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Chapter 136 Elimination and the First Champion

After the first round of the Champions League knockout round, Wang Yi was interviewed.

Between the next round of the league and the FA Cup round of [-] and the League Cup final.

During the period, the round of [-] of the FA Cup was against Wigan Athletic. Because of an agreement with the head coach, after discussing with Guardiola, the FA Cup is more important. It's Wang Yi's meeting.

As for the final of the League Cup, the opponent is actually not weak, it is Arsenal, but this season Arsenal is ranked 7th, which is the level of the mid-range team.

In addition, the club does not value the League Cup so much, so Guardiola is not prepared to violate the agreement with Sane, he is still ready to let Sane play.

The first match to be played was the round of [-] of the FA Cup, which Wang Yi watched at home.

The opponent is Wigan Athletic, No.1 in the League One, not the Championship but the League One, which is the third season of the English Football League, so everyone feels that Manchester City will definitely win this game.

Guardiola also rotated a lot of people, but in this game, the score was 0-0 and the stalemate lasted until 80 minutes.

Just when Guardiola was about to replace Aguero, in the 80th minute, suddenly Wigan Athletic's right back and captain Byrne rushed into the penalty area and scored a goal.

1 to 0 lead.

This disrupted Guardiola's plan and deployment.

Then for the remaining 10 minutes or so, Wigan Athletic is just one word-defense, and the two words are stick to it.

And they are really good and able to defend. In the last 10 minutes or so, Manchester City basically bombed wildly. In stoppage time, Ederson ran into Wigan Athletic's penalty area, but Wigan Athletic just defended. Yes, eliminated Manchester City and entered the quarterfinals.

This elimination of Manchester City made the headlines immediately after the game.

Not only because Manchester City lost to the third-tier team, but also because as early as the 2012-13 season, Wigan Athletic ranked 18th at that time, and the team in the relegation zone broke into the FA In the cup final, the opponent was Manchester City at the time, the second-ranked Manchester City.

This gap is still quite large. In addition, Manchester City was already 11 points behind Manchester United at the time, and there was not much left in the league. With Manchester United's schedule advantage being very large, Mancini took the team to win a championship this season Hopes rest on the FA Cup final against Wigan Athletic.

At that time, almost everyone was optimistic about Manchester City. Although Manchester City was 11 points behind Manchester United, they were a top team after all, and Wigan Athletic was a team in the relegation zone, which was still very pessimistic.

In such an atmosphere that everyone is optimistic about, Manchester City unexpectedly lost the game, and Wigan Athletic also won the game 1-0.

The most dramatic is that Wigan Athletic was relegated to the Championship three days after winning the FA Cup.

And Mancini was also fired by Manchester City's top management two days after losing to Wigan Athletic.

Time goes back to today, Manchester City once again lost the FA Cup when almost everyone was optimistic.

This time Guardiola is under a lot of pressure.

Although the Premier League is now leading by 14 points, the advantage is indeed great, but he really does not want to lose the FA Cup. If you want to talk about the priority of trophies among England fans, it is definitely not about the invincible boss of the Ancestral Cup, but the Premier League must be the FA The Cup and the League Cup can only go to the back row. When necessary, many strong teams will directly send the reserve team to fight on the third line.

As for the Champions League, that priority must be the highest.

After being eliminated from the FA Cup, many English players in the team are still a little sluggish.

When Wang Yi went to training, he was a little puzzled. Losing is really uncomfortable. Why hasn't he recovered after 3 days?
Four days after the FA Cup is the League Cup final.

In this final, in the end, Guardiola was still conservative. He chose to play Sane and Wang Yi again.

If it hadn't been for the unexpected loss to a third-tier team 4 days ago, Guardiola would definitely not have chosen Wang Yi. After all, the FA Cup is the most important domestic cup. Of course, the League Cup has entered the final, so this championship is also It must be won, but Guardiola didn't think at all that he would not be able to win against Arsenal at the time, but now he lost unexpectedly.

For the first championship of the season, Guardiola chose Wang Yi just to be on the safe side.

Wang Yi walked as usual, and Sane went to the right.

This made Sane very upset. He finally realized that he was Wang Yi's substitute after all. He was not used in the domestic cup before, but he was just giving himself a chance. In addition, Wang Yi basically played the whole game in every league game. went.

Although Sane was unhappy, Wang Yi still entered the starting list.

As soon as the list came out, many media outlets started making news again.

"This season, Wang Yi played in the Premier League and Champions League, and Sane played in the FA Cup and League Cup. It seems to have become an undisclosed fact. In all previous FA Cup and League Cup matches, Wang Yi didn't even make the squad. , the official statement is that Wang Yi is still young, playing too many games can easily cause injuries, but now that the League Cup final is coming, Guardiola finally selected Wang Yi into the starting list for the League Cup final. The biggest reason is of course It was Manchester City's accidental loss in the FA Cup round of 4 four days ago, and Guardiola must have become more cautious about this league after that accidental loss."

Since the 5th round of the league will be played 28 days after the League Cup final, Manchester City will still play Arsenal in that game, and Chelsea will play in the 29th round of the league, so the opponents in these three games are all strong teams that are difficult to deal with.

It is completely understandable that Guardiola is so cautious.

Wang Yi also thought, at least it is the seventh-ranked team, and the gap between the sixth and fifth teams is not that big, so Wang Yi concentrated on the League Cup final.

But what Wang Yi didn't expect was that Wenger set up a 3421 formation, which is a bit unorthodox. There are two attacking midfielders in front, one is the dead man from Turkey, and the other is Wilshere, at the top. It's Aubameyang.

The three in the back line can be said to be the line of defense that conceded the most goals among the top 10 teams this season.

After the official game, Arsenal lost to Manchester City at all and were suppressed too badly.

Wang Yi feels that Arsenal's failure to set up two sides directly leads to the abolition of both sides.

Wang Yi made a great breakthrough from the side. Once a pass from the side was made, Jesus headed the ball from the center and scored.

In the second half, Wang Yi cut inside and scored the goal.

Breaking the ball shortage in many games.

Until the end of the game, Arsenal actually didn't have any good shooting opportunities.

As a result, in stoppage time, Arsenal, who were pressing heavily, were counterattacked by Sane and the goal was scored.

3:0.

It can really be said to be a clean 3-0.

(End of this chapter)