Chapter 42: The Best in the Audience
Taxi driver Escher. Morality. Belmont was parked on the side of the road waiting for someone to come up and get in the car, and there was no rock 'n' roll in the car, because the game was being broadcast on the radio - Metz was away to Lyon, and he couldn't be there, but he could listen to the game on the radio.
The game had reached 87 minutes, and the game was about to end, but Metz was still 1:2 behind. The announcer on the radio was already announcing that it would be great for Metz to lose by only one goal in this game, but Belmont pointed to the radio and said, "You bastard!" What's the big deal about losing? An idiot like you can be a radio announcer? Don't let me meet you in the future, or I'll kill you! ”
At this time, he heard the commentator let out a scream suddenly: "Chu broke the ball!" ”
His swear words were instantly stuffed back into his throat, and he stopped reading them in pieces, but quieted down and listened.
"Break the ball again! Cut off the balls of Malouda and Juninho in a row! Then he passed it to Frank. Ribery! Ribery sprints! Abidal pressed on, and he didn't look like he was able to get out of Abidal ......"
Belmont clutched the steering wheel tightly, and the tendons in her hands jumped as if she were about to break the steering wheel.
"The two of them were tangled near the touchline, and Ribery couldn't break through Abidal with the ball, but Abidal couldn't cut off Ribery's ball...... The two of them are rushing to the bottom line! Ribery crosses...... It's crossed! ”
Belmont gritted his teeth and stared ahead, as if he were in front of Lyon's Gerland stadium, he saw Ribery cross from the wing, and then the football flew into the box and flew to Lyon's goal, so who would be in front of the goal at this time?
"Toom runs forward...... Didn't get it! ”
Belmont was taken aback and opened her mouth to scold, "Fuck! What the are you yelling at before you get it?! ”
Before the words fell, the voice on the radio suddenly doubled: "This is Chu!" It's Chu! Post-point ...... Leap to the top - the ball is in!! Ball-in-in-up-!! ”
Belmont slapped the car horn on the horn, and it rang for half a minute before he picked up his hand. And his car has attracted the attention of many passers-by, including even a traffic policeman.
The traffic cop laughed after just one glance at the license plate, he walked up to the car and knocked on the window. The window didn't open obediently, and he looked inside the car to find Belmont cheering with his fists clenched...... After cheering, Belmont rolled down the window glass and saluted the policeman: "Hello, Mr. Officer! What's the matter? ”
"I knew it was you again, Belmont. What are you doing......
The police suddenly heard a passionate voice chanting over the radio in the car: "Metz equalized in the last minute of the game!" Their opponent is Lyon! At the Stadium in Gérland!! ”
He suddenly leaned on the car door and asked, "What's the score?" ”
“2:2!” Belmont stretched out his hands to the traffic police, holding up two fingers on each hand, which looked like two "Vs".
"A draw?" The traffic police were a little surprised, he knew that the opponent of Metz in this game was the Ligue 1 hegemon Lyon, and to be honest, he did not expect Metz to take a point from the Stadio Gerland before the game. Although the relegation situation is grim, Lyon is clearly not the target of Metz's plan to pick up points.
"That's right, Mr. Officer! Last-minute goal! It was the Chinese player Chu who scored! It's wonderful! Belmont sat in the driver's seat and danced on the ground, and then he slapped the horn again...... Hearing the shrill whistle, the traffic policeman remembered that he had come to trouble Belmont...... "Noise, Belmont." The policeman banged on the roof of the taxi and said to the driver with a straight face.
"Uh......" Belmont hurriedly removed his hand and raised it to make a surrender form, with a smile on his face: "Excited for a while, excited for a while...... Lo and behold, Mr. Officer! Our team equalised, so what did I get by honking the horn of a car at such a happy moment? Do you remember the night we won the World Cup in '98? The whole Mace is the sound of car horns. Belmont tugged at the blue French No. 10 jersey on his body, "That's when I became a Zizou fan!" Today Metz equalized at the last minute, and the whole Metz honked without the need, I'll come alone! Ha...... Ha? Hahaha! ”
※※※ Chu Zhongtian was lying in the goal, the opponent's goalkeeper Kupe pressed on his body, the football stopped less than ten centimeters in front of his eyes, and he was caught by the net so he did not continue to slide out.
He can now be sure that he scored the goal!
So he pushed away Kupe, who was pressing on him, got up from the ground, and the first thing he did when he got up was to find Ribery, who was passing the ball for him.
Frank. Ribery didn't go anywhere when he saw Chu Zhongtian push his cross into the goal, just stood in place, raised his arms, and waited for Chu Zhongtian to come and hug him.
It was a match they had in Pro Evolution Soccer last night, except that in the game he chose to shoot and in reality he unselfishly passed the ball.
What could be better than recreating the game's synergies in a real match?
No!
He saw Chu Zhongtian standing up, and kept shouting in his mouth: "Come on, man, I'm here!" Come on! Come and thank me, haha! ”
Chu Zhongtian saw Ribery with open arms, he turned his head and ran over, halfway Tum jumped up and jumped on his back, he didn't care, he ran forward with Tum on his back, and finally ran to Ribery, and the two of them hugged each other tightly!
Soon, the teammates behind also swarmed up and rushed up to surround them. Promans jumped up and put his hands on Chu Zhongtian's shoulders, and then yelled at the stands where the Lyon fans were.
"Oooo
"Well done, Chu!"
"Yours plugged in just in time!"
"I can't believe we were able to equalise at the last minute, thanks to you, Chu!"
The teammates, who had no hope of getting a point before, also regained their confidence and fighting spirit at this time.
Chu Zhongtian has such an ability, he doesn't score many goals, but every time he can always cause his teammates to change their mentality, from the bad side to the good side. That's true at Wimbledon, and it's true at Metz.
The Metz players were frantically celebrating the last-minute goal, while the Lyon players were hit and did not expect Metz to equalize at this time.
In this attack, many people in Lyon made mistakes. Starting with Juninho, he gave up fighting with Chu Zhongtian for the ball because he was worried about injury, and as a result, Chu Zhongtian broke the ball. And Diarra didn't take Chu Zhongtian in his eyes, and let him pass the ball forward calmly. Essien made a mistake in judging the landing point of the ball, and as a result, he rose to the top and let Chu Zhongtian pick up the leak. Kupe's mistake was not to turn to the back post in time, but to hesitate at the front post, and it was his hesitation for a second or two that caused him to be a beat slower than the ball, and when the ball flew into the goal, his hands pounced on him too late.
They were too careless...... Löguin was furious at the goal he had conceded, but he didn't have time to yell at the players off the pitch and instead called Ben back. Alpha, get him ready to play.
If Metz can score at this time, why can't we take the lead again in stoppage time?
The players in Metz celebrated for a long time, and the referee had to intervene to stop wasting time here and get back on the pitch to start the game.
The players kept running back. Ribery and Chu Zhongtian were shoulder to shoulder again.
"How did you come up with the idea of stepping forward, Chu?" Ribery asked.
"I thought about the game we played last night." Chu Zhongtian said with a smile.
Hearing him say this, Ribery also laughed: "I thought about it before I passed the ball, haha!" We really have a tacit understanding! ”
"Yesterday you made me run for nothing, but luckily you didn't do that today. Otherwise we won't be able to equalize! ”
"Haha, how does it feel to play the game on the field?"
"It's cool!"
"We'll have a few more of these in the future! If that group of reporters came and asked you how you came up with that kind of collaboration, we told them that it was because they were playing games together, and they would be stunned! Ha ha! Ribery tried to play tricks on people again, only this time he was playing tricks instead of teammates to journalists.
"Great idea!" Chu Zhongtian gave Ribery a thumbs up, he had been with this living treasure for a long time, and he also liked to joke with others.
※※※ After the restart of the game, Ben. On Alpha, he replaced Nilma, who had little effect.
The young Alpha was eager to take the plunge and intend to score a goal in the last minute like Chu Zhongtian to help Lyon take the lead again and become a true killer hero.
But he soon realizes the cruelty of reality - not everyone can be a hero, and not everyone is the protagonist of the game. At least not he's.
When he broke through with the ball on the wing, he passed Aligolo and was about to cut inside. Chu Zhongtian rushed up from the side, clasped his arms, and used his shoulders to remove Ben, who was not strong. Alpha hit the sideline straight out...... He thought he would hear the referee's whistle and then award a foul to Metz, but he didn't hear anything, and the referee didn't say anything to the boos at the Gerland Stadium. Diarra protested to him, and the referee told him that it was a reasonable collision because Chu Zhongtian was in the same position as Ben. When Alpha collided, his arm was not propped up, it was clamped, and it did not leave the body, so it was not considered a foul. It can only be said that Ben. Alpha's body is too weak to bear.
Crashed off Ben. Alpha's Chu Zhongtian hooked the ball back, and then passed it to the front with a big foot, and it was for Ribery again. This time, though, he played a little bigger, and before Ribery could catch up, the ball went straight to the sidelines.
Despite this, Ribery gave him a thumbs up and signaled that he had made a good pass.
Ben who was knocked out of the field. Alpha slammed the ground in anger before getting up and running back to the court.
He pressed his smashed shoulder and stared at the thirty-year-old Mace player.
Ribery ran back and saw Ben. Alpha's eyes turned to Chu Zhongtian and said, "You bumped into someone again, why don't you go up and apologize and show friendship?" ”
Chu Zhongtian shrugged: "I didn't mean it the first time, so I apologize to him." This time I did it on purpose. ”
※※※ There were five minutes of stoppage time, Lyon pressed all the way, and even Essien came with a long-range shot from the periphery, but under Chu Zhongtian's close interference, his long-range shot was directly missed.
In the final moments, Lyon won another free-kick. It was Juninho who took the penalty, this time closer to goal, about 20 metres, and was also within Juninho's range, because he was not only able to kick the kind of powerful defoliation ball, but his defoliation ball was just as unguardable at close range, falling high over the wall and then diving into the net from a very low height, which was the most common way he scored from close range free-kicks.
The goal warmed up the Stadio Gerrand and was going to make the fans and players in Metz nervous.
Belmont, who was far away in Metz, had stepped out of the car, and he was still chattering with the policeman who was going to fine him, defending himself and proving to him how much he loved Metz Football Club, and that he should be forgiven for making even the occasional noise for the sake of the team.
At this moment, in the middle of his broken thoughts, he heard a nervous voice on the radio: "This is Lyon's free kick, and it is likely to be Lyon's last chance to attack this game!" With five minutes of stoppage time already in the game, the game will end after a free-kick is taken, regardless of whether it goes in or not...... Juninho is in front of the football, he is a great Brazilian, his free kicks are unmatched by no one in the league, and he is going to take the penalty at this moment and he will decide the final result of this game......"
Belmont abruptly stopped arguing.
The police thought he was going to accept the punishment honestly, "Alright, Belmont ......"
"Shh Belmont cocked up her index finger, put it to her mouth, and let out a boo. "Quiet!"
"Hey! You ......" was spoken in this tone by Belmont, and the traffic police were very annoyed.
"Quiet!" Belmont waited for the police, "This is the moment of truth!" He made a listening gesture and pointed to the radio.
The voice inside was clear: "Juninho put the ball on the ground, he stepped back, ready to run......"
※※※ Chu Zhongtian stood in the human wall, and he was a little nervous, he hadn't felt this way for a long time. He scored a goal in this game and he didn't want his goal to end up being useless. So he cares a lot about Juninho's free-kick.
One hand covers the chest, and the other hand covers the crotch.
This is the standard movement of the Metz Man Wall. Others stood on tiptoe and stretched their necks as best they could, increasing the height of the defense.
Ribery was also in the wall, and he said to his teammates: "I'll count one, two, three, and when I count to three, everyone will jump!" ”
Someone nodded.
Juninho started to run, and the first step was taken.
"One ......" Ribery stared nervously at Juninho, his mouth counting.
The second step is to step in front of the football, which is the support foot.
"Two ......"
The third kick Juninho directly hits the football!
"Three! Jump! ”
The walls jumped, but the soccer ball still went over their heads!
The people in the wall turned their heads to look at the football, and like them, all eyes were on the football. If the goal flies into the goal, Lyon will win the game, and if they can't, Metz will take a point away from Lyon's home stadium!
※※※ "Shot!! The sound on the radio suddenly increased.
The policeman didn't bother to dwell on Belmont's disrespect to himself, and listened to the radio with bated breath with the taxi driver, waiting for the final result.
Farther afield, in China, Chu Zuosheng, Zhou Xiaoxiang, He Ping, Kang Jianbo...... All the people who were watching the game held their breath, as if their exhalation would affect the trajectory of the football.
They saw the soccer ball over the wall, and they saw a look of horror on the face of someone jumping up the wall. They also saw that Metz's goalkeeper, Humby, had risen into the air and pounced on the ball with his arms outstretched.
It seems that someone pressed the slow release button, and they can see it all clearly.
※※※The soccer ball went around the wall and fell sharply, flying towards the near corner of the goal, and from this distance, Wenbi could not save the football in any way. When Juninho took the penalty, Wenbi was at the far post, and the near corner was blocked by a human wall, which is also a general free kick defense strategy, but Juninho is fully capable of controlling the football to bypass the human wall and go straight to the near corner, which is very tragic as a goalkeeper...... Wambi didn't touch the football, but the football didn't go in!
It flew straight out of the bottom line against the goalpost!
"Gone off!!"
The local narrator on the radio shouted excitedly.
"Yay!!"
"Hooray!"
Belmont and the traffic police cheered and hugged each other at this moment.
"Out of the goal!" He Ping shouted excitedly.
"Good!!" Chu Zuosheng stood up from the chair again, he was so excited that he even knocked over the chair because of it, but he didn't care about helping him.
"Beautiful!" Kang Jianbo got up from his chair again and yelled, so the night-chartering people in the Internet café once again cast him a look of disgust like a nervous disorder.
※※※ Just as the football flew out of the bottom line, the referee also blew the whistle for the end of the game, **wave after wave.
Belmont and the police had just sensed that something was wrong with their hugging when they heard the announcer's excited voice ringing on the radio again: "It's over!" The end of the game...... Metz drew away from Lyon and picked up a valuable point! This point could well be a crucial one on their way to relegation! ”
Hearing this, the two of them cheered and hugged each other again.
"Haha, get it!"
"Metz has hope of relegation this season!"
※※※At the Gerland Stadium, there are not a few people who hug like Belmont and the traffic police. On the pitch, on the bench, in the stands, all the Metz people hugged each other, and although it was only a draw, for them it was as happy as a victory.
This point is an unplanned point, and it could really be the "winner" who decides relegation or not in the final moments of the league.
"It's over! Lyon were held to a draw by Metz at their home stadium, which was something many had expected...... I admit it, and it's out of mine. Look at the way the Metz players are so happy, even they didn't expect it. They were able to get a point in this game, and the biggest contributor was ...... Their number 30, Chinese player Chu, who is on loan from Chelsea, had an assist and a goal to help the team get out of the game at the Stadio Gerland! ”
This time, the French commentator did not ignore Chu Zhongtian's performance anymore, praising Chu Zhongtian's goals and assists in the game in his post-match comments.
For the first time, the televised camera was not aimed at Ribery or Juninho after the game, but at the 30th of the Metz team, Chu Zhongtian!
(To be continued)