It's cheating, but Hazard

Chapter 75: Underdeveloped Silkworm Pupa

If Ciel could hear the commentary, he would certainly agree.

There was nothing else to do, just the bare grass and sand almost everywhere, plus it had just rained not long ago, so the field felt wet, and Charles couldn't help but frown.

Seeing Benzema sitting on the bench, Charles felt even more annoyed.

The average temperature in Kaunas in March is -4℃~4℃.

Benzema complained that the mattress provided by the hotel was too soft, and finally with the help of Charles, he successfully removed the mattress.

Then, neither Benzema nor Charles realized anything.

Until night, the temperature dropped sharply.

Even though the hotel turned on the air conditioner at night, without the mattress to keep warm, Benzema felt a draft when he slept with only a quilt and sheets.

In his sleep, Charles always felt someone whispering, "Mom, it's so cold..."

In a place like Northern Europe where there are few people at night, even in a hotel, hearing such words late at night can still scare people half to death.

Just when Benzema was half asleep and about to freeze to death, Charles, who had listened to his groaning all night, couldn't stand it anymore and kicked him awake.

When Benzema was kicked awake, he was wrapped up like a stunted silkworm pupa.

Well, a quilt that is at most one and a half meters wide can hardly wrap a person well.

He poked his head out from under the blanket with a confused look on his face. "What's wrong?"

It was already midnight.

Finally, Charles forced Benzema's mattress back onto the bed.

After all the busy work, Benzema, who is 1.85 meters tall, was stuck on the 1.9-meter-long bed with a sense of grievance.

By the time I finished all these, it was already one o'clock in the morning.

Soon, the referee blew the whistle to start the game.

Lithuania has the ball.

Evra kicked the ball with his back foot, and Scalia received the ball and flicked it past him.

The ball quickly reached the Lithuanian defense line and kept moving.

Just as Charles rushed forward and was about to put pressure on Limp Rex, he didn't expect this guy to have no martial ethics at all and directly passed the ball back to the goalkeeper.

Casey Kasmas stopped the ball and without too much thought, kicked the ball directly to the front court.

The ball drew a beautiful arc and fell into the midfield.

Gourcuff and Danilevicius competed with each other in the center circle. As the two refused to give in, the ball chose a compromise - it flew towards the Lithuanian half, but landed on the Lithuanian defender.

Although Lithuania played at home today, their performance was comparable to that of the French team, which was playing away and not yet adapted to the field conditions.

The other players of the French team were still in a daze, and Gustave Nanis chose to stop the ball with his chest when facing a falling ball.

But this time, I don’t know if it was because he made a mistake, was not in good form, or was just like that, but the ball was stopped three meters away by him - it bounced off his chest and headed in the direction of the French team.

Turan took advantage of the situation to pass the ball and without looking around, he pushed the ball with his right foot and found his teammate Ribery.

Although Ribery is not tall, his football experience is brilliant enough.

From a "bad boy" who was persuaded to drop out of football school and ended up playing amateur league football to the European Player of the Year who just missed the Golden Ball Award.

However, Ribery, who is obviously a technical player, also made mistakes on this "beach".

Originally, Ribery wanted to make a long pass to Henry, but he made a mistake. Henry blocked the defender behind him, but Ivaskovic suddenly appeared in the line between the two.

Logically speaking, the ball is faster than the person, and Ivaskovic should not be able to intercept the ball, but Ribery made a mistake in passing the ball, and the ball deflected unexpectedly on the bad field.

Ivaskovic's whole body was like a tree blown sideways by a typhoon, leaning towards the ball. Then he swung his body and the ball was kicked over his head.

But in the French team's half, apart from the French defenders, there is no Lithuanian yet.

Evra ran towards the rolling ball and quickly stopped it easily.

After observing the situation on the field, Evra flicked the ball with the inside of his left foot and passed it to Squillaci again.

At this time, due to tactical arrangements, Lithuania still chose to defend its own half and resolutely did not step out of line.

Finding that the seduction tactic had failed, the French team had no choice but to continue attacking in the second half.

As Lithuania had a large number of troops in the middle, Squillaci chose to attack from the flanks.

After receiving the pass from Squillaci, Sagna instantly understood his intention.

He just leaned his body like a goalkeeper, exerted force from his waist, and hit the ball hard with his right foot.

"call out--"

Diarra looked at the flying ball and without stopping it, he kicked it again.

The ball, which was about to fall to the ground, flew up again like a stone skipping on water.

Diarra chose to cross the ball, but problems occurred again in this link.

Naglis Vaznounis and Sesnaskis closed directly and stuck Gourcuff.

Moreover, Naglis also hoped that someone with such a short name like Gourcuff would be able to remember him, so he unceremoniously stretched out his foot to clear the ball and directly kicked it out.

Gourcuff refused to give up hope and continued to chase the ball.

It has to be said that the grass field at Lithuania's home stadium, apart from the unstable passing, has another advantage, which is that the route and direction of the ball are very precise.

The French team threw the ball.

"There are indeed big problems with the field today. But given the current climate in Lithuania, it is normal that not much grass can grow on the turf."

"However, in addition to the poor pitch and Lithuania's conservative tactics, the French team's formation at the start also seemed to be self-defeating."

"Domenegue chose to bench Benzema and put Henry up front, with Ribery-Gourcuff-Luyindula as the second line behind."

"The problem with this formation is that Henry, who is used to playing on the left, often runs to this side to receive the ball. This not only overlaps with Ribery's position, but also leaves the French team's crosses unattended in the middle."

"And Charles has never played as a striker in the national team."

"Although he performed very well as a striker in the Champions League, he may not be able to adapt to the national team."

Diarra ran out of bounds, took the ball thrown by the caddy, and wiped it carefully with his jersey.

Charles soon discovered something was wrong.

Henry's running habits are somewhat out of touch with the overall requirements of today's formation.

Now the French team's center is empty. Charles took advantage of Diarra's failure to serve the ball and ran directly to the center, ready to share some of Henry's responsibilities.

Lithuanian names are difficult to pronounce. In this chapter, most of the people with "S" in their name are Lithuanians.

Among them, William Gallas is usually translated as Gallas, because the s is silent in French. However, Gallas is famous in the Premier League, and the s is pronounced in English, so in the early football translation, there are two translations, Gallas and Gallas, but they are the same person.

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