Lyon has also maintained a very good form this season. The failure of the league and the Champions League last season made them learn from their mistakes. This season, they are determined to counterattack in a full range, and at least regain their dominant position in the Ligue 1.

This summer, Lyon's training site is in Spain, which is full of meaning.

Both the Ligue 1 and La Liga tend to be Latin styles, but slightly different. La Liga is closer to the overall tactics, while the Ligue 1 is mostly personal heroism.

Monaco's overall tactical thinking is very similar to La Liga giants such as Barcelona and Real Madrid. Therefore, in order to compete with Monaco in the new season, Lyon will choose the training ground here, hoping to become more familiar with Monaco's tactics and increase confidence in the warm-up match with La Liga teams.

Lyon's warm-up match was very good. Although he lost to the star-stunning Galaxy battleship Real Madrid, he had the upper hand in the confrontation with the giant Barcelona, ​​which was rising and falling. Even with Ronaldo, a talented superstar, joining, Barcelona did not have much combat power in reconstruction, and Lyon easily won the game.

Not only that, in the duel with several other La Liga teams, Lyon defeated his opponents, not only showing a good competitive state, but also being more skilled in dealing with similar pass-and-control tactics, at least not at a loss.

The famous striker Pauletta, who came from the transfer of the new season, also worked hard to do it. He lost to Nouveau in the league's Golden Boot last season, which made him very unwilling to accept it. However, there are also problems with the support of the team. Bordeaux's overall strength is far from Monaco, and he can't fully utilize his strength.

So Pauletta came to a larger platform. Given Lyon's strong overall strength, he might still have a chance to win the league Golden Boot again.

In these warm-up matches, Pauletta quickly established the team's position as the top center, not only was Sony Anderson, who was a gentle killer, pressed on the bench, but even another striker, Ge Wu, often had to make him a wedding dress.

Seeing the team in such a good state, Lyon's coach Santini is naturally full of confidence. In his previous life, he was the biggest contributor to the Lyon dynasty. But now, Lyon could only be firmly suppressed by Monaco last season and ranked second in the league, which was like a nightmare for him.

Of course, although he is not particularly keen on Zhang Mu, he is quite gentlemanly, but he will not always discredit Monaco and Zhang Mu in front of the media like Deschamps. At least he admits that Monaco and Zhang Mu have the strength to win the championship, which is very impressive.

However, losing the championship does not mean that there is no chance to win the championship again. Every season is very long. Even if Monaco is still strong, Lyon is definitely not a vegetarian. Even though Lyon's strength is slightly different from Monaco, it has absolutely not reached the point where it cannot be surpassed. Lyon still has a chance.

Maybe at the beginning of last season, he would be proud of his team's lineup. At that time, there were only a few powerful players in Monaco's team, and the others were young players. Even though they had unlimited potential, they were useless to the battle situation. This was his true thought.

However, a season has passed, but he has to admit that Monaco's lineup is no longer comparable to Lyon.

Although Lyon's international players are gathered, Monaco is even more star-studded. If the overall value is relatively high, then Monaco may reach 1.5 times or even more of Lyon's, which makes him speechless.

How could he have thought of a reborn coach in Monaco? He just simply envied Zhang Mu's vision of selecting players.

In fact, he knew very well that Monaco was slightly stronger than Lyon, but Lyon still had a chance to win the championship. This was neither his confidence nor his conceit, but his real thoughts.

Lyon actually had a chance to win the championship last season. In the two rounds of confrontation with Monaco, Monaco did not take any advantage.

However, in addition to the direct confrontation between the two teams, Monaco is obviously more stable when playing against other teams. Most of the games that should be won have won perfectly, and there are slight mistakes.

Lyon had a slight ups and downs, and there were several games that should have been securely won but failed to win. This is how the points gap between the two teams came about.

Learning from the pain, Santini did not plan to win the Champions League with a high ambition, but instead set his goal in the Ligue 1. All he had to do this season is to defeat Monaco and regain the lost league championship.

The Champions League is not what a Ligue 1 team should expect. This is what Santini thinks in his heart.

Although Lyon appeared smoothly in the group stage last season, looking at the list of knockout rounds, you will find that which team is not a century-old giant and which team does not have the strength to win the championship?

Lyon was unable to go further. In the confrontation with many wealthy families, Lyon was like a newborn baby, without any resistance, so he could ask for it.

At that time, he knew very well that Lyon had not yet won the Champions League championship. Even if the team lineup he had always been proud of was not very outstanding in the Champions League field.

After the warm-up match with Real Madrid in the summer, he completely lost the idea of ​​fighting for the Champions League.

In the Champions League, Lyon can be the nemesis of Real Madrid, especially in those seasons, Lyon will have the chance to meet Real Madrid every time, and will be able to pass the qualifying mark every time, which is magical.

But in terms of the team's true strength, Lyon is beyond the reach.

In this game, Lyon was suppressed by Real Madrid throughout the game, and this sense of powerlessness made Santini push and shoved.

The Champions League is not their game. They are just characters who accompany the prince to study. Even Real Madrid, who have been defeated by luck, has the ability to crush them. Why bother to make trouble?

Last season when they focused on the Champions League, the league champions were lost, which felt like they were losing the watermelon and picking up sesame seeds.

Now he clearly recognized himself, cherished life, and stayed away from the Champions League.

After setting the return of the league championship as the season goal, Lyon has exploded with amazing combat power.

In the first round of the league, unlike Monaco's thrilling victory over Bordeaux, Lyon defeated Ausselle 7-1 at home.

You should know that Aussel is not a weak team. The final ranking of last season was above Bordeaux, winning a place to participate in the UEFA Cup.

But such a strong Ligue 1 team was beaten to death and was beaten on the spot.

Pauletta was in excellent form and staged a hat trick in the first half. In the first round of the league, he showed his attitude of winning the league's golden boots.

Everyone believes that with Lyon's current strength and form, this season will have a full chance to overturn Monaco and regain the league championship.

Santini is confident, but she will never be arrogant. Monaco's invincible appearance in the Ligue 1 last season is still flashing in his mind from time to time. That Monaco is so perfect.

Sometimes he even wonders, if Lyon was not distracted by the Champions League last season but played the league wholeheartedly, would he really have a chance to win the league championship?

He was not sure.

What he hopes most now is that Zhang Mu, an overly young coach, has a ignorant side of a young man, and does not consolidate his position in the Ligue 1 down-to-earth and concentrates his energy on the Champions League.

Then Monaco may be powerless in the league. At that time, Lyon will rise up and regain its own status and glory.

When Monaco was full of bags in the Champions League, the young coach Zhang Mu would understand what mistake he had made.

But then I thought about it, isn’t this a mistake I made last season? Maybe Zhang Mu will see his mistakes.

Santini was not worried about gains and losses. After all, the championship was won by himself, not given by others.

As long as the game continues one by one and wins all the games that should be won, the championship is not out of reach.

Of course, the one that can ultimately determine the fate is likely to be the direct confrontation between the two teams, each game is a six-point game, and two games are twelve points.

And there is one of them. Although it came too early, for the two teams that have not fully adjusted their form, it is likely that they cannot fully play their respective tactical deployments. It is a relatively dull game. However, this is also impossible. I don’t know whether the schedule was arranged by a brainless staff member of the French Football Association. It is not scientific at all.

As for the rumors about Monaco's tactical weaknesses that were hyped up in the end, Santini was quite disdainful of it.

It is true that Deschamps was able to discover loopholes in Monaco's defense line, and he had a very keen vision and uniqueness.

But Santini is already quite unaware of Deschamps' personality.

Putting aside personal preferences and other factors, Santini knew that this was real for the defense loopholes discovered by Deschamps. Monaco does have a certain vacuum zone in defending high-altitude balls, and is somewhat passive when facing teams with high-altitude bombing as the main tactic.

But that is relatively speaking. If a team does not have a strong center that can be shown, then it may not be useful if it is undead to have all the chances of playing high balls throughout the game.

And most importantly, this is of no use to limit Monaco's offense. Monaco did not start with defense. They were able to be invincible in Ligue 1 because of their overall offensive tactics.

Even if any team uses a strong center to fight against Monaco and can score some goals, their defense may not be able to withstand Monaco's attack.
Chapter completed!