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Chapter 99 Stealers

Monaco's two-center play is very restrained by the opponent in this situation of defending his opponent, but the effect of a simple cross is probably not obvious, because whether it is Adebayo or Slimani, they are surrounded by two defensive players. Even if they can get the point, they may not be able to attack with the opponent's interference.

Therefore, Zhang Mu's response to this situation is to control the rhythm in the midfield and lure the enemy out of the hole bit by bit. Because the two opponent's midfield players have returned to the penalty area to help defend, he can do whatever he wants in the middle before the penalty area and threaten the opponent's goal by shooting from a long time.

Of course, if the opponent's midfielder rushed out of the penalty area to defend, then Zhang Mu also had a way to deal with it, that is, let Slimani and Adebayo take the ball with their backs, turn around and wipe the defensive players to shoot, which is also a huge threat.

This is like a vicious cycle. If two midfielders return to the penalty area to assist in defending Monaco, Monaco can also make efforts in the middle, and the two centers will return the ball. In short, with two high centers, Bastia will not have the capital to compete with Monaco.

In fact, this is not an exaggeration. Although Slimani and Adebayo are not gods, it is impossible to threaten the opponent's goal every time they attack, there is a probability problem here. As long as you have a small advantage in confrontation with the defender, you can convert this part of the offense into a shot. Coupled with the issue of shooting efficiency, you can already score a goal.

After the adjustment, Monaco's offense is no longer a repeated impact, but is more rational and reasonable. The middle lane controls the rhythm, and the two sides keep pulling the running position to create gaps for the middle lane. Next is the time for the two centers to exert their combat power.

The second half of the game was completely controlled by Monaco. Perhaps what is wrong is said, the whole game was under Monaco's control, but compared with the simple and crude but effective way of playing in the first half, Monaco obviously played more ornamental and more overall technical. This is the way that is closest to the essence of Monaco's tactics.

If flying together on both wings is Zhang Mu's most sharp attack method, it is not the most essential thing. It is just a more important one of Monaco's attack methods.

The most core thing in Monaco is control, and it is not contradictory to have the sharp attack on the wing road.

Unlike Barcelona's ball-control tactics, Monaco's transmission is not that delicate, but compared with Barcelona's drag, Monaco can propose fast-paced transmission, a kind of rapid transmission that Barcelona also needs to be violently and quickly transmitted.

In addition, Barcelona often plays in a striker-free lineup, while Monaco most of the time uses the center as the fulcrum for the offense and closely combines the midfield.

Of course, Monaco's lineup is not enough to compare with Barcelona's star-shining lineup. Perhaps it is not comparable at all. Only a few players have the ability to play in a century-old giant like Barcelona.

Under Monaco's control, Bastia did nothing in the entire game and lost the defense line repeatedly. The final score of this game was 0:4. Monaco, who played away, finally played in a good form after a consecutive draw and won the first victory in the league.

Evra scored for the team in the second half. He received a return goal from Slimani and scored a shot. In addition, Adebayo scored twice and completely returned to his best form in this game.

When the game ended, Monaco players finally put down their burdens and celebrated their own victory with all their hearts. The previous two draws put them under too much pressure. Now they can be released, this feeling is really great.

After the celebration, the players held hands to the stands where the visiting team fans were, bowed together to thank the fans because of the fans cheering.

For fans, they really don’t regret coming away to help the team cheer up because they saw an extremely exciting game and saw hope for Monaco’s rise.

Zhang Mu did not attend the press conference after the game. He was suspended and asked Petit to attend the press conference to deal with the reporters. Of course, it would be perfect if it could be like this all the time.

He didn't know how Petit performed at the press conference, nor did he go to the locker room to disturb the crazy celebration of the players. He took the bus early to wait for him to return to Monaco. Although today's game did not make him work hard to study countermeasures, he still felt very tired.

Maybe this is the inevitable effort of choosing to be a coach. Even if he has an unusual status as a time traveler, it does not mean that he can easily spend time every day.

If he wants to bring Monaco to the throne of European champions, he will inevitably have to put in more effort than others, otherwise God will not favor him.

From the day he chose to enter the coaching industry, Zhang Mu had this awareness. Although he was tired, he was very satisfied, a kind of busy satisfaction.

On the way back to Monaco, Zhang Mu fell asleep deeply. Even the players were as joking as a party, but they did not wake him up. He was as quiet as a baby. At this time, his omnipotence was completely different from the omnipotence he was when he was commanding the game on the sidelines. The serene and strong contrast was accompanied by an abnormal contrast.

Monaco's victory seemed to be natural. After this big victory, Monaco's position in the standings also rose to the middle and upper level, rather than hovering at the last place.

After three rounds of the league, the defending champion Lyon, who won two wins and one draw, quickly adjusted his state after being equalized by his opponent in the first round of the league, showing the style of a strong team.

The team ranked second made Zhang Mu very tired. Bordeaux led by Deschamps occupied this position. After the first loss, Deschamps seemed to be shameless and brave, defeating strong enemies in a row, achieving two victories, ranking second by one point.

As for Marseille, which had difficulty drawing Monaco due to the referee's help in the last game, had the same record as Monaco, but was ranked behind Monaco because of his few goals.

There are several teams ahead of Monaco, such as Paris and Ausselle. These teams have achieved two wins and one loss, and only one point more than Monaco.

Zhang Mu didn't care much about the team's current ranking. After all, the league has only started three rounds, and the results at this time cannot explain anything. In the long season, this is just the beginning. In the difficult tug-of-war, no one knows who can last until the end.

Moreover, except for a few powerful teams, Zhang Mu did not think that other teams had any chance to win the championship.

After returning from a great victory in Monaco, the media in Monaco finally had the confidence to start sing praises.

Although there were various objective reasons in the previous two draws, the result was that even local media could not avoid this fact when reporting.

And now they can finally show a victory in front of their colleagues with a proud look.

However, many media have given another view on Monaco's victory.

In this game, Monaco coach Zhang Mu could only sit in the stands like an ordinary fan because he could not command the game with a red card.

Just imagine, Monaco failed to win in two games personally commanded by Zhang Mu, but Monaco won in this game where he could not stand on the sidelines. What does this mean?

The implicit meaning of the media is that Zhang Mu is just a rookie who has no ability. He leads the team and cannot win. When the assistant coach takes over the game, the team wins. In other words, Monaco's rise has nothing to do with it, and it is all due to assistant coach Petit.

With the help of Deschamps and Armstrong and others, this view became the mainstream view. Monaco's real tactic maker was assistant coach Petit, while Zhang Mu stole the fruits of Petit's labor through his relationship and then blindly commanded on the court, which led to Monaco's failure to win in both games. Petit personally directed the game and immediately won a big victory.

"Petit is my former assistant coach, a coach with strong tactical qualities and coaching skills. I think he is very suitable for the position of Monaco's head coach. As for Zhang Mu, he is just a rich second-generation who can only play some house games. If Monaco continues to struggle in his hands, he may be really not far from being relegated."

Deschamps' words were like an appraisal. Many French media reprinted his words and supported them in their comments.

Zhang Mu was really amused and crying, but he was too lazy to stand up and explain what he wanted. Anyway, the team won the game, so is it necessary to compete for anyone's credit?

Pettit was also very helpless. He did not expect that he would become the focus of this time. A perfect image with unique skills but willing to stand behind others was born, or simply a tragic image that was stolen by the fruits of labor and could only bear silently by the power. In short, it seems that he has received less attention in his life than he has now.

"I heard you stole the fruits of my labor?" Pettit teased Zhang Mu during training. The two of them were just entertaining themselves.

"Yes, sir, punish me quickly!"

"Uh, then you'll treat me to dinner tonight!"

The two laughed.

"Don't you need to come forward to clarify?"
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