Rebirth Football Simulator

Chapter 28 Fragile Records

Lyon drew with Lens at home and failed to score three points from the newly promoted. This result is rather disappointing.

However, in the Ligue [-] standings, Lyon's ranking has improved, from tenth to eighth.

Bordeaux is currently at the top of the Ligue 3 rankings. They defeated Nice 1:[-] away in this round and continued to maintain a complete victory.

Since Saint-Etienne drew with Rennes at home this round, Bordeaux is already the only team left in Ligue [-] with a complete victory.

Paris, which lost three generals in the last round, was not having a good time. In this round, the bottom team Ivyen was flat in the away game. The overall record is one win and two draws, which is not much better than Lyon.

Instead, Monaco beat Nantes 1-0 away and finally won their first victory of the new season.

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After the weekend league, Lyon immediately began to prepare for the upcoming second round of the Europa League qualifying play-offs.

On the domestic side, Zhang Chaoqiang's long-range shots naturally created a wave of enthusiasm in the world.

And the media also listed a new record for him.

Zhang Chaoqiang has risen to No.3 in the rankings of the total number of goals scored by Chinese players in the five major leagues.

When Zhang Chaoqiang saw this record, his head was full of question marks.

The total number of goals scored by Chinese players in the five major leagues?

How many players in China have played in the five major leagues?

How many people have scored?
As of now, China has exactly ten players in the five major leagues, and Zhang Chaoqiang has to be counted.

Among the previous nine players, none of Li Tie, Hao Junmin, Li Jinyu, Dong Fangzhuo and Li Weifeng scored a goal.

有进球的四人分别是，杨晨德甲65场16球，邵嘉一德甲67场4球，孙继海英超123场3球，郑志英超12场1球。

The four together scored 24 goals.

Now Zhang Chaoqiang has played 10 times in Ligue 3 and scored [-] goals.

If he had to join the leaderboard, he would indeed be ranked third, comparable to Sun Jihai.

But such records mean nothing at all.

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On August 8th, the Lyon team came to Giurgiu, Romania, to challenge Giurgiu Astra away.

Fournier attached great importance to this game and made a lot of tactical arrangements before the game.

At present, Lyon is not playing well in Ligue [-]. If he is eliminated in the Europa League, then he will be under a lot of pressure.

However, the game went pretty well.

In the 26th minute of the first half, Astra pushed forward and Lyon intercepted the ball and counterattacked fast.

Zhang Chaoqiang received a pass from Marblanco at the front of the center circle and started quickly.

Accelerate forward!

At present, Zhang Chaoqiang's 65-point burst is relatively average, but Astra's defense line is loose, and no one can stop him immediately.

Soon he increased the speed to the maximum and instantly transformed into a small sports car.

Stepping on both feet, the wind is blowing!
The feeling of charging at high speed made Zhang Chaoqiang extremely excited.

Since his debut, he has been relying on speed to make a living, which is what he is best at.

Astra's midfield defense has not yet been organized, and Zhang Chaoqiang has already easily passed through.

The remaining two defenders were waiting in front of the penalty area. Zhang Chaoqiang's speed did not decrease, and he changed direction and squeezed past the two.

The Romanian fans all watched the field with astonished eyes.

At this time, Zhang Chaoqiang was already facing the goal and kicked decisively.

A strong shot went straight to the lower left of the goal. The angle was not very tricky, but the speed was fast enough.

Astra's goalkeeper had just made a throw, and the football had already crashed into the net!
"Goooooooal——"

"Very beautiful rushing goal, Zhang scored another Astra goal!!"

"Zhang once again showed his talent for speed. When he accelerated and charged, no one in the audience could keep up with him."

"Zhang has scored goals in the last three consecutive games. He is already another rising star in the Lyon team!"

After Zhang Chaoqiang scored the goal, the game became much easier.

In the 38th minute, Jordan Ferry had great luck with a long shot, and the football hit the opposing player and then refracted the goal.

This is a goal that directly kills the game.

Lyon leads 4:1 on aggregate and has an away goal advantage.

If Astra wants to reverse, it has to score four goals in a row.

Seeing this situation, the Astra players struggled symbolically twice, and then decisively chose to lie flat.

So in the second half of the game, both teams played very easily, and no one had any psychological pressure.

In the 81st minute of the game, Tolisso made a free kick on the left side of the front court. Marblanco took the free kick.

Zhang Chaoqiang, who was in position, accepted the gift with a smile, swooped down against the football and scored another goal.

Zhang Chaoqiang scored twice in his career for the first time!

In this way, Lyon defeated Giurgiu Astra 3:0 in the away game, and eliminated the opponent with a total score of 5:1 in the two rounds to advance to the Europa League main match.

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After returning to Lyon, Zhang Chaoqiang knew that he broke the record again.

The Chinese player with the most goals in the European War.

Zhang Chaoqiang is already the Chinese player with the most goals in European competitions after scoring three goals in the two rounds against Juerjiu Astra.

The previous record holder was Wang Chu with two goals.

In addition, he scored twice in the game, and Zhang Chaoqiang also became the first Chinese player to score twice in the European war.

I have to say that the record of Chinese football is really fragile and will be broken at any time.

But if you think about it carefully, there is nothing to be afraid of if the record is fragile, as long as someone breaks it.

The fear is that the record is fragile, but no one can break it.

That's the saddest thing.

In this season's Europa League qualifying round, there were quite a few overturns in the five major leagues.

Hull City in the Premier League was eliminated by Lokeren, La Liga Real Sociedad was eliminated by Russian Super League Krasnodar, and Bundesliga Mainz was eliminated by Greek Super League Tripoli Starfish.

The five major league teams do not pay enough attention to the Europa League. This is also the main reason why UEFA needs to implement restructuring to allow the Europa League champions to automatically obtain the Champions League places.

On the side of the UEFA Champions League qualifiers, which is very important, the five major league teams also lost two teams.

La Liga Athletic Bilbao eliminated Serie A Naples 4:2. This is a civil war in the five major leagues, which is force majeure.

But Lille, who played in Ligue 0, was double-killed by Portuguese Super League Porto 3:[-]. This is purely a question of strength.

After Lille is eliminated, they will fall to participate in the Europa League group stage.

So next Ligue [-] will have Lyon, Lille, Guingamp and Saint-Etienne to participate in the Europa League.

Saint-Etienne also successfully advanced to the UEFA Europa League. They drew 1:1 in the two rounds and eliminated the Turkish Super League Karabukspor through a penalty shootout.

After the UEFA qualifying round, UEFA organized a draw for the UEFA group stage.

In the first UEFA Champions League draw, the two teams in Ligue [-] had good luck in signing.

Paris was drawn into a group with Barcelona, ​​Ajax, and APOEL, and it is standard to sit on the sidelines.

As a fourth-tier team, Monaco could have easily drawn the death group, but they were lucky enough to be drawn into a group with Benfica, Zenit St. Petersburg, and Bayer Leverkusen.

It is difficult to say that Monaco can steadily qualify from the group, but the chances are indeed not small.

The Europa League group stage draw is much simpler, and there is basically no death group.

Lyon was finally assigned to Group B. The other three teams in the same group were Torino in Serie A, Bruges in Brugge, and Copenhagen in Denmark.

This is a simple suggestion from the French media to Lyon to qualify with Turin.

(End of this chapter)