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Chapter 373 Bullshit "Balance"

The league is still going on.

In the 26th round, Manchester City defeated Bolton 2:0. Sanchez made a pass and shot, and Sneijder also contributed long pass assists. Manchester City continued to advance in the league in the absence of Silva.

On the other side, Chelsea was defeated by Everton in the away game. Everton used two precise counterattacks to penetrate Cech's gate and took away three points.

The two sides have widened the gap of 13 points in the standings.

"The gap of 13 points allows us to have a wider space!"

At the press conference after the game, Duncan said so.

Because the team's next focus must be on the Champions League match against Real Madrid.

As a result, Manchester City even sent substitute players to play in the fifth round of the FA Cup on February 2.

In the game, Stoke City went all out and finally drew with Manchester City 1:1 at the City Stadium.

The two sides will have another showdown at Stoke City's home court 15 days later.

The next game is the first round of the Champions League round of 16. Manchester City sits at home against Real Madrid.

After a record signing last season, Florentino expects his Real Madrid, this season, to achieve record results.

But things backfired. In the league, Real Madrid met the best Barcelona and the best Messi.

Barcelona, ​​who were beaten from the top by Manchester City last season, have made a comeback again this season.With a devastating momentum, it swept the entire La Liga arena.

In the King's Cup, Real Madrid accidentally missed and was eliminated by the West C team.

Therefore, the Real Madrid team has great expectations for the Champions League. They are looking forward to washing their nickname of "The Sixteenth Man of the Champions League".

The team has been in the top sixteen of the Champions League for many years in a row.

The honor in the Champions League can be said to be closely linked to Pellegrini's handsome position.

Although Florentino returned, he regarded Chilean Pellegrini as his first head coach.

But this is the second choice in desperation after pursuing Wenger to no avail.

Florentino revealed his dissatisfaction with Pellegrini inside and out.

Although Florentino likes to intervene in team affairs, this does not mean that he likes a weak head coach.

In Lafayette's heart, the person who leads the Galaxy Battleship must be a tough person like a falcon.

Like Mourinho.

And Florentino never hides this.

So Pellegrini must prove himself.

Whether it is La Liga or the Champions League.

For the away game against Manchester City, Pellegrini prepared for a long time.

The lessons of last season's Champions League knockout round are still vivid, and Pellegrini's idea is to keep a tie and win the away game.

Manchester City is the most eye-catching team in the world today. It shouldn't be a shame to play defense at Manchester City's home court, right?
thought Pellegrini.

But he didn't notice that in the box on the stand, Florentino frowned.

Otherwise, why introduce Ronaldo, wouldn't it be better to keep Robben?

Seeing Real Madrid's slightly conservative formation on the field, Duncan smiled.

After all, Pellegrini has no experience of coaching a wealthy family, and in the dialogue between the strong and the strong, he has no awareness of being a head coach of a wealthy family.

"Actually, he should be more relaxed," Duncan told his assistant coach, Jim Cassell.

There is no perfect defense in this world, and any team's defense will have loopholes.

Even Manchester City is like this.

Pellegrini's idea of ​​"keeping the tie and winning" is actually a kind of thinking that wants to rely on defense.

Even if the team has the most expensive offensive player on the planet.

In this summer, Real Madrid strengthened the front line, not the defense line.

And in this season, Real Madrid's defense is actually the same as last season.

In defense, Manchester City relied on tight defense to divide Real Madrid's major stars. They can fight independently, but they cannot form effective cooperation.

In the offense, although Silva has returned from injury, Duncan still put him on the bench and turned to Sanchez, who has been hot with the barrel recently.

This is also a bit unexpected.

Putting the playmaker on the bench is not something a stable head coach like Pei Gong can imagine.

Although David Silva was injured, he had returned before the game and also participated in the team's joint training.So neither Pellegrini nor Real Madrid thought that Duncan would dare to put David Silva on the bench.

So at the beginning, Manchester City had the upper hand.

Real Madrid's previous game arrangements were all aimed at David Silva, so even though they knew about Sanchez, their research was definitely not as thorough as it was for David Silva.

It's like wearing spikes to a game only to find out that the playing field is concrete.

Sanchez's playing style is very different from David Silva's.

In the 5th minute, Real Madrid left-back Marcelo was forced by Sanchez and had to pass the ball to Kaka. However, after Toure successfully intercepted the ball from Kaka, he sent a through ball directly.

The ball passed between Pepe and Ramos, Aguero ignited his explosive power, threw off the defender, caught up with the ball in the penalty area, but was thrown by the attacking goalkeeper Iker Casillas Near the penalty spot.

Aguero started quickly, and Casillas was not slow to come up. The entanglement between the two sides was very difficult to distinguish.

But it is also true that Aguero fell down.

The entire city stadium is completely boiling!
"Penalty kick! Penalty kick!" Shouts filled the entire city stadium.

If you can get a penalty kick at the beginning, I believe Manchester City's game will be much easier to play.

Pellegrini on the sidelines covered his cheeks in disbelief.

If he falls behind in the first 5 minutes, it will disrupt many of his tactical deployments.

Manchester City players gathered around and put pressure on the referee to show him a red card.Or at worst, a yellow card and a penalty kick.

The Real Madrid players also quickly caught up. Both sides were putting pressure on the referee, but the referee waved his hands again and again, signaling both sides to keep calm.

Then he ran to the sidelines and briefly communicated with the linesman.

During this time, the main referee and the assistant referee are definitely the protagonists on the field. Everyone in the audience, including the audience in front of the TV, is watching them nervously.

After a brief exchange, the referee turned around and ran towards the two parties in the conflict.

At the same time, the referee blew his whistle and raised his arm.

This gesture is very simple, and everyone knows its meaning-offside.

"Offside?!"

Duncan's expression suddenly changed.

This guy, is this maintaining the balance of the game?
Duncan bet that the referee made such a penalty out of the bullshit principle of "maintaining the excitement of the game and not letting the game completely lose its suspense".

UEFA wants to use exciting games to attract people's attention, increase ratings, and thus take advantage of higher profits.Under the command of this purpose, it is only natural for the referee to be blind at the right time.

The purpose of UEFA's competition has never been "fair play".

"My God, the referee actually signaled that it was an offside."

"Judging from the slow motion, when Aguero started, Pepe and Ramos were dragged at the back, Aguero was in a parallel position with them, how could it be an offside? This is definitely a very Clear misjudgment!"

"The Manchester City team is also quite dissatisfied with the referee's penalty. This is at least a foul, and it may even be a red card, but unexpectedly the line referee awarded Manchester City an offside. The difference is too great."

Even the narrators were full of disbelief.

(End of this chapter)