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Chapter 381 The only suspense!
No matter what Pellegrini thinks in his heart, but with the three strikers replaced, Real Madrid's offense still has some style in the case of sacrificing defense.

Real Madrid's offensive power kept setting off a climax of offense, while Manchester City, under the leadership of Diego Lopez, built Manchester City's defense line into a new Great Wall.

Meeting an open goalkeeper is sometimes a very depressing thing.

Moreover, Ronaldo also carries the aura of "every Manchester City must lose".

Leading by one goal, Manchester City's mentality is more stable, and they are playing more securely, just need to find Real Madrid's space.

It's just that on Real Madrid's side, there is also Casillas, who is born with a penchant, and he will always make some unbelievable saves.

"It's unscientific." Duncan spread his hands and said to his assistant, assistant coach Jim Cassell, "Didn't you say that the weak team is the goalkeeper? How can a club like Real Madrid have a player like Iker Casillas?" Freak?"

Jim Cassell shrugged: "You said it all, you are a freak! It is very strange to be able to appear in Real Madrid!"

So this game, until now, has changed from a fierce competition between the two sides in the midfield to a performance by the two goalkeepers.

The state of things is sometimes very strange.Once he gets up, even a goalkeeper with average strength will contribute a god-level performance.

And Casillas' performance in front of the goal made Duncan unable to find a suitable vocabulary except for "MMP".

In the end, the game came to an end in the god-level performance of the two super goalkeepers.

Manchester City scored a goal in each of the two rounds, defeated Real Madrid 2:0 on aggregate, and advanced to the next round of the Champions League.

At the press conference after the game, almost all the news media pointed their finger at Pellegrini.

There are remarks about "Pellegrini's ability is not worthy of Real Madrid", and there is a tendency to rise again.

For this reason, Pellegrini can only respond with a wry smile.

If the team's tactics are really [-]% determined by him, they won't have to rely on the goalkeeper in the end.

It's just that he failed to score a goal in two rounds and lost to Manchester City twice. The head coach Pellegrini must have an unshirkable responsibility.

Perhaps next season, Real Madrid should change the head coach?
How about Duncan?

The quarter-finals of the UEFA Champions League continue to fight fiercely. After this round, each game will be decided.

Manchester United also performed well in the two rounds, double-killing Ac Milan with a score of 7:2.Although there is no hope of winning the league championship, Ferguson put all his extra energy on the Champions League.

Another English team, Arsenal eliminated the famous black shop Porto with a score of 7:1.

Among the Premier League semi-finals, the only team that missed was Chelsea.

The team that eliminated Chelsea was Inter Milan.

The head coach of Inter Milan is called Mourinho.

Mourinho would definitely feel weird about killing the team he cultivated with his own hands.

In addition to these four games, four teams including Barcelona, ​​Bayern Munich, CSKA Moscow and Bordeaux also defeated their opponents and advanced to the quarter-finals of the Champions League.

On the second day after the UEFA Champions League round of 3 knockout rounds, that is, on March 13, UEFA began to draw lots for the quarterfinals at its headquarters in Monaco.

Among the quarter-finals, Bordeaux and CSKA Moscow are obviously big gift teams.

Manchester City had a game on this day, so Duncan did not attend and was replaced by club CEO Gary Cook.

Gary Cook continued his "mascot" tradition and blessed Manchester City with a good draw.

Manchester City's opponent is the Ligue [-] team Bordeaux.

The only two big gift packages in the top eight.

Another big gift package, CSKA Moscow, was drawn by Inter Milan.

This made Mourinho, who has always been critical of UEFA, feel a little more comfortable.

In the game of the day, Manchester City beat the black cat Sunderland 2:1 and continued to maintain their leading position in the standings.

After the game, everyone ignored the loser Sunderland and directly asked Duncan about his views on the draw.

"Our only goal is to defend the Champions League." Duncan faced the reporter's question and said with a smile: "It is the same for us to draw any team. Because on the way to win the championship, our only goal is to Defeat all opponents! Therefore, no matter whether the opponent is strong or weak, our attitude remains the same."

Manchester City's players also said in an interview that if they draw Bordeaux, Manchester City still has a lot of opportunities to advance.

The next game is a league match.

Manchester City's opponent is Portsmouth, which is at the bottom of the points.

In the last game against Portsmouth, Manchester City encountered great difficulties.

In this game, with seven rounds left in the league, Portsmouth has become a crazy team that must take all three points against any opponent.

In fact, no one wants to meet such a lunatic.

So this make-up match is destined to be another hard fight.

Portsmouth, who had a last stand, devoted themselves to attacking with all their strength from the very beginning.

In just 8 minutes of the opening, Portsmouth, which is at home, opened the scoring. Piquioni used his personal ability to take advantage of the space left after Ashley Young's forward drive.

Using his excellent speed, he cut into the penalty area from the ribs, passed the ball across the center after passing Joel Luka, and Kranica grabbed the point in the center and scored the ball into the goal guarded by Joe Hart.

1: 0!

Manchester City fell behind at the start.

Manchester City, one goal behind, launched a counterattack.

It's just that Portsmouth will not give in, and every inch of land will be contested, making Manchester City's offense very difficult.

When a team's focus is all on disrupting the opponent's offensive rhythm, the combat power that erupts is absolutely destructive.

During the intermission, Duncan encouraged the players to put down their burdens and move on.

Duncan's speech was still effective, and Manchester City played some excellent offensive routines in the second half. Andriy Shevchenko leveled the score for Manchester City in the 77th minute.

After Pedro dribbled the ball inside, he passed the ball to Shevchenko. Shevchenko made a slight adjustment, turned around suddenly, and pierced Portsmouth's goal.

1: 1!

After the equalizer, Manchester City's morale was boosted, and they wanted to continue to attack and overtake the score in the next game.

But the Manchester City players seem to be a little too excited. The team formation is too high, leaving a lot of space in the defense.

A clearance by Portsmouth turned into an assist, Piquioni advanced with the ball, and there was only Thiago Silva left by his side.

In desperation, Thiago Silva could only pull him down.

In front of him, there is no second defensive player other than the goalkeeper.

There is no doubt that Thiago Silva received a red card.

This red card allowed Manchester City to play a man on the field. For this reason, Duncan had to replace a midfielder with a defender.

In this way, Manchester City's offensive slowed down a lot.

In the end, in this Premier League supplementary match, the two sides drew 1:1 and each scored one point.

After 30 rounds, the points gap between Manchester City and Chelsea remained at 13 points.

On March 3, in the 20st round of the Premier League, Manchester City challenged Fulham away and defeated their opponents with a score of 31:2.

In another game, Chelsea was equalized by Blackburn 1:1, and the points gap between the two sides reached 15 points.

With seven rounds left in the league, in fact, the suspense of winning the championship has been killed in advance by the huge and exaggerated points gap.

The only suspense is that Manchester City will win the championship a few rounds in advance.

(End of this chapter)