Rebirth Football Simulator

Chapter 106

Just before November, Italy's "Torino Sport" officially announced the shortlist for the 11 European Golden Boy Award.

A total of 40 young players have been shortlisted, including almost all age-appropriate talents in European football.

But everyone knows that the trophy has basically been locked by Zhang Chaoqiang.

For Zhang Chaoqiang, the only slightly competitive opponent is Martial, who is known as the new Henry.

This guy moved to Manchester United at a sky-high price, and he has really played well in the Premier League, and he has a certain degree of competitiveness.

But compared with Zhang Chaoqiang, who led the team to defeat Barcelona and Real Madrid successively, Martial is still much worse.

In addition, he was shortlisted for both the Golden Globe Award and the Golden Boy Award, which made Zhang Chaoqiang a super talented player comparable to Rooney, Ronaldo, Messi, Cesc Fabregas, Aguero and other well-known stars.

By the way, in 2004, the year when the super geniuses were most introverted, both Ronaldo and Rooney were shortlisted for the Golden Globe Award, and they also competed for the Golden Boy Award.

In the end, Rooney ranked eighth in the Golden Globe Awards, and Ronaldo ranked No.12, which is a very high ranking for young players.

At the same time, in the Golden Boy Award competition, Rooney also successfully beat Ronaldo to win the trophy.

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On November 11, the fourth round of the UEFA Champions League group stage.

The Lyon team came to Madrid, the Spanish capital, to challenge the famous Real Madrid away.

"Zhang, have you considered playing for Real Madrid in the future?"

"I'll talk about the future, I just want to focus on the Lyon game."

"Who do you think will win the FIFA Ballon d'Or this year?"

"C Ronaldo or Messi, they have monopolized this award for many years."

"Have you considered competing with them for the Ballon d'Or in the future?"

"I'll keep working in that direction."

At the pre-match press conference, Zhang Chaoqiang attended the Lyon coaching staff together and answered a few questions casually.

The frequency of his participation in press conferences has increased significantly this season, and the Lyon management is deliberately helping him increase his exposure.

At 8:45 pm local time in Spain, the game time officially arrived.

The Lyon team entered the stadium, and everyone looked around curiously.

In fact, it is similar to most courses, only bigger and more beautiful.

But after all, this is the Bernabéu Stadium, one of the most famous stadiums in the world, the home stadium of the century giants Real Madrid, a place where countless players and fans dream of visiting once.

In the Lyon team, only Valbuena and Gonalons have the experience of being a guest at the Bernabeu.

The former is the 09/10 UEFA Champions League group match with Marseille away to Real Madrid, and the latter is the 10/11 UEFA Champions League round of [-] with Lyon away to Real Madrid.

But they all just sat on the bench at the Bernabeu for 10 minutes and didn't play at all.

And they all lost the game, both with a score of 0:3.

So in tonight's game, the entire Lyon team can be regarded as challenging the Bernabeu for the first time.

Zhang Chaoqiang was very casual. Before the game, he still stole two reaction points from Ronaldo and filled up his own reaction attributes by 80 points.

On the Real Madrid side, Benzema and Bell are still injured, and Ronaldo is still the only one on the front line.

Instead, midfielder Modric started the game, forming a golden midfield combination of Modric, Kroos and Casemiro.

Benitez's overall performance since coaching Real Madrid this season is acceptable, but he was also exposed by the Spanish media to some rigid coaching lace news.

For example, personally playing to teach Ronaldo shooting skills, not allowing Modric to pass the ball with erratic outside insteps, etc.

Although the rumors are not true, it is true that Benitez used Modric less than his predecessor Ancelotti.

Before Real Madrid's away game against Lyon, Modric sat on the bench for the entire game and didn't get playing time at all.

But this time back to the Bernabeu at home, the Croatian got the chance to start.

The game officially started, Real Madrid will immediately set off an offensive.

The away loss to Lyon in the last round has caused Real Madrid players to suffer various criticisms.

After all, Lyon is not a European giant, and Real Madrid fans are a bit unacceptable to lose to such an opponent.

The key is that the two teams still have some old grudges.

In the 05/06 and 06/07 UEFA Champions League group matches, Lyon and Real Madrid were in the same group, and they both beat Real Madrid to win the first place in the group.

Real Madrid was squeezed to the second place in the group by Lyon for two consecutive years, and then they were eliminated by strong opponents in the top [-].

In the 09/10 UEFA Champions League round of [-], Lyon met Real Madrid again, and it was a home win and an away tie. This time, Real Madrid was directly eliminated.

That year was the last year of Real Madrid's Champions League Sixteen Lang period.

In the top sixteen of the UEFA Champions League in the 10/11 season of the following year, Real Madrid finally eliminated Lyon to complete their revenge, and at the same time got rid of the title of Sixteen Lang of the Champions League.

It can be said that during the six seasons of Real Madrid's six seasons in the Champions League, Lyon was aggrieved in three seasons.

Meeting Lyon again in the UEFA Champions League group stage this season, Real Madrid fans thought they could have a double kill, and it would be a good time.

After all, in terms of overall strength, the two teams are no longer what they used to be.

Unexpectedly, they lost to Lyon again in the first leg away.

According to historical inertia, maybe Lyon will be squeezed into the second place in the group again.

In the pre-match preparations, the arrangement of the Lyon coaching staff was to pursue a draw.

As long as they don't lose to Real Madrid in the away game, Na Ang really has a good chance to overwhelm the opponent and win the first place in the group.

So Lyon responded with iron bucket tactics at the Bernabeu, trying to hold a draw as much as possible.

Ronaldo volleyed and Varane headed the ball. Real Madrid threatened Lyon's goal continuously in the first half, but failed to score.

Lyon's only threat was Lacazette's powerful long-range shot in the counterattack, which almost flew out of the baseline against the crossbar, which was quite thrilling.

Not long after the start of the second half, this guy Marcelo finally came off.

He seems to have accepted a special task from Benitez. In this game, he is dedicated to pestering Zhang Chaoqiang personally, and from time to time he even makes some small moves to disgust people.

Unexpectedly, less than 10 minutes into the second half, Marcelo strained his thigh while chasing Zhang Chaoqiang and was forced to leave the field.

What's more unexpected is that Real Madrid also scored a goal because of this.

In the 63rd minute, Modric shot a cold arrow outside the penalty area, and Bisevac immediately blocked the ball.

At this time, Nacho, who came off the bench, suddenly rushed up to pad the ball with his instep, and directly pad the ball into the Lyon goal.

Nacho came off the bench because of Marcelo's injury, and he scored by mistake, and it was his first goal in the Champions League.

In the following time, neither side achieved anything.

In stoppage time, Zhang Chaoqiang relied on the addition of [Mr. Key] to hit a very good curve ball, but unfortunately it slipped past the goal.

In this way, Lyon lost 0:1 to Real Madrid in the away game, failing to complete the feat of home wins and away draws that they had done three times.

Since both sides won 1:0 at home, the relationship between the two teams is completely equal.

Next, who can get the first place in the group depends on who gets more goal difference.

According to the scores of the first two rounds of the group stage, Real Madrid temporarily surpassed Lyon by a goal difference, so Real Madrid overtook Lyon again and regained the first place in the group.

In another match in the same group, Shakhtar Donetsk beat Malmo 4-0 at home.

Currently Lyon and Real Madrid share nine points, while Shakhtar Donetsk and Malmo share three points.

The qualifying situation is already very clear. It depends on whoever scored more goal difference between Lyon and Real Madrid in the last two rounds of the group stage will be able to win the first place in the group.

(End of this chapter)