It wasn't until the 78th minute that Manuel Pellegrini made a second substitution, bringing on Bony for Nasri.

"Bony came to Manchester City in this winter transfer window, he spent 28 million pounds on Manchester City, and his previous goal efficiency in Sparta, Vitesse, and Swansea in Prague was good, he was physically strong, his header was very good, and he could be used as the fulcrum of the attack in the front!

What he said was really not wrong, Pellegrini found that there was no fulcrum in the front, he couldn't penetrate and play, so he naturally needed a fulcrum, but in order to control the situation in the midfield, he had to replace Dzeko, and now the front court needs a person who is scrambling for the header, and he has to replace Nasri.

And that's not all, in the 83rd minute, he replaced Fernandinho with Frank Lampard, Fernandinho is a player who is more defensive, the defense is very strong, Lampard's playmaking ability is undoubtedly much better than Fernandinho, and Pellegrini's change is clearly to improve the control of the midfield.

Liverpool's physical fitness has declined very much during this time, and they have to shrink their defense, and even Zhang Yuan has retreated to the midfield, sacrificing the town without a striker, creating conditions for the Manchester City team to go to Lampard.

However, Manchester City, who had given everything up, still failed to score another goal after all!

When Clattenburg blew the final whistle, the Anfield stadium was once again cheered by the fans, a three-point worth six points, and the gap between Liverpool and Manchester City was reduced to four points, nine points less than Chelsea with a game in hand.

Today's action between the two teams was not particularly intense, and there was no conflict on the pitch, and after the game, the Manchester City players reluctantly accepted the bitter fruit, maintained generosity, and shook hands with the Liverpool players.

"We were a little out of form today!" said Sergio Aguero as he swapped shirts with Zhang Yuan.

"Hehe!" Zhang Yuanji smiled, thinking disapplaudively, you are not in good shape, is this the reason for losing!

A player like Sergio Aguero was a bit unconvinced, while Manuel Pellegrini joked that the loss was due to luck: "We were so unlucky in this game, they scored two good long-range shots, and when Zhang Yuan didn't score the second goal, we were in a good situation, but his shot was impeccable, and this goal disrupted our arrangement. The team was inconsistent today, conceded too many goals, but at Anfield we had a chance to play as a double striker. ”

His move to replace Boni on the pitch also became the focus of reporters asking him after the game, to put it bluntly, questioning the Chilean engineer's on-the-spot command, Boni's performance was even worse, worse than Dzeko.

Manuel Pellegrini was left to a perfunctory defeat to Liverpool, and given Chelsea with a game in hand, the difference between Manchester City and Chelsea would turn from five to eight, essentially declaring a failure to defend the title this season.

The Champions Cup was defeated by Barcelona at home, and at the most critical moment of the title race, they lost to Klopp's Liverpool, needless to say that the future period is a difficult time for Pellegrini, and there is even the possibility of getting out of class, after this game, a reporter talked about this problem, Pellegrini is still insisting, he thinks he will not get out of class, as for whether it will really be only known to the owner of Manchester City, in general, the owner of Manchester City is a more patient employer, this is true.

Non-stop, on the evening of March 4, in the 28th round of the league, Liverpool won Burnley 2:0 at home, Zhang Yuan scored another goal in this game, so far Liverpool has won 3 consecutive wins, and in these 3 games, Zhang Yuan has completed 5 goals, which is a great credit.

On the evening of March 10, the second leg of the Champions League round of 16 began, after Liverpool defeated Porto 2-0 in the first leg to take the lead in qualifying.

This time at the Dragons Stadium, Klopp was pragmatic and played defensive counterattacks, from the current situation of Liverpool, Klopp is very clear that his team's physical problems are very serious, and there are too many games.

Porto of course in this game is the beginning of the initiative to attack, 2:0 behind in the Champions League is a considerable score, in the Champions League can be the first leg of the two-goal defeat in the case of not many turnaround, Porto own strength and Liverpool compared to a considerable gap.

Jurgen Klopp still played a two-man midfield configuration in this game, with Jordan Henderson and Gian in charge, and Steven Gerrard, who had just recovered from injury, was left out of the starting line-up, but today Henderson and Zhan's goal was much simpler, and Klopp gave him the task of defending.

Attackingly, Jurgen Klopp's passing was much simpler, making quick passes through the flanks and making effective use of the gaps that the Porto full-backs had set in.

Porto played really well today, scoring after only 5 minutes in the opening game, but this is the final score, in the end they failed to change the score, not that they are bad, but Liverpool after clarifying the responsibilities and tasks, the defense is also good, Zhang Yuan, Coutinho, Sterling in the front field is not a joke, Porto has also encountered danger several times.

Zhang Yuan is very happy to be able to successfully advance to the quarterfinals, his state is not particularly good, and this game has missed some good opportunities, Zhang Yuan has been adjusting his mentality, he must learn to accept losing, and now he also knows that he can take a fair look at Liverpool, Liverpool is not good at this midfielder first, and neither can the defenders, and it is very good to be able to break into the quarterfinals.

In an interview after the game, Zhang Yuan also expressed his joy, "We deserve to advance, and now we have entered the quarterfinals, and the opponents below will definitely not be easy, but we will continue to work hard and strive to go further!"

Zhang Yuan meant to go further, not to win the championship, and a reporter asked about the possibility of Liverpool eventually winning the championship.

This possibility is a little small, Zhang Yuan thinks so, the reason is actually those, the team he played for before is different from Liverpool, the best offensive is Real Madrid, there are a lot of explosive points, anyone can come to a few brushes, the worst offensive ability is the former Schalke 04, the best defense is Juventus, and the worst is Liverpool.

Schalke 03, Real Madrid, Juventus defense is good, after coming to Liverpool, Zhang Yuan found that it is actually much easier to adjust the team's offense than to adjust the defense, but as a strong team, you can't just take care of defense, Juventus is a lack of attacking power in the front, Real Madrid is more balanced under Mourinho, Liverpool is typical top-heavy, especially after Klopp came, don't look at him set up a double back, but on the field, this midfielder is the most tired, and the coverage area is particularly large.

Liverpool with poor defense, Zhang Yuan can almost conclude that it will not go too far, this is basically the consensus of everyone, today due to various factors, Klopp rarely chose a conservative strategy, the result is not scored by the second-rate team Porto, if it is replaced by Real Madrid, Bayern or Barcelona, maybe Liverpool will concede more than one goal today.

Back in the league, Liverpool on March 17, away to challenge Swansea, Swansea this season really played well, coach Monk used to play in Swansea when he was a player, is the captain of Swansea, 13-14 in the middle of the season, Laudrup led the team to poor results, from Swansea class, Swansea management made a bold decision at that time, let Monk lead the team as a player and coach, as a result, Monk successfully led the team to relegation, of course, full-time as a head coach has become a matter of course.

Swansea's home record this season is very good, as a relegation team, in the past 14 home games can get 7 wins, only lost three games, that is quite OK, Manchester United, Arsenal and other strong teams in Swansea are planted behind, Swansea currently accumulate 40 points, 10 points away from the sixth Southampton, 9 rounds of league remaining, there is still hope of impacting Europe, so this game they will definitely want to go all out.