champion light

Chapter 1063 Almost harsh self-requirements

A week after the Community Shield match, the Premier League kicked off in full swing.

As the defending champions, Manchester City were the first to play.

On the afternoon of August [-]th, Manchester City played an away game against Tottenham Hotspur at White Hart Lane.

But this game, Manchester City did not win.

In this game, Benitez sent all the main players, but it seems that the effect is not very good.

Manchester City failed to score.

Since Benitez coached Manchester City, before that, there were only two games in which Manchester City failed to score. They both happened last season. The first game was Manchester City's 0:2 away loss to Everton.

The other game was a 0:0 draw with Liverpool at home.But at that time, Manchester City didn't take the league too seriously because they were all focused on the quarter-finals of the Champions League.

In other games, Manchester City's offensive firepower is still very fierce.

In fact, although Benitez played a defensive and counterattack tactic, Manchester City scored a lot of goals.

Last season, Manchester City scored a total of 38 goals in 98 league rounds.

That figure is the second-highest among twenty teams in the entire league, behind only Chelsea's [-] goals.

However, Chelsea's 8 goals were mainly achieved by the last round of the league... In the last round of the league, Chelsea swept Wigan Athletic 0-[-] at home.

A team with defensive counterattacks as its main tactics can score 98 goals in the league, which is enough to show the team's offensive firepower.

But in this league, Manchester City faced Tottenham Hotspur, but failed to score and failed to win the game.

They finally shook hands with Tottenham Hotspur 0:0 away.

This result is somewhat surprising.

The defending champion of the league, Manchester City, who just beat Chelsea 3-0 in the Community Shield, can be said to give the impression that it is already in full swing.

After winning the Community Shield, the media was full of praise and praise.

All kinds of voices who are optimistic about Manchester City's defending league title this season have come out.

It seems that within the Premier League, there is no team that can stop Manchester City.

Their journey should be the sea of ​​stars... no, it is the UEFA Champions League.

You can win any game in the Premier League.

Such a scene, for Manchester City, may never have experienced-they have always been hacked by the media of the entire country before.

When did you experience such unanimous praise?
The media all over England are optimistic about Manchester City getting a good start in the league-compared to Chelsea, Tottenham Hotspur is obviously a weaker existence.

Even if it is an away game, Manchester City deserves to win Tottenham Hotspur.

The results of it?
Not only did City not win, they also failed to score a single goal.

This is really surprising.

The media that praised and touted Manchester City before all changed their tune at this time.

"...From the game, we can see that there is no good way for Manchester City to face Tottenham Hotspur's dense defense in this game...Of course, the tactical problem will be solved sooner or later. I believe that it is not difficult to solve this problem with Benitez's title of 'tactical master'. But there is a more difficult problem to solve in front of Benitez, that is, after Manchester City won the Premier League in history.

"This Manchester City team is completely different from Manchester City, which beat Chelsea with three goals a week ago. People can't help but wonder what happened this week... Could it be that Manchester City underestimated the enemy? It's incredible to think about it. This team will now be unable to win the game because they underestimated the enemy... Shouldn't things like this happen to them in the past?"

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If the media in England ridiculed it, it would be vicious enough.

Their ability to adapt to the wind is also very high.

Those who were still optimistic about Manchester City before have now said that if Manchester City continues to perform like this, they are very likely to be empty-handed this season...

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Before the start of training the next day after the game, Benitez lost his temper with the whole team. He criticized the team's performance in the game.

Although the media is a bit pretentious, they are right about one thing, that is, Manchester City did not show their fighting spirit in this game.Players are not active enough to run, nor aggressive enough to fight.Being able to draw the opponent without conceding a goal is already a good result.

Benitez's criticism of the players is not an overall criticism, but one by one.

Every player who played in the game was criticized by him, and his criticism was not the kind of simple and rude swearing, saying something specious, which may be suitable for anyone, but there is no specific reason at all.

His criticism has something to say, and he doesn't swear, but such criticism may be more uncomfortable than direct swearing.

Because he was right.

He named the players one by one, and then said what shortcomings they had in the game, what mistakes they made, and what consequences they caused.Benitez came to these things as soon as he opened his mouth, but it can be seen that he still put in a lot of effort when he came down.

This is how Benitez works.

He criticizes people and will let you know why he criticizes you.

So every Manchester City player who was criticized by him lowered his head, a little embarrassed and a little ashamed.

They did not play well against Tottenham Hotspur, and they knew that, but Benitez chose to criticize them in a merciless way without saving anyone's face, and they couldn't stand it.

However, as the criticism progressed, some people began to wonder-according to this posture, every player who played was criticized, so...Will Rong Guang also be criticized by Benitez?
It's not easy to criticize Rongguang.Because Rongguang's performance is always stable and excellent, it is difficult to find shortcomings from him.

If Benitez wants to criticize Rongguang, can he have something to say?

It stands to reason that Rongguang's performance in the last game was still very hard, but the state of the whole team was really not good, which dragged down Rongguang.In addition, Gomez, the goalkeeper of Tottenham Hotspur, seemed to be on the hook when facing Rongguang. Rongguang shot five times in a game, and hit the goal frame four times, all of which were thrown by Gomez...

Is Benitez going to criticize Rong Guang saying that his luck is too bad?
Finally, they heard Benitez call Rong Guang's name.

At this moment, all Manchester City players raised their heads in unison, looking at Rong Guang and Benitez.

They wanted to see what Benitez would say about the glory.

After calling Rong Guang's name, Benitez did not speak immediately, but paused, or fell silent for a while.

The players turned their attention to Benitez one after another, wondering why?
Some people looked at Rong Guang and found that his expression was quite calm, at least he didn't have the shame and embarrassment when he was criticized.Perhaps he also felt that his performance in the last game had a clear conscience.

Benitez was silent for about three seconds, and then he said to Rong Guang: "Your performance in the last game was good, there is no problem. If you are an ordinary player, I will not criticize you, I will praise you. The team's failure to win has nothing to do with you. You have no responsibility. You can leave White Hart Lane with your head held high..."

Everyone is listening, a little confused, what is this?Stop criticizing?Then what's your name?

But at this moment, Benitez's tone suddenly had a turning point.

"but……"

He said but.

Everyone's spirits were lifted.

but what?
They wanted to see how weird Benitez could criticize people from.

In fact, in the team, although Benitez can lead the team to victory, he does not score high in the private evaluation of the players.Because of his straight-forward language style, he never seems to consider the other party's acceptance when speaking, so they are all watching the show with the mentality of watching the excitement.

If Benitez's words are too strong and unreasonable, will Rong Guang turn his face?

Someone else turned their attention to Rongguang, and found that Rongguang was also raised by Benitez, but raised his eyebrows. It seemed that he also wanted to know what Benitez would say.

"But you are the captain, Rong. You are the captain of this team. You are not an ordinary player, you are the best player in the world. I think there should be more expectations and responsibilities on you. You can't just be satisfied with yourself in a game. Remember that big goal of yours? Don't you want to surpass Arsenal's unbeaten league record? Shouldn't you have stricter and higher demands on yourself?"

Facing Benitez's series of rhetorical questions, Rong Guang was stunned.

He didn't expect Benitez to say such words, every sentence hit the target.

Yes, at least fifty league games unbeaten!
This is only [-] unbeaten games in the league, and it is still far from fifty games...

How can I lower my demands on myself at this time?
Yes, against Tottenham Hotspur, even if I have performed very well, as long as the team does not win, it is my responsibility, that is, my performance is not good enough.

As the captain, what did he think at the beginning?

When the team is not in good shape, he should stand up and continue to lead the team to victory.

But yesterday's game, he did not come forward.

Thinking of this, Rong Guang felt a little ashamed, and he slightly lowered his head.

The Manchester City teammates who saw this scene next to them were also stunned. They didn't expect this to be okay!

In fact, Benitez's statement seemed to them to be irrational, but Rong Guang actually agreed with this statement!
monster!

What a monster!

Obviously her performance was impeccable, but in the end she wanted to find out the flaws!

Ibrahimovic witnessed the whole process from the side, and he has a new understanding of Rongguang's paranoia...

The requirements for myself are almost harsh...

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