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Chapter 104: Who will be the winner in the new season? [Second update]

Falcao will stay with the team this season.

The news surprised the players in Monaco's locker room.

Because in their opinion.

A big-name player like Falcao.

I guess he is not willing to play as a substitute.

But now the team’s main center is Yang Guang, we can’t let Yang Guang be a substitute, right?
I don’t know what the head coach is up to?

"I'm not worried..."

Yangguang said to Seat B privately.

Not to mention the current "sick tiger" Falcao.

Even the "Tiger" Falcao a few seasons ago.

He is not afraid of competing with him.

"It's a good thing that he is willing to stay. After all, it can increase the depth and strength of our lineup." Yang Guang said.

Bakayoko was a little surprised: "I didn't expect you to have such a big picture view."

Sunshine rolled his eyes: "Hey, I've always been selfless, okay."

He was responded with several middle fingers.

His close friends are worried that Falcao's joining will cause a split in the locker room - they are definitely on the side of Sunshine.

But Falcao is a top star after all, and you never know what kind of temper he has.

Just like El Shaarawy last season.

But here's the surprise.

Falcao is gentle.

The Colombian did not come across as aggressive in the dressing room.

He praised Sunshine's performance last season.

"You scored 42 goals in the league last season, it's amazing, you are an unbelievable guy."

Falcao came up and hugged the sun while calling "amigo".

Both of them speak Spanish at a native level, so there is no communication barrier at all.

"Alas, it's a pity that I didn't score more, otherwise I would have broken the record." Yangguang said regretfully.

Upon hearing this, Falcao couldn't help but look at Yangguang with admiration.

He praised Sunshine for scoring 42 goals last season as a way of saying hello.

It's like complimenting you first in order to bring you closer.

As a South American traveling in continental Europe.

You still need to have emotional intelligence.

Otherwise, it will be difficult to survive in Europe.

Of course, if you really have the ability, you can make it, but your reputation is not very good - for example, Tevez, the Argentine who suffers from severe homesickness.

He is really strong, but after so many years, no team has regarded him as a legend or something.
But people don’t care about this.

Usually, when the other party is faced with such words, they will just say thank you and that's it.

However, Yangguang did not answer like that.

He is very arrogant and presumptuous.

But Falcao doesn't hate it.

Because he has been to many teams, he also knows many top stars.

He is very clear.

To become one of the most popular people in professional football, you don't need a stable personality.

Falcao stretched out his hand and shook the sun, then turned to look at the other teammates and said, "Amigo, I'm back. The boss told me that we have to create a great era together. I think we can do this."

have to say.

Colombians still have the aura of stars.

Although Jardim has not yet announced the captain for the new season.

But Falcao already knows that he will be the captain of the new season.

As the new season is getting closer.

There is one more thing that needs to be resolved.

That's the issue of the players' jersey numbers.

It is obviously inappropriate for the main center Yang to wear the big number 39.

So in the new season, the No. 9 jersey, which symbolizes the main center, belongs to him.

Monaco has not yet announced the squad for the new season, but everyone knows about it - because in Monaco's jersey shop, the name on the No. 9 jersey is "YANG".

Soon, this jersey became the best-selling jersey in the Monaco team.

Mbappe also changed his number.

He can choose No. 7 and No. 11, but he prefers No. 10, but No. 10 is worn by B席.

Think about it.

He decided to wear the number of his idol, Cristiano Ronaldo: 7.

When Falcao returned to the team, he could have chosen No. 11, but he gave up this number and chose No. 3 instead - which was Falcao's father's number.

Falcao comes from a Colombian football family.

His father was also a professional player and was selected for the Colombian national team.

After the player numbers are determined.

Jardim also announced the captain for the new season.

Falcao will be the captain.

Moutinho and Subasic will serve as vice-captains.

Few people objected to this appointment.

Because Falcao really has the demeanor of a locker room leader these days. This Colombian has a high emotional intelligence and gets along well with the players in the team. Among a group of young players, he has the aura of a top star.

So everyone was quite convinced.

Moutinho and Subasic are also veterans and experienced players in the team.

After completing the captain's appointment.

This also means that Monaco’s new “Team Committee” has been established.

The training is over for the day.

All three captains stayed to discuss some basic team disciplines and penalties for violations in the new season.

Basically every team's locker room needs such a role to manage it.

After all, the head coach is separated from everyone else by a level.

Many things are much better handled by the team's "locker room leader" than by the head coach himself.

When everyone was packing up and preparing to leave.

Falcao suddenly said, "Yang, you should stay too."

"Ah? Me?" Yangguang pointed at himself in surprise. I'm not the captain, why should I stay?

Mbappe nudged Yangguang with his elbow, winked and said in a low voice: "What did I say, Yang, you definitely have the potential to be the captain."

But I really don't want to be a captain.
There's nothing particularly important about staying for the meeting.

The captains just confirmed with each other the division of labor and methods of managing locker room discipline in the new season.

And Falcao didn't let Sunshine stay to do anything.

Instead, they pulled him into the team committee and showed the other players that Yang is now one of the leaders in the locker room, so don't think about causing trouble.

Yangguang is quite popular in the team.

And he is the tactical core of the team.

He also has a good relationship with several other core players in private.

Thus.

It is equivalent to the team committee "recruiting" Yangguang.

Let the work of the team committee proceed smoothly.

For example, everyone approved the idea of a 500 euro fine for each lateness to be used as funding for team-building activities without any objection.

Monaco's pre-season training is going well.

Transfers, locker room management, physical reserve, tactical running-in, warm-up matches
July passed by in a flash. Monaco's pre-season warm-up opponents were all from nearby.

Monaco, Italy, Spain, Belgium and many more.

Big teams like Paris Saint-Germain can get invitations to the International Champions Cup and go to North America and East Asia to make money.
Although Monaco doesn't make much money from the pre-season.

But the good thing is that they don't have to travel around the world, and not many media will pay attention to their warm-up matches, allowing them to experiment and hone their tactics and personnel arrangements for the new season in a completely low-key and undisturbed environment.

In this process.

Monaco quietly completed its tactical upgrade and lineup adjustment.

Different tactical goals can be achieved through different personnel combinations.

Falcao found that he was not the protagonist in this system.

But he really has no shortage of opportunities to play.

When the Suns start, he can move around the Suns and look for opportunities.

7 month 31 day.

This is the team's last warm-up match before the start of the new season.

It was at the San Paolo Stadium in Naples, southern Italy, against the home team Napoli.

This opponent is quite strong.

It's a very strong warm-up object.

At this stage, the team has already reached the stage of switching status from the preseason to the new season.

Therefore, Jardim did not hold back in this game.

Instead, he sent out his main starting lineup for the new season in the first half of the game.

There are three forwards in the frontcourt: Mbappe, Sunshine and B Silva, and behind them are Lemar, Bakayoko and Fabinho.

A very standard 433 stance.

The game starts from the beginning.

Monaco took the initiative to launch a fierce attack.

Pressure in the frontcourt, interception in the midfield, and launching a quick attack after seizing the ball.

Tear open the opponent's defense through cooperation between the flanks and the center.

The thirteenth minute of the game.

Monaco scored a goal.

After receiving the ball on the wing, Mbappe chose to cut inside, attracting the opponent's defensive players to the middle, opening up space on the left side, giving left midfielders Lemar and Mendy the opportunity to penetrate this space.

Lemar made a run and received the pass from Mbappe before crossing it directly into the corner of the penalty area.

Yangguang jumped high at the back post and headed the ball into the goal.

During this process, Napoli's defense had already been disrupted by the running of Monaco's offensive players, so when Sunshine was competing one-on-one with the opponent's central defender for the high point.

Scoring a goal is a natural thing.

Jardim applauded his players' goals on the sidelines.

He was extremely excited.

Judging from the effect of this lineup, Monaco's strength is no worse than Paris Saint-Germain on paper!
Napoli is not a weak team, and as an Italian team, their defense should be good.

result.

They were "bewitched" by Monaco's fame.

Napoli consider themselves to be on the same level as Monaco.

This wrong perception made them pay a heavy price.

In the first half of the game, Napoli was trailing 0-3.

Second half of the game.

Jardim replaced Falcao, Moutinho and Hojbjerg for Mbappe, Bakayoko and Lemar.

Changed half of the midfield and frontcourt lineup.

Monaco's offensive methods have also undergone some changes.

The team began to attack the middle, B Silva moved to the middle, Falcao and Yang Guang rushed forward, and the three players gathered in the middle, attracting the opponent's main defensive force to the middle.

The full-backs on both sides took turns to move forward, using the space created by the players in the middle to continuously get opportunities to pass the ball from the bottom.

Just rely on this method.

In the second half, Sunshine and Falcao each scored a goal.

Five to zero.
Monaco beat Napoli 5-0 away from home.

A friendly match turned into a friendly match.
Napoli coach Sarri complained as he shook hands with Jardim after the game: "You guys attacked too hard."

Jardim smiled apologetically: "The new season is about to start, we have to play Paris and then Real Madrid before the season starts."

"So we become the unlucky guy who makes you find confidence?" Sarri laughed.

It’s a warm-up match, if we lose, we lose.

He also discovered many problems with the team from this warm-up match.

The only problem is the team's confidence. But Napoli doesn't have to play in the Super Cup.

So he still has time to adjust.

Jardim started to inspire Monaco so quickly.

The reason is naturally that their new season starts earlier than other teams.

August 8th, French Super Cup.

They will face last season's French Cup champion Paris Saint-Germain in Klagenfurt, Austria.

August 8th, European Super Cup.

Monaco, the winner of last season's Europa League, will face Real Madrid, the winner of last season's Champions League, at the Lakendal Stadium in Trondheim, Norway.

The opponents in these two games are both strong teams.

Moreover, if they win these two games, they will get the championship trophy. Before the start of the season, winning two teams and winning two championships can greatly boost the morale and state of the players.

Therefore, Jardim intends to fight with all his strength in these two games.

The first opponent, Paris Saint-Germain, has just changed its coach.

Former Sevilla head coach Emery took over as coach of Paris Saint-Germain this season.

Although Ibrahimovic is gone.

But Cavani's strength should not be underestimated.

Moreover, Paris continued to strengthen this season. They spent 34 million euros to introduce Emery's direct players, defensive midfielder Fernandez or Wiak from Sevilla, spent 25 million euros to buy Jose from Real Madrid, spent 7.5 million euros to buy right-back Meunier, and signed Ben Arfa, who ranked fourth in the Ligue 1 scorer list last season, from Nice for free.

Before the Super Bowl begins.

The French media were generally surprised that Monaco had not lost a single key player when the season was about to begin.

".Defending champions Monaco announced that every player in their starting lineup is not for sale. Before this, people thought that this was a means for them to raise the price, but now it seems that Monaco has indeed not sold any of their starting players. Their strength has even improved this season because their starting lineup is so young. Every player has made considerable progress after a championship season. From this perspective, Paris Saint-Germain has become a challenger in the league."

". Monaco defends the French Ligue 1 title? Is this surprising? I don't think it's surprising at all, because this team is indeed quite strong!"

Before the Super Bowl.

Omar wrote in her column.

He believes that in the new season of Ligue 1, Monaco is still the favorite to win the championship, while Paris Saint-Germain is Monaco's challenger.

This statement made Paris Saint-Germain fans very angry.

However, they don't have much room for rebuttal, because Monaco is indeed the defending champion, and they have not sold many players this season.

At the press conference before the start of the French Super Cup.

Emery was asked this question.

"We are not challengers, Paris Saint-Germain is still the best team in the league. Last season, we just took a short nap!"

Emery said.

When asked about this, Jardim said: "I respect Paris Saint-Germain, but we are the defending champions and our goal is still the French Ligue 1 championship."

The new season has not officially started yet.

The competition between the two championship teams has already begun to make people feel fierce.

".Monaco's rise is definitely good for Ligue 1. We haven't seen such a debate before the start of the new Ligue 1 season for a long time."

".Who will win the French Ligue 1 championship this season? Paris? Monaco? Perhaps this Super Cup will give us a glimpse of the current status of the two teams!"

There was a pre-match debate.

People are starting to take more interest in the French Super Cup.

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