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"With a 2-2 draw away and two away goals, Tottenham have a good chance of progressing to the semi-finals!" Highlights from the UEFA Cup match that just ended yesterday were on the TV. The pen is www.biquge.info to say that it is a "highlight", but in fact most of the time it is about Tottenham. The English media will not be interested in a team outside of their home country, and neither will the fans in England.

Therefore, thanks to Tottenham, everyone in the Wimbles bar was able to learn about Chu Zhongtian's latest situation.

'It's good I'm not a Tottenham fan.' Someone in the bar pointed to the TV and said, "I want Mace to make the cut!" ”

"But it looks difficult...... Tottenham have two away goals, and if Metz wants to advance, they will have to make sure they don't let Tottenham score at White Hart Lane and then score again......

"Fortunately, the result of their first round was not 0:2, otherwise Meske would really have no hope......

"Why do you have to let Metz advance? We're not Metz fans, I think as long as Chu plays well. ”

"You idiot! If Mace is eliminated, we won't be able to see Chu's game! ”

Someone taught him who said this.

UEFA Cup matches are televised live in England, while Ligue 1 is not. Because of the League Cup, the people at Wimbled's Bar watched several games of Chu Zhongtian, but if Metz was eliminated in the League Cup, then it would be impossible for them to watch Chu's game.

Now, because Metz is not playing well at home, Tottenham has taken the lead. After the match against Metz, the media in England were optimistic about Tottenham Hotspur's path to qualification.

In England, reports on the UEFA Cup are unanimously bullish on Tottenham. The entire Tottenham team themselves are full of confidence and hope to qualify for the semi-finals.

No, the TV show immediately cut to the footage of reporters interviewing Tottenham players after the game.

"Hey, Robbie, stop and answer a question!" The TV reporter warmly greeted Robbie as he walked down the pitch in the mixed area. Keane.

Keane obediently stopped and stood in front of the reporter's camera.

'You scored two goals away from home, did that help you qualify for the semi-finals?'

Keane nodded: "It's a big help, I was able to get two away goals so smoothly away from home, and to be honest, I didn't expect ......"

"So now are you confident that you can get the team to the semi-finals?"

Robbie. Keane laughed, "Of course! ”

The people in the Wimbles bar shouted again: "Mace is really bad luck this time!" ”

"Could this be the last time we see Chu this season?"

Boss John knocked the table, and the bar gradually fell silent, and everyone turned to look at the owner of the bar.

"I said guys, be quiet for me! The game hasn't started yet, so it's too early to say who wins and who loses, right? I think this is our chance, and in this difficult time, Chu needs to cheer us on! So when the time comes, in the stands of the White Hart Lane Stadium, everyone will give me all their energy to cheer for Chu! Boss John waved his fist and said, "Has anyone forgotten the song we wrote for Chu?" Sing it to him when the time comes! ”

The people in the bar laughed. That's a great idea!

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"From today until the day before the second leg of the League Cup, it's two practices a day." On the first day after the match, Fernandez announced his decision. "It's punishment. Punishment for that terrible forty-five minutes you guys last night. ”

Then, before the start of training, he said: "Let's not warm up first, let's watch the game video, and I will give you a good analysis of yesterday's game against Tottenham, what did you not do well." ”

He didn't mention the weekend against Monaco, which was a formidable opponent and was now ignored by Fernandes, not because he was proud of his opponent, but because he wasn't ready for the weekend's league game at all.

Now the team's UEFA Cup journey has reached a very critical moment, and the slightest negligence could say goodbye to the UEFA Cup. Now that the decision has been made to specialize in the League Cup and abandon the league, the league with Monaco will naturally not matter.

Fernandes wants everyone to know how difficult the team is right now.

In the weekend's game against Monaco, he rested his squad and sent on the second team, only to lose 1-2 away from home. Fortunately, Metz's other rivals in the league either lost or drew in this round of the league, so Metz's ranking has not changed, and it is still fifth.

After the match against Monaco, Metz returned to home for two days of training before departing for London to take on Tottenham Hotspur away and to challenge fate at the same time.

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When the plane landed at London Heathrow Airport, Chu Zhongtian loosened his seat belt and then stretched. He's back again, and he hasn't been here since returning to London for Christmas break in his first season at Metz. If you do the math, it's been almost two and a half years.

I wonder what happened to the old friends at the Wimbles bar. Wimbledon he still cares, because the team has an official website. Although the team is amateur, the website is very dedicated, and every game will have a live report with text and pictures, including the players on both sides, the time of the goal, the time of the substitutions, which player received a yellow card, and which player was sent off...... All of these are much more professional than Mace's official website...... The game-related section of Metz's official website doesn't have anything else to say about the matches and line-ups.

Thanks to the website, Chu Zhongtian can also keep abreast of the situation at Wimbledon. He knew that in the season he left, that is, in the 04-05 season, Wimbledon Athletic played in the Ismien First Division, and finally promoted to the Ismien Premier League as the champion, which is the seventh division, only two levels away from the professional league.

However, in the 05-06 season, the team suffered Waterloo, finishing fourth in the Ismien Premier League, and eventually losing in the promotion play-offs.

The season is almost over, the team is currently fifth, and if nothing else, will also participate in this season's promotion play-offs, but it is not known if the team will eventually be able to cross the play-off hurdle.

Although Chu Zhongtian has left the team, Wimbledon Athletic is where his football career started, and his two seasons here have allowed him to meet many people, opening a door to another wider and more exciting world in front of his eyes. So he has a lot of affection for this team, and even if he leaves the team and is no longer a Wimbledon player, he keeps an eye on this team because he is now a Wimbledon fan.

Every year he donates to the club's fan foundation in his own name and now goes to Wimbledon to send a list of donors and his name. At the same time, as a contributing member of the foundation, he also has a voting right, but he never uses it......

Like him, Emily, who is currently busy filming in the United States. Emily is a veteran of the Fan Foundation, donating to the foundation every year since the team's inception, and as she became famous, she made more and more donations.

It's a pity that Chu Zhongtian came to London to compete, not to travel to London, otherwise he could have gone back to Wimbledon to see his old friends in the Wimbledon bar, and then watch a Wimbledon game.

As the team walked out along the exit passage, light boxes of London's famous attractions were hung on the walls on both sides of the passage.

Ribery took a look: "London, ha!" Chu, you're back at home! ”

'My home is at Wimbledon, not in north London. Chu Zhongtian shrugged. London is big, and even if Mace's teammates want him to be a tour guide in London, he can only refuse, because he is only familiar with Wimbledon. He spent several years in London, and he never even set foot in most places except Wimbledon.

"It's a shame." Hearing him say this, Ribery muttered, "I thought there would be some Englishmen cheering us on......"

"Don't be delusional, Frank." The person who answered the conversation was captain Bobicon one, "You know, the British are the ones they hate the most are us French." It's a real away game, we only have 2,000 fans, and if you want to cheer us on, they don't have enough ......."

The White Hart Lane Stadium can accommodate 36,200 people, and 2,000 people is not enough compared to 34,200 people.

Fans in England are known for their fanaticism, and this game is really hard to play.

After coming out of the airport, the team arrived at the hotel by bus, took a short rest, and after dinner, the whole team went to the White Hart Lane Stadium for training to adapt to the venue.

Why do you choose to train in the evening, because tomorrow's game time is in the evening, so in order for the players to have a feeling of playing, the warm-up training is also scheduled at about the same time. This helps to regulate the physical function of the players to the time period of the game, which is also a simple means of scientific training to adjust the state of the players - if the physical condition is not good, the game state is naturally not good.

Just like when Chu Zhongtian first arrived in Metz to play the reserve team game, he was very tired, because his physical function did not adapt to the schedule of the weekend game. It took a few months of training to get used to the rhythm – at the end of the week, when my body was at peak for the game. After Monday's game, he was in the worst physical condition and went into a rest period, and a midweek match will be used to adjust his physical condition, adjust to the rhythm of the game, and let the body reach a small peak. Then rest and recover, and by the end of the week there will be a big explosion. That's why the frequent double games of the week can affect the physical condition of the players, so much so that it is very common for teams to say that the players are not in good shape when they are faced with a busy schedule, because their body's automatic adjustment system is disordered and cannot explode when needed.

When the players of the Metz team warmed up at the White Hart Lane Stadium with the flood lights turned on, they encountered a lot of media.

To the surprise of the Metz players, they found that the French media were as numerous as the English media playing at home.

One by one, French reporters with big noses rushed up and asked the Metz players in French with local accents: "You have conceded two goals at home, and it is difficult to play away, what are your countermeasures?" ”

"Are you confident of making the cut?"

"What are the team's plans at the moment?"

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In addition to French reporters and British reporters, there were also several reporters with Asian faces, Chu Zhongtian thought at first they were all here to interview him, but he found that some of them were not exactly the same as Chinese. Although those differences may not seem different to Westerners at all, East Asians themselves can distinguish them. Those raw faces have smaller eyes, a more collapsed nose, and smaller mouths than the Chinese.

Chu Zhongtian recalled it in his mind, and then found a suitable template specimen from the memory bank and matched it with the few people in front of him - Koreans.

He once had a South Korean teammate, although Ahn Jung-hwan does not look like that, and is not ugly from the perspective of Chinese aesthetics, but most of the South Korean reporters who go to the outside of the Holy Mountain Fulian Stadium and training base to interview Ahn Jung-hwan look like this.

So these people are South Korean journalists, and they are supposed to be here to interview Tottenham's South Korean player, Lee Young-pyo.

But it's strange, it's Metz who is adapting to the venue now, and it's not Tottenham, Li Rongpyo is probably still in the hotel room at this time, why did these South Korean reporters come to the White Hart Lane stadium?

He soon understood why.

In the free interview with the players after the training, Chu Zhongtian had just finished answering the questions of the Chinese reporter, and a South Korean reporter came up and asked Chu Zhongtian in a not very sharp French: "What about this 'Asian Derby'......"

Chu Zhongtian was stunned by the other party's first sentence - "Asian Derby"? What a big spirit...... But why is this an Asian derby?

The journalist continued: "...... In the first meeting with Tottenham, what do you think of South Korea's Lee Young-pyo? ”

Dare to love because of this...... Chu Zhongtian figured it out. It turned out that because there was an Asian player like him in the Metz team, and there was also an Asian player Li Rongpyo in the Tottenham team, so this game became the "Asian Derby", and it seems that the indiscriminate use of "Derby" is not only in the Chinese media, but also in the South Korean media......

Chu Zhongtian thought about Li Rongpyo's performance in the first round between the two sides, and what kept flashing back to his mind was "Li Rongpyo was passed by Ribery!" "Li Rongpyo was passed by Ribery again!" "Lee Young-pyo was broken through by Ribery again!" "Franck Ribery has found the weakest point in Tottenham's defence, and he keeps attacking Lee Young-pyo's wing!" ……

He actually wanted to say something that would help unite Asia, but his mind was so empty that he couldn't make it up, and his mind kept echoing what manager Fernandes had said to them during training just now: "Lee is a weakness in the Tottenham defence and we can make the most of ......it."

So he bummered and said, "He's working hard and he's in good shape...... Well...... You know, fitness is important in modern football...... My friend Ribery liked him. ”

When the South Korean reporter heard that the French international liked Lee Young-pyo very much, his eyes lit up and his cheeks flushed. Obviously, they think that being able to be liked by such an awesome character must show that Li Rongpyo is very capable. They are happy because South Korean football has ushered in a new period of glory in the past two years - their two internationals, Park Ji-sung and Lee Young-pyo, have joined the Premier League powerhouses, and Park Ji-sung has joined Manchester United, which is famous all over the world. This makes Koreans very proud. If it weren't for Chu Zhongtian being the core player of Mays, they would probably be arrogant when facing Chu Zhongtian. Even now, they have some psychological advantages - Li Rongpyo's Tottenham Hotspur is ahead of Chu Zhongtian's Metz in the form of promotion, and soon the Chinese players will say goodbye to the European arena completely, and Lee Rongpyo and Park Ji-sung will shine in Europe!

When Chu Zhongtian saw them like this, he quickly turned around and left, he didn't dare to face the South Korean media's questioning: "Can you talk about how Ribery likes Li Rongpyo?" ”

Tell them that Ribery likes Lee Young-pyo because he can easily break through the South Korean international in games?

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After the players were interviewed, Fernandes also gave a group interview to reporters.

The most important concern of the media is how to respond to such an unfavorable situation, whether to give up or fight until the last minute?

'We have no choice but to try to make a difference in this game. My team won't throw in the towel so easily. Fernandez replied to reporters.

"So you're going to stick to attacking football away from home?" A reporter asked.

In response, Fernandez nodded dryly and admitted: "Yes." ”

There's nothing to hide from that, because the question itself is nonsense. After conceding two goals at home and the opponent scoring two away goals, they wish Metz didn't press out to attack, because even if they play a 0-0 draw at home, Tottenham will advance. So in the case of conceding two away goals, attacking is the only way to go.

Maybe attacking will cause problems at the back and end up being tackled by the opposition. But there is still hope of winning, and if you don't attack because you are worried about conceding a goal, you don't even have a 1% chance of qualifying.

Just like when Bayer Leverkusen challenged Metz away, because they conceded two goals at home in the first leg, they knew that pressing the attack would cause problems for their backline, and they might continue to concede goals, but they still chose to attack Metz away.

As a result, it was in the hands of Metz, who likes offensive football, and finally lost 1:3 tragically away from home. Although the Germans bravely scored a goal against Metz, Metz returned three goals.

In terms of sticking to the attacking tactics, Metz could repeat the mistakes of Bayer Leverkusen, but there is no other way to do that right now.

It's no wonder that the English media are optimistic about this game, and the Tottenham players also said in interviews that they are relaxed.

Metz finally got a taste of what the Leverkusen players were like.

This is really a football version of "come out and mix, sooner or later you will have to pay it back......

After the interview, the whole team took the bus back to their hotel, there was no nightlife, and all the players went to bed at the urging of the coach to prepare for the next night's game.

"Good night, Chu." Before going to bed, Ribery said goodnight to Chu Zhongtian, who lived in the room opposite them, at the door. "Hopefully we'll say goodnight with a smile at this time tomorrow, or we won't need to say goodnight at all, ha!"

"Good night, Frank. I hope so, too. Chu Zhongtian waved his hand and closed the door.

If they win, they really don't need to say goodnight, because they must not have slept at this time, and they may be where to celebrate the promotion......

(To be continued)