Chapter 1187: Idol
The match against Tottenham Hotspur started as scheduled.
Manchester City fielded their entire squad in this game. Facing Tottenham Hotspur, who are hell-bent on squeezing into the top four of the league, Benitez does not dare to take it lightly.
He can't afford to put City in front of the finish line.
This is the goal that Glory and the whole Manchester City team have been working on for a year and a half......
This match was also selected by Sky TV as a match to be broadcast live to the world.
All eyes are on them.
Will a whole new history be created?
Apart from the two fixtures that have been postponed to April 26 and 27, the match between Manchester City and Tottenham Hotspur is the final game of the round.
Prior to that, Chelsea had beaten West Bromwich Albion 3-1 away to regain seven points ahead of Tottenham Hotspur with a game in hand.
So if Tottenham Hotspur can't beat Manchester City, Chelsea's defeat in the last round won't make much sense.
Chelsea's victory further spurred Tottenham Hotspur.
Liverpool and Arsenal drew 1-1.
It should have been a good opportunity for City to close the gap between them and the top four in the league.
But after the defeat to Manchester City, Liverpool seemed to be deflated.
They were unable to win this game with a 1-1 draw away from Arsenal, and the gap between them and Tottenham Hotspur was further widened, and after losing to Manchester City, Liverpool's hopes of progression to the top four of the league were very slim.
Chelsea are fourth in the league and are now on 61 points, while Liverpool are on 46, a whopping fifteen points separating the two sides, which is enough to bid Liverpool farewell to next season's Champions League with five games remaining.
They want to qualify for the Champions League unless Chelsea lose their next five league games and Liverpool win them all, and Tottenham Hotspur in front of them will have to lose a few games to ensure that Liverpool in sixth place will move straight to fourth.
However, the probability of any of these things happening separately is very low, let alone at the same time......
It can be said that Liverpool's collapse began when they lost to Manchester City.
It was a huge game for Liverpool, who were unable to withstand City's attack and were ultimately defeated, ruining their hopes of fourth place in the league.
Manchester City's league title rivals Manchester United beat Newcastle United 1-0 away to score the only goal for the team.
It was Klose's 24th league goal of the season, but he has already stepped down from the top of the league scorers' charts and it is glory that has pulled him down. Glory is now at the top of the league scorers list with 28 goals.
With five league games remaining, Manchester United are currently playing one more game than Manchester City, and the gap on Manchester City has been reduced to five points.
If Manchester City lose this game to Tottenham Hotspur, then Manchester United still have a chance to compete for the league title.
Everybody's all eyes on the game, the league title, the ...... who want to qualify for next season's Champions League The last game of this round has become the focus of everyone's attention.
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There is a professional statistical agency in the United Kingdom that calculates Rongguang's running speed based on the video footage of Rongguang in the race.
They calculated that Glory had the fastest sprint in the race, reaching a speed of 37.1 kilometers per hour!
This figure is not only the fastest player in the Premier League, but also the fastest footballer in the world.
You must know that Bolt's fastest speed is converted to 37.578 kilometers per hour.
Glory's speed is very close to Bolt's speed.
Because the speed of glory is too shocking after it comes out, it has caused a wave of controversy, and opponents believe that the way this agency went to record the speed measurement is not rigorous enough, and there is a large error.
Moreover, there are many factors that affect the player's running speed during the game, and the sprint speed does not fully reflect the player's running speed.
So this speed doesn't say anything.
But this number may be controversial, but Rongguang's running speed ranks first in the entire world football, and there must be no dispute.
Didn't Godot value him because of his super speed?
This agency also made a ranking.
At the top of the list is glory, there is nothing to say.
The second place went to Manchester United's winger Valencia, which many people did not expect. Because Valencia is also one of those players who are not very well-known at Manchester United, and the same is true in the whole world of football. After this ranking came out, many people's first reaction was "Why is Valencia second?" ”
However, the agency calculated that Valencia's top sprint speed in a race was 35.2 kilometers per hour! Very fast indeed.
Third in the list is Wales winger Gareth Bale, who now plays for Tottenham Hotspur.
His fastest sprint speed was 34.7 kilometres per hour.
Fourth place is still Tottenham Hotspur's winger Lennon, who sprints at a maximum speed of 33.8 kilometres per hour.
And in this game, Manchester City's match with Tottenham Hotspur, there are three players on the list. And the rankings are all in the top five.
Glory first, Bell third, Lennon fourth.
Together, these three men are clearly going to be a battle of speed and passion.
Because the team has Tottenham Hotspur and Lennon, two wingers on the left and one on the right, Tottenham Hotspur's tactics are also mainly based on flying on both wings, and they also have a tall guy like Crouch in the middle and a strong center forward like Pavlyuchenko.
Flying on both wings and grabbing points in the middle is Tottenham's tactic.
When the two of them soared on the wings, the power was amazing.
Tottenham Hotspur's fifth place this season has a lot to do with the excellent play of their two wings.
Those who don't want Manchester City to break Arsenal's record have pinned their hopes on Bale and Lennon.
However, there is a piece of news ahead of this game that may make these people feel a little uncomfortable.
Before the game, Gareth Bale was asked about the glory by reporters in an interview.
After all, he and Rongguang are both very fast.
Bale is very frank about how he is a fan of Glory, and Glory has the same characteristics as him, they are both speed players, so he has always imitated Glory to play.
"Of course I'm not as good as him, so I haven't learned to be like ...... yet," Bell said, scratching his head, a little shy.
The opponent is an idol of glory!
This is very upset for those who want Manchester City to lose.
They think that even if this is the case, Bale should not have said it before the game!
It's a demoralizing act!
But Bell doesn't think so.
When the players on both sides were waiting in the tunnel to play, Bale took the initiative to go up and say hello to Rongguang, and the two shook hands, and at the same time, Bale booked Rongguang in advance to exchange jerseys after the game.
Then he returned to his ranks, standing in front of Lennon.
Lennon looked at Bell with a smile on his face after he came back, and pursed his lips: "Gareth, don't you see what the outside world says about you?" Do you dare to say hello to Rong? ”
"I saw it, so what? I like Young, but that doesn't mean I'm going to play against him. Bell put away his smile and answered Lennon's question very seriously. On the contrary, I'm going to give it my all to beat him in the game, and it's a good opportunity to show what I'm capable of, Allen. ”
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Bale did what he said he would, and as soon as the game began, he picked up the ball on the wing and used his speed to force a break through Zabaleta and complete a cross.
Crouch, who followed up in the middle, was a little slower and couldn't touch the ball.
The ball was pushed off the line by Manchester City centre-back Vincent Kompany, who followed him at the back post, and the exhalations of Manchester City fans rang out from the stands – they were really nervous when Bale breached Zabaleta just now.
"Bale's breakthrough is really sharp!" John Mortensen said. "The way he broke through Zabaleta just now actually made people think that he was already unstoppable! Although Zabaleta was ready to face him, it was ...... It was still easy to get past Bell......"
"Looks like Bale is in very good shape this game." Alan Hansen said. "I've been in such good shape from the start of the game, and in the next games, I'm afraid Manchester City's back direction will not be peaceful......
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"Be careful, Pablo!" Goalkeeper Joe Hart was shouting to Zabaleta, "Concentrate and foul if you can't!" ”
Zabaleta nodded, a little embarrassed on her face.
The first time I met Bale in this game, I was mercilessly passed by the other party, and I didn't react at all, like a wooden stake......
It's just embarrassing.
As one of the most reliable right-backs in the Premier League at present, he was broken through so neatly by Bale......
Lucio leaned in and whispered to him, "Why was he passed without even making a move?" Zabaleta replied with a frown: "When he breaks through...... Well, I had the illusion for a moment that it was Ei ...... in front of me."
Lucio was surprised when he heard Zabaleta's answer, and his face had a colorful expression: "Rong? That's impossible! ”
"yes, so I said it was an illusion. It's an illusion......" Zabaleta repeated.
But he didn't really know if it was a delusion or not.
Anyway, when Bale broke through head-on and accelerated, he really had a moment when he felt that he was not facing Bale, it was Rong, and he was not on the playing field, but on the training ground.
So he was in a trance.
Then I heard a loud exclamation from the stands - he had been given by Bell......
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City were awarded a corner just two minutes into the game, and it was Bale who had taken it.
The corners he took were like his breakthrough and the quality was high.
Crouch, with his height, really grabbed that point in the crowd and headed the ball towards the goal.
It was just a slight deflection of the post, otherwise Joe Hart would have been unable to save the ball and would have had to count on full-back Leiton Barnes standing in front of the post.
However, Leighton Barnes jumped up to stop the ball, but he jumped some distance from the football.
In other words, with Crouch's goal just over the right bit, Tottenham could take the lead just over two minutes into the game.
This is undoubtedly what those who want City to lose most of all.