Ace Young Marshal

Chapter 650

After the first game of the International Champions Cup, Liverpool came to New York from Chicago.

The popularity of Liverpool here is much better than that in Chicago. After all, New York has the highest population density in the United States. An international metropolis has hundreds of millions of people. Moreover, New York is the American city that spends the most on the promotion of the Premier League. Square, where Gareth Bale's huge poster as the number one player in the Premier League was published.

Liverpool will play Manchester City in their second game at Yankee Stadium in New York.

In fact, European teams come to the United States to play commercial games, in fact, in the final analysis, they are for training or making money!
It doesn't make much sense to fight head-on with anyone at this stage, even if it is a contest between mortal enemies who have absolute hatred in the eyes of fans all over the world, it will not be serious.

Fleet Street, which tracks and reports on the Premier League team, is very curious about Liverpool's new aid Sane. Sane did not get playing time in the first game. I don't know how Situ Yunbing arranged for this young rookie.

In this contest with Manchester City, Situ Yunbing sent Sane in the starting lineup.

And put on a relatively weak lineup.

Goalkeeper: Ter Stegen.

Defenders: Azpilicueta, Van Dijk, Koulibaly, Robertson.

Midfield: Eriksson, Gerrard, Casemiro.

Forwards: Mahrez, Lewandowski, Sane.

Situ Yunbing's starting lineup is a combination of young and old, the veteran has Gerrard, and the young is naturally Sane.

There are not many players on Manchester City's side that need to be adjusted, and now it is time to adjust their status.

Sterling, who Pellegrini arranged for the starting lineup, is somewhat eye-catching.

After all, this is Sterling's game against his old club.

After Sterling left Liverpool, both he and his agent made some remarks that were not friendly to Situ Yunbing, mainly claiming that he did not get enough trust and attention from Situ Yunbing in Liverpool.

For such remarks, Situ Yunbing does not need to make any response.

The saliva of Liverpool fans is enough to make Sterling and his agent shut up.

In this game, Situ Yunbing is not so much a test of the young Sane, but more to see if the combination of Van Dijk and Coulibaly will make Liverpool more aggressive!
Coulibaly's advantage over Benatia lies in vitality and confrontation ability.

The combination of him and Van Dijk will give people an extremely powerful visual impact!
When the game started, Manchester City center Aguero's performance was relatively flat, but Sterling was very active. He repeatedly made individual breakthroughs and wanted to make trouble, but was restrained by Liverpool's defense.

It is difficult for Liverpool players to say what opinion they have on Sterling. After all, his importance in the team was very low before. If he insisted on targeting him and being hostile to him, it would be a bit too much to praise him.

It's just that everyone has a tacit understanding that they don't want those who leave Liverpool to hurt Liverpool in turn. This involves a face-to-face battle rather than a personal grievance, so it is logical for Liverpool players to use tough defense to kill Sterling's performance.

Liverpool's offensive performance is not very good today. Gerrard is slow to recover after a summer vacation. This is related to age. Situ Yunbing really can't expect too much from him for a 34-year-old veteran, especially Gerrard. The type of players themselves rely more on physical fitness to eat, unlike Zidane's type of players who rely more on technology.

At the end of a player's career, the physical function of the body begins to decline from the peak, but the skill is the slowest aspect of degradation, so it is often seen that some stars who have retired for 20 years can still show off when they play some charity games or commemorative games skills.

It mainly depends on the characteristics of the peak period of the player's career.

For a player like Kaka, because his biggest threat comes from his speed and explosive power, after the injury, the decline in explosive power is the most obvious, causing his threat to plummet.

On the other hand, even though Ronaldinho's threat has declined after his fall, Ronaldinho can still be coquettish in a slow-paced league, such as after he returned to Brazil, in an environment that pays more attention to skill competitions. The pace is buoyant.

Situ Yunbing has not talked with Gerrard about his future positioning, and he also hopes to watch his situation through pre-season preparations. If Gerrard can maintain his courageous momentum after the second brilliant peak of his career , Situ Yunbing will not be stubborn and insist on removing him from the main lineup immediately, and he can wait for the right opportunity to implement it. After all, it is very difficult for a 34-year-old veteran to maintain a good state throughout the season!
Judging from the current pre-season warm-up match, Gerrard may also have signs of weakening in his heart.

This is not surprising at all. Gerrard, who has dedicated his entire career to Liverpool, is the same as those Liverpool fans. What he is thinking about is the Premier League championship. Words have been very complete!

Two Champions League champions, two Premier League champions, two Europa League champions, how much more can we pursue?
At his age, he himself knows that it is impossible to accompany Liverpool to rule for a long time as an absolute main force.

Sometimes the driving force supporting the advancement of top stars is often a rush of energy, a breath of lingering breath, and a little discouraged energy, and then began to decline.

C Ronaldo is a typical representative of this kind of player. His fighting spirit is getting stronger year by year. At the age of 23, he can say that the best player in history is himself, because he has always had this belief in his career. Struggle and use your entire career to achieve this goal!

Gerrard's problem is not big, but Sane, who played for Liverpool for the first time today, still needs to be polished.

Facing an opponent like Manchester City and an experienced star like Zabaleta, Situ Yunbing was very satisfied with Sane's lack of stage fright, and his occasional driving at high speed was also impressive.

But ignorance of defense and shallow awareness of confrontation are the main problems discovered by Situ Yunbing.

Of course he will not be furious on the sidelines to remind Sane what to do. This is only his first game, and he is only 18 years old. Even if Situ Yunbing cannot be as tolerant as he was in the first year of leading Hamburg, he will not All of a sudden it became inhumane.

Give young players space and time as much as possible, this is what he has been reminding himself recently.

Liverpool and Manchester City were evenly divided in the first half. The offensive threats of the two teams were not great, and they ended peacefully for the time being.

Liverpool took the initiative to make substitutions in the second half.

Coutinho, Eriksson and Gareth Bale came on the field together, while Sane, Gerrard and Mahrez were replaced.

Immediately, Liverpool's attack was different.

For the International Champions Cup during this trip to the United States, Liverpool's main training goal is to integrate Lewandowski into the tactical system and cooperate with the whole team.

The strength of Liverpool now is that they don't expect to rely on anyone. No core player is absolutely dependent, so this will greatly reduce the pressure on Lewandowski.

When Gareth Bale threatened, Liverpool suddenly turned to create opportunities for Lewandowski, which allowed Lewandowski to play better and create threats.

In the 70th minute of the game, it was Lewandowski who responded to Eriksson's through ball and shot through Manchester City's goal from a small angle in the penalty area!
Liverpool lead Manchester City 1:0.

The score behind made Pellegrini a little helpless.

It's not how poor Manchester City's performance is, but Liverpool's continued strength last season is itself a situation that makes him feel depressed.

This will make him more stressed about the challenges ahead!

The cliche of turning stress into motivation can sometimes make it easy to overlook the risks behind too much stress.

Being able to withstand pressure can indeed become motivation.

If you can't stand the pressure, you will collapse, and the consequences will be disastrous!

A strong team is able to make other teams feel desperate. It can be said that Pellegrini did not feel too deeply about such despair last season, but he once had a deep feeling when he was coaching Real Madrid. The performance was already very strong, but it was suppressed by Barcelona, ​​which performed almost perfectly!
So people will not remember how outstanding he has led Real Madrid, but will only classify him as a loser, and even obliterate the credit for his progress in leading Real Madrid.

Maybe the reality is too cruel, but this is the case in competitive sports. At the level of a wealthy family, only champions are valuable, and everything else is worthless!
When the balance of the game was broken, Situ Yunbing replaced Lewandowski with Vardy.

Immediately afterwards, Manchester City was eager to equalize the score, while Liverpool played steadily. Koulibaly was very active today, making many key interceptions, and it was his 82nd minute backcourt steal. Erva broke the ball at his feet and quickly launched a fast attack. Robertson advanced from the side. Coutinho sent a wonderful pass after the frontcourt response.

Another victory for Liverpool!
Situ Yunbing is very satisfied with the performance of the team, which at least proves that his previous vision of selecting players is correct. The vast majority of players in the Liverpool team are not the kind of people who can get rich and settle down as long as they have some achievements. Face the field with the most professional spirit and attitude, and let your career climb to a higher peak!

In the International Champions Cup at Yankee Stadium in New York, Liverpool defeated Manchester City 90-2 in 0 minutes. Liverpool, which won two consecutive victories, also advanced to the semi-finals of this event ahead of schedule.

The next opponent they have to face is AC Milan.

(End of this chapter)