Chapter 291 The closer you are to success, the greater the pressure
Manchester City easily defeated Real Madrid away - everyone thinks it should be easy, because Manchester City relies on glory to get Manchester City alone. The pressure on other players is not too great because they quickly took the lead and the initiative is always in the control of Manchester City, so their players do not need to spend too much useless physical strength in the game.>
The Manchester Evening News even joked: "The other Manchester City players may not have worked hard in the game before they were on the plane and traveling back and forth... As for Ibrahimovic? He only played fifteen minutes of the game, and his physical fitness and energy were even more fine!"
Under such circumstances, Manchester City returned to Manchester to prepare for the 32nd round of the league with Liverpool.
Liverpool hopes to consume Manchester City by relying on the Champions League, but this plan has now failed.
In fact, the one who was most disappointed was not Liverpool, but the North London Horn.
After Manchester City beat Real Madrid away, the North London Horn, which had been enthusiastic about reporting on Manchester City's situation, suddenly fell silent, and there was no news about Manchester City's game on their page.
Some Manchester City fans even went to their website to mock: "Why don't you report the news? Bad reviews! I bought your newspaper specifically to see how you reported Manchester City beat Real Madrid 3-1 away. You didn't report it. It's so unprofessional! Are your reporters and editors blind?!"
North London Horn is right to remain silent because there is only one game left, and they don't need to come out and get hatred now.
Just wait for the outcome of the game.
If Liverpool beat Manchester City, they will come out and make fun of it.
By then, it will be no too late for a gentleman to take revenge for ten years!
However, North London Horn can pretend to be dead. Their reporter George Allen was hacked out by Manchester City fans on social networks. Countless people @ him and asked him what he thought about the next game where Manchester City will challenge Liverpool away.
George Allen is more backbone than the newspaper he works for. He directly quarreled with Manchester City fans on the Internet.
The two sides started a chaotic war.
The only one who can end this war is probably the match between Manchester City and Liverpool.
They don't have to wait too long. Three days later, Manchester City will challenge Liverpool away.
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The English football world has been so lively recently, the media is busy, and the fans also feel that it is as lively as Christmas every day.
Manchester City just played Real Madrid away with a 3:1 story. There are so many stories to tell in this game, followed by a strong conversation between Manchester City and Liverpool, and there are also many gimmicks worth hype.
Everyone feels dazzling.
Glory's hat trick at the Bernabeu shocked Europe. Manchester City, who had one less, not only won the ball, but also won extremely easily. This is naturally the credit of Glory.
The whole of Europe is discussing how great the glory is now.
Cristiano Ronaldo lost a very badly in a direct conversation with Rong Guang. Rong Guang scored three goals, but he didn't score a single goal, so naturally he could not compare it with Rong Guang anymore.
The only one who can compare with Glory is Messi.
But in the face of such amazing performance of Glory, Messi seemed to be a little too short of watching...
"...There are two types of football players in the world, one is Rong and the other is the others." The British Sun claimed.
Although this tabloid has a bad reputation, their sales volume are very large. In a sense, this view also represents the views of a large number of people.
However, some people believe that if Glory wants to be the king, it depends on whether he can win the Champions League in the end. Otherwise, no matter how outstanding he performs in the game, if he does not win the championship, he will be quickly forgotten. Most people will not give praise to losers.
It's like a race. No matter how fast the Glory runs before the finish line, no matter how much he leads, if he falls to the ground in the end, he can only watch his opponent surpass him and enjoy the cheers.
People will regret his fall, but they will never think that even if the glory falls, he is a winner... that is self-deception.
So before the Champions League final is over, it is best not to say that Glory is already the world's number one, that is to give Glory a character...
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Rongguang himself doesn't care how high his current status in international football is, what he cares more about is the next game.
After returning to Carrington training base, Manchester City started preparing for Liverpool.
?Benitez gave everyone a complete video of Liverpool's 3-1 home victory over Manchester United.
The reason why there is no editing is because Benitez wants the players to understand the complete appearance of a game and learn from many details.
He attaches great importance to this game, more than against Real Madrid.
Because he also knew that this was the last step of the Long March - he didn't know the Long March, but he must have known a similar meaning.
There are many lessons to the past when it comes to success. No matter what it is, failure is failure. People will not remember how amazing it is for Manchester City to have unbeaten for 48 league games. When people mention the longest unbeaten record in English football history, they will only say that it is Arsenal's forty-nine games.
Forty-eight games at Manchester City?
What is that?
Benitez's job is to kill all the factors that may lead to the team's away loss to Liverpool in the infancy.
But at the same time, Benitez wants to relieve the pressure on the players.
Because he doesn't want the players to perform poorly in the game because they are too nervous or care too much about that record.
But the way he relieves stress from players is different from what ordinary people generally believe in...
He didn't tell the players not to take this game seriously or take the record seriously.
He just told his players: "Don't worry and play boldly. If there is any problem, don't we still have honor?"
The players in the conference room burst into laughter, everyone looked at Glory, and some people whistled in excitement.
Rongguang was also amused, but he did not refute Benitez, nor did he express his anxiety and dissatisfaction.
He calmly accepted the pressure put on himself by Benitez.
This is how Benitez chose to relieve the pressure on the team. He transferred the pressure that the whole team should have been borne by Rong Guang alone. Rong Guang alone was borne by Rong Guang alone, so naturally the others were no longer under pressure.
If you put this in other teams, it will be a very inhumane practice and a cowardly behavior that is a failed coward.
But only at Manchester City, this approach works and is correct.
When forcing the peak, ordinary pressure relief measures are useless, but fortunately Manchester City has glory.
Benitez is just telling the truth.
A recent example is still in front of us - the last Champions League quarter-finals at the Bernabeu vs. Real Madrid, when the team encountered an extremely unfavorable situation, such a big problem was finally solved by Rong Guang alone.
Is this different from what Benitez said?
This is not a gimmick, it is a consensus within Manchester City - if you have any problems, you must find the glory!
With glory as their backing, Manchester City players really have nothing to be afraid of.
The sky fell, and the tall man was holding on!
Glory is that tall man!
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On April 10, with the relaxed mentality of "We still have Rong", the whole Manchester City team took a bus from Manchester to Liverpool, 40 kilometers away, to prepare for the away game the next day.
The two cities are so close that if this game is not particularly important, Manchester City can actually set off that morning...
It takes 40 kilometers to arrive, and it takes an hour to drive.
Manchester City was training at Anfield Stadium in adaptation at the venue, and Benitez attended the pre-match press conference in the press conference hall of the stadium.
Liverpool is also a special opponent for Benitez, because he coaches Liverpool between coaching Manchester City.
However, because his coaching results at Liverpool did not satisfy the management of Liverpool club, and coupled with the differences between the signings and management, Benitez was eventually kicked out by Liverpool.
After resting at home for half a season, he came to Manchester City as a firefighting coach. At that time, no one believed that he could lead a team that was almost relegated to become the overlord of the Premier League.
But he did.
So since then, every time he leads the team to face Liverpool, Liverpool's management is probably mixed up.
However, at today's press conference, the reporters did not care about the grudges and hatreds between Benitez and Liverpool.
The questions they ask are only related to one thing.
That is the matter of Manchester City club being able to tie Arsenal's 49 unbeaten record in the league in just one game...
All reporters rush to change their ways and only care about this matter.
George Allen, a reporter from the North London Horn, was in the crowd, but he didn't ask any questions. Since so many journalists asked questions, there was no need for him to stand out.
This incident has attracted so many journalists' attention, and he thinks it is a good thing.
Every reporter who asks questions repeats this topic once, which is equivalent to deepening the pressure on Manchester City.
We just need to keep reminding them that you are still one game away from being able to tie Arsenal! You are still one game away from being able to really be one game! With just one game, you will be on par with the greatest Arsenal in history!
Such repeated reminders will turn into a hypnotic spell to make them sleepwalking in the next day's game.
Such a lot of pressure is enough to crush any team, George Allen believes that Manchester City will be no exception.
Try to care more about this record!
Chapter completed!