Chapter 176: Hunting Anelka (3) Anelka's thoughts

In China, there is an old saying that if you don't die in a great disaster, you will have a blessing. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. biqUgE怂 Obviously, the same applies to the football field on the other side of the ocean.

Just when Manchester United fans were still excited about Li Lei's desperate and wonderful save just now, just three minutes later, Ryan Giggs stimulated their G-spot again with a beautiful shot in the Manchester City penalty area, which made them reach a climax in an instant.

Rumble!!!

The entire Old Trafford stadium erupted in an instant, and the deafening cheers tested everyone's eardrums.

At the same time, Lineker, who had just yelled at Giggs's goal, immediately calmed down and dutifully did his job, explaining the impact of the goal on the game: "There is no doubt that this goal has completely changed the course of the game. City paid the price for their aggressive pressing and attacking short-before, and United taught them a hard lesson with a beautiful quick counter-attack. So now the question is, what are City going to do next, whether they will continue to attack, or go back to their previous rigid strategy, which is the question for Mr Keegan to solve now. ā€

But it was clear that Lineker had overestimated Keegan's mental qualities, and the City manager was restless and hysterical as a mad gambler who had bet everything and lost everything. At least until he calms down, he can't give any effective tactical instructions to the City players in response to the changes in the situation on the field.

Facing Ferguson, who left the biggest shadow on his coaching career, Keegan's obsession with winning this game was too great. He just wants to prove himself in front of Alex Ferguson and prove with a win that he is not the "soft" manager that the media ridiculed. A series of poor and sluggish performances at Manchester United had also given him great hope, but at the moment this hope was like a soap bubble of charm, shattered by Giggs's goal, which made him unable to accept it for a while, and immediately relieved.

In fact, even if they were to fall behind Manchester United by one goal at Old Trafford, it would not be without any chance of victory in terms of Manchester City's quality. Normally, Keegan, as a manager with a lot of coaching experience, should be able to see this right away. But unfortunately, at this moment, he has lost the most important sense of normalcy and calmness as a manager.

With the arrival of this goal, the nightmare of being chased by Alex Ferguson's Manchester United for 12 points in a row, and then being overtaken and losing the Premier League title was once again hanging over his heart at this time.

I'm afraid that even Ferguson himself couldn't have imagined that the fighting spirit and confidence of his old rival Keegan, who was standing next to him now, except for his pale face, would be declared defeated just because of Giggs's goal.

In addition to Keegan, the most obvious reaction to Giggs's goal was not Joey Barton, who came from Manchester City's academy and has been hostile to Manchester United since childhood, but French striker Anelka, who few people could think of.

Although when the French striker arrived at Manchester City, he immediately showed a wonderful performance to help Manchester City, who had just returned to the Premier League, to relegation and achieve a 9th place finish last season, which made him once again praised by fans and media after his infamous and questionable voice, but he was not satisfied.

In other words, since he came to Manchester City, he has come with a sense of grievance and resignation, and he has never had the ambition to make a difference in Manchester City, and he has never thought of treating this place as home.

For him, Manchester City is just a springboard and stepping stone for him to return to the big club, get a high income every year, and get back the high popularity that everyone is chasing and paying attention to.

Today, although his reputation among the outside world and fans is no longer as good as when he was at Paris Saint-Germain and Arsenal, Anelka has never come out of the old dream of the giants' eager pursuit of him from the outside world's cheers for him "French Ronaldo".

The idea of reliving old dreams has never died in his heart.

Although the outside world agrees that the two older brothers who acted as Anelka's agents ruined the French genius who could have competed with Henry, ask yourself, if it weren't for Anelka's own high self-esteem and greed for money and fame, would things really have come to this point? To say that after the ugly face of his two older brothers who greedily kept asking for high salaries from the team, was there really no instruction from Anelka himself?

To say no, I'm afraid to be self-deceptive.

I'm afraid Anelka knows this best. Why hasn't he changed his solitary and selfish style of play at Manchester City until now? Is it really too late to change? Of course not, he just wants to use a beautiful stat that can attract the attention of other teams and break away from Manchester City.

That is, Manchester City, a small team that has to play around the only star in the team like Anelka, if the French striker is now put in other big teams, his solitary and selfish style of play will still let him be driven out of the crowd sooner or later.

Of course, Anelka, who thinks highly of herself, would never agree with this, not even think about it. In his mind, he is the strongest player in world football today, but he has always "never met talents" and "met people unladylike".

His only purpose in staying at Manchester City now is to put on a good performance and prove that he is still the "French Ronaldo", so that he can escape from Manchester City, a damn poor club.

To do this, in addition to scoring more goals and making the stats look better, putting in a strong performance against a big team is undoubtedly another quick shortcut.

But how difficult it is that in modern football, where tactics and the average quality of players are increasing, the power of individual superstars is no longer as evident as in antiquity, and the mythical performance of Maradona who single-handedly brought the otherwise mediocre Napoli to the glory days of Serie A is now almost impossible.

In today's world, no matter how good a star is, it needs a good team to support and set off.

Maradona's deeds may be repeated in the future, but this person is by no means Anelka, who has almost room for improvement.

In such a situation, with the current low-profile squad of Manchester City, let alone facing Manchester United and Arsenal, even in the face of upstart Chelsea and down-and-out giants Liverpool, it is definitely very difficult for Anelka to show any outstanding performance.

But in this game, Manchester United's previous series of poor performances gave Anelka hope. It is no exaggeration to say that when it comes to the level of obsession with winning this game before the game, he is even comparable to Keegan, who is almost breaking down at this time.

If it weren't for such a momentum, when Manchester City suddenly launched a crazy rush on Manchester United, he would not have worked so this kind of dirty work like his usual lazy style.

Truth be told, Anelka had a good feeling about the game before Giggs' goal. I don't know where the confidence comes from, but he thinks he has a good chance of scoring in this game.

It is because of this mentality that after his shot just now was saved by Li Lei, he was able to hold back the anger of being provoked by Li Lei, because he felt that he had the opportunity to teach Li Lei, the now famous supernova goalkeeper in the UK, a good lesson in the next game.

But at this moment, his confidence and mentality were completely destroyed by Giggs's goal. Just like Keegan, who suddenly collapsed, Anelka's mentality, which was no less obsessive than him, was greatly affected by this goal, and it was quickly experienced in the following games.

In the 29th minute of the first half, when Joy Barton finally tried his best in the midfield to fall to the ground and steal the ball at the feet of Fletcher, he retreated to the center circle and got the football Anelka, which was stabbed out by Joy Barton, but after only a few steps towards the Manchester United goal, he hastily wasted the opportunity for his own teammates to fight with a powerful anti-aircraft gun.

In this attack, Anelka's anxiety, selfishness, and arbitrariness were exposed. Even Li Lei, who was standing far away in front of the door and couldn't see Anelka's face clearly at this moment, could clearly feel this.

Looking at Anelka's near the midfield, who didn't care about the complaints of Joey Barton and others, and walked back with his head down, the corners of Li Lei's mouth couldn't help but suddenly show a big smile.

He knew that this tasty prey had finally reached the point where it could be hunted at will.

The big smile is eerie!

It makes people panic!

Chills!!