In the match against Ajaccio, Chu Zhongtian received a red card, which made him directly absent from the next round of the league against Metz.

Despite not being able to play in Ligue 1, he was not idle, he listened to Fernandes' coach and went to the reserve team to play a second-tier league game.

And in that league game without Chu Zhongtian's participation, the Metz team won a draw and played a 0:0 draw with Lens, who were ranked higher than them, without scoring and without winning. This result illustrates the importance of Chu Zhongtian to the current Mace from another perspective. Mace's players are used to letting Chu Zhongtian handle the ball, and once Chu Zhongtian is gone, they seem to be a little unaccustomed to it and don't know how to play.

After the game, the Metz media said that Metz had developed "Chu's dependence". For Mace, I really don't know if this is a good thing or a bad thing.

But Fernandez doesn't care what the media says. Any team needs to have a core, and if there is a core that is xx dependency, then every successful team in the world has dependency. Barcelona relied on Xavi and Ronaldinho, and Real Madrid relied on Casillas and Ronaldo...... What he needs to consider now is not to treat Mace's "Chu dependence", but how to make Chu Zhongtian able to reduce the number of red and yellow cards, especially yellow cards. The rules of Ligue 1 are different from those of other countries. The Italian league is automatically suspended for one game after accumulating four yellow cards, and is directly sent off with a red card and suspended for one game; The Premier League is a little more complicated, with one suspension for five yellow cards and one suspension for eight before April 12 of each season. If you receive a red card due to two yellow cards in a match, you will be automatically suspended for one match. Straight to get a red card and stop for three games. If a player accumulates 11 yellow cards during the season, the FA Disciplinary Committee will look at the penalties against him, with different results for each person. If a player is sent off for the second time in the season, one additional game will be added to the number of games he is entitled to be punished. If it is the third time, two additional games will be added. The red and yellow cards received by the players in the reserve team match will be carried forward to the first team's match; La Liga is to accumulate five yellow cards and be suspended for one game, directly get a red card, and be suspended for one game, but you can appeal, and the result of the appeal is very difficult to say, and the red card may be canceled because of the appeal, or it may be an additional penalty because of the game. In the Bundesliga, there is also an automatic suspension of one game and one suspension of red cards after accumulating five yellow cards.

Only Ligue 1 is suspended for one match after accumulating three yellow cards.

Compared to the other four major leagues, Ligue 1 has the fewest cumulative yellow cards, and players in certain special positions can easily be automatically suspended due to accumulating yellow cards. Because three yellow cards are easy to get, sometimes even three games in a row have been shown yellow cards.

This problem is a headache for Fernandez, Promans and Chu Zhongtian are both big players, because both of them will inevitably foul in defense, and if they are not careful, they will receive yellow cards. Chu Zhongtian is very important, and Promans is also indispensable. Without Promang, Chu Zhongtian's workload would be twice as much as usual, which would inevitably affect Chu Zhongtian's performance in the offensive.

For this reason, he had to remind Promans and Chu Zhongtian many times to pay attention to the timing and extent of fouls in the game.

Fouls are a must, but if you can avoid them, avoid them.

※※※After the match against Lens, Metz welcomed opponents who were not too strong in the league. The schedule was uneventful, and the team's performance was normal, with wins and losses.

In the sixteenth round of the league, it defeated Troyes 1:0 away.

In the seventeenth round, the home team and Toulouse played to a 2:2 draw.

In the eighteenth round, he challenged Sochaux away.

This match has no special meaning for Chu Zhongtian, but it means a lot to Menez - it is the first time he has returned to Sochaux since joining Metz.

At Sochaux's home stadium, the Stade Bonnard (stade_auguste_bonal), Menez was "warmly welcomed" by Sochaux fans. They attacked Menez with loud boos and all sorts of insulting slogans. Sochaux fans can't forgive their hopeful Menez for suddenly deciding to make a move and ditch Sochaux's approach. They thought that Metz must have given Menez a very high salary to poach him from Sochaux. This is a typical betrayal of the team because of money. As a result, many Sochaux fans compared Menez to Judas, and as soon as he got the ball, he would hear deafening boos. Sochaux fans waved the euro in their hands and shouted at him: "You money-only bitch!" ”

Their boos and insults did not make Menez play out of shape, on the contrary, Menez was more active in the game. This surprised Mace's teammates. I didn't expect a child who was only eighteen years old to be more combative in such a situation.

Sure enough, it's a rebellious teenager with a personality...... The boos of Sochaux's fans instead became the motivation for his game.

Amid the boos of the fans, Menez played his best game since joining Metz.

Two goals, one assist. With these three goals, Metz won 3-1 away at Sochaux.

After the game, Menez was voted the best of the match by the media. When he spoke on the pitch with Sochaux's captain Isabeth (mickael_isabey), the boos were much quieter. More Sochaux fans took aim of their anger at the president of the club, Jean-Claude. Presis (Jean-claude_plessis), if it wasn't for Presis nodding, how could Menez leave Sochaux for Metz? Look at Menez's performance in this game, and then look at Sochaux's performance this season, and make them angry - if we had kept Menez, the team wouldn't have been so bad!

In the 19th round of the league after this match, Metz won 2-0 at home to Nice.

After 19 rounds of league games, Metz has 32 points and even climbed to sixth in the league standings! They are on the same points as AJ Auxerre, as well as Marseille, who have played a game less, but they are in sixth place because of their goal difference, otherwise they could have shot fourth.

Although Metz also finished in the top three at the start of last season, it is not often that Metz can still rank so high in the middle of the league. After 19 league games last season, Metz finished 14th with just 23 points.

The result was ecstatic for Metz fans and made Molinari feel that it was the right thing to do to keep Ribery and sign Chu Zhongtian and Menez at any cost in the summer. "We might be able to go around Europe next season. Why not? In an interview before Christmas, the president of the Metz club said happily. This is the best Christmas gift for Metz fans! ”

The local media praised the performance of the Metz team. They believe that after half a season, Fernandes has finally found the best tactical style of play and staffing for Metz. It can be seen from this half season that Ribery, Chu Zhongtian and Menez are the three most important people in the team, and the quality of their form directly affects the performance of the team.

As the winter transfer window approaches, there are more and more clubs interested in the three of them, and there are often transfer rumours about the three of them in the media.

This time there is no need for the fans to petition and the manager to complain, Molinari also knows that these three people are players who cannot be let go no matter what. Until the end of the season, there is no consideration for selling.

※※※After playing against Nice, Ligue 1 entered the Christmas holiday.

Chu Zhongtian has been busy with football-related things for the past few months. Before that, I was racking my brains to help Menez integrate into the team, and then I had to deal with the devil's schedule, and when the devil faced a team that was not very strong, I had to try to grab points.

So far, the team has achieved good results, and he can be considered to have a relaxed and happy Christmas holiday.

During these months, Chu Zhongtian's life was very simple. In addition to training and competitions, I learned German with Mathilde. The three hours of each Thursday night were alone with Mathilde, but it only took an hour and a half for the lessons. The remaining hour and a half was the time for Chu Zhongtian and Mathilde to chat.

Now the relationship between the two of them has reached a step closer than friends, but they are not at the level of lovers. At least not for Chu Zhongtian. Mathilde is just a "good friend" who is closer than the average friend, a teacher and a friend, and they can share each other's secrets and troubles. There are some things that Chu Zhongtian can't say to Ribery and Merry, but he can say to Mathilde. It seems that with her, he can naturally relax, and he doesn't feel any pressure. He likes the feeling very much, in fact, professional players are a profession with a lot of pressure, and if you don't perform well, you will lose your main position, and you will worry about injury...... And so on. It would be a good thing to have someone by his side who would not put any pressure on him, but would relieve it.

Before coming to Mace, he also had such a girl by his side, her name was Emily. Stan. At that time, although he was not a professional footballer, he also had pressure from all sides, and with Emily, he would not think about those pressures.

During the Christmas holiday, Chu Zhongtian originally planned to invite Mathilde to spend it with him, but when he called, Mathilde told him that he was going home. Although she hates her father no matter how much she hates her, she still has to go home, after all, she still has her mother, sister and brother at home.

Helplessly, Chu Zhongtian called Lin Beiyao and Wang Hao again and invited them to come to the house for a meal, which was considered a holiday.

This Christmas, Chu Zhongtian did not return to Wimbledon, nor did he go to the warm places in the south for a vacation, in fact, he did not go anywhere. It was snowing in Mace, he didn't even get out the door, and the fridge was full of enough stuff to eat for a week.

His vacation is to stay at home and watch movies and play games.

The main purpose of going online is to keep an eye on Emily. From Emily's blog, it can be seen that Emily is the busiest during the Christmas season, she complains that she hasn't had a good Christmas in two years, and she is always rushing to the theater every Christmas to promote new films and attend various commercial events. Her Christmas "dinner" was all eaten on the plane.

"What's so good about being a star? Even the most ordinary wishes cannot be satisfied! I made a wish to Santa Claus that I wanted Christmas to be off for a day, but it hasn't come to fruition yet. I don't know what's wrong with Santa Claus......"

This is the first time Emily has bare complaining about her current job in a blog. She used to always say, "I'm a little tired, but I'll continue to work hard and not let everyone down!" "It looks full of fighting spirit, even if it's just barely mustered up fighting spirit. It's good now, I don't even bother to do it if I barely muster up my fighting spirit.

It seems that Christmas, the day when everyone is reunited, really stimulates her.

Chu Zhongtian is also thinking about the Christmas he has spent in the past few years. He found himself much happier than Emily, with someone with him almost every Christmas, and he didn't have to go back and forth.

Why would Emily say she hadn't had a good Christmas in two years? Chu Zhongtian calculated the time and found that there were actually three years of Emily's Christmas spent in such a busy day, that is, the Christmas of the previous year, Emily promoted the London premiere of her first film she participated in. She was very busy at that time.

Maybe it's a mistake, right?

Chu Zhongtian wanted to leave a message, but found that he didn't know what to say.

Persuade her not to complain, after all, this is her job, and the only way to do it is to do it. But that's too impersonal.

Tell her to rest when she is tired, leave her alone with any work, and take a break as she pleases. But is it possible? Would her stern mom allow her to do that?

So what can I do for Emily?

Still leaving a message on your blog?

Chu Zhongtian felt that this was not enough.

He saw Emily's external email address on his blog.

Such mailboxes are generally used to receive letters from fans, and if they are not cleaned up in time, the mailbox will definitely be filled with all kinds of letters, some expressing affection, some encouraging support, and some harassment...... Chu Zhongtian wasn't sure if she could see if she could see the contents of this email if she could read it or not? She is so busy every day, how can she have time to read fan letters one by one?

But if he didn't, he couldn't find another way to contact Emily.

Forget it, hit the luck.

Chu Zhongtian put his hand on the keyboard and began to write a letter to Emily.

This is the first time in more than a year that he has taken the initiative to contact Emily, and it is a contact to identify himself. He didn't know if his letter would sink into the sea after it was sent, and he would not be heard from again.

But he wrote it anyway.

"Dear Emily......"

Chu Zhongtian got stuck after writing the first sentence, he stared at the screen for a long time, hesitating if this title was too ambiguous? But if you don't use "dear", it's too cold.

He thought about it for a long time, and after deleting it, he still typed it as "Dear Emily".

"Dear Emily, I'm sorry I didn't contact you before. I just don't know...... Uh, I don't know what to say, sorry anyway...... Christmas is here, I wish you a Merry Christmas, and the New Year is coming, and I wish you a Merry New Year......"

※※※“…… Everything is fine in Metz, there are fans and team-mates who accept me, and I have made some new friends. Regardless, I still miss playing at Wimbledon. It felt like a dream, a sweet dream. At that time, I was very simple, and I didn't have as much ambition and pressure as I do now. I just love to play football. You weren't under that much pressure back then, were you? We've all changed, and I don't know if that's a good thing or a bad thing...... Actually, when I first came here, I didn't have a good time, I couldn't play in the first team, I couldn't understand what the people around me were saying, no one explained it to me. When I was at Wimbledon, I had you and Boss John, and when I first arrived in Metz, there was no one, and I had to ......do everything on my own."

Emily. Stan holds a small IBM laptop and sits in the car with wireless Internet access. She's cleaning up her fan mailbox, where there will be a lot of more emails if she doesn't clean it up for a day. Like a blogger, she didn't leave her email address to her agent and mom. She cleans up whenever she can. Of course, she doesn't read them all, because there are so many of them, and she always picks a few emails from them to read. Most of them are enthusiastic letters from fans who support her, praise her, and express their love for her, and occasionally there are some very malicious harassment letters, which are full of a lot of boring and obscene fantasies and words. She usually chooses to delete and reject such letters.

Her criteria for choosing letters is to look at the title, and if the title attracts her, she will click on it to read.

But the title of this letter did not stand out at all, and the title "Hello Emily" made up 80 percent of all the letters. The fact that she was able to choose this letter really shows that they are very destined...... Looking at it, the frowning brow she had just now stretched, and the corners of her mouth slowly curled.

"The next time you're interviewed, you'll say your biggest hobby is surfing the internet, Amy." Emily's mother, Miranda, said helplessly when she saw her daughter like this.

Emily sat right next to her, deaf to her mother's words.

“…… For almost half a season, I couldn't play in the first team. Sometimes I wonder if I've made the right choice, I don't know if I'm really fit to play professional football. On my first Christmas in Metz, I learned that my friends at the Wimbles Bar were still caring about me, and I decided to go back and see them. It was a very important trip for me because I found the strength to move forward again. Can you imagine? I went to see Joe. Schilling and Borger their match, I was there and I was cheered on by the Wimbledon crowds, which really surprised me...... I never imagined I would be treated like this...... Listening to their cheers, I strengthened my belief to go on. ”

"So if you're tired, take the time to go back to Wimbledon and see Boss John and go see a Schilling game. I think all your stress and fatigue will be released here......"

"Finally, I hope you take care of your health and keep your mood happy. Your friend Chu Zhongtian. ”

Being able to receive Chu Zhongtian's letter should have been a very happy thing for Emily when she first arrived, but when she finished reading it, she frowned again. She didn't wait to write a letter when she got home, but replied directly to Chu Zhongtian in the car.

Her reply was very brief, with only one sentence: "Leave your phone number and MSN, stupid!" ”

(To be continued)