As soon as the winter break ended, Chinatown was in a bitter battle.

The first match was the first leg of the Copa del Rey round of 16 knockout round, at the Bernabeu Stadium.

Mourinho obviously didn't take Chinatown too seriously, and in the first game of the winter break, he didn't play his main team, hiding many main players including Diego Costa and Mesut Ozil, and played as a semi-substitute.

However, Pochettino's side took the initiative against the mighty Galacticos and showed great bravery, scoring a goal in the 10th minute of the first half through Carvajal and a corner by Miranda in the 29th minute.

With a 2-0 lead, Chinatown seemed to see the dawn of victory.

However, Mourinho repented at half-time, replaced three main players in one go, launched a fierce attack on the Chinese City team, and pulled back three goals in a row in the 68th, 70th and 78th minutes, and finally narrowly beat China Town 3-2 at the Bernabeu Stadium.

After a hard-fought win over Real Madrid, China Town drew 0-0 at home to Atletico Madrid in the league at the weekend, a game in which the likes of David De Gea, Miranda and Godin were very brave.

Pochettino saved his strength in the league and came into the second leg of the Copa del Rey and played Mourinho in an attacking and defensive duel, with neither side able to find the back of the net throughout the game.

Until the end of the game, Hazard received Alba's pass on the left side, forced into the penalty area, was pulled down from behind by Arbeloa, Real Madrid right-back received the second yellow card of the game, was sent off by the referee red card, Hazard personally took the penalty and scored a goal for China.

The aggregate score was 3-3, but Chinatown eliminated Real Madrid with an away goal.

Mourinho was furious about Arbeloa's second yellow card after the game, angrily reprimanding the referee's partiality, thinking that Hazard was faking a fall, but whether it is the media or TV station, it can be clearly seen through the video that Arbeloa did pull down Hazard from behind, otherwise the Belgian would have formed a single knife.

The elimination of the star-studded Real Madrid has once again brought Chinatown into the sight of fans all over the world, especially the tenacious momentum shown by Real Madrid in the two games, which is even more impressive.

However, in the 19th round of La Liga at the weekend, although China City equalized in the 88th minute by Pelle, they finally conceded a goal in stoppage time and lost 1-2 away to Sporting Gijón.

With one draw and one defeat in two rounds, Chinatown's league ranking quickly slipped to 10th place in La Liga, and the excitement of Copa del Rey promotion quickly dissipated.

In midweek, the first leg of the Copa del Rey quarter-finals came to Chinatown, where Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang drew 1-1 away at Unai Emery's Valencia and beat the Bats 2-0 at home a week later, with Rakitic and Herrera both scoring on the cards.

In an interview with the media after the game, Unai Emery said with regret that Chinatown's performance in these two games was better than Valencia's, and promotion was a matter of course.

However, in the middle of the two cup matches, Chinatown lost 4-1 to Barcelona at the Camp Nou.

Barcelona took the lead in the 13th minute thanks to Puyol's goal, but Chinatown's Aubameyang quickly equalised, but in the second half, Messi scored a hat-trick in just 10 minutes of 54th, 60th and 63rd to put the score ahead again.

In the end, Chinatown lost 1-4 away.

Killed by Barcelona double. Morale in Chinatown was sluggish, and the league ranking slipped to 11th place again.

As a result, the media and fans began to attack Pochettino again, believing that Chinatown should not insist on fighting on two fronts, and should focus on playing well in the league, rather than being distracted by cup competitions, especially the Copa del Rey.

However, the club's general manager Armando Marcos and technical director Cantarero have once again come forward to publicly support Pochettino's decision, saying that the club's confidence in Pochettino will not be changed by the temporary dip in results.

After knocking out Valencia in the Copa del Rey, China City soon beat Sevilla 2-1 at home in the league at the weekend, with goals from Rakitic and Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang.

A win catapulted Chinatown to eighth place in the league standings.

But even more heartening was the fact that three days after the win over Sevilla, Mauricio Pochettino's side hosted Bielsa's Athletic Bilbao in the first leg of the Copa del Rey semi-final.

Both sides are known for pressing high and the game was very hard, with China City taking advantage of home advantage to firmly suppress Athletic Bilbao and scoring a goal in the first half through Eden Hazard and Rakitic.

After the rematch in the second half, Bielsa replaced two players in one go, intending to counterattack, but Chinatown relied on Pelle's assist, and Aubameyang scored again, and finally sealed the win 2-0 at home and stepped into the Copa del Rey final with one foot.

But the price of the hard-fought Athletic Bilbao game was that the team had to rotate at the weekend, losing 1-2 away to Granada, but fortunately the standings remained unchanged, but most of the media and fans still couldn't understand Pochettino's strategy of sticking to the cup game, shouldn't we do our best to keep the league first?

In the second leg of the semi-finals, Chinatown drew 2-2 away with Athletic Bilbao and eliminated Bielsa's team with an aggregate score of 4-3 and successfully advanced to the Copa del Rey final.

This is also the first time in the history of Chinatown to qualify for the final of the Copa del Rey.

And this time the opponent is Pep Guardiola's Barcelona.

Morale was boosted after the Copa del Rey final, with Caparoros' side scoring in the fourth minute against Real Mallorca, but Mauricio Pochettino was at home and quickly adjusted the situation when Pelle set up Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang to equalise.

In the 55th minute of the second half, Ilya Ramendi scored a long-range shot to overtake the score for China, and then striker Pelle scored a goal to finally reverse Real Mallorca 3-1, but the league position remained unchanged.

A week later, Mauricio Pochettino rotated for midweek Champions League, with Chinatown losing 1-0 at Athletic Bilbao and Bielsa's side avenging a Copa del Rey elimination at home and moving Chinatown to ninth.

Unexpectedly, at the Parc Olimpico stadium in Lyon on Wednesday, Chinatown conceded a goal in just eight minutes, and teenager Lacazette opened the scoring for Lyon, and the Ligue 1 powerhouse scored with the first shot on goal.

After that, Chinatown was completely trapped in the iron walls of Lyon.

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Pochettino stood in front of the visiting team's dugout at the Olympic Park, his suit was open, his hands were on his waist, revealing a crisp white shirt, but the scum on his face made him look very rough.

He hadn't taken good care of his image for more than a month, and his unkempt hair was like a bird's nest.

Since the winter break, the team has been playing on three fronts in the Copa del Rey, the league and the Champions League, and every game is a tough game, China Town has played very hard, the players are also very hard, and the pressure is very high.

As the team's manager, Pochettino is particularly important.

Although the young coach Gaard has only just taken office this season, he has been the youth coach and first-team assistant coach in Lyon for many years, assisting former Lyon managers such as Le Gurin, Houllier and Puel, and his appointment has won the trust of the management and intends to rejuvenate the team.

Alexandre Lacazette, who scored the goal in this game, was picked up from the youth team.

The four-three-three formation is currently the mainstream in Europe, and Garde also adopts this style of play, with Lloris in goal, Sissoko, Chris, Lovren and Revie in the back from left to right, Fofana, Karlström and Gourcuff in midfield, and Bastos, Lacazette and Bryant in front.

Garde also clearly did a good job in this game, studying the style of play in China City in depth, and adopted a zone defense strategy against Eden Hazard, who was the most active and individual in the front, and avoided the team falling into a one-on-one defensive state as much as possible, which left the Belgian without too many chances throughout the game.

Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang was the team's leading scorer, fast and impactful, so Gald kept Sissoko close to him, and the left-back played well in the game and didn't give Aubameyang too many chances.

In the 75 minutes of the game, China City had 60 percent possession and three times as many shots on goal as Lyon, but they were never able to break through the Lyon team's goal, and the shooting efficiency was terrible.

There was one substitution for the home side, not for the visitors, and Pochettino knows everyone is waiting for their decision.

A 0-1 away game is actually an acceptable result.

After returning to the home stadium, Chinatown can play more targeted according to the layout of this game.

The thought crossed Pochettino's mind, but he soon pressed it down as he desperately pushed it down, as another voice came to his mind.

"Fearless, always forward, this is the purpose of our Chinatown!"

"We will never be afraid of any opponent, nor will we bow to any difficult challenge, no matter who we face, we must dare to swing our sword. ”

This is what Gao Han said to Pochettino, and it was deafening.

At this moment, it sounded in Pochettino's head, but it made the Argentine a little ashamed.

With about 20 minutes to go, the team was down 0-1, and he was satisfied!

If Mr. Gao Han is here, he will definitely look for the opponent's weakness at this moment, find a weapon to restrain the opponent and turn defeat into victory, but he will definitely not give up on this side.

Not to mention losing, a draw cannot be in Gao Han's options, he has always had only one goal, and that is to win.

Pochettino slapped his hands his face, exhaled heavily, turned around and shouted to assistant coach Jesús Pérez behind him, "Show me a detailed analysis of this game." ”

Jesús Pérez was stunned for a moment, but quickly reacted, immediately found the data analyst, and quickly walked to Pochettino's side with a tablet, which opened the data analysis software carefully built by Gao Han and Sergio García, and began to study it carefully.

Through the club's data analysis software, everything in the game was clearly presented in front of Pochettino, and at this moment he calmed down, and many details that had been overlooked before reappeared in his line of sight, and after a little organization, the outline immediately appeared in his mind.

"Lyon's hole is here!"

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