i am a football star

Chapter 68

The game was over soon after Liu Ting's goal.

Baptiste said: "At the end of the game, Bordeaux reversed Marseille 2-1 in an away game. Now the gap between Bordeaux and Lyon, which is second in the standings, has widened to 2 points. As long as Bordeaux gets 5 points in the next two rounds, it can win the Ligue 2 championship this season, or even only 1 point, because Bordeaux has 12 more goals than Lyon. This is a gap that is almost impossible to catch up. Bordeaux is likely to win the double this season."

Baptiste still did not forget to tease his partner: "Cesar, don't be sad. In fact, if Bordeaux only gets 1 point in the next two rounds, and your Lyon wins two consecutive victories with two 6-0 scores, Lyon still has a chance to win the league championship."

Joseph could only snort coldly and remain silent.

At the end of the game, the whole Bordeaux team was very tired. Everyone had been pressing against Marseille in the second half of the game, and their physical strength was exhausted. Fortunately, there will be no game until a week later, so they can go back and have a good rest.

Due to fatigue, Liu Ting seemed weak in the post-match press conference, and soon the whole Bordeaux team flew back to Bordeaux to rest and prepare for the game.

The French media began to report the results of the game. The local Bordeaux media "Bordeaux Sport" started with "Bordeaux!Towards the double crown" was the headline report, and other media are also saying that this season's league championship competition is basically over, unless Bordeaux loses two consecutive games and Lyon wins two consecutive games, but Bordeaux does not show any intention of collapsing.

The rest of this season is Marseille and Nancy competing for the Champions League qualification. In this round, Marseille was defeated by Bordeaux, leading Nancy by only 1 point. Anything can happen in two rounds.

Relegation is also a highlight. At present, Paris Saint-Germain has not yet left the relegation zone, and is even only ranked 18th. If Paris Saint-Germain ends this season with this ranking, it will be relegated. However, Lens, who ranks 17th in front of Paris Saint-Germain, and Toulouse, who is 16th, both have the same points as Paris Saint-Germain. The possibility of Paris Saint-Germain's success in relegation is still very high.

No one would have imagined that Paris, which would buy people in units of [-] million euros, would be so hard-pressed now.

Lyon has secured second place in the league and is hopeless for the championship, but maybe they can still compete for a French Cup champion to save a little face. In the next week, Lyon will play the French Cup semi-finals with the French second team Sedan. Lyon is very likely to pass. The opponent in the final is likely to be Paris Saint-Germain.

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After Liu Ting's team returned to Bordeaux, they began intensive preparations for the 37th round of the league and the Europa League final.

Bordeaux's opponent in the 37th round of Ligue 13 is Sochaux, who is currently ranked [-]th in Ligue [-]. It is a position that is more than enough than the bottom. Bordeaux only needs to beat Sochaux at home to win the championship one round ahead of schedule.

As the game day approached, Bordeaux tickets began to be hard to come by, which is relatively rare in Ligue [-].

This day Liu Ting went to the gate of the Clairefontaine training base, and suddenly a group of people rushed over to surround Liu Ting.

"Liu Ting, can you sign for us?"

"Liu Ting Liu Ting, we are all your fans and we are here to support you."

"Liu Ting, can you get us two tickets, we can't buy them now."

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Liu Ting asked while signing. These people looked Chinese and spoke Chinese. Liu Ting also asked them questions and answers in proficient Chinese.

After asking, I found out that he was a Chinese student studying in France. He came to Bordeaux to support Liu Ting, but he had not booked a ticket in advance. Now he couldn’t buy a ticket, so he was blinded, so he waited for him at the gate of the training base.

Liu Ting agreed to help them get two tickets, and finally some fans came to support him, even if he bought a few high-priced scalper tickets with his own money, he had to give them to them.

Liu Ting contacted the club chairman Trio, but he agreed immediately, and soon got a few free tickets.

This red wine seller is also enough to deduct. He just gave 8 tickets to 8 people, not many tickets.

After bidding farewell to the fans, Liu Ting continued to train.

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While Liu Ting was preparing for the championship, another major event happened in England.

Liverpool announced the dismissal of coach Rafa Benitez, who has lost all four players this season.

This is really one stone to stir up a thousand waves. It is said that as soon as the news was announced, the gate of the Liverpool club was full of Benitez supporters who opposed the demonstration, and the police were required to help maintain order every day.

The demonstrators held banners reading "Chinese go away, we want Rafa (Benitez)" and came every morning and left at night, as if they didn't have to go to work.

Fortunately, the Liverpool club is constantly appeasing the fans. It has announced that it will spend a lot of money to expand the Anfield stadium. In the summer, there will be a lot of signings, and it will hire famous coaches to coach.

In fact, once this matter is publicly announced, there will be no room for recovery. All reasonable people know this. Only a lot of infatuated fans still think about Benitez's good, thinking that putting pressure on the club can invite him back.

Many people in the Premier League expressed their dissatisfaction with Liverpool's dismissal of Benitez. Liverpool's rival Manchester United godfather Ferguson was the first to stand up to support Benitez. He claimed: "I don't know that a head coach like Benitez who has made contributions to Liverpool will be fired. What else is impossible in this world?"

Ferguson may be sad for the death of the rabbit. There are fewer and fewer clubs in the Premier League that can maintain the tradition of giving the head coach great power as before.

Among the top coaches in the Premier League, Ferguson covered the sky with one hand at Manchester United; Wenger became Dane's money-making tool; Mourinho wanted to be Ferguson of Chelsea, and Abramovich immediately let him know who is the boss of Chelsea; Benitez can barely cover the sky with one hand, he is not as unambiguous as Ferguson was at Manchester United, but he is definitely very authoritative and influential in Liverpool.

Many players in the Liverpool team also came out to express their dissatisfaction with Benitez's dismissal. The first is the Spanish gang introduced by Benitez.

Torres publicly stated: "Rafa is a coach not inferior to Ferguson, he should not suffer this kind of treatment."

Afterwards, Reina, Arbeloa, etc. also expressed their dissatisfaction with the Liverpool club. It is said that some of them have already asked their agents to contact them for a transfer.

Even Liverpool loyalists such as Gerrard and Carragher vaguely expressed their dissatisfaction. Only Spanish midfielder Xavi Alonso, who was first introduced by Benitez, did not stand up to speak for Benitez, which is very strange.

Benitez's resignation also had an impact on Bayern in the Bundesliga. This season, Bayern insisted on staying at Heathfield because they wanted enough time to find a new coach. At the beginning of the season, Liverpool's poor record and Benitez were not far from get out of get out of class. Bayern publicly expressed their willingness to invite Benitez to coach, but in the middle of Liverpool's performance improved.

Bayern finalized in March that the former German national team coach Klinsmann will coach Bayern after the end of the season. It is said that the agreement has been signed.

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In fact, Liu Ting knows all these disturbances, and many of them also participated in the planning, but now it is necessary to solve Sochaux and win the Ligue [-] championship.

On the day of the game on May 5th, fans wearing Bordeaux jerseys were everywhere in Bordeaux. Bordeaux jerseys have always been dominated by light blue, with occasional light red on the corners, which seems to be in line with the characteristics of the city of Bordeaux.

Bordeaux is just a bunch of red wine sellers. Liu Ting is used to playing away games in France, and he is always scolded like this.

Get back!You bastards selling wine!

The atmosphere of French fans is not as good as that of the other four countries in the five major leagues, and even many small countries have a better football atmosphere than France.

But France has the advantages of France, that is, there is no particularly hot derby, and there are few rivals in the same city who want to kill each other.

French cities generally have a larger population than the British. The British population is mainly concentrated in a few big cities, while the French population is relatively scattered.

Wherever you go in the UK, big or small cities are full of rivals in the same city. There are almost none in France. The French fan atmosphere is almost enough to raise one team in a city. Other small teams have little room for survival.

Even if Paris is an international metropolis with a population of more than 200 million, there is only one big club, Paris Saint-Germain. Although there are also small clubs on the list of Paris FC, the living conditions are difficult.

In Ligue [-], there is no fierce derby with rivals in the same city.

In contrast, London, the capital of the United Kingdom, has two giants Arsenal, Chelsea, and one strong team Tottenham. Others include West Ham United, Fulham, Queens Rangers, Charlton, Crystal Palace, and Millwall. There are 14 professional football clubs, large and small. If you add those amateur and semi-amateur teams, counting the names will take you all night.

So now the Bordeaux league championship is in sight, and the whole city is full of Bordeaux fans.

(End of this chapter)