I started with Torres, to revive German football

Chapter 317
Manchester City destroyed Real Madrid at the Bernabeu!

This was the first comment written by Spanish newspaper Marca after the Bernabeu battle.

The article was written by the well-known football journalist Jose Arnaouit. In the article, he greatly praised the performance of Zhao Jinge and Manchester City. He believed that this game was a perfect performance of the dominant Manchester City superstar at the Bernabeu.

"Manchester City fans enjoyed a dream game. The most terrifying thing was that Real Madrid lost, but Real Madrid lost when they fully showed their strength!
This is a devastating conclusion! "

"Zhao Jinge personally destroyed the Galaxy Battleship, and Real Madrid suffered a complete defeat!
This is the difference in the quality of the team's superstars. Zhao Jinge is greater than Berganemaer! "

Anaout said that he has personally experienced many legendary teams, such as Sacchi's AC Milan, Mourinho's Inter Milan, Guardiola's Cosmos, as well as Zidane, Figo and Ronaldo, etc. The legendary star's galactic battleship.

"This Manchester City team also shows a legendary color. Manchester City is creating a legend!"

"Under Manchester City's tidal high pressure, Real Madrid's defense completely lost its way."

"It's not that Zidane's team can't keep up with Manchester City's pace, but under the pressure brought by Zhao Jinge, they can only defend passively.

But Manchester City's precise passing like a scalpel can always find Real Madrid's defensive loopholes time and time again, cut through Real Madrid's defense, and threaten Navas' goal. "

Alfredo, the editor-in-chief of Real Madrid's mouthpiece Aspen, also personally wrote an article after the game, believing that Guardiola's Manchester City completely humiliated Real Madrid under the leadership of Zhao Jinge!
Compared with the helplessness and disappointment shown by the media close to Real Madrid, the British media were quite gloating.

As a British media, the Guardian believes that Guardiola's Manchester City defeated Real Madrid at their opponent's home court, which also dealt a huge blow to Real Madrid's confidence in the Champions League!

"Who would have thought that Real Madrid, who aspired to be champions, would be defeated by Zhao Jinge alone at their home court after drawing with Manchester City in the first round away game!"

"In front of Manchester City, which is in full swing, Real Madrid's championship dream seems ridiculous. If they cannot defeat Manchester City head-on, then they have no chance of winning the championship!"

Afternoon of November 26th.

Three days after the fifth round of the Champions League group stage, Manchester City ushered in the 13th round of the Premier League and challenged Burnley away.

Guardiola made a substantial rotation. Except for the two central defenders and the goalkeeper, all eight other players on the field were changed.

Although Burnley was playing at home, they still adopted a defensive strategy.

In the 14th minute, Manchester City scored Burnley's goal with a shot from outside the penalty area by Dzeko.

In the 404th minute, Gundogan made a long pass that went over the top of Burnley's defense. Mane countered offside at great speed, stopped the ball and entered the right rib of the penalty area, and shot with a single kick, setting the goal for Manchester City. Expand the score.

Two to zero!
In the second half, sides changed again. In the 70th minute, after Gundogan completed the steal in the frontcourt, he sent a kick straight to the left rib of the penalty area. After Dzeko inserted into the penalty area, he passed the ball with his left foot to the middle. Sterling followed up and shot The hit sealed the victory for Manchester City.

In the end, Manchester City defeated Burnley [-]-[-].

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In the same round that Manchester City defeated Burnley [-]-[-] away from home, Manchester United drew [-]-[-] at home with Liverpool.

First, Manchester United scored two goals in a row, but Liverpool successfully equalized the score with Firmino scoring twice in 6 minutes.

But Rashford scored another victory in the 806th minute and surpassed the score again. However, at the last moment of the game, Coutinho received an assist from Sturridge and successfully equalized the score.

In the end, Manchester United and Liverpool both shook hands.

Arsenal drew [-]-[-] with Sunderland away from home.

The Gunners' weakness, which was dug into their thighs before the season, finally showed.

You know, this is still in the early stages of the season, which should have been Arsenal's most active period. However, Arsenal, which has been fighting on multiple fronts after the ninth round of the Premier League, can no longer stand it and is in urgent need of supplements in the winter window!
On the contrary, Tottenham reversed the Wolves [-]-[-] at home.

Nowadays, the North London team, whose lineup is becoming more and more mature, still does a pretty good job in abusing food.

Chelsea, at home, defeated Blackpool [-]-[-] thanks to Hazard's brace.

This battle once again shocked the entire Premier League.

Beat West Brom [-]-[-] at home, beat Burnley [-]-[-] away, beat Stoke City [-]-[-] at home, beat West Ham United [-]-[-] away, and now beat Blackpool [-]-[-] at home, a huge score. It seems to have become the norm for Chelsea this season.

I have to praise that Mancini maintained the Blues' defensive intensity while training the Blues' offense quite sharply!
So far this season, Chelsea has not only maintained its top two position in the standings, but also performed very well.

Both Diego Costa and Hazard have shown strong offensive power this season.

Mancini's team has shown strong offensive power in the new season, and the team's overall performance is also quite stable.

The Blues are also the only team in the Premier League that can put some pressure on Manchester City so far, and they have been holding on to an eight to ten point difference.

In December, Manchester City faced its first difficult schedule.

On the third day, in the fourth round of the League Cup, Manchester City challenged the Blue Fox Leicester City away.

On the 14th, in the [-]th round of the Premier League, Manchester City faced Chelsea at home.

On the [-]th, in the sixth round of the Champions League group stage, Manchester City faced Dynamo Kiev at home.

Each of the three games is crucial, especially the last two. One is related to the opponent in the league title, and the other is the team goal of qualifying first in the group with a draw. It can be said that Guardiola attaches the most importance to There is absolutely no room for loss on the two fronts!
More importantly, Manchester City's signing is really unlucky.

In the third round of the League Cup, when everyone else drew teams from the English Championship or League One, Manchester City was the only one to draw a Premier League team, and it was still away from home.

In the fourth round of the League Cup, Leicester City was drawn, a Premier League team that, although not as good as last season, was still strong.

After several considerations, Guardiola and the coaching staff still chose rotation.

He chose to start the game with veteran captain Kompany and Otamendi, allowing the two main central defenders to rest.

Both Stones and Laporte have played two consecutive games.

In the midfield, Guardiola also continued to use substitute players such as Gundogan and Fernandinho to give them more opportunities to play.In the first half, Manchester City played very well. Sterling created an excellent opportunity for Manchester City's offense in the 19th minute, assisting Dzeko and scoring Leicester City's goal.

But in the second half, 5 minutes and 7 minutes, in just 3 minutes, Manchester City's defense encountered continuous crises and finally lost a goal.

The first crisis was a mistake by Otamendi, while the goal conceded due to the second crisis was a set kick, which was scored directly by a free kick. Substitute goalkeeper Caballero failed to prevent the ball from entering the net.

After that, Manchester City reacted and launched a fierce counterattack, but to no avail.

In the end, the away game drew with Leicester City [-]-[-], and an extra game was required.

This is very bad news for the tight schedule ahead.

But Guardiola said he could accept this result.

At the post-match press conference, he once again took over the responsibility for the draw, saying that Manchester City's players actually performed very well, taking the initiative throughout the game, and overwhelming their opponents in all statistics.

"In fact, I value the process more than the results."

Guardiola said that Otamendi did a good job in defense and Gundogan made some good passes, but the German midfielder still needs to further strengthen his ability to penetrate and run.

Not only Gundogan, but also privately, Guardiola also told De Bruyne that if you want to become a top midfield passer, you must run actively, because only when you run can you Will not be imprisoned.

In addition, Guardiola also named Dzeko.

Although he scored a goal, Dzeko still missed several opportunities, which is a pity.

However, Guardiola is more focused on encouragement.

The big battle against Chelsea is imminent, but Manchester City has suffered setbacks in the League Cup. This makes people somewhat worried about Manchester City's performance, but Guardiola is full of confidence in this.

"I don't think the setback in the Carabao Cup will affect our weekend league games!"

As for the upcoming battle at the top of the table, Guardiola said with confidence:

"After the weekend, Manchester City will continue to win unbeaten."

Guardiola's confidence is not groundless.

After suffering a setback in the League Cup, Guardiola immediately convened an expanded meeting of the coaching staff and all players after returning to Manchester to prepare for the weekend league.

At the meeting, Guardiola expressed his doubts about Chelsea's outstanding performance this season.

"So far this season, the Premier League teams that Chelsea has defeated are all ranked in the lower reaches. His performance against the big 6 teams is not good. The current record is one win, one draw and one loss."

"Obviously, facing the mid-to-lower teams, Chelsea has an overwhelming advantage in terms of personal ability, player speed and strength, and Mancini's tactical system has further played out these advantages of Chelsea. "

For a head coach like Mancini who is used to operating an aircraft carrier.

If a team like Chelsea is handed over to Mancini, he will basically not cause major problems for this team. As long as Chelsea performs steadily and beats lower-ranked teams, there will be no problem at all.

That's why Guardiola said that Chelsea's outstanding record is actually very poor upon careful analysis, especially when they have not played in the European War. The relatively loose schedule is enough for them to improve a lot in the league. Competitiveness!
Not only Guardiola said this, but the British media outside basically thought so.

They say, for example, that this weekend's game is Chelsea's first real big test of the season if they want to achieve their goals.

What do you mean?
Even the opponents you met before are not convincing in terms of strength!
Looking back at Manchester City, whether it is Real Madrid, Manchester United or Tottenham Hotspur, Guardiola's team has performed very convincingly. This has given Manchester City not only the upper hand in the league rankings, but also its own performance. Reputation and dominance are clearly revealed!

Of course, at the level of Manchester City and Chelsea, whoever wins can win, so we can't be careless.

More importantly, this is not just a Premier League game, but also the sixth round of the Champions League group stage.

In any case, Dynamo Kiev is also a strong team in Eastern Europe. If they don't field a considerable part of the main lineup, Guardiola is afraid that his team will overturn at home and ruin the advantage brought by defeating Real Madrid in vain. , then his Manchester City will become the laughing stock of the European media!

It is precisely because Guardiola is very aware of the strength of Dynamo Kiev that he wants to spare some effort in the weekend league to prepare for the Champions League group stage next week.

In such a group, you must go all out in every game, otherwise, you may lose points repeatedly if you are not careful.

But rotation and retention are indeed a bit risky when facing a team like Chelsea.

Especially since the team has just been rotating, facing Leicester City, its full bench lineup did not perform well.

"space!"

Guardiola gets to Chelsea's heart.

"The biggest change in Chelsea this season is that the players are very active in running and their ability to create space has improved. Therefore, even such players seem to be good at passing and organizing, but in fact it is because they can always get space."

"This is partly because of tactics, and partly because the opponent is not strong enough."

"So, against Chelsea, we must not give Chelsea's players any space. As long as there is no space, they will not be able to pass the ball like before, and our advantage will be established."

Players such as Zhao Jinge and De Bruyne nodded. They have also watched Chelsea's recent game videos and have a full understanding of what Guardiola said.

"What about Hazard and Diego Costa?"

De Bruyne asked:
"If we can't kill Hazard and Diego Costa, Chelsea's offense will be difficult to contain."

Guardiola nodded, De Bruyne is worthy of being the core of his midfield, and his vision is still very sharp.

Hazard and Diego Costa are indeed key.

Diego Costa's physical strength advantage is very obvious, which allows him to always suppress the opponent's center backs and defenders, creating space for his teammates, especially Fabregas and others who can penetrate from behind.

Not to mention Hazard, who is definitely a superstar on the same level as Bale and Neymar. As long as there is a little space in front of him, the Belgian can tear apart the opponent's defense with his dazzling dribbling and breakthroughs. !
Of course, the strength of their opponents can only further stimulate Manchester City's fighting spirit. With Zhao Jinge here and using star-studded tactics, they will never be afraid of any team in Europe!
(End of this chapter)