Chapter 448: The terrifying strength of Liverpool under Klopp!
Ronaldo has always been strong, and it is normal for him to refuse to admit his age.
After all, so far, he is far behind Messi and even Lin Quan in the honor roll, and he still needs to work hard to fill this gap.
Some careful fans have compared in detail the data of these three superstars in today's football in terms of national team, club and personal honors.
The statistical results are not very favorable to Ronaldo.
As for the national team, Ronaldo has not won any awards so far, but Messi at least has an Olympic championship.
Lin Quan has the most honors in this regard. With the Confederations Cup and World Cup titles in hand, he is one step ahead of the two greatest players.
In terms of club and Champions League honors, Ronaldo has won three league titles in the Premier League and one Champions League title.
After joining Real Madrid, he also won a league championship for Real Madrid, but no Champions League trophy.
As for Messi, he is undoubtedly the one with the most club honors among the three.
He won a total of 7 league titles and 3 Champions League titles at Barcelona.
Lin Quan debuted later, so he has fewer championships than these two.
But he is very efficient. After joining Manchester City, he won two league titles and two Champions League titles in two seasons.
If he continues at this efficiency, it won't be too far away for Lin Quan to catch up with or even surpass Messi in terms of club honors.
In terms of personal honors, Messi has won four Golden Globe trophies, Ronaldo has two, and Lin Quan has one.
Overall, Ronaldo is at a great disadvantage compared to Messi.
However, compared to the up-and-coming Lin Quan, he still has a slight advantage in terms of club performance and personal honors.
But with Lin Quan's current stones, this advantage will probably be wiped out soon.
Especially in terms of personal honors, he has one more Golden Globe Award than Lin Quan.
But this year's Golden Globe Awards ceremony is coming soon, and the winner of this year's Golden Globe Awards has long lost its suspense.
Last season, under the leadership of Lin Quan, Manchester City not only won two consecutive league titles, but also successfully defended the title in the Champions League.
The combination of these two honors can only be offset by the World Cup title.
But there were no international competitions last year, so the club's performance was the most important criterion.
Compared with Lin Quan, Ronaldo achieved nothing at the club last year, neither winning the league nor the Champions League.
Messi's situation is similar to his, and Messi is more affected by injuries and his attendance rate is not very high. Even if the judges have a fan filter, they cannot offset Lin Quan's huge performance advantage.
Therefore, the outside world generally believes that Lin Quan's winning of this year's Golden Globe Award is a foregone conclusion, and there will be very little controversy.
If Lin Quan wins this year's Ballon d'Or, he will have won the award as many times as Cristiano Ronaldo.
This makes Ronaldo's only remaining advantage vanish! Therefore, Ronaldo is now full of a sense of crisis. He works so hard in the league and the Champions League just to avoid being caught up by Lin Quan, and also to narrow the gap with Messi.
Ronaldo tried very hard, but Real Madrid's lineup had flaws.
After the fourth round of the Champions League group stage, they returned to La Liga and were immediately taught a lesson by the resentful Sevilla.
At the Pizjuan Stadium, Sevilla prepared for a fierce offensive battle with the top-ranked Galacticos.
Real Madrid, which has always dominated La Liga with its strong offensive power, unexpectedly lost to the king of the Europa League in this offensive battle.
This defeat shocked La Liga fans! The seemingly unstoppable Galacticos were stopped by Sevilla?
Although everyone likes to watch the weak defeat the strong, Real Madrid represents the face of La Liga!
He lost to Sevilla, and Sevilla was defeated by Manchester City twice, and they were beaten without any chance to fight back! In this way, isn't the gap between Real Madrid and Manchester City very big? Thinking of this, La Liga fans suddenly became worried.
Not only were they worried, but also Cristiano Ronaldo, who performed poorly in this game, and the entire Real Madrid club were worried.
In this game, Real Madrid had problems in the midfield, it can even be said that the midfield was blown up!
After Xabi Alonso left, they lacked a commander in the midfield and backcourt.
Although there is a Modric in the team, Modric's position is more like an attacking midfielder, and the team's brain and metronome at the defensive midfielder position has always been vacant.
Originally, Real Madrid wanted to buy Kroos, but Manchester City took the initiative and their plan fell through. Fortunately, Casemiro's return has greatly enhanced Real Madrid's midfield and backcourt strength.
Casemiro is good at both offense and defense and can be called a polygonal warrior.
However, in terms of command, dispatch and organizational ability, he obviously has a big gap with the top midfielders.
In this game, Sevilla was ahead of Real Madrid in two key statistics: number of passes and pass success rate, even though they had 10% less ball possession than Real Madrid.
If you can't limit the opponent's passing, you naturally can't stop the opponent's attack.
This is just Sevilla. If Real Madrid meets Manchester City, which is better at this, what will they do with their heads?
However, just as Real Madrid was about to finish worrying, good news came from the Premier League. Manchester City was tied by Aston Villa away from home! This game not only made Real Madrid feel extremely excited, but also made fans of the Premier League and even the major leagues in the entire European football world breathe a sigh of relief.
Manchester City has won 11 games in a row. If they continue to win like this, they will become an invincible team, and other teams will not even have the courage to face them.
Aston Villa's draw came at the right time. It not only ended Manchester City's winning streak, but also silenced their proud offensive firepower.
The final score of this game is 0:0!
This score is very rare for Manchester City because they have the most luxurious attacking group in today's football and have not been shut out for a long time.
As a result, this game attracted widespread attention from the entire football world after the game.
Countless experts and coaches have begun to study and try to figure out how Aston Villa managed to survive Manchester City's attack. Although Aston Villa is not a strong team, it is not a weak team either.
In the past few seasons, many top clubs have lost to them.
In the past few seasons, their characteristics are very distinct, that is, they are strong, aggressive in fighting, extremely good at physical confrontation, and like to commit fouls when necessary.
Because of their crude footwork, sometimes you don't even know whether they are going for the person or the ball, so in the past few seasons, Aston Villa's card rate was very terrible. Five or six yellow cards in a game was standard, and seven or eight yellow cards even appeared. The typical example was the match against Chelsea last season! Although they have restrained themselves in the past two seasons in terms of fouls, their advantages of being good at physical confrontation and liking to fight for the ball have been retained.
Their tactics in this game were very simple. They put a fast striker in front and let him tie down Manchester City's defense from the outside.
All other players retreated to their own half and parked the bus. If Manchester City attacked, they would engage in hand-to-hand combat with Manchester City, using physical confrontation or even fouls to stop Manchester City's passing and coordination.
Once you get the ball, just kick it forward. Don't over-organize the midfield. Just pass it long and it's done! This tactic is very retro, but very effective!
The players, who had just finished their away game in the Champions League, were not in very good physical condition.
The opponent's tactics greatly increased their passive running distance, and coupled with the fact that they had to deal with the opponent's physical challenges, their physical energy consumption rate was further increased.
As a result, before the first half was over, some Manchester City players suffered leg cramps.
Guardiola saw that something was wrong, so he made decisive substitutions in the second half, replacing them with a group of young substitutes.
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However, there are only three substitutions available, and when the team's physical condition is problematic, the effect of this substitution method is quite limited.
In addition, the young players' abilities and experiences were still inferior to those of the main players. Facing Aston Villa's dense defense, they had no idea where to start and ended up with a regrettable draw.
In fact, after research, Aston Villa's tactics are not complicated.
However, it is still a bit difficult for other teams to replicate it.
However, Liverpool, next door to Manchester City, said, I can give it a try! November 22, Etihad Stadium.
Klopp led the new Liverpool to teach the world a lesson, telling them how to beat Manchester City! At the Etihad Stadium, Liverpool got off to a fantastic start.
Just 2 minutes into the game, the Manchester City defender made a mistake in clearing the ball and kicked it into his own goal, giving the opponent a big gift!
The early lead made Liverpool players extremely excited.
In this game, they ran particularly actively. Although there were the same number of players in the midfield, they ran as if there was one more person.
In addition to active running, Liverpool also fully implemented Klopp's high-pressing tactics.
They learned from Aston Villa's successful experience and, according to the penalty standards of the Premier League referees, they appropriately increased the intensity of physical confrontations, but did not get a card, and sometimes even did not count as a foul! This reckless style of play made Manchester City very uncomfortable.
They haven't played against a team with this style for a long time, and the opponent seemed to be bringing a youthful storm on the court.
In the 23rd minute of the first half, Liverpool made a wonderful cooperation in the frontcourt, and Firmino assisted Coutinho to score a goal.
Seven minutes later, Coutinho returned the favor and gave Firmino another assist.
By the 30th minute of the game, the score was 0:3.
The Manchester City fans who came to the scene were in an uproar! When was the last time they saw their team fall behind so much at home? It felt like a long time ago!
But now, the bright red score of 0:3 is right in front of them, and even if they want to be an ostrich and bury their heads in the sand and pretend not to see it, they can't do that.
They are angry!
The Red Army fans who traveled with the team were overjoyed to see their team concede three goals to the opposing team at Manchester City's home ground. They hugged each other and celebrated excitedly.
At the same time, in Liverpool bars, on TVs in thousands of homes, and on the internet.
The news that Liverpool was leading Manchester City 3-0 at the start spread quickly like thunder! "Is Liverpool going to beat the odds?"
"Too strong, they can beat Manchester City so badly, they are worthy of being our Liverpool!"
"It has to be the Red Army. Which other team can launch such a thrilling attack?"
"Calm down, calm down, don't do stupid things!"
"Klopp is really something. He has only been here for less than half a year and has brought Liverpool to this level. Give him a few more years, haha, I feel we have a chance to win the league championship!"
Liverpool has won the Champions League, but has not won the league title for more than 20 years.
The biggest regret of the legendary captain Gerrard, who just left the team this summer, at Liverpool is that he was unable to lift the league trophy, which symbolizes the highest honor of the English Football League, with his teammates.
And now, after years of decline, seeing the new Red Army under Klopp exuding vitality, the Red Army fans were so excited that they could hardly control themselves, and some even shed tears of joy.
It’s not easy, it’s too hard. After so many years, is Liverpool finally going to make it? “Don’t be too happy too soon, don’t forget the Miracle of Istanbul!”
Just when the Internet was filled with the sentiment that Liverpool was going to punch Manchester City, kick Manchester United, and return as the king, someone stepped forward in time to pour a bucket of cold water on it.
"That's right, it's not time to pop champagne at halftime yet. With Manchester City's strength, they will never give up so easily. There is still a long time left in the game, enough time for them to launch a counterattack and even equalize the score!"
Liverpool once staged a stunning comeback after falling behind by three goals, but their opponent Manchester City was actually stronger than the Liverpool team back then.
In addition, the opponent's lineup also includes superstars like Lin Quan and the unpredictable genius coach Guardiola.
No one can guarantee that they can win this game.
If they are too happy now, and end up being defeated by Manchester City, then the boomerang that they mocked AC Milan back then will fall on their own heads.
Manchester City fans and players were indeed a little confused at the beginning, mainly because they had not experienced such a situation for a long time.
This year, both in the league and in the Champions League, Manchester City has been playing well and has rarely fallen behind, let alone falling behind by three goals in the first 30 minutes. This is something we have never seen before.
But they are a team that has won two Champions League titles, how could they be defeated so easily? Moreover, this is the Etihad Stadium, how could they tolerate a group of Liverpool players running wild on their territory? So, starting from the 30th minute, Manchester City launched a vigorous counterattack! (End of this chapter)