Chapter 645: Balotelli has a toothache

“goooooooooooooooooooooaaaaaaaaaaaaaa1!”

In the high-pitched roar of the commentator, Yang Fan waved his arms vigorously to vent his excitement, and ran over to high-five Balotelli in celebration. Tomato -''.'f'q'x-s'

It was Balotelli who received a pass from Yang Fan and fired a volley past Fulham's goal.

Balotelli's goal helped Manchester City equalize!

It was the third day after Manchester City won the 2o1o-2o11 League Cup, and in midweek, Manchester City and Fulham played a league match in the round of 28.

Prior to this Manchester City game, the rest of the league rounds had already ended. Manchester United thrashed Wigan Athletic 4-0 at home, Chelsea beat Birmingham City 3-1 at home, and only Arsenal were held to a 3-3 draw by Tottenham Hotspur in the London derby.

Manchester United won, which puts great pressure on Manchester City, you know, in the league standings, Manchester United is now only one point behind Manchester City, this game, if Manchester City can't win, then in the standings will be the city rival Manchester United.

Originally, the media was still optimistic about Manchester City winning Fulham at home, but the recent form of the Manchester City team is really good, after Yang Fan returned from the Asian Cup, Manchester City can be said to be making great progress in all competitions, and it can be said that it is invincible. Tomato △□ net ○ --'.'f'q-

However, this game was a big upset, Manchester City was forced to draw 1-1 by Fulham in this game, and Fulham scored first, Manchester City almost besieged for seventy or eighty minutes, until the game entered injury time, Yang Fan assisted Balotelli to score, equalized. Didn't lose at home.

In this way, after this game, Manchester United once again reversed Manchester City in the league standings, with 59 points, followed by Manchester City with 58 points, followed by Arsenal with 56 points, Chelsea with 52 points, and Tottenham Hotspur with 48 points.

Neither side of the Carabao Cup final, Manchester City nor Arsenal, were able to win in this round of supplementary fixtures, and both drew with each other. Arsenal also missed the opportunity to close the gap on Manchester City, while Chelsea seized the opportunity to close the gap.

"Tired Manchester City", this is the title of the "Manchester City Evening News", this game, Manchester City showed fatigue, although the whole game has been dominant, but has not been able to break through Fulham's goal, until the last moment of the game to score an equalizer, on the surface it is Fulham's defense is doing well, but, in fact, the Manchester City team is not in good shape, the whole team is tired. ☆ Tomato ''-.-f-q-x's-'.-c'o-m'During this time, the Manchester City team can be said to be fighting on the fourth line, and the whole team is very tired.

Fortunately, now that they have won the Carabao Cup, Manchester City only need to fight on three fronts. Of course, fighting on three fronts is also an extremely difficult job for a team.

Now, Manchester City coach Mancini is thinking about this problem, now, Manchester City is a three-tier battle, in the FA Cup, Manchester City reached the round of 16, and there is a chance to compete for the final title, in the league, in the league with ten games left, Manchester City is only one point behind Manchester United, the competition for the English championship has also entered the most tragic stage, and in the Champions League, in the round of the quarterfinals, Manchester City was forced to draw 2-2 at home by Roma, which seems to be an extremely unfavorable result for Manchester City to advance, but everyone knows that the next leg of the Rome Olympic Stadium, Yang Fan will be released from the ban and returned, Manchester City's away promotion hope is still relatively large. Therefore, Manchester City have the motivation and possibility to continue on all three fronts.

However, the problem comes, with the current strength and bench thickness of the Manchester City team, it is not so strong, in addition, the Manchester City team lacks experience in multi-line operations, and in the case of three-line operations, what will the future look like, it is really hard to say, and in midweek at home by Fulham, this has already given the Manchester City team a wake-up call, they fought in the four fronts, and Arsenal in the League Cup final was too fierce, and then was forced to draw by Fulham in the league, which directly made Manchester United Fisherman Profit in the league standings. □ Tomato □○△ □ ''-.-f-q'x's--.-c'om

In this case, it is impossible for Mancini to think about it, in the case of a third-line battle, can Manchester City really hold on?

With this in mind, Mancini was heavily rotated in the quarter-finals of the English FA Cup three days later, and he decided to give up the FA Cup.

In this game, only Yang Fan and Kompany, the two main players of the iron fight, were present, and the other players were all substitutes, and there were even two players promoted by the youth team.

However, to Mancini's surprise, such a line-up, Manchester City actually beat their opponent Aston Villa 3-0 at home, and Manchester City successfully reached the FA Cup quarterfinals. Yang Fan did not score in the game, however, there were two assists.

Now, the problem is that Manchester City, who have entered the quarterfinals of the FA Cup, their opponent in the quarterfinals is Reading, which is a weak opponent, compared to Arsenal and Manchester United, who will fight in the next round of the league after also entering the quarterfinals of the FA Cup, this is a good result, which means that as long as the Manchester City team does not make mistakes, it will pass the Reading team more smoothly and reach the semi-finals - This makes Mancini almost can't help but curse, he is already planning to give up the FA Cup, but, Manchester City is so lucky, with almost a substitute lineup, easily kill Aston Villa, reach the quarter-finals, and then the next opponent is Reading, Reading is a Championship team, now in the Championship although only ranked tenth, however, the points gap from the front team is not large, they are only six points away from the sixth place in the promotion play-offs, in the case of eleven rounds of the league, the six-point difference is not impossible to catch up, promotion to England and continue to move forward in the FA CupWhich one to choose, the answer is self-evident. Tomato □net ○ ---.- f'q'x-s''.com which means that Reading are likely to give up the FA Cup, as a Championship team really don't have the ability to fight on two fronts. Therefore, the media generally believes that meeting Reading almost means that Manchester City has one foot in the FA Cup semi-finals.

This is the semi-final, and we are only two steps away from the final and the final championship. In this case, it would be a shame for Manchester City to say that they were going to give up the FA Cup. The FA Cup title is still relatively high in the hearts of English teams, not comparable to the cup competitions of other national leagues, and Manchester City's club management and Manchester City fans cannot accept the team giving up the FA Cup when it may be an FA Cup title: for Manchester City, it is the most desirable and urgent thing for the Manchester City team to enrich the trophy in the club's honour room as much as possible.

This means that Mancini's previously planned plan to abandon the FA Cup is in trouble, and they will need to push forward as hard as they can in the next FA Cup, let alone be almost fully rotated like the Aston Villa game. This is bound to make the Manchester City team even more tired...... It's an unsolvable loop. Now Mancini is full of resentment towards Aston Villa, in the last round of the FA Cup, Manchester City almost all of them were on the bench and youth team players, and it was clear that they were going to give up the FA Cup, in this case, you Aston Villa were shaved three bald heads, it was really useless. In Mancini's mind, if Manchester City were eliminated by Aston Villa in that situation, he wouldn't need to worry so much now.

Mancini's hesitant personality was reflected at this time, and he couldn't make a decision for a while......

In this context, Manchester City welcome the 29th round of the league and they will face Liverpool away from home.

It's an uphill battle.

Given the current scarcity in the league title, it would be good news for Manchester United if they lose this game, as they will be able to distance themselves from Manchester City.

Before the game, a reporter asked Ferguson if he would become a supporter of Liverpool and cheer for Liverpool in this game.

The old gentleman flatly denied this possibility, and he would never cheer for Liverpool. Manchester United's godfather has said he wants Liverpool to lose, and of course a draw is the best. Manchester United's title, Manchester United will steal it on their own, and they don't need anyone's help, especially Liverpool.

'Comparatively, Liverpool can't make it to Europe, which makes me just as happy. Ferguson said unabashedly.

The match, which was watched by all of Europe, was not long in coming.

On the big screen at Anfield Stadium, the line-ups of both sides of today's game were played.

Liverpool (4-4-2): 25-Reina/17-Arbeloa, 23-Carragher, 37-Skrtel, 2-Glen Johnson/15-Kuyt, 11-Lucas, 2O-Meireles, 4-Gerrard/18-Suarez, 9-Andy Carroll;

Manchester City (4-4-2): 25-Joe Hart/5-Zabaleta, 28-Kolo Toure, 4-Kompany, 13-Kolarov/18-Gareth Barry, 34-De Jong, 42-Yaya Toure, 21-David Silva/1O-Yang Fan, 32-Tevez;

"This is the strongest squad that can be sent by both sides, Gerrard, Suarez are healthy, this is the best news for Liverpool, Manchester City, Kolarov, Richards are on the bench, of course, the most important thing is that Yang Fan is still ...... Balotelli appeared in the stands, he has been in good form lately, however, we got the news that he has a toothache, so he has to be out for this game......" The commentator was commenting on the player lists of both sides, and the director also found Balotelli and his new girlfriend in the stands at Anfield, and the commentator couldn't help but have a toothache when he talked about the reason for Balotelli's absence. Although this Italian genius has only been in the UK for more than a month, the endless stories of this one are really eye-opening.