I Want to Be the King of Football - Chapter 1003

Over the weekend, in the thirty-fifth round of the Premier League, Manchester City challenged Wolves away.

In order to better prepare for the second round of the Champions League semi-final match with Barcelona next week, Guardiola did not bring the main lineup south this time. Many players, including Su Dong, who participated in the first round of the Champions League, were all left behind. Manchester.

Against the Wolves, which has basically locked a relegation spot, Manchester City really does not need to be too active.

There were some twists and turns in the game, mainly half an hour before the opening, Manchester City created many opportunities, but Aguero and Dzeko failed to seize the opportunity, resulting in the team’s delay in scoring goals.

Until later, Leighton Bynes intervened and sent a wonderful pass. Aguero sent the ball to the bottom of the Wolves’ goal net with no defense at the front of the small penalty area.

After changing sides in the second half, Dzeko sent a through ball in the 74th minute. Hazard broke into the penalty area and scored once again to seal the victory for Manchester City.

With Aguero and Hazard’s goals, Manchester City defeated Wolves 2-0 away.

After losing this relegation battle, the Wolves have been relegated three rounds in advance.

With this victory, Manchester City are one step closer to their unbeaten season record.

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When Manchester City defeated Wolves 2-0 at the away game, at the Camp Nou Stadium in Barcelona, ​​Spain, the national derby also ignited the flames of war. Barcelona faced Real Madrid at home.

Both teams attach great importance to this game, because Real Madrid currently has four points more than Barcelona. As long as they win this game, there is basically no suspense about the La Liga championship this season.

Barcelona hopes to reverse the situation, win Real Madrid at home, shorten the points gap between the two sides, and at the same time get out of the shadow of losing to Manchester City at home, to boost the morale of the second leg of the Champions League semi-final next week.

But the result of the game is still very surprising.

At home, Barcelona once again arranged a three-back formation. Mourinho was obviously determined to justify his midweek Champions League defeat at home, and even took the same tactics to face Real Madrid.

Pellegrini learned lessons from the Champions League game in the middle of the week. As Cruyff said in the column, he clearly saw the problems and weaknesses of Barcelona, ​​and arranged a four-two-three-one formation in the away game. , And more to face Barcelona in a defensive counterattack posture.

The two sides fought very fiercely in the game, and neither of them kept their hands.

Barcelona has possession of the ball, while Real Madrid is defensively, waiting patiently for Barcelona to make mistakes.

This time just 17 minutes, Real Madrid relied on a corner kick opportunity, Khedira scored a goal for Real Madrid.

After Barcelona counterattacked frantically, but Real Madrid defended as stable as Mount Tai.

In the 70th minute of the second half, Messi dribbled the ball with a sudden cold arrow to tie the score for Barcelona.

But only three minutes later, Yaya Toure’s dribble was interrupted and Xavi Alonso moved to the left in a wide range. Cristiano Ronaldo quickly inserted it, stopped the ball and drove straight in and broke Barcelona’s again. goal.

Two to one!

Afterwards, no matter how Barcelona counterattacked, Real Madrid defended themselves firmly and did not give their opponents any chance.

In the end, Real Madrid beat Barcelona two to one with Khedira and Cristiano Ronaldo’s goals in the away game.

As a result, the La Liga championship this season has basically been locked on Real Madrid.

Barcelona’s only battlefield now is the Champions League.

At the Nou Camp, Mourinho received a wave of accusations, especially his formation in these two games, which was even more criticized, especially in the Catalan media. Directly asked him to dismiss get out of class, many fans also protested at the Nou Camp, asking Mourinho to be responsible for the last two losses.

Not to mention the godfather of Barcelona, ​​Cruyff, directly bombarded Mourinho’s formation in the media, and at the same time pointed the finger directly at Barcelona’s management, thinking that the management did not follow his advice and hired willfully. Mourinho, this led to the defeat of Barcelona today.

Cruyff believes that Mourinho’s success at Barcelona is not because of how good his coaching is, but because Barcelona has a group of outstanding players. As long as the coach is at the level, it is not what it is to lead this group of players to win the championship. Difficult.

But now, the divergence between Mourinho and Barcelona has become more and more obvious, and even has become Barcelona’s negative equity, the management is paying for the wrong decision that year.

Mourinho did not think too much about his future. He even directly stated in the press conference after the game that he would not take the initiative to resign. If he leaves Barcelona, ​​he must be fired.

This once again caused an uproar in the media.

The reason is very simple. There is no compensation for voluntarily resigning. If you are fired, Barcelona will have to pay a large amount of liquidated damages.

The Catalan media directly bombarded Mourinho to stay in Camp Nou for money, and did not respect Barcelona at all.

For a time, the whole world paid attention.

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The next day of the game, after finishing the morning’s recovery training, Guardiola left the coaching staff and Su Dong, the topic of discussion is of course the next round of the game, and the most important thing is Barcelona’s response.

Guardiola is guessing what kind of tactics Mourinho will adopt?

The current situation is extremely unfavorable for Mourinho, and it can even be said to be very, very bad.

According to the Spanish media, he may dismiss classes anytime, anywhere.

The daily sports newspaper and even the connecting class have chosen a good candidate, Mourinho’s assistant Tito Vilanova.

The assistant coach is still Guardiola’s assistant back then, but in the past few years, their contact has become less.

A change of coach is like a knife change.

Chelsea’s reborn performance after the coaching change happened right in front of him, and they directly reached the Champions League semi-finals.

If after replacing Mourinho, Barcelona can really reverse the situation and reverse Manchester City in Manchester, I believe the Barcelona management will never hesitate.

Today Mourinho is a betrayal. Except for his core coaching team and a few humerus players in the team, almost no one supports him. Even Yaya Toure complains about him.

It is no wonder that the character of the Ivorian midfielder has never been a good gentleman.

In this case, what tactics will Mourinho adopt?

Mourinho has always boasted that he knows Su Dong very well. Every time he meets Su Dong, he will tell the outside world that no one knows Su Dong better than him, because he has seen Su Dong come from Portugal and is unknown. The kid, slowly grows into the world’s leading player on active duty.

He said that he knew Su Dong very well, but he was actually right.

But Su Dong also knew him well.

“The more you get to this time, the more you have to be cautious, because Mourinho is a very gambler.”

Su Dong talked about his understanding of Mourinho, this is definitely not what he said, but there is real evidence.

Mourinho is a gambler, which is reflected in many aspects, including his coaching career, including some of his formations, especially in some games, he even gave it a go.

Of course, the bets here are also differentiated.

Generally speaking, Mourinho is stable, he will choose the most sure way, and he is a very strong head coach, so most of the time, he is slightly conservative.

But once he was forced to have no retreat, or when his temper came up, he would not hesitate to take a gamble.

“You mean, in the next round, he will gamble?” Guardiola asked concerned.

Su Dong nodded, “I think this is very possible.”

After a pause, Su Dong explained: “Everyone is accusing him of being conservative now, but Mourinho has always insisted on his own point of view. He thinks that if he presses out to attack us, he has no confidence in defense. The next round was obviously different.”

Manchester City has an away goal at the Nou Camp, which requires Barcelona to score in Manchester.

If Mourinho still adopts a conservative tactic, it will be very detrimental to the next round.

Therefore, Su Dong believes that Mourinho is likely to go straight to the risk, gamble, attack a wave away, grab away goals, and at the same time reverse the unfavorable situation in the first leg.

If the bet wins, Mourinho will definitely say that he did it deliberately in the first round, just to grab the second round; if the second round is lost, he will tell everyone directly, see, it’s not that I didn’t take the initiative to attack. But you have all seen it, take the initiative to beat Manchester City, this is a dead end.

Anyway, he won anyway.

Guardiola and his assistants looked at each other, and couldn’t help being a little surprised.

Mourinho always said that he knew Su Dong better than anyone else, but now it seems that Su Dong also knows him very deeply.

It’s not surprising to think about it carefully. After all, when Mourinho coached Leiria, Su Dong already knew him. Later Su Dong played for Sporting Lisbon, Mourinho coached Porto, and the two were on the court. meet.

It is said that Mourinho led the team to play for the team played by Su Dong, and has never won.

“When you say this now, we all feel that Mourinho knows you far less than you know him.” Estiyat laughed.

Guardiola and others couldn’t help but smile.

This kind of targeted matches in the Champions League knockouts is actually a guess at what tactics the opposing coach will adopt.

If you want to guess the opponent’s coach’s tactics, in addition to objective factors such as the game situation and lineup configuration, the coach’s subjective factors are also very important. Some coaches are naturally adventurous, while others are Always seek stability.

For this kind of Champions League knockout, it is not only a contest of strength and technique and tactics between the two sides, but also the wit of the head coaches of the two teams.

After sending off Guardiola and others, Su Dong turned around and looked to the south.

In Carrington, of course he can’t see Barcelona, ​​but he can guess the situation of Mourinho at this moment.

As an old acquaintance, he can even be regarded as a friend. Su Dong feels sympathy for his situation, and even some injustices for him, but this is the cruelty of professional football. From the day he coached Barcelona, ​​he was psychologically prepared. .

But as an opponent, he will help Manchester City and do everything possible to defeat Mourinho and his Barcelona.

This is not only for Manchester City, but also for himself!

Farewell, Mourinho!