Three days after the first round of the Champions League, on April 5, in the 32nd round of Ligue 1, Paris Saint-Germain played against Reims at home.
In this game, Blanco fielded most of the main players.
Although the second round of the Champions League match against Chelsea will be held in three days, because Paris Saint-Germain led by Lu Wenbin will be reversed by Chelsea with three goals in the first round, Blanc believes that Paris Saint-Germain will be reversed by Chelsea with three goals.
Therefore, Blanco chose to send out most of the main players and strive to win the league season with all the victories.
However, Paris Saint-Germain's performance did not look like the main team playing against their opponents.
After Lu Wenbin assisted substitute striker Menez to score a goal in the 19th minute of the first half, the entire Paris Saint-Germain team seemed a little lazy, including Lu Wenbin.
Except for a few substitute players like Menez who usually have few opportunities to play and actively fight for offense, other players focused their main energy on defense.
Lu Wenbin even retreated from an attacking midfielder to a defensive midfielder, forming a three-defensive midfielder system with Matuidi and substitute defensive midfielder Rabiot, completely blocking Reims' counterattack.
Without Lu Wenbin's support, the three forwards were of little use, and Cavani, Menez and others could only stroll around the court.
Although Reims wanted to take advantage of Paris Saint-Germain's lazy attack and equalize the score, Lu Wenbin commanded Paris Saint-Germain's defense line and used overall defense to make most of Reims' attacks invisible.
Even the few shooting opportunities that Reims had failed to take advantage of, with the ball either going wide of the goal or being saved by the goalkeeper.
Lu Wenbin and his teammates protected their 1-0 lead in a relatively energy-saving manner.
Blanco saw what Lu Wenbin was planning, but he didn't dare to say anything.
The biggest person in this team is not the coach, but Lu Wenbin.
Lu Wenbin didn't want to waste his energy in the league, and he had no other choice. Fortunately, Lu Wenbin only adopted a defensive policy after helping the team take the lead.
Although the score of 1-0 is a bit dangerous, there is always hope of victory.
Blanco could only say something bland during the half-time break, hoping everyone would score another goal in the second half to seal the victory, but he did not dare to ask all the players, including Lu Wenbin, to fight aggressively, intensify the attack, etc.
From Lu Wenbin's perspective, Paris Saint-Germain is not fighting on three fronts, but on four fronts: the league, the French Cup, the League Cup, and the Champions League.
They have played more games than Real Madrid, but their strength is not as strong as Real Madrid.
Therefore, Lu Wenbin must save his energy to ensure that his triple crown plan is completed.
Of course, although he has made up his mind not to waste his energy in the league, he will not refuse the opportunity to win more steadily.
The score of 1-0 is indeed a little dangerous.
In the 73rd minute of the second half, perhaps because he saw that Paris Saint-Germain players including Lu Wenbin were too lazy and had no desire to attack, the goalkeeper of Reims unknowingly walked out of the small penalty area and stood near the penalty spot in the large penalty area.
Reims players passed the ball to each other in the midfield, trying to break through the defense line of three midfielders including Lu Wenbin, but they failed.
Just when they were passing the ball carelessly, Lu Wenbin suddenly seized the opportunity to move forward, intercepted the opponent's ball halfway, and then without waiting for the players from both sides to react, Lu Wenbin swung his thigh in his own half and kicked the ball towards the Reims goal.
Everyone looked in the direction the ball was flying, only to find that the goalkeeper of Reims was not standing in the small penalty area, but in the large penalty area.
Lu Wenbin seized the opportunity and made a super long-range lob shot.
Reims goalkeeper Agasha did not react at all when he saw Lu Wenbin grabbing the ball. When he saw Lu Wenbin kick the ball and the ball flew straight to the goal he was guarding, Agasha woke up as if from a dream. He turned around and ran back desperately, turning his head to look at the flight path of the ball while running, and then adjusting his running direction.
The distance was too far and the flight time was a little too long, giving Agatha enough time.
When the ball was about to fall into the goal, Agasha finally arrived at the position, jumped up, pushed the ball, and pushed it upwards, trying his best to push the ball over the crossbar.
As a result, Agasha touched the ball and pushed it up, but it did not fly over the crossbar, but hit the bottom edge of the crossbar, and did not bounce into the goal, but bounced out.
If it weren't for Agatha, the ball would have bounced back into the penalty area and been cleared by the Reims defender who was returning to defense.
But it happened that Agasha's own body was on the path where the ball bounced back.
The ball bounced back from the bottom of the crossbar and hit Agasha's body. Agasha, who had just jumped to kick the ball, had no time to react. During the fall, he watched the ball being hit by his body into the goal.
The goal was scored by Agasha. Although Lu Wenbin's long-range lob did not directly score a goal, it caused an own goal by the goalkeeper. Paris Saint-Germain led 2-0 and basically secured the victory.
Although Reims wanted to launch a massive attack and score a goal, they were unable to do so.
In addition to offense, Lu Wenbin's defense is also world-class.
Not only is Lu Wenbin good at defense, he can also direct his teammates to assist in defense with his excellent vision and judgment.
With the attacking power of a mid-table French Ligue 1 team like Reims, it is indeed difficult to break through the defense line of Paris Saint-Germain led by Lu Wenbin, which is defending with all its might.
After 3 minutes of stoppage time, the referee blew the whistle to end the game.
Lu Wenbin did not score a goal, but he won the league game in a relatively energy-saving way with an assist and an own goal caused by a lob shot.
While helping Paris Saint-Germain continue its unbeaten record and winning streak, Lu Wenbin also led his teammates to save some energy and focus their main energy on the next Champions League game.
Although Paris Saint-Germain was leading by three goals, there were precedents in history where a three-goal lead was reversed.
Therefore, in the second round at Stamford Bridge, Paris Saint-Germain still has to score a goal.
Three days later, on April 8, at Stamford Bridge in London, the second leg of the 2013/2014 Champions League quarter-final between Paris Saint-Germain and Chelsea began.
Paris Saint-Germain naturally tightened their formation and defended, luring Chelsea to attack.
Originally Mourinho's team was good at defensive counterattacks, but now they are three goals behind in the aggregate score and Mourinho has no solution.
Chelsea had no choice but to attack even though they knew their opponents were baiting them into attacking.
Positional warfare is really not what Mourinho's team is good at.
In the 7th minute, Hazard wanted to cut inside and shoot, but Lu Wenbin made a decisive tackle and poked the ball away without any foul.
In the 16th minute, Oscar wanted to pass the ball directly to striker Torres, but Thiago Silva anticipated and intercepted the ball.
In the 28th minute, Lampard made a long shot from outside the penalty area and penetrated Paris Saint-Germain's penalty area, but the ball was saved by goalkeeper Duchesne with an excellent performance.