Chapter 258 This is Anfield, but it is Liverpool that are desperate! (Seeking monthly tickets!)

"With this draw, it feels like Bayern will make it to the final again!"

“We’ve made it to the finals three years in a row, so I just ask who else?”

"Do you look down on Atletico Madrid so much?"

"I have a feeling that Bayern might fail!"

"Haha, then I think Real Madrid will lose to Manchester City!"

Seeing the result of the draw, fans were talking about it.

The mainstream opinion is that this draw is very favorable for Bayern and Real Madrid, and they have great hopes of advancing to the final.

Of course, some people hold different views and believe that Atletico Madrid and Manchester City can cause some trouble for Bayern and Real Madrid.

Real Madrid's mouthpiece Marca believes that Real Madrid needs to take Manchester City seriously, especially in the first away game.

"Manchester City's home record this season is very good. They have only lost one game at home so far. It is not easy to capture the Etihad Stadium."

AS also believes that with Manchester City having a superstar like Lin Quan, Real Madrid must go all out, and any carelessness will come at a heavy price.

However, both AS and Marca believe that Real Madrid will have a better chance of winning if they go all out! "On the road to the tenth championship trophy in the team's history, Real Madrid will overcome all difficulties. Whoever stands in the way of Real Madrid will be crushed by Real Madrid!"

"Never underestimate the heart of a champion!"

The Champions League semi-finals will kick off on April 24, with Manchester City hosting Real Madrid in the first leg.

This game is crucial. If we can't beat Real Madrid at home, we will be in trouble when we play away.

However, it is too difficult to defeat Real Madrid with Bale and Ronaldo.

Manchester City Club seemed to be well aware of the difficulty of reaching the final, so Fahim personally came forward to relieve the pressure on the players and coaching staff and let them concentrate on playing in the league.

"We have achieved our goals this season and every step now is making history. Whether we succeed or not, you are all heroes of the team."

Of course, having said that, we still have to have dreams. What if we succeed?

Fahim then said that if Manchester City could eliminate Real Madrid and enter the final, the club would pay a huge one-time bonus of 10 million pounds.

When the players heard the bonus amount, their breathing became rapid.

10 million pounds, more than the annual salary of most players in the team! Let's not talk about honors, even if it's for money, we have to beat Real Madrid! Seeing the morale of the players suddenly rise, Pellegrini was a little amused.

It's true that money can move people's hearts! Not only the players, but even the coach was tempted.

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On April 12, three days after the end of the Champions League game, the entire Manchester City team took a bus to Liverpool, dozens of kilometers away, ready to go to Anfield Stadium to challenge the declining giants - the Red Army Liverpool!

As one of the four major giants in the Premier League, Liverpool has not won the Premier League title for more than 20 years.

Liverpool's last English top league title was in 1989-1990, before the Premier League was reformed.

Liverpool has never won the championship since the Premier League reform.

Coincidentally, the time when the Red Devils' meritorious coach Ferguson arrived at Old Trafford coincided with the time when Liverpool was in decline.

Before Ferguson came to Manchester United, Manchester United had only 7 championship trophies, while Liverpool had 19.

By the time Ferguson left, Manchester United's number of championship trophies had soared to 20, surpassing Liverpool to become the most successful team in the history of the English top league, without a doubt.

Ferguson fulfilled his promise and not only won 13 Premier League trophies for Manchester United, but also kicked Liverpool off the throne with his own hands.

Now, after finally getting this old guy to retire, the Red Army is showing signs of recovery.

This season they have an excellent record, after 33 league games, their points have soared to 74, 13 points higher than the final points of last season! With this score, after four years away from the Champions League, Liverpool will finally be able to return to the Champions League next season.

Not only that, there are still five rounds of the Premier League to be played, and Liverpool theoretically still retains hope of winning the championship, although the hope is not very great.

But for the Red Army, which once created the Istanbul Miracle, how can they give up easily without fighting to the last moment?

Currently, Liverpool is 7 points behind Manchester City, the top of the table. If they can beat the opponent at home, the gap will be narrowed to 4 points.

After this game, there are still 4 games left until the end of the league. Whether they can win the championship depends on whether Manchester City will continue to make mistakes.

But no matter what, if they want to keep their hopes of winning the championship, they must beat Manchester City at home. Otherwise, when Manchester City returns to their home court in the next game, they will win the championship three rounds in advance as long as they win.

Even the theoretical hope is enough to make Liverpool fans, who have been without a championship for more than 20 years, crazy.

Besides, even if they fail to win the championship in the end, they have to defeat Manchester City.

After all, watching others make money is more painful than losing money yourself.

Liverpool fans were so 'passionate' that Manchester City's bus was blocked on the road before it even got close to the stadium.

"Die, Mancunians!"

"Get out of Liverpool!"

"We'll beat you to tears at Anfield!"

If it was just verbal abuse, then it wouldn't be a big deal. Manchester City has actually encountered this kind of thing when they played other away games.

There are many football hooligans in the UK. Some crazy fans will not only surround the visiting team's bus, but will even go to the visiting team's training ground and outside the hotel where they are staying to make noise, disrupting their training and rest.

If they just talk and don't take action, then it's actually okay. But I'm afraid that they will start talking and taking action at the same time, which would be a bit troublesome!

There was a loud bang and someone threw something at the bus.

A mineral water bottle with half of its water left hit the window of the team bus, startling Javi Garcia who was sitting by the window.

It seems that what they were most worried about happened!

Seeing that the faces of the Red Army fans outside wearing Liverpool jerseys had the same color as their clothes, the expressions of the Manchester City players in the car became serious.

I don't know how much fake wine these guys have drunk. These drunk fans get hot-headed and easily behave irrationally.

Faced with the surging Red Army fans, in order to ensure the safety of the players, Manchester City's manager chose to call the police immediately and wait for the police to help disperse these fanatical fans.

After receiving the news, the mounted police patrolling outside the stadium quickly rushed to the scene.

In every round of Premier League games, there are a large number of police officers outside the stadiums to maintain law and order.

They were very experienced in how to deal with these fanatical fans. With the help of the mounted police, Manchester City's bus moved forward slowly and finally arrived at Anfield an hour later than the scheduled time.

Because it was much later than the scheduled time, Pellegrini had no time to explain the tactics, so he asked all the players to go to the stadium to warm up and adapt to the venue.

Time is running out and the players' bodies must be warmed up before the game starts.

As soon as Manchester City players stepped onto the field, they were booed by Liverpool fans.

"Honestly, I was annoyed when I heard their booing. I had the urge to teach them a lesson!"

The Manchester City players were caught off guard by Liverpool fans and their anger was growing rapidly.

This is a good thing and a bad thing.

When playing away from home, the most frightening thing is to be intimidated by the opponent's home momentum, and then play timidly and perform poorly.

Looking at the state of Manchester City players, this concern can be dispelled.

Of course, anger also has a bad side, which is that it can easily make players lose their rationality and make some impulsive choices.

For example, committing a foul in an unnecessary position and time, and then receiving a yellow card or even a red card.

On the court, some players specialize in doing this. They use small defensive moves and trash talk to stimulate the opposing players, anger them, and make them make mistakes.

The most serious one was Zidane's shocking collision in the 2006 World Cup final, which knocked the French team's championship trophy off! Zidane, angered by Materazzi's trash talk, made a huge mistake on the field because of his irrational behavior, which ended his career in an unsatisfactory way! At Anfield, Manchester City seems to have the same signs.

Wait until the players finish warming up and return to the locker room.

There were only a dozen minutes left in the game, and Pellegrini did not talk about tactics or anything.

He asked the players: "Do you see the sign on the wall facing the player tunnel?"

The players didn't know what the head coach was going to say, but they nodded obediently anyway.

"Great, can someone tell me what it says?"

“This is Anfield!”

Someone reminded him in a low voice, as if he really regarded his head coach as an old man with little energy and easy to forget things.

This sign at Anfield was erected by the legendary coach of the Red Army, Shankly, and it has a history of 50 years! In the entire Premier League and even in the whole of Europe, as long as the players have visited Anfield Stadium, no one is unaware of the existence of this sign.

Because it stands on the wall facing the entrance to the player tunnel, players from both sides cannot avoid seeing it on the way back to the locker room from the court.

"What did you say? I didn't hear you!"

“This is Anfield!”

The player being asked repeated his previous words loudly.

"Yes, this is Anfield!"

Pellegrini waited until the other party repeated his previous words loudly, then introduced in a leisurely tone: "This is Anfield, a great stadium and the most difficult home ground to conquer in the Premier League!

The owner of this stadium, Liverpool, has 19 league titles and 5 Champions League titles. In front of them, we are nothing! ”

Pellegrini’s words made Manchester City players very depressed. Why did the head coach sing praises for the opponent before the game even started?

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Isn't this just boosting others' ambitions and destroying one's own prestige?

Lin Quan glanced at Pellegrini. The Chilean definitely did not say such words before the game to undermine the morale of the players.

Sure enough, I saw the confused and stunned looks of the players.

The Chilean engineer smiled and said:

"But, so what? Liverpool's glory belongs to the past, but we are on the road to creating legends.

One day, our Manchester City will become as glorious as Liverpool, or even more glorious than Liverpool!"

"Go, step onto the field from here, snatch victory and the championship from Liverpool, and tell them, you old guys, continue to sink with your pride, the new era belongs to us Manchester City!"

Pellegrini's words made the players very excited.

What Manchester City fans and players care about most is others talking about history, background and other things in front of them.

Because Manchester City doesn't have these things.

They are just a nouveau riche, or a nouveau riche that has just emerged.

And they are facing the team with the deepest history and the most honors in the Premier League at Anfield!

Such a huge gap would easily make Manchester City players feel inferior.

But now, there is no inferiority complex, only a strong desire to fight and the impulse to trample a giant like Liverpool underfoot!

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Entering the player tunnel, Liverpool players looked at their opponents curiously, as if they wanted to see on their faces the fear and uneasiness of country bumpkins coming to Anfield.

However, they did not see what they wanted to see.

Manchester City's players were not panicked or nervous. Instead, they all looked eager to try.

It seems that they can't wait to start the game!

Humph, just pretending!

When the game starts, I will show you the true strength of Liverpool at Anfield! At 19:00, with the referee's whistle, Liverpool's home game against Manchester City officially began.

Before the game started, the Red Army fans in the stands had already started singing.

They sang the famous song "You'll Never Walk Alone".

Encouraged by tens of thousands of fans at the scene, Liverpool launched a fierce attack on Manchester City, trying to quickly defeat the opponent with the attack.

Liverpool players such as Coutinho, Sterling, Suarez, Skrtel and others were extremely active on the offensive end, drawing applause and cheers from the fans on the scene.

However, their opponents did not seem intimidated by their onslaught.

Manchester City was extremely proactive from the start.

They boldly launched an offensive against Liverpool away from home, and Lin Quan, Aguero, David Silva, Navas and others frequently threatened Liverpool's goal.

The two teams fought a battle of offense and defense at Anfield! Seeing their opponents so bold, Liverpool fans were stunned.

Few teams that come to Anfield dare to challenge Liverpool.

Manchester City was so arrogant! They sang even harder, wishing they could lend all their strength to the players on the field, so that they could beat the guys on the other side! The game was very fast-paced. After only 15 minutes of the first half, the two teams had completed 10 shots in total, an average of one shot every one and a half minutes.

Such a fierce attack means that there will definitely be a lot of goals in this game.

Sure enough, the first goal came in the 16th minute of the first half.

Liverpool's attacking midfielder Sterling received a pass from Suarez, broke into the penalty area, dribbled past Demichelis, and shot into the near corner, scoring the first goal.

Liverpool temporarily leads 1:0!

Sterling's goal ignited the atmosphere at Anfield, and Liverpool fans began to celebrate wildly as if they had already won the game.

However, just one minute later, Manchester City equalized the score.

After David Silva and Lin Quan completed the wall pass, the latter dribbled into the right side of the penalty area, faced the attacking goalkeeper and passed the ball to Aguero, who assisted with a shovel shot and scored. Manchester City quickly equalized the score! The score became 1:1!

"Damn it, these damn Manchester people, why don't they just die honestly?"

Liverpool fans were very angry. They had just started celebrating, and many of them hadn't finished celebrating when the opponent scored a goal.

This made them feel as uncomfortable as if they had eaten a fly! However, what made them even more uncomfortable was yet to come.

In the 27th minute, Kroos took a corner kick, and Yaya Toure headed the ball at the front point and hit the post. In the melee in front of the goal, Lin Quan made a quick follow-up shot and kicked the ball into Liverpool's goal again.

Manchester City completed a reversal away from home and temporarily led Liverpool 2:1.

Lin Quan's goal temporarily stopped the singing at Anfield. Liverpool fans seemed to have forgotten to sing and stared at their own goal in amazement.

This is, falling behind?

Not only did they withstand Liverpool's attack, they even took the lead in the attack?

This made Liverpool fans feel bad! After finally defeating Manchester United, Liverpool's performance this season has improved significantly. Many Red Army fans think this is a sign that their team will rise again.

However, the two goals scored by Manchester City within ten minutes were like two basins of cold water, pouring over them and making them sober instantly! They were now facing the top team in the Premier League, not a weak team! After a brief silence, the Red Army fans once again sang the team song in unison:

Through the wind!

Through the rainstorm!

Let the world laugh at your dreams!

keep going!

You'll Never Walk Alone! ...

Amid the singing of the fans at the scene, Liverpool players were all excited and launched mad attacks on Manchester City's goal again and again.

Finally, in the 37th minute, Liverpool scored another goal.

Skrtel received a cross from Gerrard, shook off Lescott and scored with a header.

2-2!

Liverpool tenaciously equalized the score! The Red Army fans were excited again, singing and dancing to celebrate.

It seems that equalizing the score is also something worth celebrating! However, Manchester City is like an indestructible cockroach, so tenacious that it is frightening.

In the 43rd minute, De Bruyne made a fatal through pass, and Lin Quan successfully made an offside move and went to the meeting alone. Facing the goalkeeper who came out, he easily passed him and pushed the ball into the empty goal, completing his brace.

3:2, Manchester City took the lead again.

Liverpool fans are going to despair! Why are the opponents so tenacious!

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(End of this chapter)