Green Destroyer

Chapter 5

"When: May 2013, 5.

Title: Cartier turned the tide, Metz returned to Ligue [-] after a year! "

"When: May 2013, 10.

Title: The No. [-] superstar of the Metz youth team, the Chinese teenager is born! "

"When: May 2014, 4.

Title: The Chinese teenager blasted 67 goals in a single season, and Metz won the Youth League Championship! "

"When: May 2014, 5.

Title: Cartier is still miraculous, Mace is successful! "

"When: May 2014, 10.

Title: Familiar faces appeared on Metz's bench for the first time, and the Chinese teenager officially entered the first-team lineup! "

"When: May 2014, 11.

Title: Who is Mace?He is the top scorer in the French Youth League! "

"When: May 2014, 11.

Title: Another 90 minutes on the bench!When will the Chinese teenager be able to play? "

"When: May 2015, 12.

Title: 0 appearances in half a season, another marketing player? ! "

"When: May 2015, 2.

Title: New Year's Eve in Metz!The league ranking dropped to 17! "

"When: May 2015, 3.

Title: Rout!Rout!Metz slipped to the penultimate! "

"When: May 2015, 3.

Title: Metz has no way to retreat from the bottom of the row, and the Chinese teenager wears a hat on the sidelines. "

Somewhere in his hometown in Sichuan, a middle-aged man was flipping through a newspaper in his hand.

Looking at the latest issue of the newspaper, he couldn't help but let out a sigh:
"Mamaipi! Look at these unscrupulous media, Yao'er (referring to the youngest son) sitting on the sidelines wearing a hat... can they make fun of them like this?!"

His wife had read the report of the son club a long time ago. In comparison, she was much calmer than her husband, and instead persuaded:
"You can just read these messy reports, but don't tell your son on the phone that it is already very difficult for him to be alone in France..."

Chen Zhiyuan slapped heavily on the sofa:

"Of course I know!"

His wife Wang Xiaoqing stared:

"You know a hammer!"
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It is now January 2015, 3.

Three years have passed since Chen Hao stayed in Metz.

Metz, who fell into the French League C, once fell into a desperate situation, and even continued to decline. It was not until the club invited back the team's former star Albert Cartier as the head coach at the end of 2012 that the decline was gradually restored. .

Cartier is not a famous coach, he is just a mediocre person who hangs around in various small clubs and barely begs for a meal, but it is such a coach who leads the impoverished and on the verge of dissolution. Si, it took only one year to return to Ligue [-], and it took another year to re-enter Ligue [-]!
This achievement made Cartier the hero of the entire club and even the entire city!

You know, the last time Metz participated in Ligue 2005 was already in the distant 2006-[-] season!
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"I'm going, what kind of grudge does this website have against me? It's so insulting to me!"

Now is the Internet age, even if his parents didn't say anything, Chen Hao saw the news of "wearing a hat" from various channels, and he was so angry that he almost smashed his phone...

Although he has the experience of being a human being in two lifetimes, his heart and tolerance are far from reaching the state of no happiness and no sorrow. He even took out a small notebook and viciously wrote down the name of this media company.

In three years, Metz completed the magical double jump, and he also achieved rapid growth.

At the end of 2012, when he was less than 15 years old, he officially entered the U15 echelon lineup of the Metz Club from the International Training Center.

Half a year later, in the 2013-14 season, he crossed the U16 and advanced to the U17, and quickly became the main force of this youth team, and even went a step further, serving as the vice-captain of Metz U17.

In the French Youth League, he scored 23 goals in the 67 games he participated in (this goal efficiency is certainly terrible in the adult team, but it is not too shocking in the youth team with loose defense. For example, Barcelona's genius Bojan averaged a terrible 3.5 goals per game when he was in the echelon), and he took the best player in the youth league and the Golden Boot award without hesitation.

As the best player of the youth team, coupled with the attention of the Chinese media, Chen Hao naturally entered the vision of the first team coach Albert Cartier.

Considering that the team has just successfully entered the league, the club is financially strapped and unable to introduce a large number of strong players, Cartier officially promoted three young players including Chen Hao to the first team shortly after the start of the 2014-15 season. reserve force.

It's just... even Cartier himself didn't expect that the situation in the new season would be so difficult.

Halfway through the league, Metz fell into the relegation zone (18th-20th), and after a short winter break and entering the new year, the team's situation not only did not improve, but worsened , the point difference between the relegation zone (17th place) has widened to 11 points-you know, Metz played 33 rounds and only scored 27 points in total.

If it weren't for the lack of a better head coach at this time, the chairman of the Metz club, Bernard Salem, would definitely kick himself away unceremoniously!

Anyway, the liquidated damages are not a few dollars!
Let’s take a look at the results of this year. After playing 14 rounds in three months, Metz has barely won the only victory recently. He scored 33 points in 27 rounds, ranking second to last in Ligue 10 and third to last in Ligue [-]. The team lost [-] points.

In the head coach's office, Cartier stared at the tactical manual in his hand with a serious expression, his brows almost knit into a ball.

He has a big problem.

In the 33 rounds that have been played, the Metz team only scored 29 goals, averaging less than 0.88 per game...

As for the problem of conceding 33 goals in 46 rounds, Cartier is not worried, because this is a common problem of Ligue [-] teams, and their defensive system is probably not even a primary school student in front of the Italians.

But offensively...

He ditched the playbook and turned to his assistant coach, Jose Yonachamp:
"Falcon's injury..."

Before he finished speaking, he was interrupted by Yona Champ:

"You have asked me many times, Albert. Even with the most optimistic estimate, training will not be resumed until the first ten days of May. As for participating in competitions... I am afraid that he will not be able to help you in the last four rounds of the league... ..."

Cartier rubbed his temples and picked up another schedule again.

第31轮的补赛，客场挑战排名第一的巴黎圣日耳曼；接下来的第35轮则是则是主场迎接排名第四的传统豪门马赛；第36轮的对手则是暂列第17的洛里昂；第37轮约战排名第三的摩纳哥；收官战的对手则是第七的里尔。

Among these five opponents, four are traditional strong teams in France. The only underdog Lorient is a direct competitor for relegation. In the first half of the season, they slaughtered Metz 3-0 neatly. Of course, the pressure on Ai's shoulders can be imagined.

Today, Cartier no longer expects the team to leave the relegation zone directly. The gap of 11 points is almost like a moat in the face of such a devil's schedule. He can only hope that Metz can rise from 19th to 18th. In order to qualify for the relegation playoffs at the end.

But at such a critical moment, Falcon, one of the main forwards, has been absent due to injury since the end of the African Cup in February. The offensive line, which lacks firepower, is undoubtedly greatly reduced.On the international match day a week ago, two midfielders of the Metz team were accidentally injured in their respective national team matches. At that time, Cartier almost fainted on the spot after hearing the news!

Another assistant coach, Sebastian Muet, who is also the coach of the youth team, finally spoke:

"Albert, why don't you try to use that little guy? You have recruited him into the first team for more than half a year, but you haven't let him play a minute in the league..."

Cartier explained:

"Of course I can see his talent, but the next games are all important and fierce battles. I don't want him to bear too much pressure so early. He should be the future of Metz, not like those young talents who became famous. Falling prematurely..."

Muet shrugged:

"If you don't let him play again, his future and yours will only be in Ligue [-]."

Cartier scratched his hair and sighed.

He knew that the assistant had spoken very implicitly.

If Metz fails to survive the last six rounds of the devil's schedule, he will definitely be kicked out by the club, and there will be no future...

He looked at the last name "Chen Hao" in the player handbook, and then at the opponent "Paris Saint-Germain" in the next round:
"I hope... this little guy won't be destroyed by the pressure."
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Remarks: Metz lost all the last five rounds of the 14-15 season in history, without scoring a point, and was finally relegated.

　This routine is so familiar...

　　
　
(End of this chapter)