Despite the team's internal injuries, there were still people who could not play because of red cards, and Menetz did not wait for his chance. In such an important game, he was still excluded from the roster.

When Fernandez announced this decision to Menez, it was obvious that the disappointment on Menez's face was seen. Despite this, he assigned homework to Menez: "Add Chu carefully to see how he runs and passes the ball."

Since Menez is arrogant, Fernandez will kill him with such arrogance.

If this arrogance does not kill, Menez will only experience success in the future, but not incur setbacks and failures. But who can only succeed and not fail in your life?

Throwing Menez at Metz, Fernandez led the team to Nancy.

From the day they arrived in Nancy, they felt the atmosphere of the Derby War.

When Menez was not included in the roster, Ribery still had a room with Chu Zhongtian. As a result, outside the hotel where they were staying, a group of extreme Nancy fans had sex all night. At first, Metz went to negotiate with the hotel, but the hotel didn't care at all. Through this matter, they all saw Nancy's hatred for Metz.

The rest was not good, and the team yawned all the time when they woke up in the morning. Seeing this, Fernandez simply announced the cancellation of the arrangement for adaptive training in the morning, and asked all the players to go back to the room to continue to rest and make up for their sleep after having breakfast.

During the day, the group of Nancy fans who had been making noise all night finally dispersed.

Although there is more traffic outside the hotel, it is much better than the noise deliberately created.

"This is the Derby...Haha--" Ribery yawned. It was almost twelve o'clock when he got up from the bed, and it seemed that he had not had a good sleep.

Chu Zhongtian is better than him. Even the fans didn't make a fuss last night because he fell asleep listening to music with headphones. The fans were making noise, and they could not match the music with loud volume.

So in the morning he was the only person on the team who did not continue to sleep in the room, and he went to the gym provided by the hotel and had an hour of strength and fitness training.

Then he found some local newspapers to read.

After the Metz players counterattacked, the Nancy people were not to be outdone. The media reported on the situation where Metz was injured and there were many exaggerations in their words. It seemed that Metz could not even get together with the eleven complete people. But in fact? Chu Zhongtian really didn't know what such reports would benefit Nancy. Will they relax their vigilance?

Of course, some Nancy players responded to the remarks of Metz players.

For example, that Berengul said to Ribery's contempt for him: "He doesn't know me, but I know him, and I think this game will let him know mine."

After lunch together, in order not to let the players get more and more sleepy, Fernandez did not allow any players to go back to their room to continue sleeping, but arranged to go to the gym for strength and endurance training. The intensity was not high, mainly to let the players move and refresh themselves by the way.

Chu Zhongtian has preferential treatment, and he doesn't have to participate in this training because he has practiced before. He sat alone in the hotel lobby, watching the reporters and fans outside. The number of people on both sides is at least twice as high as that of ordinary games.

After six rounds, Metz won two wins, one draw and three losses, and seven points were added, ranking 14th. Nancy only got three points, ranking second to last. This is not a strong dialogue, but it can attract so many people because it is a derby, and it is the hottest derby in France. It not only attracted media from the Lorraine region, but also attracted the attention of media from France to other places. For example, the national "Team" and "French Football" both sent reporters to interview.

Faced with such a situation, some people will feel nervous, but Chu Zhongtian will not.

The bigger the scene, the more exciting it became.

There are still five hours left for the match with Nancy, and Chu Zhongtian can't wait.

※※As a taxi driver, Belmont can only occasionally go to the Forian Stadium in Saint Mountain to watch the game. He doesn’t have anything to do on the road. Most of the time, he can only sit in his own taxi, turn on the radio, and listen to the game.

This is not the first time he has "listened" to the derby on the radio. The last time was in the 2002-2003 season. Messi was unfortunately relegated and played two Lorrain derbys with Nancy in the second division. Those two derbys impressed him because Mess not only successfully returned to Class A that season, but also won double defeats Nancy in the game, 2:1 away and 4:0 at home. Especially in the home game, he went to watch the scene. The four balls were wonderful, and the team won a lot of joy. Their arch-rival Nancy was beaten by Mess's storm-style attack without any power to fight back.

In the earlier 1999-2000 season, both sides ended in the draw, one game 2:2 and the other game 0:0, which is too far away, and Belmont's memory has blurred.

He had already planned it. When the competition was about to start, he would find a quiet place, park the car, and then sit in the car and listen to the broadcast attentively. He would not pull anyone who called the car.

In those ninety minutes, nothing was more important than this derby.

※※※Old man Legov slept until six o'clock in the afternoon. His daughter was busy in the kitchen and preparing dinner for him. In fact, they usually didn't have dinner so early, but today was very special, so Legov deliberately asked his daughter to prepare dinner for him in advance so that he could finish his meal early and sit in front of the TV to watch the game broadcast.

Today is Derby Day. As a hardcore fan of Metz, how could he miss such a hot game?

After getting up, Legov finished washing in the bathroom alone, and then walked out and stood in front of a wine lattice cabinet as wide as a wall. The lattice was full of wine bottles, each lattice was one bottle. But there were two lattice empty and there was nothing inside.

He counted and confirmed that the number was correct. He turned around with peace of mind, sat on the sofa, turned on the TV, pulled over a thin blanket to cover his legs, and he leaned against the backrest of the sofa and started watching TV.

The TV screen is just about to review the game where the league was the first to start. The strong dialogue between Bordeaux and Lyon was played. In the end, the two sides were tied, and no one suffered a loss when they scored a goal.

After the broadcast, it is the preview of the rest of the league games. Four games will be held at 7:00 tonight. The most eye-catching game is naturally the game where Nancy faces Metz at home.

The host of the show is announcing to everyone in a passionate voice: "The hottest Lorrin Derby is back!"

Legov followed and shouted: "Nancy dies! Ah haha!"

He frightened his daughter out of the kitchen to see what was going on, and happened to see his dad laughing. She sighed helplessly and returned to the kitchen to continue her busyness.

In China, CCTV had already negotiated with France's Canal TV when Chu Zhongtian and Metz confirmed their contract. The new season will give priority to Metz's game signals so that Chinese fans and audiences can see Chu Zhongtian's game as soon as possible.

How could they not turn around for Lorraine derby like Metz and Nancy? They started advertising the game two weeks ago.

Kang Jianbo, Chu Zuosheng and Zhou Xiaoxiang, as well as many other fans who liked and followed Chu Zhongtian were all ready to stay up late to watch this game.

Looking forward to the coming of this game as soon as possible, there is not only one Chu Zhongtian.

※※The game officially starts at 7:00 pm, but the team has to set off to the stadium at 5:00 pm to prepare for the game.

On the way, a group of Metz players who had never participated in the Lorraine derby except Promont and Stephane Morisot, had initially seen how different this derby was from any of the games they had played before.

Wherever the buses Metz are traveling, they will cause booing from Nancy fans on the roadside. On the road, there are Nancy fans who are traveling with them. People in the car keep raising middle fingers to Metz players on the bus, or showing them to Metz players that they have made themselves threatening and abusive slogans and banners and comic portraits.

Chu Zhongtian even saw a cartoon aimed at him - a player wearing the No. 8 jersey of Metz, with a very obvious pigtail braid behind his head, and was kneeling down to the Nancy players... I don't know whether the Nancy fans deliberately mocked Chu Zhongtian as a Qing Dynasty, or whether they think that there should be a braid behind the Chinese's heads... Judging from Chu Zhongtian's understanding of many Europeans, it should be the second reason.

In Britain, he met drinkers who thought the Chinese were still in the Cultural Revolution. Here he met a group of French people who thought the Chinese were still under the Qing Dynasty, and there was nothing to be surprised about.

But Chu Zhongtian clenched his fists, and he had to give these arrogant French men a little more powerful look. Let them know that the days when the Chinese were dragging a pig tail and were called the "Sick Man of East Asia" were long gone.

Kneel down? I don’t know who kneels down to whom for a while! Nancy’s bastards!

※※※ Two hours before the start of the game, Nancy's home court, the stade_marcel_picot, is basically full. If it is a normal game, fans will only be allowed to enter the court... This stadium can accommodate 20,087 people. According to Xu Xiaodi's vision, it is basically full and there is no empty space.

In fact, Xu Xiaodi's visual inspection was still very accurate, because according to official statistics, 20,52 people poured into the Marsell Pique Stadium in this game, with only 35 empty positions, which could be considered full.

Because considering that the fans of both sides have always had a feud, out of safety, Nancy Club only provided 800 fans to Metz fans.

This aroused dissatisfaction among Metz fans and Metz clubs. They believed that the number of tickets for Metz was too small. The stadium that could accommodate 20,000 people was allowed to enter the court, which was obviously intended to give Metz a complete away feeling.

Both the Metz Club and the Metz Fan Association protested like the Nancy Club.

Nancy Club's explanation for this is because there are some racists among Metz fans, and for the sake of game safety, they can only give so many tickets. "I'm not saying that all Metz fans are football hooligans. Of course, we also have extreme fans, but we are only a few. The Metz team has a large number of football hooligans who are enough to affect the entire group's image."

The words of Jacques_rousselot, chairman of Nancy Club, angered the Metz club and fans. Officials from the French Football Association also believed that Rusette was not considering what he said. He did not say this "for safety reasons" at all, but instead added fuel to the already tense derby atmosphere.

Metz club chairman Molinari countered: "To me, Metz fans are the safest and best fans in the world!"

The biggest news before the game was the two clubs' verbal battles. However, the players' "give greetings" between them is a bit of a slight feeling. Both sides claim that their fans are the cutest people in the world, while the other fans are the most hateful groups in the world.

In fact, the fans of both clubs are not clean. Metz and Nancy fans have recorded bad behavior in newspapers, such as removing chairs and smashing each other's fans, singing racist songs, lighting plastic seats during the game, and setting off fireworks... Finally, under the strong protest of Metz Club, Nancy Club decided to add 200 tickets to Metz fans, so that the number of Metz fans who can go to watch the game on site will increase to 1,000.

But this is still far from enough. You should know that in normal games, there are as many as 2,000 Metz fans who follow the team to the away game. Considering that this is a derby, the number of players should at least double.

Now Nancy has only given 1,000 tickets, and Metz will be under tremendous pressure from 19,000 home team fans at Marsell Pique Stadium. Considering this is a derby, the pressure may be doubled.

※※ When the Metz players ran out to warm up, they felt the "humanity" of Nancy fans.

Seeing Metz players appear on the court, the Nancy fans in the stands booed at them, and then continued to scold: "Metz's idiots! Have your butts been washed?!"

"Today I want to make you regret why you didn't directly relegate last season!"

"Don't underestimate us, we will beat you up to pieces!"

"We are back! Lorraine's king is us!"

Faced with the tsunami of Nancy fans and booing, the Metz fans, who only a thousand people, also fought back. They scolded Nancy players: "Belungul, you coward, can only talk in the newspaper! I believe your oral work must be very good, right?! Come on, I have thick and long sausages, come and lick it!"

It’s a pity that their voices were too low and they were soon drowned out by the new round of yelling and scolding from Nancy players.

The booing sounds made every Metz player who played feel his heartbeat, his mouth was dry and his head was a little confused.

Is this the most popular Lorrin derby in France?

Chu Zhongtian was not disturbed. He won the Battle of Stamford Bridge with more than 60,000 people all booed, and the 20,000-person small court could not disturb him at all.

He warmed up with the coach seriously, without looking up at the Nancy fans who were swaying at them.

After the warm-up, the players left the stadium, and the Nancy fans in the stands booed to see them off.

"It's better not to come out once you go in, you cowards!"

The players withdrew from the court, and the protagonist in the court naturally became fans. Nancy fans who lost their target began to curse Metz fans. Although the Metz fans were few, they were not willing to fight back. The two sides greeted each other's immediate female relatives in their homes through the walls of police, and also extended their middle fingers to greet each other enthusiastically.

The fans of Metz were concentrated in a small stand, surrounded by Nancy fans. The fans of the two teams were separated by three teams holding shields and batons, wearing masks and helmets, and wearing riot armor. If any abnormal movements between the fans of the two teams, at least three policemen would immediately surround them and use shields to push the other party back to their own positions. In case of a conflict, these policemen would not hold back when they beat people. They had accumulated rich experience - when dealing with football hooligans, all warnings were nonsense, just one word: Fight! They would lose their combat effectiveness and could no longer resist and cause trouble.

※※※ Chu Zhongtian and his teammates returned to the locker room, where coach Fernandez was waiting for them.

The tactical board next to him was written with the names and numbers of several people, and they were all the more threatening players in the Nancy team.

No. 18, Carlos_adrian_sarkisian.

No. 6, Pascal Berenguer.

No. 8, Frederic Biancalani (frederic_biancalani), captain.

No. 22, Eli Croupi (eli_kroupi).

After all the players came back and sat down, Fernandez began to tell them what they needed to pay attention to when dealing with these four players.

"Sarki Xi'an is the best skilled player in their team and the best passer, and the core of the team's organization. He must keep an eye on it. However, his physical fitness is average. If he encounters a very fierce battle, he will take the initiative to make concessions. Chu and Promum, you can take advantage of this when defending him."

"Belungul is their defensive midfielder, very good in body, and has the ability to shoot a long shot. Try not to give him a chance to shoot a long shot in the game."

"Biankarani is the captain of Nancy. She can play defensive midfielders and full-backs. Her assisting ability is excellent. But she is not fast enough and it is not so easy to come back once she goes up. So our offense can take the opportunity to hit him behind him."

"Claupi's speed is his biggest weapon and a threat to us, so I ask the defenders not to give this person too much room to sprint when defending, and to foul if necessary."

After analyzing the four most threatening players, Fernandez briefly explained the other Nancy players. Let everyone have a clear idea of ​​what the opponent they are going to face is.

Finally, Fernandez looked at the players who were silent, "The importance of this game is no longer necessary for me to talk nonsense, boys. When you step onto the court, please remember a little bit - this is a derby!"

(To be continued)
Chapter completed!