Green Journey

Chapter 490 Teacher Chu's Small Classroom!
On Manchester City's side, although they won a thrilling victory over Monaco and successfully advanced to the quarter-finals of the Champions League, Guardiola still did not give the players a holiday.

No way, the Premier League schedule in the next half a month is extremely unfriendly to Manchester City.

In the 29th round of the Premier League, they will play Liverpool, and the opponent in the 30th round is Arsenal.

These two opponents cannot tolerate Manchester City's slightest contempt and underestimation of the enemy.

Otherwise, being overturned by these two teams, Chelsea's Conte will be happy in his dreams.

Now in the Premier League standings, Chelsea has surpassed Manchester City by 3 points, so Manchester City's initiative to compete for the championship is no longer in their hands.

And what Manchester City has to do now is to ensure that there will be no accidents in every next league game, and try to get 3 points in every game as much as possible, and then see if Chelsea will make mistakes to give them a chance to tie the points or even overtake.

Maybe, maybe not,

With Chelsea's current strength and state, they can focus on the league without European missions. Even if they win a wave of ten consecutive league victories, it is not impossible. Conte's Blues have the strength to do it.

The next day, the Manchester City training base stadium.

Before nine o'clock, the players appeared on the training ground one after another, warming up and chatting.

"It seems that Chu is the first one to come today again!" Aguero said cheerfully after he came to the sidelines and looked at Chu Zheng who was teaching Fudeng on the court.

"I've never seen Chu Laiwan, guys, have you seen it?" Otamendi asked with a smile.

After the words fell, the others around shook their heads.

In terms of their enthusiasm for going to work, they were absolutely convinced by Chu Zheng, they were so impressed.

In the past six months, almost everyone in their team has been late for something, but Chu Zheng has never been late, and almost every day is the first one to come.

This kind of professional attitude makes them have to be convinced.

On Chu Zheng's side, he was training people.

It's okay, this kid Foden has some minor problems that he can't get rid of all the time.

Like many young players, Foden always likes to express himself and show some fancy moves.

In addition, there are some bad little habits.

"Phil, it's not just the fancy moves like pedaling a bicycle and oxtail that count as skill!"

"In the game, you will face tremendous pressure, and under pressure or high-intensity confrontation, directional stop and accurate passing, as well as the use of the body, these most basic skills are often the best. You should pay attention the most."

"But don't you often use some fancy moves on the court?" Foden said stubbornly, with an aggrieved face, "Don't you think those moves are cool?"

"Haha!" As soon as Foden said this, the audience watching Mr. Chu's class suddenly laughed and started booing.

"Hey, Chu, I think what Phil said is right, your moves are really cool!"

"I think I'll think you're right if you promise me you won't tease me with those goddamn fancy moves in your usual practice!"

"Ha ha!"

Hearing the jokes of Otamendi and the others, Chu Zheng rolled his eyes, not bothering to pay attention to this group of guys whose muscles are more developed than their brains.

Chu Zheng turned his head to look at Foden and continued: "Also, I noticed that you have a bad habit. When you stop the ball, you raise your feet a bit high, and the range of motion to unload the force is not enough."

"If you can get rid of your bad habit, not only can you improve the stability of your stop, but more importantly, it can make your follow-up movement a few tenths of a second faster. Maybe you don't care, but believe me, this A fraction of a second can sometimes be decisive in a game."

After saying that, Chu Zheng began to show Foden his way of stopping the ball.

But Otamendi, Stones and others next to him looked at it for a while, and then they all started to roll their eyes, bared their teeth, and looked like they had toothache.

Because Chu Zheng's quick connection to other actions immediately after stopping the ball is based on his personal super sense of the ball and the combination of the human ball, which is really impossible for ordinary people to learn.

After demonstrating to Foden several times, Chu Zheng was ready to pass the ball to Foden for him to practice.

Chu Zheng knows very well that it only takes a short time for a person to form a bad habit.

But it takes a long time to get rid of a bad habit.

Especially Foden's little habit that he developed unconsciously during the accumulated training process.

This habit is almost firmly memorized by the muscles, and it will take a long time to get rid of it.

"what!"

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Seeing that Chu Zheng bent down to pick up a bottle of water from his side, and poured it all down on the dozen or so balls in front of him, everyone was stunned.

De Bruyne and the others knew that Chu Zheng watered the ball to make it more difficult to stop the ball, so they couldn't help but mourn for Foden in their hearts. It was a pity to meet such a teacher.

"Chu, why don't you use oil!" The bad guy Edson came up with a bad idea.

As soon as the words came out, De Bruyne and the others immediately turned their heads and cast strange glances at Ederson, as if they were saying that you should be a human being!

Unexpectedly, Chu Zheng smiled and said, "Reed from the equipment department told me that oil is a dangerous product and is not allowed to appear on the training ground, so I can only use water."

"Although the effect will be a bit worse, it's still okay."

Hearing Chu Zheng's words, De Bruyne's group was immediately overwhelmed. How dare you really want to use oil!

……

On March 3, although the major leagues were suspended because the UEFA Champions League has not yet ended, Manchester City has entered a state of preparation.

Manchester City's opponents in the sixth round of the FA Cup drew Middlesbrough, who is also in the Premier League.

Compared with Arsenal and Tottenham who drew Lincoln City and Millwall, Manchester City is considered a draw.

For the FA Cup, Guardiola didn't pay much attention to it at the beginning, and he had a resigned mentality.

After all, the Premier League and the Champions League are almost overwhelmed, so there is no time to think about the domestic cup competition.

As a result, I didn't expect that the FA Cup went surprisingly smoothly all the way.

Now that Middlesbrough can advance to the semi-finals and then compete for the championship, Guardiola has to pay more attention to the FA Cup.

After all, winning the FA Cup is no small honor, isn't it?

And the championship trophy is also the best talisman for the coach, especially him, a new coach who just came to the Premier League.

Look at the noisy neighbor next door. Since Ferguson retired, let alone the Premier League and Champions League, now it is even difficult to win the League and FA Cup.

Therefore, in this game, after discussions and comprehensive considerations with the coach, Guardiola adopted a less than half of the lineup.

Originally, Guardiola planned to replace Chu Zheng directly.

After all, he just finished a match against Monaco and will play Liverpool a few days later. Chu Zheng needs a full rest.

But when Chu Zheng was asked for his opinion, he was rejected.

Guardiola couldn't help but laugh when he learned that Chu Zheng wanted to break the season's scoring and assist records.

But it's a good thing!
Therefore, after consulting the medical department for a comprehensive assessment of Chu Zheng's body, Guardiola still put Chu Zheng back in the starting lineup with Middlesbrough.

So Middlesbrough was unlucky, bloody bad.

Even though they were playing at home, they were eventually beaten 4-0 by Manchester City.

In this game, Chu Zheng scored two assists and one goal.

(End of this chapter)