But sometimes, losing is not necessarily a bad thing.
In fact, losing can expose more problems.
Gao Shen is a problem solver from a small town, and his ability to solve problems has always been very good.
More importantly, if many problems are exposed once, he will pay attention to them and they will not appear again in the future.
The same is true for Manchester City this time.
After entering the Christmas and winter breaks, Manchester City has continuously ushered in a period of high incidence of injuries.
This was unacceptable to Gao Shen, so he had to look for problems.
Dr. Marcos Sala, who was brought in from the Milan laboratory with a large sum of money, and Buenaventura and Pintus of the coaching staff, they are all the first responsible people, and they all have to give Gao Shen a reasonable explanation for the injury wave.
For this point, the reasons they gave were relatively consistent, that is, Christmas and the winter break.
If you look at it purely from a physical perspective, Manchester City's players are actually quite good.
The coaching staff pays enough attention to the players' physical condition at this stage and has an early warning mechanism. The analysis team of Buenaventura, Pintus, Sala and Lucas have been closely tracking the players.
But many problems cannot be prevented.
Once you suppress it, it will always pop up from places you don't expect.
In the end, they all agreed that the problem lay with the players' psychology.
The cold weather after winter, coupled with the intensive schedule, makes it easy to get injured. Coupled with psychological problems, it directly led to a series of injuries in Manchester City.
But the interesting thing is, it's not serious at all.
The longest one was to be out injured for a month.
This can further support the analysis and judgment of the coaching staff.
In the words of Dr. Sara: The human body is very magical and sensitive. Even the slightest change may cause serious feedback.
He gave Gao Shen an example.
In professional football, there have been many cases where when a player is injured for a long time or repeatedly, it is easy to have psychological problems, not only making them afraid to engage in physical confrontation, afraid to move, etc.
etc., it is more likely to cause him to have psychological hints.
"An interesting thing happened in Liverpool not long ago. Benitez's team doctor believed that Torres had fully recovered and was very healthy without any problems. However, Torres found Benitez and told his head coach that he felt
My body is still in very bad shape and I am unable to compete."
"The final conclusion is that neither party lied, because the team doctor said it was physical, but Torres said it was psychological factors. From this we can also draw the conclusion that Torres has a big problem."
Gao Shen was very surprised when he heard this, because he knew that Torres had really started to decline. Even after moving to Chelsea, AC Milan and Atletico Madrid, he failed to regain his previous amazing state.
It can be said that this season is the last afterglow of Torres.
Dr. Sala said that psychological problems are also a problem and are more difficult to deal with than physical problems. Even in the past, when there was no such professionalism as now, many head coaches and teams would suspect that players were faking injuries.
Of course, Manchester City's players do not have any mental illness, they are just too nervous, which leads to injuries.
"There were too many consecutive wins. Players played in chains in every game. The psychological pressure was increasing. Coupled with the devilish schedule during the Christmas and winter breaks, as well as the players' new arrival and other factors, in the end,
This led to a continuous wave of injuries to the team."
This is the answer given to Gao Shen by Dr. Sala's team medical team and the coaching staff.
During this period, Gao Shen also communicated with each player, trying to understand their mental state during this period, which was basically as analyzed by Dr. Sala.
Psychological expert Ferrucci also believes that a long winning streak is detrimental to players' psychology.
"Does that mean I will win a few games in the future and then lose one on purpose to relieve the pressure on the players?" Gao Shen asked jokingly.
But actually, this is just a joke.
In a fiercely competitive league, after winning several games in a row, the psychological pressure of the players reaches a certain threshold, and the performance will naturally decline, and draws and losses are natural.
Therefore, to a certain extent, Manchester City's wave of troughs and injuries are the decline after the peak.
If you study Manchester City's schedule carefully, it is not difficult to find that Manchester City's performance is not bad, but it is not like Manchester United's winning streak. In the case of poor form, they lost to Manchester United in the League Cup semi-finals. This does not seem to be the case.
What a big problem.
As for the league, Manchester City is still the best.
It's not just Manchester City either.
No, in the 26th round, after drawing with Aston Villa 1-1, in the 27th round, Manchester United lost 1-3 to Everton away from home. The Red Devils performed very well throughout the game.
downturn.
Ferguson said that was because Manchester United was fighting on two fronts and the game was under great pressure.
But come on, Everton is also fighting on two fronts, and both Fellaini and Cahill are absent.
Obviously, after a wave of winning streak, Manchester United has now begun to decline.
On the other hand, Manchester City performed extremely violently in the home game against Liverpool.
After the opening, Robben was extremely active on the right, performing a series of outstanding performances, suppressing Liverpool in a very embarrassing situation. Reina made many key saves in a row and almost lost the ball several times.
It's a pity that Liverpool finally managed to hold on to the first half steadily.
After changing sides in the second half, Manchester City once again launched a wave of offensive.
In the first fifteen minutes, Manchester City had eight corner kick opportunities, which was enough to see how ferociously Manchester City's wings attacked Liverpool, and also to see the pressure and embarrassment Liverpool faced in defense.
Benitez made a very obvious improvement in this game, and that is positioning ball defense.
Manchester City had double-digit corner kick opportunities throughout the game, but failed to create a goal. Benitez's team obviously put in a lot of effort in defending corner kicks, leaving little opportunity for Manchester City.
Gao Shen made one substitution each in the 65th and 75th minutes, both of which were aimed at strengthening the offense.
Liverpool also made their second substitution in the 75th minute, replacing Maxi Rodriguez with Benayoun.
Both sides refused to give in.
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Gao Shen still wore his black coat and stood in front of the home team's coaching bench.
The game is almost eighty minutes old, but the score is still zero to zero.
So far, apart from scoring goals, Manchester City's performance has satisfied Gao Shen.
It can be said that the overall condition of the team has improved significantly.
This is a good thing.
After experiencing a wave of troughs, Manchester City will become more mature.
All teams mature through setbacks, especially a newly reorganized team like Manchester City.
But now, the more critical the moment, the more confidence the team needs to have.
"Let Gareth go warm up." Gao Shen turned around and shouted.
Carlo immediately received the order and hurried to the bench to arrange for Gareth Bale to go out to warm up.
This will be Manchester City's last substitution, and they still need to strengthen their offense.
Liverpool also saw what was happening on Manchester City's side and responded immediately.
Brazilian defensive midfielder Lucas Leiva also went to warm up, obviously preparing to play.
Just now, when Mascherano was defending David Silva, he committed a very obvious foul, but the referee did not give a card because Mascherano already had a yellow card tonight. If he gives another card, then
It's a red card.
But this is unfair to Manchester City.
Benitez may want to replace Mascherano with Lucas Leiva.
On the sidelines, both teams were still preparing for substitutions, but something suddenly happened on the court.
Robinho, who had just replaced Robben, sent a diagonal pass from the right to find Suarez in the penalty area.
The Uruguayan forward quickly crossed to the right side of the penalty area and stopped the ball with his chest. However, he was squeezed out of balance by Skrtel, and the ball was kicked out of the penalty area by Insua, who returned to defense in time.
Gerrard was at the front of the 30-meter area, and just as he was about to grab the ball, Sabaleta pressed forward, fell to the ground and tackled the ball to Rakitic in the middle.
At this time, in Liverpool's penalty area, Suarez was depressed about the attack just now. He walked to the outside of the penalty area. When he saw Rakitic getting the ball, he immediately glanced left and right, stretched out his left hand and pointed behind him.
Rakitic noticed Suarez's gesture, passed the ball directly over the top, and accurately sent the ball into the penalty area.
On the way back, Suarez suddenly stopped and turned around, and quickly started to advance forward. However, Skrtel was very focused and had already paid attention to Suarez's movements. He immediately followed up and tried to block Suarez.
and between the goals.
But no one expected that Suarez had just rushed forward, and before Rakitic's medium and long pass landed, he picked up his right foot, flicked the ball in mid-air, and passed the ball that rushed in front of him.
Cottle, fell to his left side.
After picking the ball, Suarez quickly adjusted. After standing firm on his right foot, his left foot met the ball that rebounded after falling, and he fired a furious shot.
The ball quickly flew to the left side of the goal.
Goalkeeper Reina was standing on the right side, unable to do anything. He could only watch the ball get stuck on the inside of the left post and bounce into Liverpool's goal.
"GOALLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLL!!!"
"A wonderful challenge!"
"Uruguayan striker Luis Suarez from Manchester City."
"After picking up the ball, he completed a wonderful shot with his left foot, opening the scoring for Manchester City!"
"One to zero!"
"Eighty-one minutes, the game was deadlocked for eighty-one minutes. Suarez's wonderful shot opened the door to victory for Manchester City!"
Gao Shen was on the sidelines and jumped with excitement after seeing Suarez score.
Although he was very satisfied with the process of the game, he still wanted to win.
Now, Suarez's goal allows him to see the goddess of victory waving from the front.
Liverpool's defense is very good, but if they press out, Manchester City will not be afraid.
Besides, Gao Shen doesn't think Benitez dares to come out and attack Manchester City.
