Football's hand covers the sky

Chapter 159 10

After sending off Son Ye-jin, Monaco ushered in the semi-finals of the French Cup. The opponent in the semi-finals was also an old acquaintance of Monaco, Guingamp who was also promoted from the second division of France last season.

Although Guingamp had an amazing time in the league, they were quickly beaten back to their original form. They are currently in the middle and lower reaches of the standings and are in danger of being relegated.

Whether to stay in Ligue [-] or fight for the French Cup championship, this requires Guingamp to make his own choice. As for Monaco, Ranieri has already decided not to let the main players start until the final. Moreover, Monaco is in a critical period in the league. It is obviously not worth the loss to affect the league competition for a French Cup.

Ranieri naturally also distinguishes the importance, which can be seen in the subsequent starting roster, while Guingamp on the other side seems a little greedy.

But even so, Guingamp's victory over Monaco was not an easy task. Subasic became an insurmountable wall for Guingamp, and it ended 10-0 after 0 and [-] minutes.

Stimulated by Li Shou, Subasic once again became the influence of Monaco. In the next penalty shootout, Monaco once again eliminated the opponent with Subasic's brave performance.

Why do you say again, Subasic had a wonderful performance in saving points before. In that game, Subasic saved two in the penalty shootout. Although there was only one this time, it was still enough to help Monaco break into the final.

As early as the day before the match between Monaco and Guingamp, the outcome of another semi-final match had already been announced. Monaco's opponent in the final was Rennes, their opponent in the last round of the league.

The final of the French Cup will be on May 5th. Because of this final, Monaco's match will be postponed for a few days. What's more interesting is that Monaco's opponent in the league is Guingamp, who was eliminated by himself, and Paris Saint-Germain will face Rennes. Therefore, not only Monaco's No.4 six rounds of the league will be postponed, but Paris Saint-Germain will also be postponed.

In fact, the Copa del Rey cannot distract Monaco's attention. Monaco has always focused its attention on the league. In the No.30 round of the league, Monaco will face the challenge of its neighbor Nice at home.

Although they are neighbors, their positions in the standings are very different. Monaco is at the top of the standings, while Nice is in the middle and lower reaches. However, Nice is unlikely to be relegated, unless Nice loses all the last five rounds, and then the third-to-last team wins at least four games.

So Nice is regarded as a successful landing, so this game is undoubtedly a good thing for Monaco, because with Nice's current ranking, it is basically nothing.

However, the relationship between Nice and Monaco is not good. Although there is a saying that distant relatives are not as good as close neighbors, this sentence does not apply in football, and adding some congestion to Monaco at such a critical period is why Nice is not happy. This has been fully proved at the beginning of the game.

Full retreat, this is Nice's tactic, in order to block Monaco, Nice can be said to spare no effort, but in the face of such a dense defense, the only thing Monaco can do is to increase long-range shots.

Fortunately, there are still a few players in the Monaco team who can't shoot from long distances. Not to mention Rodriguez's long-range shots are very threatening. Moutinho, Kondogbia and Obardi all have long-range shots. Ranieri is obviously also prepared. This game directly allows these three to appear together.

On the front line, Ranieri arranged Berbatov as a single striker. The veteran's experience can sometimes play a key role in the face of such intensive defense.

In fact, Ranieri let Berbatov start can be said to be a stroke of genius in this game. Although many people doubted Berbatov's state, in this game, Berbatov became the most important player in Monaco.

Soon after the start of the game, Monaco frequently used long-range shots to threaten Nice's goal, but Monaco was not lucky. The long-range shots originally had an element of luck, and Monaco's shots failed to achieve anything.

At the critical moment, Berbatov stood up, and when Rodriguez received a pass from Kondogbia, Berbatov immediately attacked the penalty area of ​​Nice, creating conditions for Rodriguez.

But Nice has too many defensive players. Even if Berbatov attracts some people, Rodriguez still has no room to play. After the previous time, Nice also knows that Rodriguez is the most threatening player in the Monaco team.

Seeing this situation, Berbatov decisively retreated to respond, and Berbatov turned back and retreated to give himself a certain amount of space, because the Nice players did not expect Berbatov to retreat.

Rodriguez also saw Berbatov retreating, passing through, and the defensive player in the ball rolled into the penalty area in the interval. Rodriguez could only choose to trust his teammates when he was unable to kick.

Berbatov did not disappoint his teammates this time. After receiving the pass, the handsome brother hit a stunning rubbing shot. The ball flew from the top of the defender to the goal, and finally flew into the goal.

"GOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOL~~~ Goal scored, Berbatov, this is his first goal for Monaco, a goal that is amazing."

A dead end in the absolute sense, the ball flew over the defender's head and eventually flew into the upper left corner of the goal, and all Nice goalkeeper Ospina could do was watch the ball fly into his own handle.

Ospina reacted quickly, attacked decisively, and had excellent saving ability. However, this Colombian goalkeeper has an obvious weakness, that is, he is not tall, only in his early 1.8 meters, and he is a little weak in the face of high-altitude balls. Berbatov has grasped this weakness of Ospina very well.

"1:0~~~ Monaco finally scored a goal. At the end of the first half, with the help of veteran Berbatov's kick, he stunned everyone with a rubbing shot." As long as they score a goal, it is impossible for Nice to continue the intensive defense before, unless they accept the current score.

However, Nice really accepted the current score. It is really terrible to want nothing. Anyway, winning or losing this game has little effect on them.

Instead of attacking and allowing Monaco to score a few more goals, it is better to continue to defend. Maybe they can steal one after a wave of counterattacks.

Nice took this for granted. How could Li Shou be the first of them? Even at the end of the game, Nice couldn't make a decent counterattack.

However, Monaco failed to expand its lead. Nice's defense was still very good. At the end of the game, the field was still 1:0, but for Monaco, this 1:0 was enough.

In fact, Paris Saint-Germain is also 1:0. Facing Monaco, Paris Saint-Germain is under a lot of pressure. This round of sitting at home is only a 1:0 win.

(End of this chapter)