Chapter Two Hundred and Eight: Training Another Stunt!
On May 28, the French team will play a warm-up match against Mexico at the Stade de France. France and Mexico are both seeded in the World Cup. This is the first match of the three warm-up matches of the French team in the World Cup, which is very important for the French team, so this game attracted a lot of French fans.
Domenech fielded a four-four-two line-up, and in the forward line, he did not field the two Champions League finalists, Tang Jue and Thierry Henry, but Juventus' Trezeguet and Lyon's Wiltord.
The midfield quartet is Zinedine Zidane, Dosura, Franck Ribery and Claude Makelele. The back four are Sagnol, Thuram, Gala, Abidal. The goalkeeper is Butters.
With the exception of the forward line, this is almost the main force of the French team, which shows how much Domenech wants to win Mexico at home and boost the team's confidence. Vieira also sat on the bench, Domenech had his own ideas for this arrangement, Tang Jue and Henry had not yet recovered, and Vieira had to sit on the bench since he was their competitor.
Vieira was not nurtured by his own hands, Domenech had his own mind.
This match has another meaning for Zidane, as it is his 100th time playing for France. On the field, the Stade de France welcomed their national heroes with the warmest applause.
Tang Jue, who was sitting on the bench, listened to the warm applause, and his heart was full of excitement, he would definitely receive such treatment one day.
At four o'clock in the afternoon, the game began. The French team took advantage of the home advantage and frequently put pressure on the Mexican team. In the third minute, Wiltord had a chance to shoot. After receiving Zinedine Zidane's pass, Ribery drove down the flank to the outside of the Mexico penalty area and crossed the ball to Wiltord in the middle of the field, sending the ball flying without a defender.
Tang Jue shouted to Ribery from the bench. Vieira on the side pouted, he had already seen the clue, but he didn't care, he was just a newcomer.
In the first half, France had a strong central midfield. There weren't too many chances on goal for Mexico. France pressed the Mexican half almost constantly. launched a bombardment, but unfortunately the striker's ability to grasp the opportunity was not good, and he failed to break the opponent's goal.
Domenech made no substitutions in the second half. Seeing that they couldn't break through the opponent's goal, the French fans began to shout Tang Jue's name. Ten days ago. Tang Jue led Milan to victory over Arsenal here. A goal. Two assists, he was the master of that game. French fans will want to watch the new Champions League player of the year perform today.
Tang Jue didn't have any expression on his face. Henry's brows furrowed slightly, he also scored a goal in that final, hey...... Fans only remember the winners. Patrick Vieira's face was gloomy and he didn't play, but the fans didn't call him by name. Damn, the striker really has a different status in the hearts of the fans.
In the eighteenth minute of the second half, Domenech began to make a substitution, replacing Wiltord with Thierry Henry, partnering the former French twins. He wanted to see if the two of them still had the tacit understanding they had back then. Vieira looked at Tang Jue on the side and snorted coldly.
Now that his form has not fully recovered, Don does not care that the coach puts him on the bench. There was no displeasure on his face.
Henry's arrival made the French team's attack sharper. Henry, who was in his prime, although not yet fully recovered, used his breakthrough in the third minute to get a shot on the left. It's a pity that Mexico's goalkeeper performed bravely, almost on the goal line, saving the football off the bottom line.
Time was ticking by and Thierry Henry's arrival still didn't change the scoreline. Domenech made a second substitution in the 27th minute of the second half, with two centre-backs changed, with Boumsson replacing Thuram and Silvestre replacing Galla. Seeing that Tang Jue was still sitting on the bench, the French fans shouted louder.
Domenech, who was standing in the command area, had no expression on his face, and thought to himself, this atmosphere has created for you to be almost the same, the stage has been set up, it depends on your performance.
Thierry Henry is still working hard, but his form is still not back to his best, and the score is still 0-0. In the 32nd minute of the second half, Domenech made his third substitution, and the fans finally stood on the sidelines.
Amid thunderous applause, Don replaced the inactive Trezeguet. He only had a dozen minutes to perform, but the French fans didn't see it as an obstacle, and Tang Jue often scored in the last 10 minutes of the game. They hope that Tang Jue's arrival will change the score.
These thunderous applause is both an honor and a pressure. After Tang Jue came on the field, he was very positive, however, the sluggish form made him slide out of the goal twice with two shots.
The state was sluggish and he couldn't break the goal, Tang Jue was not in a hurry, he knew his own situation. If they can't win at home, the French team will face huge outside pressure.
In the 40th minute of the second half, Zidane made a direct pass in the heart of Mexico and found Tang Jue on the penalty line. Tang Jue stopped the football with his right foot, stepped forward with his left foot, stepped on the football with his right foot, and his whole body rotated one hundred and eighty degrees!
"Paris Spin"!
The fans in the stands are still excited, Zidane's Marseille maneuver, coupled with the Tang Jue's Parisian spin, the two techniques named "spin" in world football are all from France.
Facing the Mexican right central defender, Tang Jue dangled with his left foot, and the Mexican defender judged that Tang Jue was going to break through and shoot, and he was ready to break through.
Who knew that Tang Jue followed up with a diagonal pass with his right foot, and the football penetrated the entire defense line of Mexico and drilled into the penalty area!
This pass made the French fans applaud loudly!
A white figure on the left side of the penalty area broke free from the Mexican defender next to him and appeared in front of the football. At this point, he was only seven meters from the goal!
"Smack!" With a crisp sound, the football flew towards the lower right corner of the goal like a sharp arrow. In an instant, the soccer ball drilled into the net!
The ball is in!
The score became 1-0!
After Henry scored, he jumped up excitedly. The players of the French team surrounded him excitedly, and Henry grabbed Tang Jue and said loudly: "Your pass is so beautiful!" ”
The Stade de France erupted in thunderous applause once again. The new Champions League player of the year did not disappoint them, with a clever pass to help Thierry Henry break the deadlock on the pitch.
Vieira, who was on the bench, frowned and applauded, and he had been commenting on Tang's performance from the bench before this pass. His audience was the teammates sitting next to him. Tang Jue's wonderful biography made him close his mouth.
Tang is no longer the guy who only knows how to break through, he has learned a lot in a year of Milan life, and it is not easy for a wealthy family to survive. It is also a place to exercise people. In the case of not being able to break down the door yourself. He opted to provide an assist for his teammates.
Soon the game restarted, the score was behind, and Mexico began to fight back, but the French team's midfield defense was outstanding. They simply couldn't knock on the goal that Butters was keeping. Tang Jue was behind the score lead. Start trying to break down the door yourself. However. The sluggish form has made him unable to pierce the opponent's goal line with a football.
The referee blew the whistle for the end of the game, and France won 1-0 at the end. The first warm-up match before the World Cup was completed.
Back in the dressing room, Patrick Vieira, who had not been on the pitch, expressed his displeasure with Domenech. Zidane sided with Domenech and rebuked Vieira for being selfish, and the coach had his own plans for who to play. Tang never took the opportunity to hit Vieira, with Zidane in front, he didn't need to come forward.
Vieira angrily turned around and left the locker room, now arguing with Zidane is looking for death, and he used the way of leaving the locker room to express his dissatisfaction. Judging from Domenech's starters and substitutions, he is a staunch supporter of Tang Jue. The atmosphere in the locker room is slowly changing, and these amazing guys on the pitch have no low IQ.
After the game, the French media criticized France, believing that only one goal was scored when they dominated the field. They expressed concern about the form of the French team, with Domenech admitting in front of the media that France are not in good shape right now, with many players just finishing league and Champions League games and a normal slump in form. He believes that as the World Cup gets closer and closer, the team's form will get better and better.
The Spanish media criticized Tang Jue, believing that he was almost useless in the game, except for that pass. Tang Jue faced criticism from the Spanish media and admitted to the media that he was not in a good state. Referring to the criticism of the Spanish media, Tang Jue said: "Maybe Spanish football is what they say, a striker is not a good striker if he doesn't score. So Spain doesn't have a good striker. ”
The media interpreted Tang Jue's words as the reason why Spain did not have a good striker because the media was too demanding. It's a fact that Spain doesn't have the world's top strikers, but Tang Jue's reason is too far-fetched. Raul countered what Tang Jue said: "Everything will be clear when it comes to the World World Cup, and I will prove to the World World and him that Spain has good strikers!" ”
Tang Jue felt that Raul was stupid, and he couldn't see that this was a grudge between him and the Spanish media, but took the initiative to participate in the fight.
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After the match against Mexico, the French team did not return to Marseille and trained in Paris. Patrick also came to Paris, and during the day she visited the city's monuments, the Eiffel Tower, Notre Dame Cathedral, the Louvre, the Arc de Triomphe, ...... left her footprints; Versailles, Fontainebleau, Seine, Sacré-Coeur Basilica...... Left behind her shadow.
At night, she fell in love with Tang Jue in her hotel room. Training during the day and falling in love with Patrick at night, Tang Jue's days were very nourishing, and as time went on, his relationship with Patrick deepened. Patrick is different from Alice, gentle and sensual, and Alice is much stronger in comparison. Tang Jue experienced the tenderness of a woman here in Patrick, which was a different feeling.
Under Patrick's gentleness, Tang Jue's body and mind began to recover slowly, and his training state also improved.
While trying to recover, Tang Jue began to train for another of his future stunts - free kicks. He has two mentors, one is Zidane and the other is Xiao Feifei. Zinedine Zidane instructed him on how to stand and how to spin.
The free-kick technique mainly relies on the players themselves to improve their control of the football through continuous training. Xiao Feifei's role in this is huge, after every shot, Xiao Feifei will clearly show the analysis map in front of Tang Jue's eyes. Hints on where to kick the ball, how to lift the foot, the angle between the body and the ball, and the amount of force when hitting the ball, etc.
Most of these training sessions are done before and after the team-mates arrive. Tang Jue seemed to have returned to the sycamore forest of Lyon II, alone with football.
The reason for training free-kick skills is based on his knowledge of the game, and as his reputation grew, the more time defenders spent putting themselves on the turf, and free-kicks were the best way to break the opposition goal.
If they have superb free-kick skills, they will not easily bring themselves down, because they have to consider the cost of the foul. Again, this is a great help for your own breakthrough. This is the same as passing and breaking, passing will distract the opponent, thus increasing your own breakthrough success rate. Sharp breakthroughs also create better passing opportunities.
After the group training, he stayed on the training ground after his teammates left. Domenech left behind a staff member to pick up the ball for Tang Jue, and every coach appreciates these hard-working players.
After each kick, he would pause for half a minute to observe and analyze Xiao Feifei's analysis chart to see how far he was from the best hitting point, the amount of power, the running angle, and so on. The technology of the future is terrifying, and the speed of progress is astonishing. Even media reporters outside the stadium found out.
After all, this is not Lyon II a few years ago, there are people on the field who pick up the ball for him, and there are people who accompany him off the field. Long guns and short guns were aimed at him, and the reporters had not yet left. Since one day they found out that Tang Jue was left alone to practice free kick skills, they began to stay with Tang Jue.
They recorded the pictures of Tang Jue's practice, and when Tang Jue scored with a free kick in the game one day, they could play the pictures of these exercises and tell the fans of the world that success comes from hard work, even a genius like Tang Jue.
Every time he trained, Tang Jue strictly followed Xiao Feifei's plan, and he would not stop until he reached the training goal. After training again, Tang Jue walked to the sidelines and chatted with these reporters who accompanied him.
"Don, are you still satisfied with the results of your training today?"
Tang Jue nodded: "I am satisfied with every day of my life. ”
"Tang, your breakthrough skills and shooting skills are already at the top of the world, why do you have to practice free kick skills?"
Tang Jue said with a smile: "There is an old Chinese saying that 'more skills are not pressed', and now in the game, shooting is becoming more and more difficult, and I have to improve!" (To be continued......)