i don't want to be king

Chapter 405 Collective Evolution
Monaco's last game before this international match day cycle is to face the newly promoted Nancy, who ranks second to last in the league.

Although it returned to the First Division as the champion of Ligue [-] last season, the Nancy team's record in the new season is very dismal.

11轮过后，摩纳哥取得了7胜2平2负的成绩，目前暂列积分榜第2位。

On the offensive end, they scored 11 goals in 30 games, with an average of 2.73 goals per game, making them the team with the most goals in the league.

Therefore, before this game, the outside world was unanimously optimistic that Monaco would easily win at home.

Li Liang sat in the stands with Glick and Moutinho who was also injured before the game.

The Polish man's tooth has been implanted back, and the effect is not bad, but the meal owed to Li Liang has not yet been fulfilled.

Li Liang jokingly said that he hoped that the bet would continue in the future, but the Poles firmly refused.

The game was played on a rainy day, and although it was a weekend afternoon, the attendance at the Stade Louis II was obviously not as good as in the past.

Moutinho told Li Liang that the vacancy rate was a bit high because the opponent was too weak and the weather affected.

When the two sides warmed up, the Monaco team was not affected by the attendance rate, and the players still seemed very relaxed.It seems that the morale of this young team is at an all-time high. Everyone is talking and laughing during the warm-up, and they are in good condition.

The game finally started in the light rain. Jardim formed a 442 formation. Raj replaced Glick on the back line, and the rest of the positions remained unchanged.

The midfield is still an iron double defensive midfielder Bakayoko, Fabinho, Lemar and Silva on both sides, Germain and captain Falcao partner in the striker combination.

During the warm-up, Li Liang noticed that there was not a gold card player in the Nancy team!Only forward Mandani and central defender Langley have the highest overall ratings, both of which are 74.

This made Li Liang a little nervous. He remembered that when Monaco faced Paris and Tottenham, they all succeeded in defeating the strong with the weaker than the opponent when their overall rating was not as good as the opponent.

As the game progressed, Li Liang's worries gradually disappeared, because he found that the players of the Nancy team were panicked on the field, and almost all the 11 players in the starting lineup were not ready to fight.

In fact, just like the previous game against Montpellier, the Monaco players were not very excited at the beginning. With two games in less than 48 hours, their physical condition at the beginning was also the most dangerous moment, but Nana The Tin team obviously didn't have the ability to seize this to make a fuss.

The game lasted about 10 minutes, and the players of Monaco gradually started to move their bodies, and the whole team began to wake up like a sleeping beast.

Under Monaco's fierce offensive, the game came to the 24th minute. Silva cooperated with Fabinho and Sidibi on the right and made a pass from the bottom. The ball was blocked by the opponent and a corner kick was taken.

Lemar took the penalty. He kicked a high arc kick with a strong inward rotation. Li Liang, Glick and Moutinho all held their breath nervously. They immediately saw the dramatic scene.

When Nancy's Mauritanian midfielder Jidileye defended the corner kick in the middle of the penalty area, he turned his back to his teammate's right back Chetu as an opposing player, and firmly behind him!
The two squeezed together and neither of them touched the ball. Lemar's corner kick was deflected after bouncing in front of the small penalty area, and flew forward suddenly!
Nancy's Cameroon goalkeeper Asembe was dumbfounded when he saw his two teammates entangled together.

After the corner kick hit the ground, due to the rainy weather, the route and speed of the bounce were beyond Asembe's imagination, especially after the bounce bounced a very strange trajectory and went straight to the gate!

Asenbei, who has good physical fitness, jumped up before he could scold his mother, and tried his best to stop the ball, but the ball continued to rise, just passed his fingertips and continued to fly towards the gate.

Even Lemar, who made the free throw, was stunned. No one thought that such a miraculous corner kick rebound was about to be born!

The ball was stunned in the penalty area and finally hit the crossbar. Since the strength had been completely attenuated, it began to roll and fall towards the goal.

Asenbei had already landed and had no time to make a second reaction, and the players on both sides in the penalty area were also in a state of stupefaction—except for one person!

I saw Falcao miraculously appearing in front of the ball, without taking off at all, he simply hit the ball into the empty goal with a little force on his forehead!

Until the ball hit the net, Nancy's defenders didn't seem to have recovered, and they watched Falcao rushing towards the excited teammates blankly.

1:0, in the 25th minute of the commute, Monaco accepted the gift from the opponent's defender and easily took the lead.

Li Liang was shocked. He got up and cheered and applauded vigorously. Watching the replay on the big screen, he remembered Falcao's two wonderful follow-up shots against CSKA in the last game.

He couldn't imagine that if he was in the same position as the Colombian, would he be able to respond as effectively?

Can people predict in advance that the ball will rebound and where the ball will land after the rebound?
Li Liang concluded that even if he has 15 times the observation ability and thinking speed of ordinary people, he still can't do this, because he can't predict the future, and he doesn't have this kind of predictive ability commonly known on the court!

Li Liang looked at the close-up of the Colombian in amazement, and suddenly felt that Falcao's South American face with obvious facial features, as long as he painted it with oil paint, he would look like a real wizard!
For a moment, Li Liang even wondered whether Falcao also had a system, and also had the kind of superhuman pre-selection in front of the goal and the golden finger of pre-judgment—otherwise, how could he have the sense of smell and killer qualities of a top center forward? ?
In addition, he suddenly discovered that Falcao, whose overall rating dropped to 81 when he just returned to Monaco, has now recovered to 82!

Li Liang's heart moved, and he turned his attention to Lemar who completed the second assist. Sure enough, Lemar, who was originally 78, has reached 80!

Bakayoko has improved the most, going from a 74 in the silver class to a 78 in the gold class!His partner Fabinho also changed from 79 to 80!

Li Liang couldn't help but get excited, everyone is making great growth and progress!Considering that the season is only 3/1, there must be more remarkable achievements waiting for myself and my teammates.

While he was fascinated by the future, Monaco had already launched another attack.

In the 28th minute, Silva once again forced Nancy's left back Badilla successfully, and accurately passed back to Fabinho who inserted into the penalty area to respond near the baseline.

Fabinho took advantage of the opportunity to turn the ball with his right foot, and Gidileye, who was on the top defense, stretched his legs recklessly and tripped the Brazilian. The referee whistled and awarded a penalty!
Falcao stood in front of the penalty spot, he calmly tricked Asembe and hit the goal, 2:0.

With Falcao scoring twice in 5 minutes, Monaco established a two-goal lead.

The home audience was jubilant, and Li Liang also gave high fives to Glick and Moutinho.

In the ensuing game, Nancy could not stop its threatening attack at all. Monaco easily controlled the game until the end of halftime, and the score was not rewritten again.

At the beginning of the second half, the visiting team replaced Gidileyer, who was out of order, with the young French midfielder Marchetti. The tactics were also adjusted, but they still couldn't shake the home team's absolute advantage on the field.

The game came to the 64th minute without any surprises. Seeing that he had the chance to win, Jardim replaced Germain with Mbappe in advance to practice the lineup.

Just after Mbappe came on the field, Monaco launched an attack again. Lemar made a 40-meter long pass in the midfield and accurately sent the ball to the space on the left.

Mendy, who was plugged in at high speed, overtook the opponent's right-back Chetu and immediately made a low cross. Facing Falcao's Mbappe's two-point impact, Nancy's central defender Lenglet stretched out his foot to hit the ball in a panic. opened its own door!

The fateful Asembe saved this extremely dangerous own goal with an amazing reaction, but Mbappe appeared in front of the kicked ball with lightning speed, and pushed the ball firmly into the empty goal with his left foot, 3:0 !
Li Liang cheered happily. He noticed that Mbappe, who was celebrating excitedly, had a total rating of 75 at the gold card level!

Monaco has already led by 3 goals, and the Nancy players are obviously not interested in fighting.

The two sides made personnel adjustments one after another. Jardim replaced Falcao, who had performed well, with Carrillo, and replaced Silva with the young striker Klendin-Jean who rarely played.

The scene gradually calmed down, and the Monaco players obviously started to stop kicking. After all, everyone's body is relatively tired. Under such circumstances, it is the most sensible choice to safely get 3 points.

But the three substitutes who came on in the second half didn't think so. They were still trying to catch every minute of their full performance.

In the 80th minute, Mbappe received a pass from his teammate on the left. Facing Chetu's defense, he spiked the ball with both feet and then suddenly sped up to get rid of the opponent.

Mbappe made an accurate pass when he broke into the bottom line, and Carrillo, who followed up in the middle, easily smashed the ball into the gate, 4:0.

The game was coming to an end, and the score was about to be fixed at 4:0. In the 90th minute, the teenager Jean broke into the penalty area from the left and was shoveled by Badilla. The referee awarded another penalty kick. Fabinho made it overnight, 5: 0!

Nancy just kicked off the ball again and was cut off. Mendy caught the ball from the left side of the front field, turned around and wiped the cut map, and then made a high-speed pass from the bottom. The unmarked Carrillo jumped high in the middle and easily headed the ball. Score, 6:0.

The referee finally blew the whistle for the end of the game, and Monaco won a big victory without bloodshed!
The three of Li Liang came to the locker room from the stands. Li Liang looked enviously at his teammates waving goodbye to everyone. They will immediately set off and return to their respective national teams to report.

Spignoli patted Li Liang on the head and asked loudly, "Boy, are you ready? Two weeks of hell are about to begin!"

(End of this chapter)