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As soon as the winter break was over, Chinatown struggled again and again.

The first game was the first round of the knockout round of the Copa del Rey, at the Bernabéu Stadium.

Mourinho obviously did not pay much attention to Chinatown. In the first game of the winter break, he did not do all the main players. He has hidden many main players including Diego Costa and Özil. The semi-substitute lineup played.

But in the face of the mighty Galacticos, Pochettino’s team took the initiative to attack and behaved very bravely. Carvajal scored a goal in the tenth minute of the first half and Miranda in the 29th minute. Take the corner kick to make another move.

With a two-to-zero lead, Chinatown seems to see the dawn of victory.

But Mourinho repented at the halftime, replaced three main players in one breath, launched a fierce attack on the Chinatown team, and continued in the 68th, 70th and 78th minutes. Recovered three goals, and finally beat Chinatown 3-2 at the Bernabéu Stadium.

After a hard fight against Real Madrid, Chinatown again drew at Atletico Madrid zero-to-zero in the weekend league. This game was passive and defended the goal. Players such as De Gea, Miranda and Godin performed very bravely.

Pochettino preserved his strength in the league and used his strength in the second round of the Copa del Rey. He staged an offensive and defensive matchup with Mourinho. In the entire game, neither of them was able to break the opponent's goal.

Until the end of the game, Hazard received a pass from Alba on the left and forcibly broke into the penalty area. He was pulled from behind by Aveloya. The Real Madrid right back received the second yellow card of the game. The referee sent a red card and Hazard personally took the penalty kick and scored a goal for Chinatown.

The total score was three to three, but Chinatown eliminated Real Madrid with an away goal.

After the game, Mourinho was furious about Aveloya's second yellow card, and angered the referee for his partiality, believing that Hazard was diving, but whether it was the media or the TV station, it could be clearly seen through the video, Ah Veloya did pull Hazard from behind, otherwise the Belgian would be single-handed.

Eliminating the star-studded Real Madrid has once again brought Chinatown into the sight of fans all over the world. Especially the tenacious momentum shown by Real Madrid in the two wars is even more impressive.

But in the nineteenth round of La Liga at the weekend, although Chinatown scored a goal in the 88th minute by Pellet to equalize the score, it eventually lost the goal in stoppage time and lost to a one-to-two away game. Sporting Gijon.

In the two rounds, one draw and one loss, Chinatown's league ranking dropped sharply to tenth in La Liga, and the excitement brought by the Copa del Rey promotion quickly disappeared.

By the middle of the week, the first round of the knockout round of the Copa del Rey was ushered in. With Aubameyang’s goal, Chinatown drew a 1-1 with Valencia in the away game, and a week later, the home game was two games. Zero defeated the Bats, Rakitic and Herrera both scored.

In an interview with the media after the game, Emery said with regret that Chinatown's performance in these two games was even better than Valencia's, and promotion is a matter of course.

However, in the middle of the two cup matches, Chinatown lost to Barcelona 4-1 at the Nou Camp Stadium.

Barcelona took the lead with Puyol's goal in the 13th minute, but Aubameyang of China Town quickly equalized, but in the second half, Messi was short in the 54th, 60th and 63rd. In just ten minutes, the game was completely opened and a hat-trick was performed, which once again exceeded the score.

In the end, Chinatown lost a 4-1 away game.

Brutally double-killed by Barcelona. Morale in Chinatown was sluggish, and the league ranking dropped to eleventh again.

As a result, the media and fans began to attack Pochettino one after another, thinking that Chinatown should not insist on two-line combat, and should concentrate on playing the league instead of being distracted by the cup, especially the Copa del Rey.

But the club’s general manager Armando Marcos and technical director Cantarello came forward again to publicly support Pochettino’s decision, stating that the club will not change its confidence in Pochettino because of the temporary fluctuations in performance.

After knocking out Valencia in the Copa del Rey, Chinatown soon defeated Sevilla 2-1 at home in the league at the weekend. Rakitic and Aubameyang scored successively.

A victory made Chinatown's league ranking jump to eighth.

But what makes the fans even more exciting is that, three days after defeating Sevilla, Pochettino's team ushered in Bielsa's Athletic Bilbao at home, which was the first leg of the Copa del Rey semi-final.

Both sides are known for high-position presses and oppression. The game played very tragically. Chinatown took advantage of the home court to firmly suppress Athletic Bilbao, and Hazard assisted Rakitic in the first half to score a goal.

After changing sides in the second half, Bielsa replaced two players in one breath, intending to counterattack. However, Chinatown relied on Pellet’s assist and Aubameyang went to another city. In the end, the victory was locked at home with 2-0. One foot entered the Copa del Rey final.

But the price of fighting Bilbao is that the team had to rotate over the weekend and lost to Granada one to two away. Fortunately, the ranking remained unchanged. But for Pochettino's strategy of sticking to the cup, most media And the fans still don’t understand, shouldn’t we try our best to keep the league?

In the second round of the semi-final, Chinatown drew with Athletic Bilbao in a two-to-two away match, eliminated Bielsa's team with a total score of four to three, and successfully advanced to the Copa del Rey final.

This is also the first time in the history of Chinatown to qualify for the Copa del Rey final.

And this time the opponent is Guardiola's Barcelona.

After the Copa del Rey advancement to the final, the team's morale boosted. In the subsequent game against Real Mallorca, Caparos' team sneaked a goal in the fourth minute, but Pochettino was at home and quickly adjusted the situation. , Pellet assisted Aubameyang to tie the score.

In the 55th minute of the second half, Ilya Ramendi scored a long shot to overtake the score for Chinatown, and then forward Pellet scored a goal, and finally reversed Real Mallorca three to one, but the league The ranking remains the same.

And a week later, Pochettino rotated for the UEFA Champions League midweek. Chinatown lost to Athletic Bilbao one-on-one away. Bielsa’s team reported their revenge for being eliminated in the Copa del Rey at home. Stepped on the league ranking of Chinatown to ninth place.

Unexpectedly, on Wednesday at the Olympic Park Stadium in Lyon, Chinatown lost the ball in just eight minutes of opening. The teenager Lacazette opened the scoring for the Lyon team. The Ligue 1 team scored the goal with the first shot.

After that, Chinatown was completely trapped in the copper and iron walls of Lyon.

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Pochettino stood in front of the visiting team coach's bench at the Olympic Park Stadium, with his suit open, his hands on his waist, revealing a white shirt, but the scum on his face made him look very rough.

He hasn't taken care of his image well for more than a month, and his tousled hair is like a bird's nest.

Since the winter break, the team has been spinning continuously, continuously fighting on the three fronts of the Copa del Rey, the League and the Champions League. Every game is a tough battle. Chinatown has played very hard, and the players are also very desperate and under great pressure. .

As the team's head coach, Pochettino is even worse.

The opponent in this game, Ang is a frequent visitor to the knockouts of the Champions League, and his strength is good. Although the young coach Gard has just taken office this season, he has served as a youth coach and first team assistant coach in Lyon for many years, assisting Regon, Former Lyon coaches such as Hollier and Puel, and his appointment is also deeply trusted by the management, intending to rejuvenate the team.

Lacazette, who scored in this game, was pulled from the youth team.

The four-three-three formation is currently the mainstream in Europe. Gard also adopts this style of play. The goalkeeper is Lloris, the back line is Sissoko, Chris, Lovren and Reviere from left to right, and the midfielder is It was Ffana, Karlstrom and Gourcuff. The frontcourt was Bastos, Lacazette and Bryant.

Gard obviously did a lot of work in this game. He studied Chinatown’s play in depth, and adopted a regional defensive strategy for Hazard, who was the most active in the frontcourt and has the strongest personal ability, and avoided the ball as much as possible. The team fell into a one-on-one defensive state, which allowed the Belgian to not get a good chance throughout the game.

Aubameyang is the team’s top scorer, fast and strong, so Gard let Sissoko stick to him every step of the way. This left-back did a good job in this game and didn’t give Aubameyang. Great opportunity.

Seventy-five minutes into the game, Chinatown's possession rate reached 60%, and the number of shots reached three times that of Lyon, but it still failed to break the Lyon team's goal. The shooting efficiency was very poor.

The home team had a substitution, the visiting team has not yet, Pochettino knows, everyone is waiting for their own decision.

A zero to one away game is actually an acceptable result.

After returning to the home court, Chinatown can play more targeted according to the layout of this game.

This thought came to Pochettino's mind, but soon, he desperately pressed down this alluring thought~www.readwn.com~ because another voice appeared in his mind.

"Be fearless and always move forward. This is the purpose of our Chinatown game!"

"We will never be afraid of any opponent, nor will we bow to any difficult challenge. No matter who the opponent is, we must dare to swing the sword."

This was a shocking remark that Gao Han had said to Pochettino.

At this moment, it sounded in Pochettino's mind, but it made the Argentine feel a little ashamed.

In twenty minutes or so, the team fell behind by zero to one, and he was actually satisfied!

If Mr. Gao Han were there, at this moment he would definitely find his opponent's weakness and find Wuqi who restrained his opponent and turned defeat into victory, but he would never let it go.

Not to mention losing, a tie cannot appear in Alpine's options. He has always had only one goal, and that is to win.

Pochettino slapped his hands **** his face, exhaled heavily, turned around, and shouted at the assistant coach **** Perez behind him, "Let me see this scene. Detailed analysis of the game."

Jesús Perez was taken aback for a moment, and he reacted quickly. He immediately found the data analyst. He quickly walked to Pochettino’s side with a tablet computer. The data analysis ruǎnjiàn carefully crafted by Ergio Garcia began to study carefully.

Through the club’s data analysis ruǎnjiàn, everything about the game was clearly presented in front of Pochettino. At this moment, he calmed down. Many details that had been overlooked before reappeared in his sight at this time. Organize it, and immediately faintly figured out the outline in my mind.

"Lyon's loudong is here!" Pochettino gritted his teeth.