Ace Young Marshal

Chapter 103
The news that Monaco captain Modesto will be reimbursed for the season due to injury has spread like bad news in French football!
At the same time, some famous figures in French football are criticizing Lyon for not living up to expectations!
Monaco managed to lose points for the second time in the second half of the season, but Lyon was tied at home by Rennes. Among the top five teams, only Marseille and Bordeaux scored all 3 points, and the other three teams all suffered draws.

Monaco is still at the top of the list, and still has a 2-point advantage ahead of No.6.

Monaco, 56 points.

Lyon, 50 points.

Bordeaux, 45 points.

Toulouse, 45 points.

Marseille, 44 points.

Modesto's injury needs to be recuperated for at least three months, which means that he will miss all the remaining games of the season. At this time, the outside world may think that Monaco will be gloomy, but in fact it is the opposite.

The atmosphere on the training ground is still positive and happy. I don't know if they are optimistic about any difficulties with high fighting spirit, or the players don't realize what it means to lose Modesto.

Benatia has been given a more important role. Regardless of whether he is ready or not, the central defender Situ Yunbing can rely on in the second half of the season is him.

But if his performance is unsatisfactory, it is not that there is no backup candidate, such as Mangani, Nkuru retreats to play the midfielder, and Gesso fills the vacancy in the midfield.

But since Situ Yunbing has expectations for Benatia, he will be given enough time to grow up. After training, Situ Yunbing and Benatia communicate and talk the most. He almost He is always monitoring the growth of Benatia!
Benatia was not disgusted by this, on the contrary, he was full of emotion and gratitude.

He thinks that Situ Yunbing is his Bole. As for whether he is a Maxima, or whether Situ Yunbing is buying a horse bone with a thousand dollars, he needs to show a convincing performance on the court.

In the 1/8 finals of the French Cup in the middle of the week, Monaco was a guest to challenge Ajaccio. Situ Yunbing went into battle lightly, leaving some main players in Monaco without bringing them.

Let substitute players play as much as possible. For players like Mangani, Gesso, Alonso, Nimani, Mendy, etc., their hunger for the game has reached a level that must be vented.

The trend of the game is not ups and downs. Monaco, which set off a youth storm in French football, seems to have infinite energy swaying on the green field.

If it is said that in the Ligue [-] league, there are occasional turmoil due to the level of competition and the cautiousness of the mentality, then even if Monaco, which has sent a substitute lineup, is playing against a team at the Ligue [-] level. , speeding up the pace of the game to a certain level will bring down the opponent, the scene is really devastating!
Nimani scored a hat-trick with a head kick in the game, and the Monaco fans were full of emotion: Even if it is an insignificant French Cup, Monaco can still play a strong sprint for the championship!

This is because the current group of players in Monaco have not won any decent honors, neither the main players nor the substitutes. At this stage, everyone does not need Situ Yunbing to remind them. Career reaches unprecedented heights!
In the end, Monaco swept Ajaccio 5:1 in the away game and advanced strongly.

If you don't watch the game but only watch the score, then outsiders must think that Monaco sent the main lineup to play this game.

"French Football" wrote in the latest issue of Monaco: Situ Yunbing injected dreams into Monaco, and the whole Monaco team is sprinting towards the championship!

Although Monaco is a guest game on the weekend, the journey is not far away. They will go to Nice to play the derby that the media calls.

Situ Yunbing doesn't know how this derby relationship came about. Usually it is a derby in a city, or a derby in a region, or a derby between the two most successful teams in a country, but Nice and Monaco, The former is a city, and the latter is a principality. They have nothing to do with each other at all. Because of the short distance, it is also called a derby gimmick, which is really far-fetched.

Before the game, Situ Yunbing didn't answer the questions of the media reporters. What kind of derby is not a derby? If playing Nice is a derby, it would be a bit cheap for Monaco.

In the second half of the season, Monaco has already had a confrontation with Nice. It was in the French Cup. Nice led by Antonetti was eliminated by Monaco at the Stade Louis II.

In that game, Monaco had some reservations among the players, but Nice did its best.

The strength gap between the two teams was relatively large in that game.

Although Nice is currently ranked in the middle of the league, they are not as good as Saint-Etienne in terms of the strength of the team's lineup.

Visiting Nice's home court, Situ Yunbing formed a 442 formation.

Goalkeeper: Rufael.

Defenders: Simic, Benatia, Mongungou, Mendy.

Midfield: Merian, Matic, Perez, Morrow.

Forwards: Falcao, Nimani.

Nkuru is temporarily sitting on the bench, and will consider whether to change to play according to the changes of the situation.

Monaco's advantage on the scene is still relying on their active and tacit midfield defense cooperation and excellent confrontation ability.

It just made Situ Yunbing a little annoyed on the sidelines that Nice had obviously strengthened his aggressiveness in the game.

A reasonable confrontation can't do it for Monaco, so they start to use fouls and even kill tactics.

Antonetti has self-knowledge that if he plays against Monaco in a well-regulated manner, even if he shrinks his defense, there is a high probability that he will not be able to withstand Monaco. Now that Monaco is suffering from injuries, the highly aggressive defense may deter Monaco.

It's just that he underestimated Monaco's persistence and tenacity to win the game.

In the 13th minute of the game, when Morrow was knocked to the ground by his opponent for the second time, he stood up and had a quarrel with the opponent. He didn't care that his socks were torn and blood was seeping inside.

Situ Yunbing also reminded the fourth official from time to time on the sidelines, asking him to remind the referee that Nice's player fouls are too big!

Antonetti wisely didn't join in the fun, so as not to have any more conflicts with Situ Yunbing, and now he doesn't want to provoke Situ Yunbing.

After Monaco switched to playing double forwards, Falcao's position became more flexible and his area of ​​activity became larger. Sometimes he supported Morrow on the left, and sometimes he could fight alone on the right. Merian was basically responsible for the front center and On the right side, in this area, the support and offensive organization are connected, and the forwards are transported with shells.

Moro's side was strictly guarded by Nice, but Simic's side played the ultimate threat.

Almost every time Simic slipped in quickly, he was able to form a threatening pass.

In the 26th minute of the game, Simic received a pass from Merian from the bottom of the right, and then hit the ball across the penalty area. Falcao stopped the ball on the right side of the penalty area and pulled the ball, turned around in one go, and wiped the opposing defender Appam After a small angle volley the goal near the corner succeeded!
When Nimani attracted some defensive forces for him, Falcao had more room to play!

At least the defense he's facing isn't like a dog's fight most of the time.

Nice put too much energy on confrontation and defense, and the result was that their own counterattack was a mess, and almost no decent kick was passed from the midfield. Nadia completely kills the speed threat.

Benatia and Mongol cooperated very well in today's game. One intercepts, the other delays the opponent, or one makes an attack, and the other delays the defense.

Situ Yunbing focused on Benatia's performance and found that it was Benatia who drove the defensive rhythm of Monaco in many cases. This shows that Benatia has made great progress after joining the team. Monaco The relatively harmonious and relaxed atmosphere in the team is also an important factor in promoting his growth.

Before the end of the first half, Merian picked the ball to the right of the penalty area and passed the ball to the center of the penalty area.

This 190 cm tall center has played to his height advantage!
Monaco ended the first half with a two-goal lead over Nice.

Antonetti's expression was somewhat absent-minded, he was very helpless, since he was eliminated by Monaco in the French Cup, he kept secrets about Monaco and Situ Yunbing.

Situ Yunbing took the progress of the game as a matter of course. Although Monaco has the main injured and its strength has dropped a bit, it is really not a random team that can break through their defense with a counterattack. If Saint-Etienne is not Matuidi He and Payet supported the team's midfield. I am afraid that Saint-Etienne will not be able to seize the limited opportunity to score twice against Monaco.

The foundation of Monaco is in the midfield, not in the back!

(End of this chapter)