road to victory

Chapter 239 FIFA Virus
Both teams started the game with the FIFA virus all over them.

Although they are all remnants, Bordeaux's substitute thickness is obviously stronger than Marseille's. The years in Ligue [-] have worn down Marseille's background enough, and now they can slowly pick up the glory of their giants.

But today Bordeaux did not give them such an opportunity. Under the leadership of Shevchenko, Bordeaux defeated Marseille 2:0. Shevchenko also scored his first goal since his comeback. Another goal was Belleron.

A master is a master, and he can always surprise people. This time, Vereron's goal was a slap in the face. It was obviously a ball pushed to the far corner with the arch of the foot, but it turned into a lob shot to the near corner at the moment of kicking off.

After the end of this league, Bordeaux finally got a neat lineup. Song returned from the Africa Cup of Nations, and Chilavert and Gamara also returned to the team to report with their No.3 results in the South American qualifiers.

And Drogba, he came back earlier than everyone else, Côte d'Ivoire was eliminated early, this guy returned to the team by plane the next day, and continued his own extra training, although the shots in the preparations have not yet reached Fan Shang's request, but Fan Shang can clearly see his progress in the system.

There is only the last game left in the intensive schedule in January, and it is still the League Cup game. Bordeaux can finally take a breather now.But it's just a breather. The schedule in the second half of February and March is dense and numb again, with leagues and various cup games.

But this year, Vincent really has to thank the French Football Association for reducing the number of teams in the league from 20 to 18, so that Bordeaux can play four fewer games a year, effectively alleviating the fatigue of the team.

But from the perspective of football development, this is really not very scientific.At that time, the decision was made for the 98 World Cup. If France won the championship according to history, it would be fine, but if it did not win the championship, then the Football Association would definitely be in trouble.

Le Mans, the opponent of the League Cup in the last League Cup in January, this game Bordeaux finally ushered in the first home game in the cup.

The city of Le Mans is known as the Motor City in France, and their car race, the 24 Hours of Le Mans, is well-known all over the world.But compared with their racing career, their football club can only be described as bleak in France, not to mention the previous honors, and now Le Mans is a team that needs to relegation in the second division of France.

This time Le Mans directly adopted a strategy of giving up on this game. The players are more like traveling to Bordeaux. Their relegation situation does not allow them to fight against Bordeaux in the League Cup.

So the result is also obvious. Bordeaux beat Le Mans 6:1 at home and successfully advanced to the quarterfinals of the League Cup.

It may be that God saw that Bordeaux's schedule this year was too bitter, so they took pity on Bordeaux in the League Cup. The opponent in the quarter-finals was a semi-professional team Poitiers.

February is a relatively easy month for Bordeaux, but it is also a month that needs to reserve physical fitness. In addition to the league, there are only two cup games in February, and one of them is against a team like Poitiers.

Therefore, Fan Shang has been discussing with the fitness coach since February on how to allow the players to store up enough physical energy to cope with the continuous fierce battles of three, four, five, and three months.

Fan Shang didn't care about the fitness coach, but he decided to adopt a rotation strategy throughout February, so that the main players would rotate and rest.

In line with this strategy, Bordeaux started its own rotation in the next league match against Montpellier, but this was done without affecting the record.

Under the leadership of several international players who were resting in the last game, Bordeaux defeated Montpellier 2-0 at home without bloodshed. The players who scored were Sanuno and Wiltord.

Next is the quarter-finals of the League Cup with Poitiers. Poitiers is definitely the biggest dark horse in the League Cup this season. They have been playing since the first round. Havre and others are so mediocre in the eyes of Bordeaux, but it is a miracle for Poitiers.

The team's consecutive victories in January and February made Bordeaux's players inflated again. This time, even Vincent felt that he was sure of everything and let the team's state go.

But Poitiers didn’t think so. This team, which had been in the fourth-level regional league in France for a long time, finally got the chance to show their faces this time. They wanted to show themselves in front of the national fans and more importantly, the media. A match against league leaders and two-time UEFA Cup winners Bordeaux was their platform to showcase themselves.

Fan Shang realized that he had made a mistake after the start of the game. He took Poitiers as Le Mans, "Hey! I'm careless, I can't treat all the low-level league teams I encountered as giving up, maybe I still want to step on Bordeaux The one on the shoulder!"

In this game, Fan Shang really sent all substitutes. The most obvious point is that the No. [-] goalkeeper named Alduni Bordeaux stood in front of the goal.

The strength of Poitiers is definitely far behind Bordeaux. Even with these substitutes on the field, those Poitiers are just like playing, but the problem now is that Poitiers players seem to be desperate The same thing, he was desperate, and the Bordeaux players were afraid of being injured, and once advancing and retreating, Bordeaux was beaten by Poitiers for 5 minutes on the scene.

Fan Shang couldn't sit still at this time, and began to stand on the sidelines to direct the game. In fact, there was nothing to direct. From the perspective of Bordeaux, Poitiers' whole body was full of loopholes, and it would be a goal to catch any one. .

In the 8th minute, the goal really came. The Poitiers midfielder tackled the ball at the bottom of the midfield, cut off Malouda's dribble, then got up without stopping for a moment, and passed the ball. forward.The striker didn't even look at the goal. After receiving the ball, he saw that there was a gap in front of him, took a step, raised his foot and shot.This shot can definitely be called a world wave. The ball was fast and angled, and it went straight into the upper left corner of the Bordeaux goal.Poor Alduni, he finally got a chance to play, but he didn't expect the opponent to shoot such an unsolvable ball.

1:0 Poitiers lead them at home in Bordeaux.

"But, Poitiers No. 9 Bonois" the current commentary is also short and weak.

While Poitiers was celebrating, Vincent pointed at the noses of the three central defenders who played today and scolded. The main responsibility for this goal was that they didn't go forward to press the No. 9.

(End of this chapter)