Chapter Eighty-Three - "Chopping" Tactics!
Two days later, Saint-Germain host Marseille challenge.
In the first 12 rounds of Ligue 1 matches, Marseille won five wins, four draws and three losses, accumulating 19 points and ranking eighth. They are two places above Saint-Germain. In their last Ligue 1 fixture, they drew 1-1 at home to last season's Champions League runners-up Monaco.
Before the game, the Marseille coach cautiously told the media that the Parc des Princes stadium had won two important games in seven days, and Saint-Germain's morale was high. The night must have been a bitter battle.
Speaking to the media before the game, Wayd Alilozik said Saint-Germain's goal was to get all three points.
However, the French media is not optimistic about Saint-Germain. Saint-Germain, who lacks a major general, cannot escape the "Champions League phenomenon". Many giants can't get rid of the "Champions League phenomenon" after the Champions League, let alone Saint-Germain.
The Champions League is the highest stage of professional football. The prize money is the highest, and the fan attention is the highest. Professional players in this arena, in order to prove themselves, show all their skills.
The fierce confrontation consumes not only physical energy, but also mental strength. After the mental power is depleted, the recovery is much slower than the physical strength. So often after the Champions League game, the team will fall into a slump.
The magic weapon of the big team to solve this problem is to rotate and let the main players rest in turn. Saint-Germain are not giants, they were founded in 1970 and are considered a young club in France. And most importantly, they have no one to rotate.
The words of the media did not affect the mood of Saint-Germain, who have won three in a row and they want four in a row. Reinaldo is back, bringing a long-lost laugh to the team and confidence.
Against Marseille, Wayd Alilozik's starting line-up was the same as five days ago. He wanted to use that lineup to take the lead in the first half and make substitutions in the second half. Reinaldo is on the bench and has returned from injury and needs time to recover.
The game started at 7 p.m. sharp, and the Parc des Princes stadium was packed. Fans know that in this situation, the team needs them. They don't want the "Champions League phenomenon" to happen, they want to shout like a mountain of people; Thunderous applause drove away the weariness in the hearts of the players. Let them fight for victory.
As soon as the game began, the Saint-Germain fans began to shout, and some fans ran in the stands holding the Saint-Germain team flag. What a big blue sea!
Playing away from home, Marseille did not immediately attack at the start of the game, and they adopted a strategy of holding fast and waiting for opportunities to counterattack. Saint-Germain dominated the first fifteen minutes of the game, with a midfield led by Boskovic dancing a spectacular dance at the Parc des Princes stadium. To the delight of the fans, they saw the return of the former Saint-Germain.
Marseille built a defensive line in his own half, and Tang Jue found himself facing not one player, but two or three people. A Marseille defender cut the ball in front of him early to cut off his contact with the midfield.
Two of them are behind, and once he has the ball, one of them is tightly behind him, using his hands and feet to interfere with him holding the ball. As soon as he turns to face the goal, the Marseille player behind him will choose to foul at the first time. If Tang is lucky enough to escape the foul of the players behind him, Marseille also prepares a third hurdle for him.
The third player will not hesitate to knock him to the ground!
This is the "felling" tactic specially prepared by Marseille for Tang Jue!
That's the price of being famous. After the match with Porto, the major media praised Tang Jue, and he has become the object of study for various teams in Ligue 1.
Marseille's strategy is divided into two levels, the first level is to prevent Tang Jue from taking the ball. The second level is that once Tang Jue gets the ball, they adopt a foul strategy.
Marseille's strategy worked very well in the first fifteen minutes. The flamboyant Saint-Germain, despite their vigorous dancing, could not pose a real threat.
The arrow has lost its power, and it can even be said that Tang Jue's sharp arrow has not yet been put on the bowstring. Saint-Germain had just two shots on goal in fifteen minutes, and both from distance.
This is the weakness of the single striker, and once the only striker is unable to exert his power, their attack will only blossom and not bear fruit.
The euphoria was short-lived, as Marseille fought back after fifteen minutes of topping, baring their fangs and claws. They launched a ferocious attack in the half of Saint-Germain.
For a moment, the Saint-Germain half was filled with rumbling artillery fire. Deu led the Saint-Germain backline and put up stubborn resistance. Saint-Germain have to realise that they really don't have the quality to control the midfield and put on a flashy attack right now.
Sure enough, as Waide Alilozik's analysis suggests, Saint-Germain's best way to play at this stage is to defend and counter-attack. In the face of Marseille's frantic attack, Saint-Germain played a defensive counterattack.
With the experience of the last game against Porto, Saint-Germain played a comfortable counter-attack.
After a steal at the back, they quickly moved forward. Boskovic passed the ball to Tang Jue three times in a row, and on two occasions Tang Jue used super fast speed to control the ball at his feet. However, just as Tang Jue was about to make a sharp breakthrough, the feet of the Marseille defenders, like big knives, slashed at him.
Or their hands were like the claws of a fierce tiger, grabbing at Tang Jue.
Tang Jue had never seen such a formation, and he couldn't dodge, Tang Jue was either slashed to the ground by a big knife, or pounced on the ground by a sharp tiger claw.
In the stands, there was a huge boo from the Saint-Germain fans. Some fans scolded loudly: "Bitch raised, this is a football match, not a wrestling match!" ”
Don, who fell on the turf, was by no means angry, having provoked the Porto players in the last game. The Marseille players are now not provoking him, but are just treating him as a tree or a prey.
If you want to be great, if you can't even cross such a ditch, it's a joke. Tang Jue got up from the turf and patted his buttocks, his eyes showing determination. He looked at the yellow card raised in the referee's hand and thought to himself that there is always a price for a foul!
In the last match against Porto, Tang Jue also turned into a tree for a while and was cut down by them. The Porto player received four yellow cards for him. If they hadn't calmed down in the second half, stopped being lumberjacks and didn't continue cutting trees, they would have been sent off long ago.
Tang was by no means intimidated by Marseille's lumberjacks, and in the next game, as long as he got the ball, he desperately broke through to Marseille's penalty area, fell to the ground again and again, and got up again and again.
There were a lot of bruises on the two calves protected by the shin guards, and those were knife marks. Tang Jue's eyes were still firm. Forty minutes into the first half, Tang Jue had already allowed the Marseille player to receive three yellow cards.
Tang Jue is still silently suffering the opponent's cutdown, as long as it goes on like this, either he will be knocked to the ground by them and carried off the field, or the opponent will accumulate two yellow cards and be sent off. With more and less, Saint-Germain will be in control of the game.
The defenders of the Marseille team began to change when they looked at Tang Jue, this young player, after being violated, there was no pain or anger on his face. As if the knives weren't cut at his legs.
Is his body made of steel and iron?
Could it be that his heart has been cultivated to the point of no joy and no worries?
In their case, they will choose to pass the ball after receiving the ball instead of continuing to insist on breaking through with the ball themselves.
The fans were shouting "Don! Tang Dynasty! ”
They want to support him and support his strength.
They want to see the team win, but they also want to see subtle combinations and sharp breakthroughs. In the first two games on this turf, they saw Tang Jue's sharp breakthrough. Tonight, they also want to see Tang Jue use a sharp breakthrough to tear through Marseille's defense and blast Marseille's goal.
Tang Jue's behavior was the same as they imagined. With lightning speed, he tried to break through Marseille's defenses. However, Marseille's defender became a lumberjack, and Tang Jue became a tree.
Fall down again and again, get up again and again. Then move on without changing your action plan. Tang Jue's behavior revealed a strong flavor.
It was as if Tang had to turn himself into a towering tree made of steel, leaving the loggers of Marseille to return in vain.
The first half, which ended in a logging campaign, ended without a goal for either side.
As they walked to the players' tunnel, the Saint-Germain fans on the tunnel shouted loudly at Tang Jue:
"Don! Tang Dynasty! ”
They waved their fists, as if this would pass on their strength to him, so that he could continue to persevere, and persistence was victory. As long as Marseille's players dare to cut down trees in the second half, they will get a red card sooner or later.
Back in the locker room, Tang Jue couldn't help but take off the shin guards, and his two calves were indeed blue and purple!
The pain in his calf was numb, and Sark glanced at him and called out to the team doctor. Pauletta saw Tang Jue's calf, and her eyes began to change. Boskovic looked at Tang Jue's calf and said in a low voice: "Don, you can pass the ball!" ”
Tang Jue bared his white teeth and said, "If you have a better position, I will definitely pass the ball." ”
Boskovic recalled the first half of the game, and sure enough, as Tang Jue said, except for the opening fifteen minutes, Tang Jue was alone in front of him at the rest of the time. They are too far away from Tang Jue, and if they pass back, they will lose the opportunity to counterattack quickly.
Dewu smiled and said, "Don, you are really a man! ”
Tang Jue looked at the bandage on Dewu's head and said with a smile: "You are the real man!" ”