After the tactical analysis session, the boys on the field continued implenting Adi Hutter's ideas on how to stop the Paris Saint Germain super-team. After a few tweaks, they eventually settled on the sa thing, but Adi Hutter gave his attacking players a lot more freedom during the counter. He made his front three a fluid and flexible selections that could pop up in different sections on the field.
A fluid front three sounded fun on paper, but it still required a lot of work and chemistry between the players involved. To Adi Hutter's dismay, Tyler seed to have a lot of chemistry with the other players involved in it. Asides that, he also seed to be comfortable playing across the entire front three. He was even more lethal when he was playing as a nine.
When he was there, he didn't play as a traditional nine that contested duels with defenders, he played much more intelligently. He dropped deeper, and moved the center backs out of position, opening space for an overlapping central attacking midfielder. When Tyler played as the nine, he really saw fluid attacking football.
"Alright boys, that's all for today". Adi Hutter clapped his hand, signaling the end of the training match between the starters and reserves. He used the sa stipulation as he did in the previous match and the first team responded to it a lot better. The match ended as a draw with two goals a piece, one of the goals being scored by Tyler.
"You've all done well, and there's been a massive improvent from what I saw yesterday but I do believe that you can do better and I'll be waiting to see you prove right. You can all leave now".
Tyler nodded, and then he left, being flanked by George and Tiago. Eventually Tiago and Tyler left George alone as they had to go the club's academic facilities, Tiago for the classes that he had with the rest of the underaged players while Tyler had to et with his tutor.
The rest of the week turned out to be torture for Tyler. He woke up very early in the morning for training with Adrian who continued to work on his physicality and then he proceeded to do the normal training exercises with the rest of the players. After that, instead of resting, he'd be forced to go and endure several hours of a woman in her early sixties trying to shove math formulas and literature concepts down his head.
In a week that felt like hell, the only light that Tyler could find was that he was included in the matchday squad for the second ti in his career. He was told by Adi Hutter that there was a very slim chance that he'd play, but all he heard was that there was a chance for him to play and he was going to grab it with both hands.
The only solace that Tyler had throughout the week was when he got back to his apartnt and had laughs with Tony and Enzo as well as when he talked with Jasmine in the night and also during training. In more accurate terms, the only part of the week that was a nightmare was when he had to et his tutor and do school work.
Finally, it was the day that Tyler had anticipated most, it was ti for the the team to travel to Paris for the match. Tyler felt excited for two reasons; one was that he would get to travel to Paris and maybe catch glimpses of sights that he had only seen on the television and the other was that for the first ti in nearly a week, he wouldn't have to spend his evening with a woman old enough to be his grandmother.
Everyone reported to the training ground before travelling with their bags and other things that they needed. When Tyler got there, he started feeling like he didn't prepare enough all of a sudden. Almost everyone had a filled up bag with them anwhile Tyler's bag contained a change of clothes and the essential. It was as if they were going to stay over in Paris for longer than a day.
"Why's everyone packed so much?" Tyler asked George when he arrived.
George had a small smile on his lips as he answered. "Every ti we play Paris in a night fixture and end up having to stay over, we all ask the coach to let us to to the Eifel tower after the match. He never lets us because of the result but you never know when things will workout".
"So that's why they're packing that much?" Tyler asked. To him it still wasn't a good reason.
"There are several selections of clothes inside any one of those bags". George said. "Top footballers can't be caught lacking".
"What about you?" Tyler asked, his eyes moving to George's moderately packed bags. Tyler even started to think that George packed less than him.
"I stay here with my Nigerian parents". George said plainly. "Did you think that they were going to let take my entire wardrobe because 'footballers can't be caught lacking'?"
"Fair enough". Tyler shrugged.
Adi Hutter and the rest of the coaches arrived a few minutes later, and the players and staff put their bags and stuffs inside the team bus which drove them to the airport. Driving from Monaco to Paris was possible but is was a nine hour drive if traffic was nice to them, and the club didn't want their players travel worn before a match, especially a match as important as the one that they were going to play.
Instead, since Monaco didn't have their own airport, the team bus would drive them from Monaco to Nice, which was very close and only about a forty minute drive, and from there they would board a flight to Paris.
The travel to Paris was a straightforward matter, with no one having any sort of problems of hitches. Tyler was excited as he got out of the plane, hoping to see the flashing lights of a bright city of Paris.
He did see so bright lights when he got out of the plane, only that they belonged to caras of the paparazzi that were awaiting the Monaco n's football team as they got out of the plane.
'Right, I'm a footballer'. Tyler thought to himself, a little bit disappointed at what happened. He knew better than to let his small disappointnt show on his face and instead waved at so of the caras then walking head down out of the airport and into the street.
When he stepped out of the airport and onto the street, he forgot his earlier and looked around. He saw a few impressive structures that were erected close to the airport. Even though similar buildings existed in England, the atmosphere there just made it seem better.
By the ti everyone stepped out of the airport, another team bus drove to where they waited and picked them all up, driving them to the team hotel so that they could lodge and rest for the rest of the day.
The hotel that they lodged in was quite large and modern and it looked like a place where most teams would lodge in before an away match versus Paris Saint Germain. The team and the coaching staff walked inside together, so of them carrying their bags while the rest wheeled their suitcases.
They got the premium treatnt as soon as they entered as they were imdiately attended to while the staff carried their bags and suitcases. In the end, the assignnt of rooms didn't even take up to thirty minutes.
After everyone had checked in, they were randomly paired up and told to report to their various rooms. Tyler was bumd out not to be paired with George, but his situation could've been worse. Lucky for him, the person that he was paired with was also a young talent, the person being Mika Biereth. It would've been a nightmare for him if he ended up being paired with one of the uncs in the squad.
When Tyler and Mika Biereth got to their room, they spent so ti to offload their things and keep it where they wanted. After that, they took turns in taking a shower and settled into their beds.
The pair talked for a little while before Mika Biereth went to sleep and Tyler, as usual, called Jasmine and talked for a little while. After he hung up on his call with Jasmine, he started thinking about the match against Paris Saint Germain and then fell asleep.
It would be a tough match the next day, and Tyler knew it. But he was excited for it, because while it would be tough, players really wouldn't improve if all they played were easy matches.
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