Chapter 212: Bayern is going to fail again? Guardiola, what are you doing! ?

"CSKA Moscow is very bold. They chose to attack Manchester City at the Etihad Stadium. This choice may work wonders!"

Before He Wei finished speaking, Manchester City scored a goal.

Just three minutes into the game, Lin Quan broke into the penalty area, dribbled past the goalkeeper, and scored with his first shot.

He Wei's expression was a little awkward. Wasn't this slap in the face coming too quickly? CSKA Moscow, could you at least struggle a little?

We lost the ball right at the start and the game was over!

Xu Yang on the side said with a smile: "It seems that their choice is not very wise. I think they probably didn't watch Manchester City's last game before coming here."

"CSKA Moscow has no choice. If they still want to keep their hopes of advancing, they can only fight Manchester City to the death. If they lose this game, they can't expect to beat Bayern Munich in the next one, right?"

"Yeah, that's right. Facing both Manchester City and Bayern at the same time is indeed a bit too difficult for the Russian Premier League champions!"

This is the sadness of teams outside the top five leagues. When they are grouped, they are often assigned to the groups where the giants from the top five leagues are located.

Facing these top teams, their hopes of winning are very slim.

At this time, the only thing left is to fight with all your might! After falling behind, CSKA Moscow did not give up.

Their players are still fighting tenaciously, but in the face of absolute strength, their struggle seems futile.

In the 20th minute, Aguero scored the second goal for Manchester City, extending their lead.

Ten minutes later, Yaya Toure also scored, and Manchester City was already leading by three goals.

The tempo of this game was very similar to their last game against Norwich, and the goal was even scored earlier than that game! Seeing the team beat the Russian Premier League champions at home, the Blue Moon fans who came to watch the game were very excited.

3:0 in 30 minutes, should we be able to win this game? And winning this game means that they will qualify for the group stage two rounds in advance! After being eliminated in the group stage for two consecutive years, they can finally make it out of the group stage!

It’s really not easy! In the box, Mansoor was also full of emotion.

When he first spent a huge sum of money to acquire Manchester City, he thought that with his strong financial resources, he would soon be able to dominate the football world.

However, reality soon taught him a lesson! Although Manchester City is rich, top stars are unwilling to come to them.

They had to spend far higher than the market price to buy some non-top stars.

This caused them to waste a lot of money.

Moreover, the stars that were bought at the beginning, such as Robinho, were later proved to be unable to adapt to the local environment and did not meet the team's requirements, or were simply counterfeit.

In the first three years after the Abu Dhabi consortium entered Manchester City, they spent a lot of money, but the performance improved very slowly.

It wasn't until the fourth year that they barely snatched a league championship trophy from Manchester United thanks to Aguero's last-minute winner.

However, at this time, Mansour's investment in Manchester City has exceeded 1 billion pounds!

If you can bring home a championship for a certain amount of money, that's fine.

However, the team's two failures in the Champions League group stage made him realize that winning the Champions League is not something that can be achieved simply by having money.

He needs to buy the best players, pair them with the best coaches, and then choose the tactical system that best suits the team to have a chance.

And it's just a chance!

There are too many strong teams in Europe, and football matches are not just about paper strength, but also about luck and form.

These are all uncontrollable factors.

At this time, the effect of spending money is not so ideal.

"I hope we can go further in the Champions League this year!"

Mansour does not expect to win the championship all at once this year, as he is well aware of the strength of his team.

Manchester City does not have the temperament of a champion. They must at least become a top club in the Premier League before they have a chance to win the Champions League.

All we need to do this year is to make it out of the group stage and achieve a historic breakthrough for the team.

It would be best if we could make it to the quarterfinals.

This winter break, he plans to continue buying some people.

Because of David Silva's injury, the team's frontcourt organizational work fell entirely on Lin Quan.

Although Lin Quan did these tasks well, his multiple roles limited his offensive ability.

While Messi and Ronaldo are both brushing up their stats, Mansour doesn't want Lin Quan to be dragged down because of the team's platform.

He hopes to provide Lin Quan with a better platform so that he can fully realize his potential.

Therefore, he wanted to buy a better passer for Lin Quan to supply him with ammunition and feed him cakes.

As for the candidates, he has his eyes on several, one is Fabregas who plays for Barcelona, ​​one is Modric who plays for Real Madrid, and Kroos from Bayern is also an alternative.

Among the three, Mansour likes Fabregas the most because he has played in the Premier League and proved his strength.

Moreover, he and Lin Quan are both members of the Spanish national team, and the two have a tacit understanding in cooperation, which does not require too much time to get used to each other.

In addition, Fabregas's position as a main player in Barcelona is not stable, which makes him the easiest player to buy among the three.

If Fabregas can be brought to the Etihad Stadium, Manchester City will have four Spanish players in the midfield and frontcourt once David Silva returns from injury.

The offensive system organized by these four players is unstoppable in the Premier League, at least, even if it doesn't sweep across Europe.

CSKA Moscow was really brave. Even when trailing by three goals, not only did the team's morale not collapse, but they played more decisively and resolutely.

In the last minute of the first half, taking advantage of the Manchester City players' decreased concentration, they launched a surprise attack and Ivorian striker Doumbia scored a goal, changing the score to 3:1. This goal loss did not have much impact on the outcome of the game, but it had a great impact on Manchester City's goal difference.

Pellegrini was very dissatisfied with the goal conceded. He rarely lost his temper in the locker room and directed his anger at Fernandinho.

The Brazilians missed a defender in the final moments and were not aggressive in chasing back, which was the main reason for the goal.

If Pellegrini had criticized him privately, Fernandinho might have admitted his mistake.

But he criticized the opponent in front of so many players, and Fernandinho felt a little embarrassed.

So he retorted a few words, which made Pellegrini even angrier. He felt that the other party was challenging his authority, so he directly replaced Fernandinho with Milner.

This kind of substitution is a big blow to the players.

Generally speaking, a player will choose to make substitutions during halftime only if he is dissatisfied with his tactical arrangements or is extremely dissatisfied with the players' performance.

The outside world didn't know what was going on at Manchester City at first, but after seeing Milner come on the court, they still used the same formation and tactics as in the first half.

They began to realize that the Chileans were unhappy with the Brazilians! "What's going on at Manchester City? Why did they make a substitution so early?"

"I don't know. I didn't see Fernandinho on the Manchester City bench. Did he have a conflict with Pellegrini?"

"It's very possible. Let's go and look outside the stadium. If we can interview Fernandinho, then tomorrow's front page headline will be ours!"

After discovering the unusual situation on Manchester City's side, several reporters with a keen sense of smell didn't even watch the game and ran out to look for people.

…

Fernandinho's departure did not have much impact on Manchester City. On the contrary, after Milner came on the court, he used active running to help the team open up the situation on the right.

In the 55th minute, Manchester City extended their lead again.

Lin Quan dribbled the ball on the left. Aguero cooperated with him many times. After seeing that there was only one person defending him, he immediately started to move.

At this time, Lin Quan was still quite far away from the goal, and Aguero's fancy running did not attract the attention of CSKA Moscow. There was only one defensive player guarding him.

Seeing a loophole in the opponent's defense, Lin Quan delivered his signature 45-degree arc pass close to the ground.

The ball stuck to the grass, flew in a beautiful arc on the ground, directly bypassed the opponent's full-back and delivered the ball to Aguero's feet.

"nice shot!"

Seeing Lin Quan's wonderful pass, He Wei in the commentary booth couldn't help but shout, which scared Xu Yang next to him.

"Here it comes, Lin Quan's signature 45-degree diagonal pass. When he was in the Bundesliga, he had used this pass many times to assist his teammates to score.

In the Premier League, teams familiar with Lin Quan usually don't give him such passing space, but CSKA Moscow didn't seem to know this. They gave Lin Quan too much space to handle the ball, which was a huge mistake! "

Aguero received Lin Quan's pass very comfortably, because the ball was too strange and the opponent's defender did not expect that Lin Quan could bypass their complete defense line.

As a result, there was no one around Aguero to disturb him at this time!

Aguero did not waste Lin Quan's wonderful pass. Before the goalkeeper could react, he easily poked the ball into the goal with his toes.

After scoring his second goal, Aguero pointed at Lin Quan and ran towards him.

Lin Quan thought that the other party was going to hug him to celebrate, but unexpectedly Aguero ran up to him and bowed to him.

"Not at all!"

Lin Quan was stunned for a moment, then pulled Aguero up.

"How did you pass the ball just now? It's amazing, isn't it?"

Aguero put his arm on Lin Quan's shoulders and asked curiously.

"Just like taking a free kick, just keep the ball at a certain height from the ground!"

What Lin Quan said was very simple, but Aguero felt it was difficult after listening to it.

The football will continue to fall due to the influence of gravity. If it is true as he said, then the height of the football must be quite high when it is just kicked out.

But when he saw Lin Quan pass the ball, the position of the ball was not high! Some people learn this kind of thing very quickly, such as De Bruyne.

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Some people are slow learners, like the other teammates in the Werder Bremen team.

Lin Quan told them the key to this kind of pass, but no one except De Bruyne could pass the ball like this.

This is a question of talent. The method is given to you. If you can't play it yourself, Lin Quan can't do anything about it!

Manchester City's attack continued, because the opponent scored a goal in the first half, which required them to work hard to score more goals in the second half.

The current score is only 4:1, three goals are far from enough!

"What's the score for Bayern?"

Pellegrini couldn't help but be curious and asked the assistant beside him.

This round of group matches started at the same time. Manchester City has basically defeated their opponents, but I don’t know if there are any unexpected situations on the Bayern side.

If Bayern loses, then Manchester City will be able to secure the first place in the group in advance! Of course, it is basically impossible to expect a team that was just beaten 5-0 by Bayern not long ago to beat them.

"Uh, the score is 0:0!"

The assistant coach called the Manchester City scout who was watching the game in the Czech Republic and got the latest information from them.

"0:0?"

When Pellegrini heard the score, he couldn't believe it for a moment.

No way? What's wrong with Bayern?

Even though we were playing away, it shouldn't be possible that we couldn't score a goal for more than 50 minutes, right?

They have Ribery, Robben, Gotze and many other top players! "Yes, Guardiola seems to have adopted a very strange formation in the game, and the opponent happened to set up a solid formation. Bayern can't find a way to score for the time being, and the score is still deadlocked!"

After hearing the assistant coach's words, Pellegrini was speechless for a moment.

It seems that we, Manchester City, worked so hard to score goals here, but Bayern didn't follow up at all? Guardiola, what are you doing?

Do you think Bayern will definitely beat Manchester City in the last game?

But even if they can win the last game, if they are tied or even lose this game to Plzen, what can Bayern use to compete with Manchester City for the first place in the group?

"Could it be that Guardiola thinks it doesn't matter whether he gets first place in the group or not, so he decided to try out new tactics before the knockout stage?"

Someone made a guess, and this guess was unanimously recognized by everyone.

"Well, that makes sense. Let our people investigate further and report back!"

…

1,500 kilometers away at the Pilsen City Stadium, Guardiola scratched his head as he looked at the bright red 0:0 score on the scoreboard.

The strikerless formation seems to be a bit out of place here at Bayern!

Neither Gotze nor Muller could take on the role of Messi in Barcelona, ​​and Bayern's offense was very awkward.

On the Bayern Munich bench, Mandzukic sat on the bench with a gloomy face.

He couldn't understand why he performed so well in the league and the Champions League.

Why does Guardiola always like to put himself on the bench?

Bayern Munich currently has no center forward in its lineup! A team doesn't even want a forward, what kind of joke is this? Mandzukic feels that his position in the team has seriously declined.

He was also a contributor to Bayern's championship last season. Heynckes thinks highly of him and Mandzukic felt very good in his first season at Bayern.

It was precisely because of his outstanding performance last season that Mandzukic once thought of spending the rest of his life at the Allianz Arena.

However, after sitting on the bench for several games in a row, he wavered in his thoughts.

I really want to play for Bayern, but Guardiola doesn't want me!

Do I have to sit on the bench for the rest of my life and become a Bayern legend by sitting on the bench?

Forget it, after this World Cup, I'd better find a team where I can play as a starter! Mandzukic is not young anymore. He is 27 years old this year and is in the golden period of his career.

He didn't want to waste his golden years on Bayern's bench, so he came up with the idea of ​​transferring.

Just as Mandzukic was thinking about something, he felt someone pushing him.

"Mario, the coach is calling you!"

Boateng, who was also on the bench, saw that Mandzukic was distracted and pushed him quickly.

"Hmm? What's up?"

When Mandzukic heard Boateng's words, he subconsciously looked at the other party.

Boateng saw Guardiola looking towards them and quickly signaled to Mandzukic.

"Mario, go warm up, the team needs you!"

It was only at this time that Mandzukic heard Guardiola calling his name.

Hearing the latter part of the sentence, he stood up from the bench, took off his coat, and ran to the sidelines to warm up! Finally, I can play! It's only 55 minutes now, there's still time! After letting Mandzukic warm up, Guardiola called Martinez and asked him to warm up as well.

It seems that he is planning to replace two people at once.

Seeing Guardiola calling two players from the bench to warm up, the Bayern players on the field felt a little nervous.

Under Guardiola, except for Neuer, no one in the team has a stable starting position.

This guy loves to change the formation too much. Under him, the positions of the players are changed so much that even the players themselves don’t know where they will appear in the next game.

Four minutes later, the substitution result came out.

Mandzukic came on and replaced Thomas Muller who was performing poorly.

Martinez came on and replaced Kroos who was also a little lost.

This substitution made the Bayern fans who came to watch the game very dissatisfied.

Muller and Kroos are both players from Bayern's own youth training. They came to the team very early, played for the team for many years, and are deeply loved by Bayern fans.

They had no problem with Guardiola's substitutions, but they had problems with him specifically targeting Bayern's own youth players! Mandzukic didn't care about that. After high-fiving the frustrated Muller, he excitedly ran onto the field, not missing any offensive opportunities, running, pressing and competing for headers in the frontcourt.

At this time, the game had already lasted for 60 minutes, and the players of Plzen were already exhausted under the siege of Bayern players.

Mandzukic is a player who is physically strong, physically fit and mentally tough.

He plays as a center forward, and his impact is much stronger than a pseudo center forward like Thomas Muller!

Mandzukic's efforts were soon rewarded. In the 64th minute of the game, he overpowered the opponent's defender in a header and headed the ball into the goal.

Less than five minutes after the single, Mandzukic completed the scoring.

The commentator on the scene, Bayern fans and many players on the field all felt that Guardiola's substitution was a stroke of genius.

However, Guardiola himself smiled bitterly: his reform at Bayern has failed halfway!

(End of this chapter)