Chapter 117 The Rival of Glory
Manchester media are paying attention to Manchester City's opponent Lyon, and Lyon's media are paying attention to their opponent Manchester City.
What Lyon fears the most is naturally Rongguang. Rongguang has rich experience in the Champions League. As long as he participates in the Champions League, he will win the best scorer, which is enough to show his strength.
But Lyon is not completely without an advantage. For them, Manchester City's recent instability may be a good opportunity.
After all, football is a collective sport. If Manchester City only relies on glory alone, then Lyon still has an advantage.
Lyon is no stranger to Glory. As early as the 204266 season, the two sides fought.
It was Rongguang's first time participating in the UEFA Champions League.
At that time, the glory was still in Werder Bremen. They entered the quarterfinals as the second in the group, and their opponents they met in the quarterfinals were Lyon.
In the first leg, Werder Bremen was at his home court.
When Lyon was still dominating the Ligue 1, they just reached the quarterfinals in the Champions League last season, and their strength in the Champions League should not be underestimated.
Facing the Champions League freshman Werder Bremen, everyone believes that Lyon can at least win a draw away.
What's the result?
Rongguang completed a hat-trick in that game, helping Werder Bremen defeat his opponents B0 at home.
That was also Geng Guang's first hat-trick in Champions League history.
It really shocking to eliminate all the suspense of the two rounds of home and away games in one game.
That game also allowed Lyon to see the power of Glory, a newcomer in the Champions League.
In this regard, Lyon's main central defender Chris was deeply impressed by this.
Now, five years have passed, Chris is still Lyon's main central defender, and he also wears the captain's armband. Juninho, who has left the team, has become Lyon's captain.
In fact, as early as in Brazil, Chris, as Cruzero's main central defender, had confronted Rongguang. He knew that Rongguang was very powerful in Brazil.
The encounter in the Champions League only made him more determined.
Glory is a real talented player, and the kind of talented player who can create great causes.
As a Brazilian player, Chris has seen many young geniuses, but the achievements of these geniuses in the end are not proportional to their talents.
Glory is OK.
So Chris dared not underestimate glory.
Before this game, as the captain of the team, Chris repeatedly emphasized the power of glory.
Even if the competition is about to begin, he is still talking.
"Rong is the absolute core of Manchester City and the most threatening player. Don't be careless when facing him. Your distraction for a second may lead to conceding goals."
Some people care about the captain's words, while others don't.
On the way from the locker room to the court, the young left-back Ali Sissoko said to his teammate Jean Halan Boomsun: "Who doesn't know that Rong is one of the most powerful players in football today? I think the captain repeatedly emphasizes that this is useless except to increase our tension..."
Boomsun said: "Captain wants us to value Rong..."
Sissoko smiled: "Who doesn't value him? I pay too much attention to the showdown with Rong."
He also jumped up as he said, twisting his waist and waist, shaking his body, as if he was doing boxing preparations.
"Don't worry, I will freeze him in this game."
In this game, Ali Sissoko, who plays as Lyon's main left-back, will face Rong Guang on the right, and the two players will face each other.
Before the game, Lyon's coach Claude Pierre emphasized the strength of glory to Sissoko, and even gave him a special highlight of glory's recent performance to facilitate him to understand the opponent.
Sissoko didn't let the CD go home and left it alone, he did research. So he thought it was a cliché to captain Chris repeatedly emphasized that Glory was very strong.
Sissoko has his own ideas, and his fighting spirit is not pretending. He is really so motivated to defeat glory.
Why?
Because he realized it was a good opportunity.
What a huge influence it would be if he could defeat Glory under the utmost attention?
Sissoko has a very urgent desire for success, because of a trouble he encountered last summer - Ali Sissoko, who was still playing for Portuguese powerhouse Porto, attracted the attention of Serie A giant AC Milan because of her outstanding performance. It is naturally Sissoko's dream to be able to join the world-renowned giant club AC Milan.
In the end, AC Milan and Porto reached an agreement on the transfer fee and completed the transaction for 15 million euros. The transfer has been confirmed.
But at this moment, something went wrong with the transfer physical examination. AC Milan's medical examination result believed that Sissoko's teeth had problems, which may cause problems such as spinal cord and muscles.
In the end, the negotiations between the two sides broke down, and Sissoko did not go to AC Milan, and then he came to Lyon.
Lyon's head coach Pierre is quite rated by him, using him to fill the vacancy left by left back Grosso leaving the team, and he became the starter of Lyon's left back.
Despite this, it still cannot calm the resentment and anger in Sissoko's heart.
Anger at AC Milan, anger at Galliani.
He thought it was ridiculous to cancel the transfer just because he had a problem with his teeth, and at the same time, this reason was simply humiliating to him.
Others fail to transfer due to injuries to their knees, muscles, ankles, etc., but they are because of their teeth?
I'm a football player
I'm playing football
Do you need to play football by teeth?
Now all Europe knows that I am the unlucky guy who was rejected by AC Milan because of his unqualified teeth.
Sissoko's anger makes sense, because more than one dental hospital has come to the door to hope to do a free orthodontic surgery for Sissoko, the price is simply to let them publicize that they had performed surgery on Ali Sissoko...
Of course, Sissoko would think that this was a hospital's final blow and a humiliation that caught up with the door, so he angrily refused.
But people's ridicule and misunderstanding will not disappear because of this.
Sissoko believes that all this is AC Milan's fault. He wants to prove his ability in the game and tell everyone, especially AC Milan himself, what an excellent player they have missed.
Therefore, after coming to Lyon, Sissoko performed very hard and outstandingly, helping Lyon challenge last season's league champion Bordeaux.
But this is not enough, far from enough.
People's impression of him has not changed much.
This made Sissoko realize that unless he did very outstanding achievements, it would be of no help.
At this moment, Lyon welcomed Manchester City in the Champions League quarter-finals, and as a left-back, he also welcomed... glory.
He immediately thought that this would be the best opportunity.
If he can freeze glory in the game, let glory not make any achievements and help Lyon eliminate Manchester City, then he will become famous overnight
By then, no one will dare to laugh at the fact that they are turned away by AC Milan because of their teeth problems.
He will become a hot commodity that all the giants are rushing to introduce. Real Madrid, Barcelona, Manchester United, Arsenal, Chelsea, Inter Milan, Bayern Munich... He will choose everything he wants...
Of course, AC Milan must be among these teams, but he will not choose them, let them regret it forever, regret losing such an excellent left-back, he could have become their successor to Maldini.
Thinking of this, Ali Sissoko was so excited that his whole body was trembling. He could not wait to play.
He will let Glory and the whole world see his power
But now, he can't do this. He must be honest in the team and wait for the referee to lead the players from both sides to enter.
During this waiting process, his eyes almost never left glory.
If his eyes could be materialized, glory had been penetrated by Sissoko's eyes.
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Glory didn't care about Sissoko's gaze, because he was always watched in countless games before, so he was used to being the focus of people's gaze.
It was not unusual for someone to look at him. If he had to look back every time, his cervical spine would have had problems due to excessive strain...
Some of Glory's teammates may have seen Sissoko's gaze, but they didn't take it seriously.
The black boy's eyes and expressions looked at Rongguang, even his teammates of Rongguang were used to it.
At this time, the referee and his referee team walked out of the lounge together, and everyone's attention was shifted to them.
The game is about to begin, and it's time to play.
Ali Sissoko finally withdrew his almost sticky gaze to Glory and followed his teammates forward. He raised his chest and raised his head, looking full of confidence.
This is his home court and his territory.
I make the decision on my territory.
He wants to let Rongguang be defeated here.
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"They're out"
When the players of both sides walked out of the passage, a huge cheer broke out in the scene.
Lyon fans tried their best to cheer for their team.
Facing glory, they have to do so to increase their confidence.
At the same time, they also hope that such a warm home atmosphere can scare Manchester City players and make them perform less normally, even if it is not the whole team, but a few people perform abnormally...
The close-up of the TV broadcast swept through every player's face, and the time to freeze on the glorious face is the most.
After two years, he returned to the Champions League knockout stage. What kind of performance can he perform?
As the captain, when he shook hands before the game, Rong Guang and Chris met.
Lyon's captain Chris had a serious expression and completed a series of procedures such as shaking hands, exchanging team flags, and picking sides.
Chapter completed!