Chapter 1182: The closer you get to success, the greater the pressure

Manchester City easily beat Real Madrid away from home - everyone thought it should be easy, because Manchester City managed Manchester City by virtue of glory, and the other players were not under much pressure, because they quickly took the lead, and the initiative was always in the hands of Manchester City, so their players did not need to spend too much useless body in the game.

The Manchester Evening News even quipped: "The rest of the Manchester City players may not have had the hard work of flying back and forth in the game...... As for Ibrahimovic? He only played fifteen minutes of the game, and his fitness and energy were even better! ”

Under such circumstances, Manchester City returned to Manchester to prepare for the 32nd round of the league against Liverpool.

Liverpool are hoping to wear down Manchester City with Champions League fixtures, and now that plan has fallen through.

In fact, it was not Liverpool who was most disappointed, but the North London Clarion.

After Manchester City's away win over Real Madrid, the North London Clarion, which had been a keen reporter of the city's situation, suddenly fell silent, and there was no news about the game on their pages.

Some Manchester City fans even ran to their website to mock: "Why don't you report the news? Bad review! I bought your newspaper just to see how you reported Manchester City's 3-1 away win over Real Madrid, but you didn't report it, it's so disrespectful! Are your reporters and editors blind?! ”

The North London Clarion was right to remain silent, because with only one game left, there was no need for them to come out and pull the hate now.

Just wait for the result of the game.

If Liverpool beat Manchester City, they will just come out and taunt again.

When the time comes, it will not be too late for a gentleman to take revenge for ten years!

It's just that the North London Clarion can play dead, and their reporter George Allen was hacked by Manchester City fans on social networks, and countless people asked him what he thought of Manchester City's next away game against Liverpool.

George Allen is more backbone than the newspaper he works for, and he has spoken directly to Manchester City fans online.

A chaotic battle ensued between the two sides.

The only thing that can end this war is probably the match between Manchester City and Liverpool.

They won't have to wait too long, and three days later, it's Manchester City's away game against Liverpool.

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English football has been so busy lately, the media are busy, and the fans feel like it's Christmas every day.

Manchester City just played Real Madrid 3-1 away from home, and there are so many stories to tell in this game, followed by the strong dialogue between Manchester City and Liverpool, and there are also a lot of gimmicks worth hype.

Everyone has a feeling of being dizzy.

Glory's hat-trick at the Bernabeu shocked Europe, and Manchester City, who had one less man, not only won the game, but also won with great ease, which is naturally due to Glory.

The whole of Europe is talking about how glorious it is today.

Cristiano Ronaldo lost badly in a direct conversation with Glory, who scored three goals, and he didn't score a single goal, so naturally he can't compare it with Glory anymore.

The only one who can compare with glory is Messi.

But in front of such an amazing table of glory, it seems that Messi is a little inadequate......

“…… There are two kinds of football players in the world, one is Rong and the other is the other. Britain's The Sun declared.

Although the reputation of this tabloid is not very good, their sales are very large, and this view also represents the opinion of a large part of the population in a sense.

However, some people believe that if Rongguang wants to be king, it still depends on whether he can win the Champions League in the end. Otherwise, no matter how good you are in the competition, if you don't win the championship, you will quickly be forgotten. The vast majority of people don't give praise to a loser.

It's like a race, no matter how fast Glory runs before the finish line, no matter how much he leads behind, if he finally falls to the ground, he can only watch his opponent overtake him and enjoy cheering.

People will feel sorry for his fall, but there will never be anyone who thinks that even if Glory falls, he is still a winner...... That's self-deception.

So before the Champions League final is over, it's best not to say that Glory is already the world's No. 1, that's giving Glory a bad character......

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Rong Guang himself doesn't care about how high his status in international football is now, he cares more about the next game.

Manchester City have been preparing for Liverpool since returning to their Carrington training base.

Rafa Benitez has shown everyone the full footage of Liverpool's 3-1 home win over Manchester United.

The reason why there is no editing is because Benitez wants to give the players a complete picture of a game, drawing experience from many details.

He takes this game very seriously, more than against Real Madrid.

Because he also knew that this was the last step of the Long March - he didn't know the Long March, but he certainly knew something similar.

There are many lessons to be learned from the past, whatever the reason, failure is failure, and people will not remember how remarkable Manchester City's record of 48 league games unbeaten is, and people will only say Arsenal's 49 games when referring to the longest unbeaten league run in English football history.

Manchester City's forty-eight?

What is that?

Benitez's job is to stifle everything that could lead to a defeat at Liverpool.

But at the same time, Benitez has to take the pressure off the players.

Because he didn't want the players to be too nervous or too concerned about that record and play out of tune in the game.

It's just that the way he decompresses the players is not the same as the way people generally think to decompress......

He's not telling the players not to take the game seriously, and not to take the record seriously.

He just told his players: "Don't worry about playing boldly, what's the problem, don't we still have glory?" ”

The players in the room burst into laughter, everyone looked at Glory, and some whistled excitedly.

Glory was also amused, but he did not contradict Benitez, nor did he express his anxiety or dissatisfaction.

He accepted the pressure that Benitez put on him.

This is how Benitez chose to decompress the team, he transferred the pressure that should have been borne by the whole team to Rongguang alone, and the pressure was borne by Rongguang alone, and the others naturally had no pressure.

If you put it on other teams, it would be very inhumane and a cowardly act of failure.

But only at Manchester City does it work and it makes the right move.

When it comes to forcibly climbing the peak, the usual decompression measures are useless, but fortunately Manchester City has glory.

Benitez is just telling the truth.

The most recent example is just around the corner – the last Champions League quarter-final match against Real Madrid at the Bernabeu, when the team was in an extremely disadvantaged situation, such a big problem was finally solved by Glory alone.

Isn't this any different from what Benitez said?

This is not a gimmick, this is a consensus within the Manchester City team - if there is a problem, look for glory, yes!

With glory behind them, Manchester City's players really have nothing to fear.

The sky is falling, and the tall man is on top of it!

Glory is that tall man!

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On April 10, with a relaxed attitude of "we are still proud", the whole Manchester City team departed from Manchester by bus to Liverpool, 40 kilometers away, to prepare for the next day's away game.

The two cities are so close together that if the game wasn't particularly important, Manchester City could have departed that morning......

It's a forty-kilometer journey, and it doesn't take an hour to drive.

Manchester City practiced acclimatisation at Anfield in the evening, while Rafael Benitez attended the pre-match press conference in the stadium's press conference hall.

Liverpool is also a special opponent for Benitez, as he has been in charge of Liverpool since he was in charge of Manchester City.

However, because the coaching results at Liverpool did not satisfy the management of Liverpool FC, coupled with the disagreement with the management on recruitment, Benitez was finally swept away by Liverpool.

After half a season at home, he arrived at Manchester City as a firefighting coach, and no one believed he could lead a team that was on the verge of relegation to dominate the Premier League.

But he did.

So since then, every time he has led the team to face Liverpool, Liverpool's management has probably mixed feelings.

However, at today's press conference, reporters did not care about the feud between Benitez and Liverpool.

The questions they ask are all about one thing.

That's about Manchester City FC just one game away from equalling Arsenal's record of 49 league games unbeaten......

All the reporters scrambled to change their tricks, and they only cared about this matter.

George Allen, a reporter for the North London Clarion, was in the crowd, but he didn't ask any questions, and with so many fellow reporters asking questions, he didn't need to be out of the picture.

This matter has received the attention of so many reporters, and he thinks it is a good thing.

Repeating the topic for every journalist who comes up to ask a question is tantamount to deepening the pressure on City's head.

Just keep reminding them that you're one game away from equalising Arsenal! You're one game away! It's really just one game! It only takes one game for you to be on an equal footing with the greatest Arsenal in history!

This constant repetition of the reminder will turn into a hypnotic spell for the City players, making them sleepwalk in the next day's game.

That's enough pressure to crush any team, and George Allen believes Manchester City will be no exception.

Try to pay more attention to this record!

The more you care about this record, the closer you are to the finish line!

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