Football's hand covers the sky

Chapter 77 The Terrible Concentration

Although the attendance rate of today's Louis II stadium cannot be compared with that of the second round, tens of thousands of people still poured in. On the corner of the stadium stand, the five-star red flag appeared again, and the number of people even increased compared to the previous round.

At the same time, there were more and more black-haired and yellow-skinned people in the media seats on the sidelines. The outstanding performance of the first two rounds of the first round made Li Shou's domestic popularity and reputation further improved.

"I heard that both Lyon and Saint-Etienne lost." The game hadn't started yet, but the fans in the stands were talking about another airport game.

"Yeah, it's up to us and Marseille." There are four teams in the Ligue 0 standings that won the first two rounds, namely Monaco, Lyon, Marseille and Saint-Etienne. The results of the game between Lyon and Saint-Etienne, who played the first step, have come out. Lyon lost 1:0 at home to Reims, and Saint-Etienne lost 1:[-] away to Lille.

Compared with these teams, Paris, which was called invincible by the media this season, was a bit miserable in the first two rounds. They failed to win the two rounds, and Paris Saint-Germain's opponents in the first two rounds were not strong. No, it should be said that the current Ligue [-] is not so-called "strong" in the eyes of Paris Saint-Germain.

Monaco has invested a lot this summer, but Paris Saint-Germain has been so invested for several consecutive seasons. If you really want to talk about the lineup, the current Monaco is really inferior to Paris Saint-Germain.

Although the lineup alone is not comparable, the football game is not based on paper strength, otherwise Paris Saint-Germain would not only have a draw in the first two rounds.

Just like Monaco's next game, the starting lineup is exactly the same as the previous round of 4:0 victory over Montpellier. The only change is on the bench. Rodriguez entered the 18-man squad.

After the start of the game, Monaco's offense was still very strong. The first shot was completed in less than 1 minute, which came from Riviere's hat-trick in the previous game.

A hat trick improved Riviere's status in the team. On the contrary, Germain, who had performed well in Ligue [-], has been sitting on the bench.

Two minutes later, Monaco completed another shot, a typical Ocampos-style attack, received a pass and broke through the opponent for an inward shot, but the shot failed to hit the goal frame.

In the 8th minute, Falcao also completed the first shot of the game. Carrasco made a pass from the bottom. Falcao carried the defensive player in front of the goal and shot the far corner to the end, which was saved by Ahmadah.

Then Carvalho hit the ball with a corner kick and completed the attack, but under the interference of the defensive player, Carvalho's header was a little higher and flew out with the crossbar.

No.15 minutes, Ocampos broke into the Toulouse penalty area again with the ball, but this time Ocampos chose to pass the ball to his teammates, Riviere received the pass and shot high.

No.20 minutes, Toulalan made a cross from a 45-degree angle. Falcao headed the ball to complete the goal. The ball was saved by Ahmadah again. Then Monaco completed a tactical corner kick.

Monaco's offense has not ended, or Monaco's scoring has not stopped throughout the first half. No. 206 minutes, Toulalan stepped in at the top of the penalty area to complete a shot and missed again.

Compared with Monaco's crazy attack, Toulouse played quite badly, and they didn't even have a real shot in the whole first half.

It's not that Toulouse has no chance to counterattack, but Toulouse's counterattack opportunities were all killed by the defense led by Li Shou before the shot.

Therefore, Toulouse also created the worst half-time record of the season, with 0 shots on goal. On the contrary, Monaco had [-] shots in the entire first half, almost comparable to the usual whole game.

But these 0 shots did not bring even one goal to Monaco, and there were even very few truly threatening shots, so the end of the first half was still 0:[-] on the field.

"We played more patiently in the second half." During the intermission, Ranieri signaled the players to slow down their offensive in the second half.

But it didn't work. Today's Toulouse is all about defense, and Monaco's offense is always just a little short of the goal.

"Lady Luck chose to stand on Toulouse's side today." When Falcao's shot was blocked by the crossbar again, Barr couldn't help but sighed up to the sky.

Ranieri, who was not reconciled, began to make substitutions, Rodriguez replaced Carrasco, and Germain replaced Riviere who completed multiple shots but failed to score in 5 minutes.

This is also Germain's first appearance this season. The main striker who played in Ligue [-] for two seasons was completely reduced to a substitute after coming to Ligue [-].

In fact, this is helpless. Germain's style is somewhat similar to Falcao, but he can't compare with Falcao in all aspects, so he has his own characteristics. Riviere became the main substitute in the previous rounds.

Germain, who came off the bench, was very active and completed two shots in 10 minutes, but like Riviere who was substituted, Germain's shot failed to break Toulouse's shot.

No. 701 minutes, Toulouse finally ushered in the first shot of the game. Although Li Shou failed to make a save in the previous time, Li Shou's terrible concentration made all the media and scouts watching the game shine.

Although Toulouse had a lot of counterattacks in this game, the overall kick was not good, and the time interval was not short. According to this situation, the goalkeeper is easy to lose his mind, but Li Shou has always maintained a high degree of concentration in the first 10 minutes, either commanding his teammates or attacking by himself to perfectly resolve Toulouse's offensive.

Toulouse's first shot did not create a shot threat. Ben Yedder's shot was directly confiscated by Li Shou, and Li Shou even helped Monaco hit a quick counterattack, but Monaco still failed to complete the goal.

With one shot, Toulouse only had one shot in this game. In the next 20 minutes or so, Toulouse had a total of three offensives, but these three offensives were easily resolved by Monaco's defense.

At the same time, in more than 20 minutes, Monaco had five shots, but these five shots still failed to break through Toulouse's goal.

At the end of the game, Monaco had 25 shots and 62 possessions, but even with these statistics, the score was still 0:0.

Monaco, which stopped its winning streak, also gave up its top position. In another stadium that started at the same time as Monaco, Marseille defeated Valenciennes 1-0 in an away game.

PSG, meanwhile, finally won their first game of the season against fellow newly promoted Nantes.

(End of this chapter)