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Chapter 152: Unable to hide the smile [2nd update]

Chapter 152: Unable to hide the smile [Second update]

If you go interview fans from all over the world.

Ask them: Can Monaco win the Champions League?
Except in Monaco, where you’ll get a resounding yes.

In other places, you will get answers like this:
"Monaco? Are you kidding me?"

"Monaco? Champions League? I don't understand why you would put those two things together."

"Hahahahaha, great joke, don't tell it next time."

"You are quite humorous."

Yes.,
Champions League champion.

A game for the rich.

Ever since the Bosman Act was passed.

The strength gap between major leagues and minor leagues, and between giants and ordinary teams, is widening.

Especially in the environment where capital from all walks of life is pouring into European football.

No small team can retain the core players they have cultivated and build a team strong enough to compete for the championship.

For example.

The beginning of the century.

A group of outstanding players have emerged in the Premier League West Ham United.

They are known as the West Ham United Six.

They are: Rio Ferdinand, Lampard, Joe Cole, Carrick, Glen Johnson and Defoe.

They are considered to be West Ham United's [Class of 92].

If West Ham United could keep these six players at that time, build the team with them as the core, and then equip them with a head coach who can control the team.

Perhaps West Ham United can also rise like Manchester United with the Class of 92 and have its own glorious years in the Premier League.

But it's a pity.

They can't keep this group of players at West Ham United.

These people soon left the team and joined big clubs.

Loyalty is an excellent quality in football culture.

But in this era when football is becoming more and more commercialized.

Loyalty becomes increasingly scarce - the difference between a weekly salary of $30,000 and a weekly salary of $150,000 makes it difficult for a player to choose a weekly salary of $30,000.

Just like Monaco now.

Monaco has a group of outstanding young players.

But no one thought they could keep these young people.

Even Monaco club itself has no intention of keeping them.

In this kind of environment.

Monaco's role is just a player supermarket.

Can they win the Champions League?
This is a big joke.

In Catalonia.

It seems that the local media finally got material to mock Sunshine.

They reported the content of Sunshine's speech to Monaco fans when he won the League Cup, and then ridiculed him, describing him as an arrogant and overconfident guy.

these contents.

It was a great pleasure for the Barcelona fans to watch.

They just like watching this kind of content.

That Chinese guy actually dared to compare himself with Messi.

[Mundo Deportivo] even published a cartoon.

In the comics.

A player wearing the No. 9 jersey of Monaco, holding up the small French League Cup trophy, showed a smug smile on his face and said to the spectators around him: Look, the Champions League!

Barcelona fans laughed when they saw this cartoon.

I feel like I have finally gotten rid of my anger.

There is a wall in the sun room.

It was covered with the ridicule the media had been showering him with these days, and he grinned.

This is one of the sources of his motivation.

The thought of being able to slap these people in the face in the future filled him with fighting spirit.

He stared at the cartoon that had gone viral on the Internet.

"Mundo Deportivo, right? Aguilar, right?"

Aguilar is the editor-in-chief of Mundo Deportivo.

He is also the author of this report and cartoon.

Yangguang took a deep note of this guy in his heart.

"I'll slap you in the face then!"

The sun draws infinite strength from these ridicules.

Monaco has escaped the "FIFA virus" several times.

This time I finally got caught.

Falcao and B Silva were injured in the national team game.

After returning to the club.

The club's medical department gave them a detailed examination.

The result made Yalding want to curse.

Falcao will be out for at least six weeks.

And Seat B will be absent for at least four weeks.

This means they will definitely miss both rounds of the Champions League match against Dortmund.

Jardim has been rotating the lineup very frequently this season because he is worried that by the end of the season the team will be plagued by injuries and won't even be able to field a normal starter.

did not expect.

He is on high alert.

You can't prevent FIFA virus
The French media are now also beginning to worry about Monaco's Champions League prospects.

L'Equipe wrote in the report: "Although Monaco's players are looking forward to the Champions League, the reality is that with the end of the season approaching, the players' accumulated fatigue is prone to injuries. The injuries of Falcao and B Silva are proof of this. Perhaps Monaco must consider one thing: they must give up certain fronts!"

"Monaco hasn't had many injuries this season, but that's because they're lucky. Their luck won't always be this good. When fighting on multiple fronts, injuries to players are something that must be taken into consideration."

The media reports have some impact on the confidence of Monaco fans.

For example, before the French Cup quarter-finals.

Many Monaco fans believe that this game can be strategically abandoned - Monaco will play against Lille at home.

But Yalding didn't want to give up.

Because a few days ago, Yang Guang was talking about the French Cup, Ligue 1 and the Champions League.

To slap oneself in the face just a few days later is not only a matter of face, but also a setback to the team's morale.

So after the international match day.

In the French Cup quarter-finals, at home against Lille.

Jardim did not give up.

Although he fielded a large number of substitutes, he also fielded half of the main players.

Sunshine also started the game.

In the end, thanks to Yang Guang's goal, the team defeated Lille 1-0 at home and advanced to the semi-finals of the French Cup.

In the subsequent semi-final draw, Monaco drew its old rival Paris Saint-Germain.

The other semi-final match is between Angers and Nice.

After the draw results come out.

Many French media are worried about Paris Saint-Germain.

"I think the last name Emery wants to hear right now is Monaco."

On France 4 TV.

The host joked.

Four days later, in the 31st round of the French Ligue 1, Monaco was tied by Angers away.

This result is not a big deal.

The key point is that Mbappe was injured again during the game.

He was injured in the ankle by a tackle and will be out for about two weeks.

This result gave Yalding quite a headache.

The Champions League quarter-finals are approaching.

As a result, three of the front attack group were injured.
This makes Monaco's frontcourt offensive combination, which originally seemed luxurious, look very different.

Suddenly, things became a little stretched.

I'm afraid that Sunshine will have to take two substitute players, Cheryshev and Saint-Maximin, to face Dortmund.

When thinking of Dortmund's Aubameyang and Ousmane Dembele's two motorcycle combinations, the French media couldn't help but worry about Monaco's defense.

".Injuries began to plague Monaco at the end of the season. Falcao, B Silva and Mbappe were injured one after another, which inevitably caused a great loss of Monaco's frontcourt attack firepower."

".Monaco was tied by Angers away from home, and Paris Saint-Germain took the opportunity to narrow the gap to 9 points. Although this gap still seems a bit desperate, at least, from double-digit points to single-digit points, Paris Saint-Germain can more or less see a little hope."

".Jardim should not continue to stubbornly attack on multiple fronts. For Monaco, the best strategy is to do their best to keep the league."

That's how the media works.

A draw caused the French media to start making a fuss, as if the sky was about to fall for Monaco.

But in fact.

After 31 rounds of the league.

Monaco has 26 wins, 3 draws and 2 losses, and has 81 points.

As expected, Nice started to lose points frequently in the second half of the season.

They lost the consistency they had in the first half of the season.

Now they only have 69 points, ranking third in the league.

After all, Paris Saint-Germain has a deeper foundation and stronger strength. They surpassed Nice and got 72 points, ranking second in the league.

Even if the game ended in a draw.

Monaco still leads by 9 points.

There is absolutely nothing to worry about.

The league is coming to an end.

Only seven games remain.

In seven games, Monaco needs to lose three and Paris needs to win all of them to make up the points gap.

So Jardim was not worried about the league at all.

The key is still the Champions League.

Dortmund arrived at the away game three days in advance to prepare for the game.

Klopp once led Dortmund to the Champions League final and won two consecutive Bundesliga titles.

But with the stability of Bayern Munich, Dortmund has gradually become unable to compete with Bayern for the league championship in the Bundesliga.
Their strength.

It is still a long way from the peak Dortmund team that made it to the Champions League final.

But in the eyes of the outside world.

Dortmund and Monaco can be considered teams of the same level.

This group's showdown.

Who will advance in the end?

It's still hard to predict.

However, Monaco has recently suffered a small wave of injuries.

This gives Dortmund fans a lot more confidence.

Dortmund head coach Tuchel also thinks so.

Tuchel has been studying this team since the draw against Monaco in the quarter-finals.

He was quite shocked by the team's offensive power.

In particular, the personal ability of their main center forward Yang Guang left a deep impression on Tuchel.

He during this period.

There is a question circling in my mind: How will Dortmund deal with the sun?

Results now.

All the answers he had thought of before seemed useless.

Because both passers who passed the ball to the Suns were injured.

This season, Sunshine has scored 36 goals in the league and 15 goals in the Champions League.

Of his 14 league goals, 9 were directly assisted by B Silva and were assisted by Mbappe.

The proportion of the Champions League is roughly the same.

In short.

The number of direct assists provided by B Silva and Mbappe to Sunshine accounted for more than half of Sunshine’s goals!
Now, both of them are injured.

This means that no matter how powerful Yangguang's cannon is, without someone to supply him with ammunition, how much of its power can it still exert?

and so.

Tuchel decided to play against Monaco away from home.

Because he felt that if they were defending away from home, Monaco could continuously pass the ball from the wing and could also bring out the role of a super center forward like Yangguang.

And if Dortmund and Monaco attack against each other.

The two sides just need to fight to a 50-50 tie.

Tuchel is confident of winning - because Dortmund also has a top scorer Aubameyang, and another young striker Ousmane Dembele also has excellent speed and breakthrough dribbling ability; Monaco's two main attackers are injured, and with the increase in strength, Tuchel feels that even if it comes to who scores more goals, Dortmund is not at all inferior!
Besides.

The current public opinion environment in Monaco.

It is also one of the sources of Tuchel's confidence.

Sunshine's words after winning the League Cup certainly sounded good to Monaco fans.

But in fact, this is equivalent to pushing oneself to the cusp of the storm, and the media will report on this team with a magnifying glass.

It's not a good thing for a team to always be in the whirlpool of public opinion.

therefore.

The game begins.

Tuchel sat in the coaching seat, waiting to watch the show.

In the media stands.

The reporters' eyes were also on Yangguang.

The amount of media attracted by this game obviously set a new record.

Many media wanted to come to the scene to report on this center who has caused discussions around the world.

They all want to know.

Monaco, why are you so confident?
"Without B Silva and Mbappe, they only have this Chinese guy to rely on. I don't think they can even get past Dortmund!"

Aguilar, the editor-in-chief of Mundo Deportivo, was sitting in the media seat and said to his colleagues.

He is not blind to the game.

in contrast.

He also knows a lot about football.

He is well aware of the impact that the absence of two important players will have on a team's offensive system.

No, not two!

Even Falcao can't get on.

There is only sunshine in Monaco now.

One word to describe it: One tree cannot support the whole thing.

Aguilar is now waiting to see Monaco and Sunshine make a fool of themselves.

If Monaco loses this game
By the time.

Aguilar will certainly write articles in the media in the manner of a winner, mocking Sunshine and Monaco.