i am a football star

Chapter 15 The Devil's Race
Soon, the two-week national team game ended, and Liu Ting also greatly shortened the relationship with his teammates in the past half month. He did not participate in the pre-season training camp.

With the return of the whole team, Ligue [-] will start fighting again.

Bordeaux's opponent in this round is Lille. Lille is not a strong team, nor will it be the dark horse champion of Ligue 04 with Hazard and other stars in the future.

Air France staff went on strike.

In France, strikes are commonplace.Maybe it's because they are naturally lazy and don't want to work to make excuses, or maybe it's really for the benefit of the employees. Only God knows the reason. Anyway, there are dozens of large and small strikes every year in France.When a foreigner comes to work in France, if he does not buy a car as soon as possible, he may be late for work. There will be a strike of bus drivers and taxi drivers in one or two months. If you do not have your own car, once you go on strike, it will be a problem.

In France, people who have not experienced a few strikes are ashamed to say hello when you go out.

For most European clubs, when playing an away game, the plane is generally considered more than 300 kilometers away, and the train or direct team bus is used within 300 kilometers.The distance from Bordeaux to Lille is more than 800 kilometers.

Now that the airline staff is on strike, the plane will naturally be unable to sit.And Lille is one of the French cities farthest from Bordeaux. Lille is in the northernmost part of France, while Bordeaux is in the southwestern corner of France.It takes more than four hours to get to Lille from Bordeaux by express train, and they have just participated in the national team competition. There are still a few national team players in the team. Now they have to travel long distances by car to play away games.

In the end, the Bordeaux team took the train to the away game in Lille.

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In the evening, France [-] is broadcasting "Weekly Events", which is a football program about the French league, mainly about the weekly French team matches.

"The eighth round of the Ligue 1 match has all ended. Maybe it was affected by the national team's game or the airline's strike. Most of the strong teams in this round are not doing well. Monaco lost 2:1 at home to Paris Saint-Germain, Marseille also lost 2:1 at home to Toulouse, Bordeaux drew 1:5 away with Lille, but Lyon beat Metz 1:17 away. After the start of this season, Nancy, the dark horse, still has 15 points in the standings despite losing away. He is at the top of the Ligue 18 table, but behind him are Bordeaux and Lyon with [-] points. Lyon still has one round less. If Lyon wins the make-up match, they will be ranked first with [-] points. I don’t know if Lyon can win the Ligue [-] championship again this season and complete an unprecedented seven consecutive championships.”

Bordeaux still failed to win this round. After a long journey and some players had just returned from the national team match, the Bordeaux team performed poorly at the Pierre Mauroy Stadium in Lille. They conceded the goal in just 3 minutes. Although Bordeaux tried their best to adjust, they finally equalized in the 40th minute.

Despite the poor performance of the whole team, Liu Ting's performance still had bright spots. Bordeaux's equalizer goal was scored by Liu Ting after a corner kick made in the frontcourt.Liu Ting can't support the whole team by himself, but he used this to show that he once again strengthened his position in the team.

After this round of competition, the Bordeaux team returned to Bordeaux to prepare for the next game.The match between Bordeaux and Lille is on September 9. Next, Bordeaux will go to Finland to participate in the first leg of the third round of the Europa League qualifying round against Tampere United in Finland on September 15. On the next day, they will go to the French capital to challenge the ninth round of Ligue 9 in Paris on the 20rd. On the 23th, it will be the third round of the French League Cup.Two consecutive weeks of double matches, and except for the last French League Cup match at home, the rest of the matches are all away games, and they have to fly around to play three away games in a week. The schedule of Bordeaux in these two weeks is definitely a devil's schedule.

Like England, France has two domestic cup competitions, the French Cup and the French League Cup. The champions can participate in European competitions, which also makes the French league schedule relatively tight. The better thing is that regardless of the French Cup or the French League Cup, Ligue [-] teams only need to participate from the third round.

At the same time, the good news is that the airline strike is about to end, and Bordeaux don't have to worry about flying to Finland to compete.After all, France is a big tourist country, so it is impossible to keep delaying flights. If bus drivers or taxi drivers go on strike, it may be delayed for a few more days, and the French government will solve the airline strike as soon as possible.

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On September 9th, the whole Bordeaux team finally got their wish and got on a French flight to Finland to prepare for the game one day in advance.Weakness in the European competition has always been a repertoire for Ligue 19 teams, but weakness does not mean that they do not pay attention. There are many reasons for the weakness in the European competition in Ligue [-]. What should be paid attention to is still to be paid attention to.

Tampere is the second largest city in Finland after the capital Helsinki and an important industrial area in Finland.Tampere is not well-known in Europe, but here is the secret activity base of Lenin and Stalin in Europe. Here, the Russian Socialist Democratic Labor Party held many underground meetings, and finally overthrew Tsarist Russia and opened the Soviet era.Tampere is home to the only remaining Lenin Museum in the world.

Bordeaux trained at the training ground of TPV Tampere, Tampere United's rivals in the same city.Blanc plans to let Cavinaghi start this game, and it's time to come out and contribute to the team after being injured for so long.

"I plan to let Cavinaghi start in the middle, Bellion on the left, and Liu Ting on the right. This is the combination that can best use their strength." Coach Laurent Blanc said to assistant coach Jean Gasset on the sidelines.

"Kavinaghi just came back from injury, and the training time with the whole team is very short. I'm worried that he won't be able to fully cooperate with his teammates." Gasset said his worries.

"It doesn't matter. Tampere United is not a strong team. It can be said that it is a full-fledged team. We also sent Micoud, a veteran with many years of European experience. Even if Cavinaghi's performance is not good, I just use this game to see how the three of them cooperate. If we perform well, we can even form a good trident. Maybe we can hope for the league championship by then." Blanco thought of that beautiful scene. The emerging coach, but his face is involuntarily flushed, making assistant coach Gasset wonder if he is following the wrong person.

(End of this chapter)