Chapter 591: Odds to Win the Championship
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The flag was unfurled at Loftus Road Stadium and the fans were as happy as Christmas.
Of course, it's still not as sour as it was when the team beat Chelsea before, but it's pretty much the same.
The team was able to win back-to-back victories against tough opponents, which they could not have imagined before.
Fans who expressed dissatisfaction at the beginning of the season because of the team's big change just wanted to jump up and shout "really fragrant" at this time.
Mancini started to make another substitution at this point, replacing midfielder Barry with the bad boy Balotelli bought from Inter Milan, No. 11 Adam. Johnson replaces Sergio Aguero and gives it a go.
Adam Johnson, born in '87, is considered one of the most talented players of England's younger generation, having been named in the England squad before the age of 23.
This season, he has been an important substitute for Manchester City, and he has repeatedly put in wonderful performances. But soon he would end his career in prison for six years on charges of sexually assaulting a 15-year-old girl.
Mancini was counting on two young attackers to open up the game in the final moments.
Just two minutes into the game, Adam. Johnson distributed the ball to the wing, Kolarov took the ball and crossed, hoisted the ball into the box, Yaya. Toure pressed Nainggolan to head in the back of the net to beat Handanovic's 10-finger pass.
Simeone also hurried to make a substitution at this time, Borja. Valero replaces Thiago. Motta came to strengthen the midfield's possession and removed Alda. Turan brought on Virgil van Dijk to strengthen the defence.
The team changed to a 5311 formation, and Ricardo played as a hidden striker.
The QPR, who had piled up a large number of defenders, stood still under City's attack, while Handanovic made two crucial saves to keep the back of the net.
As time went on, City became more and more impatient and their backline was exposed to a lot of gaps.
QPR was a threat on several counter-attacks in a row, but Joe. Hart went into magic mode again, making a high block and not allowing QPR to extend the score.
In the 88th minute, after QPR broke the ball in midfield, Modric passed directly over the top to find Klose. Klose dribbled the ball to the wing, dodged a Richards tackle and played the ball into the box.
His ball wasn't too high and Lescott stood still, waiting for the ball to fly.
But Ricardo jumped out from behind him and swooped for the top of the pitch, and Lescott couldn't get anywhere to foul, and the ball smashed under the crossbar and bounced off the goal line.
Hart immediately fished the ball out, but the referee was aware of it and blew the whistle to signal that the goal was valid.
Ricardo's brace rewrote the score to 5:3, and the score was maintained until the end.
Before the game, I am afraid that no one expected that there would be such a big score in this game, but if you think about it carefully, it is reasonable.
Manchester City have scored 17 goals in their previous four matches and their attacking prowess is evident for all to see.
QPR can enter Chelsea 6 and Tottenham 3, naturally it is not a fuel-efficient lamp.
As the curtain comes down on this game, Manchester City is still at the top of the table with 9 wins, 1 draw, 1 loss and 28 points, and Manchester United is in second place with 8 wins, 2 draws and 1 loss with 26 points.
Tottenham Hotspur is third with 23 points from 7 wins, 2 draws and 2 losses, while QPR has 6 wins, 3 draws and 2 losses, with 21 points and 21 points to finish in the top 4. Chelsea lost 3-5 to Arsenal after losing to QPR, and dropped to fifth with 20 points from 6 wins, 2 draws and 3 losses.
Before the start of this season, no one could have imagined that QPR could be ranked so high, and everyone thought that it would be good for a promoted horse to be successfully relegated.
Even if more than £200 million is invested in the transfer market, it will take time to translate into timely combat power, and it will be difficult to even enter the top 10 this season.
But QPR slapped everyone in the face.
"I'm proud of the lads' performance," Simeone said in his post-match press conference, "and today's game showed the world what we are capable of. We're not a belly team, Premier League, be careful, we're coming! ”
'At the beginning of the season we said that our goal was to finish in the top four. Now it looks like we've achieved our goal for the time being, but it's only 11 rounds and it's too early. We have to be more cautious in the next games and try to maintain our ranking. The second leg will be more difficult and people will know us better, but I'm confident that if we have enough quality on our own, we can get there. ”
'We aspire to be in the Champions League, with good players like Ricardo and Luka Modric, it would be a crime against them not to be in the Champions League. They deserve to show themselves on the stage of the Champions League. ”
Mancini, on the other hand, said helplessly: "Our five goals conceded, all related to Ricardo. He always gets us in trouble. He's such a superstar who can single-handedly change the situation on the pitch. Frankly, if Ricardo is on our side, I have the confidence to play QPR an 8:3. But Ricardo was their man. ”
"I heard that QPR's current odds to win the championship are 270 to 1? I'm going to buy £200 and bet on them to win. It's very rare for a promoted horse to win a championship, but they have a Ricardo and I think that makes the impossible possible. ”
Later, in an interview, Ricardo laughed: "Mancini exalted me too much. I'm just a player, I'm not God. I can do my job on the pitch, but it's still too difficult for us to win the title. Our goal this season is clear, to finish in the top four. Next season, we'll make some changes to the team, and then we'll think about whether we want to aim for the title. By the way, 270 to 1? Mancini was too late. I bought £500 at odds of 1 to 2000. It's not illegal, is it? ”
Yes, at the beginning of the season, QPR's odds to win the title were 1 to 2000, and now their odds have been adjusted quite a bit due to their strong performance. By the way, their relegation odds are 4 to 1.
The top call for the title this season was Manchester United, who were priced at 2.4 to 1 at the start of the season, followed by Chelsea at 4 to 1 and Manchester City at 6 to 1. The odds of several promoted horses to win the championship are more than 1000 to 1.
On the other hand, in terms of the top scorer odds, due to the fact that he has dominated the scorer list for two seasons and opened a huge gap with the second place, the odds for Licardo to win the Golden Boot this season are 1.4 to 1. Almost everyone expected it.
And now after 11 rounds, he has scored 16 goals and provided 4 assists, and he is still the leader.
And the odds for him to break his own record of 38 goals in a single season this season are 6.5 to 1, which means that there are still many people who believe that he can break the record again and create another glory.
As long as he doesn't suffer from serious injuries, winning the Golden Boot is a sure thing, and breaking the record is not out of the question.
Immediately after the victory, Ricardo hosted a banquet on the first and second floors of a five-star hotel for all the first team members and the team's coaching staff. As for the administrative staff and general staff, he plans to wait until the end of the season to celebrate the feast.
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