Chapter 693: White-Knuckle Battle

Moutinho and Raj, who were on the bench, were anxiously shouting.

As one of the veterans who played in the two legs of the Champions League final against Juventus two years ago, they remember the familiar scene in front of them.

At that time, Belgian breakthrough master Carrasco and Kurzava, who later moved to Paris, were still in the Monaco team. After two legs, Monaco defeated Juventus with an aggregate score of 0:1 and later reached the final.

Several veteran players told Li Liang that Juventus at that time was very different from now, although the head coach was Allegri, but the tactical play has changed very much.

Of course, Li Liang knew that Juventus at that time still had Pirlo, Evra, Vidal and Pogba, and the forward line was dominated by Tevez, who is now playing in the Chinese 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, Juve still firmly grasped the situation, leaving Monaco, who were at the height of morale at the time, helpless.

He still remembers watching the live broadcast at the time, Pirlo, who has been dull, suddenly exerted his strength and sent a long pass of nearly 60 meters from the backfield, and now the Portuguese veteran Carvalho, who also plays in the Chinese Super League, helplessly pounced on Morata in the penalty area, Juve won a penalty, and finally scored by Vidal.

There was a world of difference between himself at that time and now, Li Liang only remembered that he had been drowsy after drinking a few cans of beer, and knew that He Wei yelled "Penalty!" on TV. "I woke up to myself......

The current Juventus has long been wrong, but Li Liang remembered the night he watched the live broadcast two years ago.

As in the past, Juventus are still firmly in control, Monaco's attack on the pitch is huge, but it has not been able to pose a substantial threat, and the pace that Yaldim has been emphasizing in his daily adjustment of the attack has been steadily reduced by Juve from the beginning.

To be precise, it is Juventus who control the pace on the field, as fast as they want, and as slow as they want.

Li Liang has made a lot of attempts, and he feels that he is in quite good shape today, breaking through, getting rid of, passing and passing all kinds of handy, but he feels more and more strongly that he has gradually drifted away from the game.

Pep Guardiola has already seen the clues, he pointed to the field and said to Arteta: "You look at the position of the Juventus midfield, there are Sandro and Daniel [Alves], sometimes Bonucci and Chiellini will help occasionally, plus three strikers, yes, that's how it is now-"

Arteta looked in the direction he was pointing and Guardiola continued: "Whenever Lee has the ball or runs off the ball to find a link with his team-mates, Juve have at least one person who keeps his distance from him.

At the same time, the rest of Juventus stand in a number of triangles with each other...... That's how they took out Barcelona! ”

Mourinho was also amazed: "Perfect tactical discipline!

I would like to pay tribute to Allegri, he has done a fantastic job this season!

Jorge (Mendes), it is now possible to assert that Juve have the quality to reach the final compared to Monaco and they are clearly fully ready! ”

The home crowd in the stands were still shouting hard, and in their opinion, Monaco's performance was also excellent, especially Li Liang, who seemed to be working very the field and had been running actively.

Yaldim's assistants are getting more and more nervous, and they see something very different from the fans.

Li Liang has the opportunity to get the ball, and even successfully gets rid of the entanglement of the defenders around him, and tries to attack with the pass many times, but in the face of Juve's efficient overall defense, Li Liang simply cannot command the operation of the whole team as calmly as before.

His pick-ups, escapes and passes were cut into pieces by Juventus' players on the pitch.

Falcao, Kylian Mbappe, Silva and Fabinho and Edouard Mendy all tried to get close to Li Liang to provide support, and each attempt was met with a highly targeted defence.

Except for the overhead ball that was passed to Falcao by two people in the opening game, Li Liang did not contribute anything on the offensive end.

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

They are a team that emphasizes offense, and once they can't open up the situation offensively, they will quickly fall into a very disadvantageous situation. ”

Sure enough, Yaldim signaled his players to change their style of play and began to spread the ball more to both sides, using assists from Mendy and Dillal to try to create chances for Falcao and Mbappe to use crosses.

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

This is also the way Li Liang is most accustomed to dealing with whenever the attack is blocked since he really started playing, and he can't think of any better way.

In the 15th minute, the Monaco midfielder broke the ball successfully, and Bakayoko quickly passed the ball forward to Fabinho. The Brazilian played the ball straight to Silva on the right, who took advantage of the gap left by Sandro to press and strode forward.

Chiellini immediately met him, Silva used his speed to break through to the bottom line, Chiellini put a direct tackle, Silva made a beautiful emergency stop to dunk the ball, dodged the opponent's tackle and passed the ball directly back to the middle.

Falcao flew to the penalty under Barzagli's defence, neither of them touched the ball, and the attacking Buffon flew with both fists to hit the ball.

Li Liang sprinted all the way from the midfield, quickly changed direction and rushed to the ball that fell to the middle of the penalty area, and his afterglow seemed to catch a glimpse of Buffon's overall rating changing again!

Li Liang didn't have time to take a closer look, because he saw that Bonucci had already taken a big step and rushed up - Juve's No. 19 greeted him like a lion, which made Li Liang feel greatly intimidated!

At the last moment, Li Liang's body seemed to have launched its own action, he directly accelerated and jumped up to reach out his right foot in the air to poke the falling ball out!

In the exclamation of the audience, Li Liang happened to dodge Bonucci's sliding tackle in the air, and he accelerated to the ball while he landed, and Marchisio on the side was obviously closer to the ball!

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

Li Liang had already seen through the opponent's attempt, he suddenly retreated after the 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 saw the opportunity to quickly fall to the ground and stretched out his left leg, and intercepted the ball with the heel of his left foot!

Marchisio, who pulled the ball sideways with his left foot, was caught off guard and fell to the ground directly.

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

The referee waved firmly to signal the game to continue, it was a good shot!

After completing this wonderful tackle, Li Liang quickly got up, and at the same time he used his left foot to cross the ball, flashing the fallen Marchisio and rushing towards the penalty area!

Barzagli stood in the direction in which Li Liang was advancing, and he did not rush forward, because he saw that someone had already rushed towards Li Liang again.

Alves rushed all the way back from the front from the beginning of Silva's breakthrough, and he quickly saw through Li Liang's intentions and rushed to the middle of the penalty area without hesitation.

Li Liang had already seen the Brazilian who was in a hurry, he immediately slowed down and stopped, and his center of gravity flashed 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 to turn back to the left side, Pjanic had chased back, Chiellini had returned to the penalty area at an astonishing speed, and in an instant, Juve re-completed the defensive position inside and outside the penalty area.

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

Seeing that he was surrounded again, and none of his teammates who responded could not receive his own ball, Li Liang was anxious.

He directly raised his right hand, bowed down and quickly swung his left leg, and hit a violent volley towards the goal!

There was a loud "bang", followed by a muffled sound of "bang", and Li Liang's vigorous withdrawal was flying directly behind Bonucci!

Li Liang was still in the inertia of rushing forward, he was extremely shocked, how did Bonucci, who fell behind him because of the tackle just now, appear in front of him?!

The referee's whistle blows, signaling for Bonucci's handball, Monaco takes a direct free-kick in front.