Chapter 406: Collective Evolution
Monaco's final fixture before this international break is against promoted Mannancy, who are second from bottom in the league.
Although they returned to the first division as Ligue 2 champions last season, Nancy's record in the new season was very dismal.
After 11 rounds, Monaco has won 7 wins, 2 draws and 2 losses, and is currently in second place in the standings.
In attack, they have scored 30 goals in 11 games, averaging 2.73 goals per game, the most in the league.
Therefore, before this game, the outside world was unanimously optimistic that Monaco would win comfortably at home.
Li Liang sat in the stands before the game with Glick and Moutinho, who was also injured.
The Poles' teeth have been implanted back, and the effect is not bad, and the food owed to Li Liang has not been fulfilled.
Li Liang jokingly said that he hoped to carry out this bet in the future, but the Poles resolutely refused.
The game was played on a rainy day, and although it was a weekend afternoon, the Stade Louis II was significantly less attended.
Moutinho told Li Liang that because the opponent was too weak and the weather affected it, the vacancy rate was a bit high.
During the warm-up between the two sides, the Monaco team was not affected by the attendance, and the players still seemed very relaxed. It seems that the morale of this young team is unprecedentedly high, and everyone is talking and laughing during the warm-up, and they are in good shape.
The game finally started in a light rain, with Yaldim forming a 442 formation, with Raj replacing Glick at the back, and the rest of the position unchanged.
The midfield is still the iron-clad midfielders Tiemoue Bakayoko and Fabinho and Lemar and Silva on either flank, with Germain and captain Falcao partnering up front.
During the warm-up, Li Liang noticed that there was no gold card player in the Nancy team! The only ones with the highest overall rating are striker Mandani and central defender Lenglet, both with 74.
This made Li Liang a little nervous, and he remembered that when Monaco faced Paris and Tottenham, they both managed to defeat the strong when their personal overall rating was not as good as the opponent's.
As the game progressed, Li Liang's worries gradually disappeared, as he found that the Nancy players looked panicked on the field, and almost all of the 11 players who started were not ready for battle.
In fact, as in the previous game against Montpellier, Monaco's players were not very excited at the start, with two games played in less than 48 hours, and their fitness at the start of the game was also the most dangerous, but Nancy clearly did not have the ability to take advantage of this.
After about 10 minutes of play, the Monaco players gradually moved their bodies and the whole team began to wake up like a sleeping beast.
Under Monaco's fierce attack, the game came to the 24th minute, Silva on the right side and Fabinho, Sidibi after continuous cooperation and cross, the ball was blocked by the opponent out of the bottom line, corner kick.
Lemar took the penalty and unleashed a high, inward spinning ball that sent Li Liang, Glick and Moutinho all holding their breath nervously, and they immediately saw the drama.
Nancy's Mauritanian midfielder Gidilaie defended this corner kick in the middle of the penalty area, and even took his teammate right wingback Chetu as an opposing player with his back and firmly held it behind him!
The two men huddled together and neither of them touched the ball, and Lemar's corner kick deflected in front of the small penalty area and flew forward!
Nancy's Cameroonian goalkeeper Asenbe was dumbfounded when he saw his two team-mates tangled.
After the corner kick landed, because of the rainy weather, the route and speed of the bounce were beyond Asenbey's imagination, especially the rebound of a very strange trajectory straight to the gate!
Asenbe, who has good physical fitness, rose to his feet before he could scold his mother, and tried to reach out to stop the ball, but the ball continued to rise, just past his fingertips and continued to fly towards the gate.
Even Lemar, who took the penalty kick, was stunned, no one thought that such a miraculous corner kick rebound goal was about to be born!
The ball finally hit the crossbar in a stunned area of the box, and as the force had been completely decayed, it began to tumble and fall towards the goal.
Asenbe had no time to react when he landed, and the players on both sides in the penalty area were in a state of being stunned - except for one person!
I saw Falcao magically appear in front of the ball, did not jump at all, and simply used his forehead to touch the ball into the empty goal!
Until the ball was in the net, Nancy's defenders didn't seem to come to their senses, and they watched blankly as Falcao rushed towards their excited teammates.
1:0, in the 25th minute of the game, Monaco smiled and accepted the big gift from the opposing defender and easily took the lead.
Li conscience was full of shock, he got up and cheered and applauded vigorously, watching the replay on the big screen, and remembered the two wonderful supplementary shots of Falcao in the last game against CSKA.
He couldn't imagine that if he were in the same position as the Colombian, he would be able to respond as effectively.
Is it possible to predict in advance where the ball will bounce and where it will land?
Li Liang concluded that even if he had 15 times the observation ability and thinking speed of ordinary people, he would not be able to do this, because it was impossible for him to predict the future, and he did not have the prediction ability that everyone on the court commonly called!
Li Liang looked at the close-up of the Colombian in amazement, and suddenly felt that Falcau's South American face with obvious facial features was simply a living wizard as long as he was painted with oil paint!
For a moment, Li Liang even doubted whether Falcao also had a system, and also had the kind of superhuman golden finger of selecting positions and predicting in advance in front of the goal - otherwise where did he get the smell and killer nature of such a top center forward?
In addition, he suddenly discovered that Falcao, whose overall rating had dropped to 81 when he first returned to Monaco, has now recovered to 82!
Li Liang's heart moved, and he set his eyes on Lemar, who completed the assist, and sure enough, Lemar, who turned out to be 78, had reached 80!
Bakayoko has improved the most, going from 74 at the silver level to 78 at the gold level! His partner Fabinho also went from 79 to 80!
Li Liang couldn't help but get excited, everyone is making great growth and progress! When you think you're only one-third of a third of the way through the season, there must be more great things to come for you and your teammates.
Just as he was excited about the future, Monaco had already launched another attack.
In the 28th minute, Silva once again forced Nancy's left wing-back Badila to succeed, and accurately returned to Fabinho who was inserted into the penalty area near the bottom line.
Fabinho took advantage of the situation and turned with his right foot, and the top defender Gidileier tripped the Brazilian with a reckless outstretched leg, and the referee blew the whistle and took the penalty!
Falcao stood in front of the penalty spot, he calmly deceived Asenbe and scored 2-0.
With Falcao's brace in five minutes, Monaco established a two-goal lead.
The home crowd was jubilant, and Li Liang also celebrated with Glick and Moutinho excitedly.
In the ensuing game, Nancy were unable to stop their threatening attack, and Monaco easily controlled the game until half-time, and the score was not rewritten.
At the start of the second half, the visitors replaced the dysfunctional Gidileier with young French midfielder Macchetti, and the tactics were adjusted, but they still could not shake the absolute dominance of the home team on the field.
The game came to the 64th minute calmly, and Yaldim saw that the victory was in his hands, and replaced Germain with Mbappe in advance in order to rehearse the lineup.
Mbappe had just come on the pitch when Monaco attacked again and Lemar sent the ball into the left flank with a 40-metre long pass from midfield.
Mendy, who was inserted at high speed, immediately crossed low flat after forcing overtaking by the opponent's right wing-back Chetu, and in the face of Falcao's Mbappe's two-point impact, the central defender Lenglet of the panicked Central Nancy stretched out his foot and touched the ball to his goal!
The desperate Asenbe saved this extremely dangerous own goal with his amazing reaction, but Mbappe appeared lightning in front of the ball that was knocked out, and steadily pushed the ball into the empty goal with his left foot, 3:0!
Li Liang cheered happily, and he noticed that the total rating of Mbappe, who was celebrating excitedly, had also reached 75 at the gold card level!
Monaco already have a three-goal lead, and the Nancy players are clearly not interested in fighting.
There were a number of changes to the staff, with Jardim replacing the excellent Falcao with Carrillo and Silva with young striker Clendin-Jean, who rarely played.
The scene gradually calmed down, and the Monaco players obviously began to collect the kicks, after all, everyone's body is relatively tired, and it is the wisest choice to get three points safely in this situation.
But the three substitutes who came on in the second half didn't think so, and they were still trying to catch every minute of their full performance.
In the 80th minute, Mbappe received the ball from his teammates on the left side, and in the face of Chetu's defense, he suddenly got rid of the opponent after smashing the ball with both feet.
When Mbappe burst into the vicinity of the baseline, Mbappe accurately returned the pass, and Carrillo, who followed up in the middle, easily knocked the ball into the goal, 4:0.
The game is coming to an end, and it looks like it is about to be fixed on the score of 4:0, in the 90th minute, the youngster was shoveled by Badilla after breaking into the penalty area on the left side, and the referee awarded a penalty again, Fabinho made it in one fell swoop, 5:0!
Nancy had just restarted the ball and was cut off, Mendy received the ball on the left side of the front and turned beautifully to erase the cut map and then went down at high speed to cross, and the unmarked Carrillo jumped high in the middle and scored with an easy header, 6-0.
The referee finally blew the whistle for the end of the match, and Monaco won a big victory!
Li Liang and the three came to the locker room from the stands, Li Liang watched with envy as several teammates waved goodbye to everyone, and they all immediately set off to report back to their respective national teams.
Spinoli patted Li Liang on the head and asked loudly, "Boy, are you ready?" The hellish fortnight is about to begin! ”