Chapter five hundred and seventy seventh two battles Chelsea
After the January game ended, Manchester City had two interesting games from the beginning.
First, on February 4, the 24th round of the Premier League, against Chelsea at home.
Immediately after two days, on February 5, Manchester City once again ushered in the game against Chelsea in the FA Cup quarterfinals.
Within three days, two home games against Chelsea, this is the first time that Yang Mo has ever joined Manchester City.
If all the games are included, Manchester City will have to face Chelsea at least four times this season. Even if they are in the same league, such matches are rare.
In the previous European Super Cup and first leg of the league, Manchester City and Chelsea had a record of one win and one draw, with an advantage.
Although Manchester City beat Chelsea in the first leg of the league, the showdown between the two teams still attracted everyone's attention.
It's nothing more, just because after adapting to the first half of the league, under Mourinho's control, Chelsea's recent performance has improved rapidly.
In the standings, Chelsea officially surpassed Liverpool in the last round of the game and reached the third place in the standings.
Of course, it can also be said that Liverpool's performance collapsed halfway after being massacred by Manchester City. The entire January game was completely confused and lost multiple games that should not have been lost.
Yang Mo was not sympathetic about Liverpool's experience, but instead mocked Klopp for taking the opportunity and taking advantage of the situation.
Of course, he does not want to target Liverpool. If Liverpool can change his past and sweep Klopp out, he must have made a reform and apologized to Liverpool.
Obviously, Liverpool does not want to surrender to him, an outsider, so this foe will only get deeper and deeper.
On February 4, Chelsea's chartered flight landed at Manchester City Stewart Airport.
The prelude to the battles of three days and two days is officially here.
After a few days of rest in his territory, on February 5, Manchester City faced Chelsea's challenge at Old Trafford on 24th round of the Premier League.
In this highly anticipated focus battle in the Premier League, Chelsea, who was in the away game, took out Mourinho's secret tactics and defended to counterattack.
After the whole game, Manchester City played in an extremely painful way against Chelsea's defense that could block the "atomic bomb" level.
In the end, despite his desperate attack, Manchester City still failed to bite off Chelsea's hard bone that had plated itself with iron.
The dull game ended 0-0, which disappointed many fans who were waiting to watch the fun.
"How can I say about Chelsea's tactics in this game? It's too conservative. Mourinho's utilitarian football has lost its original charm in this game."
In the post-match summary, Zhan Jun's tone was disappointed.
After all, it is not easy to comment on such a boring game.
"Conservative, I think Mourinho just doesn't want to make progress. After many years, others have been improving. He is still playing this game?"
"It would be fine if Chelsea relied on tactics in this game, but how many times they used tricks and small moves while defending, and this kind of playing style is dirty!"
"If I still play like this in the next FA Cup, I won't watch this game of Chelsea..."
Compared to the polite Zhan Jun, Director Zhang is much more direct than the one who is very polite.
However, as soon as Director Zhang said the last sentence, Zhan Jun's face changed and he quickly interrupted.
"The game still needs to be watched. After all, the FA Cup is a cup game, which is different from the league. Maybe Chelsea will change its tactics. In two days, fans and friends will still lock in our Penguin Sports and watch the FA Cup match between Manchester City and Chelsea."
No matter what the game looks like, as coach Zhang, who is eating Penguin Sports, should not say that he will not watch the game.
After all, Penguin Sports makes money by watching the number of people. Doesn’t Coach Zhang say this mean that he is destroying his boss’s job?
So, Zhan Jun hurriedly helped to smooth things over.
However, Zhan Jun's words that went through the scene were really fulfilled in three days.
Once the FA Cup knockout round is tied, it will not be an overtime and penalty shootout like the British League Cup, but a new round of play-offs will be played at a date.
Since the game has been played, not only Manchester City has to play on multiple fronts, but Chelsea also has the Champions League to play.
If Chelsea really continues the league's goal-keeping tactics, then if there is another playoff game, Chelsea will be stunned.
Therefore, in this game, Chelsea changed its previous defensive counterattack tactics and fought a vigorous attack with Manchester City at the beginning.
Unfortunately, Chelsea and Manchester City are far behind the attack.
In the first round of the match on the court, Chelsea was taught by Yang Mo. He broke through and cut inward and shot from a long shot. Yang Mo helped Manchester City take the lead in 11 minutes of the game.
In the remaining games, although Chelsea also scored two goals, Manchester City drew three more goals.
In the end, the game ended 4-2 and Manchester City advanced to the next round of the FA Cup.
After a defensive battle that made people sleepy, Chelsea gave fans a refreshing offensive battle. The difference between the two games really made the fans confused.
Of course, if any fans really listen to Director Zhang and don’t watch this game, that’s their loss.
Anyway, Coach Zhang was very excited to watch this game, and he and his partner Huang Jianxiang shouted and were having fun.
After winning and drawing with Chelsea in two matches, Manchester City temporarily bid farewell to the league and the FA Cup and ushered in the semi-finals of the British League Cup.
Manchester City's opponent in this British League Cup semi-final is the Hammers Gang West Ham United.
The semi-finals of the British League Cup will be divided into two rounds. In the busy schedule of the fourth-line battle, this competition arrangement makes Pellegrini jump straight and scold her.
After successfully upgrading last season, although the Hammers successfully stayed in the Premier League, under the transformation of the new head coach, there is not much of the tough guy temperament left.
Now West Ham United is more like a team that is eager to play with technology but has not played it, "swaying" between old styles and new technologies.
The dilemma of West Ham has made West Ham's performance this season very poor, and he has successfully fallen into the relegation zone at this time.
Nowadays, West Ham United's main goal is to put it above the league's relegation.
After all, although West Ham United is jealous of the honor of the British League Cup, it is not enough to see the benefits obtained by staying in the Premier League.
If we fight to the British League Cup to advance and Manchester City to fight two games, which will affect the league's status, it will be too much of a loss for West Ham United.
Of course, direct surrender is definitely not the style of West Ham United.
The game still has to be played. At the beginning of the first leg of this British League Cup, West Ham United's defense was at least quite good, and obviously he didn't want to surrender as soon as he came up.
However, Chelsea can defend Manchester City's crazy attack because the opponent is Chelsea.
Although Abu standing behind Chelsea is not as rich as Abu Dhabi consortium, he is also the top-ranked tycoon on this planet. Naturally, the team he has built will not be weak.
As for West Ham United, a team that is difficult to relegate is completely impossible to force Manchester City to retreat by defense alone.
After persisting until the 37th minute of the first half, West Ham United's defense was smashed by Manchester City.
Yang Mo's unscrupulous attraction on the left side caused frequent loopholes in West Ham United's middle defense, and finally allowed Ibrahimovic to find an opportunity to shoot coldly.
And when Manchester City scored the first goal, it was much easier to score the second goal.
West Ham United, who knew that there was no hope of victory, put down his last illusion, replaced the main player in the second half, surrendered.
In the end, Manchester City won the first leg of the British League Cup semi-finals 3-0.
Although there is still one away round in the semi-finals, it is a foregone conclusion that Manchester City, which has already led 3 goals, has advanced to the finals.
Chapter completed!