Chapter 801

When Manchester City swept the Premier League this season, Benitez's Liverpool were in a dilemma.

Especially with the deepening of the season, the Red Army not only exposed the team's long-standing disease in the offensive end, but also let people clearly see their disorder in the midfield organization.

Aquilani, the Italian midfield player who is expected to be introduced by all sides of Liverpool, failed to take on the responsibility of organizing the midfield effectively. The departure of Mascherano made the midfield defence of Liverpool lose its original stability.

For this reason, the famous Spanish coach Rafael Benitez has accused the management of inaction more than once, and many people in the coaching circle have expressed sympathy for the situation of Rafael Benitez, because now many fans blame him for not knowing the inside story.

Especially the high cold.

As one of Benitez's few friends, Gao Han doesn't deny that Benitez is really stubborn and doesn't know how to communicate tactfully. However, it's unreasonable to doubt his coaching ability.

From the first day when Gao cold got to know him, Benitez's pursuit was very clear, that is to make his offensive players closer to each other's goal by pressing forward in midfield. This tactic has been successful in Tenerife, Valencia and Liverpool.

So why is the season so bad?

There is only one reason. The players are not good.

At the beginning, when Manchester City dug for Javier Mascherano, Benitez chose to let him go. One of the important reasons is that Liverpool could not get a cent of the transfer fee at all. So the management agreed to let him go and all the funds would be used for the transfer operation.

Benitez is very optimistic about Brazilian midfield Lucas, and Lucas's performance is really good, so he chose to let Mascherano go, hoping to use this sum of money to bring in Gareth Barry and jovitic.

What I didn't expect was that the management finally broke their promise and only introduced Aquilani, not on the attack.

Even worse, Aquilani's performance was low, far from the level he had in Rome.

Even in the winter break, it is said that Benitez wants to get Falcao, but as the owner of Chinatown, Gao is very clear that Liverpool have never had contact with Chinatown from the beginning to the end.

Throughout the whole process, Aquilani is wrong. Benitez really has the responsibility, but what he wanted from the beginning was Gareth Barry, hoping to strengthen the midfield of Liverpool with the help of Barry and Gerrard's performance in the national team. However, the management of the club has no doubt that it is the most serious problem for Liverpool now.

Now it's not only cold, I'm afraid that both inside and outside Liverpool have clearly known that after the end of this season, Benitez will either be fired or resign himself. With his character, it's hard to stay at Liverpool.

That's why Gao didn't think about coaching Liverpool from the beginning to the end.

Not only because he is good friends with Benitez, but also because of the management of Liverpool.

To put it bluntly, with the chaos of the management of the Red Army, even if you go to teach in the cold, you will probably be trapped in the bathroom, because it's hard to make bricks without straw.

Although he sympathizes with Rafael Benitez psychologically, he still has to play how to play on the pitch.

What's more, Benitez's team is not a soft persimmon to be kneaded.

February 20, 2010, the 27th round of the Premier League.

Manchester City are at the city stadium to welcome the Reds and Liverpool.

Benitez knew that his strength was not as good as Manchester City, and the game was mainly safe. From the beginning, he fiercely pressed and oppressed Manchester City's ball control. Gao Han made preparations for the Carling Cup final a week later and made proper rotation. As a result, at the beginning of the game, he was rushed by Liverpool and couldn't hold the ball.

In the first ten minutes of the game, both sides were in a bit of confusion. It was only 20 minutes later that Manchester City gradually controlled the ball and pressed the formation as a whole. However, Liverpool still stuck to their own half and actively seized the opportunity to fight back.

Neither side was able to organize an effective attack in the first half, and no one scored.

But in the second half, after Yi Bian fought again, Manchester City gradually controlled the situation on the field. Especially with the physical consumption of Liverpool, the high-intensity pressing tactics were unable to maintain, which made Manchester City gradually create a threat. Alpine saw the right time, used the skill card to launch the attack.

In the 60th minute, Javier Alonso passed the ball to Javier Alonso after Mascherano broke the ball in front of Liverpool's 30 meter area. The Spanish midfield passed the ball straight to the front of the penalty area, Kaka crossed the left, Benzema inserted the ball to catch it, and then crossed back to the middle. Sturicci pushed the ball in front of the goal, which was one-to-zero.

After the first record, Manchester City played more leisurely.

Soon, both sides made a change of players at the same time. Benitez replaced Babel to strengthen the attack. Gao Han replaced Kaka, Adam Johnson to the left and Petrov to the middle.

After continuous substitution, the scene fell into a stalemate again.

It wasn't until the 87th minute that Sturridge went on to score twice to help Manchester City beat Liverpool 2-0 at home.

In the whole game, the Reds and Liverpool only got nine shot opportunities, two shots in the goal, but failed to create a threat.

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February 23, 2010, the 28th round of the Premier League, Stamford Bridge Stadium.

After a 15 minute break, the two sides returned to the match field and were ready to fight again after the exchange.

The scoreboard shows the score of both sides in the first half, one to one.

But the score did not show the gap between the two teams.

Throughout the first half, Chelsea were bombarded wildly by Manchester City. The performance of the two teams on the court really reflected the strength gap between the two sides. Scolari even arranged Falcao to swim and harass in the front, while the others all shrunk to defend.

This is no doubt in the heart of Manchester City, blue moon brush out a surprising possession rate, and in the 42nd minute, using a mistake on the defense of Chelsea, finally pried open the goal of the blues.

But soon, Falcao also took advantage of Manchester City's impetuous mood to steal the goal and level the score.

The two sides shake hands to make peace and fight again in the second half.

Although it's a draw, alpine still looks like it's OK. On the contrary, Scolari is worried.

Just three days ago, when Chelsea lost 2-0 to Prandelli's Inter, it was almost impossible for them to make a breakthrough in the Champions League, which put Scolari under great pressure.

This game he is facing is only half of the main city, but also at home, he does not want to lose.

But after the start of the second half, Manchester City took the lead.

Just three minutes into the beginning, Adam Johnson once led the ball from the side to the penalty area and was knocked down by Terry at the front of the penalty area. The referee showed Terry a yellow card, but Cristiano Ronaldo's free kick hit the wall.

The ball landed at the feet of Chelsea and the blues launched a counter attack.

Scolari's team is obviously not willing to wait to die, hoping to seize the opportunity, draw at home, and even beat Manchester City.

Chelsi Lampard passed the ball to Robinho on the left, but Mascherano tried to defend on the right. Robinho tried one-on-one, but Mascherano broke the ball and sent it to the front court.

After Sanchez grabbed the ball, he ran 30 meters with the ball. In the big restricted area of Chelsea, he threw away Mikel, who was in place to defend, and hit the goal from a small angle. The ball went straight into the lower right corner of the goal, 2-1.

Behind the score, Chelsea began to have some morale floating, while Manchester City took advantage of this opportunity to increase their offensive.

In this game, sabaleta was arranged to replace Xabi Alonso in the starting position and take up the post of midfield. The front partners are Elano and Modric, and Sanchez is in the front position.

Because Chelsea did not arrange the front waist, so sabaleta's area of activity is relatively large, and the cold allows him to grab under certain circumstances, so the Argentine midfield is more active.

Especially in the 67th minute, after the front of Chelsea's restricted area intercepted the ball, right back Belletti launched a counterattack. As a result, sabaleta suddenly grabbed the ball and even carried the ball to shove Belletti to the ground.

But when everyone thought that sabareta wanted to win the card, beretti, who was made irrational by the atmosphere in the field, jumped up from the ground and overthrew sabareta from behind. All this happened under the eyes of the referee.

The referee, who was going to draw cards from sabaleta, immediately called out Belletti. First he gave sabaleta a yellow card, then he put his hand in his chest pocket and pulled out a red card.

It's going to blow up the whole Stamford Bridge Stadium.

But Gao has launched a decisive attack, using all the skill cards, to fight to get rid of Chelsea.

Sure enough, two minutes later, Manchester City scored a goal from Brazil striker Ruo, which expanded the score to 3-1.

In the 74th minute, Cristiano Ronaldo's goal helped Manchester city change the score to 4-1. The Portuguese also scored twice in this game.

After scoring goals in succession, Gao cold changed his players again to save strength for the Carling Cup final three days later.

As a result, when the match lasted 81 minutes, there was another controversy on the field. Ballack, who replaced Mikel, shoved Manchester City forward Ruo down. In less than 20 minutes, he received two yellow cards in a row and was sent off by a red card.

With two players missing in one breath, Manchester City took control of the situation.

In the 88th minute, Adam Johnson forced his way through the wing and crossed. Sturridge made a pass in front of the goal and scored 5-1, which was also the last goal of the game.

In the end, Manchester City beat nine man Chelsea 5-1 away.

In this game, Abramovich was on the spot to supervise the game, but he sat in the stands and witnessed his team being slaughtered by Manchester City at home again and scored five goals by the opponent. It's a shame.

Especially when he saw Manchester City players rushing into the field to celebrate the scene, he was extremely depressed.

At the end of the match, the ranking of Chelsea was reversed by Manchester United, who beat Everton 3-0 and fell to the third place in the league.

Not only that, now there is no team that can threaten Manchester City.

With 28 consecutive victories, the alpine team is far ahead of the rest of the world in the scoreboard, and the championship is just around the corner.

However, Chelsea spent 90 million euro to bring in Falcao and Ramirez. Although they both played at a very good level, especially Falcao, who scored a lot of goals, they still could not make up for the strength gap between Chelsea and Manchester City.

Even if Abramovich doesn't want to admit it, it can't change that fact.

Sitting in the stands at Stamford Bridge, watching Gao Han win, he even hopes that three days later, Manchester United's Ferguson can beat Gao Han.

No matter who it is, as long as it can defeat the cold, he will be happy.

(end of this chapter)