Chapter Seventy-Five: Gritting Teeth and Persevering
The quarterfinals of the European competition are over, and all the top four teams have appeared.
The Champions League is Barcelona, Real Madrid, Bayern, Juventus.
Europa League is Lyon, Sevilla, Fiorentina, Napoli.
Then in the semi-final draw organized by UEFA, the Champions League was drawn against Barcelona Bayern and Real Madrid against Juventus.
The Europa League draw was Lyon against Napoli and Sevilla against Fiorentina.
La Liga in the Champions League is separated, so La Liga has the possibility of winning the Champions League final.
In the same way, the two Serie A teams in the Europa League are separated, and Serie A has the possibility of winning the Europa League final.
For Lyon to draw Napoli, Chinese fans are very concerned.
Because Napoli's star Higuain is the only potential opponent for Zhang Chaoqiang to compete for the Europa League Golden Boot.
At present, Zhang Chaoqiang has scored eight goals, Higuain has scored seven goals, and the two happened to be drawn together in the Europa League semi-finals, which is quite topical.
At least in China, fans are not losing any attention to this season's Europa League semi-finals as the Champions League.
Who is stronger Lyon or Napoli?
Can Zhang Chaoqiang win the Europa League Golden Boot? Will it be overtaken by Higuain?
These are all hot topics that have attracted a lot of discussion among fans.
South Korean black fans are quite unhappy with this, and many have expressed their support for Napoli to take out Lyon, and Higuain to snatch Zhang Chaoqiang's golden boot.
Soon, however, they had internal disagreements.
Because of the South Korea-Japan World Cup that year, South Korea had a big enmity with Italy, and South Korea's top brand Ahn Jung-hwan at that time was even expelled from Serie A.
Now that they want to cheer for a Serie A team, some "old Korean fans" find it difficult to accept.
By the way, although Son Heung-min helped Bayer Leverkusen reach the knockout round of the Champions League, he was sent away by Atletico Madrid in the round of 16.
Zhang Chaoqiang is the only Asian player still playing in Europe at this stage and is expected to win the Europa League Golden Boot.
So he has attracted much attention in Asian football, and he has made a good face and began to attract fans from other Asian countries.
It is precisely because of this that many fans went to the official website of the AFC to "overturn the case" for Zhang Chaoqiang.
At the AFC's annual awards ceremony held at the end of last year, Chinese football won nothing, and there were almost no nominations.
Only one best women's football coach was nominated, but it didn't win either.
At that time, Chinese fans said that Chinese football is indeed very bad, and no one has been nominated for other awards, but Zhang Chaoqiang should at least be shortlisted for the Best Overseas Player Award, right?
The Best Overseas Player is a new award created by the AFC in 2012 for Asian players who have stayed abroad.
In 2012, Shinji Kagawa, who played for Borussia Dortmund in the Bundesliga, became the first winner.
In 2013, Yuto Nagatomo, who played for Inter Milan in Serie A, became the second winner.
Last year, the third year since the award was established, the AFC announced the shortlist of South Korea's Son Heung-min, Japan's Shinji Okazaki, and Australia's Jedinak.
Many Chinese fans do not approve of this list.
Zhang Chaoqiang played well in Ligue 1, came off the bench in the French League Cup final to lead the team to win the championship, and then wore a hat in Ligue 1, but he didn't even qualify?
The Koreans were very happy and immediately jumped out to sarcastically ridicule Zhang Chaoqiang for not being qualified to be shortlisted at all.
Then Son Heung-min finally won the award, which made the South Koreans even more happy.
But now that Zhang Chaoqiang has risen to the top of the Europa League scorer list, more and more fans think that Zhang Chaoqiang's failure to make the cut is indeed too unreasonable.
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[You strengthen your body through personal training, flexibility +1]
On the team's training ground, Zhang Chaoqiang received a familiar prompt again.
Increased flexible stat from 71 to 72.
"Zhang, do you think our team is really going to collapse?" Recently, the French media has been talking about Lyon and Grand Paris, and Tolisso, the kid, has also been affected and has become a little nervous.
"It's all at this time, so why don't you care if it collapses or not? Only by playing every game seriously and gritting your teeth and persevering......"
Zhang Chaoqiang really thinks so.
At this time, it is useless to look forward and backward half-heartedly, only grit your teeth and persevere.
On April 26, in the 34th round of Ligue 1, Lyon challenged Reims away.
As a desireless team in the Ligue 1 standings, Reims is very face-saving and does not cause any problems for his predecessor.
Just two minutes into the opening game, Zhang Chaoqiang found Lacazette with a diagonal pass in front of the field and assisted the latter to shovel the goal.
Then Tolisso and Bedimo scored respectively, and Lyon led 3-1 in the first half.
With two Europa League semi-finals to go and a Ligue 1 replay, Lyon have been playing twice a week for the next three weeks.
So after the game was basically won, Fournier replaced Zhang Chaoqiang and Lacazette one after another, so that the two guns could stay for important games.
In the second half, Gourcuff came off the bench to score a goal to extend the score to 4:1.
However, in stoppage time, Lyon conceded another goal with a slight carelessness, so the final score was 4:2.
It may seem like an inconsequential goal, but now Lyon and Paris may be competing to the point of goal difference, and every goal conceded could be crucial.
Fournier looked a little worried, and was not very happy with the goal conceded at the end.
But he didn't say anything, just win the game.
In the same round, Grand Paris is at home to Lille.
Originally, Lyon fans were counting on Lille to be a little more aggressive and try to make Paris lose points.
Unexpectedly, Lille was completely weak, and actually lost 1:6 away to Paris, only to be beaten into a pig's head by the Paris players.
Therefore, the difference between Lyon and Grand Paris is still three points, but Grand Paris has recovered three goal difference at once.
The exact lead of Lyon over Grand Paris at the moment is three points and six goal difference.
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In the middle of the week, the rest of the Ligue 1 teams were resting, while Lyon and Grand Paris had to play the 32nd round of Ligue 1 replays.
Grand Paris hosts Metz, while Lyon hosts Battisia.
In the first leg away to Bastia, Lyon were held to a 0-0 draw.
This time at home, Lyon did not allow the tragedy to happen again.
"Zhang Chaoqiang! Good pass!! ”
"Fekir! Volley to score!! ”
In the 36th minute of the game, Jordan Ferry broke through on the right side and passed back to the bottom, Zhang Chaoqiang received the ball in the middle, attracted the opponent's defenders, and immediately transferred the ball to Fekir on the left side.
Fekir took the ball and volleyed it home decisively.
Bastia had clearly come to Gérland with the intention of causing trouble for Lyon, but this time they were not so lucky.
It only took Lyon just over half an hour to knock on their goal.
"With this assist, Zhang Chaoqiang's data in Ligue 1 this season has increased to 14 goals and 12 assists, which is a standard star statistic, which is very gorgeous."
Zhang Chaoqiang has added assists in his last two games, taking his tally to 12.
But for Marseille, Payet's tally has risen to 16.
After Lyon opened the score, Battisia continued to play tenaciously.
Everyone knows that Lyon wants to compete for the title and must fight for three points per game, so most teams want to try to be a barrier when facing Lyon.
If they can really kick Lyon's championship away, it will definitely be a great feat enough to go down in team history.
In the following time, the game scene was a bit deadlocked.
It wasn't until the 77th minute of the second half that left-back Bedimo pressed and sent a good cross from the wing.
Lacazette squeezed desperately in front of goal and kicked the ball into the opposition goal to seal the win of the game.
In this way, Lyon beat Bastia 2-0 at home, winning two games in a row after dropping points in the Rhône derby, without giving the Parisians the collapse they wanted.
However, there are still four games to go, and Lyon still have to play one game at a time.
In another make-up match at the same time, Grand Paris defeated Metz 3-1 at home and also won three points.
This time both teams won by two goals, and the goal difference difference remained unchanged.
By the way, after this rematch, Ibrahimovic will return, and the strength of Grand Paris can be strengthened again.
According to the French press, Lyon must tacitly accept that Paris will end the season with four consecutive wins.
So if you want to win the championship, you need to calculate how many points you need to score.
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In the last game against Lance, Zhang Chaoqiang wanted to steal a little burst and fill up his burst attribute to 80 points.
But it was found that none of the players on the opposite side had a higher burst than themselves.
In the end, I had to change to steal a little reaction.
In this face of Bastia, Zhang Chaoqiang finally stole a little explosion as he wished.
Now Zhang Chaoqiang's burst is 80 points, and his speed is 84 points.
Even without the [Mr. Key] bonus, his overall attributes are basically sufficient.
At least in Ligue 1, this attribute is very combative.