Chapter 22 Facing the League Top Scorer

The days went by after playing against Nancy and now it was the day of the game against Valenciennes at their home, the team that had the league's top scorer, Alain didn't say much about that team because they were in 9th place but their striker had scored 7 goals within 7 league rounds

Only players followed the list and were preparing for the game

GK Ahamada 30

CB Firmin 15 C(captain) Zébina 11 RB Ninkov 24 LB Abdennour 23

DMF Capoue 29 CMF Cioccolina 5 Sirieix 14 RMF Tabanou 10

LMF Sissoko 22 CF Usman 2

WF Braaten 25 ...+

While the Valenciennes team had

GK Penneteau

CB Gil and Angoua RB Mody Traoré LB Bong

DMF R. Gomis CMF Saez Ducourtioux RMF Duric

LMF Danic 22 CF V. Aboukabar

The game starts with the home team playing in their field and advancing through the right side of the field with Danic, but Danic is being marked by Ninkov who sends the ball out

Valeciennes restarts playing the wing but loses the ball to Tabanou who steals it and passes it to Usman who tries to advance going through the wing but cannot dribble Angoua and loses the ball

Angoua dominates the ball and passes it to Gil, Gil watches Aboukabar running from afar and tries to shoot him over the top but ends up being considered offside as Aboukabar had already passed the defenders before Gil makes the pass

The ball restarts with the kick forward and ball possession returns to Valeciennes who fails to create a satisfactory move making the game stay in the middle of the field with the teams fighting for the ball until Capoue manages to steal the ball and play for Tabanou who receives the ball dominates and touches to Usman

Usman dominates takes the ball to the half moon at the edge of the area and tries a low shot for Sissoko but who reaches the ball first and Mody who was marking him

Mody takes the ball and kicks it towards the midfielder, returning possession of the ball to Touluose who manages to do but one attack

The ball arrives at Usman's feet with Siriex's pass he enters the area between the defenders and finishes in the goal after he leaves the goal the ball passes the goalkeeper's side and goes diagonally to the post on the left side of the goalkeeper going out

The game restarts with a kick forward by Penneteau the ball is contested in the air by Capoue and Aboukabar

Capoue gets the header but the ball stops at Gomis's feet, Gomis dominates and tries to make a pass to Aboukabar, missing the pass and stopping at Capoue's foot

Capoue dominates and plays for Usman who spins dribbling Gomis runs from Saez and goes down the left side of the field dribbling Gil after entering the area seeing the goalkeeper exit and finishing the ball in the goal with a low shot in the left corner of the goalkeeper (right of the goal)

The kick this time does not curve as much as the previous one passes the goalkeeper who fall to the ground protecting his corner (right corner of the goalkeeper) and enters the goal

GOOOOOOOOOOOLLLL do Touluose at 29 min in the first half Usman scores his 2nd league goal for Touluose

Valecionnes 0 x 1 Toulouse

After taking the goal, Valecionnes restarted the game trying a desperate attack in which they failed and ended up receiving a counterattack with an overhead pass from Siriex to Usman but who reaches the ball is Gil at the entrance to the area, he takes it with his head

Thus returning the ball to the midfield and the fight of the two teams to start an offensive

Until at 41 min with a wrong pass from Aboukabar, Sissoko manages to get the ball and play for Usman starting an attack in which he manages to enter the area and faces the goalkeeper who leaves the goal but Angoua manages to stop him from finishing the goal kick on goal and the ball goes to the corner

The corner kick is knocked into the area but the defense of Valecionnes manages to head one of the Touluose players, thus making the Touluose team lose its opportunity to score the 2nd goal in the game

With the last opportunity for the goal being missed, the referee whistles and ends the 1st half of the game

With players from both teams going to the changing rooms, coach Alain reviews with his players to maintain the offensive

Team I want you to keep the offensive in this game they are at home we are in 7th place and they are in 9th that is a fight of teams in the middle of the table at this moment what they want most is not to win but to draw look at these stats here for this game

Statistics

Valenciennes 0 v 1 Toulouse

Kicks 0(0) x 3(1)

Free Kicks 0x1

Fouls 1 x 0

Ball possession 48% x 52%

Now go back to the field with the mentality to finish them off for good.

The 2nd half started with the referee's whistle and possession of the ball was with Touluose who started playing for their defenders attracting the Valeciennes team and starting the attack with Tabanou on the right who played for Cioccolina

Cioccolina sees Usman free and plays for him

Usman dominates and takes the ball into the area, sees that it is being blocked and tries to pass it to the side for Siriex, who was arriving, but the ball is intercepted by Mody, who kicks it outside the area to the side and ends up on Tabanou's foot

As he dominates the ball, he goes to the right and tries a cross into the area in Siriex's head, Siriex manages to enter the area and heads but the ball goes directly outside with his header

After the restart of the game with the kick from the Valecionnes goalkeeper, there is another attack by Touluose but in this attack Tabanou and Sissoko had been switched positions and the attack went on the left end with Tabanou touching Usman who dominates and leads her diagonally to the right end the left side of the goalkeeper dribbling past the Valecionnes defenders

He manages to open a space and tries to finish in the goal, but he handles the ball so badly that he goes over the goal

After that last attack Usman is taken out of the game by Alain to put Rivieré

Pennetaeu restarts the game with a kick the ball is disputed by Ducourtroix and Siriex with Siriex winning Toluose tries to go on the attack with Cioccilina but he loses the ball to Gomis and the ball is left to Danic who starts an attack for Baleciionnes touching for Aboukabar who tries to drive the ball towards the goal

But Cioccolina ends up catching him and taking the ball and possession of the ball remains with the Toluose team in midfield until Gomis manages to steal the ball from Cioccilina with a tumble in midfield

With this, possession of the ball remains with Valecionnes who practically tries to move towards Touluose's goal and they succeed after the ball reaches Danic who leads it and dribbles 4 Touluose players facing the he finishes from the half moon Ahamaada spreads the ball to his right and Ninkov arrives and kicks it to the side

With the ball out, Valacionnes made a substitution putting new blood on the pitch, leaving Gomis and entering Pujol

Who receives the pass from the throw on the side is Bong who spins and crosses into the area where Duric manages to unmark and heads towards the goal but his header is very strong as it goes up and passes wide of the goal

Ahamada restarts the game with a kick and the ball is in possession of Valecionnes who, even fumbling, manages to advance to the attack but the referee ends up marking offside in one of the plays and the ball returns to Touluose

In which the game restarts with a kick forward again, the ball returns to the feet of the players at the feet of Pujol who tries the pass to Aboukabar who, when passing to Ducourtioux, he runs and hits Ducourtioux's marker from the back which was Capoue

Ducourtiox manages to follow with the ball but is stopped by three Toulouse defenders who manage to steal the ball and kick it into the middle of the field with luck the ball stops at the foot of Rivieré who passes it to Cioccolina

Cioccolina dominates the ball and touches it on the left wing to Tabanou who continues to drive the ball through the Valecionnes field until it gets close to the corner line

Arriving at the line Tabanou tries to gain time protecting the ball but receives the blow from Gil and falls forward, Gil catches the ball and touches Saez who touches the middle for Angoua

Angoua, who was already irritated for having lost the game because the extra time was ending, kicks the ball to the side, when the ball leaves the field, the referee whistles, ending the game

Touluose players shout and rejoice clapping to the crowd and thanking the Touluose fans for coming

After leaving the field and all Touluose players arrive in the locker room

Alain spoke to his players

Congratulations on today's victory, gentlemen, I want to comment a little about today's game. Let's talk first about the team's statistics on the pitch.

Valenciennes 0 v 1 Toulouse

Kicks 2(1) x 5(1)

Free Kicks 0x2

Corner Kicks 0x1

Fouls (Offside) 2(2) x 0(0)

Ball possession 46% x 54%

Let's start talking now, I hope you saw what I saw here

Does anyone in the room want to speak?

yes i teacher

You Usman?

Yes

We managed to completely dominate the pitch today , even though we were playing away from home we had more shots in his goal , we had more possession of the ball as well as we had 1 corner kick and he did not

Yes Usman very well , but that 's not all , first none of you were offside , they had two offsides , it means that the defense today positioned themselves well , they did not have a corner kick , that means that the defense stopped them completely today

They only had two shots, which means that the team was managing to hold them in their field, and they made 2 fouls, which means that you managed to piss them off.

Now why don't I tell you a joke you managed to massacre a team that is in 9th place why didn't you do that when you were at home against Nancy who was in 18th place I want you to think about it

Dismissed, let's go back to Touluose

Toulouse players status 2012-2013 season

DMF Capoue 29

Idade 27

Salary 854.000 Euro por ano

Nacionality França

Ataque 64/99 Defesa 78/99 Body Balance 86/99

Stamina 78/99 Top Speed 76/99 Acceleration 76/99

Responsiveness 80/99 Agility 67/99 Dribble accuracy 76/99

Dribble Speed 81/99 S. Pass accuracy 74/99 S. Pass Speed 79/99

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