They wanted to shine on the European stage, but ended up in the embarrassing situation of being eliminated in the group stage. Manchester City's depression even made many teams think of it as a joke. This kind of situation will definitely make the boss Manchester City
Chief Sur is dissatisfied, and if Mancini is directly responsible, he will definitely not get any good results.
The "Daily Star", "Daily Express" and other media have revealed that the Manchester City board of directors has sternly informed coach Mancini that in the next time, he must produce a decent record to prove himself.
To be able to shoulder the heavy responsibility of being the head of a team like Manchester City, a league championship is essential. If he fails to defend the title at the end of the season, he must pack up his bags and leave immediately.
Earlier in the season, Mancini had realized that the team might be in some "trouble" and said he would fix it.
But what is disappointing is that not only did it fail to repair the previous troubles, but more troubles appeared: the defensive line declined, the midfield lost creativity, and the forwards were no longer as trustworthy as last season. And this series of bad games has
This performance caused Mancini to suffer an unprecedented crisis of confidence and caused a lot of discussion.
The Manchester City board of directors, headed by Sheikh Mansour, had almost never intervened in the specific management of Manchester City before and only signed the checkbook. But now they are obviously dissatisfied with the return on their investment, so they laid off Mancini.
received this ultimatum.
Former Liverpool star Hamann once played for Manchester City for a period of time. When commenting on Mancini and Manchester City, he pointedly pointed out that it is understandable that the performance in two games is not good, but in the Champions League group that requires six rounds of games to determine the ranking.
I really can't find a reason for the match to be like this.
Hamann said: "Everyone will have some bad games, but if you have six bad games in a row in Europe, even the same as last year, you have to question them." After another loss to Dordmund.
After Germany, Hamann bluntly said that Manchester City has no confidence: "Manchester City really has no confidence at all. They used 14 players in the game. These are what the coach wants, but the gap between them and Dortmund is still very big. In addition to
Aside from Joe Hart, everyone else was disappointing from start to finish."
In the view of Dutch star Ruud Gullit, the team's poor performance is all due to the poor performance of the head coach.
Gullit once won the European Cup and Champions League trophies one after another while playing for Milan. He also played for Sampdoria and was teammates with Mancini for a period of time. Although they had a relationship in the past, he criticized Mancini when he criticized him.
, Gullit was merciless and could even be regarded as sarcastic: "No matter whether the team wins or loses, the head coach should bear the responsibility."
All responsibility. If City's intention was to get out of the Champions League, they did a great job. If their intention was to make a difference in the Champions League, they made a fool of themselves. It was a very poor performance, though.
They don't want to participate in the Europa League, but they can at least make their own efforts there."[
Talking about Manchester City's signings, Gullit bluntly said he couldn't understand: "They bought a lot of players because they value their names. I really can't see them buying players for anything other than their names. I really can't think of them buying players for anything other than their names."
Can anyone tell me the reason for Maicon?"
In turn, Gullit believed that Manchester City sold many players that they should not have sold: "They had many good players, but they were all sold. Mancini once said that he knew where the problem was and he would help them.
, but he was just talking, I really see
Regardless of what he did, I can only see them playing worse and worse." Facing a "6-point battle," Gullit believes that Mancini must go all out to win the weekend's derby with Manchester United: "
If they don't win at the weekend, they're in real trouble."
In the final battle, with Robin van Persie's stoppage time winner in the 92nd minute, Manchester United dramatically defeated their local rival Manchester City 3-2 in the away game. Li Yu's brace gave Manchester United a 2-0 lead. Yaya -
Goals from Toure and Zabaleta tied the score at 2-2, but Robin van Persie's free kick brought this exciting game to a wonderful end.
After the game, Ancelotti said in an interview that Manchester United deserved this victory: "Today's game is very special because Manchester City has not lost at home in the past two years, and our two teams are ranked in the top two of the standings.
Bit. This is a thrilling game, you can't take your eyes away from the game."
In fact, Manchester United had a chance to expand the score to 3-0, but Mata's supplementary shot was mistakenly ruled as offside by the linesman. When talking about this goal, Ancelotti said: "Of course, I think we
Well deserved the win, I felt like we could have killed our opponent earlier, it was a fun game, we should have made it 3-0, the ball was not offside at all, then
After the goal was disallowed, Manchester City counterattacked and scored one. Football sometimes makes you suffer such a turn. Later, Manchester City scored the second goal. At that time, they were very energetic and deserved it.
To score that goal, their counterattack was very exciting and they gambled with three forwards, but even so, I think we were much better than them."
Ancelotti specifically praised the performance of Van Persie, the hero of the goal: "The free kick had a slight change of direction, but it was a wonderful shot. He made the Manchester City defenders dare not relax at all times."
This game expanded Manchester United's lead in the standings to 6 points. Ancelotti said that it is too early to measure the significance of this game: "Because there is no pressure from the European war, Manchester City is in the second half of the league.
It will be more dynamic, and we still have three important competitions: the Champions League, the FA Cup and the league."
Van Persie, the hero of the goal, said in an interview with "Sky Sports": "We started well, Li Yu scored two very exciting goals, and we controlled the game, but Manchester City's counterattack was very fierce. In this way (
The free kick to end the game was really special. These 3 points were very dramatic. Li Yu asked me at the time: 'What do you want to do, shoot or pass?' I said I would shoot.
!”
Li Yu also praised Van Persie: "We have practiced many times on the training ground. I have no doubt that Van Persie can score from that position. I am 6 points ahead in the standings and defeated our city rivals. I am very happy."
, we want to celebrate well."
A thrilling derby battle, with ups and downs on the scene, Manchester United went from a 2-goal lead to being tied, and then crumbling, until finally Van Persie's stunning free kick was witnessed by hundreds of millions of people around the world.
It was a feast of football. There were ups and downs on the scene. Both sides had ups and downs, and there was an extreme psychological gap. In the end, Ferguson's team had the last laugh, and Manchester City [Weibo] [Weibo] were at home.
Drink hate!
However, the reason why the Manchester Derby is called the most intense derby in England is that its intensity is not limited to the technical and tactical battles between the players on both sides. The passionate fans have also become a unique scenery of this game.
——Manchester United boss Ferdinand may have really realized the "power" of Manchester City fans this time. He celebrated wildly after Van Persie's winning goal, and was eventually thrown by fans at the Etihad.
A coin hit him and his face was covered with blood!
That was when the game reached the 92nd minute. Van Persie's free kick hit the blind spot of Manchester City's goal. Goalkeeper Joe Hart flew to save but was out of reach. He could only watch his team being defeated. And this
At that time, on another side of the stadium
The Manchester United general Ferdinand, who was on the end of the game, could not control his surging emotions. He ran to the stands of Manchester City fans, set off his jersey and celebrated wildly, roaring and roaring loudly. The England iron guard vented his
emotions.
However, such an arrogant and provocative and even almost crazy celebration undoubtedly completely angered the Manchester City fans at the Etihad Stadium. An excited fan in the stands had already been carried away by anger.
, he roared at the Manchester United players off the field.
Back to Ferdinand, just when he lifted up his Manchester United jersey and roared crazily, he was unfortunately hit by a coin thrown from the sidelines on the eyebrow of his left eye. The Manchester United boss immediately covered his face with an expression on his face.
It was very painful... Before long, we saw that Ferdinand's left eye was already bleeding. The hot blood spurted out from the eyebrow of this tough guy's left eye and flowed down the outline of his face, which made people unbearable to look at it.
However, Ferdinand, who was accustomed to these big scenes, was not timid at all. He wiped the blood flowing down with his Manchester United jersey. After the team doctor on the sidelines wiped him briefly, Ferdinand returned to the field to play.[
However, the matter ended here. Just when Ferdinand returned to the game, an even more exaggerated scene appeared: a Manchester City fan watching the game couldn't stand Ferdinand's provocation and ran straight down from the stadium stands.
, then rushed into the field and tried to chase Ferdinand. It was too late but not too late. Fortunately,
At this time, Manchester City goalkeeper Joe Hart appeared in time to stop the crazy fan, and Tevez also arrived to stop the equally furious Ferdinand. So, under the obstruction of these two Manchester City players,
What was going to be a fight between Ferdinand and Manchester City fans turned into a heated exchange of words in the air.
In the end, the Manchester City fan who rushed into the stadium was subdued by the police at the scene. After the game, Ferdinand also wrote a speech on his special card, even joking to himself: "What a great result! 3 points
!Excellent! Whoever threw that coin was so accurate! I can’t believe it was only a 2p pound! At least a one pound coin!”
Mancini, the head coach of Manchester City, must have sweet memories of the Manchester Derby at home against Manchester United. The 6-1 victory last season not only made him proud, but also made Balotelli famous. Perhaps it was the appearance of
For this reason, Balotelli started again today, but the result disappointed Mancini.
In today's game, Balotelli occupied the spot of a forward, but his condition is not flattering.
In the 6th minute of the game, Aguero got a free kick in the frontcourt. Balotelli shot directly, but De Gea saved it. In the 11th minute, Silva found Clichy with an accurate long diagonal pass. France
The man hooked the ball back near the baseline, and the ball flew to the far end. At this time, Balotelli appeared here.
With people around him defending, Balotelli volleyed the ball high into the air. These were Balotelli's only two shots in the game.
3 minutes later, Balotelli took the ball from the right and tried to break through Evans, but under the tight marking of the opponent, he failed to break through. After the ball was intercepted, Balotelli tackled Evans from behind.
For this, he was given a verbal warning by the referee Atkinson. When cooperating with another striker Aguero, Balotelli seemed to be more "single-minded". He always tried to pass straight rather than split the ball, but in
In front of Manchester United's defense, where is the direct pass so easy to succeed?
As a result, either the ball was protected by the opponent and passed to the goalkeeper, or Aguero controlled the ball smoothly.
In the 52nd minute of the game, Balotelli was replaced by Tevez. Seeing that his number was displayed on the substitution card, Balotelli did not go to the bench to greet coach Mancini, but walked straight back to the dressing room.
room, and did not return to the bench until the end of the game.
Only through comparison can we identify. After Tevez came on the field, Manchester City's offense was obviously activated. Mancini's words after the game that "Manchester City couldn't touch the ball for 20 minutes" appeared after Tevez came on the field. Moreover, especially
Weiss himself also assisted Yaya Toure with a goal.
The British News Agency gave Balotelli a score of 6, but "Sky Sports" unceremoniously gave it a low score of 4. "Sky Sports" believed that Balotelli's performance was "disappointing".
Not only does it mean that Balotelli has no bright spots in tactics, but also because Balotelli did not play a positive role in the game, but was intermittently hot-headed.
For example, in the 5th minute, after Aguero was brought down by Ferdinand, Balotelli rushed forward angrily and confronted Ferdinand. His purpose was obviously to stand up for Aguero. Balotelli's move can
It was no sign, after all, the game had only started for 5 minutes. This kind of mindless move would certainly not have a positive impact on the team.
After experiencing the European Cup in the summer, Balotelli's form this season has been relatively average. Four months into the season, he has played a total of 18 times on behalf of Manchester City, including 13 in the league, 7 starts, 6 times as a substitute, and scored a goal
Then there is only a pitiful 1. The team’s substitute Dzeko also played 13 times in the league.
Among them, there have only been 5 starts, and the playing time (563 minutes) is not as good as Balotelli (587 minutes), but he has scored 6 goals. In today's game, Mancini started with Balotelli, I am afraid it is mainly because of the importance.
His performance in last season's Manchester derby, however, this time, Mancini bet wrong.
After the derby, even Mancini bluntly stated that Balotelli's performance was unsatisfactory.
He said: "When you have a player of Balotelli's caliber, it's puzzling that he shuts out his ability. I love Balotelli, but he should think about himself.
His job is gone. He can't continue to perform like this today. We need him to make more contributions."
Mancini even said unceremoniously: "I have seen many talented players succeed in the end. I don't want Mario to end up like these people. It would be very bad for him." Mancini's criticism was very harsh.
To use an old Chinese saying, he may have hurt Zhongyong again!
Recently, Balotelli had a meeting with his agent Mino Raiola. He drove from Manchester to London by himself, but because he didn’t know the road, he hired a taxi driver to drive in his luxury car.
He led the way, for which he paid the driver 800 pounds as a reward.
Of course, for Balotelli with a weekly salary of 180,000 pounds, 800 pounds is obviously a drop in the bucket, but the 24-year-old Balotelli can't always be so brainless, right? His agent Raio
La said: "In my opinion, Balotelli's value is like the Mona Lisa in the art world." But if he continues like this, let alone the "Mona Lisa", Balotelli loves to think about life.
God, let’s be his “thinker”.
"Naturally no football coach would want to lose a derby, but for Mancini, not only can he not lose, he must also win." In an interview with "The Sun", the English coach who has coached Tottenham and Barcelona
Famous coach Venables said, "After all, they have performed well in the Premier League. Although they are ranked second, they have not lost a game so far.
However, after being eliminated from the European competition in such a shameful way, Mancini must get three points from Manchester United to keep the team on track. Otherwise, his position will be replaced by Mourinho this summer.
He will be replaced by a coach who has won the Champions League like O and Guardiola."
As Wei Shuai said, Mancini, who was fighting with his last resort, could not afford to lose anything. However, in today's derby battle that decided the situation of this season's Premier League title, Mancini still led his team to win the first game of the season.
The league was defeated, and he himself would inevitably have to suffer for it.
As we all know, Manchester City's performance this season has declined greatly compared to last season. In the league, they often can only rely on Dzeko's decisive shots to win by chance. In this season's Champions League, Manchester City even lost 3 draws to 3.
The winless record broke the record for the lowest points scored by a Premier League team in the Champions League group stage, and they were eliminated in disgrace at the bottom of the group.
All this is inseparable from Mancini's poor employment. There is no doubt that today's battle against Manchester United is of life and death for Manchester City and for Mancini himself. However, this still cannot prevent the Italian from making a mistake: when arranging the starting lineup,
Mancini actually took Tevez, who had scored the most goals in the league this season, from the starting lineup, but replaced the Argentinian with Balotelli, who had been in a sluggish state recently.
Sure enough, Balotelli, who couldn't feel anything at all, became Manchester City's "offensive terminator" on the court. However, hindered by Balotelli, while Manchester United scored two goals in the first half, Manchester City barely
What scoring opportunities are created.
In the second half, Mancini woke up from his dream and finally replaced his "godson" Balotelli with Carlos Tevez. Inspired by the positive performance of "The Beast", Manchester City finally gained momentum in the second half and once tied the score
tie.
This makes the final 2-3 victory seem a bit unfair to Manchester City. However, such an ending is only unfair to the players of Manchester City. For Mancini, this can only be said to be that he deserves it - whether it is
Be it the unremitting breakthroughs of Yaya Toure and Silva, or Zabaleta's flash of inspiration at the front of the penalty area, it can be said that the improvement of Manchester City's situation comes from the hard work of the players relying on their personal abilities. And Manchester City
Where's Chini?
As early as when Li Yu scored the second goal, he was already standing on the sidelines with a blank expression.
Mancini should indeed feel helped. After all, after being eliminated from the Champions League and then losing the title battle in the league, the possibility of Manchester City losing all four majors this season has suddenly increased a lot. And former Manchester United captain Gary Neville recently said in "
The Daily Mail has clearly pointed out that if Manchester City cannot defend the Premier League title this season, Mancini will definitely not have a good life: "Perhaps Mancini needs more time to prepare the team, but if he loses the Derby
And if Manchester City cannot defend the title this season, Mansour will have enough reasons to fire him."
Before this game, also in the "Daily Mail", columnist Joe Bernstein had already written an article analyzing Mancini's current embarrassing situation at Manchester City: "Mancini has been beaten by his players.
He is despised, and a considerable number of Manchester City fans often applaud his poor on-the-spot command. Manchester City has recently hired two former Barcelona executives-Begiristain and Soriano. It seems that
It sounds very much like paving the way for Guardiola's arrival. All signs indicate that Mancini and Manchester City are destined to end here."
Bernstein also described Mancini turning the Etihad Stadium into a "theater of gloom", which is the same as Old Trafford, home of Manchester City's rivals Manchester United, known as the "theater of dreams".
The contrast between Germany and Germany is too stark and ironic. As the sinner who created this gap, if the day finally comes when Mancini pays the price for this, it can only be regarded as his own fault.
