The Glory of the Godfather

The shot was given to Roberto Mancini on the coach's bench of the home team.

Mancini succeeded the fired Mark Hughes as Manchester City's head coach in December last year.

At that time, after the seventeenth round of the league, Manchester City accumulated 25 points and ranked eighth in the league.

10 points behind Aston Villa, who was fourth in the league at the time.

Now, nineteen rounds of the league have passed.

Manchester City ranks sixth in the league, six points behind fourth-placed Arsenal.

In terms of rankings and points rise, Mancini's Manchester City has improved.

However, six points behind Arsenal, with two rounds remaining in the league, Manchester City is almost certain to miss the Champions League considering the disadvantage of goal difference.

What's more, Manchester City was 10 points behind Aston Villa at the time, and now they are 18 points behind the leaders Aston Villa.

This is a little embarrassing.

The media also began to criticize Mancini.

In this regard, Mancini is unhappy.

He believes this is the reason Mark Hughes dug too deep a hole.

Manchester City's most realistic goal now is to surpass Tottenham Hotspur, get fifth in the league, and qualify for the Europa League next season.

And now Manchester City is three points behind Tottenham Hotspur, so Manchester City must win this game.

In addition, if Aston Villa can be prevented from winning the championship, Mancini will be much happier.

For winning Aston Villa, Mancini reported a certain degree of confidence.

In the last round of the match between Aston Villa and Birmingham, it was more difficult for Aston Villa to win.

It was even a draw with Portsmouth before.

This is a tired division.

Mancini saw an opportunity.

But when the game started, the expression on Mancini's face became more and more dignified.

Although the score on the field was still zero to zero, Manchester City did not concede a goal.

However, Manchester City played very passively.

The situation on the field was completely controlled by Aston Villa.

Especially in the midfield, with Clement and Sidwell teaming up to strangle, Manchester City can hardly play a decent offense.

Gareth Bale on the left of Aston Villa and Deisler on the right frequently attacked the two wings of Manchester City.

Up front, Diego Costa and Ronaldo kept getting shots.

Had it not been for Manchester City's goalkeeper Shay, who was in excellent form today, he would have conceded the ball long ago.

After taking the initiative for a long time.

Aston Villa took the lead in the 35th minute!

Diego Costa! Diego Costa!! Powerful header!!! John Mortensen shouted.

This is Gareth Bell making a diagonal pass from the left to the right. Deisler made a pass back near the bottom line, followed by Milner who hoisted the football into the penalty area.

Diego Costa pushes past Richards.

He jumped high and hit Milner's cross.

Because the distance is too close, Manchester City's outstanding goalkeeper Shay has nothing to do with the ball, he can only watch the football go into the goal!

The Chinese fans in the bar erupted into loud cheers.

The Aston Villa fans around were even more excited.

Some Aston Villa fans shouted Fang Jue's name.

In the end, I don't know who shouted China and China first.

Finally, cheers of China and China resounded in the bar.

This makes these Chinese people very excited, this feeling, cool!

Aston Villa took a one-to-nil lead away!

Aston Villa is getting closer and closer to the championship, Manchester City has suffered a major blow on the road to the Europa League. Lineker said.

Now, the coaches of the Premier League are very clear that Aston Villa cannot be allowed to score an early lead.

Facing this team that is good at counterattacking, once Aston Villa takes the lead, it will be very dangerous.

Sitting on the coach's bench, Mancini shook his head in distress.

Although the media has repeatedly said how much the local tycoon Manchester City spent in the transfer market last year, the introduction of top players like Adebayor and Tevez, as well as powerful players like Gareth Barry, is so powerful. .

However, Mancini was not satisfied.

As a coach from Serie A, he is particularly fond of defense.

In Mancini's view, Manchester City's midfield really can't satisfy him.

It can be seen from this conceded goal that Aston Villa's lateral transfer and a few passes pierced Manchester City's defense.

He found himself dead wrong, pinning his hopes of winning on Aston Villa's exhaustion, which itself is an underdog mentality.

After losing the ball, Mancini relaxed his mind.

That's it for this season. Next season, to be precise, will be the summer transfer market. The team's Arabian patron has already promised a huge transfer fund of 150 million pounds.

At that time Mancini was shocked by the amount of the transfer budget.

He really felt the joy of being the head coach of Manchester City.

Hmph, next season, let everyone feel the power of Jinyuan football!

In the first half of the game, the guest Aston Villa took a 1-0 lead with Diego Costa's goal, and then the two sides entered the intermission.

Fang Jue smiled and praised the team's performance, but he said it was not enough.

A one-goal lead is not safe.

Our objective in the second half of the game was to score goals, to score as early as possible, to extend the lead.

The champion is ahead, we can't relax at all!

Fang Jue didn't say much.

He knew enough was enough, neither to make these guys too proud, nor to put too much pressure on them.

Although Mancini's own mentality is already very relaxed, he knows that he cannot show this indifferent mentality to the players.

He can't tell the players that he doesn't like the Europa League, and it doesn't matter whether they qualify for the Europa League or not.

Mancini encouraged the players to work hard in the second half of the game, trying to equalize the score as soon as possible, or even come back.

Aston Villa are fighting for the title.

Boys, use your feet to tell the Valar that this way does not work!

Now, our opponents are under a lot of pressure. As long as we equalize the score as soon as possible, their morale and fighting spirit will be affected.

After the start of the second half of the game, Manchester City showed a relatively tenacious fighting will.

Manchester City once posed a threat to Aston Villa's goal.

At this moment, Ronaldo was violated in the frontcourt and Aston Villa got a free kick in the frontcourt.

Deisler's direct free kick hit the upper left corner of the goal and entered the net, rewriting the score to two to zero.

From the away stands at the Etihad Stadium to the pubs in Birmingham, the Aston Villa fans exploded with energy.

Two to zero!

This goal made the balance of victory even more tilted to Aston Villa's side.

Mancini sighed, his tactical deployment, his chicken blood, after this conceded goal, it is meaningless.

Mancini began to make substitutions and adjustments, and Bellamy replaced Carlos Tevez, who performed so-so today.

Zabaleta replaced Richards.

Fang Jue also made substitutions and adjustments.

Quaresma came off the bench and replaced Deisler, who had performed well.

Petrov came on as a substitute, replacing Sidwell.

After leading 2-0, Aston Villa's offense did not stop.

In the 71st minute, Quaresma once again showed his unique skills, with a long-range shot from the world wave, breaking through the goal guarded by Shay Wen.

Mancini looked at Quaresma, who was running and celebrating excitedly, his eyes flickered.

His Manchester City team lacks such unique players who can be relied upon at critical moments.

Fang Jue applauded excitedly on the sidelines, cheering for the goal.

Not only because this goal sealed the victory, but also because of the pleasure of taking advantage of it.

Quaresma was loaned to Aston Villa by Inter Milan for free. Not only that, Quaresma's salary is also borne by Inter Milan.

It is tantamount to saying that Aston Villa is in vain.

The loan deal comes with a mandatory buyout clause of £6.5 million.

Before that, some media who questioned Quaresma criticized Aston Villa for agreeing to a mandatory buyout as being fooled by Inter Milan.

Naturally, no one would say such things anymore.

Let alone 6.5 million pounds, even if the price of Quaresma is doubled to 13 million pounds, there are plenty of teams rushing for it.

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City pulled one back on 81 minutes.

Zabaleta assisted Adebayor to score with a header.

However, just five minutes later, Gareth Bale assisted Ronaldo to expand the score again.

Later, Fang Jue replaced Gareth Bell with young player Albrighton.

At the last moment of the game, Manchester City took advantage of Aston Villa's lax mentality to score another goal, rewriting the score to two to four, but that's it.

The referee blew the whistle to end the game as Premier League leaders Aston Villa beat Manchester City 4-2 away.

When the referee blew the whistle to end the game, huge cheers erupted in Birmingham's pubs.

Congratulations to Aston Villa. They beat Manchester City. With only one game left in the league, they are two points ahead of Chelsea and Manchester United. The championship is ahead of them!

As long as they beat Blackburn at home in the last round of the league, Aston Villa will be the Premier League champions this season!

In the previous game that ended first, both Manchester United and Chelsea won this round, but when Aston Villa also won, the point difference is still two points, and Aston Villa still firmly grasps the championship initiative.

In the Villa People bar, the Chinese fans were excited.

In the next few days, they will visit the Villa Park Stadium and visit the Villa training base.

He will also be invited by Fang Jue to participate in the team's training.

However, the most important thing is that the last activity of their trip is to watch the game on the spot, watching the last round of the league as Aston Villa vs. Blackburn.

This also means that they will be able to witness Aston Villa win the Premier League title at home!

For these lucky fans who have traveled thousands of miles to the UK for free travel, this is a big event that can be remembered and boasted for a lifetime.

Ask for a monthly ticket, thank you!