Mubarak left the podium at half-time and never returned, and the team has not even been as good as Chelsea in their first year.

He had delved into Chelsea's rise before the summer, buying second-tier stars and producing results, which was the way to go, so he didn't have any requirements for Mark Hughes.

He thinks he is a relatively enlightened chairman, he has not completely abandoned the rules of football, and has given the team a lot of freedom, but according to this posture, they will be ranked outside the top ten this season.

They were ranked sixth before Abu Dhabi didn't settle in last year, so I don't know what the use of spending so much money is!

"Hey, rich guys, you can't buy the golden boy of Europe"

"Hey, rich guys, you can't buy the prince of the Red Army"

"Hey, rich guys, you can't buy a victory"

In the stands at halftime, Reds fans even made up a song on the fly, and the simple tune and lyrics quickly spread and responded.

They treat their team like family, but they don't treat their enemies with mercy!

'I have to say you played really well in the first half, but this is the Etihad, you can't let up in the second half,' said Sami Lee happily in the dressing room.

The most eye-catching thing in the first half was the stability of the team, the team was like a sword in the left hand and a shield in the right hand.

Every move and style were all even, almost did not give Manchester City any chance to shoot, and took the time to return two swords, and the move was bloody.

At just 22 years old, left-back Enrique is already one of the best left-backs in the Premier League, and he is nicknamed "The Bull" who single-handedly supports Liverpool's left side.

Finnan is in the final year of his contract this year, and he will be 33 after this season, and he did not renew his contract with the club in the summer, but decided to go on a free transfer at the end of the season, just like Hyypia.

Ager, Skrtel, Cahill, Mascherano, Liela and Torres are all around 25, paired with 30-year-old veterans such as Gerrard, Kuyt and Carragher.

It's the peak age of the team, and when the results are released, Sammy Lee looks a little pity, if it weren't for the mess at the club, they might have been able to create a dynasty.

'We had a good pace in the first half and we could have slowed down a little bit in the second half, be patient but don't be careless,' Sami Lee continued.

There was a relaxed atmosphere in the dressing room, and the players chatted as they listened to Sammy Lee's arrangement.

The main thing is to discuss the experience of the first half, after the style change, the cooperation of their respective small groups, and the timing of the pass, they have to readjust the run-in, but now they don't have a lot of training time, so they can only practice with the game and slowly find the feeling.

"You disciple is really amazing", Sammy Lee said a few words and gave the locker room to the players, and he and Hugh ran to the locker room to smoke and chat.

"When he was at Cocoby, we all agreed that he was a natural core, but we didn't find out at the time that he was so good at the goal," Hugh said unexpectedly.

Sami Lee said while puffing out the smoke: "It was all forced out by Rafa, and after I came, I found that this kid trained very hard and practiced more often."

"Rafa's use of people, to be honest, sometimes I can't understand it, he seized every opportunity to be a substitute, which made Rafa look at him differently"

Hugh nodded, "You can rest assured that the midfielder will be handed over to him, he has been under my hands for two years, and he has never let me down, and sometimes I can't guess his thinking"

Sammy Lee snuffed out the cigarette butt and decided to call these captains in the future tactical meeting, he is not good at adjusting the attack, how to play and how to cooperate, and let them play more by themselves.

So sometimes a good coach doesn't have to be thoughtful and specific, and he knows how to use everything he can, maybe the players can bring you success.

The squad has matured in many ways after four years of training by Rafael Benitez, but they are in the same situation as Chelsea after Jose Mourinho's departure.

As long as the locker room is stable and after some fine-tuning, the strength is there, and the results are not much worse.

……

"Audience friends, we see that the second half of the game is about to start, the players of the two teams have walked out of the passage, and Liverpool, who were visiting in the first half, led the British upstart Manchester City 2:0, which can be said to be both unexpected and expected, Director Zhang, what do you say", Zhan Jun's voice came out of a live broadcast with background music.

"Hehe, yes", Zhang Lu showed a familiar laugh, "This Manchester City, it has spent a lot of money, and the offense has not seen any special improvement, but it has lost the defense of the Eriksen period"

"Liverpool's style of play today has completely changed, they played possession in the midfield, which is rarely seen in Liverpool in the past, especially after Mackin returned to midfield, their midfield looked extremely strong"

"Coupled with Gerrard's resemblance to a wide midfielder, Kuyt's range of movement is also very large, with Manchester City's current midfield, if you want to recover the disadvantage in the second half, you have to find a way"

Mark Hughes was also worried about this, but he looked at the bench, there was no one to change, the orthodox back only one veteran Hamann, but he was already 36, so at halftime he asked Kompany to mention the premise and strengthen the midfield pressing.

Now that they are two goals behind, they are bound to press up, otherwise with Liverpool's position today, there is no drama at all to move back.

Mackin looked at Manchester City's overall forward pressing formation, as expected, "both sides pulled apart", he received Alonso's pass, did not move forward to try to get rid of Ireland, but kicked back to Reina, and shouted to both sides along the way.

"Xavi, I'll go back and pick it up," he said as he passed Alonso.

"Manchester City stepped up their pressing in the second half, we watched Mark drop back and Liverpool's formation at the back was pulled apart," Pietersen said as he watched Mackin and Mascherano run to the back of the midfield together.

Mackin has to see if their two central midfielders dare to come up, otherwise their frontcourt pressing will be a joke.

Sure enough, only Ireland came up, and it seems that they also know that the crazy robbery that doesn't want to die is easy to be counterattacked.

"I think I saw Pirlo," said Peterson when Mack hit a back-and-forth between Ireland and Ruo, and then turned back with a light putt that was picked up by Agger who pressed forward.

Liverpool reversed the ball back and forth at the back with ease, and Mackin used Mascherano's protection and response to completely invalidate the pressing line built by Manchester City's front four.

Capello helped his eyes, took out his notebook, and lowered his head to remember something, Pirlo is the signature figure of the Italian midfielder after Albertini, how could he not be familiar.

The reason why Pirlo plays the back waist so freely has a lot to do with the fact that he is a small midfielder with good skills, and he sees that today's Mackin actually played that kind of style.

England's current Mackin organization has only liberated Frank Lampard and Gerrard in the early stages, and the entire England team has not yet fully recognized Mack Qin as the core in terms of awareness and tactics.

However, he is much more aware of forward attacks than Pirlo, and he didn't expect England to encounter such a figure when they were lucky.

Capello now has the highest salary as a national team coach in the world, entering the World Cup is just the basic job, the important thing is the ranking in the World Cup, he goes back and forth to inspect the players, in fact, he has prepared for the World Cup.

As for the qualifiers, if he can't lead the team, he feels that he will retire directly.

……

The situation in the entire second half has been under the control of the Liverpool team, or Mackqin, with Alonso and Gerrard on top of the midfield, so that Manchester City did not dare to press unscrupulously.

McManaman looked at it for a while and shook his head, "The gap between Manchester City and Chelsea at the beginning is not a little bit and a half, the attack is not disciplined, the defense is not coordinated, it is difficult for them to make a difference this season"

McManaman's vision is quite accurate, and Mackin remembers that this season they seemed to be in the top 10 and got nothing, until Mancini came, and then they spent hundreds of millions to barely squeeze into the top four.

But that was three or four years later, so even if they spent more money, Makqin wouldn't be here to waste his youth now.

Kompany has always been a big problem as a midfielder, that is, he does not have the ability to receive the ball from the back, and he must have Elano back, but the ball is at the feet of the Liverpool players most of the time, and Elano has no choice but to join the press in the end.

As the minutes ticked by, Liverpool could afford to drag it out, they couldn't afford it.

After being poked out by Agger again, Mack retreated to take the ball, and instead of routinely splitting the ball to both sides, he turned back and handed it to Alonso near the centre circle.

Then he turned back and quickly cut forward, and Alonso had a good idea, and a long diagonal pass found Liela cruising on the left touchline, and he knew that this time he was going to play a quick attack.

So in many cases, the reason why the star and the star cooperate are so powerful is because their thinking is synchronized, and at a level, they can play the effect of one plus one is greater than two.

Liela still couldn't get his own fault when he came to Liverpool, and the tactics arranged for him to go as far inside as possible, but he still liked to move along the touchline, and he would only move forward when he saw a gap, which was too traditional.

But fortunately, Enrique saw the two red players in the left midfield cut forward like the wind when Liela received the ball and was ready to face Zabaleta.

Enrique detoured outside the touchline and ran directly past Liella's side, here Ireland followed closely with Mackqin, "Beautiful, good ball, Mark received Liera's horizontal push, did not stop the ball, directly with an outside instep pick pass to the left side, Enrique came up......, he was like a gust of wind"

"Pretty, Enrique is pushing Richards, it's so fast," exclaimed Peterson.

Of course, fast, Enrique has enough time to start, Richardson has to turn while retreating, Enrique goes to the bottom line with the outside instep and overtakes directly.

"Enrique, Enrique, he got into the box, Kuyt squeezed forward desperately", Peterson picked up the tempo.

"Enrique passes back, an inverted triangle, he doesn't get to goal"

Mackin took Ireland into the ribs quickly, didn't touch the ball at all, and ran directly with Ireland, letting the ball pass behind him.

"Mark, he let the ball go", Peterson exclaimed, as he saw Alonso, "Alonso ......", he then yelled.

However, Liverpool seemed to be deliberately against him, Alonso scored with both feet, and also shook Elano behind him, and the ball crossed the penalty area in red and blue, and finally ushered in his real owner on the right side of the arc.

"Mascherano ......", this time Peterson really shouted, and if he didn't shoot again, he would definitely go down to the real PK.

There was no one around Mascherano, he even had the kung fu to knock the ball into the penalty area, and then directly picked up his thigh, "bang", the ball stuck to the turf, drilled through a thigh jungle, and appeared in front of Joe Hart with a "boom".

It was at his feet, just a stone's throw away from him, but he didn't even have time to reach out, let alone fall to the ground.

“Goal… al… Al......, Mascherano, 3:0, Liverpool seal the win! ”

McManaman said with a smile: "It's not easy, it's not easy, even he has scored, it seems that Liverpool has completely come out of the shadow of a winless streak......"

In his opinion, the game is over, Manchester City's midfield was completely suppressed today, and they have no chance of coming back.

"Haha......", Makqin ran to the sidelines and hugged the celebratory Mascherano, "Don't wash your feet today, it's too difficult for you to score a goal"

"Ah......h

Liverpool's visitors roared up the hill with a tsunami in the stands, just like Christmas, and Mark Hughes sighed, sat back in the dugout, and accepted the result.

"Bang", 100 million balloons, in the seventh round, were completely punctured by Liverpool's three shots, and you can hear the echo of the bang......

Farewell, 100 million arrays, let's go, thank you, 100 million arrays.