Chapter 601 Manchester City went crazy again, the first championship for the substitutes!

The draw at Anfield was actually not the most ideal result for both sides.

As the saying goes, the fisherman wins when the snipe and the clam compete. The two teams each get one, while Manchester United and Tottenham get all three points.

Manchester United seized the opportunity to narrow the gap with Manchester City, and Tottenham also took the opportunity to narrow the gap between them and Liverpool to 2 points.

Liverpool's fourth position in the league has become somewhat precarious.

Although the two sides fought hard and lost, after the game, the fans on both sides could barely accept the result.

After spending a suffocating period at the end of the game, Liverpool fans felt lucky that the team did not lose.

Manchester City's strong dominance in the final moments of the game left them feeling frightened.

Although privately many people still regret that the team missed a great situation, they also saw the potential of this Liverpool through this game.

Although Liverpool is currently not as good as Manchester City in terms of hard power, once Klopp has trained this Red Army well, they may not be able to compete with each other in the future.

So there is no need to rush for revenge!

Besides, it's not a shame to tie with Manchester City. After all, many giants this season can't even if they want to tie with Manchester City!

As for Manchester City fans, they feel lucky to have escaped death.

Liverpool gained such a huge advantage in the second half that many of them felt that the team was in danger.

Unexpectedly, at the last moment, the team scored three goals in a row and evened the score.

But in the middle of the game, Manchester City fell so far behind, which definitely exposed many of the team's problems. Now that these problems have been exposed, they still have time to improve.

Once it gets pushed to the end of the season, when Manchester City faces the final battle of the league, cup and Champions League, there will be no time to adjust. By then, these weaknesses will probably kill them.

For this reason, the tuition fees paid to Liverpool in this game are not considered a loss.

Guardiola did realize the loopholes in the team's midfield defense through this game.

To this end, he also made further adjustments to the team's defense and divided the defensive areas more clearly so that the players can more clearly understand their responsibilities.

In addition, when attacking and defending, more attention is paid to protecting the weak side. When the opponent counterattacks, they strengthen the pressing and blocking of the ball holder and do not give the opponent room to dribble forward.

These changes are prepared for the more intense and intense Champions League matches in the future.

But they can try the waters in the league first. Anyway, Manchester City now has a great advantage and has enough room for error to withstand the tossing.

I don’t know whether Manchester City has become stronger after the adjustment, or whether the opponents in the league are too weak.

They used this style of play to become even more invincible in the league.

In the 24th round, Manchester City 4:0 Newcastle United at home.

In the 25th round, Manchester City 3:0 West Bromwich Albion at home.

In the 26th round, Manchester City played 3:1 Burnley away from home.

In the 27th round, Manchester City 5:1 Leicester City at home.

In the 28th round, Manchester City played 3:0 Arsenal away from home.

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Before the start of the Champions League knockout round, Manchester City once again won five consecutive games in the league. Not only did they win these games very easily, but their opponents were unable to fight back.

Just like in this game against Newcastle United, Manchester City's ball possession rate reached a terrifying 85% throughout the game.

They got a total of 18 corner kicks in the whole game, and their opponents didn't get one!

This is not only true when playing against ordinary teams, but even teams with certain strength such as Leicester City and Arsenal were defeated in front of them, with almost no power to fight back.

Manchester City have once again become a monster in the Premier League, the kind that no one can stop.

Fortunately, the knockout rounds of the Champions League have reignited, and the monster Manchester City is finally distracted.

However, thanks to excellent luck, Manchester City's opponents in the knockout rounds were too weak.

In the first round between the two sides, Manchester City defeated their opponent 4:0 away from home.

At this moment, the suspense of the two rounds of the game is completely over. In the next game back at home, Manchester City will be difficult to be eliminated even if they play with all substitutes.

As a result, Manchester City's next opponent, Chelsea, was unlucky.

When the league reached the 29th round, the Blues, who were previously ranked third, had dropped to fifth place in the standings.

At this time, they are 2 points behind fourth-placed Tottenham and 4 points behind third-placed Liverpool.

As for Manchester City at the top of the list, there is no need to think about it. Manchester City currently has 78 points, a full 25 points more than them.

There are ten rounds left in the league. As long as Manchester City casually gets 7 wins and a draw, they can refresh the Premier League points record and bring it to a new height of 100 points.

Unfortunately, Chelsea is the stepping stone on the road to new highs for Manchester City.

Before the game started, although both teams had just finished their Champions League matches, Manchester City beat Basel 4-0 away from home, while Chelsea struggled to draw with Barcelona at home.

Although Chelsea played at home, their consumption was greater than Manchester City's away game.

This time they visited the Etihad Stadium, which reminded people of Chelsea's disgraceful victory over Manchester City last year.

How the Manchester City soldiers, who have a strong desire for revenge, will take revenge on Chelsea has become the biggest highlight of this round of games.

Manchester City had no intention of being polite to Chelsea and launched a fierce attack on their opponents from the very beginning.

At the beginning, Chelsea tried to make a few moves with Manchester City, but they were soon overwhelmed by Manchester City's crazy pressing in the frontcourt.

Throughout the first half, football almost never appeared at the feet of Chelsea players.

The opponent's ball possession rate once exceeded 90%, and the ball kept going back and forth inside and outside Chelsea's penalty area, constantly testing the tense nerves of Chelsea's soldiers.

Chelsea fans have followed the team throughout the years and have seen a lot.

It's not like they have never seen a team that plays pass control, but to take the pass control to such a terrifying height, to be honest, this is the first time they have seen it. Even the original Barcelona did not make Chelsea so embarrassed.

Of course, this may also be because the original Chelsea team was stronger than the current Blues team.

Although the situation is very embarrassing, Chelsea under the guidance of Conte does have something defensively.

The team seemed to be stretched like a tight string that was in danger of breaking at any time.

But they just relied on their strength and gritted their teeth to withstand it. Under the fierce siege of Manchester City, they did not concede a goal.

In the first half, Manchester City completed a total of 17 shots, 7 of which were on target, but did not score a single goal.

Chelsea's defense was a huge success.

But it's not okay to be beaten passively all the time. In the first half, in order to prevent the opponent's attack, many of their players were booked for fouls while defending.

If the opponent continues to attack like this in the second half, these players with yellow cards on their backs will definitely not dare to make big moves because they are concerned about receiving red cards.

This will undoubtedly weaken Chelsea's defensive capabilities!

Therefore, Conte arranged some tasks for Hazard and Pedro during the halftime break, hoping that they could stand up in the second half and threaten them in the counterattack, so that Manchester City would not dare to attack them so unscrupulously.

The two obviously listened to the coach's words. After the start of the second half, Hazard's performance in the frontcourt became more active. He even made a deft breakthrough after getting the ball and caused Kante's foul, which made Manchester City's The midfielder received a yellow card.

But it was of no use. Chelsea tried to counterattack, but Manchester City gave them a head-on blow.

Taking advantage of the opportunity of the opponent's counterattack to push the formation outwards, Manchester City decisively seized this opportunity to switch the opponent's offense and defense.

After successfully defending, they quickly crossed the midfield, passed two or three passes from the wing, and hit Chelsea's penalty area.

Mbappe, who dribbled the ball down the bottom, sent a beautiful cross, assisting Aguero in the center to score Chelsea's goal.

After holding on for nearly fifty minutes, Chelsea's gate finally fell!

Once the psychological defense is broken, what awaits Chelsea is a huge collapse.

In the 55th minute, less than ten minutes after Manchester City's last goal, Manchester City once again got a chance through transmission from the wing. After David Silva and Lin Quan played a small-scale pass and cut, he entered the penalty area and pushed the ball. Successful from the near corner.

The score became 2:0!

However, it was not over yet. After only 2 minutes, taking advantage of the opponent's defender's mistake, Lin Quan got a chance to score a single goal after successfully counterattacking in the frontcourt. Facing the attacking goalkeeper, he easily scored with a lob, extending the score to 3:0.

To be honest, this score is very unusual for Chelsea, because this is a team that is good at defense, and their defensive quality has always been among the best in the Premier League.

But today, under Manchester City's ferocious attack, Chelsea's defense collapsed.

This defeat is not good news for Chelsea or their head coach Conte.

In another game that has already ended, Tottenham defeated Huddersfield 2-0 at home. If they lose to Manchester City, the point difference between the two sides will suddenly widen.

At this time, they are only 2 points behind Tottenham, and there is still a chance to catch up with 10 rounds left in the league.

But once the point difference is widened to 5 points, it will be very difficult to recover with only nine rounds left in the league.

Once they cannot compete with Tottenham, they will not be able to compete in the Champions League next season. In addition, they have withdrawn from the competition for the Premier League championship early this season. Although they still have the FA Cup championship that they can still compete for, but this will not How valuable a championship is, it doesn't quench Chelsea's thirst at all.

With Abramovich's impatient character and his tendency to fire coaches at every turn, Conte's good days at Stamford Bridge may be completely over.

Conti suddenly had a realization in his heart that after this summer, he would probably be unemployed.

Alas, I feel so tired. These thorns in the team are not obedient. Coupled with the team's poor record and such an irritable boss, it's really hard to live this life.

Destroy it, hurry up, I'm tired!

I don’t know if it was affected by his mentality. When the team fell behind 0:3, Conte actually chose to replace defensive players to strengthen defense instead of replacing offensive players such as Giroud and Morata on the bench to fight to the death. Fight.

This substitution caused widespread controversy after the game, causing dissatisfaction and even attacks from many Chelsea fans.

The fans also have their own reasons. Your head coach is the backbone of the team, and you are scared. What will the players on the field think?

But one thing is that Conte's substitution of defensive players to strengthen the defense was effective. Although Manchester City still worked hard to attack, they were unable to further expand the score.

From this perspective, Conte's substitutions are still very effective.

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Continuous encounters with wealthy clubs such as Arsenal and Chelsea, coupled with the consumption of the Champions League knockout rounds, have also caused a certain crisis within the Manchester City team.

The players' physical reserves have dropped somewhat!

This is not surprising. For any other team, when the league is about to end every year, the physical fitness of the players will decline.

The Premier League, which does not have a winter break, is obviously the hardest hit area.

At this time in the past, all the major clubs in the Premier League were full of wounded soldiers and a lot of wounded.

Although Manchester City also has some injuries, it is still much better than these teams.

But in order to reduce risks, give players more rest time.

In the second leg of the Champions League quarter-finals on March 8, Guardiola pulled out the team's substitute lineup for the domestic cup competition and asked them to face their knockout opponent Basel.

Basel lost badly in the first round, losing 4 goals to Manchester City, all away goals.

As long as they don't score four goals at the Etihad Stadium in this game, Manchester City will definitely advance.

So in terms of performance, the players actually have no pressure.

Although they are substitutes, these substitutes are all worth a lot, that is, they are a little younger and have less game experience. This does not mean that they are a bunch of idiots who will be arbitrarily manipulated by their opponents.

The substitutes are actually under a lot of pressure. In the eighth-finals of the FA Cup that ended not long ago, they suffered an upset loss to Wigan Athletic, a team from League One, away from home.

Although this defeat was related to the fact that Manchester City was sent off one man in the first half and had to play more with less.

But after all, the opponent is only a third-level league opponent, and it is still a bit embarrassing to lose to such a team.

The FA Cup has always been a hotbed of upsets, and there are countless giants that are upset in the FA Cup every year.

If this were done in the past, if Manchester City lost to Wigan Athletic, no one would pay attention at all. That is to say, it is only after the performance has improved and the reputation has become higher in the past few years that it has attracted so many people's attention and discussion.

But a loss is a loss. Although they defeated Arsenal 3-0 in the English League Cup final a week later, they still could not wash away the shame of losing to the English League One team.

Therefore, in this game, this group of substitutes worked hard and planned to show their strength to the outside world and let them know that the previous loss to Wigan Athletic was just a human error and a horse's mistake. It was just an accident. That’s all.

Since they can defeat the Premier League giant Arsenal, it is natural to win the next Basel.

As if to prove what they said was true, Jesus scored shortly after the first half started.

Manchester City's substitutes got off to a fantastic start!

However, the good times did not last long. Before they could be happy, their opponents equalized the score quickly.

El Yunoussi, a young winger from Norway, took advantage of the paralysis of Manchester City's defense and launched a lightning attack after the kick-off, catching Manchester City off guard. Many Manchester City players lost the ball in a daze before they could react.

This conceded goal made Guardiola very unhappy on the sidelines. He allowed young players to make mistakes, but not such low-level mistakes.

And it was a collective low-level mistake!

You guys need to fucking understand, we are playing in the Champions League now, not the amateur league in your community!

Please be serious! (End of chapter)