I started with Torres, to revive German football

Chapter 325: Devil’s schedule versus the Red Army

The Christmas battle is coming, and the devil's schedule at the end of December will naturally come as scheduled.

Four league games were played in just twelve days. The fans felt comfortable, but professional players like them were extremely tired.

Even if Zhao Jinge is injured, he must pay attention to rest and body protection during this period. After the two-day holiday, all Manchester City players returned to the training ground.

Guardiola started work early as always. After seeing Zhao Jinge, he immediately called him to the medical room for a physical examination.

Zhao Jinge was also familiar with the situation and went to the medical room with De Bruyne and others.

The devil's schedule is approaching, and reasonable rotation arrangements are urgent. All Manchester City players must undergo a comprehensive and detailed body examination. After that, Guardiola will arrange the playing time of each player based on the advice of the team doctor.

Not surprisingly, Zhao Jinge once again received an extremely healthy rating, and Guardiola unceremoniously placed Zhao Jinge in the starting lineup for the next four league games.

Just kidding, as long as the team doctor has no objection, then Guardiola can't wait to put Zhao Jinge on the field in every game!
It is easy to use and durable. Not only does he feel relieved to have Zhao Jinge in charge, but also the players in the Manchester City team feel at ease. This is the ballast stone of their giant ship Manchester City!
On December 24th, the 17th round of the league begins before the Christmas war.

Manchester City faced the challenge of Hull City at home, and the forward combination of Zhao Jinge, Sterling and David Silva once again appeared in Manchester City's starting lineup.

Many of the main players in the Manchester City team are resting in this game. For example, Mahrez and Mane in the starting trident did not play.

However, the wing combination of Sterling and David Silva is still very powerful.

Hull City has conceded the third-worst number of goals in the Premier League this season. This kind of defense obviously cannot stop Manchester City's fast rush from the wing.

At the end of the first half, Manchester City took an early two-goal lead thanks to Sterling's goal and the tacit connection between De Bruyne and Zhao Jinge.

In the second half, after David Silva took Cancelo's forward pass and successfully countered offside, and scored the winning third goal, Guardiola simply replaced several core players and took a rest.

After winning Hull City [-]-[-], Manchester City began to prepare intensively for the Christmas Day war.

This year, Watford will face Manchester City after Christmas.

Watford's record this season is much worse than last season. It was originally in the middle of the league last season, but this season it is hovering near the relegation zone.

At present, Watford has played the first seventeen rounds and ranks No. 17 in the Premier League standings with 18 points. It is only two points away from No. [-] Hull City. If the winter devil's schedule collapses, If you do, you will dive into the relegation zone in an instant!
At the beginning of the Devil's schedule, they encountered Hull City and Watford, two weak persimmons, which was also Manchester City's luck, allowing them to better adjust their state through exchanges.

As a leading team in a period of rising record, the most important thing for the Manchester City team is to maintain its own stability. In order to ensure that nothing goes wrong, Guardiola faced a large-scale rotation of players like Hull City in the last round of the league. At the same time, half of the team's starters were also sent.

The benefits of the last round of league rotation were reflected at this critical moment.

De Bruyne, Mane, Yaya Toure, Laporte and others are full of energy and physical fitness.

After all, after two extra days of rest, they looked radiant and full of energy. Coupled with Zhao Jinge, who has abnormal recovery ability, Manchester City brought out most of its main lineup for the Christmas game.

On the afternoon of December 29, the entire Manchester City team arrived at the Vicarage Road Stadium and completed warm-up preparations in the heated Christmas atmosphere.

At this moment, Watford's head coach and players obviously do not have as strong confidence as their home fans.

Marco Silva, Watford's current new coach, is stroking his sexy mustache and looking at Manchester City's starting lineup with a distressed look on his face.

Except for Walker, Hart, Stones, Mane, and Kanter who continue to rest, all other positions in Manchester City are starting games. Marco Silva only feels that he is under too much pressure.

Even if it is Manchester City that has rotated half of its main players, it is still Manchester City!

Facing a phenomenal opponent who has not lost a single game this season, does Watford really have a chance to score points from Manchester City?
Marco Silva is a little nervous, but the Christmas game is the Christmas game, and he can't use a bus to deal with Manchester City at his home court.

That will only destroy the little praise he has accumulated in this stadium, especially with Watford's recent poor record.

So before the game was about to start, the head coach, who was destined to be sacked in the next two months, chose the same tactics and had an upright fight with Manchester City at the Vicarage Road Stadium!
This choice made Watford fans very happy, and they expressed their satisfaction with passionate cheers.

But the wrong choice will eventually lead to the wrong ending. Such cheers came to an end in the 19th minute of the first half, when Zhao Jinge opened the door guarded by the Watford goalkeeper with a volley from outside the penalty area. And stopped.

After that, in minutes No. 306, 7 minutes, and No. 70, the Watford fans gradually weakened, until strong boos after a dead silence enveloped the entire Vicarage Road stadium!
Zhao Jinge, who scored a hat trick, celebrated unbridledly with his teammates in this stadium!
And in the dazzling and cold score of [-]-[-], the audience could not see any joy related to Watford. All they saw was the dominance and strength of Manchester City!
After slaughtering Watford, Manchester City, carrying the death scythe, turned its attention to Liverpool.

On January 1st, the first day of 1, Manchester City will challenge Liverpool away!

There were no upset results in this year's Christmas game, and the top six teams in the Premier League all won simply.

It is worth mentioning that Arsenal, whose form has improved in recent days, also won a thrilling [-]-[-] victory over Stoke City, giving Gunners fans a long-lost Christmas gift of two consecutive wins!
Although there is still a three-point gap behind the fourth-placed Liverpool, it is at least a step forward, which is much better than the previous situation of losing consecutive games.

Wenger also had a long-lost bright smile on his face.

Successfully reaching the knockout rounds of the Champions League and winning two consecutive games in the league, everything seems to be slowly developing for the better.

As long as they can continue to maintain their current winning state, it is not impossible for Arsenal to return to the top four. As long as they enter the top four, Arsenal can continue to persevere!

Just bite the bullet and rush forward. Everything is possible in the winter schedule. A three-point gap, one win, and a bit more luck. Maybe it will come true?
Moreover, the winter signings that Arsenal have been waiting for are coming soon!
But Manchester City has arrived at Liverpool, a city with a very strong football culture and a long history of football development, with a super luxurious record of seventeen wins and one tie.

In Zhao Jinge’s view, this city’s love and support for football is no less than that of Manchester!
If it weren't for the exhaustion of traveling and the tight schedule and the need to seize the time to rest, Zhao Jinge and others might even go shopping in the city with De Bruyne.

Premier League players are really having a hard time at the end of December!Speaking of Manchester City alone, they only played their first game after Christmas on the afternoon of the 29th. They did simple recovery training the next day, and went straight to Liverpool on the third day.

There is no other way. We will play the 19th round of the Premier League with Liverpool Club at around [-] pm on the [-]st.

In order for the players to be in a reasonably good mental state on the day of the game, Guardiola could only choose to spin around on the 31st, train and rush.

Anyway, I can sleep a little longer that night with peace of mind, and I can hold a team meeting in the hotel the next morning.

Zhao Jinge and the others slept soundly, and slowly got up at around nine o'clock the next morning to have breakfast.

However, the members of the Manchester City coaching staff, who had only slept for a little more than four hours, were all drinking coffee with dark circles under their eyes. After hurriedly eating breakfast, they went into the conference room for the final tactical drill.

But there is nothing to do, and other teams are basically like this, the schedule is too dense, and there is not enough time to prepare for the game.

The players can still have enough rest time, but the coaches can only squeeze in time to make tactical arrangements and detailed adjustments.

All Zhao Jinge and the others can do is to defeat their opponents on the playing field and live up to the hard work of their coaches.

The Manchester City players felt sorry for their head coach, while the Liverpool fans on the other side even sang Klopp's song, praising the coach who made them fall out of the European competition last season. .

Fourth in the league, there may be a Champions League next season!Now the first thing Liverpool fans do when they wake up every day is to look at the standings, and then they can't stop having fun.

In the past seven years, except for the 1314 season when Suarez broke out and qualified for the Champions League once, it has been difficult for Liverpool to steadily enter the Champions League over the years!
After years of suffering, Liverpool fans really didn't expect that in just Klopp's second year, Liverpool would have such results!

They did not reach their current position by relying on good luck, but by relying on their real strength to sit fourth in the league!

Even if they continue to win and have a better goal difference, third place in the league will also belong to them!
The current situation of missing the Champions League for two consecutive seasons has made Liverpool fans extremely eager for the top four.

Even if Arsenal and Manchester United are still watching behind them, as long as Klopp can lead them into the first echelon, he will be their savior!

With the right coach Klopp and a large number of young and reliable players, Liverpool fans just feel that the cold winter is finally over!

They haven't thought about winning the championship yet. The first thing they want is to return to the top four. As long as they can win the Champions League, Liverpool can always slowly wash away the history of the past four years.

Even though they will compete with Manchester City in the next round, Liverpool fans still have an optimistic attitude.

Anyway, we only play Manchester City twice in a season. If you get one point, you will earn it. If you get three points, you will win a big prize!
As long as the players try their best, even if they lose to Manchester City twice, Liverpool fans have nothing to think about.

After all, you have just emerged and want to challenge the current European hegemon Manchester City. How arrogant do you have to have such an idea?

Klopp and the Liverpool players are also very pragmatic in their thinking and take it step by step.

Of course it's better if you win, but if you really can't win, try your best. Anyway, it's the first game of the new year, so you should just pay the tuition, and compared to other teams, Liverpool has more time to prepare for the game.

From now on, it seems that Liverpool did not qualify for the Europa League this season last season, but it seems to be a good thing now.

It is still very comfortable to fight in a single line, and you can choose one of the two domestic cup matches. There is no competition and psychological burden. It can be said that Liverpool's preparations are going quite smoothly.

At four o'clock in the afternoon on January 1st at Anfield Stadium, the players from both sides greeted each other in a friendly manner, but when they went into their respective warm-up sessions, the atmosphere suddenly became tense.

In all fairness, the two teams have no grievances at the club or team level. On the contrary, many players in the two teams appreciate each other very much.

For example, Zhao Jinge admires Firmino and Henderson very much. They have said good things about each other in interviews with reporters more than once.

Coupled with Sterling's relationship, the two clubs rarely have the smell of competition. At least in the past two seasons, neither team regards the other as a competitor in the same echelon.

To put it bluntly, Liverpool is not qualified to compete with Manchester City in the past two seasons. This is a fact.

But reality has changed so quickly.

After a short offseason, Liverpool, which was still in a state of decline last season, suddenly became a member of the first tier of the Premier League. Although it was difficult to maintain the fourth position in the league, being able to enter the Champions League proved that Liverpool It is already a truly strong team!
Even though Manchester City's players subjectively still admire Liverpool's players, instinctively, they have become more competitive with each other.

This is a competition among the top teams, and there is no need to exaggerate too much. Out of the pursuit of results, their fighting is inevitable.

Manchester City has nothing to respond to Liverpool's challenge. Liverpool will go all out in this game, and naturally they will too.

However, before the battle began, the friendly interactions between players from both sides added a touch of fun to the game.

At least the tension of the fans on both sides has eased a lot.

When the game officially started, the high-intensity confrontation immediately cheered up the fans from all walks of life.

Firmino's minor injury caused him to miss the last three league rounds, but Firmino, who returned from injury today, showed good competitive form from the beginning of the game.

Coupled with Coutinho, who has performed exceptionally well this season, and Sturridge, who has made a comeback, Liverpool showed their strength from the very beginning!

(End of this chapter)