I started with Torres, to revive German football

Chapter 360 Picking up cheap Liverpool
Once these two players have a successful header, Ibrahimovic and other Manchester United offensive players who are ambushing near the fulcrum are likely to steal the ball successfully!

Therefore, no matter how Manchester City defends or shrinks its formation, there must be heavy troops on the flanks, and Manchester United must not be allowed to easily get the opportunity to pass from the bottom.

Zhao Jinge is now guarding Kyle Walker on the right wing, and Otamendi is on the left wing. One on the left and one on the right, they help relieve a lot of defensive pressure on the wing defenders behind him.

Martial looked at Zhao Jinge in front of him and was speechless.

Although he is young and energetic, after playing hard for a whole game, he can no longer hold the ball and beat a player like Zhao Jinge who is both fast and strong. He can only call Herrera to come over and cooperate with him.

Pogba, who mainly plays on the right side, is in a much better situation. Valencia behind him can cover the side, and he can also find a way to get past Otamendi.

Although Yaya Toure's interception is very annoying, as long as he enters Manchester City's defensive third zone and he attracts firepower to distribute the ball, Valencia still has enough space to cross.

It's just that when most of Manchester United's crosses come from the right, Manchester City's defense can be arranged easily.

The three high school defenders were able to take turns taking care of Ibrahimovic in the penalty area. When Rojo and the others pressed forward at the last moment, Zhao Jinge and Yaya Toure retreated, holding Manchester United firmly at the high point.

The players of Manchester United watched the passes sent into the Manchester City penalty area being pushed out again and again, and they gradually felt desperate.

Manchester City's current lineup is simply like a defensive machine covered in barbs!
Don't even think that the football that is scored will fall on the offensive player, and it will be swallowed up by this terrifying machine.

Laporte is in charge, with Fernandinho and Otamendi staring at him, and Stones and Yaya Toure on the other two sides. With such a defensive configuration, how to play?
Today's Manchester United does not have the threat posed by the center Ibrahimovic, and the offensive fulcrum has to be replaced by Rojo and Phil Jones. They are not a match for Manchester City's defensive cluster.

At the end of the 5th minute of stoppage time, after Pogba's last cross was still destroyed by Laporte, the referee on duty finally blew the whistle to end the game!

Guardiola could no longer maintain his composure and was the first to rush into the field, hugging Zhao Jinge who performed well on both offense and defense today and yelling non-stop!
The rest of the Manchester City substitute players and coaches also rushed into the field, holding the Manchester City players on the field one by one, and celebrated happily!
"A fourteen-point lead! With this lead, Manchester City can obviously prepare more calmly, but Chelsea must be careful. In the next games, every time they lose a game, they may lose Manchester City can win the championship one more round ahead of schedule!”

The Sky Sports commentator looked at the remaining schedules of the two teams and almost sentenced Chelsea to death in his heart.

Among Manchester City's next opponents, Liverpool and Arsenal are not serious problems due to league points issues. Chelsea is the only one that is difficult to deal with. The rest of the mid- and lower-tier teams in the league have won steadily. Chelsea will take the lead and fight against Manchester City's mistakes. Rate!

The advantage of four wins makes Manchester City almost invincible.

Unless Manchester City's coaching staff collectively loses consciousness or the main players are collectively injured, there will definitely be no chance of a comeback for Manchester City this season.

It is really difficult for Manchester City to have the two situations mentioned above.

Almost the next two weeks will be international match days, and the World Cup preliminaries have reignited. Indeed, many players from Manchester City have to go to the national team to fight.

But Manchester City will be affected by the international break, as will Chelsea.

After all, most of the main players in the Chelsea team are also players of their respective national teams, so in this comparison, Chelsea also has no advantage. If everyone loses together, no one is better than the other.

With the excitement of defeating Manchester United, the entire Manchester City team quickly returned to the Etihad Stadium by bus that night.

Guardiola simply announced the holiday. The players will fly back to their respective national teams tomorrow. Players who do not have national competition duties can take a good rest for at least a week.

Zhao Jinge is among the resting players. This can be regarded as the best news Guardiola has received on the occasion of this international match day.

"Help me say thank you to the head coach of your national team. If he has time during the offseason, he is welcome to come to Manchester City to visit and communicate."

After announcing the disbandment of the team, Guardiola specially asked Zhao Jinge to express his gratitude to Loew on his behalf.

Although the German team has successfully qualified in the World Cup preliminaries, Zhao Jinge did not waste his energy to go back to participate in the remaining friendly matches, which is really a big help to Manchester City.

Guardiola now has a very good impression of Loew, at least much better than his impression of the Belgian national team coach.

The last time the Belgian team called up De Bruyne to play in a friendly match, Guardiola and the Belgian national team's coaching staff were very unhappy. In comparison, the German national team seemed too reasonable.

Zhao Jinge made a joke at this time and asked Guardiola to travel to Germany with him during the offseason so that he could communicate with Loew in person.

Unexpectedly, Guardiola agreed after thinking for a moment.

"I was just joking, coach, are you really going back to Germany with me in the summer?"

"What? You're not welcome? I'll take my wife and kids with me. It's just a trip, and I can go back to Munich to see my old friends!"
I also had a few real friends at Bayern back then! "

"How could you not welcome me? Then let's make a deal. Don't change your mind at the last minute and say you have to be busy with work or something."

"I'm afraid you won't be happy then!"

Guardiola tried to hit Zhao Jinge on the head, but Zhao Jinge dodged it nimbly, and then kicked Zhao Jinge lightly to tell him to get out.

"Don't play too much these days, remember to report back to the base on time!"

On the morning of March 24, Zhao Jinge and his teammates who had no national team competition duties completed their medical examination on time at the Etihad Stadium.

Because everyone understands the importance of the Champions League match in early April, they played more moderately during the holidays. At least the physical examination report satisfied Guardiola.

After everyone gathered together, Guardiola also decisively started closed training.

They have made up their mind to prepare a big surprise for the Serie A overlord Aguero, who they haven't seen for a long time!
While Zhao Jinge was working hard with his teammates who had no national competition obligations to prepare for the follow-up games, the wars for the World Cup preliminaries on all continents were almost raging.

The British national team achieved hearty victories in the two World Cup qualifying matches in March. After beating San Marino [-]-[-], they also won Scotland [-]-[-] in an away game without any blood, further consolidating their top position in the group.

Among them, the outstanding performances of Stones and Kyle Walker have won unanimous praise from British fans. The Belgian team also successfully won the first place in the group under the leadership of De Bruyne.

Watching players who have finished playing for the national team return one after another, Guardiola's anxious heart can finally calm down.

Except for Otamendi, who had the longest round trip and needed two days of rest, the rest of the players devoted themselves to recovery training after a day of rest.

Guardiola would like to give these players more rest, but the schedule waits for no one.

On the 31st, Manchester City will go to an away game to challenge Liverpool. The time is indeed a bit tight, and they can only work hard for the players at this important moment.

Regarding the schedule of a league game before the Champions League war, Manchester City had some complaints. However, before the players and coaching staff could express their opinions, Manchester City fans got into full fire.

"After playing Liverpool on March 31st, we will go to Turin to challenge Juventus on April [-]rd. Can't the FA be accommodating and postpone this round of the league?"

“On April 12th, the No. [-] Premier League opponents are Arsenal and Chelsea respectively. What a hell is Manchester City’s recent schedule!

Starting from Manchester United and ending with No. 12, they are all high-end games! "

"Those senior officials are only thinking about the answer! We at Manchester City play in the Champions League to win European points for the Premier League. Their vision is too short-sighted!

If the team in this situation is Manchester United, the shitty FA will definitely give them an extension! "

"You are just talking nonsense! Didn't we at Manchester United have this kind of schedule before? Why, we can play, but you, Manchester City, can't?"

"After playing Liverpool, you still have three days to rest! You won't start against Juventus until the evening of the [-]rd, so I don't know what to complain about!"

As soon as the Manchester City fans started complaining, in addition to other fans watching the excitement, the Manchester United fans who were splashed by the area damage could not sit still, and quickly stood up and counterattacked in a strange way.

While the two sides were quarreling fiercely, Liverpool fans were secretly chuckling and just held up a banner to directly thank the FA.

The schedule this time is wonderful!

Regardless of whether Manchester City wants to compete with Juventus or not, you have already reached the quarterfinals of the Champions League. You must not be able to explain your failure, right? Not to mention that Manchester City aims to defend the title this year!

Whether proactive or passive, Manchester City can only devote most of its energy to the next Champions League battle.

So Liverpool fans only feel that they got a big bargain this time.

I can't beat your Manchester City first team, but I can't score points against your Manchester City second team at home!

Arsenal fans suddenly panicked.

They are still waiting for Manchester City to snipe Liverpool and lift them back to the top four!

If Liverpool gets past Manchester City in this round, it will basically be a smooth road except for playing Manchester United!
And based on Liverpool's resilience this season, it is estimated that they will definitely perform extraordinary in the final sprint stage of the league. That is a Champions League seat. For this seat, Liverpool will definitely explode!
Arsenal haven't missed a Champions League game in more than ten years. Don't be careful, they will play in the Europa League next year!
This secured fourth place for most of the season, but was kicked down by Liverpool at the last moment. Who can bear this!

So Arsenal fans began calling on Manchester City for fair play online.

You can't just let Liverpool go some time ago and then go all out to deal with Arsenal after the Champions League game, right? !
If this is the result, Arsenal fans will never accept it!
The Everton fans immediately became energetic when they saw what the Arsenal fans said.

Everton has no hope of getting a place in the Champions League next season, but no matter who wants to cause trouble for Liverpool's Champions League prospects, Everton must help!

In this situation of three-party fans fighting, Manchester City rarely announced the roster for the No. 30 Premier League games in advance in March.

There is no Mane, no Laporte, no De Bruyne, Kante, etc., etc., except for Zhao Jinge and Gundogan, who are holding the line, almost no players from the Manchester City first team have made it to the squad.

The Arsenal fans suddenly howled, and the Everton fans were unwilling to accept it. Seeing their rivals in the same city benefiting from it was even more uncomfortable than killing them!

Only all the players and fans of Liverpool celebrated selflessly with singing and dancing all night long!
Since Zhao Jinge has no national team match duties, his appearance in this round of the league did not surprise the outside world, but everyone guessed that Guardiola would only send Zhao Jinge to warm up in the first half.

After all, beating Juventus depends on Zhao Jinge's offensive strength. Manchester City's coaching staff will not be stupid enough to let their ace forward consume 10 minutes of physical fitness before the big battle.

On the afternoon of the 31st, when the rosters of both teams came out, Zhao Jinge was not among the 11 players as expected. Guardiola finally chose to have Zhao Jinge on standby on the bench.

David Silva, Dzeko, and Sterling partnered on the striker today.

Gundogan, Yaya Toure and Fernandinho serve as the three midfielders.

Cancelo, Stones, Kompany and Korolav sit in defence.

Joe Hart has no problem with his physical fitness and condition and continues to serve as goalkeeper.

This rotation lineup is still a great threat on the offensive end, but there may be some hidden dangers on the defensive end.

After all, the midfield strangulation tactic that Manchester City was most proud of in the past can no longer be used. Fernandinho, who has not been selected for the national team, is now in a state of semi-recuperation. Although his physical reserves are good, he still needs to be allowed to do what he did last season. It is probably not realistic to press and defend the whole court.

So looking at Fernandinho, the main defensive force in the midfield, Guardiola finally decided not to defend at all, and used Yaya Toure and Gundogan to form the twin engines of the midfield to compete with Liverpool. Attack football!
Since it can't be defended, then maximize your own advantage on the offensive end. Three forwards plus two offensive midfielders are enough to give Liverpool a drink.

Besides, Zhao Jinge is still sitting off the court!

If Liverpool's performance goes beyond his expectations, the worst he can do is let Zhao Jinge play for 45 minutes in the second half. Then it will be seen whether Liverpool's defense can withstand Zhao Jinge's terrifying wrath!
(End of this chapter)