On December 11, Metz will face Strasbourg at home, which is the 18th round of the Ligue 1 league this year. Strasbourg ranks third from the bottom after the 17th round of the league, but they are only four points away from Saint-Etienne, who is the eleventh in the league.

Mess' ranking dropped to 14th due to five consecutive league rounds. In the first two months, local media were still cheering, saying that Mess' relegation this season was no problem. Unexpectedly, after only more than a month, the team's performance plummeted.

The reason is related to Metz's poor offense. After seventeen rounds of the league, he scored sixteen goals, and he averaged not even a single goal per game. This goal rate is really not satisfactory.

Therefore, in the training before this game, Coach Fernandez has been practicing various offensive routines. Jean Fernandez is a coach who advocates offense, and the teams he coaches are often able to play many beautiful offenses and are one of the representatives of offensive football. Otherwise, he would not be able to develop a top midfielder like Zidane.

Helplessly, there are many midfielders in Metz, but not many people who are good at organizing offenses. The excellent ones are defensive players. For example, the team's second captain, the 26-year-old Gregory Proment, is a pure defender. He has a strong sense of filling up and always appears where the team needs him. He also performs calmly. If he is not injured, he is almost the main midfielder of the team. But his problem is that his contribution to the team in offense is almost zero.

Ludovik Oblaniac is an offensive wing forward and a player in the French under 21 national team. He was once considered the best in Metz's youth and is now promoted to the first team. In the game, his activity area is mainly on the right side, one left and one right side with Ribery. He is fast, good at dribbling, good at long passes, and can also play a set ball. However, as a wing assaulter, he obviously cannot change the situation where Metz is weak in organization of offense. Just like Ribery.

Gregori Leka is a midfielder who can play central defenders, defensive midfielders, and central defenders. Another meaning of balanced offense and defense often means that they are not outstanding in any aspect and have no characteristics.

In addition, Frank Ribery. These four people are the midfielders with the most games so far. They can basically be considered as the main players of the team. But here is only Ribery who has performed the most actively in offense and has created the most threats.

They basically represent Metz's strongest midfielder.

Look at the staffing configuration, two back midfielders, two wing forwards, and no front midfielders. It can be seen that Jean Fernandez also knows that the team's current personnel lineup does not have a suitable offensive organizer at all, so his tactics are required that Ribery and Oblaniak fly together and give up the middle lane. Ribery is mainly responsible for the right side, Oblaniak is responsible for the left side, and Oblaniak is occasionally transferred, Ribery goes to the left, and Oblaniak comes to the right side. Sometimes Leka will insert it to participate in the attack, but the effect is not obvious.

Simply put, Metz does not have a midfield commander now.

At the end of the ten-day training session, Fernandez had assistant coach David Carre announced the 18-man roster for the second day's game, and Chu Zhongtian ranked among them for four consecutive times.

After the training, Chu Zhongtian called his agent, Mr. Meili, who lived there, and told him that he would not go back tonight, so he asked him to go to work on the supper by himself, because he was on the roster again.

Meili wished Chu Zhongtian excellent performance on the phone if he could play.

After calling Meili, he called Lin Beiyao and told her that she had been selected for the big list. Lin Beiyao would post the latest news to the news section of the website "We all love Lin Danda". At the same time, she would also buy tickets to watch the competition.

As for the French teacher Mathilde, because Chu Zhongtian has been on the competition list recently, their courses have also been adjusted, changing from Friday to Thursday. Now Chu Zhongtian can communicate with the French more fluently, although in a hurry, English or even Chinese will burst out. Therefore, Mathilde's time for Chu Zhongtian to teach classes has also been reduced from three times a week to once a week.

※※※ Chu Zhongtian, who was resting in a familiar hotel room, fought with Ribery for another night of live football. Ribery did not use the French team for thousands of years, while Chu Zhongtian insisted on using the Chinese team, so he was abused by Ribery most of the time.

"You might as well build yourself to join the Chinese team, Chu. Just rely on those of you, it's not easy to beat me." Ribery joked.

"A true master can beat you even with the worst team on earth!" Chu Zhongtian did not show any weakness.

Ribery shrugged and pressed the start button again.

Some players like to have a drink at the bar this night, but Ribery is a devout Muslim and doesn't know how to drink. His biggest entertainment now is to play real football with Chu Zhongtian in the room, but Chu Zhongtian insists on using the Chinese team with a weak Chinese team... Even if he wins, he doesn't have a sense of accomplishment.

"Don't you like Brazil? Why don't you choose Brazil?"

Chu Zhongtian shrugged: "If you choose Argentina, I will choose Brazil. If you choose France, I will choose China."

Ribery threw the handle: "No more playing against the battle! Is it good for us to play cooperation?"

"cooperate?"

"It's just that we two use a team to play in the Masters League." Ribery explained while adjusting the menu, and soon he called out the Masters League interface.

"There is a team of Metz. But it doesn't matter if there aren't both of us, I'll edit it!"

Next, Ribery quickly edited the players and set them as much as possible according to the appearance of the two people. However, Chu Zhongtian was easy to deal with, and the scars on his face were difficult to do, and he had no choice but to be similar.

The most interesting thing when setting up players' abilities is that Ribery sets his own numerical values ​​very high, almost all of them are 99, and then sets 10 for Chu Zhongtian... Finally, under Chu Zhongtian's criticism and the rebuke of no longer playing games with him, Ribery finally honestly sets them according to the current abilities of the two people. However, everyone has differences on the issue of how his abilities are so subjective.

"Do you have 96 and 98 speeds?" Chu Zhongtian questioned when Ribery set his own speed to 96 and the acceleration was as high as 98.

"I think it's almost the same..."

"Robert Carlos is not as high as yours. Can you surpass him faster? Change it to 88 and 90!"

"Then is your defense as high as 95?" Ribery asked back.

"This is defensive awareness, not defensive ability. My defensive awareness is almost that high."

"Then why is your offensive consciousness actually 88?"

"Don't you know I've always been eager to get involved in the offense?"

"And your pass, how could it be as high as 85? I think it would be great if you can have 65 at the moment!"

"Hey!" Chu Zhongtian rolled his eyes.

The two argued for more than an hour before editing themselves, and then chose Metz to start the Masters League. The players edited at the beginning were not in the team, and they needed to accumulate funds through the game and then bought them from the transfer market.

"Ah, when will you go..." Chu Zhongtian was a little disappointed. Now he is very looking forward to using himself and Ribery to play in the Masters League, to upgrade and win the championship together.

"Take it slow, let's adjust the game to five minutes, lower the difficulty, first make enough money to buy us before transferring back. Come on, start!" Ribery handed the p2 handle to Chu Zhongtian.

"Transfer to me, pass to me! I ran away!" Ribery shouted at Chu Zhongtian beside him while controlling his character.

"Let me adjust the direction... Damn!" The man controlled by Chu Zhongtian lost the ball.

"Your pass is so bad!" Ribery complained.

"It's not me, it's this guy... This Mark's pass is bad!" Chu Zhongtian defended. "Why do Messe have these people we don't know at all?"

"This is the default lineup of the Masters League. No matter what team you choose, these are the people you control at the beginning." Ribery explained. "Forget it, come on. Remember, when you see me running forward, you have to prepare to pass the ball in front of me. Castro's speed is not slow, you can use it."

As a result, Chu Zhongtian was too lightly dressed because his long pass was not controlled well and he was pushed out by the opponent's defender. Ribery ran away in vain and he quickly switched back to participate in the defense.

"Hey, Chu, you want to be a midfielder in the organization. Can't you even play games well?" He was still complaining.

"I need time to adapt. Even if I let me play in person, I can't perform well in the first game..." Chu Zhongtian defended himself.

Ribery also felt that Chu Zhongtian was right. This was the first time they were playing together, and they would inevitably feel like they didn’t have a tacit understanding. “Okay, we don’t like losing, right? Then let’s find a way to guarantee victory.”

"What is it?" Chu Zhongtian asked.

"My skills are good, I play this for longer than you, and I know some of the characteristics of this game. So I will leave the task of scoring the attack. And you are mainly responsible for passing and defending me. How about it?"

Chu Zhongtian thought about it and it was almost exactly the same as the role of the two people in reality. "No problem, just as you can say."

"Very good, pay attention to my running position and pass the ball to me when the right time."

Having said that, Chu Zhongtian felt that playing games was different from actually playing football by himself. When he controlled his players to get the ball, on the one hand, he had to pay attention to protecting the football and not let the opponent snatch it easily. On the other hand, he had to lead the ball forward. In the end, he had to observe Ribery's running position and pass the ball over at the right time.

With three uses, Chu Zhongtian even twisted his feet in a hurry, but he kicked it out and almost mentioned the ps2 game console in front of him.

He made Ribery laugh.

Chu Zhongtian glared at him and continued to control his game characters in a hurry.

He adapted to one game, but he gradually became decent in the second game.

"Pass the ball!" Li Fangyu shouted again.

"Don't scream! You scared me to death! I know the transmission myself..."

"I'm afraid of running offside!"

"Don't just rush forward, look back at my situation. If there is someone around me, I will definitely not be able to pass it to you as soon as possible, so you will turn to the horizontal position."

"I know, I know..."

...Ribery controlled Castro and planned to rush forward in a straight line, but he glanced at Miranda controlled by Chu Zhongtian. Seeing that Chu Zhongtian was changing direction and dribbling the ball in order to avoid the opponent's defense, he changed his mind and suddenly braked when running straight line, then adjusted the direction and inserted it behind the opponent's back line.

It seemed like he had a heart-to-heart relationship. When he ran like this, Miranda, controlled by Chu Zhongtian, also passed a straight pass. The time for the pass was just right. If Chu Zhongtian passed for one second late, Ribery would definitely be offside. If Ribery did not suddenly stop and then run in a diagonal position, Chu Zhongtian would not find this space.

The next thing is simple. After Ribery's controlled Castro received the ball, he had already taken a single shot. He broke into the penalty area, slowed down, and waited for the goalkeeper to attack. Then he used the method of first shooting and then canceling the pass to shoot, and knocked over the goalkeeper, and easily pushed the shot into the empty goal!

"Yeah!" This was the first goal they both scored together. Ribery threw away the handle and jumped up from his position. He was like he scored a goal on the court. He opened his arms and ran around the room, jumped onto the bed of the two people, and rolled forward.

"buuuuuuuuuuuuuuu--!!" Ribery shouted French "goal".

Finally, he imitated the action of kissing the team logo on his chest to celebrate the goal.

Chu Zhongtian watched his series of funny actions from the side, and laughed so hard that he leaned back and forth.

He also liked this feeling very much. Through the cooperation between himself and Ribery, the fun of cooperation, the wonderful feeling of being in harmony, and the sense of accomplishment of finally completing the goal was far better than fighting against computer AI by himself.

In the end, Ribery finished crazy and even hugged him!

Chu Zhongtian was caught off guard and fell to the ground by him.

"Wow!"

"Haha!" Ribery, who was holding Chu Zhongtian, burst into laughter.

"It's beautiful, Chu!"

The two of them had a fight for a while and continued to play. Their tacit understanding in the game became deeper and deeper. Later, Ribery no longer needed to shout anything. As long as he ran to the position, Chu Zhongtian's pass would definitely be sent over. The two of them cooperated with tacit understanding. This game, which was not difficult in itself, was naturally extremely easy to play. When they were about to go to bed, they had already entered the first transfer period.

"Anyway, we have to buy ourselves into the team before going to bed!" Although it was almost twelve o'clock, Ribery was still full of fighting spirit.

Because the values ​​set by Ribery for both of them are based on the current strength of the two, it doesn't cost much money to buy them. The funds they have saved up after winning consecutively are completely enough.

Start buying people without saying a word.

In the first round, "Chu Zhongtian" easily agreed to Metz's invitation, while "Ribery", who was a little higher than him, simply rejected Ribery's invitation.

After seeing this result, Chu Zhongtian laughed so hard that he lay on the bed and kept beating. Ribery obviously didn't expect that he would be so embarrassed, which was very embarrassing.

In the end, Ribery had to give himself the highest salary in the team, which made Ribery reluctantly agree.

After signing himself, Ribery forgot the embarrassing thing just now and became proud: "See? I am the highest salary in the team! I am the well-deserved core! Come on, play another game, and we will join forces..."

Chu Zhongtian shook his head: "It's midnight, Frank. There will be a game tomorrow. I don't know if I can play, but you will definitely start. Let's take a break."

Ribery was a little reluctant. He really wanted to manipulate himself to play a game. "Just one game, Chu..."

"No, Frank. We have been half an hour behind the scheduled rest time. If you are in poor condition tomorrow, the loss will be great. Save and exit. If I still have a chance to be selected for the roster in the next round of the league, let's play again." Chu Zhongtian began to clean up the bed that was messed up by himself and Ribery just now.
To be continued...