When Glory returned to Carrington training base on the first day, Benitez met him and asked the first thing he asked was: "Are you in good health?"

He was worried that Glory would feel fatigued, or injured in national team competitions and training.

Rongguang shook his head: "Very good, no problem."

He knew what Benitez was worried about. In fact, he was indeed a little tired when he just came back from China, so he did not conduct his own special training at Sun Fengyang's request丨

When he arrived at the training base this morning, he did not start training in advance, but waited to be with the team.

In order to restore the body.

Sun Fengyang also gave him a special massage last night to relax his body.

With such a little miracle doctor, Rongguang is not worried about any accidents in his body.

Benitez actually wanted to take Rongguang to have a physical examination, but he was afraid that Rongguang would think that this would be disbelief of what he said, which would lead to Rongguang's dissatisfaction, so he held back.

You can only observe and observe during training.

At the same time, the state needs to be observed.

His state in the national team competition was really outstanding. Benitez was overly excited about Glory's use of all his form in the national team competition.

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After the national team game, Manchester City's first game was the eighth round of the league, and they challenged Blackpool away.

Rong Guang was not just the one who participated in the national team competition. Benitez also had to worry about the physical condition of other international players.

During training, he found that there was indeed nothing wrong with the state of Glory, which made him feel a little relieved.

But the other players who participated in the national team were not as lucky as glory.

They obviously felt fatigue. For example, on the match day of the national team, Godin Godin first flew back to Uruguay from Britain, across the Atlantic Ocean, then flew from Uruguay to China, across the Pacific Ocean, and finally flew back to England from China, across the entire Eurasian continent.

It is a true sense of "flying around the earth".

Such a long-distance flight made him very tired, and the impact of playing games was actually not great in the face of such a long-distance flight...

There are situations like Godin that Benitez has to be able to rotate in large numbers in the game against Blackpool and send out many second-team players.

At the same time, in order to prepare for the next Champions League group stage with Inter Milan, the main players must also be given sufficient rest.

Rongguang did not participate in the rotation, he is still the absolute main force of the team, and it is also the best solution for the team to solve problems when encountering difficulties.

Benitez must thank him for his actions that never allow glory to rotate.

In the game against Blackpool, Blackpool performed very positively at home.

They scored the first goal in the game and took the lead.

Ibrahimovic then equalized the score for Manchester City.

Then Glory's goal gave Manchester City a lead.

But Blackpool did not give up, and they equalized the score in the second half.

In this case, Glory stepped forward again, helping Manchester City B2 beat Blackpool away with a header.

Although Rongguang showed no problems in his condition and physical condition in the game, Benitez was still not happy.

Because Rongguang's return to China to participate in the warm-up match brought him a very bad news, that is, Rongguang will be the absolute main player of the Chinese national team to participate in the Asian Cup early next year

This is a bolt from the blue for Premier League teams without a winter break.

In fact, intercontinental competitions like the Asian Cup are usually held in the summer, during the quit period when the league ends.

But this Asian Cup is held in Qatar. Qatar is located in the Middle East, where the summer is very hot and it is not suitable for football matches at all. So it is time to hold the time for winter. In winter, the weather is still acceptable.

But if this changes, the Asian Cup will become the African Cup...

The African Cup is held every January because for most of the African continents in the southern hemisphere, January is their summer...

Premier League teams hate the African Cup the most because at that time, all the African internationals in their team had to miss the game for a month.

Therefore, some teams will even temporarily introduce some players during the winter break to fill the gaps in their team's African internationals returning to China to participate in the competition.

But such an introduction is really helpless, because when the African Cup is over and African internationals return to the team, the team's first-team lineup will appear a bit bloated.

How to deal with the players introduced before is a problem that may cause turmoil in the locker room.

If players are not introduced, the team's lineup may be short of its limits when the schedule is the most intense. If there is any injury... the first team may not even be able to line up the roster of eighteen people.

I believe that those players who often play PN football managers should be able to understand this most. National team competitions have indeed caused great troubles to club competitions.

Benitez would not consider this issue before. As the core of the team, Glory will never miss the team's game.

But now that the Asian Cup is held in January, he has to face this problem - what should Manchester City do when Rong Guang left?

Although Manchester City now has Sneider and Ibrahimovic, they cannot bring a sense of security to Benitez, only glory can be achieved.

The Asian Cup is an international event, and Manchester City can't help but let people go if they want to. Such an intercontinental competition must be let go, otherwise the lawsuit will be fought to FIFA, which will be the club's loss.

So Benitez could only let Rongguang participate in the Asian Cup, and before the Asian Cup began, Rongguang would be put together for training with the national team and prepare for the competition.

If the Chinese team is lucky and enters the finals, Manchester City will have more than a month without glory.

Benitez can only hope that even if he has glory, the Chinese team will pack their luggage and go home after three group games...

Because of such a thing, Benitez now sees the better his condition of Glory, the deeper his inner entanglement.

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After playing against Blackpool, Manchester City entered the Champions League preparation stage.

Manchester City's opponents are the same in the next two Champions League group stages - defending champion Inter Milan

After two rounds of the group stage, Inter Milan won one game and drew one. Such a result did not satisfy Inter Milan fans, especially in the away game when Twente drew 22.

Now everyone knows that Inter Milan competes with Manchester City for the first place in this group.

So you can't lose a single point.

If Inter Milan only wins second place in the end, they will face the fate of drawing in the same group as many strong teams...

Therefore, two direct conversations with Manchester City are very important.

If Inter Milan can win both games, they can take the lead in the group first.

No matter how bad it is, it will have to beat Manchester City at home and draw Manchester City away.

In this case, one win and one draw will also have the advantage in the winning and losing relationship between the two sides. If the points are the same, they need to be ranked according to the winning and losing relationship, and Inter Milan can also rank ahead of Manchester City.

It is impossible for Inter Milan to underestimate their opponents when facing Manchester City - after seeing Manchester City's performances from last season to this season, who dares to look down on them?

When your opponent no longer underestimates you, on the one hand, you are strong enough, and on the other hand, you must be ready to fight hard.

During this half week of training, Benitez mainly practices various counterattack routines in defensive counterattacks, as well as the offense and defense of set pieces.

When playing away games, Manchester City will definitely fight back with defensiveness, and the quality of the counterattack will directly determine the final result of their game.

Setting ball is also a good way to score when there are not many offensive opportunities.

In addition, the players' status and physical fitness are also issues that Benitez is very concerned about.

The team was not in shape when they played against Blackpool in the last game. If it weren't for Glory and Ibrahimovic, Manchester City might lose to the opponent's newly promoted team away.

There is no need to worry too much about physical fitness, after all, most of the main players have been resting for a week.

Benitez now hopes that the idea of ​​"revenge" can improve the players' performance in the game.

Inter Milan eliminated a long time in the semi-finals last season and finally won the championship. If it were Manchester City who advanced to the first time, perhaps Manchester City could win the championship in the end.

This view has been frequently mentioned in the past few months.

Manchester City players will inevitably be affected.

Therefore, the game against Inter Milan is actually a battle of revenge.

Benitez found that the glory was in good shape during training and his desire for the game was also high.

This somewhat made Benitez feel a little relieved.

If you have a good state of glory, just...

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With two days left before the game, the whole Manchester City team arrived in Milan in advance.

Because this is a very critical game, Benitez asked the team to adapt to the weather and venue here in advance.

As for the place where they train... Of course, Inter Milan's archenemy AC Milano training base is the Milano training base.

When Glory stepped onto the Milanello training ground, he suddenly realized that Kaka had also trained here.

But now Kaka is no longer in AC Milan, but has gone to Real Madrid.

But... I seem to have not heard anything about Kaka for a while.

His life in Real Madrid didn't seem to be very good.

Rongguang sighed a little. When he went to Real Madrid, he was so glorious that tens of thousands of people welcomed him at the Bernabeu. But now?

At the same time, when he decided to join Manchester City, Kaka also called to express his dissatisfaction.

What's the result?

It's really good that fate is trying to make people.

"Rong?" Sneed saw Rongguang standing by the training ground in a daze, and called him.

Glory came back to his senses: "Ah?"

"What's wrong?"

"It's nothing, let's train." After saying that, Rongguang ran to the training ground.
Chapter completed!