i don't want to be king

Chapter 692 Hand-to-hand combat

Both Moutinho and Raj on the bench were shouting anxiously.

As one of the old players who participated in the two rounds of the UEFA Champions League 8/1 final against Juventus two years ago, they still have a fresh memory of this familiar scene.

At that time, the Belgian breakthrough master Carrasco, and Kurzawa, who later switched to Paris, were still in the Monaco team.After two rounds, Monaco narrowly defeated Juventus, who later reached the final, with a total score of 0:1.

Several old players told Li Liang that there was a big difference between Juventus at that time and now. Although the head coach is Allegri, the tactics have changed a lot.

Of course Li Liang knew that Juventus still had Pirlo, Evra, Vidal and Pogba at that time, and the striker was dominated by Carlos Tevez, who is now playing in the Super League, supplemented by Morata, who has now returned to Real Madrid. .

Although Pogba did not leave the station due to injury in those two rounds, Juventus still firmly grasped the situation, which made Monaco, which was in high morale at the time, helpless.

He still remembers that he watched the live broadcast at that time. Pirlo, who had been playing flat all the time, suddenly exerted his strength and sent a long pass of nearly 60 meters from the backcourt. Now the Portuguese veteran Carvalho, who is also playing for the Chinese Super League, threw himself into the penalty area in desperation. Morata, who responded inside, Juventus won a penalty, which was finally scored by Vidal.

The self at that time was very different from what it is now. Li Liang only remembered that he had been drowsy after drinking a few cans of beer, and he woke up when He Wei shouted "Penalty kick!" on TV...

The current Juventus has already changed, but Li Liang remembered the night of watching the live broadcast two years ago.

As in the past, Juventus is still firmly in control of the situation. Monaco's offensive momentum on the field is huge, but it has not been able to pose a substantial threat. The speed that Jardim has always emphasized in his daily training of the offense has been from the beginning. It was steadily lowered by Juventus.

To be precise, Juventus is controlling the tempo on the field, as fast as they want, and as slow as they want.

Li Liang made a lot of attempts. He felt that he was in a pretty good state today. He was very good at breaking through, getting rid of, passing and passing, but he felt more and more strongly that he had gradually drifted out of the game.

Guardiola has already seen the clues, he pointed to the field and said to Arteta: "Look at the Juventus midfield position, there are Sandro and Daniel (Alves), sometimes Bonucci and Chielli Nee will also help out occasionally, plus 3 forwards, yes, this is what it is now-"

Arteta looked in the direction he was pointing, and Guardiola continued: "Whenever Lee has the ball, or runs without the ball and seeks to cooperate with his teammates, there is at least one person at Juventus who keeps a distance from him.

At the same time the rest of Juventus formed many triangles with each other... that's how they killed Barcelona! "

Mourinho also marveled: "Perfect tactical discipline!
My hat off to Allegri for what he's done this season!

Jorge (Mendez), it can be asserted now that Juventus has more strength to enter the final than Monaco, and they are obviously fully prepared! "

The home spectators in the stands were still shouting loudly. In their view, Monaco performed equally well, especially Li Liang seemed to work very hard on the field and was running actively all the time.

Jardim's and his assistants were increasingly nervous, seeing a very different picture from the fans.

Li Liang had the opportunity to get the ball, and even successfully got rid of the entanglement of the defenders around him, and tried to use the ball to attack many times. However, in the face of Juventus' efficient overall defense, Li Liang could not command the overall ball as calmly as before. The operation of the team.

His response, escape and pass were cut up and down by Juventus players on the field.

Falcao, Mbappe, Silva, Fabinho, and Mendy all tried to get close to Li Liang for support, and every attempt encountered a highly targeted defense.

Except for the overhead ball that was passed to Falcao by two people in a row at the beginning of the game, Li Liang made no contribution on the offensive end.

Wenger shook his head again and again: "At this time Monaco needs to come up with their 'Plan B'.

They are a team that emphasizes offense. Once the offense fails, they will soon fall into a very disadvantageous situation. "

Sure enough, Jardim signaled the players to change their style of play and began to pass the ball more to both sides, using the assists of Mendy and Dilar to try to use crosses to create opportunities for Falcao and Mbappe to grab points.

Li Liang also began to retreat significantly. According to the response plan formulated before the game, he retreated to the midfielder position, and Fabinho began to participate more in the frontcourt attack.

This is also Li Liang's most accustomed way of coping when his offense is blocked since he really started playing football. He can't think of any better way other than this.

In the 15th minute, the Monaco midfielder successfully intercepted the ball, and Bakayoko quickly passed the ball forward to Fabinho.The Brazilian accurately passed the ball straight to Silva on the right, who took advantage of the gap left by Sandro's pressure and strode forward with the ball.

Chiellini immediately came up to meet him, Silva used his speed to break through to the bottom line, Chiellini directly shoveled, Silva made a beautiful emergency stop and dunked the ball back, dodged the opponent's shovel and directly turned the ball into a triangle Pass back to the middle.

Falcao flew under the defense of Barzagli to grab the point, neither of them touched the ball, and Buffon hit the ball with both fists and hit the ball out of the baseline.

Li Liang sprinted all the way from the midfield, quickly changed direction and rushed towards the ball that fell to the middle of the penalty area. From the corner of his eyes, he seemed to see that Buffon's overall rating had changed again!
Li Liang didn't have time to observe carefully, because he saw that Bonucci had already rushed up with big strides—Juve's No. 19 rushed forward like a lion, which made Li Liang feel extremely intimidated!
In the nick of time, Li Liang's body seemed to start to move by itself. He immediately jumped up and stretched out his right foot in the air to stab the falling ball!

While the audience was exclaiming, Li Liang just dodged Bonucci's sliding tackle in the air. When he landed, he accelerated to chase the ball. Marchisio was obviously closer to the ball!

Marchisio first supported Li Liang with his body, and then tried to use the instep of his left foot to stop the ball to the side of his body away from Li Liang, then turned around and wiped it.

Li Liang had already seen through his opponent's attempt, and he suddenly withdrew his body after a vigorous confrontation—Marchisio almost lost his center of gravity, but fortunately, he reacted quickly and stabilized his body to continue to control the ball. Li Liang quickly fell to the ground and stretched out The left leg, the heel of the left foot intercepted the ball!
Marchisio, who turned sideways and dialed the ball with his left foot, was caught off guard, lost his balance and fell to the ground.

Buffon and Barzagli in the penalty area all raised their hands to signal Li Liang to foul, Allegri roared even louder, and all the Juventus fans in Cape del Cape also roared!

The referee waved firmly to signal the game to continue. It was a good shot!
After completing this wonderful shovel and keeping the ball, Li Liang got up quickly, and at the same time, he swung the ball horizontally with his left foot and rushed towards the penalty area past the fallen Marchisio!

Barzali stood in the direction of Li Liang's advance, he was not in a hurry to move forward, because he saw someone rushing towards Li Liang again.

Alves ran all the way back from the frontcourt since Silva's breakthrough. He quickly saw through Li Liang's intention and rushed to the middle of the penalty area without hesitation.

Li Liang had already seen the fast-moving Brazilian, so he immediately slowed down and made an emergency stop, shifting his center of gravity to the left at the same time. Alves did not go up directly but occupied the center of the arc of the penalty area and firmly guarded the middle with Barzagli.

In desperation, Li Liang had no choice but to turn around and cross to the left. Pjanic had already chased him back, and Chiellini had returned to the penalty area at an astonishing speed.

Li Liang took two steps to the left, and there was no chance to score the ball forward or even to the two sides. Alves' delay made his teammates successfully cut the connection between Li Liang and his teammates again.

Seeing that he was surrounded again, and none of the supporting teammates could receive his points, Li Liang was in a hurry.

He directly raised his right hand, bowed his stomach and quickly swung his left leg, and shot a violent volley towards the goal!
There was a loud "boom", followed by another muffled "boom", Li Liang's vigorous withdrawal hit Bonucci who was flying behind him!
Li Liang was still in the inertia of rushing forward, he was extremely horrified, how did Bonucci who fell behind him because of a tackle just now appeared in front of him? !
The referee blew his whistle, signaling Bonucci to handball, and Monaco took a direct free kick in the frontcourt.

(End of this chapter)