Rebirth Football Simulator

Chapter 13 Defensive Counterattack
boom! !

There was a thunderous bang from the Stade de France.

Paris took the ball into the field, and the Paris fans were very excited.

Both Lyon and Paris were losers in this year's European war, and both fell to the quarterfinals.

Now that the two losers are hurting each other, Paris is still stronger and has taken the lead in advance.

Zhang Chaoqiang was also a little disappointed sitting on the bench, and it was too early to concede the goal.

If the mentality of the players on the field cannot be stabilized, they may collapse.

Faced with the collapse of a team like Paris, why not be shot into a sieve?
So he turned his gaze to the sidelines and looked at his head coach.

Remy Gard was still calm, and he didn't seem to be frightened by the goal, and kept shouting to the field.

"Hold on, don't worry!"

"The game has just started and we have plenty of time."

"Keep a good formation and don't mess up."

I don't know if that guy is really calm or pretending to be calm.

But at least one thing, with the joint efforts of Gard and the team captain Gonalons, Lyon quickly stabilized their mentality.

In any case, the whole team worked hard to prepare for the game for a week, so as not to be knocked down by an opening goal.

Next, Lyon continued to move forward in the established direction.

In the previous preparations, Remy Gard's tactics were conservative.

Lyon focused on defensive counterattacks in the final.

It's nothing.

Lyon's overall strength is indeed not as good as that of Paris. If they play against each other, the chances of winning will be very small.

But now that Lyon has fallen behind, still insisting on defensive counterattacks can indeed stabilize the team and let everyone find their positions.

But how to tie the score?
Wait for Paris to make a mistake, or wait for a lucky world wave?
Zhang Chaoqiang was full of doubts.

At the same time, he became more and more contemptuous of his head coach.

You want to focus on defensive counterattacks, so why arrange Tolisso to play right back? He is a midfielder himself and is not good at defense.

The most important thing is that what is most needed for defensive counterattacks is speed. I am the fastest player in the team, why not give myself a chance to start?
why?
While Zhang Chaoqiang was thinking wildly, the game continued.

After the goal, Paris stabilized for a few minutes, beware of Lyon's counterattack.

Football matches are like this. Whenever a goal is scored, the side that loses the ball will often launch a counterattack immediately. The side that scored the goal naturally needs to shrink its defense, lest the advantage just obtained will be wiped out in an instant.

But soon the Paris players discovered that Lyon did not seem to be eager to equalize the score.

So they took the ball again and launched an offensive.

In the 10th minute, Lucas Jr. charged forward with the ball and won a free kick from the side for Paris. Motta took the ball and Marquinhos rushed to the top of the ball and headed the ball into the Lyon goal.

boom! !

The roar of the Stade de France broke out again, but it quickly dissipated.

Because the linesman firmly raised the flag, indicating that the ball was offside.

"This penalty is very accurate. According to the playback screen, we can clearly see that the moment Motta took a free kick, the Brazilian was already in an offside position, so the goal was invalid."

"But Lyon must think of a way as soon as possible, and if this continues, they are likely to continue to concede goals."

The French commentator does not want his commentary to become one-sided in the final, which would be boring, so he has this concern.

But the Paris players don't think so, they are willing to win the championship through a massacre.

Therefore, they continuously launched offensives, trying to expand the score as soon as possible, and it is best to defeat the opponent.

In the 23rd minute, Verratti sent a precise through pass, and the football passed through the Lyon defense line through a small gap, directly giving Cavani an excellent semi-single-handed chance.

It's a pity that the Uruguayan striker suddenly played happy football and shot the ball into the stands with a strong kick.

It wasn't until the 31st minute of the game that Lyon ushered in its first good chance.

Jordan Ferry headed a corner from a wide cross on the counter-attack, Marblanco headed it away, Gomi leaped from the crowd to head the ball, and the football flew straight to the bottom right corner of the Paris goal.

Zhang Chaoqiang has already stood up from the bench, ready to celebrate the goal.

But the Parisian goalkeeper Dochesz reacted quickly, flying the ball and pressing the ball on the goal line.

If the football has not completely crossed the goal line, it is not counted as entering the goal according to the rules.

"It's a pity, it was a great chance for Lyon to equalize, it was only a few centimeters away."

The narrator is brought into Lyons somewhat automatically.

There is an old saying in football that wasted opportunities are punished.

Lyon is no exception.

In the 39th minute, Lyon once again found an opportunity by counterattacking, but Gomi was intercepted with the ball in the frontcourt.

Thiago Silva showed the Brazilian's footwork, sending a precise long pass and lob the first time after stealing the ball.

This time the offensive and defensive transition came too fast, and the Lyon players were not prepared for defense at all, and they were full of loopholes.

Goalkeeper Anthony Lopez chose to abandon the goal and rushed to the edge of the penalty area but missed the ball and knocked down Lucas Jr. who was about to catch the ball.

So the referee blew his whistle and awarded a penalty kick.

"It's not a penalty! That's definitely not a penalty!!"

Sitting on the bench, Zhang Chaoqiang heard the roar of his coach. He rushed forward the moment he was awarded a penalty kick and yelled wildly at the fourth official.

Although the goal was conceded in the first 2 minutes, at least the team stabilized and did not suffer much.

If the first half ends with a score of 0:1, Gard is completely acceptable, because the second half of the game still has to be played.

But if you fall behind by two goals in the first half, you will basically be sentenced to death with a reprieve.

This was a result Gard was extremely unwilling to see.

But after being incompetent and furious, Gard could only choose to accept it.

He himself received a yellow card for it.

Together with the one received by Anthony Lopez, Lyon received two yellow cards in a short period of time.

Cavani took a penalty kick on behalf of Paris, easily shot the ball into the bottom corner of the goal, and then rushed to the sidelines to celebrate with an archery gesture.

"The Uruguayan striker scored twice and Paris Saint-Germain have taken a two-goal lead."

"Cavani has been the subject of controversy since his move to Paris last summer for a whopping 6400 million euros."

"Some people thought he was a parallel importer because he always missed some simple balls."

"There are also people who think he is underrated because he has world-class movement and goal skills, and because of Zlatan Ibrahimovic, he has never been able to play his favorite center forward position."

"Now that Ibrahimovic is absent due to injury, Cavani finally returned to his favorite center forward position, and then handed over this report card of scoring twice."

"Don't forget, there is still the second half of the game, and he still has enough time to seek a hat-trick..."

In the commentator's discussion, the first half of the game soon ended, and Lyon undoubtedly returned to the locker room with a score of 0:2 behind.

Remy Gard began to curse as soon as he entered the door, speaking so fast that Zhang Chaoqiang couldn't understand.

After all, French is acquired, and it is still not as fluent as mother tongue.

Fortunately, Gard still knew his responsibilities, and after scolding him, he began to arrange tactics.

"Zhang, you go out to warm up, you will play immediately at the beginning of the second half!"

The head coach was obviously in a hurry.

Zhang Chaoqiang didn't ask much, and went out to warm up.

(End of this chapter)