Chapter 30 Facing the 2nd Place
Touluose's 14th match would be against Olympique Lyon at Lyon's home at Estadio de Gerland against not only 11 players, but over 40,000 Lyon fans at the Stadium for being in 2nd place the fans will cheer up the lyon team, the stadium will go crazy so they don't lose points against us in this match
That's why today's training will be
GK Ahamada 30
CB Firmin 15 Zébina 11 (C) RB M'Bengue 12 LB Abdennour 23
DMF Siriex 14 CMF Cioccolina 5 and Didot 8 LMF Tabanou 10
RMF Braaten 25 CF Usman 2
GK Yohann Pelé CB Stramberg 6 SB Aurier 19 SB Ninkov 24 CMF Capoue 29 Sissoko 22 AMF Bem Yedder SS Aguemon 18 CF Rivière 9
While Lyon's squad is
GK LLoris
CB Bisevac Cris RB Reveillere LB A Cissokho
DMF Gonalons CMF Fofana AMF Réale
RF Pied CF Gomis WF Lisandro
The game starts with the ball being touched to Gonalons who touches it to FOfana
Fofana when dominating loses the ball to Usman who puts pressure on the ball players at the beginning of the game he takes the ball close to the area and tries to make a pass to Tabanou between the defenders but the right-back intercepts and withdraws from his area with a kick forward
Again they manage to get the ball and Bengue makes a pass to Usman but he loses the ball as he cannot dribble Cris and the ball goes back to midfield to Fofana who manages to protect the ball and retreat to Bisevac
Bisevac plays for Fofana who plays for Gonalons , Gonalons sends a high pass to Gomis
But who reaches the ball first is Abdennou who withdraws it to the side
Lyon keep up the attacking pressure with Pied playing down the left side of the field until he crosses into the area for Gomis , but Zebina takes the ball with his head and it stops in the middle of the field, returning to the dispute between teams
Until the ball stops at Usman's foot who continues to lead the ball from his field dribbling all his opponents and running towards the goal he tries to dribble the goalkeeper but he can't and the defenders end up creating a barrier he tries to retreat with the ball and do a pass for his companion Cioccolina
Cioccolina ends up losing track of his positioning and ends up being offside, making Lyon keep the ball
After the kick to restart the ball stops at the foot of Fofana who tries to follow with the ball for the attack but is blocked by Touluose , so he retreats and passes Gomis the attack of his team , they are touching each other and lose the ball in midfield
Giving another opportunity for another run by Usman he takes the ball and runs half of the entire field driving the ball alone Cris dribbles and faces the goalkeeper this time he manages to put the ball to the side taking it from the goalkeeper
Usman kicks it on goal, and it's GOOOOOOOOOOLLLLLLL! At 30 minutes of the first half, Touluose scores a goal, taking the score from 0 x 0 to
Lyon 0-1 Toulouse
Lyon restarted the game , but they started to attack early as they lost the ball with their clumsy passes and suffered with another Touluose attack with Braaten leading the ball through the right end
He goes close to the edge of the area on the right edge and crosses into the area Tabanou appears in the area and heads towards the goal the ball goes down the left side of the goal without any danger to the goalkeeper
LLoris restarts the game with a nice kick to the midfield, the ball is disputed by Siriex and Fofana in which Siriex manages to head to Usman
Usman dominates the ball makes a spin and drives the ball to the left wing where he sees Tabanou and plays a pass to him
Tabanou keeps driving the ball past Bisavoc dribbling him and kicks at the goal the goalkeeper Lloris saves the ball rebounding on the same side of the kick Tabanou runs until the ball reaches it and kicks at the goal again LLoris catches himself in the trabe defended the kick and sends the ball out
The corner kick is taken by Tabanou into the area Usman appears for a header but Cishokko to prevent him with a header hits Usman from the back which makes him lose position and balance to head the ball missing an opportunity to score
And again in the Acrescimos Usman manages to reach the entrance to the Lyon area and tries to dribble past the defenders, but Cris does not allow the team to take the second goal by throwing his body to hit Usman the referee did not miss on either occasion. that both the coach , fans and players would feel uncomfortable in this game
At the end of the 1st half, the Toulouse players were talking in the locker room
Hey Usman are you ok? (Zebina=Zeb)
Yes captain I'm fine but I feel uncomfortable
Are you sure you're okay Usman? (Cioccolina=Cio)
Yes I do, but the question I ask you is, did you also notice that the referee is giving too much weight to their side, we are receiving several hits on the field and we have not received any fouls?
Yes (Didot=Di)
But you're the only one they're getting heavy on the marking to the point of using this method of shallow strikes (Zeb)
Why?
Well it's simple, Usman his mental ability to ignore what they are talking about and his lack of understanding of the French language is saving him from getting cards for fighting, but in return they are using something more physical (Cio)
I understand
Hey boys (Alain)
In this game I only have one thing to say to you, I want you to go back there and not lose, it's okay if you can't win today, but don't lose, everyone has already noticed, but in this game the referee's favoritism is weighing heavily on the other side
We dominated the game with you taking 4 shots on goal and 3 of them were on goal and 59% of the ball is ours against 41% of them, but in return you were hit the whole game and we didn't have a foul, so get back in the game and take Take the greatest possible care not to get injured. That's your mission today, boys, not to get hurt.
Now join hands and make the battle cry
Don't get injured! (Alain)
We will not injure you !!!!!!!!! (players)
The 2nd half starts with Touluose playing for Zebina and making passes in their field, attracting the Lyon team until Zebina touches it wrong and the ball stops at the foot of Lisandro who spins and touches Pied
Pied advances through the open space, enters the area and hits the goal
Gooooooooollllllll!!!!!!!!!! Pied equalizes at 50 minutes in the 2nd half
After that, the game restarts with Touluose attacking from the end with Tabanou, but he is stopped by Reveill who pushes him with his body until he leaves with the ball to the side
And at 53 minutes Alain removes Usman and puts Rivieré on the field
The winger is thrown to Abdennour who dominates the ball and tries there by the wing until Fofana reaches him and hits him making the ball to the wing again
Tabanou charges the winger sending the ball to Siriex who turns with the ball to the center and makes a pass to Didot who is on the edge of the area
Didot receives the pass and tries to enter the area to finish, but he is stopped by Cris who takes the ball and sends it to the side.
Lyon and Touluose were fighting for the ball on the wing until Lyon got possession of the ball and the game started playing from Cris and Bisevoc to Gonalons
On the pass to Gonalons they start an attack touching Reale who tries a high pass to Lisandro
Lisandro fails to win the dispute against Didot, but the ball ends up returning to the Lyon team in which Fofana manages to carry out a low shot forward in which Lisandro runs and reaches the ball first
He goes towards Touluose's goal, but is blocked by Bengue who kicks the ball into midfield
The match continues with Lyon gaining more possession of the ball and trying to reach Toulouse's goal more often in the second half.
They are forcing the attack so much that the referee can no longer go without saying in favor of Touluose that in the 83rd minute Gomis tries to push Zébina to enter the area to get the ball that Lisandro had just recovered inside the attack , at this moment the referee whistle for lack
The coaches of the two teams put new blood in the team Aguemon in place of Braaten and Gourcuff in place of Reale
The game resumes with Abdennour's kick to midfield
Where Didot and Gomis dispute it in the air, Gomis wins and heads it forward towards Pied, but the ball goes far from Pied and who catches it is Siriex who sets up Touluose's attack at that moment, advancing against the Lyon team
With passes between the attacking players , but no attack jeopardizes Lyon ending the game 1-1
Touluose players, when the whistle blows, put their hands on their knees, happy for having managed to finish this match without any of their teammates being injured.
After being relieved all Touluose players left the stadium and took the bus back to Touluose city to rest.
With the team having the topic of conversation that Usman managed to be MVP 50% of the games he participated in for the team.
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