champion light

Chapter 1009 The first game in 22 days

The UEFA Champions League draw is over, and the league will continue, and it will not be delayed because of the entangled mentality of Manchester City fans.

On March 21, in the No.30 round of the league, Manchester City challenged Fulham away.

This is an ordinary league game, even if it is placed in the current round, it is inconspicuous.

But this game still attracted many reporters to the scene. Judging from the number of reporters who went to the scene to report, the number of reporters attracted by this game ranked second in the entire round of the league, second only to the "England National Derby" where Manchester United vs. Liverpool at home.

Why do so many people pay attention to this game?
The game between Manchester United and Liverpool is easy to say. The two teams have been entangled for a century. This is the top derby in the English league, which is equivalent to Real Madrid playing Barcelona in England.

Manchester City and Fulham did not have much animosity before, and there is no story worth telling in the history of the two teams' confrontation.

Why are there so many people paying attention?
Because this is the first game of the "Manchester City collapse period" that everyone defaults to.

Manchester City away to Fulham.

Everyone wants to see what Manchester City will do in this game.

They can use this to speculate on what Manchester City will do next.

At the same time, everything that happened in this game may have an immeasurable impact on all of Manchester City's next games.

With Manchester United and Liverpool just over before Manchester City's away game at Fulham, the whole of England can now turn its attention to Fulham's Craven Cottage.

The result of the match between Manchester United and Liverpool was that Manchester United defeated Liverpool 2:1 at home.

Manchester United now has 69 points, three points behind Chelsea, which is second in the league.

Looking at it this way, they are also very close to Chelsea...

When everyone turned their attention to the league title battle between Chelsea and Manchester City, Manchester United had quietly caught up.

Last season, the runner-up, Liverpool's performance this season has plummeted, and they are now ranked seventh.

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Against Fulham, Benitez made some adjustments to the starting lineup.

He has rotated some positions, which is to ensure that all players remain in the game, and at the same time the main players are not too tired.

With seven games in 22 days, what is needed is to plan ahead instead of concentrating all efforts on the last game.

Under the attention of countless pairs of eyes, the match between Manchester City and Fulham began.

At the beginning of the game, Manchester City turned away from the guest and launched a fierce offensive towards Fulham's goal.

When dealing with a team like Chelsea, Manchester City can choose to defend and counterattack because Chelsea is very strong.But when facing Fulham, Manchester City doesn't need to defend and counterattack, and even if they want to defend and counterattack, they can't fight back, because the opponent is defending and counterattacking, not them.

They must press on.

The first 15 minutes of the game were uneventful, Manchester City had the upper hand, but there were not many absolutely good scoring opportunities.

After 15 minutes, Manchester City accelerated the pace of the game, both offensively and defensively, it was more oppressive, and the space and time for Fulham players were much smaller.

Under such circumstances, Manchester City's opportunities began to increase.

No. 303 minutes, Manchester City through a series of pressing in the midfield, steal the ball from Fulham, and then launched an attack.

Berbatov threw Sabalite's cross to the back point, and Rong Guang, outflanking the back point, jumped up and dived to the top, and the football hit the net!

"The goal was scored! Manchester City led Fulham 1-0 in the away game! It was Rong who scored the goal!"

After the goal, Rong Guang hugged and celebrated with his teammates. The camera took time to show the Manchester City fans in the stands. The Manchester City fans who followed the team to the away game also sang and danced in the stands.

"As long as Rong is there, Manchester City fans can rest assured!" Alan Hansen said. "Whether Manchester City can get through the devil's schedule during this period, Rong is also a very important person..."

The TV broadcast immediately gave Rong Guang a close-up shot.

Yes, whether Manchester City wants to win the league championship or want to break through this level of Barcelona, ​​glory is a crucial figure.

His state and performance directly determine Manchester City's final results this season.

Benitez should be the most nervous during this period. On the one hand, he hopes that Rongguang will perform well, and on the other hand, he has to beware of the possibility of Rongguang being injured.After all, the competition is too intensive, and Rongguang is the core of the team's core, and the possibility of being violated during the game is very high.

So even though Manchester City had taken the lead, Benitez was still standing on the sidelines, staring at the pitch.

On the one hand, he cares about the score, and on the other hand, he cares about the glory.

During this period of time, Rong Guang must not be injured!
Also staring at Rongguang was Sun Fengyang on the bench of the visiting team at Craven Farm.

As Rongguang's personal therapist, Rongguang's health is his goal.

The last time Rongguang was seriously injured, he was scolded bloody by his grandfather.

From then on, he never dared to let any accident happen to Rong Guang.

Rongguang is in excellent form, and there will be many fouls against him.

In fact, there is now a statistics in the Premier League that Rong Guang has the most violations among all Premier League players.

After this number came out, people were very surprised, because although everyone knew that Rong Guang was always violated, they didn't expect that he could be the best in terms of the number of violations.

Because the number of violations is the highest in the Premier League, Sun Fengyang also pays special attention.

After every game, he has to give Rongguang a massage. Manchester City also understands what Sun Fengyang means to Rongguang, and what a healthy Rongguang means to Manchester City.

So they specially signed a contract with Sun Fengyang to make him a member of Manchester City's coaching staff, but in fact he does not obey anyone's arrangements, even the head coach Benitez has no right to let Sun Fengyang do things that are not within his scope of work.

So what is the work in his scope of work?
It is to ensure that Rongguang will not suffer serious injuries during long-term high-intensity competitions and training.

To put it simply, it is to let Rong Guang appear in the starting list alive and kicking every game as much as possible.

Because Rong Guang needs to be massaged after each game, Sun Fengyang entered the coach's bench for convenience.Only those who have entered the coach's bench can appear on the coach's bench.

Manchester City opened a green channel for Sun Fengyang.

However, considering Rongguang's contribution and importance to the team, no one in Manchester City would object to such special treatment.

If they are dissatisfied with Sun Fengyang's skillful massage after every game and training session in Rongguang, then think about whether their contribution on the training ground is as high as Rongguang's and whether their contribution in the game is as great as Rongguang's.

Of course, it is impossible to have, so it is impossible for someone to feel unbalanced.

Sun Fengyang usually keeps staring at Rongguang during the game, observing his running posture, and judging Rongguang's physical condition from every detail of his every movement.

If Rong Guang's health is not good, he will urgently do some relaxing massages during the intermission.

Of course, Rongguang himself will take some preventive measures.

Since that serious injury, Rongguang now also has a strong sense of self-protection.

However, his awareness of self-protection does not mean that the ball is [-]-[-]. When the opponent rushes up, he jumps up to avoid it.But in the face of this kind of [-]-[-] kick, Rong Guang will increase his speed a little more, trying to grab the opponent's shovel and directly stab the football away.

This is Rongguang's countermeasure, to make himself faster and more agile, so that the opponent can't catch him at all.

Therefore, although Rongguang has a lot of hand violations now, and often falls on the court so that he has to change two sets of jerseys in a game, in fact, Rongguang does not suffer much damage. In many cases, Rongguang loses his balance and falls to the ground in order to avoid the opponent's fierce defensive moves. It is not Rongguang who was shoveled.

In this way, the damage to the body can be minimized.

Even so, Sun Fengyang did not dare to take it lightly.

Injuries always come the moment you let your guard down.

It would be a shame if he, Sun Fengyang, tripped over the same stone twice in his life.

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Fortunately, what both Sun Fengyang and Benitez were worried about in the end did not happen.

Fulham played fiercely, but Rong Guang's movements were fast enough.

Manchester City scored another goal in the second half to seal the victory 2:0.

Although this goal was not scored by Rongguang, nor assisted by Rongguang, Rongguang's back and forth assaults in the frontcourt completely disrupted Fulham's defense and created opportunities for other Manchester City players to score goals.

Fulham only scored a goal in the No. 90th minute when Manchester City's players were slack, but it didn't help.

2:1, Manchester City won this opponent in the away game.

They continue to lead Chelsea by four points at the top of the league table.

From this game, neither the media nor the fans saw signs that Manchester City was going to collapse, but everyone still firmly believed that they would definitely collapse.

After all, the devil's schedule of seven games in 22 days has just begun...

In the next three days, Manchester City will welcome Everton at home.

This is the only team that has beaten Manchester City this season.

Manchester City's unbeaten streak for a full year ended at the feet of Everton.

At that time, in the first league game of the New Year, Manchester City lost 0:2 away to Moyes' Everton.

This game will be a good chance for Manchester City to get revenge, but it is also possible that Manchester City will stumble over the same stone twice.

Which one will it be?

(End of this chapter)