While Manchester City swept the Premier League this season, Benitez's Liverpool were in an embarrassing situation.

Especially as the season progresses, the Reds have not only exposed the team's long-standing problems in attack, but also made it clear that they have a disorganization in midfield.

Italian midfielder Aquilani, who Liverpool had high hopes for, had a disappointing performance and failed to effectively take on the responsibility of organizing the midfield, and the departure of Mascherano made Liverpool's midfield defense lose its original solidity.

For this reason, the Spanish coach Benitez has accused the management of inaction more than once, and many people in the coaching circle have also sympathized with Benitez's situation, because many fans now blame him for not knowing the inside story at all.

Especially the high cold.

As one of Benitez's few friends, Gao Han does not deny that Benitez is indeed very stubborn and does not know how to communicate tactfully, but to doubt his coaching ability is simply vexatious.

From the first day he met him, Benitez's quest was clear: to press forward midfield and bring his attacking players closer to the opposition goal, a tactic that has been successful in Tenerife, Valencia and Liverpool.

So why have we been sluggish this season?

There is only one reason, the quality of the players is not good.

When Manchester City poached Mascherano, a very important reason why Benitez chose to release him was that Liverpool couldn't afford a penny of transfer fees, so the management promised Benitez to let Mascherano go, and all the funds would be used for transfer operations.

Benitez is very optimistic about Brazilian midfielder Lucas, and Lucas's performance is really good, so he chose to let go of Mascherano in the hope of using the money to bring in Gareth Barry and Jovetic.

Unexpectedly, the management finally broke its promise and only brought in Aquilani instead of reinforcements in the front line.

Even more unfortunate was that Aquilani was in a slump and was nowhere near the level he had during his time in Rome.

And even during the winter break, there was a lot of rumors outside that Benitez wanted to get Falcao, but as the owner of Chinatown, Gao Han knew very well that Liverpool had no contact with Chinatown from beginning to end.

Throughout the whole process, Aquilani looked away, Benitez is indeed responsible, but what he wanted from the beginning was Gareth Barry, hoping to strengthen Liverpool's midfield with Barry and Gerrard's performance in the national team, but the club's management broke its promise, which is undoubtedly the most serious crux of Liverpool now.

Now not only Gao Han, I am afraid that Liverpool inside and outside has clearly known that after the end of this season, Benitez will either be fired or resign himself, with his character, it is difficult to stay in Liverpool.

This is also the reason why Gao Han has not considered coaching Liverpool from beginning to end.

Not just because he is friends with Benitez, but also because of Liverpool's management.

To put it mildly, with the level of confusion in the management of the Red Army, even if Gao Han went to coach, eighty percent of them would be killed in the bathroom, because it was difficult for a good woman to cook without rice.

Although he is very sympathetic to Benitez psychologically, on the court, how the game should be played, and how it must be played.

What's more, Benitez's team is not a soft persimmon to be kneaded.

20 February 2010, 27th round of the Premier League.

Manchester City sat at the City Stadium and welcomed the Reds Liverpool.

Benitez knew that his strength was inferior to Manchester City, and the game was mainly safe, and he launched a ferocious pressing and pressing on Manchester City's possession style of play from the beginning, while Gao Han made appropriate rotations in preparation for the League Cup final a week later, and as a result, at the beginning of the game, he was rushed by Liverpool and could not hold the ball.

Ten minutes before the opening game, both sides played a little chaotic, and it was not until 20 minutes later, as the game deepened, that Manchester City gradually controlled the ball and pressed the formation as a whole, but Liverpool still stuck to their own half and actively seized the opportunity to play a counterattack.

Neither side was able to organise an effective attack in the first half, and neither of them could score.

But after the rematch in the second half, Manchester City gradually controlled the situation on the field, especially with Liverpool's physical consumption, the high-intensity pressing tactics could not be maintained, so that Manchester City gradually created a threat, Gao Han saw the opportunity, used the skill card, and launched a rush.

In the 60th minute, Mascherano pressed the ball to Liverpool's 30-meter area and transferred the ball to Xavi Alonso, the Spanish midfielder made a direct pass and passed the ball to the front of the penalty area, Kaka passed diagonally to the left, Benzema inserted the ball and then passed back to the middle, Sturridge pushed in front of the goal, and it was done overnight, 1-0.

After opening the scoring, Manchester City played more calmly.

Soon, both sides made substitutions at the same time, with Benitez coming on for Babel in an attempt to strengthen the attack, Gao Han replacing Kaka and Adam Johnson on the left wing, and Petrov returning to the middle.

After successive substitutions, the scene fell into a stalemate again.

It wasn't until the 87th minute that Sturrick scored a brace to help Manchester City beat Liverpool 2-0 at home.

Liverpool had just nine shots on goal and two on target, but neither could threaten them.

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23 February 2010, 28th round of the Premier League, Stamford Bridge.

After a fifteen-minute break, the opposing sides returned to the playing field, and after exchanging venues, they were ready to fight again.

The scoreboard shows the score of the first half of the two sides, 1-1.

However, this score does not show the difference in quality between the two teams on the field.

Throughout the first half, Chelsea were bombarded by Manchester City in the half, and the performances of both teams on the field were very real to reflect the difference in quality between the two sides, Scolari even arranged for Falcao to roam and harass in front of him, and the others all shrank back to defend.

That undoubtedly played into the hands of Manchester City, who had a stunning possession and finally pried the Blues open in the 42nd minute by exploiting a mistake in Chelsea's defence.

But soon, Falcao also took advantage of Manchester City's long-term inability to attack and his impetuous mood to sneak into the goal and equalize the score.

The two sides shook hands and made peace, and the second half changed sides and fought again.

Although it was a draw, Gao Han still looked calm, but Scolari looked very worried.

Just three days ago, Chelsea had come close to making a breakthrough in the Champions League after losing 2-0 away to Prandelli's Inter Milan, putting Scolari under immense pressure.

In this game, he faced Manchester City, who were only half of the main players, and he was playing at home, and he didn't want to lose.

But after the start of the second half, it was Manchester City who took the lead.

Just three minutes into the game, Adam Johnson once dribbled the ball from the wing into the box, was brought down by John Terry at the edge of the box, and the referee showed Terry a yellow card, but Cristiano Ronaldo's free-kick hit the wall.

The ball fell to Chelsea's feet and the Blues launched a counter-attack.

Scolari's side are clearly unwilling to sit idly by and will be hoping to take their chances and draw at home or even beat Manchester City.

Chelsea Frank Lampard played the ball down the left and handed it to Robinho, but Mascherano pulled to defend on the right and in a one-on-one situation, Robinho tried to get past him, only to be cut off by Mascherano and then crossed wide.

After Sanchez grabbed the ball, he ran 30 meters with the ball, and in the big penalty area of Chelsea, he shook off Mikel, who was in place, and hit the goal from a small angle, and the ball went straight into the bottom right corner of the goal, 2-1.

With the score behind, Chelsea began to fluctuate a little, and Manchester City took the opportunity to step up their attack.

In this game, Gao Han arranged Zabaleta to start in place of Xavi Alonso as the team's backfield midfield, while the front partners were Elano and Modric, and the forward position was Sanchez.

Because Chelsea did not have a forward midfielder, Zabaleta's area of activity was larger, and Gao Han allowed him to scramble when he was confident, so the Argentine midfielder was more active.

Especially in the 67th minute, after the ball was broken at the edge of the Chelsea penalty area, right-back Belletti launched a counterattack, only for Zabaleta to suddenly steal and tackle Belletti to the ground with the ball.

But just when everyone thought that Zabaletta was going to win the card, Belletti, who was so distracted by the atmosphere in the stadium, jumped up from the ground and overthrew Zabaleta from behind with all his might, and all this happened under the nose of the referee.

The referee, who was about to pull out a card for Zabaletta, immediately called Belletti to stop, first gave Zabaleta a yellow card, and then reached into his breast pocket and pulled out a red card towards Belletti.

This completely fries up the entire Stamford Bridge stadium.

But Gao Han launched a decisive attack, using all the skill cards to try to take out Chelsea in one go.

Sure enough, two minutes later, City extended the score to 3-1 with a goal from the Brazilian striker.

In the 74th minute, it was Cristiano Ronaldo's goal that helped Manchester City make it 4-1, and the Portuguese also scored a brace in this game.

After scoring consecutive goals, Gao Han made another substitution to save his strength for the League Cup final three days later.

As a result, when the game was 81 minutes into the game, controversy arose again on the field, and Ballack, who replaced Mikel, tackled Manchester City's striker Ruo, and in less than 20 minutes, received two yellow cards in a row, and was sent off the field.

With two players missing in one go and nine men, City were in complete control of the situation on the pitch.

In the 88th minute, Adam Johnson forced a cross from the side, Sturridge outflanked in front of the goal, and easily scored to make it five to one, which was also the last goal of the game.

In the end, Manchester City defeated a nine-man Chelsea 5-1 away.

Abramovich was on the spot in this game, but he sat in the stands and watched his team be slaughtered by Manchester City again at home, and the opponent scored five goals, which has to be said to be a shame.

Especially when he saw the scene of Manchester City players rushing into the stadium and celebrating, he was extremely depressed.

At the end of the game, Chelsea were overturned by Manchester United, who beat Everton, 3-0, to third place in the league.

Not only that, but no team can threaten Manchester City anymore.

Gao Han's team has a 28-game winning streak and is far ahead of the standings, and winning the championship is also close at hand.

Chelsea spent 90 million euros, and the introduction of Falcao and Ramirez, although they both played at a very good level, especially Falcao, scored a flood of goals, but still could not make up for the gap in strength between Chelsea and Manchester City.

Even if Abramovich doesn't want to admit it, it can't change this fact.

Sitting in the stands at Stamford Bridge and watching Gao Han win, he even had some hope that in three days' time, Manchester United's Alex Ferguson would beat Gao Han.

No matter who it is, as long as he can defeat Gao Han, he will be happy.

(End of chapter)