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Chapter 561 Manchester City Crisis
Chapter 141 The Manchester City Crisis

On March 2016, 21, at the Etihad Stadium, Manchester City ushered in the challenge of their rivals Manchester United at their home court!
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The Etihad Stadium has long been full of voices. Although Manchester United has made great strides in all fronts this season and is about to win the Premier League trophy again, in Manchester, there will always be another color that is competing with red. Evenly matched.

Naturally, the fans of Manchester City will not be merciful to their rivals in the same city because of the opponent's surprisingly good state this season. When the players of both sides are still lined up in the player channel, they can't wait to boo Manchester United.

Pellegrini stood in front of the player tunnel, shook hands with Manchester United coach Ancelotti who was coming out, and then turned and walked to his coaching bench. The same was true for Ancelotti. In such a derby, the coaches of the two sides will never show any friendly side. Both of them have a pair of stern faces, and the handshake before the game is just a ritual that needs to be completed before the game starts. generally.

Pellegrini was not in a good mood, although his team had caused great trouble for Manchester United in the last match between the two sides. In the end, the score of [-] to [-] also ended Manchester United's nine-game winning streak. .But Pellegrini's mind is not here at the moment, because this is his last season in charge of Manchester City.

More than a month ago, Manchester City officially announced that after the end of this season, Pellegrini will leave get out of class, and Guardiola will replace him.

This almost humiliating treatment for Pellegrini made Pellegrini very angry.In fact, the results of Manchester City this season cannot be said to be bad. Before Manchester City officially announced that Guardiola will enter the home team next season, Manchester City ranked third in the league, and only two points away from Leicester City, which is second in the league. The difference, and falling behind Manchester United is not that Manchester City performed poorly, but that Manchester United's performance this season is really abnormal.In the UEFA Champions League, Manchester City defeated Juventus in a group of death, and then eliminated Dynamo Kiev in the top sixteen, breaking into the top eight. Good grades.

After Manchester City officially announced in early February that Guardiola will replace Pellegrini at the end of the season, Manchester City's performance began to decline. So far, they have only won two of the eleven games. , lost five games, and had four draws. They have also dropped out of the top four in the league standings. They have now slipped to the No.5 position, three points behind the fourth-ranked Arsenal.

Therefore, in the public opinion of the outside world, a lot of criticisms have been put forward for the handling of Manchester City's top management. Announcing the head coach after the end of the season in advance will undoubtedly put the current head coach in a very embarrassing position. First of all, the head coach The loss of authority, and then the fluctuating hearts of the players, have had an immeasurable impact on Manchester City's state.

Although Pellegrini was extremely angry at the humiliation given to him by Manchester City's top management, his work ethic also made him work hard to prevent Manchester City from continuing to show such a downward trend.Before the game started, he talked to several core players of the team one by one. After all, Pellegrini will leave next season, but most of these players will continue to stay in Manchester City. Aguero, Silva, De Bruyne, these players still have long-term contracts, and Guardiola may not come up and clean them out of these technical players. For this part of the players, Pellegrini is Use Champions League qualifications to motivate, after all, as a top professional player, no one would want to miss the Champions League.

And those who really need to worry about their position are players such as goalkeeper Joe Hart, Zabaleta, Mangala, and Yaya Toure. Guardiola likes goalkeepers with outstanding skills at their feet and a certain ability to play the ball. Therefore, it is foreseeable that the English goalkeeper Joe Hart, who has excellent reaction in front of the goal and good ball-catching skills, will be the first target to be cleaned up, because this typical English goalkeeper basically does not handle the ball with his feet. ——Unless it’s a Bigfoot clearance.

Players such as Zabaleta, Mangala, and Yaya Toure are also the first clear targets of Guardiola listed by the media due to their own reasons.

Pellegrini's main work during this period was also to appease this group of people. At present, Pellegrini's work is still good. In the last [-]% of the games, Manchester City finally did not lose again. One win and one draw in the Premier League stopped the losing streak in the league, and then they drew [-]-[-] at home with Dynamo Kyiv in the quarter-finals of the Champions League, and eliminated their opponents with a [-]-[-] away victory. Quarterfinals.

In Pellegrini's heart, even if he leaves after the season, leaving with reputation and leaving with infamy is completely different. No matter how angry he is, he still wants to continue to hang out in the football circle after all. With this bowl of rice, you can't smash the rice bowl by yourself.

In this game against Manchester United, although Manchester City's players, including De Bruyne, Kompany, Otamendi, Delph, Nasri, etc., were unable to play due to injuries, Pellegrini still came in. Formed a rather luxurious starting lineup.In recent years, Manchester City has formed a luxurious team through a lot of money, which makes Manchester City's bench depth very impressive.

"Let's take a look at Manchester City's starting lineup first. The goalkeeper is Joe Hart. Kompany was injured and unable to play. In this game, Joe Hart wears Manchester City's captain's armband. On the defensive line, Saba Leta came to play right back, the central back combination is Demichelis and Mangala, the left back is Kolarov, the midfielder combination Fernandinho is paired with Yaya Toure, the midfielder Navas, Schiller Watts, Sterling, the top striker is Aguero!" The Manchester Derby is the highlight of this round of the Premier League, and Andy Gray once again appeared in the commentary booth of the Etihad Stadium to explain the game .

"It seems that Manchester City's defense is a big hidden danger. Mangala has not started many games this season, and Demichelis is even more so. The two central defenders do not feel reassuring. And Manchester United Bian was not affected by too many injuries. Herrera, Luke Shaw, Rooney and Jones were all unable to play due to injuries, but this did not cause too much trouble for Manchester United's formation. The goalkeeper position De Gea is still on the top, Valencia, Hummels, Rojo, Sandro in the defense, and the three midfielders are Carrick, Kramer, Fellaini, Di Maria and Mata The two stand behind Li Qingshan!"

Amidst the cheers of the fans at the scene, the referee on duty looked at the timer in his hand, and then put the whistle in his mouth.

171 Manchester derbies, officially started!

(End of this chapter)