I changed football.

"Li Yuan came on in the 72nd minute!"

"Li Yuan thus became the 11th Chinese player to appear in the Europa League."

"He is also the fifth Chinese player to appear in the Europa League group stage. He is also the youngest Chinese player to have played in the Europa League."

"Actually, we always refer to it as the Europa League, but its official name is the European League. After the Europa League was renamed the European League in 2010, Li Yuan was the first Chinese player to appear in an official Europa League match."

"In short, Li Yuan made many historical records for Chinese football the moment he stepped onto the field!"

Zhan Jun quickly finished recounting these records within one minute of Li Yuan entering the game.

This is a record of information he found after researching for a long time before the match.

He was certain that Li Yuan would play in this match.

Zhan Jun is now wondering if Li Yuan will score a goal.

If Li Yuan can score in this match, it would be the best start ever.

However, Zhan Jun didn't dare to think too much about it, because today's opponent was much stronger than the opponent in the French league match.

Zhan Jun is a frequent commentator for the Premier League, so he is definitely the most familiar with the Premier League. He is well aware of Tottenham's strength this season.

Honestly, Monaco has only conceded two goals so far, which Zhan Jun thinks is already pretty good.

But these kinds of words definitely can't be said out loud. Zhan Jun has been online for many years, and he knows what kind of words will get him criticized.

"Li Yuan has been on the field for 3 minutes now, but he hasn't touched the ball yet. The ball is still at Mbappe's feet on the left wing. Although Tottenham has been less offensive in the second half, their defense is still very solid. Mbappe doesn't seem to be planning to break through on his own; he's still coordinating with his teammates."

Mbappe passed the ball to Bernardo Silva in the middle. Silva received the ball and prepared to dribble forward, but at this moment, Li Yuan decisively raised his hand to ask for the ball.

Berserker glanced at Li Yuan's position. Ross, who was in front of him, was positioned quite far back, leaving a large open space in front of Li Yuan that he could control.

Bernardo Silva himself doesn't particularly like to dribble forward and launch attacks. It's just that in this match, the coach changed the formation from 4-2-3-1 to 4-3-3, which resulted in the absence of the attacking midfielder position, leaving a large gap in the middle between the midfielders and the center forward.

Traore didn't drop back to organize the attack, which left that area very empty, with no Monaco players there.

The football field is like a coloring game; if you don't color a certain area, the opponent will.

Tottenham's defensive midfielder immediately moved up to occupy that position.

Bernardo Silva's attempt to break through was merely an attempt to see if he could draw a foul in the middle.

However, if there were better options on the right flank, he decided to pass the ball there.

In his view, Li Yuan was a trustworthy young man.

After all, he scored in the last game and is currently in excellent form.

He had also seen this young man during his daily training sessions; he was indeed very hardworking and diligent, even doing extra training after the regular training session.

Another highly talented player, Mbappe, has basically never done any extra training.

Bernardo Silva has observed that both Mbappe and Li Yuan have great talent, but in terms of future achievements, Bernardo is more willing to vote for Li Yuan.

Thinking about all this really only took a moment.

Bernardo quickly passed the ball to Li Yuan on the right wing.

Li Yuan was observing Tottenham's defensive players before he even received the ball.

Rose showed no intention of coming up to defend.

Ali, the defensive midfielder on his side, did not move closer.

Very good!

Li Yuan knew that the other side's disdain was his opportunity.

This opportunity was hard-won.

Li Yuan had already observed the opponent's positioning before receiving the ball.

Therefore, when Li Yuan received the ball, he did not use the instep of his right foot to stop it, but instead used the outside of his left foot to stop it.

Immediately afterwards, he poked the ball forward and to the side with his left foot.

He then turned sideways and charged towards his ribs.

"Li Yuan is about to cut inside!"

Li Yuan's action immediately woke Ross and Ali up.

Ali reacted quickly; he immediately rushed towards Li Yuan.

However, Li Yuan was too fast; he swerved diagonally inwards and charged directly into Tottenham's backline.

Vertonghen made a decisive rush out to try to intercept the ball, while the other center-back, Alderweireld, trailed behind.

This is standard procedure: one center-back goes out to attack, and the other center-back stays behind.

But Vertonghen realized something was wrong as soon as he made his move; things were going to get bad!

Because Li Yuan was too fast, Vertonghen made a rash attack, and Li Yuan arrived in front of him in a few moves. Then, Li Yuan used a Marseille turn to get past the attacking Vertonghen.

"Hey! The Marseille turn!"

"That's truly remarkable. To suddenly execute a Marseille turn while dribbling at high speed and actually get past the defender!"

Alderweireld knew things were going badly; he now had to fill Vertonghen's position.

He moved laterally while shouting "Here!" and pointing to his original location.

It means he left his defensive zone and someone needs to fill in.

In situations like this, it's usually the full-back who comes to cover, and sure enough, Walker did.

Mbappe's side is now empty.

While dribbling the ball, Li Yuan glanced over and saw Mbappe reaching out for it.

Could I give it to him in this situation? Li Yuan just found it funny.

But their feet never stopped.

He quickly dribbled the ball straight towards the penalty area.

"Li Yuan is going one-on-one!"

"Watch out, Alderweireld is on the left, Alli is behind him, and Rose is about to make a sliding tackle on the right!"

"Lori is right in front of me, ready to pounce at any moment!"

At first glance, Li Yuan appears to be surrounded from all sides.

It seems that breaking out of this four-sided siege will be quite troublesome.

However, Li Yuan could break it with just one move.

fast!

Speed ​​can solve everything.

Li Yuan hasn't picked up his speed yet.

When he saw Lori hesitating about whether to attack, he decisively increased his speed to the maximum.

Then--

"Li Yuan! Li Yuan is in the penalty area! Lloris can't get out of the box! Li Yuan is too fast!"

Li Yuan, with his feet like whirlwinds, adjusted the ball to his left foot as soon as he entered the penalty area.

Then comes the simplest thing.

Shot.

"Li Yuan—Knock on the door!"

This was a curling shot; the ball arced out of the air.

Lloris made a desperate save, but the shot was too tricky, finding the top corner of the net.

Lloris could only watch the ball go into the net.

"That's a perfect angle! Li Yuan scored!"

"This is Li Yuan's first European goal in his professional career! Li Yuan has scored in consecutive matches! Two goals in two games!"

"Li Yuan also became the third Chinese player to score in the Europa League, and the first Chinese player to score in the Europa League group stage – a brand new record!"

The side of the goal where Li Yuan scored had the away team's stands right behind it.

As he scored, Li Yuan saw the fans in the stands celebrating wildly for him.

However, after scoring, Li Yuan did not choose to celebrate but instead rushed into the goal and picked up the ball.

Li Yuan gave Mbappe a high-five as he rushed toward him to celebrate.

"We still have a chance!"