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Chapter 1254 Boas

Having reached the semi-finals in the League Cup and qualifying in the Champions League ahead of schedule, Manchester City's current focus is only on the league.

Make sure they have enough lead in the league, because soon they will go to participate in the Club World Cup.

They will then have a game postponed, which will give Tottenham a chance to catch up.After all, they are only four points ahead of Tottenham Hotspur now.

In addition, long-distance travel and intensive competitions will definitely make the team feel tired and affect the state of the players.

In the next league match, Tottenham Hotspur played against Bolton first. As a result, they beat Bolton 3-0 at home. Bale scored twice.

A day later, Manchester City played, and they were not to be outdone.

Manchester City beat Norwich City 5-1 at home.

Continue to lead Tottenham Hotspur by four points.

Manchester United faced Aston Villa's tenacious blocking in the away game. Although they played very hard, they still won. They beat Aston Villa 1-0.

The gap between the three teams has not been widened.

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The following schedule is as follows. First, Manchester City will participate in the last match of the UEFA Champions League group stage in midweek. They will challenge Athletic Greece away.

Then go back to the UK and go away to Chelsea.

Then off to the Club World Cup.

The specific itinerary is as follows. On December [-]th, I fly from Manchester to Cyprus, an island country at the junction of Europe and Asia. Although APOEL has "Greece" in its name, it is not a Greek team, but a Cyprus team.

After finishing the game against APOEL on December [-], I returned to the UK from the junction of Asia and Europe, and returned to Manchester.On the weekend of December [-]th, I will fly to London to challenge Chelsea.

After the match against Chelsea on December [-], they will take a plane directly from London, cross the ocean, cross the Eurasian continent, reach the Japanese archipelago at the easternmost point of Asia, and arrive in Yokohama to participate in the [-]th World Club Champions Cup.

Manchester City's first Club World Cup game will be played on the afternoon of December [-]th.

If they can make it to the finals—there is almost no suspense, they will definitely make it to the finals—then their final will be on the afternoon of December [-]th.

Originally, in the No. 16 league round, Manchester City was going to face Arsenal at home, and the time for this game was also December [-]th, but it was the night of the [-]th.

Manchester City couldn't make it back anyway, so the game was postponed.

The next day, December [-]th, the Manchester City team set off for home.

On December 23, they welcomed Stoke City, their No.17 opponent in the league, at home.

Three days later, on December 26, in the No.18 round of the league, Manchester City challenged West Bromwich Albion away.

On December 31, Manchester City challenged Sunderland away to end their last official game of the year.

On January 2012, 2012, Manchester City played against Liverpool at home. This was their first game in [-].

The schedule is very dense, and Manchester City has to fly back and forth, even if they have a special plane to pick them up, it will be very tossing.

In this back and forth, who knows what will happen?

So in order to be safe, Benitez had to take advantage of the fact that he could win more points in the league now, hoping to get rid of the pursuers behind him and drive them as far away as possible.

Under such circumstances, the next No. 15 round of the league, Manchester City's away game against Chelsea is very important.

The match between Manchester City and Chelsea was originally played on December [-]th, but considering the Club World Cup, the game was brought forward, and kick-off will take place on the evening of December [-]th.

It can be regarded as one of the first few games to start in this round of the league.

Manchester United's home game against Wolves kicked off at the same time as them.

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Chelsea's first two seasons were coached by Ancelotti, but Ancelotti's coaching at Chelsea was not a success, because he has never been able to help Chelsea beat Manchester City, whether in a single game or in the competition for the entire season.

Last season, when Chelsea failed to win the league title, Chelsea were also eliminated from the Champions League. This made Chelsea boss Abramovich lose his patience and trust in Ancelotti, so after the end of last season, he fired Ancelotti.

Ancelotti is now coaching in Paris Saint-Germain, which is also a local team supported by the capital of the Middle East consortium.

Today's Chelsea coach is replaced by Villas-Boas.

It is the former Porto coach, the young coach who led Porto to win the Portuguese League, Portuguese Cup and UEFA Cup last season.

After his success in Porto, the European media called him "Mourinho's second", or "Mourinho's successor".

Since he is Mourinho's successor, he will naturally come to coach Chelsea.

When Mourinho coached Chelsea, it was the most glorious time for Chelsea. Both Mourinho himself and the Chelsea team left a very deep impression on the world.

And now Mourinho has left Chelsea a long time ago and has achieved success at Inter Milan. Now he is coaching at Real Madrid, and it is impossible to return to Chelsea to coach.Since I can't find the deity, it's okay to find a second generation to be Chelsea's head coach.

So Abramovich invited Boas, hoping that Boas can really become Mourinho II in Chelsea as the media said, copying Mourinho's glory at Chelsea.

However, this young coach who once worked as an assistant coach with Mourinho at Chelsea, now came to Chelsea for the second time, but he got off to a bad start.

Fourteen rounds of the league have been played, but Chelsea only ranks fourth. For Abramovich, who aspires to win the league, No.4 is not enough for him.

And this No.4 is still far from Manchester City, which is the number one in the league, in terms of points.

Manchester City has 38 wins, 28 draws and [-] losses in [-] rounds of the league, accumulating [-] points.What about Chelsea?Nine wins, one draw and four losses in fourteen league rounds, with [-] points, ranking fourth, ten points behind Manchester City!
This kind of performance really can't satisfy Abramovich.

In fact, Boas's league start was quite satisfactory. Although the first round of the league was tied with Stoke City in the away game, they went on a winning streak and did not lose the first league game of the new season until they met Manchester United.

But Villas-Boas's Chelsea exposed a problem, that is, they can win against weak teams, but they can only become losers when facing strong teams.

To be honest, this problem is fatal.With Chelsea's strength, it is natural to win the weaker team, which is the basis for their championship.If even the weaker teams can't win, then they won't be qualified to compete for the championship.

But if you want to compete with a group of strong teams for the league championship, you must rely on victories against the strong teams to widen the gap.

But Chelsea have lost against Manchester United, Arsenal and Liverpool this season...

In the fifth round of the league, they lost 1:3 away to Manchester United.

In the tenth round of the league, they lost to Arsenal 3:5 at home.

In the No.12 round of the league, Chelsea lost 1:2 at home to Liverpool.

Except that they haven't met Manchester City yet, they were all defeated when facing the traditional top three.

And there are two defeats at home.

This is terrible. If you don't win at home, you will have even less chance of winning away.

Now, they finally ushered in Manchester City at their home court.

If he loses to Manchester City at home again, Villas-Boas' days at Chelsea may be counting down.

In the League Cup, they were also knocked out by Liverpool in the quarter-finals. If there is no improvement in the league... Anyway, the media is now madly rumoring that Abramovich is about to fire Boas, and European bookmakers have also offered odds for Boas to leave class. Judging from the changes in the odds, everyone has no confidence in Boas staying until the end of the season...

It can be said that defeating Manchester City is Boas' only hope. If he can lead the team to become the first coach to beat Manchester City in the new season, then Abramovich may reconsider his decision.

Before the start of this league, the media in England began to pay attention.Many media said that the game against Manchester City will be Villas-Boas' last stand, and the importance of the game may exceed that of him leading Porto to the Europa League final.

So can Chelsea let Manchester City taste their first defeat of the season?

"We have found a way to beat Manchester City." Boas said confidently in an interview with reporters. "Manchester City is definitely not invincible. Even Achilles has weaknesses, let alone Manchester City? They are the same."

When the reporters in England heard what Boas said, they all looked at each other in blank dismay. From their respective expressions and eyes, it could be seen that they did not believe what Boas said.

Boas has been stared at by the media since he landed in England.Everyone will compare him to the Mourinho he once assisted.

When Boas was in Portugal, the voice of "Mourinho II" was very high, but to be honest, after observing for a period of time, the English media felt that Boas was far worse than Mourinho.

This difference not only refers to his team leadership and coaching level, but also refers to his performance when facing the media.

He seems to have only learned Mourinho's toughness in the face of the media, and he has also learned to imitate.

Blindly tough, only tough, will only be annoying.

So now there is a lot of negative news about Boas in the media, and the media is very enthusiastic about his dismissal, but there is no evidence at all, it is just for the black Boas.

A reporter finally couldn't help raising his hand and asked, "Then what is the specific strategy?"

"No comment." Boas said confidently, still smiling.

Many English reporters rolled their eyes—it was this expression that made them almost vomit.

(End of this chapter)