Chapter 5
After letting everyone practice with the assistant coach, Yading left Lei Ming alone. He smiled and said, "Lei Ming, your performance yesterday was very good. I can see that you are a very promising player, but before that, you still need to improve a lot." After observing the opponent yesterday, Yading clearly felt that although Lei Ming had outstanding reaction, he was not up to standard in passing and cooperating with teammates and using his body. Compared with the mature and stable Subasic, he still has a long way to go. Fortunately, although this kid looks young, his personality seems to be quite stable. "Okay, coach, I will work hard to improve myself."
Lei Ming also knows his strengths and weaknesses. Whether it is long passes, reactions, or cooperation with teammates, he needs to practice well.
Lei Ming won the favor of the head coach with his humility. Yalding patted him on the shoulder and encouraged him: "Come on, kid, as long as you perform well, it is not a problem to get the same high salary as them."
"Thank you, sir."
"Haha, go ahead and practice well with Paven."
Paven is the goalkeeper coach of the team. Before coming, he had communicated with the other party. Paven also felt bright in front of his eyes after watching yesterday's game. So the two discussed that they should train this kid well in the next time.
Make sure he doesn't make the low-level mistakes that conceded the first goal again.
In the following time, Paven began to formulate a smooth plan for Lei Ming, and let Lei Ming train in turn in saves, reaction jumps, kneeling hugs, multi-ball reaction speed, etc.
During this period, Lei Ming trained alone in the morning and trained with his teammates in the afternoon. As the team's goalkeeper coach, Paven would also correct some wrong judgments beside him.
Defence should be decisive, don't be afraid of losing the ball, be thorough in the connection with the back line, and try to keep the opponent in the half court. After all, Monaco this season is a radical young army in Jardim's creation. Either crush the opponent or finish it yourself, anyway, you have to play with passion.
This style of play also tests the judgment ability of the back line. After all, such a radical style of play will definitely create many single-score opportunities for the opponent, and the cooperation between the goalkeeper and the back defense is particularly important.
Four days passed in a flash.
Lei Ming also gained a lot in these few days. At the same time, with his efforts, the negotiation skill of the goalkeeper code was successfully upgraded to level 1 37%, and only 63% of the distance to level 2 was left.
Now he can even memorize the rules without looking at them. At the same time, he also found that his memory and reaction ability were significantly improved on the day when he memorized the upgrade of this thing.
Although the improvement is slight, as long as there is a change, he is willing to accept it.
On the day of the game, the streets were empty and the Louis II Stadium was full of fans who came to watch the game.
The stadium, which was not big to begin with, was packed with home and away fans. After all, this was originally a stadium that could only accommodate about 18,000 people, but now it accommodated at least about 20,000 people, which shows how enthusiastic the fans are about this game.
In this game, as long as they beat the opponent, Monaco can get a total score of 11 points. Even if they don't win the next game against Leverkusen, they can lock the top spot in the group early. This is not only about honor, but also about how far they can go in the future in the Champions League. This is crucial for them.
Everyone knows that as long as they win the first place in the group, they will become the first-tier team in the subsequent draw, automatically avoiding all the first-tier strong teams. Such an opportunity is in front of them, so why don’t they fight for it!
The Tottenham fans who came from afar also know very well the importance of this game to them, because if they can’t beat Monaco, their steps in the Champions League will probably stop at the group stage, which is absolutely a shame for Tottenham.
Of course, all Tottenham people don’t believe that they can’t win this game. After all, Monaco is just a small team in the French Ligue 1, and this season it is facing a reorganization situation. Even with second-tier players, they can easily beat the opponent.
Therefore, the Tottenham players who are warming up on the court at this time are all talking and laughing, and there is no tension facing a strong team at all.
After all, everyone knows
, Harry Kane in their team is now at the peak of his scoring career, and he has maintained a record of almost one goal per game. In addition, the overall strength of the team this season is much stronger than the patched-up Monaco in any aspect! Moreover, Monaco's first goalkeeper Subasic is said to be injured, and an Asian goalkeeper with the same skin as Son Heung-min has been replaced.
This game is not only not optimistic in the eyes of the majority of fans, but even major bookmakers are not optimistic about Monaco, and directly gave the home odds of 5.81, which is even rising. On the other hand, Tottenham gave an odds of 1.32.
It can be seen from this that the majority of fans have surprisingly consistent attitudes towards the predictions of the two teams.
Almost most people bought Tottenham to win, and even took them as courage.
Even Lei Ming knew that many staff members in his own club bought Tottenham to win.
He also asked his agent to help him buy a lottery ticket of 200,000 euros, but he bet on himself. The reason why he asked the agent to go was mainly to avoid suspicion. After all, FIFA generally has regulations that players cannot buy their own games, otherwise they may be suspended.
In order to avoid stains in the future, Lei Ming asked his agent to help him bet.
He basically borrowed the money from his teammates. Mbappe alone borrowed nearly 150,000 euros, and his teammates provided 40,000. The remaining 10,000 was borrowed by his agent Paul.
That's right, this time, Lei Ming played a game of empty-handedness. He really had no money in his pocket. Although he could receive a monthly salary of 5,000 euros, that money had not been paid after all.
His crazy move even made his agent worried. Two hundred thousand euros could buy two more of you back, but no matter how he persuaded, he could not change Lei Ming's mind.
In this game, as the team's starting goalkeeper and the only goalkeeper, Lei Ming knew better than anyone that he could not lose.
As for whether he can win, he is very optimistic about Mbappe. He believes that as long as he copies the offensive strategy of the last game, Mbappe will not let him down.
Under the guidance of goalkeeper coach Pavon these days, Lei Ming feels that his ability has been significantly improved, mainly in terms of his mind. Since upgrading his negotiation skills, he feels that his mind has become much clearer, and his body's reaction is much better than before. During the team competition, he almost blocked all the goals and won the unanimous trust of his teammates.
His change naturally made goalkeeper coach Pavon praise him, and he often exaggerated in front of head coach Jardine that Lei Ming is a rare seedling.
He was really blind before, and he didn't discover this seedling as soon as possible.