Green Journey

Chapter 480 The beneficiary of this conflict is Chelsea!
That night, because public opinion had completely lost control, the two clubs, Manchester City and Manchester United, acted very quickly and held media conferences successively.

At the press conference, Manchester City and Manchester United had a surprisingly tacit understanding.

Both clubs have issued public statements apologizing to fans, rival clubs and the football community, expressing their regret for the incident and promising to take appropriate steps in the future to ensure that such incidents do not happen again.

Both Manchester City and Manchester United's public relations directors said that the clubs will complete the investigation and evidence collection as soon as possible, and then impose severe internal punishments on the players and staff involved in the conflict, including fines, team bans, suspension without pay or other sanctions.

At the same time, Manchester City and Manchester United also stated that they will strengthen the discipline and management of the team in the future, ensure that players abide by the corresponding rules and regulations, and formulate stricter codes of conduct.

In addition, both Manchester City and Manchester United stated at the media conference that the two clubs will strengthen cooperation in the future, and improve and ease the relationship between the two sides by organizing joint activities, friendly matches, etc. role model.

But that last word is bullshit.

The grievances and grievances of nearly a hundred years are so easy to resolve and ease?

This is typical class antagonism.

Unless one side sinks completely and leaves the Premier League, the debate over whether Manchester's sky is blue or red will continue for generations.

Especially in recent years, Manchester City has risen strongly, while Manchester United has declined with Ferguson's retirement. This diametrically opposite situation has made the relationship between the two clubs even more tense.

Therefore, the friendly attitude of Manchester City and Manchester United is for the FA and the outside world to see.

The next day, Manchester City and Manchester United announced through their official websites that the investigation and evidence collection had ended, and announced the list of a large number of punished players and club staff.

Or fined, or banned from the team, or suspended without pay.

On this point, Manchester City and Manchester United seem to have discussed it, and they still have such a tacit understanding.

It's thunder and rain.

It was expected that the players would be punished, but none of the staff involved in the conflict was fired, and all of them were suspended without pay.

What this means, in fact, many people know it well.

The two clubs are using practical actions to block the mouth of the FA, so that even if the FA has to punish after completing the investigation and evidence collection, it will be lighter.

In this way, the public opinion triggered by the conflict after the game also slowly ended under the quick response of Manchester City and Manchester United.

But Guardiola has a headache for Manchester City.

Because De Bruyne, Aguero, Sterling, Sane, Kompany and other main members of the team counted as one, they were all fined [-] pounds and the team was banned for one game.

Fines are trivial for Manchester City players, but the suspension has brought huge troubles to Guardiola.

This affected his preparations for the next round of the Premier League.

But Guardiola also knows that this is a cutscene that must be gone, and this is for the outside world to see, for the FA and even UEFA to see.

As the governing body of European football, UEFA has certain rights and jurisdiction.

Although the intervention of Premier League teams is limited, they also have the right to protect the public image and discipline of European football and maintain the fairness and order of the game.

So if they want to, they can really clean up Manchester City and Manchester United.

Once the two major boards of the FA and UEFA are defeated together, Manchester City and Manchester United will be miserable and will be greatly affected.

In the afternoon, the FA announced that it would investigate the conflict between Manchester City and Manchester United.

Two days later, the FA penalty also came out.

Manchester City and Manchester United were each hit 50 boards and fined £[-] each.

But to the collective relief of Manchester City and Manchester United, the FA just fined them.

This is obviously because they took the lead in punishing the players.

Otherwise, let the FA do it, and the player's suspension may not be as simple as one game.

But at the same time, the fines that add up to a million pounds also demonstrate the seriousness of the conflict.

FA's fines are generally based on the seriousness of the situation.

If the impact is small, the penalty will be less, and if the impact is large, the penalty will be heavy.

Therefore, 50 pounds can already be said to be the top priority.

But this amount of money is only a small problem for Manchester City and Manchester United.

However, although the situation has been stopped and public opinion is gradually dissipating, the influence has not yet ended.

On March 3, the 1th round of the Premier League kicked off.

As a result, there was an upset on the opening day. Manchester United, who played at home, was tied 1-1 by Bournemouth.

Due to the fact that a large number of players in the team were suspended and the camp was full of injured players, Mourinho was forced to urgently dispatch a few young players from the youth training echelon in this game. line-up.

The result is obvious, Manchester United relied on Mourinho's No. 631 ultimate bus to not lose the game.

As for Manchester City, it was even more miserable.

This round of Manchester City's away game against Sunderland, which is the bottom one.

There is little suspense in the eyes of the outside world that the top of the Premier League and the bottom one are playing against each other.

However, many people are confused by appearances, subconsciously ignoring the fact that many players in the Manchester City team were also suspended.

Therefore, after the game started, the experienced Moyes asked the players to strictly implement the pressing tactics after the opening.

Moyes' five-man midfield line caused a lot of trouble for Manchester City, from the offensive end to the back line, sniping Manchester City's offense layer by layer.

Although it is not the first time to encounter this kind of targeted tactics, even Manchester City, which is more advanced and executed more thoroughly, has also encountered it.

However, Manchester City still seemed to have been hit by the goal, and it was extremely rare that a large area of ​​​​passing errors occurred.

City's half-time turnovers and lost possessions even hit a record high, twice as many as Sunderland.

And this is not a matter of concentration of one or two people, but the participation of all players.

In the second half, Manchester City was hit by Sunderland at the beginning of the game. Defoe completed a world wave outside the penalty area, allowing Bravo to once again show the strength of the regent, shooting on target and dying.

With one goal behind, Guardiola was at a loss and was forced to replace the injured Chu Zheng.

Chu Zheng's appearance quickly calmed Manchester City's flustered emotions, and quickly threatened Sunderland's goal, and assisted Jesus in the 86th minute of the second half, scoring a crucial goal for Manchester City.

In the end, the two sides still shook hands 1-1 to make peace, and another upset broke out that made countless gamblers burst into anger.

And Manchester City is so flat, Chelsea can be happy.

As long as they can beat the Hammers to help West Ham United in tomorrow's game, Chelsea will immediately be able to tie the points, with 62 points with Manchester City, and erase the gap in points.

The next day, without much suspense, Chelsea defeated West Ham United 2-1 in an away game.

For a while, the fans celebrated together, and some even went to Manchester United's official website to leave a message, thanking Manchester United for helping them a lot.

Otherwise, with the strength of Manchester City, it is absolutely impossible to be tied by Sunderland, who is the bottom one.

Now the two sides have the same 62 points. Although Chelsea temporarily ranks second due to the disadvantage of goal difference, the pressure on Manchester City has doubled virtually.

Because Chelsea is different from Manchester City, they don't have European missions, so it can be said that they are waiting for work.

On March 3, the 5th round of the Premier League struck.

Although the team's suspension has passed, the large-scale injuries in the team are still affecting Manchester United, so they were beaten 0-0 by Southampton on the south coast.

On Manchester City's side, this round's opponent is Stoke City.

Although the suspension has passed and the whole army can attack, Guardiola has to think about the one-eighth round of the Champions League against Monaco four days later.

Therefore, in order to ensure that Chu Zheng and the others have enough physical reserves for the match against Monaco, Guardiola made a half-rotation of the starting lineup.

Although Chu Zheng's injury has almost healed in this game, because he played in the last round, he continued to be pressed on the bench to rest.

In the frontcourt, Nolito, Iheanacho, and Navas started.

In midfield, De Bruyne started alongside David Silva and Fernandinho.

On the back line, in addition to Kompany and Otamendi in the middle, the two full-backs were also replaced by Sagna and Clichy.

Although some main players were rotated, Manchester City still had the advantage on the scene as Guardiola expected, and Stoke City could only shrink back to defend.

Sometimes, however, advantage does not determine the outcome.

Even if Guardiola sent Chu Zheng on the field in the last 10 minutes, he still failed to score.

So after 90 minutes, it was another draw.

Manchester City's siege was unsuccessful and they were tied 0-0 by Stoke City.

This result instantly made the hearts of Manchester City fans fall to the bottom, while Chelsea's collective joy was confused.

After the game, the outside world said that Guardiola's rotation of half of the lineup was a stupid move.

In the face of doubts from the outside world, Guardiola didn't care too much. Instead, he said cheerfully: "We didn't win, but we didn't lose either. We created a lot of opportunities, and they didn't. We tried our best, we created It's all just a lack of luck."

In addition, Guardiola also said that rotation is a reality that Manchester City must face.

Because Manchester City has to fight on three fronts, it is not easy, and players still need to adapt to this high-intensity and intensive schedule.

Two days later, what I was afraid of would happen.

Chelsea played a goal battle against Watford at Stamford Bridge, and finally won with a score of 4-3. They officially overtook Manchester City by 3 points and regained the long-lost top spot in the Premier League from Manchester City.

For a while, Chelsea's chances of winning the championship exploded.

Conte, the Italian cannon, was happy after the game and even fired a cannon in front of a crowd of reporters, saying that Chelsea would be the Premier League champion.

But no one criticized Conte's arrogance, because Chelsea this season is indeed very strong, and they have the strength to say such rhetoric.

Guardiola ignored this at all, as if he forgot about these two games, and focused on preparing for the second round against Monaco.

(End of this chapter)