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When Chu Zhongtian walked onto the court with his teammates from the locker room, the rain was falling. Pen | fun | pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

"Hell! I hate the rain! Some teammates around him complained.

Chu Zhongtian didn't think it was anything, when he was playing at Wimbledon, he often played rain battles. England is a rainy place, and playing in the rain is a common occurrence for English players.

It looks like the weather is in Tottenham's favour for this game.

Sure enough, unlike the Metz players who looked at the sky or stepped on the turf to complain, the Tottenham players who came out to warm up did not take the weather to heart at all, neither looked up at the sky nor looked down at the ground, except that the warm-up was a warm-up, and there was no difference from usual.

He's the same as Tottenham and warms up normally. He didn't feel any difference other than a few words from the venue.

When I used to play at Wimbledon, the venue of the ninth level amateur league was much worse than White Hart Lane, and when it rained, it became a muddy pond, the field was slippery and muddy and potholes, and it was not like now, when it rained, you could change to a set of long spikes, all short spikes, and playing on that kind of field was like skating, completely untenable. He's been playing for two years and doesn't feel anything.

Now that the conditions are so good, it is even less likely that he will complain about anything.

Ribery slipped on his feet during the long-range shot, fell and got up again with some mud on his butt and arms, he shook off the dirt on his hands, and then angrily said: "I must change the spikes when I go back later!" ”

Chu Zhongtian was prescient, he had already changed it before the warm-up, and now it was time to test the adaptation of the newly changed long spikes to the venue.

He sprints and runs, he shoots, he passes, he feels the support on the ground. The results were satisfactory to him.

Because of the rain, the temperature drops, so it takes a little more time than usual to warm up.

After the warm-up, everyone was soaking wet.

"Go back, dry your water, and change your clothes!" Assistant Coach David. Carré shouted at the entrance of the tunnel to every player who ran off the pitch that, like the players, he had been drenched in the rain, but he didn't care. He reminded his players not to catch a cold, but he didn't think about whether he would catch a cold because of it.

The players he urged trotted up and walked into the corridor.

Chu Zhongtian glanced back at the stands with more and more people, and he could see sporadic red in the large white, those should be the fans of Mays, and today there were only more than two thousand of them.

It's pathetic, I don't know if they can make any small waves in front of the crazy England fans.

Chu Zhongtian, who returned to the locker room, like other teammates, would receive a dry towel from the coach, take off his clothes, wipe off the water stains on his body, and then change into a game uniform. Then, under the supervision of the coach, they replaced the short spikes on their shoes and replaced them with long spikes that are designed to play on slippery and muddy courts, and after all this they were done, they waited for the manager to say something to them.

Let. Fernandes knows how important this game is for his team.

"If we lose, we're going to say goodbye to the UEFA Cup. So this game can't be lost. In the game we still attacked, there was no other way but to attack. I don't know what tactics Tottenham are going to use, and even if they do, it doesn't make sense because we have to attack. Stick to our own style of play and don't care what happens to our opponents. Remember, we have no other way but to attack, and we have no way out. ”

Attacking is the most common phrase heard by the players in Metz. Because attacking football is the symbol of Metz, Fernandes' Metz plays brave and beautiful football in Ligue 1, and although the results are inconsistent, they are very popular. The Metz players have long been familiar with this tactic and only occasionally play defensive counter-attacks. In the two seasons when the team needed to be relegated, conservative and passive defensive football, which was still relatively common, is now as rare as a panda.

"You're already familiar with how to attack, we've been playing like this all the time. But I would like to remind you to pay attention to the venue. The rainy field is relatively slippery, and the ground is a little difficult to match. He looked at Chu Zhongtian.

Chu Zhongtian knew that these words were meant for him, because he was responsible for deciding the team's offensive style.

"So try to be as concise as possible, don't dribble and control the ball too much. The field is slippery, it's easy to fall to the ground, and the referee should not be so strict with fouls, so you have to pay attention to that. While being careful of the opponent's fouls, you can also commit appropriate fouls. ”

Everyone nodded their heads to indicate that they understood.

"Ibi, make more use of your body and header." Fernandez has said to Ibisevic.

Then he said, "Well, there's nothing more to say. Get out of the game, boys. Play this game as if it were the final. ”

※※※ The dressing room in Metz is a little dull because the prospect is not optimistic.

But in the dressing room of Tottenham Hotspur, it was lively like a bar. In the sound of music, everyone chatted casually, and they didn't pay attention to the game that was about to start.

Knowing that the head coach Joel was coming in, they asked them to keep the music down.

"We were at home for this game, the weather and the venue were good for us. So you guys just play at a normal level. Note that the most important thing in this game is not how many goals we score, but not to make mistakes and not concede goals, as long as we don't concede goals we win! ”

Tottenham also played a rain game in the league before this game, and last weekend, it rained across England, and for Tottenham, it was a warm-up rehearsal for this game. So Joel will say that the weather is good for them too.

Joel's wishful thinking is like this - with two away goals in hand and a draw with Metz on the road, this game is guaranteed to advance as long as they don't concede. In such a situation, why would he risk fighting Mace? He already knows how powerful Metz can be: it took less than 45 minutes to recover two goals in the last round, and if they were given another 10 minutes, who knows if the result would be reversed?

This game is definitely defensive.

'Make sure we don't concede goals and then think about attacking. You have to remember that the back line has to be simple and decisive and don't give the opposition a chance to steal in front of our own box. They're goal-based, there's going to be a lot of space in the backline, take those chances, play their counter-attacks, go straight from the back and go straight forward, and if the pitch isn't good, we'll play long balls. ”

The Dutch also played a long pass and rushed to hang, it was really "forced by the situation", ...... when the players on both sides played, Chu Zhongtian was still in the front row of the team, although Promans had entered the squad, but he had just recovered from injury, and he was only brought because there was no good substitute in the position of the back midfield, just in case. In fact, Fernandes had no intention of playing Promins if he could.

And in such an important game, Bobigoni, who is slightly inferior, will naturally not start, so the captain of Metz in this game is still Chu Zhongtian. When he first wore the captain's armband in the first leg against Bayer Leverkusen, he thought he would be three weeks at most, but he didn't expect to wear it for two months...... So much so that there are times when he forgets that he is actually a temporary captain, and the captain's armband will still be returned to him after Promans' return.

※※※"Look! I appeared! "The fans in the stands were excited as the players from both sides walked out of the corridor.

Tottenham fans are cheering on their heroes, hoping they can beat their opponents at home and qualify. And the fans of Metz chanted slogans cheering for Metz.

Wimbledon Athletic fans naturally don't help each other, they only cheer for Chu Zhongtian.

"Chu! It's Chu! He's out! ”

"Hey, it's the captain again!"

"Look at the way he walks out wearing the captain's armband, he's so handsome!"

"Chu, come on!"

A crowd shouted, and it was simple for fans to express their emotions. The players are a little more complicated, on the one hand, they are happy for Chu Zhongtian's current results, but on the other hand, they are a little envious and jealous. So many people who played football at the time, some of them even started higher than him, and now he is really the best mix. When he first joined the team, he was good for nothing but being able to defend and have good physical strength...... Shooting, passing, dribbling will not be.

Gavin. Bolger didn't have an appointment with his former teammates, so he stood alone in the other stand. Watching Chu Zhongtian take the team onto the court with his head held high, he was also one of the people who was envious.

In terms of technology, he was far inferior to himself and Russell, but why is he the most successful person now? Why did Russell rather pin his dream of professional football on someone who had a conflict with him than give himself a friend who had played with him since he was a child? Looking at it now, Russell's vision is so good.

Why? In fact, as early as when he inadvertently saw Chu Zhongtian running all the way to the King's Ranch with the ball on the bus, this question had an answer, right?

If people who work so hard do not succeed, there will be no heavenly reason.

※※※ Chu Zhongtian didn't know that his friends at Wimbledon had come to see him play, and he didn't know how his former teammates felt when they saw him like this. As before, he lined up for the media to take pictures, and then came to meet Tottenham captain Ledley. Gold exchange team flags, shake hands, guess the coin to pick the edge.

Tottenham's pitch is still at a good level, and there is no situation where you are trampled into a muddy pool after half an hour of warm-up. Or maybe it's because Tottenham don't think they have a problem qualifying, so they didn't make any stumbling blocks for Metz in terms of field conditions, so they pick the same side.

Chu Zhongtian deliberately lost the right to pick the edge, and then got the right to tee.

Teams need to score away from home and have possession at the start of the game is obviously more important than which side to attack first.

After picking sides, the two sides shook hands with the referee, took a group photo, and then returned to their respective teams.

"Let's kick off." Chu Zhongtian said to his teammates who gathered together. "Pay attention to the power of your passes, minimise mistakes and counter-attack if you lose the ball. Be positive, guys! ”

And when they had promised to come down, they dispersed, every man to his place.

In the pouring rain, the referee blew the whistle for the start of the game. At the same time as the whistle sounded, Menez passed the football to Ibisevic, who in turn passed it back to Chu Zhongtian. The race is on!

※※※ Chu Zhongtian stood outside the center circle, and in order to ensure the smooth transmission of the football, Ibisevic passed the ball with more power, but he forgot that the field was slippery now, and the rolling speed of the football on the turf was faster than usual, and the ball was passed to Chu Zhongtian faster than usual. He stretched out his foot to stop the ball, but the ball bounced off the inside of his foot due to the force.

Chu Zhongtian had to lift his foot again to unload the football.

As soon as he received the ball, he heard boos from the stands.

Tottenham fans booed Chu Zhongtian because when the two sides played in the first leg, Chu Zhongtian used to play with Tottenham captain Ledley. Kim had a clash that caused the players of the two teams to almost come to an end. At that time, when it was away from home, Tottenham had few fans and did not make any waves. Now back at White Hart Lane, it's different.

Tottenham fans have long discussed that as soon as the No. 8 of Metz gets the ball, he will be booed! Non-stop boo! Boo so much that he didn't dare to take the ball!

But how did they know that Chu Zhongtian firmly believed that a player who was never hated and hated by his opponent must not be a good player, so the boos of Tottenham fans were not an insult to him, but a compliment - they booed me because they were afraid of me, and they were afraid that I was a threat to them because of my good performance. If you're doing well, let's keep playing like this!

Because I didn't stop the ball well, I made one more action and delayed some time. So when he stopped the ball and tried to see what was going on in front of him, the opposing player was almost in front of him.

Chu Zhongtian turned around and passed the football back.

He took into account the situation of the field when passing the ball, so he didn't use too much force, and he was not afraid of being cut off by the opponent, because the ball was very fast, and it was not so easy to break the ball. He thinks more about how to pass the ball so that his teammates don't have a hard time catching it. If the centre-backs have to make two or three moves to get the ball as they do with Ibisevic, then they may make some mistakes when the opponent presses them. If the central defender hastily passes back to the goalkeeper, the opponent continues to press, and the goalkeeper Wenbi stops the ball and doesn't stop well, won't it stop directly at the feet of the opposing player? It's a tragedy.

Sure enough, centre-back Rodriguez caught the ball firmly and passed it to full-back Ibrahim, who was about to cut forward on the wing. Kabo.

After catching the ball, Cabo tried to dribble it, but the court was slippery and he lost his balance, and as a result, the ball did not come out, and he slipped instead. Robbie. Keane had just come up to grab it symbolically, and he didn't think about it. didn't expect Metz's player to fall down by himself, how could there be any reason not to eat the fat that was sent to his mouth?

Immediately hooked the lost football and took the ball towards the Metz penalty area.

Seeing that the team had such a good opportunity at the beginning of the game, there were huge cheers in the stands of White Hart Lane Stadium.

"Rush, Robbie! Rush! ”

The fans of Metz really had to thank Chu Zhongtian for his habit of playing football at this time - when he saw the football being passed to the feet of Cabo, he ran over and prepared to take it.

Unexpectedly, he didn't receive the ball, but he saw that the opponent's front court was broken, so he rushed forward without hesitation.

Robbie. Keane had intended to cut inside diagonally and into the Metz box.

But just after taking two steps, before the speed got up, I saw Chu Zhongtian blocking the inner line. It's not impossible to force a breakthrough, but it's ...... With such a good opportunity, why rush to hand over possession of the ball?

After a round of matching, Robbie. Keane already has a general understanding of Chu Zhongtian's defensive ability, at least not the kind of opponent he can break through without much effort.

So he chose to control the football, and he easily got the ball anyway, which was already very beneficial to the team.

Come to think of it, Robbie. Keane made a feint to force a break in, then slammed into a sharp turn to turn the ball back and wait for his teammates to press it up.

Chu Zhongtian knew what he was going to do, so he went to force Robbie. Keane, while waving his finger at the wing behind him, let the returning Cabo go back to position, instead of running up and following him to put Keane. Deal with Robbie. Keane, who doesn't need two people, is mindful of his possible passes.

Cabo hesitated, and it was this hesitation that Keane passed the ball through the gap between the two men, just in time for Lennon, who was cutting in from the side at high speed.

Chu Zhongtian had no choice but to chase Lennon, and at the same time waved his hand to let Cabo follow Keane to the inside line. This time Cabo did not hesitate and resolutely followed.

Chu Zhongtian faced Lennon alone. Out of the corner of his eye, he caught a glimpse of what was going on at the back of Tottenham and noticed that even in such a situation, the Tottenham full-backs were not up to get involved. What does this mean? It shows that Tottenham's tactics in this game should tend to be conservative.

Do they really think they can keep 0:0 at home and advance?

Anyway, Lennon, you're going to break through me with the ball alone without anyone cooperating?

In Chu Zhongtian's opinion, Lennon was good for nothing but speed.

As long as the position is stuck, no matter how fast the speed is, it is useless in this small space. What's more, this stupid boy still stops the ball now...... For a speed player, he will only have a chance if he gets the football moving, and once the football stops, then his biggest advantage is gone.

Lennon made a feint, and Chu Zhongtian stood on his inside, sideways towards him, unmoved. Then Lennon walked the ball out, and Chu Zhongtian took a big step and followed closely.

Lennon made another sharp stop and slammed the ball in the opposite direction, intending to break through.

Chu Zhongtian didn't turn around, because he didn't need to. He had guessed that Lennon would do this - accelerating the stop-and-change of direction is the basic skill of many wide players, and there is nothing difficult to guess. So he stepped out with his left leg, but his right leg was still trailing behind.

Now seeing Lennon stop and smash the ball, he kicked his right leg back, just in time to stop the football. Lennon didn't expect Chu Zhongtian to have a back hand, and the others collapsed from Chu Zhongtian's legs, but the football was stopped. When he turned around and chased back, he was already blocked by Chu Zhongtian's solid back.

Long before him, Chu Zhongtian had already copied behind him and controlled the football.

"Very good defense!" The narrator praised.

And the Tottenham fans in the stands let out another burst of boos.

In their boos, Chu Zhongtian threw the football out, Lennon chased back and wanted to break the ball, Chu Zhongtian made another emergency stop and protected the football. After shaking Lennon away, he passed the football to Jayovi, who played as his partner in the back.

"Pass forward!" Chu Zhongtian shouted at him, pointing at Menez in front of him at the same time.

In front of them, Menez was almost down to the center circle. There are Tottenham players between him and Chu Zhongtian, otherwise Chu Zhongtian will pass directly to Menez by himself, and there is no need to talk about Yayiovi transfer.

Jäiove played the ball out, Menez dribbled diagonally and then fired a long-range shot from just outside the box. But due to the slippage under the feet, the football was biased and high.

And so it was the end of Metz's first attack of the game.

The stands rang out with gloating laughter from Tottenham fans. In the midst of the laughter, Menez got up from the ground and stomped twice more on the spot where he had slipped, where the turf and dirt had been turned over by his movements.

"From the very beginning of the game, Metz showed their aggressive attack. There is no other way for them in this game than to attack. I just don't know if they'll be able to get their wish......"

(To be continued)