Chapter 217: Daring Ranieri (Small Explosion Part 3)

However, the goal came a little too late, and despite PSG's best efforts, they could not change the scoreline, and Shi Hao's injury-time long-range shot was also denied by the post, and in the end they only managed to get a draw. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info

In the later fixture, Monaco beat Marseille 2-0 to manage to close the points gap between them and Paris Saint-Germain to five points.

Six days later, however, the gap widened to seven points again. Monaco were held to a 2-2 draw by Lorient, while Paris Saint-Germain won 3-0 at home to Bordeaux, a team that has produced legends such as Zinedine Zidane and Eric Cantona.

The bad news for PSG is that Edinson Cavani suffered a minor injury in a scramble with an opposition defender after scoring a goal in this game and had to be out of action for 2-3 weeks before returning until the Champions League knockout round. Motta also suffered a muscle strain and is expected to take 1-2 weeks to recover.

Shi Hao once again put in a good performance in this game, not only creating scoring opportunities for his teammates in a row, but also scoring a goal with a header that he is not particularly good at.

In this way, he scored in six consecutive games after the winter break, and such a highlight-reel performance not only frenzied the French media, but also attracted the attention of the Italian, England, Spanish and German media.

Before the transfer window closed, rumours were rife about his move, even though he had only moved to Paris for half a season.

Shi Hao himself knew very well that some of the rumors were true. For example, there are indeed 3 teams that have made offers to Paris Saint-Germain, but Chelsea, which has the highest bid, has only quoted 63 million euros, and Paris Saint-Germain only replied with one cliché: Shi Hao is not for sale. If you want to buy him, you can't buy him unless you go directly to the minimum breach of contract.

Shi Hao himself has no idea of transferring for the time being, so when asked by the media, his answer was also regular: "I like Paris very much, enjoy the time of playing here, and will not consider a transfer for the time being." As for the future, who knows what will happen on the football field? ”

And on this day, the biggest reinforcement of Paris Saint-Germain's winter window was also in place. Before the transfer window closed, they announced the arrival of 27-year-old French international Cabaye from Newcastle for a fee of €25 million.

After the match against Bordeaux, the whole Parisian team did not go to rest, but were busy preparing for the celebration of the Chinese New Year.

Yes, since they bought Shi Hao, the most famous Chinese international at present, how could Paris Saint-Germain not be interested in developing the Chinese market?

Shi Hao, who didn't care how the club's management conducted business operations, was tasked with teaching several big-name players in the team to say "Happy New Year" in Chinese, and making dumplings in front of the camera with Ibrahimovic and others.

The final recorded short video was posted on various official media outlets at Paris Saint-Germain, which quickly attracted a large number of melon-eating people.

Shi Hao called his family and Liu Xiyu's family to pay New Year's greetings, and in addition to that, he was engaged in intense training.

Their next game is the French League Cup semi-final against Nantes on 5 February. has already reached the top 4, so it is naturally impossible to give up easily, after all, it is good to win one more trophy.

Blanco also showed the importance of this game, sending almost all the main players.

Cabaye, who had just joined the club, also started in place of the injured Motta, but he was still clearly out of touch with the team during the game.

Although he works hard and is fierce and diligent enough on the defensive end, he is still a little less interesting than Motta when it comes to passing arrangements.

In the first half, the two sides played to a 1-1 draw, and if it wasn't for Ravic's brilliant assist for Ibrahimovic's goal, PSG might still be behind.

Entering the second half, Blanco replaced Cabaye with Motta, and PSG gradually mastered the rhythm of the game. In the 61st minute, Shi Hao knocked on the door of Nantes with a free kick, and then Nantes was unable to change the score, and Paris Saint-Germain was able to advance to the final of the French League Cup.

On 9 February, Paris Saint-Germain played the highlight of the 24th round of the league as they took on Monaco away.

This is Monaco's best chance to close the points gap, and Paris Saint-Germain naturally knows this, and there is no need to do pre-match mobilization, everyone is gearing up.

The Louis II Stadium was packed, with almost 20,000 fans coming to watch the game. During the warm-up before the game, Shi Hao smiled and greeted his old teammates J Rodriguez and Moutinho, their expressions looked quite serious, and it was estimated that there was a lot of pressure.

Claudio Ranieri was quite bold in his line-up, and in Falcao's absence, he brought on two 18-year-old players, Argentine Ocampos and French teenager Anthony Fernandes. Anthony Martial. If you add Kurzawa and Fabinho, four of Monaco's starting 11 are under the age of 20.

Blanco also fielded the strongest squad that could be used, and Pastore returned to the starting line-up to play as a right winger; Motta, who had not yet recovered from Lisso, resolutely came out injured, and Cabaye was on the bench. In such a crucial game, Blanco is not at ease with him.

Once the game started, PSG habitually attacked first. Shi Hao still played as a left winger, and he faced Monaco's right midfielder J Rodriguez and right-back Fabinho. In the first few minutes of the race, he didn't feel the strain.

J Rodriguez is not a good defensive player, and Fabinho is indeed too immature, he can only try to use his speed to challenge Shi Hao.

The problem is that his speed was completely blown up by Shi Hao, and his body was half as strong as Shi Hao, in such a situation, how could he resist Shi Hao's impact? Even if he joined hands with J Rodriguez, he couldn't restrain Shi Hao.

In just 5 minutes of the opening game, Shi Hao had already completed 2 breakthroughs, both of which posed a certain threat to Monaco's defense.

In the 8th minute, Shi Hao broke through to the bottom line again, and Fabinho made a decisive tackle and gave Paris Saint-Germain a corner.

Verratti took a corner kick from the left, Ibrahimovic didn't grab a header at the front post, Shi Hao and Tulalang in the middle jumped at the same time, and in the end no one fought for the landing point, but the ball grazed Tulalang's body, and there was a slight change of line and flew towards the back post.

Pastore, unmarked at the back post, comfortably headed the ball into the empty net to open the scoring for PSG.

Monaco quickly stabilized their ground and began a counter-offensive. In the 14th minute, teenager Ocampos almost equalized for Monaco. He received a second pass from Moutinho on the edge of the penalty area and fired a right-footed shot at a very fast pace and a very tricky angle. If it weren't for Sirigu's mental concentration, he might not have been able to save this ball.

The ball saved by Sirigu did not fly far, Emmanuel. Rivière got his hands on the ball before all the PSG defenders did, but his close-range shot was unbelievably wide. He himself couldn't believe that he would make such a mistake and that the chance to equalize would be wasted.