champion light

Chapter 1169 The closer you are to success, the greater the pressure
Manchester City easily defeated Real Madrid in the away game-everyone thinks it should be easy, because Manchester City took care of Manchester City by Rong Guang alone.

"Manchester Evening News" even joked: "Other Manchester City players may not have worked as hard as they flew back and forth during the game... As for Ibrahimovic? He only played 15 minutes of the game, and his physical fitness and energy are no problem!"

Under such circumstances, Manchester City returned to Manchester to prepare for the second round of the league No.30 against Liverpool.

Liverpool hopes to consume Manchester City by relying on the Champions League, and now this plan has failed.

In fact, the most disappointed is not Liverpool, but the "North London Horn".

After Manchester City defeated Real Madrid in an away game, the "North London Horn", which was still enthusiastic about reporting on Manchester City, suddenly fell silent, and there was no news about Manchester City's game on their pages.

Some Manchester City fans went to their website to taunt: "Why didn't you report the news? Bad reviews! I bought your newspaper specifically to see how you reported Manchester City's 3-1 away game against Real Madrid. You didn't report it. You are so disrespectful! Are your reporters and editors blind?!"

The "North London Horn" was right to keep silent, because there is no need for them to come out to hate now when there is only one game left.

Just need to wait for the result of the game.

If Liverpool beat Manchester City, they will just come out and taunt.

At that time, it will not be too late for a gentleman to take revenge for ten years!

It's just that the "North London Horn" can play dead, and their reporter George Allen was hacked by Manchester City fans on social networks. Countless people @ him asked him what he thought of the next Manchester City away game against Liverpool.

George Allen has more backbone than the newspaper he works for, and he has directly sparred with Manchester City fans on the Internet.

The two sides started a chaotic battle.

The only thing that can end this war is probably the game between Manchester City and Liverpool.

They don't have to wait too long. Three days later, it will be Manchester City's away game against Liverpool.

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English football has been too lively recently, the media are very busy, and the fans also feel that every day is as lively as Christmas.

Manchester City just played a 3-1 away game against Real Madrid. There are too many stories to tell in this game, followed by a strong dialogue between Manchester City and Liverpool. There are also many gimmicks worthy of hype.

Everyone has a dizzying feeling.

Rongguang's hat-trick at the Bernabeu shocked Europe. Manchester City, with one less player, not only won the ball, but also won with ease. This is naturally all thanks to Rongguang.

The whole of Europe is discussing how powerful Glory is now.

Cristiano Ronaldo lost miserably in the direct dialogue with Rongguang. Rongguang scored three goals, but he failed to score one goal. Naturally, he can no longer be compared with Rongguang.

The only thing that can be compared with Rongguang is Messi.

But in the face of Rong Guang's astonishing performance, it seems that Messi is not enough...

"... There are two kinds of football players in the world, one is Rong, and the other is other." The British "Sun" declared so.

Although the word-of-mouth of this tabloid is not very good, their sales volume is very large. In a sense, this view also represents the views of a large number of people.

However, some people think that if Rongguang wants to be king, it still depends on whether he can win the Champions League in the end.Otherwise, no matter how good the performance in the competition is, if you don't win the championship, you will be quickly forgotten.Most people don't give compliments to losers.

It was like a race. No matter how fast Rong Guang ran before the finish line, no matter how much he was behind, if he fell to the ground in the end, he could only watch his opponent pass him and enjoy the cheers.

People will feel sorry for his fall, but absolutely no one thinks that even if Rong Guang falls, he is the winner...that is self-deception.

So before the Champions League final is over, it's best not to say that Rongguang is already the number one in the world, that's degrading Rongguang's character...

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Rong Guang himself doesn't care at all how high his current status in international football is, he cares more about the next game.

After Manchester City returned to the Carrington training base, they started their preparations against Liverpool.

Benitez showed everyone the complete video of Liverpool's 3-1 home win over Manchester United.

The reason why there is no clip is because Benitez hopes to let the players understand the complete appearance of a game and learn experience from many details.

He takes this game very seriously, even more than against Real Madrid.

Because he also knows that this is the last step of the Long March—he doesn’t know about the Long March, but he must know similar meanings.

There are many lessons learned before success. No matter what the reason is, failure is failure. People will not remember how amazing Manchester City's 48 league unbeaten record is. When people refer to the longest league unbeaten record in English football history, they will only say it is Arsenal's 49 games.

Manchester City's 48 games?
what is that?
Benítez's job is to nip in the bud all the factors that could lead to a loss away to Liverpool.

But at the same time, Benitez has to decompress the players.

Because he doesn't want the players to play abnormally in the game because they are too nervous or care too much about the record.

It's just that the way he decompresses the players is different from the way most people generally think...

He's not telling the players not to take this game seriously, or to take the record seriously.

He just told his players: "Kick with confidence, what's the problem, don't we still have glory?"

The players in the meeting room burst into laughter, everyone looked at Rong Guang, and some whistled in excitement.

Rong Guang was also amused, but he did not refute Benitez, nor did he express his anxiety or dissatisfaction.

He frankly accepted the pressure Benitez put on himself.

This is the way Benitez chose to decompress the team. He transferred the pressure that should have been borne by the whole team to Rongguang alone. The pressure was borne by Rongguang alone, and the others naturally had no pressure.

It would be very inhumane to do this on other teams, and it would be an act of cowards who failed.

But only in Manchester City, this approach works and is correct.

When climbing the peak forcibly, the general decompression methods are useless, but fortunately, Manchester City has glory.

Benítez is just telling the truth.

The most recent example is still around the corner - the last UEFA Champions League quarter-final against Real Madrid at the Bernabeu, when the team encountered an extremely unfavorable situation, such a big problem was finally solved by Rong Guang alone.

Is this different from what Benitez said?
This is not a gimmick, this is a consensus within the Manchester City team-if there is a problem, look for glory, that's right!

With glory as their backing, Manchester City players really have nothing to fear.

The sky is falling, and the tall man is holding it!
Rong Guang is that tall man!
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On April [-]th, with a relaxed attitude of "we still have glory", the Manchester City team set off from Manchester by bus to Liverpool, [-] kilometers away, to prepare for the next day's away game.

The two cities are so close that, if the game was not particularly important, Manchester City could actually start the same morning...

Forty kilometers away, it takes less than an hour to drive there.

In the evening, Manchester City conducted adaptation training at Anfield Stadium, while Benitez participated in the pre-match press conference in the press conference hall of the stadium.

Liverpool is also a special opponent for Benitez, because he coached Liverpool while coaching Manchester City.

However, because his coaching performance in Liverpool did not satisfy the management of the Liverpool club, coupled with the differences between the management and the signings, Benitez was eventually swept out by Liverpool.

After resting at home for half a season, he came to Manchester City as a firefighting coach. At that time, no one believed that he could lead a team that was about to be relegated to become the overlord of the Premier League.

But he did.

So since then, every time he led the team to face Liverpool, Liverpool's management probably had mixed feelings.

However, at today's press conference, the reporters did not care about the grievances between Benitez and Liverpool.

The questions they asked were all about one thing.

That's about Manchester City just one game away from tying Arsenal's unbeaten record of 49 league games...

All the reporters scrambled and changed their tricks, only caring about this matter.

George Allen, a reporter from the "North London Horn", was in the crowd, but he didn't ask any questions. Since so many fellow reporters asked questions, there was no need for him to stand out.

He thought it was a good thing that this matter had received so much attention from reporters.

Every reporter who got up to ask questions repeated this topic, which was tantamount to deepening the pressure on Manchester City.

Just keep reminding them - you are one game away from tying Arsenal!You are one match away!Really just one game!As long as you play one game, you can be on an equal footing with the greatest Arsenal team in history!
Such repeated reminders will become a hypnotic spell in the eyes of Manchester City players, making them sleepwalking in the next day's game.

Such a great pressure is enough to crush any team, and George Allen believes that Manchester City will be no exception.

Try to pay more attention to this record!

The more you care about this record, the closer you are to falling before the finish line!

(End of this chapter)