Chapter 25 Facing the Greatest Team in France

It was the 10th match of the league and the Touluose players were very nervous because they went to compare their skills against the opposing team and realized that they were worse than them in Attack, Defense, Technique and teamwork the only factor they could be proud of was in its speed it was comparable to the Olympique de Marselille

The game for them today is one of the most difficult games of the year as they would not only face the biggest team on the field but 60 thousand of them off the field cheering for Olympique de Marseillie the team was listed was

GK Ahamada 30

CB Abdennour 23 Zébina 11 RB Ninkov 24 LB Aurier 19

DMF Capoue 29 CMF Cioccolina 5 and M'Bengue LMF Tabanou 10 C(captain)

RMF Braaten 25 CF Usman 2

and bank would be

GK Tohann Pelé 40 CB Firmin 15 Akpa-Akpro 4 Stramberg CMF Didot 8 Sissoko 22 Sirieix 14 CF Rivière 9

After that they revised the formation of Olympique de Marsellie

GK Mandanda

CB Fanni and Diaviara RB Azpilicueta LB Moriel

DMF Arialfitano SMF B. Cheyrou AMF Vulbuena

RF Jordan Ayew CF Remy WF Amore Ayew

The game starts with Marsellie playing between the players in midfield until Amarfitalino drives the ball and tries to get past Capoue

Capoue manages to stop him but at this moment it ends up being considered a foul for Marsellie in which he hits and ball is in possession of Touluose

Touluose tries to set up the ball in the middle of the field but ends up missing the pass due to the players' nervousness and the ball stops at the foot of Valbuena who tries to play it back to Fanni who dominates and is marked by Usman

Usman steals the ball and goes towards Marsellie's goal dribbling Diawara and driving until he arrives at the entrance of the area where Diawara reaches him and hits the ball, but Usman does not give up and runs after the ball and manages to catch it, he spins and dribbles again the defender and enters the area faces the goalkeeper and finishes with a low kick in the left corner of the goalkeeper in which he manages to block sending the ball to his right

Having obtained the corner, Touluose makes a cross into the area and the header is Braaten who manages to jump high on the second stick of the crossbar and send it towards the goal but the ball goes up and goes out

Mandanda restarts the game touching Fanni, Fanni controls the ball and keeps exchanging passes with Diawara and Azpilucueta

Upon catching the ball Azpilucueta touches it forward to Jordan A. who touches it towards midfield , Amalfitano tries to make a pass over the top to Valbuena who tries to head the ball to Remy but Touluose manages to regain possession of the ball and tries an attack from the right wing with Braaten

Braaten sees Usman running towards the goal and tries to make a pass over the top but the ball cannot reach him as the defender removes it from his field with a header

With that last attack failing, the ball is disputed by both teams and is won by Olympique, who manages to build an attack with Jordan running down the left side of the field, driving the ball and entering the area.

He manages to finish the ball in the goal but it passes by the goalkeeper's side and goes out

The game restarts with Ahamada kicking forward the ball is contested in the air by Amalfitano and Usman

Usman misses with the header but who receives the ball is Capoue who plays for Usman and starts the attack by driving the ball forward and touching Bengue who loses the ball to Fanni at the same moment for having turned and fumbled in the domain of the ball Marsellie tries make the attack, but the ball goes back to the Touluose team who touches the ball to Usman

Usman advances between the defenders and is chased by 3 of them arrives at the entrance of the area and the goalkeeper comes out to receive him, Usman not wanting to waste the opportunity kicks the ball over the goalkeeper

The ball passes by the goalkeeper and goes towards the goal, rising little by little and passes over the goal, skipping the crossbar.

Mandanda restarts the ball touching Fanni at his side who takes the ball gaining time in his own field exchanging passes with other defenders and calling the Touluose team to advance until the lateral tries to make a long pass and the ball stops at the foot of the Touluose team in the middle of the field

Touluose tries to make another attack touching Usman but he is stopped by Diawara who steals the ball and passes it to his teammates in the defensive field and they try to play on the left side of the field touching with short passes from foot to foot but they lose the ball to the team of the Toulouse

Who tries again to make an attack in the 1st time additions, touching the ball forward until it reaches Usman who manages to overcome the defenders in the base of the force, enters the area and finishes but the ball goes to the stands

And with that kick, the 1st half ends and the Touluose team goes back to the locker room

Professor Alain was talking to his players about the first half

Here's the thing they may be the best team in France but today you are the best players on the field because you managed 4 shots on their goal while they only managed 1 shot on our goal even if you can't keep possession of the ball I want you to keep attacking this way until the end of this game is fine

Now go back to the field and do your jobs

Toulouse!!!!! come on guys full attack!!!

The ball starts at Touluose's feet in the 2nd half and they start keeping short passes in their own half and advancing down the right wing with Braaten making a pass to Usman

Usman manages to dribble past the defenders and enter the area, he goes face-to-face with the goalkeeper and finishes diagonally into the left corner of the goal

The ball goes slowly past the goalkeeper and goes out scraping the crossbar

Touluose recover the ball after Mandana's shot into the middle of the field but this time they try to attack on the left wing with Usman being marked by Amalfitano he sees Cioccolina passing alone through the defenders and makes a low shot

Cioccolina receives the ball alone and finishes it in the goal but the ball goes up and goes out

In the 55th minute the coach removes Usman and puts Rivière on putting new blood in the team the ball is kicked by Mandana but Olympique manages to win in midfield and keeps possession until one of the players misses the pass and Touluose starts the attack with Riviere receiving the ball and touching Braaten

Braaten does not advance and touches Capoue from behind

Capoue takes a hit from the Olympique player but manages to keep the ball and throws it to Riviere who manages to enter the area but cannot finish as he is heavily guarded by 2 Olympique players so he tries to return the game and restarts the play

They manage to make a new move and attack with Bengue driving the ball, Bengue arrives at the entrance of the area to see an opening in the middle of the barrier created by the defense of Olympique and finishes for the goal but the ball goes diagonally to the left side of the goalkeeper going to outside

In the 68th minute, seeing that the team hadn't worked so far, the coach of Olympique changed Andre and put on Bannan, Mandana restarted the game with a kick to the middle of the field and the ball continued being disputed by players who were in it

Until Olympique gets possession and makes an attack on the left side of the field Jordan driving the ball towards the goal but he can't get past Aurier so he comes back and sees Amalfitano passing him, he touches Amalfitano who tries to make a low pass for those in the area

But who receives the ball and Ninkov who tries to take the ball out of his area with an m kick, but the ball hits Capoue and flies in the opposite direction giving Olympique a corner

Seeing this mistake being made, Alain exchanges Ninkov for Siriex

While the coach of Olympique, realizing the pressure of being tied at home against Touluose, replaces Gignac and Kaboré in place of Cheyril and Remy

Giving new blood to the team at the end of the game

Bannan goes on to take the corner by crossing the ball into the area which is withdrawn by the Toulu defense and the ball bounces off the ground and stops at the foot of Blaaten who tries to hold the ball until his teammates arrive

He tries to make the move by touching midfield but his teammates don't get in the way with it and lose it having Olympique's attack again

Olympique are unable to do anything with this attack as Touluose's defense recovers the ball and the game continues in the second half stoppage time with both teams disputing possession of the ball in the midfield until the final whistle blows

Touluose players leave the field relieved for not having lost another game and for having managed to hold the best team in France away from home

Toulouse players status 2012-2013 season

SMF Tabanou 10

Idade 23

Salary 634.000 Euro por ano

Nacionality França

Ataque 81/99 Defesa 66/99 Body Balance 74/99

Stamina 84/99 Top Speed 83/99 Acceleration 82/99

Responsiveness 81/99 Agility 84/99 Dribble accuracy 85/99

Dribble Speed 86/99 S. Pass accuracy 79/99 S. Pass Speed 81/99

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