889 Powerful Manchester City
889 Powerful Manchester City
Over the years, the semi-finals of the Champions League have often featured old faces.
In particular, the three teams of Real Madrid, Barcelona and Bayern were once called the super giants of the Universe Team.
Looking at the Champions League semi-finals list over the years, Real Madrid, Barcelona, and Bayern have hardly been absent.
However, even with such a strong Bayern, when they were drawn to face Manchester City, the German media almost completely wailed that it was too difficult to win against Manchester City this season....
Manchester City are now regarded as the strongest team in the world, even if it is Huang Sajen, they have to be subordinate!!
In particular, the Bundesliga giants have lost to Gao Bo's team many times.
In the 2012-2013 season, Gobo's Atletico Madrid defeated Bayern.
Last season, Gobo's Manchester City also beat Bayern Munich in the Champions League.
This season, in the knockout round, Simeone's Atletico Madrid was eliminated by Manchester City without blood, you know, now this Atletico Madrid, but there is a great hope of winning this season's La Liga championship team!
Being able to beat Barcelona and Real Madrid shows the strength of Atletico Madrid, but even so, they were still easily defeated by Manchester City!!
Although Bayern is about to win the Bundesliga this season, the competitiveness of the Bundesliga is not as good as that of La Liga, at least the Bundesliga does not have supergiants like Barcelona and Real Madrid.
And Manchester City... To be able to achieve such results in such an environment as the Premier League, even the Germans, who have always been at odds with the British, have to be impressed.
At least, it is almost impossible to see the presence of a media outlet that favors Bayern Munich in the German media.
The unanimous bearishness of Bayern Munich, which is quite rare in Germany, shows the pressure that Manchester City has put on the major European giants.
Ancelotti obviously has a different view on the unanimous view of the domestic media.
"There are no weak teams in the Champions League, Manchester City are strong, but we are Bayern Munich!"
It's rare for Carlo Ancelotti to say such a thing in the media, and Bayern Munich's players and fans are clearly unhappy with being unanimously looked down upon.
"We have three Champions League titles!"
In front of the cameras of the media, Thomas Mill held out three fingers.
"Bayern Munich have always been feared and we will never be afraid of others." Schweinsteiger said.
"We will prove ourselves, I always wanted to win a Champions League trophy for Bayern Munich!" Bayern Munich's captain Lahm also made a statement in front of the media.
"The Allianz Arena is our turf!" Although Arjen Robben was unable to play due to injury, he still publicly advocated for his team in the media.
The Bundesliga Hollywood Bayern Munich is very lively.
In England, the Fleet Street report was very optimistic.
Bayern Munich is a bitter host for many Premier League teams.... Arsenal, for example.
Arsenal enters the Champions League every year, qualifies from the group every year, and plays Bayern every year.... It's almost a rule.
With Arsenal alone, Bayern Munich has a lot of win percentages against Premier League teams.
If other Premier League teams were to face Bayern Munich, the English media would not dare to be so optimistic.
There have been many painful encounters between English and German football.
The rivalry between the two rivals is evident in many ways, but in football.... It seems that the Germans always found a way to deal with the English.
So much so that the famous English football legend Lineker lamented in his book "The Spirit of Football": Football is a game in which 22 people fight the field and the Germans win in the end.
This time, however, the media in England seem to be exceptionally confident.
Although Manchester City is a club in England, but... Their manager is not English.
Moreover, sane analysis.
In terms of hard power, Manchester City is definitely stronger than the current Bayern Munich.
Bayern Munich's book lineup may not be far behind Manchester City, but the combined combat effectiveness of the two sides, Manchester City's stability, and ability to attack and defend are obviously higher than Bayern Munich.
From that point of view, there's nothing wrong with fanciing Manchester City to advance.
"We're not going to think about it yet."
In the 33rd round of the league, Manchester City did not answer the topic of the Champions League when he faced questions from reporters before the pre-match press conference of Manchester City's home game against Sunderland.
"We're playing against Sunderland, so I'm not going to answer any other questions!"
Gao Bo said.
Attentive media will be able to see his attitude towards this game from Gao Bo's attitude.
The media, which has studied Gao Bo's coaching style, has summarized Gao Bo's character.
For some heavyweight opponents, Gao Bo is always reluctant to let the media have too much contact with his players, and he always tries to cool down the heat of the media.
That's what a sane manager does.
Or rather, this is Gao Bo's approach.
From this point of view, Gao Bo is very serious about the game against Bayern Munich.
And in the 33rd round of the league, Manchester City sent the main lineup.
There are seven days to go until the first leg of the Champions League semi-final, and in that time, City have two games to play.
The 33rd round of the league is at home to Sunderland, the 34th round of the league is at home to West Bromwich Albion on April 17 and 20 April, while the Champions League semi-finals are played on April 23.
The schedule is quite tight.
And this game can also be seen as a preview before the start of the Champions League semi-finals.
Manchester City's main force is to let Manchester City's main players maintain their good condition through the game a week before the big game, after all, if the main players are allowed to rest all the time, in case the game state is gone.... Then Gao Bo wanted to find a piece of tofu and hit him to death.
In the face of Manchester City's full main lineup, even if Sunderland, who is playing away, has a very serious relegation task, the Black Cats are indeed very desperate.
However, they could not avoid defeat at the Etihad Stadium.
In the first half, Antoine Griezmann scored twice to give his team a 2-0 lead.
At the start of the second half, Eden Hazard fired a brilliant shot from inside the box to send the ball into the back of the net to make it 3-0.
Then, Gao Bo began to dispatch troops.
Kaka, Eriksen and Vardy have made their debuts.
It's all about substitutions on the offensive end, which is a player that could be used in the away game against Bayern Munich, which also shows that Gao Bo's mentality is that even if it is away, Manchester City wants to dominate the attack.
Strong!
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