i don't want to be king

Chapter 266 Don't put on a show here!

When Latubi returned from London in February and decided to sign Li Liang, Caldeira and Barros had a hard time understanding Jardim's decision.

A 25-year-old player who has not experienced any systematic professional training and is completely amateur! ?
And also from China? !

Later, Latuby's working team learned that this "25-year-old" gentleman actually got involved in a criminal case in China!

——Everyone is telling Yardim to give up, after all, it is not worth using a precious non-EU and non-Cotonou foreign aid quota for such a guy.

But Jardim was unmoved, and insisted on following up Li Liang's situation in all directions, until he finally brought him to Latubi before the end of the season.

……

At the beginning of the summer training in Switzerland, Jardim also did not follow Caldeira's advice and did not give Li Liang playing time when playing against weaker opponents.

Caldeira looked at Li Liang who was hard at work warming up, and asked sideways: "Leonardo, this is Li's first match...

Why don't you let him play later? "

Out of good intentions, he replaced Li Liang when the game was close. He was worried that Li Liang would not be able to withstand the tremendous pressure on the court.

"No"

Jardim shook his head firmly: "Give him 45 minutes, let's see what he can do!"

At the end of the halftime game, both sides made personnel adjustments.

This kind of quality pre-season warm-up match is undoubtedly an excellent opportunity to run-in the lineup and inspect the players.

At the start of the second half, Li Liang, who was wearing No. 37, stood on the sidelines with Argentine striker Guido Carrillo and French midfielder Abdulaziz Diam, who were replaced at the same time.

Li Liang had mixed feelings, starting from that dimly lit night in Haicheng, from accepting the system challenge task, from deciding to challenge his destiny——

I finally came here and stood on this stage that really belonged to me.

The referee blew his whistle to indicate that they could play, Li Liang gave his teammates high fives respectively, and then Yamato and everyone hugged each other's shoulders and formed a tight circle.

Captain Raj yelled: "Boys, beat them down together!"

Everyone shouted "Monaco!

go ahead! "

Before playing, Caldeira told Li Liang that he would replace Lemar.

At the same time, he was also told to pay attention to moving to the center at the right time when attacking, and give way to Mendy who inserted in the back.

Li Liang's defensive task is to press Sporting Lisbon's midfielder together with Carrillo, and the newly replaced Diam is responsible for protecting behind.

After everyone dispersed, Falcao walked towards Li Liang and hugged him tightly: "Come on bro, prove to everyone how powerful you are!"

All distracting thoughts disappeared in an instant, and he nodded vigorously to Falcao.

At the beginning of the game, Sporting Lisbon began to press even more frantically.

Sporting Lisbon coach Jorge Jesus couldn't tolerate losing to his predecessor, and he turned on the furious "hair dryer" mode in the dressing room.

——Now he is yelling non-stop in the command area: "You all want to go to the Portuguese League to play football, don't you?!

Or stay in Switzerland? !

I don't need jerks in my team, has anyone peed their pants yet?
......"

Jesus replaced five players in one breath, adding a midfield attacker-Scottish teenager Ryan Gould.

Jesus deliberately placed Gould with his left foot on the right, behind the goal hero Podense, and told them to pay attention to using more running to suppress Mendy's assists.

Jesus arranged a tactic of attacking at the beginning. Two extremely fast small men Podense and Gould repeatedly interspersed on the left, while Li Liang and Diam were firmly suppressed near the center line.

Mendy didn't dare to neglect, occupied the defensive position and didn't dare to cross the half court again.

Sporting Lisbon's tactics had a miraculous effect, and Monaco's dominant left wing suddenly stalled in the first half.

Monaco's other midfielder Bakayoko had to frequently move closer to the left for support.

He saw that Li Liang was defended by Jorge Maria Palinha, the 1-meter-high powerful midfielder No. 90 who was newly replaced by the opponent.

Li Liang found that the two small men, Podensey with a total rating of 68 and Gould with a rating of 73, almost contained the entire defensive strength of the Monaco team's midfield.

He is very clear that the root of the problem lies in himself.

Facing Palinia with an overall rating of 70, it was difficult for him to pass and control freely, so that the tactics arranged by the coach could not be played at all.

On offense, I couldn't maintain the pressure that Lemar put on the opponent when he was on the court, which caused the opponent to continue to press on the left and become more and more threatening.

Palinia, who was man-marking himself, had an amazing momentum, and it was difficult for him to pass the half-court when he was pressing for a while.

Bakayoko defended to the left again, and his fierce sliding shovel shoveled the ball out of the sideline after a successful breakthrough, and the referee immediately blew the whistle!
Jesus roared on the sidelines, and the young people of the Sporting Lisbon team immediately gathered around to express their dissatisfaction angrily.

Raj, Falcao, and Dilar all rushed over, and the players from both sides became entangled.

Li Liang also rushed forward. He wanted to block the big man Palinia who was attacking Bakayoko, but he didn't expect the opponent to push him away with his chest!

Li Liang leaned back and sat heavily on the ground!
The referee stopped the confusion in time, and then showed Bakayoko a yellow card, and at the same time gave a verbal warning to Palinia who knocked down Li Liang.

Palinia's eyes widened innocently, he spread his arms and shrugged his shoulders and walked away, he also said to his teammate beside him: "Damn, number 37 is just a bitch, no, he's not as strong as my girlfriend! "

Li Liang was furious, he got up and shouted angrily, "Stupid, what the fuck are you talking about?"

Palinha and his teammates were taken aback. They didn't expect this oriental face to be able to speak fluent Portuguese!

The referee immediately blew his whistle, called Li Liang and Palinia together again, and asked them to shake hands after warning again.

Li Liang had been prepared for a long time and exerted enough strength in his hands, but he did not expect that Palinia's strength was so shocking that he broke out in a cold sweat.

He just turned around and saw Bakayoko standing in front of him with a sullen face: "If you can't do it, go down by yourself as soon as possible, don't pretend here!"

Li Liang's lungs were going to explode. He just felt overwhelmed by Bakayoko in front of No. 66, and now he was publicly reprimanded by Bakayoko!

Falcao ran over, grabbed Li Liang's shoulders and dragged him away from Bakayoko——

Bakayoko is still roaring: "I can't even hold the ball, we are 10 against 11 when you are on the court..."

Falcao grabbed the angry Li Liang tightly: "Li, this is the real game, it's different from the games you played in England!
You are now an official member of this team and must perform well! "

Caldeira smiled bitterly and said to Jardim: "Is Lisbon too strong for Li?
replace him? "

Jardim replied: "From the end of the season to now, Lee's training quality is the highest, and his progress is also the best...

If he still can't play it by now, I will be disappointed!
Be more patient Nelson, this kind of game can also show his true strength. "

Li Liang has already realized that this game is completely different from what he has experienced.

He saw something familiar in his opponent's eyes, something he had seen in the eyes of the Maldives players he had seen before.

He knew that young players like Podense and Palinha in the opponent team were fighting desperately to stay in the first team lineup.

He also knows that the opponent's coach Jesus is unwilling to accept his team's loss to his predecessor anyway.

So this seemingly ordinary pre-season warm-up match played a confrontation intensity far beyond the friendly match.

He also knows—

The big man who knocked him down also didn't understand what he had experienced——

I don't know how I got to this stadium in Montreux and put on this red and white jersey.

Of course, his teammate Bakayoko, who was extremely dissatisfied with him, also didn't understand.

(End of this chapter)