The road to godhood starting from Ligue 1

Chapter 120 Debut
“Zidane and Vieira had already taken off their jerseys and put on suits;
Djorkaeff, Deschamps, Pires and even Henry gradually faded from the football world;
Sylvain Wiltord, the former European Championship hero of the French national team, has announced his retirement at the age of 38.
The golden generation has left us. Who will take up the leadership of the French team, which has never been so popular?
Gourcuff? He is lost;

Ribery? He's just a striker;

Who can support the facade of this traditional powerful team?

TF1, France's television channel, said the following in the pre-match promotional video for the England-France match.

Let enough French fans start thinking——

Yes, in this now civilian French team, who can be the face of it?
Four little swans?

No one doubted their talent, but after all, there was something missing.

Menez and Ben Arfa's platforms are not big enough, Benzema is just a supporting role in Real Madrid, but Nasri may be able to become the leader of the French team thanks to his Premier League title with Manchester City.

He thought so himself.

But he was ultimately too rebellious and full of controversy.

In a separate interview before the game, he said: "I once joked with Joe Hart and Lescott: I hope to see both teams qualify, but losing is absolutely unacceptable. If France must suppress England to qualify, we will do so."

That's nothing.

But when asked about his move from Arsenal to Manchester City, he replied: "I'm happy to leave Arsenal because Manchester City are very competitive and they are winning titles, not just dreaming about them."

This sentence directly made the Arsenal fans in England furious.

Curse Nasri!
Nasri came to the Premier League with his brilliant skills and won the French Footballer of the Year title in North London.

Before moving to Manchester City, he was definitely one of the favorite players of Arsenal fans.

Even when Nasri has various character issues in private, the fans are tolerant.

But until he moved to Manchester City.

Arsenal fans quickly changed his name from "Nasri" to "Na$ri".

The "Nasri Song" at the Emirates Stadium also turned into a curse on the "golden bastard".

Perhaps it was precisely because of these words and actions of Arsenal fans that Nasri was so angry that he spoke without thinking when asked by reporters.

In fact, compared to people like Fabregas, Hleb, Adebayor and Van Persie.

Nasri has never said that he would be loyal to Arsenal for his entire life.

Nasri's behavior can be regarded as adding more highlights to the England-France match, which is already the focus.

Countless fans are looking forward to this game.

Although Rooney is absent from the England team - he received a red card for deliberately kicking someone from behind in the qualifiers and was suspended for two games - the team's strength on paper is still not bad.

Moreover, in the European football landscape, England and France can be regarded as a pair of arch-rivals.

The two sides have met 28 times in history, with England having an absolute advantage with 16 wins, 4 draws and 8 losses.

But in the European Cup, the French team remained unbeaten against England.

When talking about the England-France battle in the European Cup, people will naturally think of the 2004 confrontation. Zidane took only 3 minutes to lead the French team to a comeback victory.

So the French fans are full of confidence when facing England.

January 6th at 12pm.

The much-anticipated Anglo-French War has officially begun!
Gaio sat on the bench, chatting with Giroud and the other man. They were destined to have no part in this game.

But the game was actually very dull.

It was not until the 29th minute of the game that Milner got the ball on the right and Evra's unnecessary foul gave England a free kick opportunity.

Gerrard made a cross from the free kick on the right, but Alou Diarra didn't mark him closely enough and Lescott headed the ball into the goal from the edge of the small penalty area.

The French team fell behind.

It was very similar to the match eight years ago, with England taking the lead thanks to a free kick. If we say that eight years ago, Lizarazu's foul was unavoidable.

So today, the foul committed by France's left-back Evra was unnecessary.

Gaio heard that the French fans at the scene were even scolding Evra.

In fact.

Evra's performance has indeed declined significantly this season.

It seems that there is something wrong with Manchester United's feng shui. The performance of any player who renews his contract with Manchester United will drop sharply.

When Evra did not renew his contract, he was known as the best left-back in the world, along with Ashley Cole - after Maldini retired.

As a result, the contract renewal was cancelled.

Not only did he have intermittent brain short circuits, but his physical fitness also declined significantly. Roy Keane couldn't stand it anymore and blasted Evra: "I have seen Evra get eaten alive by his opponents in big scenes many times."

Gaio thinks Manchester United can try signing players on a one-year basis.

Maybe Manchester United can be saved.

The scene on the field was still extremely dull, with neither side having any intention of controlling the ball. French fans were furious at Blanc, saying, "If you didn't know, you would have thought we were leading!"

This is also related to the tactics of the coaches on both sides of the game.

Today's football.

Football has become utilitarian to the extreme.

The development trend of the entire football world of "pursuing results and rejecting process" makes teams like Spain look like outliers.

The Netherlands has lost the orange madness. Since the World Cup in South Africa, they have been a defensive counterattack team;
Even the five-star Brazil team lost the Samba spirit, and their efficient defense and counterattack made them achieve twice the result with half the effort;
As for Denmark, Greece and Russia, they have already tasted the sweetness of pragmatic defense and counterattack.

The success of Abramovich's team in the Champions League has made the Englishman pragmatically choose the same path as Chelsea, and has begun to pursue a 1-0 defensive counterattack in the warm-up matches before the European Cup.

As for the French team, Blanc has always been pursuing the beautiful football. He praised Barcelona's football style and also provoked England to attack before the game.

But after the game started, he gave up his usual 4231 and instead used 4321.

The conservative style of play of three defensive midfielders made the game more boring!
There was booing from the stands.

Fortunately, a few minutes later, the French team equalized with the help of Ribery's assist to Nasri.

However, this is just the beginning of the fans' nightmare.

The two sides were tied at 1-1.

Both teams seemed quite satisfied with getting 1 point, and even the commentators wondered if this was a tacit understanding between the English and French teams.

Anyway, if the two sides draw, whoever wants to be first in the group will go and slaughter the other two teams.

Until the second half.

It should have been the time to seize the attacking opportunity, but the English played back-passes in their backcourt, while the French played very tacitly and cooperatively and only made symbolic pressing in the frontcourt.

Time slipped away as the game progressed, and everyone seemed to be thinking about life...

Some fans were even fast asleep in the stands.

When the camera is pointed at him.

This made fans all over the world laugh and angrily scold the coaches of the British and French teams for being inhumane.

Turn the entire half into garbage time.

Until the 87rd minute.

"Gaio, come here and prepare to enter the stage."

(End of this chapter)