On the evening of October 26th, the knockout round of the League Cup round of 16.
Manchester City challenged Wolves away from home with a rotating lineup.
The drastic rotation allowed Manchester City to encounter Wolves' tenacious sniping on the road. In the 18th minute, Wolves seized an opportunity. Midfielder Nenad Millas used a long shot to penetrate Given.
Guarded goal.
But thirty minutes later, Manchester City launched a continuous offensive.
In the 37th, 39th and 40th minutes, Manchester City scored three goals in a row.
After changing sides in the second half, Manchester City scored two more goals in the 50th and 64th minutes.
In the end, Blue Moon reversed the Wolves 5-1 away game and successfully advanced to the next round.
By the way, Leeds United defeated Aldershot 3-0 away from home and successfully entered the quarter-finals.
This time, Manchester City met Arsenal, while Leeds United continued their good luck in the draw for the knockout rounds of the top 16 and drew Crystal Palace, the relegation team in the English Championship.
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Interestingly, in the tenth round of the Premier League at the weekend, Manchester City was at home and faced Wolves.
In the end, with goals from Robin van Persie, Leighton Baines and Sturridge, they defeated their opponents 3-0.
Chelsea, on the other hand, suffered a reversal from Arsenal 1-2 at home.
This battle can be said to have shocked the entire Premier League.
Chelsea played all three veterans. Drogba, Lampard and Terry all played the whole game. Juan Mata scored the first goal for the Blues, but then Arsenal relied on left back Andre Santos.
Two goals from Walcott reversed Chelsea's game.
With the victory in this game, Arsenal successfully reversed the situation and climbed to fifth place in the Premier League standings, while Chelsea fell to seventh place. The situation looked precarious.
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Entering November, we ushered in the fourth round of the Champions League group stage.
Manchester City faces Dortmund at home.
Both teams are currently tied for the top spot in the group with seven points, but Manchester City tops the list with their away goal advantage against Dortmund, which also makes the Hornets very interested in away games.
The game basically continued the lineup play of both sides in the first round.
Klopp still didn't dare to start Gundogan, and still asked Sven Bender and Kyle to partner as a double midfielder, with Shinji Kagawa as the attacking midfielder and Gotze as the right winger. The entire lineup was exactly the same as before in Germany.
Manchester City also basically changed little. Jerome Boateng replaced Kompany, who had accumulated yellow cards and was suspended, and partnered with David Luiz as a central defender.
The German central defender's performance this season has improved significantly compared to last season, and he was re-elected to the German national team.
The German Kicker magazine even wrote an article praising Gao Shen, believing that his patient training of Jerome Boateng allowed the German national team to gain a young central defender treasure.
There is news that Bayern Munich is also determined to buy back the German central defender.
Everyone can see that in Manchester City, David Luiz and Kompany are the core players, and they are playing more and more steadily.
Different from the previous games in Germany, Manchester City played very steadily at home and patiently controlled the ball from the beginning.
Gao Shen lined up the classic combination of David Silva, Rakitic and Javi Martinez in the midfield to help Manchester City firmly control the situation on the field, while Dortmund adopted its own signature crazy running flow.
Pressing tactics.
When the game reached the twenty-minute mark, Manchester City launched an attack from the right.
Robben's state has improved significantly compared to before. He took the ball and turned around to get rid of it. In one go, he left Schmelzer behind and passed the ball to Suarez.
Hummels tried to prevent Suarez from stopping the ball and put the tackle directly, but the Uruguayan striker deftly pushed the ball past Hummels, and quickly advanced with the ball himself, attracting Suarez on the right side of the top of the arc in the penalty area.
After Botic passed the ball to Gareth Bale on the left.
The Welshman quickly rushed to the left side of the top of the arc and fired a furious shot with his left foot, sending the ball to the right side of the goal guarded by Weidenfeller, which showed his resentment of having consecutive shots saved by the opponent in Germany.
One to zero!
The Hornets, who were one goal behind, still showed tenacity and did not flinch at all.
Manchester City continued to control the ball steadily.
Gao Shen is very clear that the current time is quite favorable to Manchester City.
Because the ball is controlled by Manchester City, Dortmund's consumption is greater than that of Manchester City.
Sure enough, when the game entered the 67th minute of the second half, David Luiz made a late pass and attracted Dortmund's frontcourt press, and suddenly sent a long pass.
Both Hummels and Suarez are quickly judging the placement.
The German central defender took the first step to clear the ball with a header, but under the pressure of Suarez, Hummels wanted to tip the ball to his teammate Subotic, but he missed the right spot and instead fell towards his own goal.
After turning sideways.
Suarez reacted very quickly, rushed forward first, stopped the ball, rushed into the penalty area, volleyed, and once again broke Weidenfeller's goal.
Two to zero!
Facts have proved that Manchester City's condition in Germany was really not ideal enough, which led to frequent shots being saved.
After returning to Manchester, after adjustments, the Manchester City players were immediately resurrected with full health.
After scoring two goals in a row, Manchester City did not just give up, but pursued the victory and launched a wave of offensive.
Especially Gao Shen, who has replaced players such as Yaya Toure, Robin van Persie and Hazard to strengthen the team's offense.
Among them, in the 79th minute, Hazard dribbled the ball from the left and connected with three Dortmund defensive players. He was tripped after breaking into the penalty area. However, the referee Eriksson did not award a penalty kick and instead warned Hazard with a yellow card.
You dived.
This caused dissatisfaction among Manchester City players and fans, but due to UEFA regulations, Gao Shen repeatedly warned the players not to block the referee.
David Luiz also showed his maturity and progress at this time. Together with Javi Martinez, Lichtsteiner and Rakitic, he actively pushed away his teammates.
After that, Manchester City still got consecutive opportunities, but failed to score again.
2-0, Manchester City won Dortmund at home.
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While Manchester City beat Borussia Dortmund 2-0 at the Etihad Stadium, Mourinho's Real Madrid beat Porto 1-0 at the Santiago Bernabeu thanks to Cristiano Ronaldo's goal.
As a result, after four rounds of the group stage, Manchester City has an unbeaten record of three wins and one draw, ranking first in the group with ten points.
Dortmund has two wins, one draw and one loss, and has seven points, ranking second.
Real Madrid and Porto both had one win and three losses, and got three points. However, because Real Madrid scored a goal at the Dragon Stadium, they ranked third with their away goal against Porto. The Portuguese Super League team suffered a tragic loss.
Bottom.
But everyone is very clear that this situation is very unfavorable to Real Madrid and Porto.
After Manchester City scored ten points, they basically qualified early. The only suspense left was whether they could finish first in the group.
Dortmund's promotion is also a high probability event, but it is not stable because if they lose in the last two rounds and one of the teams from Real Madrid and Porto wins two consecutive games, Dortmund will be eliminated.
From a strength perspective, both teams do have the possibility of winning two consecutive games.
For example, in the fifth round, Real Madrid faced Manchester City at home, and Porto faced Dortmund at home.
No matter which angle you look at it, Real Madrid and Porto will fight hard, and Dortmund will fight hard, but against Porto away from home, the Hornets may not be sure of victory.
As for Manchester City, after qualifying early, will Gao Shen rotate in as he did in the past?
In fact, even if Manchester City plays with a rotating lineup, their strength cannot be underestimated.
The Spanish media are very disappointed with this, because Real Madrid has performed poorly in the group stage for two consecutive seasons, and now it once again pins its hopes of qualifying on the sophisticated Manchester City and other competitors. This is the reason for Real Madrid fans and Spain
Unacceptable to the media.
Alfredo, the editor-in-chief of the mouthpiece Aspen newspaper, said in a column that Mourinho has entered the countdown to be the coach of Real Madrid!
Marca even openly conducted a questionnaire survey on Real Madrid’s next head coach.
A total of more than 500,000 Real Madrid fans participated in the survey, and the results showed that more than 95% of the fans hope to invite Gao Shen to return to Real Madrid.
Spanish national television conducted an interview outside the Bernabeu Stadium. Although Real Madrid had just defeated Porto 1-0, there are still many Real Madrid fans who are dissatisfied with the team's situation and feel that Real Madrid now seems to have returned to Florentino's Galaxy.
Those chaotic and dark years of Battleship I.
"Back then, Gao Shen led the team out of the quagmire. Now, we hope he can come back!"
"Yes, we won, but there is no hope. This is a team without hope."
"The stars in the locker room form cliques. They have no intention of playing football properly. In this case, let's send them all away! Please return Gao Shen. I believe he can lead the team back to normal!"
"I support Gao Shen! He is the best coach in the world and one of our own at Real Madrid!"
"Only Gao Shen can save Real Madrid!"
"I think he is profound. There is no reason. I support him unconditionally!"
"I hope to invite Gao Shen back. He has proven his coaching ability outside. We all hope he can come back!"
"Great! Not only me, but my family and everyone around me think so. He is the most suitable head coach for Real Madrid!"
"I still can't understand why we didn't choose Gao Shen in 2009? Florentino must be responsible for this matter. I will raise it at the Real Madrid membership meeting in December!"
"I support Gao Shen! If our chairman can't bring back Gao Shen, then find someone who can. For example, Martin, who said he is Gao Shen's talent, is sure to help Real Madrid bring back Gao Shen."
"It must be profound! Apart from him, I don't think anyone else can save Real Madrid!"
"profound!"
"It must be profound!"
"It can only be profound!"
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Following the footage of Spanish national television, every Real Madrid fan gave their own answer.
Almost all Real Madrid fans insist that Gao Shen can save the turbulent Real Madrid and turn the tide.
