Forty Where is the breaking point?
Marseille, Velodrome Stadium.
Monaco's away game against Marseille made the fans anxious.
The neutral fans in front of the TV are even more tormented.
I can't wait to yell: Don't pretend to be your grandson and drive the bus, go out quickly!
If you don't come to shoot with two feet, you really have to change the channel!
The most nerve-wracking scene in the first 30 minutes of the game was when Falcao collided with Marseille's defensive leader Diawara when he ran to receive a pass from James Rodriguez.
As a result, Diawara was injured and left the field!
Marseille coach Eli Pope's face is gloomy, and the mainstay of the defense line is definitely a bad signal.
Lucas Mendes came off the bench to replace the injured Diawara.
Monaco did not change its game posture due to the injury and retirement of the opponent's defender.
It was a complete accident and didn't seem to have much impact on the game.
At least for now, there is no big problem. After all, it is not easy for James Rodriguez to get rid of Marseille's two defensive midfielders and send a wonderful pass.
When the game was approaching the end of the first half, Marseille seemed to want to seize the last chance to attack. The left back Mendy made a stride and assisted Ocampos in the frontcourt and then sent a direct pass.
Ayew took the ball from the wing and quickly cut in. The speed caught Kurzawa a little by surprise. In desperation, Kurzawa chose to make a foul and knocked him to the ground.
The referee whistled for a foul by Kurzawa, and Marseille won a direct free kick from the left outside the penalty area.
Valbuena ran to take the free kick, and Ye Yifeng went to stand up and set up a wall to block the opponent's shooting angle.
Following the instructions of Croatian goalkeeper Subasic, Ye Yifeng and his teammates stood in a good position, tightened their muscles to protect the vital parts of their lower body, and prepared themselves for being hit by football at any time.
When Valbuena kicked the ball out, Ye Yifeng jumped up immediately, but the ball shot by the opponent was obviously higher than their heads.
This is the cross!
Not a shot!
If it is a shot, it will definitely be high.
Ye Yifeng turned around immediately after landing, and happened to see Lucas Mendes, who came off the bench for the Marseille team, hit the goal with a header from behind the penalty area!
Monaco's defense is completely leaked!
Mendes rushed to the goal and sent the ball directly into the back of the goal, and Subasic had no time to make a save to block it.
The Velodrome Stadium roared with cheers.
The Marseille fans cheered Mendes' goal with excitement.
A four-game winning streak is on the way!
Coach Eli Pope looked surprised.
Diawara retired from injury, and Lucas Mendes made a passive substitution. It turned out to be a blessing, not a curse!
The Monaco generals looked dignified.
Ranieri frowned slightly but didn't change his expression much.
The Italian coach has always given people a very calm aura on the sidelines.
At the end of the first half, the players on the Monaco bench were ready to move.
The score is behind, should we adjust our offense?
Obviously they underestimated Ranieri's patience, and Monaco did not make adjustments at halftime.
Ranieri's adjustments in the offense only required Moutinho to increase his threat.
If you rashly ask the side to strengthen the offensive, it is very likely that Valbuena and Ayew will break through the side defense one after another!
In this stalemate, the only range that Monaco can adjust is the midfielder!
As long as Kondogbia can stop Payet, then Moutinho will step forward to support James Rodriguez, combined with the support from the wing, it may not be a good move to break the game.
In the second half, the two teams returned to the field and changed sides to fight again.
Ye Yifeng shuttled up and down the left lane. In fact, his and Ocampos' roles on the wing today are more in line with the positioning of the winger. The defense must be in place, and the offense needs to be supported. The coaching staff did not require them to play an inside threat.
The Marseille team focused on counterattacks in the second half, but the repeated fast breaks on the wing were not effective.
Valbuena had a headache.
Whether he is responding or dribbling on the wing, as long as he slows down in front of Abidal, Ye Yifeng will inevitably stick up from behind.
Either Ye Yifeng poked the ball away from the side or rear, or he made a change in possession of the ball to get rid of it the next second but was snatched by the experienced Abidal!
Once he cuts inside, Abidal will decisively enter the inside line to grab up. If he returns to the side, he will find that Ye Yifeng has retreated to a position almost full-back and stares at him!
In the first half, Marseille still relied on the full-back's insertion to win a free kick on the left, breaking the predicament of the forward winger.
After leading the score, the full-backs of the Marseille team only provided limited support in the second half, rarely reaching the dangerous area of the frontcourt attack, and mostly focusing on defense.
Although Monaco's offensive in the second half seemed to put pressure on the Marseille team in the frontcourt, the Marseille team's Romao and Imbra swept the middle of the backcourt and cooperated with the defense, which also enabled the back line to strike late in the defense!
Monaco's offensive threat ball delivery and opportunity creation always feel a little bit close!
But in fact, the little difference is not something that can be changed by a little luck!
Eli Pope and Ranieri's tactical design and coaching style made this strong dialogue between the two teams stalemate and stalemate from beginning to end.
After 70 minutes of the game, Eli Pope used up the second substitution.
Sheru replaced Payet to strengthen the midfield defense.
In Pope's eyes, as long as the threat of Moutinho's attack is contained, then Monaco's overall offensive will not have the slightest threat!
Monaco still has no substitutions.
Even the two teaching assistants looked anxious.
After Marseille's substitutions, they did curb Moutinho's offensive threat, but at the same time, it also made Marseille's offense lose the threat of rushing in the middle.
Xielu organized an offensive in the backcourt or passed the ball to the wing, but because he didn't rush into the frontcourt like Payet and went to the middle of the frontcourt, this liberated Monaco's midfielder Kondogbia!
After Ranieri was keenly aware of this, he gestured on the sidelines to make the team start to strengthen the wing attack!
It's time for Ye Yifeng and Ocampos to work!
You can offload their defensive tasks and create threats on the front and sideways as much as possible.
Because no matter which side the Marseille team plays, Kondogbia can help defend the side without any worries!
In order to enhance the offensive threat from the wing, Ranieri is also considering substitutions.
Who can be replaced?
Martial?
Ranieri could even predict that Martial would make a few threatening breakthroughs after he came on the field, but in the end it ended in failure!
Marseille's defense can be regarded as the top level of Ligue 1, how can a child under the age of 18 be allowed to make mistakes!
And that will only make Monaco lose a lot of offensive opportunities.
Carrasco?
How much can it improve the threat posed by Ye Yifeng and Ocampos?
Ranieri is uncertain.
Instead of changing sides, it might be more effective to fight for another center forward at the end!
Perhaps in the eyes of the audience, this game lacked exciting scenes.
However, the French football critics in the media seats believed that the two teams played like a game of chess, not to mention far-sightedness, but they were definitely making fine-tuning according to changes in the field situation.
The Marseille team began to slow down the rhythm and shrink the formation to the backcourt.
They wanted to counterattack comfortably, but the successive sideways counterattacks were either stifled by Monaco in the backcourt, or the last pass failed to create a threat.
Monaco's wing attack tried more crosses to see if Falcao could pose a threat in the penalty area.
Both Ye Yifeng and Ocampos' crosses were quite satisfactory, and Falcao was also submerged in Marseille's tight defense.
When the game passed 77 minutes, Ye Yifeng had just returned to the backcourt and saw Kondogbia helping to defend the wing and forcing Valbuena to send a cross.
Carvalho made a steady header in the penalty area, and Moutinho retreated in the middle to complete possession of the ball in the backcourt.
Ye Yifeng turned around and started running forward.
Consciousness is now plunged into darkness.
Marseille's tight defense made Ye Yifeng feel unprecedented pressure.
He doesn't know what he should do to help the team come back!
From the perspective of strength, both James Rodriguez and Falcao struggled in performance today, and their abilities were completely suppressed under the opponent's tight defense line!
First of all, there is no space, and secondly, the offensive and defensive confrontation in a small area has indeed been knocked down due to the opponent's strong defensive ability!
The card fades away and disappears after flickering.
Ye Yifeng saw the season under the former Ligue 1 logo: 2004-2005.
The key depends on what team and what player!
Lyon's crest then appeared.
Ye Yifeng was in a bad mood!
After Lyon last appeared in 2004-2005...he saw Michael Essien!
The team now needs to strengthen its offense, offense!
The last picture burst into light!
A player standing against the background of the Brazilian flag caused Ye Yifeng to fall into a momentary trance.
How to forget him?
When the radiant scene ahead moved from far to near, Ye Yifeng overlapped with the Brazilian player.
The name of the player next to him also passed by his side.
Juninho Penanbucano!
Commonly known as:
Little Juninho!