Chapter 131: Season 40+

On March 20, in the 31st round of Ligue 1, Lyon hosted Nantes.

Fresh off the midweek away game at Chelsea, the whole Lyon squad was somewhat tired.

After all, it was back and forth, and the intensity of the competition was very high.

This leads to Lyon being a bit unable to attack for a long time at home.

After 70 minutes of the game, Fournier decisively replaced Cornet to play three forwards and tried to attack, and finally paid off.

Cornet opened the scoring for Lyon in a corner kick scuffle and then converted a penalty in stoppage time for Zhang to hit the spot.

Lacazette also scored a goal in the 83rd minute.

As a result, Lyon beat Nantes 3-0 at home and managed to win the three points.

"With the penalty kick in this game, Zhang Chaoqiang's Ligue 1 goal tally this season has reached 29, and it is only a matter of time before he breaks the 30-goal mark."

"In addition, in terms of total goals in all competitions, Zhang Chaoqiang has scored 41 goals this season, which is a very exaggerated figure."

"No matter in any league, to be able to score 30 goals in a single season in the league and 40 goals in all competitions is the efficiency of a super goalscorer."

At present, there are 7 rounds left in Ligue 1, Zhang Chaoqiang has scored 29 goals, and it is believed that he will soon be able to complete the 30-goal achievement of the Ligue 1 season.

Since the beginning of the 21st century, only Ibrahimovic and Alexandre Lacazette have managed to score 30 goals in a season.

In addition, Zhang Chaoqiang also has 7 goals in the Champions League, 3 goals in the UEFA Super Cup, and 2 goals in the French Super Cup.

According to the comprehensive calculation of various competitions, Zhang Chaoqiang has scored a total of 41 goals.

41 goals is a very impressive statistic, among the five major leagues, so far this season, only Real Madrid's Cristiano Ronaldo has scored more goals than Zhang Chaoqiang.

Comparing historical data is equally clear.

Since the beginning of the 21st century, only six players in the top five leagues have scored 40+ goals in a single season in all competitions.

Vanney, Huntelaar, Mario Gomez, Ibrahimovic.

All four of the above have done it once.

Of course, Ibrahimovic is expected to finish for the second time this season.

In addition to the four, there are naturally two perverts of Ronaldo and Messi.

Prior to this season, both men had scored 40+ goals six times.

And they have a good chance of continuing to complete it for the seventh time this season.

In fact, Ronaldo has already finished, and Messi is still a few goals away.

Now Zhang Chaoqiang has also joined the ranks of 40+ goals in the season.

On top of that, he's only 21 years old.

Cristiano Ronaldo was 23 years old when he first completed the 07/08 season and Messi was 22 years old when he completed his first time in the 09/10 season.

Zhang Chaoqiang's first time was younger than the two of them.

However, being younger does not necessarily mean that you are more accomplished.

After all, Ronald has scored 40+ goals in the five major leagues in the past few years at the age of 20, but he only has that one time in his career.

Of course, he was largely hampered by injuries.

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In the 31st round of Ligue 1, Lyon defeated Nantes at home to get all three points, but on the other side, Paris drew 2:2 with Monaco at home.

In this way, Lyon managed to recover the two-point difference.

At the moment, Grand Paris has 77 points and Lyon has 76 points.

Since the first half of the season, the difference between the two teams has been going back and forth between one and four points.

Now with seven rounds left in Ligue 1, the two teams are back to a delicate one-point difference.

After the 31st round of Ligue 1, there was a two-week national team break, and the French media took advantage of the break in Ligue 1 to come up with another blind analysis.

Lyon drew Bayern in the quarterfinals of the Champions League, which is basically more than lucky.

The Grand Paris Euro was drawn to Manchester City and had a good chance of qualifying.

Both sides are local giants, but Grand Paris is considered to have more experience in the Champions League.

At least that's what the French press thinks.

What Lyon has to do is take this opportunity to refocus the team back on the domestic stage and try to complete the Ligue 1 title.

After all, every step forward in the Champions League consumes a lot of energy.

This is especially true for a team like Lyon, which has a lineup that dominates the world.

Lyon fans don't think so, though.

Since you have won Bayern, of course you have to play a good game with them.

It's not too late to come back and fight for Ligue 1.

In the Lyon team, everyone is thinking so much.

There is still some time to go before the Champions League quarter-finals, and the Lyon coaching staff has begun to conduct targeted training, and the whole team is preparing intensively.

Overall, the Champions League quarter-final match against Bayern Munich has become the most important competition for Lyon.

During the national team competition, Zhang Chaoqiang actually received an exclusive task from Annie.

"My father said that if you can eliminate Bayern, he will agree to me going to China."

Before, Zhang Chaoqiang's mother asked him to take Anne back, and later Zhang Chaoqiang found an opportunity to ask Anne.

Anne herself agreed, but her family didn't seem to agree, saying something about China being too far away.

I didn't expect to take a turn for the better recently.

"I asked again at lunchtime yesterday and my father suddenly said: 'If that kid can get rid of Bayern, he'll let you go.'" Anne explained.

"Is there any inevitable connection between eliminating Bayern and going to China?" Zhang Chaoqiang was a little curious.

"I don't know, I secretly asked Guy later, and he said that it seems that Bayern eliminated Saint-Etienne...... "Anne seems to understand.

Zhang Chaoqiang deliberately checked it, and it was really.

Saint-Etienne was a Ligue 1 powerhouse in the sixties and seventies, having won four consecutive French titles in the sixties and three in the seventies.

Especially in the seventies, Saint-Etienne not only dominated Ligue 1, but also performed well in the Champions League.

In the 74/75 season, Saint-Etienne reached the semi-finals of the Champions League for the first time in their history, but lost 2-0 to Bayern Munich over two legs.

In the 75/76 season, Saint-Etienne made a comeback and reached the final.

However, he met Bayern and finally lost the championship 0:1.

After all, it was the peak of Bayern's three consecutive Champions League titles.

Maybe the old man was a passionate fan of Saint-Etienne, and he watched his home team fall in front of Bayern twice in a row, so he left an obsession in his heart.

"Don't worry, Annie, I'll try to beat Bayern and snatch you."

"But I heard that Bayern are the favourites in the Champions League, can you really beat them?"

"If you can't do it, I'll elope with you ......"

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After the national team competition, April officially arrived.

It is also the last two months of the season.

The two months that really ended the decision on the results.

On April 2, in the 32nd round of Ligue 1, Lyon challenged Lorient away.

Alexandre Lacazette scored twice, Valbuena scored, and Lyon won 3-0 away.

Zhang Chaoqiang failed to score and only received one assist in the game.

With this assist, he has once again doubled his Ligue 1 assist tally this season.

29 goals and 10 assists, this is the current league data of Zhang Chaoqiang.

On the other side, Paris beat Nice 4-1 at home, and Ibrahimovic scored a hat-trick.

Ibrahimovic has also been the player to wear a hat-trick at least twice in Ligue 1 this season, as is Zhang Chaoqiang.

And in the Ligue 1 scorer list, Ibrahimovic relied on this hat trick to surpass Zhang Chaoqiang and ranked first with 30 goals.