian naturally saw it, he often went over to help, but if he always left his defensive area and went to help Yayiovi, there would be problems after a long time.
At this time, let's. Fernandes made his first substitution of the game, replacing Jayovi with a newly injured Promans to strengthen the midfield defence.
When Promans came on the court, he wanted Chu Zhongtian to give him a thumbs up, and Chu Zhongtian smiled at him. The old midfield partner is back. Although Jayovi also worked hard, the difference in strength did not make him perform so well in the game, and he was not a full-time defensive midfielder himself, and he played awkwardly on his own. Chu Zhongtian had to devote more energy to helping Yayiovi in the game.
Now that Promans has returned from injury, although Chu Zhongtian will lose the captain's armband because of this, he can organize the attack more calmly in the game.
Promans had just come on the pitch and told his Tottenham players with a vicious tackle that they would have to reassess the risks and rewards of attacking in the area now that the area has been replaced.
Tottenham did reassess as soon as they stopped focusing on Promans and reverted to the wings.
Joel also made his substitutions, bringing on Defoe for Bulgarian striker Dimitar Berbatov, who had repeatedly wasted chances and did little to contribute to the team other than his slick shots.
Defoe is fast, so Metz has adapted to Defoe's characteristics. Let. Fernandes demanded that the whole team shrink the defensive line, and the full-backs were not allowed to assist, compressing the space for players like Defoe to get the ball, so that he could not sprint, and naturally could not play his characteristics.
Anyway, now that the team is leading 3:0 away from home and 5:2 on aggregate, it is impossible to lose the game, so Fernandes no longer plays any beautiful attacking football, but is conservative.
Victory is all that matters.
For the rest of the game, it was Tottenham who kept Metz down. Metz, on the other hand, retreated with all his might, and Fernandes replaced Menez with Bobiconi to continue to strengthen the defence. Fernandez brought on a defender, Martin. Joel replaced him with a striker, and he replaced Mido, who was known as the "Egyptian Ibrahim".
By the last ten minutes of the game, Tottenham were still besieging Metz. And the Spurs fans in the stands are still cheering on their team. But at this point, everyone knew that it was impossible to come back and win and advance to the semi-finals, they just wanted to score a goal, even if it was just a goal, to prove that they didn't lose the game without resistance. At the very least, they were redeemed for their poor performance for most of the game.
But in the end, this wish was not realized.
The Spurs players don't have the patience to organise the attack and cooperate with their teammates, and the first thought that comes to mind when someone has the ball at their feet is always - shoot!
It doesn't matter where you are, how far you are from the goal, what is going on around you, how many defenders you have, you just want to shoot when you get the ball.
This kind of attack is like buying a lottery ticket and hoping to score a goal with 20 shots, but football is not a matter of probability. It's not that the side with more shots will necessarily score more goals.
This kind of uncoordinated attack did not threaten the door of Metz at all, and apart from the occasional few high-quality long-range shots, more long-range shots were just a vent to the Spurs players' excess energy.
Originally, Metz's possession rate was higher than that of Tottenham, and the number of shots on goal was also high. But in the last twenty minutes, Tottenham turned those technical statistics on their heads. Because Metz have given up on attack, Tottenham can dominate possession for most of the time, so they have slightly more possession than Metz. In terms of the number of shots on goal, it's even more impressive. Originally, Tottenham had only six shots on goal in the first 70 minutes. But by the end of the game, their tally had been 21, surpassing Metz's 13.
If you just look at the statistics, outsiders will think that Metz can win 3-0 because they are lucky, but in fact, football matches cannot be judged by statistics to simply judge the process. Only those who watched the whole game will know that Metz deserved to win this game, while Tottenham did not lose unjustly at all.
Tottenham didn't score a single goal when the referee blew the final whistle for the game, having their heads shaved at their home turf.
The Metz players hugged tightly in the rain in London to celebrate their progress to the semi-finals.
"It's over! The game is over! Metz beat Tottenham 3-0 away to advance to the semi-finals with an aggregate score of 5:2! ”
"Two seasons ago, Metz was a small team that was aiming for relegation every season. Four seasons ago, they struggled in the second division. Who would have thought that Metz would now be able to qualify for the semi-finals of the UEFA Cup? ”
"Metz are going on in the UEFA Cup, they are the only spark in French football!"
"Frank. Ribery, Jermaen. Menez and Chu Zhongtian, the three players known as the 'Three Musketeers of Metz' by the media, played one after another in the game, and their performance determined the outcome of the game. And if Metz wants to go further in the UEFA Cup and walk all the way to Hampton Park in Glasgow, he will have to rely on the strength of the three of them. ”
The TV camera swept over the three people one after another, and finally froze on Chu Zhongtian.
"Yay!" Kang Jianbo, who could only watch the live broadcast of the game through the Internet in front of the computer, clenched his fists and waved. The Metz team advanced to the semi-finals, Chu Zhongtian scored, and Kang Jianbo was able to be in a good mood for the next week.
※※※ After the game, the Metz players celebrated everywhere, but most of them gathered under the stands where the Metz fans gathered.
Chu Zhongtian was there at first, and after expressing his gratitude to the fans, he changed places and continued to applaud and thank him.
And so he walked with his hands clapping.
"Hey, look, it's Chu! He's coming towards our stands! The people of Wimbledon were excited, they only had Chu Zhongtian in their sight, so it was easy to see Chu Zhongtian's movements.
Boss John saw Chu Zhongtian walking towards the bottom of the stands where they were, and suddenly took off the poncho.
"Hey, old man! What are you doing? Aren't you afraid of catching a cold? Look you're all wet......" Bent was taken aback by John's actions, he didn't know why John was doing it.
Boss John didn't answer, but took off the blue Wimbledon jersey on his body. Then he said to the person in front: "Pass down, hand it to Chu!" ”
Bent then understood what John was trying to do.
The blue jersey was passed down one by one by the people in the stands.
When Chu Zhongtian passed by this stand, he was stopped by a stranger: "Hey, Chu! Wait a minute, wait a minute! ”
Chu Zhongtian stopped and pointed at himself: "Are you calling me?" ”
The man nodded vigorously, and then handed the thing in his hand to Chu Zhongtian. "Someone up there asked me to give this to you." As he spoke, he pointed above himself.
Chu Zhongtian followed his fingers and looked over, just in time to see Boss John on the upper body of the light and the familiar faces around him - Uncle Bent, Uncle Jackson, Little Phil...... And his team-mates at Wimbledon, Joe. Schilling, Andy. Sullivan, Kevin. Cooper ...... He laughed - it turned out that they were here.
Instead of taking the jersey right away, he took off the wet Metz jersey and exchanged it for something in the man's hand.
"Give this to them." He also pointed upwards.
When the jersey was passed up, Chu Zhongtian shook off the crumpled clothes, and it was a blue Wimbledon jersey.
Then he put the jersey on his body in front of them. The Wimbledonians in the stands burst into cheers.
"Welcome back to London, Chu!"
"This dress fits perfectly, haha!"
"Chu, play beautifully, keep up the good work!"
Chu Zhongtian waved his hand to the enthusiastic ones. Then he pulled the crest on the left chest of his jersey and kissed it with his head down.
Then he looked up and thumped his hand his chest.
I'm a maniac!
(To be continued)