Chapter 344 Pellegrini is absent due to illness, Manchester City coach crisis

"Ranieri was fired again, where will the tinker go?" 》

After the game, reporters from major media outlets focused not on the process and results of the game, but on Monaco's dismissal of their head coach.

To be honest, Ranieri actually did a pretty good job in Monaco.

At least Monaco rushed from Ligue 2 to Ligue 1 under his leadership, so for such a meritorious coach to fire him so disrespectfully is really unjustifiable.

Perhaps to the Russian oligarchs, this is okay because termination of the contract comes with a termination fee.

Since you have given money, you can naturally fire people at will!

But the problem in this matter is not about money, but about the dignity of the head coach.

After Ranieri was fired, the outside world was almost critical of Jinyuan Football, especially Jinyuan Football from Russian wealthy people.

In the past few years, Chelsea's record was poor, and Abramovich fired crazy coaches, replacing six or seven coaches in just a few years.

This behavior has greatly affected Chelsea's reputation and reputation in the coaching community, causing many coaches to stay away from the team as soon as they hear Chelsea's name.

Abramovich really wanted to invite Guardiola to Stamford Bridge, but Guardiola was completely indifferent to Chelsea's invitation.

A large part of the reason for this is that Chelsea frequently fired the team coach, which left a very bad negative impression on Guardiola's mind.

For the world's top coaches like Guardiola, they have no shortage of suitors, so there is no need to go to Chelsea and suffer.

Even for Mourinho, if it were not for the failure he suffered at Real Madrid, he might not have returned to Chelsea so easily.

After all, Mourinho has always wanted to save face. It is certainly impossible to say that he didn't care at all about being fired by Abramovich.

When the outside world criticized Monaco and Chelsea, they did not forget to bring out Manchester City and Paris Saint-Germain to criticize them together.

After all, when it comes to Jinyuan Football, these four teams are the first that come to mind.

A reporter who was interested went to ask Manchester City coach Pellegrini if ​​he was worried about his coaching position?

The old coach actually had such worries, but that was last year.

After leading the team to win the Champions League trophy, he no longer has this worry.

"Haha, if the club wants to fire me, then think of it as giving me an early vacation. You know, leading a team to win all the time is very tiring!"

The old coach is implying that his performance in leading the team is very good and the team has been winning. In this case, the club will not be able to fire him unless it loses its mind.

However, as soon as the words fell, Pellegrini missed the Manchester City team's training the next day.

"Why hasn't the coach come yet?"

"You're not late, are you?"

"He is always on time, why is he suddenly late?"

When the allotted time came, the players all arrived, but Pellegrini had not yet appeared, which aroused the curiosity of the players.

Although daily training can be completed by the assistant coaches even if he, the head coach, is not present, the team has a game tomorrow, the starting lineup and the tactics of the next game, etc., all of which require him as the head coach. to make sure.

In this case, his lateness naturally seemed strange.

"Ahem, everyone, be quiet!"

After a while, an assistant coach hurried over, asked the players to calm down, and announced bad news:

"Coach Pellegrini is feeling a little unwell and is currently undergoing examination in the hospital. I will be in charge of tomorrow's game!"

Brian is the oldest assistant coach in the Manchester City team. He serves as the interim coach and everyone has no objections.

Anyway, it's just temporary, and Coach Pellegrini will definitely recover soon.

But the coach suddenly became ill, which made the players a little worried.

On October 25, Brian took a large group of substitutes to London to challenge West Ham United away from home.

This is not because Pellegrini took a temporary leave, but it was already determined to be rotated before.

Their main players have just finished participating in the Champions League. After the fatigue of traveling and traveling, the players' physical fitness and condition have not yet fully recovered.

If they are allowed to continue playing at this time, it is likely to cause unexpected injuries.

This season, many main players in Manchester City's lineup have suffered injuries.

The earliest one was captain Kompany. His injury was not serious, but it had a greater impact on the state of the game.

Fortunately, the team still has a young player like Van Dijk who can step up, so it doesn't have much impact on the team's record.

But then, the injuries to Aguero and Kroos became more fatal for Manchester City.

Aguero has always been Manchester City's starting striker. His absence has greatly affected Manchester City's offensive power in the frontcourt.

As for Kroos, he is Manchester City's midfield metronome, the one who controls the rhythm of the game, and is also very important to the team.

The injuries to these three generals have actually sounded the alarm for Manchester City. If they don't take it seriously, there will probably be more and more such injuries.

After all, Manchester City has too many games this season.

All events combined, there are as many as sixty or seventy games in a single season.

Even with rotation, each main player may not be able to play more than fifty games!

And many of them are very fierce and high-intensity Champions League games.

This intensive schedule and high-intensity competition can easily lead to a situation where the battalion is full of injured soldiers.

But there's a price to pay for bold rotations.

In London, Manchester City was stubbornly blocked by the Hammers.

The players of West Ham United showed full London derby momentum against Manchester City in this game!

It's as if Manchester City is their life and death enemy!

This kind of treatment is usually only available to rivals Millwall in the same city, but Manchester City enjoyed it once today.

In just 12 minutes, West Ham United scored.

The opponent took advantage of a quick free kick and caught Manchester City off guard.

Amalfitano helped West Ham United open the scoring, temporarily leading Manchester City 1:0.

Manchester City players thought the ball was offside, but their protests were ignored by the referee.

Moreover, the foul penalty when the opponent took a quick free kick was also controversial.

On the sidelines, Manchester City's interim coach Brian frowned.

The referee's home whistle seemed a bit obvious in this game, causing Manchester City to suffer several losses.

Moreover, the young players on the bench were a bit impatient and gave the opponent many opportunities.

The falling score and the referee's bias made him start to worry.

If there are main players on the field, even if the referee is partial to the opponent, he will not have such worries.

Thinking of this, he regretted not taking Lin Quan with him to fight.

Before going to London, Lin Quan had taken the initiative to apply to play.

However, Brian considered that the opponent had just played the entire Champions League game, so he rejected his application and asked him to stay in Manchester to rest with the other main players.

Now it seems that this decision of mine seems to be a bit exaggerated.

If Lin Quan were on the court, the team's offensive threat would be much greater and they wouldn't be so passive.

Fortunately, even as a substitute, Manchester City's lineup still cannot be underestimated.

In the 43rd minute of the first half, Manchester City took advantage of the loopholes in the opponent's defense and Milner's shot helped the team equalize the score.

This goal made Brian extremely excited, and also made the Manchester City main players watching from behind breathe a sigh of relief.

Playing with a full substitute lineup, if we can win, it will be perfect.

But if you can't win, getting one point is acceptable.

In this case, even if Chelsea win, Manchester City will still be one point ahead of them!

A one-point lead is also a lead. Besides, Chelsea's state cannot be completely without ups and downs. It is impossible to win every game, right?

After all, Chelsea's opponent in this round is the Red Devils Manchester United.

Although Manchester United's performance at the beginning of the season was poor, it has now come out of the trough and has won two consecutive games. Van Gaal seems to have found the right way to open Manchester United.

In addition, they are playing at home in this game, which gives people a little bit of expectations for their record.

Many Manchester United fans hope that Van Gaal can seize the opportunity and defeat Chelsea at home, thus closing the gap with the top two teams.

Defeat Chelsea first and then defeat Manchester City. This is the perfect script for the Red Devils' counterattack envisioned by many Manchester United fans!

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In the second half, Manchester City played steadily and gave their opponents no chance.

The game has reached the 85th minute, and the score on the field is still 1:1.

It looked like the two teams were going to end up in a draw.

However, in the 87th minute, a penalty from the referee changed the outcome of the game.

In the 87th minute, a West Ham United player dribbled the ball into the penalty area and then fell to the ground.

The referee not only gave Clichy a yellow card, but also awarded a penalty kick.

Awarding a penalty kick at this time is almost a death sentence for Manchester City!

This penalty caused strong dissatisfaction among Manchester City players. Manchester City players on the field rushed to the referee to protest and appeal to him.

However, the referee not only did not change the penalty, but also showed Milner and Fernando a yellow card each.

It seems that he is determined to give West Ham United a victory!

On the sidelines, after Brian saw this scene, he applauded the referee angrily.

At the reminder of the fourth official, the referee ran to the sidelines and directly ejected him with a red card.

The team was awarded a penalty kick and the interim coach was ejected.

Manchester City was really helpless in this game and had to swallow the bitter pill of failure in the away game.

After the game, Clattenburg, who officiated the game, was severely criticized by Manchester City fans.

It was thanks to his several key penalties that Manchester City suffered its first defeat of the season.

"The Premier League's four blind players are really well-deserved. Amalfitano's offside was so obvious that he couldn't even see it. He was so blind!"

"Haha, I think the referee should have collected the rice, otherwise he wouldn't have made so many controversial penalties!"

"What are controversial penalties? Almost all of these penalties are unfavorable to Manchester City. This is obviously suppressed by the above!"

"Could it be that it's the Premier League?"

"If anything is as beautiful as the forest wind, it will be destroyed by the wind. Manchester City was too popular before, so people are thinking about it!"

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After the game, Manchester City immediately lodged a complaint with the Football Association and requested an investigation into the referee's officiating record.

At the same time, they used their strong financial advantage to bribe a large number of media and let them report this matter in large quantities, making it known to everyone that Manchester City was the victim.

Not to mention, with the funding and organization of Manchester City, a large number of fans went to protest outside the offices of the Football Association.

They are not the kind of team that tolerates bullying!

If everyone is playing this dirty trick, then just stop playing football.

Faced with huge pressure from public opinion, the Football Association was forced to come forward and announced that it would thoroughly investigate the matter to ensure the fairness and justice of the league.

Just listen to these words. With their internal mutual defense characteristics, they will not easily overturn the verdict.

What Manchester City wants is not to overturn the verdict, but to ask the FA to restrain themselves in the next games and not to deliberately target them.

After all, it would be bad for everyone if they broke up.

The Abu Dhabi consortium is here to do business, so it has naturally conducted risk assessments.

They have already collected a lot of dirty information on the top executives of the Football Association through private detectives, and used it as a trump card at critical moments.

Once these things are exposed, these senior officials may be ruined, and the image and reputation of the Football Association will be fatal.

The team lost, and the players' mood was more or less affected.

In particular, coach Pellegrini's condition has not fully recovered and he is unable to return to coach the team for the time being.

And interim coach Brian received a red card because of the applause incident in the last game, and he will not be able to stand on the sidelines and direct in the next round.

As a last resort, Manchester City could only let another assistant coach serve as on-the-spot commander.

Fortunately, Manchester United took a breath of fresh air in this round of competition.

Although they did not win Chelsea at their home court, the 1:1 draw was still acceptable for Manchester City.

In this way, although they lost the ball, their lead did not shrink too much and they still maintained a 2-point lead over Chelsea.

This result seems to be better than the result of them drawing and Chelsea winning?

But in the next round, it will be Manchester City's turn to face Manchester United at home.

Considering the state of Manchester United in recent games, especially the strength shown in the home draw with Chelsea, this game may not be easy for Manchester City.

If they don't have so many injuries and the head coach is not absent, with Manchester City's strength, they are very confident to win this game.

The two teams had met before in the International Champions Cup in North America. At that time, Manchester City defeated Manchester United and was unable to fight back.

Although Manchester United's strength has improved in the past three months, Manchester City still has a great advantage.

But now, under the combined effect of a series of negative factors, the prospects for the next game are really a bit confusing.

Manchester United's coach Louis van Gaal seemed to have seen the opportunity to overthrow his neighbors, so he publicly announced before the game that he would lead Manchester United to defeat Manchester City in the away game and end Manchester City's winning streak against Manchester United!