Ace Young Marshal

Chapter 149 Military Parade
Stepping into August, Monaco started the new season.

After three warm-up matches, the French Super Cup followed.

Originally, the French Super Cup should be the league champion VS French Cup champion.

But because Monaco won the local triple crown last season, the Super Cup has become a league championship matchup, that is, Monaco will meet Bordeaux in the Super Cup.

On August 8, the pre-match tour of the media has ended, and the evaluation of Monaco's strength must have risen, but the outside world is also confused about the shortcomings of Monaco's lineup.

At the pre-match press conference, a reporter asked Situ Yunbing why he did not bring in a replacement for Merian.

Situ Yunbing said frankly: "We originally hoped to get Eriksson from Ajax. He is an excellent young attacking midfielder, but Ajax did not sell Eriksson. For other goals, we either cannot afford high transfer expenditures, or there is no suitable one for us.”

French journalists really don't understand, Monaco can spend 1650 million euros to buy a hapless Tottenham, but can't afford to buy an excellent attacking midfielder?

Regarding the reporter's question about Monaco's goals for the new season, Situ Yunbing was also very frank, saying: "When I took office as Monaco's coach last season, I said that my goal was to lead Monaco to the championship. Now this goal has not changed. We have won three championships this season, but in the new season everything will start again, with new competition, and work towards a new championship."

The reporter specifically asked about Monaco's expectations for the Champions League, and Situ Yunbing said: "We will return to the Champions League after many years. It can be said that the team is unfamiliar with this stage. Basically, no players have experience in the Champions League. Regardless of any worries, just go all out and fight, as for how far we can go, we will try our best not to leave any regrets."

Situ Yunbing can't afford to be an outspoken and ambitious person. He competed for the championship in France. Last season, he was a bit overconfident, but he did it in the end, but this season it seems so natural.

As for the Champions League, he really didn't know what he could do in the bottom of his heart. If he went home from the group stage, his life would be marked with an ellipsis.

But if you want to be a champion, who doesn't want it?
On the evening of August 8, at the Stade de France, Situ Yunbing and Blanc met again as scheduled.

The two coaches shared their arms on the sidelines, new season, new atmosphere, new enthusiasm, new competition!

Blanc teased that Monaco has become a local tycoon in Ligue [-], but Situ Yunbing did not respond to this point. Bordeaux has been relatively quiet in the transfer market this summer.

The main signings are only the goalkeeper Carasso introduced from Toulouse, and the wide player Prasil introduced from Osasuna. In terms of players leaving the team, only Diawara's departure is slightly important.

In the long history of French football, the main reason why Bordeaux has not played an important role, and is not even as glorious as Monaco's past history, is that the club is actually not satisfactory in terms of financial resources and management. Favored by sponsors, the team was still rich when Didier Deschamps led Monaco to the Champions League final, but since then it has been getting worse and worse for years, until Debondan took office.

Both teams in the French Super Cup have training intentions and do not take the championship seriously.

This is actually a semi-warm-up game.

To Situ Yunbing's surprise, Bordeaux's formation changed.

He hit 433 last season and 442 this season.
The double center Kavinaghi and Chamark, probably Wendell came back from injury, and the arrival of strong support Placiel, plus the team still has players like Gufranc and Joucher, Blanc hopes to put the two wings together. Qi Fei played to the extreme.

Midfield or Diarra and Gourcuff.

Monaco's starting lineup surprised the outside world!
Goalkeeper: De Gea.

Defenders: Modesto, Benatia, Vertonghen, Moreau.

Midfield: Perez, Nkuru, Matic.

Forwards: Falcao, Suarez, Gareth Bale.

This starting lineup is only based on the personnel. The outside world did not expect De Gea to start. In the previous warm-up match, De Gea’s playing time was more than that of Rufael. Rufael would start, but Rufael sat on the bench.

Gareth Bell's start is also quite surprising. If Monaco wants to play a three-forward, Nimani should start more, at least it was confirmed last season.

But Gareth Bale not only started, but also played left wing!

Isn't he a left back?

Why did Morrow play left back?

Compared with these unexpected situations, it seems unremarkable for Modesto to play right back. After all, Modesto also has the ability to play right back. He spent four years in Serie A and practiced on the back line. On the generalist ability.

Although it was a semi-warm-up game, when the game really started, Situ Yunbing still supervised the battle seriously.

Before the game, he had already used the experience card rewarded last season for De Gea. This is the fastest way for him to improve De Gea's ability. It is the only experience card. After working hard for a season, there is only such a card. The card was given to him!
Compared with other new aids confirmed as the main force, Suarez, Gareth Bell, and Vertonghen all have continuity of game experience, and they are all older than De Gea. It seems that the earlier the ability to grow, the better. The sooner one grows and progresses, the more one can almost fully realize one's potential at the peak.

Situ Yunbing was not surprised by the trend of the game. Blanc switched to defensive counterattack tactics when he hit 442. He clearly knew that it would be difficult to control the situation even with three midfielders in the middle. Now there are only two, and they are still old Let's fight back honestly, Monaco is not a vegetarian, if you take the initiative to attack, I am afraid that you will be crushed to ashes by Monaco's steel midfielder!

In the first 20 minutes of the game, both teams were more cautious. Monaco was under less offensive pressure in the middle, and the midfielder could frequently assist in defending the wing without straining the wing defense. Threats are out of the question.

On Monaco's side, the offense is a complete mess. Without Merian's disadvantages, the golden left side planned by Situ Yunbing is now completely chaotic.

In this game itself, Bordeaux is based on defense, which makes it more difficult for Monaco to attack.

Wendell was injured for a long time last season. After returning from injury this season, he feels less agile than in the past. After all, he is not too young, and the impact of the injury will not be small.

The technical and tactical content that Situ Yunbing wants to see has not been played out. At this stage, Morrow is still looking for a feeling at the left back position. He should do a good job of defense before thinking about offense. Modesto is somewhat difficult to do it alone.

Situ Yunbing saw that Gareth Bell was a little nervous, and wanted to break through when he had the ball, and the success rate was not low, but before the bottom line, it was a poorly timed cross.

Situ Yunbing had to gesture to Gareth Bell on the sidelines, telling him to be steady, cooperate more with his teammates, and pass some safe balls, so that he can calm down, observe the situation without the ball, and judge the situation. running position.

Situ Yunbing's reminder was very effective.

In the stalemate situation, in the 41st minute of the game, Gareth Bale received a pass from Matic on the left side of the front court and then knocked the ball back to Morrow. The latter assisted halftime. This is He came up with one of the few assists, that is, the opponent's Placier retreated to the backcourt to strengthen the defense, and Morrow dared to do so.

Morrow made wide-ranging transfers directly on the wing.

The football flew to the right side of the front field, and Falcao controlled the ball in a safe area. When Tremullina pressed close to him, Falcao knocked the ball back to Modesto who assisted him, and the latter sent it directly. With a straight pass, Tremullina turned and looked, and Luis Suarez pulled the side to respond!

When Suarez stopped the ball on the wing, the defender Prani came out to defend him. He thought that he could force Suarez into a dead end, but he didn't expect Suarez to drop the ball directly when he stopped the ball to open the distance with him. When Prani went up to grab the ball, Suarez made an emergency stop and turned around to smash the ball. The two passed by, and Suarez nimbly wiped it away!

Praney lost his position, and when he turned his body weight back, he found that Suarez had already crossed the ball and entered the penalty area!
With the ability to get rid of breakthroughs in a small area, Suarez should be the strongest in Ligue [-] today!
Lille's Hazard is still a little tender and needs to be honed.

When Suarez waded the ball into the penalty area, defender Henrik and midfielder Diarra were all rushing towards him. Suarez shot from too small an angle, so he calmly knocked the ball back diagonally into the middle.

Gourcuff was about to make a rescue, but his position was taken by someone rushing from behind!

Perez, who came up at a high speed, took advantage of the opportunity to stop and take a single trip!
The new goalkeeper Carraso didn't have time to abandon the goal. Perez pushed the ball into the lower right corner of the goal!

Although Carraso made a save action for the ball, he was still beyond his reach.

Perez smiled after scoring and pointed to Suarez to celebrate the goal.

The Monaco fans cheered deafeningly in the stands, they were extremely excited, and they were most excited to see Suarez's personal ability.

Situ Yunbing just applauded on the sidelines without changing his expression.

This goal has little to do with the technical and tactical system. It is mainly about personal ability. Suarez moves flexibly and has a strong sense of ball play. You must know that in the past two years in the Eredivisie, Suarez's assists are among the top three in the Eredivisie. , while his goal count is also.

The comprehensiveness of his comprehensive abilities made him more in line with Situ Yunbing's tactical requirements.

(End of this chapter)