Chapter 150: Hampton Park
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Chu Zhongtian's injuries are unknown in the past few days, in fact, the person who is most worried is not Chu Zhongtian himself, but Obertan. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ο½ο½ο½Uο½Eγ infoBecause it was a breakthrough he made in the training match that caused Chu Zhongtian's thigh muscle strain. If Chu Zhongtian couldn't play because of this, and the Mace team lost the game because of this, wouldn't he become a big sinner?
It was the best season for Metz and they could have made history but if they had it all in vain...... He couldn't imagine how he would be treated in the team.
Originally, Ribery was his master, and he had always had a good relationship with him, but he always had a cold face these days. Actually, it wasn't aimed at him, because Ribery had this expression in front of everyone, but Obertan was always "a thief" and felt that Ribery was blaming him.
The day before the game, before leaving for Glasgow, Chu Zhongtian underwent a medical examination, and then when facing reporters, he said that everything was normal and he could play. Obertan breathed a sigh of relief.
Later, when he saw that the team's coach and team doctor were still cautious on the training ground, his heart rose again. In fact, Obertan himself didn't know when he would be able to completely put his mind at ease.
Even if Chu Zhongtian can play, it is possible that the old injury will recur in the game and aggravate the injury. In case this leads to more serious consequences...... Chu Zhongtian is one of the most influential players in the team, how will he face him, and how will he face himself?
Obertan was there alone, worried about the future.
Chu Zhongtian didn't expect to make trouble with him.
It's one o'clock in the afternoon and I've just finished lunch. The team is taking a break as required.
And even when Chu Zhongtian was lying on the bed, his injured parts were wrapped in ice packs. It wasn't who asked him to do it, he did it himself. He also knew that his injury was not as good as it was, and it seemed that he was fine when he walked, and he was fine when he ran, but it still hurt if he suddenly exerted his strength. So he's taking all the time to apply a cold compress.
Menez lay down on the bed next to him and looked sideways at him. During the three days when Chu Zhongtian missed the team's training due to injury, Menez was let . Fernandez was entrusted with the task of being the team's attacking playmaker during the game. It's not like he's never done this kind of work, but he still doesn't want to actually organize an attack. That means Chu Zhongtian won't be able to play.
"If it hurts a little bit, you don't run a little less, or don't try to pass people, and you can save some strength when you defend, anyway, there is Promans." Menez said to Chu Zhongtian. "Make sure your body doesn't go wrong during the game."
Chu Zhongtian thought for a moment, then shook his head and said, "I think your request is quite difficult to do. β
His playmaking style is his tireless running back and forth, and he can be seen in every corner of the pitch. How can he organize an attack without running? He's not the kind of player who can stand still or pass a few shots in a small tight area in the middle and then do nothing. But people? When it's time to compete, who knows if you need to pass? He can expect that the opponent will definitely keep a close eye on him, and when the time comes, he will not be able to organize the attack smoothly if he only relies on passing. As for the question of keeping some strength when defending...... When Promans is broken through and he is the last line of defense in front of the back line, do you still have to stay?
So Chu Zhongtian couldn't do any of these three requirements.
"Actually, my injury is not as exaggerated as you think, and I don't think it will affect the game much."
Chu Zhongtian shrugged his shoulders and said.
Menez glanced at the ice pack on his lap and didn't say anything more. He put back on his iPod headphones and lay back down to rest.
Chu Zhongtian also slid down and closed his eyes, trying to put himself to sleep.
But he found himself unable to sleep. It's not the first time he's played in a final, and he hasn't felt nervous until the French Cup final against Paris Saint-Germain. But today he was a little nervous, and this nervousness came from his physical condition. If everything is normal with his body, then he won't have any nervousness and he will be confident. Today, however, he had to worry, and he prayed in his heart that such a small injury would not cause him trouble in the game, and that he would complete the 90-minute game smoothly, and he would be thankful.
What if my thigh has to be pulled with me during the match (Sichuan dialect: meaning problem)? Chu Zhongtian thought of this problem, in fact, he didn't want to think about it, but he always had to think about the countermeasures before it happened.
Do you give up and your body is replaced? Or grit your teeth and insist? Or simply hide it and not report it?
This brings us to the question of whether it's worth risking your body for this final.
Chu Zhongtian firmly believes that his future will be better than the present, and there will be a day when he will participate in the Champions League. So is it worth it to be so desperate in a League Cup final now? In case he suffered a more serious injury in the competition, which affected his entire career...... Chu Zhongtian personally said in front of reporters that he would participate in the finals, which was the best news for those local TV stations in China in the past few days. They are not worried about the decline in ad revenue now, the ratings are too low.
On the last day, they began to advertise wildly on their respective platforms, doing their best to incite.
Of course, the most effective thing is always to associate Chu Zhongtian with the national and national honor, which can attract many people who don't usually watch football at all, or even don't understand football, but have a sense of national honor and national self-esteem to watch the game.
Just like in fact, many events in the Olympics ordinary people know very little, but as long as there are projects where Chinese win the gold medal, they will be very happy and excited, and then start to pay attention to the gold medal that won the project. They weren't really interested in that event, they were just interested in the gold medal. If you get the gold medal, you will win glory for the country, and if you don't get it, you won't. This is not the opinion of ordinary people, this is the opinion of the reporters of the sports channel of CCTV, China's most authoritative television organization, who have been very injured by the loss of gold medals in the Olympic Games, and this group of reporters has to run up and ask: "Isn't it sad and disappointed that you didn't win the gold medal?" "The country has cultivated you, but you only got a silver medal, do you feel sorry for the country's training?" The athletes who won the silver medal must tearfully express that they are sorry for the country, the people, and the leadership.
But don't look at this trick is very inauthentic, but many people like it.
Because China has suffered too much humiliation in modern times, the current Chinese people urgently need to raise their eyebrows in all aspects, and competitive sports, which are called "wars in peacetime", naturally need to undertake a lot of tasks in this regard.
Football is the world's number one sport, but China's achievements in this area are lackluster, and can even be said to be humiliating. The Chinese naturally hope that we in China will also be able to raise our eyebrows in this regard.
In the case of the national team's defeat in the Asian Cup and the World Cup qualifiers, and the domestic football scandal like a leek, Chu Zhongtian, an outstanding foreign player, is the only one who can bring some psychological comfort to the Chinese people.
How can such a resource not be put to good use?
"Watch my Chinese players win the League Cup!"
"The French Cup final is followed by the League Cup final, how many surprises can Chu Zhongtian bring us?"
"They are the defending champions of the UEFA Cup, they are a group of dark horses from France! He's a talented player from China! At 2:45 a.m. Beijing time on May 17, Hampton Park Stadium in Glasgow. Let's witness this exciting showdown together! Will Chu Zhongtian be able to continue his excellent performance this season in this game? Will the dark horse Mace be able to go dark to the end? Can Sevilla become only the fourth team to successfully defend their title since Real Madrid? There are less than twenty-four hours left before the mystery is solved! β
The TV set constantly replayed Chu Zhongtian's wonderful performances in those past games, attracting the attention of Chinese fans and non-spectators.
There is also a high level of interest in this game on the Internet, and everyone is very enthusiastic about it, and everyone is looking forward to the coming of the game. They can see Chu Zhongtian's performance through TV or online live broadcasts.
"This is a professional player at a European level!" Some fans proudly announced. "Our country has finally produced a professional player who is really good enough!"
"Just rushing to lead the team to the League Cup final, I can say that there is no one in China who can be better than him, not in the past, and not now!"
Of course, there are also many fans who pray for Chu Zhongtian on the Internet, hoping that he will not be injured again, and that his strain will not affect the finals.
Chu Zuosheng now occasionally goes to the Internet and goes to the "We All Love Lin Danda" website to see the news about his son, after all, there is the most authoritative and timely news about his son, and he can also see the evaluation of his son by fans all over the country. Sometimes there will be some impolite comments.,He will also use his unskilled input method level to reply to the post and argue with the other party.,But most of the time he just spent more than ten minutes typing a few sentences.,Send it out.,Only to find that the post has been deleted by a dedicated moderator.γ
His initial username on the website was "I am Chu Zhongtian's father", but he felt that he had just registered and was blocked ID, he asked his son how it was, and his son told him that the administrator didn't know that the username was really used by his father, and thought it was the kind of abusive ID registered by people who came to make trouble.
Now his username is "Old Fan 001", which is not noticeable at all, and ordinary ones can't be more ordinary. Only a few administrators knew that it was Chu Zhongtian's father, because Chu Zhongtian had greeted them, and if something happened, let them help their father more, so they knew the true identity of "old fan 001".
Since dinner on May 16, Chu Zuosheng has been sitting in front of the computer in his bedroom, soaking in the Internet to read news about his son, or reading posts on the forum, and occasionally chatting with everyone about his views on the game.
"I think Chu Zhongtian will be closely guarded by the other party, which will be a test for him. But I have a lot of faith in him. β
His wife was watching Korean dramas in the living room, and he was not interested in the smelly and long Korean dramas where the parents' short and old woman's footwraps were long, but fortunately now there is an Internet and a computer. He has already set the alarm clock at two o'clock, because the live broadcast of the game on Sichuan TV starts at two o'clock, and before the game, they will analyze the strength and recent state of both sides, of course, Chu Zhongtian's strain is naturally a topic they are very concerned about.
When his wife was still watching the last episode of today's Korean drama in front of the TV, Chu Zuosheng had already finished washing, turned off the computer, and went to bed. He wants to take care of his spirits and cheer for his son.
At this time, there were still three and a half hours before the start of the game.
β»β»β»Chu Zhongtian sat in the bus, which was being led by the police car to the Hampton Park Stadium, the venue for the finals.
You can see some fans along the way, but not much. As the car got closer to the stadium, the fans grew. The fans of Sevilla and Metz saw it, gathered separately and walked slowly towards the stadium.
Chu Zhongtian looked in the crowd, but he didn't see his familiar figure.
Ribery sat next to Chu Zhongtian and touched him who was looking outside: "Hi, Chu." β
"Huh?"
"Is your injury really okay?"
"You've asked me twelve times, Frank." Chu Zhongtian rolled his eyes helplessly.
"I'm just not reassured......"
"I've told you that twelve, Frank. It was just a very slight strain, not a big deal at all, and if it had been put in a normal game, it wouldn't have been noticed by so many people......"
Ribery laughed: "Who got you injured before the League Cup final? Even if it is a small injury, it is terrible in such a background. I'm worried that this injury will affect your running and some of the things that require explosive power in the race, such as jumping, sprinting, changing direction and accelerating......"
"It's really fine, Frank. My body is clear to me. β
Seeing that Chu Zhongtian had an expression of certainty and even some impatience, Ribery shrugged his shoulders and said nothing more.
The majestic Hampton Park is just a stone's throw away.
The stadium is home to a special local team that plays a professional league but uses amateur players, called Queen's_park_fc s Park. One of Scotland's first teams and the most successful team in Scotland in the 19th century, the team is now in the third tier, with a crowd of 1,000 people per game.
The stadium is also home to the Scottish national team, the venue for the Scottish FA Cup finals, and the venue for the finals of major European cup competitions.
Although for many Chinese fans, they may only know that Scotland has Rangers and Celtic, because of General Fan, they may also know that there is a team called "Dundee United". The name of Hampton Park is unfamiliar, but the stadium itself must be familiar to them.
The most recent was in the 2002 Champions League final, where Real Madrid took on Bayer Leverkusen, where they beat the big dark horse 2-1. Zinedine Zidane also scored a goal that was later voted the best goal in the Champions Cup in 50 years.
The 1970 League Cup final saw Scottish side Celtic meet English side Leeds United, and the 150,000-capacity Hampton Court Park stadium was flooded with 136,000 people.
It was also here that the attendance record for the European Champions League final was set β in May 1960, it was Real Madrid and another team from Germany. Here, Real Madrid won the Champions Cup with a big score of 7-3 against Eintracht Frankfurt. The match set three Champions Cup records, which have not been broken to this day: the most goals scored - ten; The most individual goals - four, all scored by Puskas; The largest number of spectators was 127,000.
It would not be an exaggeration to say that this stadium is the cradle of classics. The stadium has seen countless superstars perform here, and the people who have been able to play at this stadium are not ordinary people β except for the amateurs of the stadium's home team, Queen's Park.
Everyone knows Wembley Stadium's famous twin towers, which are the pride of England. But in fact, the "twin towers" of Wembley Stadium are the "twin towers" of Hampton Park.
In European football, Hampton Park plays a pivotal role. It is a five-star stadium of UEFA, the home of international competitions, and the mecca of Scottish football.
Now, Metz will be looking to make history at the stadium β and they will be hoping to win their first European title since the club's founding.
Some players were already attracted by such a magnificent building, and they looked out the window at the approaching stadium and let out an exclamation of admiration.
"It's a lot better than the Holy Hill Folien Stadium......"
"Stupid, if it's smaller than the Holy Mountain Furien Stadium, the League Cup final will be held in Metz!"
"Only the Stade de France can compete with it......"
Chu Zhongtian did not let out such an exclamation.
Ribery touched him again and nodded at the Hampton Park stadium outside: "Zizou has scored a goal here, it is a beautiful goal." β
Chu Zhongtian knew which ball he was talking about, and it was indeed a very, very, very beautiful goal. What's more important is to be able to shoot that kind of ball calmly on such an important occasion as the Champions Cup final. Indeed, only a player like Zidane could have done it.
He looked at the stadium again, with some yearning and longing.
The final, the UEFA Cup final, the biggest game of my life so far. In the face of such a game, how can you still have doubts because of a small injury?
I don't care how important the game is in the future, today, now, in the moment, that's the most important game. If this kind of competition can't make me forget those boring things and try to fight hard, then what other competition in the world can make me fight hard? What face do I have to say that I play to win, not to lose?
(To be continued)