i don't want to be king

Chapter 349 Midfield Conspirator
Tottenham's players had all arrived on the field. After a while, the Monaco players ran out of the player channel one by one.

The fans who had been waiting for a long time booed loudly. Caldeira looked at Li Liang's back and turned around and asked, "Carlo, is Li's physical fitness really okay?"

Spignoli replied firmly: "There must be no problem. No. [-] Lee's recent training situation is very good, and his physical fitness has been improving;

Second, he played in the 27th minute, but for nearly 10 minutes, he was lying on the ground or receiving treatment, so as long as he plays normally, he will definitely last until the end of the game! "

Just now, after the intense discussion among the players in the locker room, after Li Liang first reviewed his mistakes, everyone was open and honest, and everyone took the initiative to reflect on their own problems.

Falcao motioned for everyone to be quiet, and he said loudly: "Please believe me, I have seen too many great teams in my career, so far this season, our performance is really good!
Don't talk about Tottenham, we are fully capable of competing with any team! "

As soon as he finished speaking, everyone shouted, and everyone applauded vigorously.

Seeing that the fire was just right, Jardim began to arrange the tactics of the second half while the iron was hot: he started to use the three-back formation against Paris, Sidibi returned to the left, Raj and Fabinho played on the right, Moutinho Retreating and Bakayoko playing double midfielders, Li Liang is in the center and Silva is behind Falcao...

Jardim finally said: "Tottenham want to use speed and running, plus physical confrontation to defeat us. What I want to say is that in the past few games, our total running distance, high-intensity running The proportion is also among the best in the five major leagues!

What if someone wants to challenge us with a physical style of play? ! "

Everyone shouted: "Call back!"

The second half begins with Monaco kicking off.

The Monaco players suddenly ran wildly like a clockwork.

Li Liang looked at Sun Xingmin on the opposite side, and found that he no longer had the desire for revenge that he had in the first half.

As soon as he came out of the locker room, he realized that the familiar feeling of the game had returned to his body again.

He began to try not to control the ball, and all the balls came out with one kick.As a result, Tottenham's pincer attack gradually lost its power. Instead, Li Liang frequently caught the gap and passed several good kicks for his teammates.

Watching the players in Monaco slowly become active, Pochettino immediately began to discuss with the assistant coach.

Before, he never believed that No. 17 really has the ability to change the game, but there are a lot of shortcomings: slow speed, weak body, sticking to the ball and so on.

But he knew that this player's passing awareness was indeed superior, so he had to guard against it.

Pochettino's defensive tactics against Li Liang formulated before the game was to use high-intensity physical confrontation to squeeze the space for him to control the ball and drive him away from the 30-meter area.

Judging from the first half, this defensive strategy undoubtedly succeeded.

The change of Monaco was within his expectation, but the sudden activity of the 17th took him by surprise.

Pochettino is confident that Tottenham have established a mature defensive system that can completely limit No. 17 and minimize his threat without man-marking.

Li Liang's current performance made him nervous, especially Li Liang's running position - after watching it for a while, he immediately thought of his compatriot Riquelme.

Although the two had never met each other in the A-League, he personally experienced Riquelme's profound skills in running positions during several national team trainings and matches.

Monaco's No. 17 can always find the most ideal support position in the movement of the midfield like Riquelme.

Pochettino became vigilant, and for the first time began to doubt his own judgment.

Tottenham's players still strictly followed Pochettino's instructions and began to actively seek physical confrontation whenever No. 17 got the ball.But they suddenly discovered that the running position of No. 17 was completely unpredictable. Most of the time, he actually stood between Bakayoko and Moutinho.

At the same time, they also found that not only No. 17, but also other players in Monaco began to play the ball as much as possible, and the pass was constantly increasing, which made it very uncomfortable for the defensive players to press.

Monaco obviously continued to speed up. Although the turnovers also increased, the passive situation on the court was gradually reversed.

Li Liang, who regained his composure, ran and sprinted without hesitation, tried his best to meet his teammates, and then used long passes to make adjustments.

He changed the footwork of passing the ball and increased the advance of the ball.

In this way, teammates have to sprint to receive his pass - of course, the Spurs defenders have to do the same, otherwise they will be thrown away immediately.

The offensive and defensive rhythm has been accelerated again and again, and Tottenham's formation gradually shows signs of loosening.Pochettino also began to stand in the command area and shouted. He knew very well that with such a fast offensive and defensive switching frequency, it is difficult for even his own players to guarantee that there will be no mistakes.

The old man in the stands was a little surprised. He sighed: "Monaco and Tottenham compete for speed and strength? This is crazy!"

The professor became excited. Although Arsenal was unfortunately eliminated by Monaco under Jardim in the quarter-finals of the 2014-15 UEFA Champions League, Monaco was also a team he had coached for many years after all.Seeing that the situation had changed, he couldn't help but cheer up.

He Wei and Xue Yang watched very intently in the studio. He Wei exclaimed: "This kind of competition intensity, after the end of the game, the running distance of both teams is estimated to hit a new high."

Xue Yang also said with a smile: "This has become a track and field competition. It depends on who can grit their teeth and persevere to the end."

The barrage on the live broadcast website also decreased a lot, and everyone just focused on watching the game nervously.

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Li Liang's retracement affected Ali's position with a total rating of 80.The double defensive midfielder Ali also took on the task of advancing the offense. After he followed Li Liang a few times, he immediately realized that the opponent's movement was very purposeful-No. 17 wanted to tear himself away from the center.

Ali was a little puzzled, what was the purpose of doing this on the 17th?

Sun Xingmin hadn't attacked on the left for a long time, and he had few chances to get the ball, so he became impatient.

Li Liang felt that he had finally endured the right time, because he found that the game had become a stalemate between the two sides in the midfield, and the movements of the Tottenham players generally began to slow down, and their running speed also declined.

Li Liang took the ball again, this time he didn't pass it out, but started to dribble and advance along the right.

After he kicked the ball with more than a dozen consecutive kicks, he dribbled the ball forward unexpectedly, and the surrounding Tottenham players didn't react suddenly.

Sun Xingmin was the first to push up, and Li Liang quickly passed the ball to Fabinho, and then inserted at high speed along the right line!
Ali also started to run back, ready to defend Li Liang with Davis, but Fabinho stabbed the ball to Li Liang before Sun Xingmin made it.

After Li Liang got the ball, he stopped suddenly, widened the distance with Ali, and immediately cut inwards horizontally.

The tall Ali also completed an emergency stop and turn around at an astonishing speed, and chased after Li Liang without hesitation. Fabinho continued to drive along the sideline at high speed, and Davis followed him closely without daring to neglect.

Sun Xingmin's reaction was obviously half a beat slow. He hesitated and chose to chase Fabinho.

Moutinho also pressed up on the right side of the midfield. He has already discovered that Li Liang's lateral pull has created a big gap for himself, and he does not hesitate behind Fabinho towards the right side of the penalty area. The direction intervened.

In this situation, Moutinho should have been Sun Xingmin's follower, but he was completely let go because of the Korean's misjudgment.

Seeing that the situation was not good, Vertonghen quickly made up for it, leaving Alderweireld to face Falcao alone.

Dell in the middle immediately realized that No. 17 was charging towards his defense zone!If he is broken again, Silva on the 17th and left and Falcao behind him will form a partial 3-on-2 against Alderweireld and Walker!

Seeing that Li Liang was getting closer and closer to Dale, he had already started to change his pace, adjusting his center of gravity, obviously preparing to forcibly break through Dale!
Ali was extremely shocked, and he had already fully reacted. The situation conceived by No. 17, including the strange movement just now, was to try to attack Dell—because Dell already had a yellow card!
Ali was faster than Li Liang, and he quickly caught up with him, but Li Liang was always firmly stuck in front of him by running, leaving him no chance to take advantage of it.

Ali has made up his mind and must destroy this attack before contacting Dell on the 17th!
Li Liang's change of pace made Dale more and more nervous. He saw Ali desperately reaching out to hold No. 17——suddenly, another white figure appeared from the side and jumped on Li Liang, and the two fell down together. On the turf!

The referee blew his whistle and ran over quickly. Only then did Dell see clearly that it was teammate Lamela who came over and made a tactical foul on No. 17 first.

The referee showed Lamela a yellow card, and Li Liang jumped up by himself. He wanted to send this free kick quickly!

Dale felt a chill in his heart!He didn't know how the Monaco players were moving behind him, and immediately stretched his legs instinctively to block No. 17's fast free kick!
Ali, Lamela beside him, and Eriksson not far away all shouted: "Don't stop him!"

Dale's heart was shocked, and he quickly retracted his legs. At the same time, Li Liang, who was about to take a free kick, turned his ankle and kicked the ball towards Dale!

Dell tried his best to dodge, and the ball almost brushed his retracted right leg and flew out of the sideline.

Everyone around, including the referee, understood that Li Liang obviously wanted to cause Dell to foul a quick free kick!
All the Monaco players rushed up, excitedly arguing to the referee that Dell blocked the ball out of bounds. The referee smiled and shook his head, maintaining the penalty of Tottenham's out-of-bounds ball.

Tottenham's players were all relieved, and Pochettino relieved his heart that had been hanging on the sidelines. He found that he was already drenched in sweat.

The more Pochettino thought about it, the more afraid he became, and he immediately returned to the bench to let the two midfielders Dembele and Wanyama start warming up immediately.

Pochettino has fully believed that he has made a major mistake in his judgment of the No. 17!Just now, No. 17's horizontal breakthrough and this thrilling quick free kick convinced him that the purpose of No. 17 is to beat Dell down!
And he almost succeeded!

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