A week after the Community Shield Cup ended, the Premier League opened its entire showdown.

Manchester City are the first to play as the defending champions.

On the afternoon of August 14, Manchester City challenged Tottenham Hotspur away at White Hart Lane.

However, Manchester City did not win this game.

In this game, Benitez sent all the main players, but it seemed that the effect was not very good.

Manchester City failed to score.

Since Benitez coached Manchester City, before that, Manchester City has not been able to score in two games, both of which happened last season. The first game was Manchester City's away loss to Everton in 2, and that game also broke the previous 42 consecutive unbeaten games.

The other game was that 0EE Poor's handshake was at home. However, Manchester City was thinking about the Champions League quarterfinals and did not take the league too seriously at all.

In other games, Manchester City's offensive firepower is still very strong.

In fact, although Benitez plays a defensive counterattack tactic, Manchester City scored a lot of goals at all.

Last season, Manchester City scored a total of 98 goals in thirty-eight league rounds.

This number ranks second among the twenty teams in the entire league, second only to Chelsea’s one hundred and three goals.

However, Chelsea's 103 goals were mainly won by the last round of the league... In the last round of the league, Chelsea swept Wigan Athletics B0 at home

A team with defensive counterattack as its main tactic can score 98 goals in the league, which is enough to show the team's offensive firepower.

However, in this league, Manchester City failed to score a goal and won the game.

They eventually shook hands with Tottenham Hotspur 00 away.

This result is somewhat surprising.

The defending champion of the league, Manchester City, who just beat Chelsea in the Community Shield Cup, can be said to have given people the impression that it is already at its peak.

After receiving the Community Shield, the media was filled with praise and praise.

All kinds of voices optimistic about Manchester City's defending league championship this season have come out.

It seems that within the Premier League, there is no team that can stop Manchester City.

Their journey should be the sea of ​​stars... no, it is the Champions League.

You can win any Premier League.

For Manchester City, they may have never experienced such a scene - they were always blackened by the media of the entire country.

When did you experience such a popular praise?

Media across England are optimistic about Manchester City's good start to the league - compared to Chelsea, Tottenham Hotspur is obviously a weaker existence.

Even in the away game, Manchester City deserves to beat Tottenham Hotspur.

What's the result?

Not only did Manchester City not win, but they also failed to score a goal.

This is really surprising.

The media that had previously praised and praised Manchester City also changed their words at this time.

"... We can see clearly from the game that Manchester City has no good way to face Tottenham's intensive defense in this game... Of course, tactical problems can be solved sooner or later. I believe that with Benitez's name as a "tactical master," it is not difficult to solve this problem. But there is a more difficult problem in front of Benitez, that is, after Manchester City won the Premier League championship historic victory, the players' competitive spirit declined and lack of motivation."

"This Manchester City and Manchester City, which beat Chelsea in the first three goals a week, are completely different. It makes people wonder what happened in this week... Did Manchester City underestimate the enemy? It's really incredible to think about it. This team will be unable to win the game now because it underestimates the enemy... Shouldn't this happen to them in the past?"

If the English media mocked it, it would be really vicious.

They also have very excellent skills in changing their minds.

Those who had been optimistic about Manchester City before, but now they have expressed that if Manchester City continues to perform like this, they are likely to lose their money this season...

※※※

Before the training began the second day after the game, Benitez got angry with the team, criticizing the team's performance in the game.

Although the media has changed their minds, one thing they said is that Manchester City did not show their fighting spirit in this game. The players are not active enough in running, and they are not active enough in fighting. Being able to tie the opponent without losing the ball is already a good result.

Benitez criticized the players not just as a whole, but rather criticized one by one.

He criticized every player who played in the game, and his criticism was not the kind of simple and crude swearing words, saying something plausible and wrong, and applying it to anyone, but there is no reason to be targeted at all.

His criticism is meaningful and he does not swear, but such criticism may be more uncomfortable than swearing directly.

Because he said everything was right.

He penalized the players' names one by one, and then said what shortcomings they had in the game, what mistakes they made, and what consequences they had caused. Benitez opened his mouth and came out, but it can be seen that he still put a lot of effort into the process when he came down.

This is Benitez's working style.

He criticizes people and will let you know why he criticizes you.

So every Manchester City player he criticized lowered his head, a little embarrassed and ashamed.

They did not play well in the game against Tottenham, and they knew that, but Benitez chose to criticize them without any mercy and without giving anyone face, and they couldn't stand it.

However, as the criticism progressed, some people began to wonder - according to this attitude, every player who played was criticized, so...will Rongguang also be criticized by Benitez?

It is too difficult to criticize Rongguang. Because Rongguang's performance is always stable and outstanding, it is difficult to find shortcomings in him.

If Benitez wants to criticize Glory, can he make sense of words?

Logically speaking, Rong Guang performed very hard in the last game, but the whole team was in a bad state, which dragged down Rong Guang. In addition, Tottenham Hotspur goalkeeper Gomez was like a cheat when facing Rong Guang. Rong Guang shot five times in one game and four times hit the goal frame, and was saved by Gomez...

Could it be that Benitez wants to criticize Rongguang for saying that he is too lucky?

Finally, they heard Benitez call out the name of Glory.

At this moment, all Manchester City players raised their heads at the same time and looked at Rongguang and Benitez.

They want to see what Benitez would say about glory.

After calling Rongguang's name, Benitez did not speak immediately, but paused for a moment, or fell silent for a while.

The players turned their attention to Benitez, thinking of reasons temporarily?

Some people looked at Rongguang and found that his expression was quite calm, at least he did not have the shame and embarrassment when he was criticized. Perhaps he also felt that his performance in the last game was a clear conscience.

Benitez was silent for about three seconds, and then he said to Rongguang: "You performed well in the last game, there was no problem. If you were an ordinary player, I would not criticize you, I would praise you. The team did not win and had nothing to do with you, you had no responsibility, you could leave the White Hart Lane Stadium with your head held high..."

Everyone was confused when they listened. What is this? Are you not criticizing? Then what name do you call

But at this moment, Benitez's tone suddenly had a turning point.

"but……"

He said but.

Everyone was inspired.

But what?

They wanted to see how weird Benitez could criticize people from.

In fact, although Benitez can lead the team to win, he doesn't score high in the private evaluation of the players. Because of his straightforward language style, he never seems to consider the acceptance of the other party when speaking, so they are now watching the show with the mentality of watching the excitement.

If Benitez said too erroneously, will Glory turn its back?

Someone turned his eyes to Glory, and found that Glory was also made by Benitez, but he raised his eyebrows. It seemed that he also wanted to know what Benitez would say.

"But you are the captain, Rong. You are the captain of this team. You are not an ordinary player, you are the best player in the world. I think you should put more expectations and responsibilities in you. You can't just be satisfied with giving your all in a game. Do you still remember your grand goal? Don't you want to surpass Arsenal's unbeaten record in the league? Shouldn't you have stricter and higher requirements for yourself?"

Faced with Benitez's series of rhetorical questions, Rong Guang was stunned.

He didn't expect Benitez to say such words, and every sentence hit the target.

Yes, at least fifty league games are unbeaten

Only seventeen league games have been unbeaten, and it is still far from fifty games...

How can I lower my requirements for myself at this time?

Yes, even if your performance is already excellent in Tottenham Hotspur, as long as the team does not win, it is your responsibility, which is your responsibility, and your performance is not good enough.

As the captain, what did he think at the beginning?

When the team is in a bad state, he should stand up and continue to lead the team to win.

But in yesterday's game, he did not stand up.

Thinking of this, Rongguang felt a little ashamed, and he lowered his head slightly.

Manchester City teammates who saw this scene were also shocked. I didn't expect this to work

Benitez's statement actually seems to them to be arguing, but Rongguang actually agrees with this statement.

monster

What a monster

It was obvious that the performance was impeccable, but it turned out that I had to pick the bones in the egg and found faults

Ibrahimovic witnessed the whole process next to him, and he gained a new understanding of Glory's paranoia...

I have almost blamed my own requirements...

※※※
Chapter completed!