Green Journey

Chapter 415 Captain of Manchester City!Chu Zheng is in charge!
On December 12, Manchester City ushered in the final round of Group C at the Etihad Stadium.

After the five rounds of the Champions League group stage, Barcelona with 10 points ranked first in Group C, followed by Manchester City with 9 points.

Although he has advanced to the quarter-finals ahead of schedule, Guardiola still attaches great importance to this game against the Celtics.

In addition to Guardiola's personal reasons for wanting to overwhelm his old club Barcelona, ​​fighting for the first place in the group will give Manchester City some advantages in the next eighth draw ceremony, and perhaps these advantages can play a decisive role.

The rules for the UEFA Champions League quarter-final draw are that the first place in each group plays against the second place in other groups.

There will be a clear gap in general strength between the second in the group and the first in the group, such as Juventus and Sevilla in Group H this year.

If Manchester City can get the first place in Group C, it can avoid some strong teams.

In addition, the group No. [-] can choose to play home or away in the first round of the quarter-finals, and the initiative will be stronger.

In the UEFA Champions League, you can be more calm in the away game, defend and counterattack, and it is best to win.

Of course, if you can't win, you can still tie your opponent. When you return to the home court, the team's tactics and goals can be more clear and resolute. This is an advantage.

Don't underestimate these easily overlooked factors, sometimes it can determine whether you can advance to the next round.

In this game, Guardiola made a comprehensive adjustment to the lineup, and at the same time gave some young players a chance.

In the frontcourt, Sane was adjusted to the right to form a striker with Ishinacho and Nolito.

In midfield, Chu Zheng replaced Fernandinho as a defensive midfielder, with David Silva and De Bruyne in front of him.

In the backcourt, Guardiola used young players, the Spanish teenager Maffeo born in 1997 played right back.

The central defenders are still Stones and Otamendi, the left back Chrissy replaced Kolarov, and the goalkeeper was replaced by Caballero.

But in the 5th minute of the game, Caballero sent the ball to the wing. Sane made a mistake in stopping the ball and was directly intercepted by the Celtics.

After taking the ball, Roberts dribbled laterally, passed Clichy very cleanly, and then scored with a low shot with his left foot.

Although Chu Zheng launched an attack with a direct pass from the backcourt 3 minutes later, allowing Nolito to pass behind the Celtics successfully, and Ishinacho broke into the penalty area from the left rib and hit the far corner from a small angle to equalize the score. It was also the last goal of the game.

In the end, Guardiola failed to do so.

On the other hand, Barcelona cleanly slaughtered Borussia Mönchengladbach with a score of 4-0 at the Nou Camp at home.

So far, the ranking of Group C has been determined. Barcelona ranks first in Group C with 13 points, and Manchester City ranks second in Group C with 10 points.

Borussia and Celtic have the same 4 points, but Borussia has a goal difference advantage, so although they are eliminated, they can still play in the top 1 of the Europa League and embark on the journey again, while the Celtics I can only go back home.

12月7日傍晚，伴随最后一场欧冠小组赛结束，2016-17赛季欧冠16强全部诞生。

Group A Arsenal, Paris Saint-Germain
Group B Napoli, Benfica
Group C Barcelona, ​​Manchester City

Group D Atletico Madrid, Bayern Munich

Group E Monaco, Leverkusen

Group F Borussia Dortmund, Real Madrid
Group G Leicester City, Porto
Group H Juventus, Sevilla.

Among these 8 groups, there are two very surprising teams.

One is Tottenham, who was eliminated third in Group E and went to the Europa League.

Although Tottenham's state has been a little fluctuating this year, Tottenham's strength is obvious to all in the Premier League. As a result, I never thought that they would be robbed of the promotion place by Leverkusen.

The other is last season's Premier League champion Leicester City.

莱斯特城这个分组虽然是8个小组中最弱的，但6战4胜1平1负，积13分的优异战绩还是凸显了他们在欧冠赛场上的不俗，完全不像一支首次征战欧冠的队伍。

Although achieved dazzling results in the group stage, but no one thinks that Ranieri can continue to create miracles in the Champions League.

The reason why a miracle is a miracle is because of its irreproducibility.

Early the next morning, Chu Zheng and Zhao Dudu went to work.

After getting off the car outside Manchester City's training base, Chu Zheng watched Zhao Dudu drive away and walked slowly into the base like a grandfather with his hands behind his back.

"Hey! Chu, where's your bike!"

As soon as he walked into the base, a Maserati drove up beside him, lowered the window, and Aguero poked his head to make a joke, and immediately slammed the accelerator and slipped away.

Chu Zheng rolled his eyes.

Last week, he was sanctioned by Mario and Guardiola successively.

Mario does not allow him to ride a bicycle to work every day, saying that it affects his personal image.

Guardiola's reason for not allowing Chu Zheng to ride is simpler and more rude.

It's not safe, what if Chu Zheng is knocked into a ditch.

Chu Zheng had no choice but to raise his hands in surrender.

After some simple recovery training in the morning, Chu Zheng and the others were all summoned to the tactical room for a meeting.

It's not that Guardiola has new tactics to explain to the players, but that Manchester City's fourth captain is to be selected today.

Now the first captain of the Manchester City team is Kompany, the second captain is David Silva, and the third captain is Fernandinho.

The fourth captain was originally Joe Hart, but after this guy went to Turin, the position of the vice captain became vacant.

At the beginning of the season, the Manchester City team wanted to re-elect a vice-captain, but was later suppressed by Guardiola.

A few days ago, Guardiola brought up the old story again and nominated three candidates for the Manchester City team to vote.

To become a team captain, the first condition is to have rich experience.

A good captain usually needs to have rich game experience and leadership experience. Only after years of training can he be able to respond calmly at critical moments and lead the team to victory.

The second is leadership temperament. A good captain needs to have a strong leadership temperament and be able to show it on and off the field.

He needs steady emotional control and the ability to motivate other players to perform at their best.

Judging from these two requirements, Guardiola's nomination of Aguero, Zabaleta, and Chu Zheng has its own advantages.

But in fact, everyone in the Manchester City team knows that Chu Zheng is the candidate in Guardiola's mind, and Aguero and Zabaleta are just smoke bombs.

In Manchester City, although Guardiola is also a newcomer, but due to the support of the club's top management, Guardiola's prestige is extremely high.

No player can challenge Guardiola's authority, otherwise Yaya Toure will be a lesson learned from the past, and he won't even have to sit on the bench, and in the end he still has to bow his head and admit his mistake.

In fact, judging from these two most important requirements, Chu Zheng only met the second condition.

In terms of leadership temperament and emotional control ability, no one in the Manchester City team is unconvinced.

They knew exactly how the reversal and victory or the absolute draw came about.

Chu Zheng often lacks only a captain's armband on the field. In fact, he has long become the spiritual leader of all Manchester City players on the field.

So in the voting session, almost all the players voted for Chu Zheng.

So Chu Zheng became the fourth captain of Manchester City.

After the selection results were announced, it came to the fan selection and voting session.

As expected by Guardiola, Chu Zheng won 86% of the votes among Manchester City fans, directly killing Aguero and Zabaleta.

(End of this chapter)