650 Alternating old and new
After finishing the first game of the International Champions League, Liverpool came to New York from Chicago.
Liverpool is much more popular here than in Chicago. After all, New York has the highest population in the United States. An international metropolis has a population of over 100 million. The American city with the largest investment in Premier League promotion is New York. Last season in Times Square, a huge poster of Gareth Bale as the number one Premier League promotion star was published there.
At Yankees Stadium in New York, Liverpool will face Manchester City in the second game.
In fact, European teams came to the United States to play commercial competitions, in the final analysis, just to train soldiers or make money!
It doesn't make much sense to fight anyone hard at this stage. Even if you compete with mortal enemies with absolute hatred in the eyes of fans all over the world, you won't take any serious action.
The Fleet Street, which tracks and reports on Premier League teams, is very curious about Liverpool's new aid Sane. Sane did not get playing time in the first game. I don't know how Situ Yunbing arranged the young rookie.
In this match with Manchester City, Situ Yunbing's starting lineup was sent to Sane.
And put forward a relatively not strong lineup.
Goalkeeper: Ter Stegen.
Defenders: Azpilicueta, Van Dijk, Kulibaly, Robertson.
Midfielder: Eriksen, Gerald, Casemiro.
Forwards: Mahrez, Lewandowski, Sane.
Situ Yunbing's starting lineup is a match between old and young, with Gerald, and the young ones naturally belong to Sane.
There are not many players in Manchester City who need to be adjusted, and now they are adjusting their state.
Sterling, who was arranged to be the starting lineup, was a bit eye-catching.
After all, this is Sterling's game against his old club.
After Sterling left Liverpool, he and his agent made some remarks not friendly to Situ Yunbing, mainly claiming that they did not receive enough trust and attention from Situ Yunbing in Liverpool.
Situ Yunbing did not need to respond to such remarks.
The saliva of Liverpool fans is enough to make Sterling and his agent shut their mouths.
In this game, Situ Yunbing is not just a test of the young Sane, but actually wants to see if the combination of Van Dijk and Couliebali will make Liverpool more aggressive!
What makes Kulibali advantage over Benatia lies in vitality and confrontation.
Combining him and Van Dijk will give people a very powerful visual impact!
When the game started, Manchester City center Aguero performed relatively unpredictable, but Sterling was very active, and repeatedly made a single move to make trouble, but they were all curbed by Liverpool's defense.
It is hard to say that Liverpool players have any opinions about Sterling. After all, he has been very low in importance in the team before. If he insists on targeting him and being hostile to him, he would be a bit overly polite.
However, everyone tacitly did not want Liverpool to leave and hurt Liverpool in turn, which involved face-to-face disputes rather than personal grudges, so it was natural for Liverpool players to stifle Sterling's performance with tough defense.
Liverpool's offense is not very good today. Gerald recovers slowly after a summer vacation, which is related to his age. The 34-year-old veteran Situ Yunbing really cannot expect too much from him, especially players like Gerald rely more on physical fitness to make a living, unlike players like Zidane who rely more on skills.
When a player reaches the end of his career, his physical athletic function begins to decline from his peak, but his skills are the slowest aspect of degradation, so you can often see some retired stars who have been playing charity games or commemorative games and still show off their skills.
It mainly depends on the characteristics of the player's peak career.
A player like Kaka, because his biggest threat comes from his speed explosive power, the most obvious decrease in explosive power after injury, causing his threat to plummet.
On the other hand, even though Ronaldinho's threat decreased after his depravity, in slow-paced leagues, such as after he returned to the Brazilian League, and in an environment where he paid more attention to skills, Ronaldinho was still able to take coquettish steps.
Situ Yunbing has not talked to Gerald about his future positioning, and he also hopes to watch his situation through pre-season preparations. If Gerald can maintain his brave momentum after the second glorious peak of his career, Situ Yunbing will not be stubborn and must immediately remove him from the main lineup. He can wait for the right opportunity before executing. After all, it is very difficult for a 34-year-old veteran to maintain a good state throughout the season!
Judging from the warm-up matches that are being prepared for the pre-season, Gerald may also show signs of his strength in his heart.
This is not surprising at all. Gerald, who has devoted his entire career to Liverpool, is the same as those Liverpool fans. He is obsessed with the Premier League championship. After winning it, he will further strive for the Champions League championship. His career is very successful at the club level!
How many more can we pursue with two Champions League champions, two Premier League champions, and two Europa League champions?
With his age, he himself knew that it was impossible to accompany Liverpool as an absolute main player to rule for a long time.
Sometimes the motivation to support the top stars to move forward is often a sense of momentum. A breath of energy that has been condensed for a long time. If the energy is slightly deflated, it will begin to decline.
C Ronaldo is a typical representative of such a player. His fighting spirit is getting stronger every year. At the age of 23, he can say that the best player in history is himself, because he has fought with such beliefs from beginning to end and used his entire career to achieve this goal!
Gerrard's problem is not big, and Sane, who played for Liverpool for the first time today, still needs to be crafted and polished.
Facing opponents like Manchester City and against experienced famous players like Zabaretta, Sane's unfrightened momentum made Situ Yunbing very satisfied. His occasional speeding breakthrough was also eye-catching.
However, the indifference to defense and the shallowness of confrontation awareness are the main problems discovered by Situ Yunbing.
Of course, he would not be furious on the sidelines to remind Sane of what to do. This is just his first game. Moreover, he is only 18 years old. Even if Situ Yunbing cannot be as generous and tolerant as he was in the first year of leading Hamburg, he would not become unkind all of a sudden.
Give young players as much space and time as possible, which is what he has been constantly reminding himself recently.
Liverpool and Manchester City were evenly matched in the first half, and the offensive threats of both teams were not very high, and they ended up harmoniously for the time being.
Liverpool took the initiative to substitution in the second half.
Coutinho, Eriksen, Gareth Bale appeared together, and Sane, Gerald and Mahrez were replaced.
Liverpool's offense immediately changed.
During this tour to the United States, Liverpool's main training goal is to integrate Lewandowski into the tactical system and cooperate with the entire team.
What makes Liverpool strong now is that they are not counting on anyone to rely on. No core players are absolutely dependent, so this will greatly reduce Lewandowski's pressure.
When Gareth Bale played a threat, Liverpool suddenly turned the fire and created opportunities for Lewandowski, which allowed Lewandowski to perform better and create threats.
In the 70th minute of the game, Lewandowski responded to Eriksen's straight pass and shot through Manchester City's goal from a small angle in the penalty area!
Liverpool leads Manchester City 1:0.
The behind in the score made Pellegrini a little helpless.
It’s not that Manchester City’s performance is so bad, but that Liverpool still maintains his strength last season, which is a situation that he feels depressed.
This will make him more stressed about the challenges ahead!
Clevery like turning pressure into motivation can sometimes easily make people ignore the risks behind too much pressure.
Being able to withstand pressure can indeed become power.
If you can't withstand the pressure, it means collapse, and the consequences are unimaginable!
A strong team can make other teams feel desperate. It can be said that Pellegrini did not feel too deeply last season, but he had a deep feeling when he coached Real Madrid. That season, Real Madrid's performance was already very strong, but he was suppressed by Barcelona, who performed almost perfectly!
So people will not remember how outstanding he has led Real Madrid to play, but will only classify him as a loser, and even erase his contribution to leading Real Madrid to progress.
The reality may be too cruel, but competitive sports are like this. At the level of a wealthy family, only champions are valuable, and besides champions, they are worthless!
When the balance of the game was broken, Situ Yunbing replaced Lewandowski with Vardy.
Then came Manchester City was eager to equalize the score, while Liverpool played steadily. Coullibali performed very positively today and made many key interceptions. It was his backcourt steal in the 82nd minute of the game, which intercepted the ball from Silva's feet and quickly launched a fast break. Robertson advanced from the side. Coutinho received the frontcourt and sent a wonderful pass and made a straight pass. Gareth Bale quickly completed the counter-offside and scored a single goal!
Liverpool wins another goal!
Situ Yunbing is very satisfied with the team's performance, at least it proves that he had no mistake in selecting players in the past. Most of the players in Liverpool are not the kind of people who are willing to be rich as long as they have a little success. They will also show the most professional spirit and attitude to face the arena and make their careers reach a higher peak!
Liverpool won Manchester City 2:0 in 90 minutes at the International Champions League event at Yankees Stadium in New York, and Liverpool, who won two consecutive victories, advanced to the semi-finals of the event ahead of schedule.
Chapter completed!