i don't want to be king

Chapter 374 The well-deserved "battle nation"

CSKA Moscow Club is a well-known Russian sports club. Its predecessor in history was a ski club established in 1901. The CSKA football team was officially established in 1928. Their abbreviation is the famous "CDKA".

They have won Russia's top football league championships many times, and also defeated Sporting Lisbon in the 2004-05 season to win the UEFA Cup that year.

When the UEFA Champions League group stage was drawn for the new season, as the champion of the Russian Super League last season, CSKA was listed as the first seeded team, and finally divided into Group E with Bayer Leverkusen, Tottenham and Monaco.

After the announcement of the draw results of the UEFA Champions League group stage this season, the outside world generally believes that Group C composed of Barcelona, ​​Manchester City, Borussia Monchengladbach and Celtic is the "death group". Except for Barcelona, ​​​​the other three will be the only ones. The qualifying places launched a desperate fight.

Unexpectedly, in the first round of the game, Barcelona would bloodbath the Celtics 7:0 at home, and Manchester City was not to be outdone, and also beat Borussia 4:0 at home.

After the two rounds, there is no suspense about the qualifying situation of Group C. Barcelona and Manchester City will compete for the top spot in the group in the remaining games.

Now people have changed their views, and it is generally believed that what is really full of "death" is more like Group E.

After the two rounds, the Russian Super League champion, who is the first seeded team, only scored 1 point in Group E. The fourth-ranked team Monaco took the top spot in the group with a record of 1 win and 1 tie.

It is generally accepted that Tottenham, Leverkusen and Monaco are not much different in strength, and they are all higher than the first-tier CSKA.

Considering that the overall strength of the three teams is very close, every game in this group is crucial.

Jardim concluded that in every home game in this group, each team will definitely try their best to score points.

The game against CSKA, the weakest opponent in the group, is also crucial for Monaco, which is also the key to maintaining their lead over Leverkusen and Tottenham.

Li Liang and everyone came to CSKA's new home stadium - the Moscow CSKA Arena, which has just been put into use this season.

This is a brand-new modern professional stadium that can accommodate 3 people. The game still has more than an hour to start, but enthusiastic fans have already filled the stands.

During the warm-up, the fans had already shouted loudly, and Li Liangzhi was amazed by the loudness of the voice.

To be honest, the momentum of these nearly 8 Russian fans is not inferior to the 5 people in the new Wembley. The lung capacity of these Russian fans is obviously not covered!
Li Liang also noticed that there was a high isolation barrier in the middle of the stands behind the goals on both sides. He asked Spignoli, who was leading everyone to warm up, for advice, what is the purpose of this barrier?

The well-informed Italian told Li Liang that this is very common in Russian football stadiums, and it is basically a standard configuration.

Usually the seats behind the goal are allocated to visiting fans, and the Russians believe in fists solving all problems - if one punch isn't enough, then another punch!
This kind of guardrail is the boundary, which is to separate the fans of the away team from the fans of the home team, because brawls between fans in the Russian Super League are too common.

Li Liang was engrossed in listening, when suddenly his vision went dark, and the appearance of an unusually tall figure made him jump!When he fixed his eyes on the two long legs that were almost as tall as himself, he immediately realized that he had met an old friend.

The Monaco players all came together happily and warmly greeted the Ivorian giant center Lacina Traore, whom they called "Lacina Big Tree".

The 2-meter-tall Côte d'Ivoire international played for Monaco last season and joined CSKA on loan in the new season.He will start today's game, and he came over to say hello to his old teammates before the game.

After the warm-up was over, after a simple opening ceremony, the players from both sides came on the field. Li Liang and his teammates wrapped in thick down jackets followed and walked to the visiting team's bench.

Suddenly, the white flowers in the stands caught his attention. After taking a second look, Li Liang couldn't help but burst out laughing.

These are hundreds of diehard fans of CSKA, all Russian big men, all shirtless in the temperature close to 0 degrees!Their well-nourished bodies looked dazzlingly white under the light of the stadium lights, and they were particularly eye-catching on the red and blue grandstand seats.

Shirtless fans are not uncommon. In the game against Paris, all the fans in Paris took off their shirts at Cape Delle. At the last moment, when Monaco led 3:1, thousands of fans of the home team also played excitedly. Shirtless - but it was warm and pleasant weather by the Mediterranean Sea at the end of August, how can it compare with the cold Moscow at night now? !
Li Liang couldn't help sighing, looking at this posture, these heroes are ready to "light" the audience, the Russians who are known as the "fighting nation" are really awesome!
This game has attracted a lot of attention.The most important figure among them is the Chelsea owner Roman Abrahimovich in the box. He is accompanied by the chairman of the CSKA club Yevgeny Guinel and the vice-chairman of Monaco Vasilyev. playing.

The powerful figure in Chelsea's management, Nigerian Emenalo, sat aside with the management of CSKA and Monaco, discussing the lineups of the two sides with great interest.

These three clubs have very similar backgrounds. The owners of CSKA, Chelsea and Monaco are wealthy Russian businessmen.In contrast, Abramovich is much more high-profile, and of course his Chelsea has also achieved better results.

CSKA loaned Traore from Monaco, Chelsea took over when Falcao was desperate at Manchester United, and Monaco loaned Pasalic from Chelsea. These operations are all related to the special relationship between these three clubs.

L'Equipe reporter Pierre Ghazi also came to the scene with the team.In addition, two Uzbekistan internationals who also played in the Russian Super League, Denisov and Ahmedov, also appeared in the stands. They met to watch this Champions League match together.

Because of Li Liang, the sports channel also broadcast the match live. He Wei and Xue Yang, old partners, are introducing the basic situation of both sides in the studio.

To the joy of the two of them and the fans who stayed up late to watch the game, Li Liang appeared on the substitute list again.

The teammates of the Hurricanes did not stay up late to watch the game because they had training the next day.

Apart from going to work during the day, Xiao Yu spends the rest of her time reviewing and preparing for various exams related to declaring her brokerage qualifications.She set the alarm clock, woke up on time and sat in front of the computer.

She noticed that everyone was talking about Li Liang in the barrage.Many netizens are worried about whether Li Liang can get a chance to play in today's game after leaving the team for three weeks.

With the whistle of the referee, the game finally started.

Jardim finally decided to play 433 before the start of the game. Goalkeeper Subasic, left back Raj, right back Sidibi, and the two central defenders are still the old partners of Glick and Remyerson.

The three midfielders are Moutinho, Bakayoko and Fabinho from left to right; Germain is in the center on the striker, and Silva and Lemar are on the left and right.

After some consideration, Jardim removed Carrillo, who was scheduled to start.This formation looks more aggressive, but in fact, it can be changed to 4231 at any time in terms of staffing.

Yardim still decided to focus on stability. It would be a good result if he could score 1 point in such an unfavorable environment.

After CSKA coach Slutsky got the latest list of Monaco players, he immediately decided to attack at the beginning and strive to score first.

The progress of the game was exactly as Slutsky expected. Monaco's offense was basically based on probing, and it seemed very cautious.

Slutsky immediately walked to the sidelines, waved his arms vigorously, and shouted to his disciples to attack.

He knows very well that if he cannot get 3 points from Monaco in this game, it will be completely hopeless to qualify for the group stage.

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