Chapter 1264 - The Easiest Away Away
Zlatan Ibrahimovic's goal really reminded the players of Zenit St. Petersburg that despite the glory of the game, Manchester City still have Zlatan Ibrahimovic!
This is also a superstar who can change the outcome of a game on his own!
Zenit St. Petersburg was in complete despair.
Although the glory has gone down, Ibrahimovic is still there, and if they counterattack vigorously, they are afraid that Ibrahimovic will score more goals.
Everyone knows the relationship between Ibrahimovic and Glory.
Glory scored a hat-trick in this game, and Ibrahimovic was really upset because he only scored one goal.
Now that he has scored two goals, he is only one goal away from equalizing glory, which will surely fill Ibrahimovic with endless fighting spirit, and if Zenit St. Petersburg still attack aggressively and try to pull one or a few goals back, I am afraid that they will concede more dribbles......
In such a situation, there is really no way to concede a goal.
Now it is a quasi-tragedy, if you lose another goal, count 0:6, it will no longer be as simple as a tragedy, but a massacre......
So after Ibrahimovic's goal, Zenit St. Petersburg quickly became honest.
And the next game developed as they expected, Ibrahimovic was really unwilling to lose one goal to glory, and he desperately wanted to score in the next game.
Benitez also seemed to see Ibrahimovic's intentions, so he used all three substitutions, but never replaced Ibrahimovic, leaving him on the pitch.
He replaced Rongguang in advance, and Rongguang was not dissatisfied. But he knows very well that if he replaces Ibrahimovic in advance in this situation, Ibrahimovic will definitely dare to give him the whole big news after the game.
It's a pity that Ibrahimovich's own luck is really poor.
He had a shot that was very, very close to the goal, but it slid wide......
In the end, Ibrahimovic was unable to score until the end of the game.
So in the competition between him and Glory in this game, he lost again, 2:3, and scored twice to lose to Glory's hat trick.
It also made his expression not look good after the game, and the other Manchester City players around him were celebrating the unexpected victory, only with a slightly stern expression.
But no one cares about Ibrahimovic's expression anymore, and reporters don't expect to dig City's grave right now.
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After the game, some Russian media said that in this game, Zenit St. Petersburg did not lose to Manchester City, but lost to Manchester City's money.
"If Manchester City didn't have superstars like Rong and Zlatan Ibrahimovic, would they still be able to win this game?" The media asked such a rhetorical question. "If we had that kind of money power, we could buy enough superstars......"
Since Manchester City started playing in the Champions League, whenever they have won a game in the Champions League, they have always attracted criticism like this, as if every Manchester City victory was the result of their behind-the-scenes owners, the Abu Dhabi consortium, privately bribing referees and opponents.
Such criticism was fashionable at first, and many people agreed, as if Manchester City's existence had really tarnished the sport and disgraced European football.
But later, as more and more people said this, everyone began to think that this was actually a very stupid statement, and some people began to refute this brainless criticism.
Next, far fewer people openly express this opinion.
However, there are still people who stick to their original intentions, but no one expected that the climax of this view was caused by Cruyff, and Cruyff, such a respected celebrity, also jumped out to say that the danger of Manchester City's golden yuan football shocked many people - I didn't expect Cruyff **** to catch up with the hot ......
As a result, Cruyff was swollen in the face by glory.
After that, fewer and fewer people and the media openly expressed views similar to Cruyff's.
Many people still think that Manchester City can win the championship, although they have money, but if they want to win the championship, they have to rely on the actual performance of the players on the field, which is not just money. Otherwise, the current clubs with the highest profits in the football world are Real Madrid, Barcelona and Manchester United, but why haven't they won against Manchester City? Doesn't Manchester City's victory over them just show that money isn't everything?
Now the Russian media is re-frying cold rice after losing the game, which has to make people feel that it is too LOW, and LOW is simply explosive.
So some English media responded to the Russian media: "It is not the English team that gave Eto'o a weekly salary of 200,000 euros, but the Russian team Anzhi." If you want to say that there is money, I think Russia and the Middle East, which made their fortune by selling resources and oil, are not to mention the second brother. In addition, I can answer the question of the Russians unequivocally: even if you are ten times richer than Manchester City, you will not be able to dig up glory! ”
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After beating Zenit St. Petersburg 5-0 away, Manchester City are top of the group with three wins and one draw and ten points, and with two rounds of the group stage remaining, it can be said that Manchester City have already qualified for the group ahead of schedule.
Now second in the group is Atletico Greek, who beat Porto 2-1 at home, with two wins, one draw and one defeat, and seven points. Zenit St. Petersburg, on the other hand, lost to Manchester City at home, with one win, one draw and two losses, accumulating four points and ranking third.
Last season's Europa League winners, Porto, surprisingly finished from the bottom. They haven't won four rounds of the group stage, with one draw and three losses, only one point, and have been eliminated early.
As a well-known black shop in Europe, relying on the European championship to increase the value of players and coaches, and then selling them to make a profit is their way to survive, so after winning the championship, because of the departure of meritorious players and coaches, the decline in the team's performance is also the price they must bear.
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Back in the league, Kaka finally made a comeback.
Kaka, who missed three games due to injury, started the weekend's away game against Queens Park Rangers.
While most of City's main players were rotated and rested, he and the trident of Glory and Ibrahimovic did not miss this game.
In the end, Kaka didn't score, but he provided an assist to help Manchester City beat Queens Park Rangers 3-2 away.
Glory scored twice in the league and led the league scorers list with 15 goals.
And the glory of this game has not been played to the whole game. This is the second consecutive game since the last Champions League game, and Rong Guang has been substituted early.
Of course, it was not because the glory table was not good, and a total of five goals were scored in two games, which is very good.
Nor is it because he has any contradictions with Benitez.
After being substituted early in the last Champions League group game, Rongguang said in an interview that he understands Benitez's idea of replacing him early, and he also supports the manager to do so.
In this game against Queens Park Rangers, he was substituted early for another reason.
That's because Rongguang will return to the national team to participate in the top 20 of the Asian qualifiers for the World Cup.
Considering that Glory has been running continuously during this time, and it is all high-intensity games. Benitez also didn't want to get Glory injured when he returned home to compete because of fatigue.
Since glory is so important, neither the club nor the national team can be separated, so no one wants to monopolize him, and how to make sustainable use of glory is what the club and the national team should work together.
As the head coach of the Chinese national team, Gao Hongbo first released goodwill and told Manchester City Club that as long as the victory in the national team game is decided, he will try to replace Rongguang in advance to let Rongguang get more rest.
And Manchester City FC has also made a similar promise, also when the victory is decided, let Rongguang go down early and rest more.
Regarding this agreement reached by the two teams, it is natural that Rongguang is not hiding it, and Rongguang is very aware of this. And he had no objection to that arrangement.
Although he actually felt that neither team had to do this, his body was completely coping with it.
However, Debora taught him to know how to accept the kindness of others, and there was no damage to him anyway, so it was better to just obey.
In this way, Glory scored the second goal in the 66th minute to give Manchester City a 2-0 lead over Queens Park Rangers before being replaced by Rafael Benitez.
However, he didn't expect Queens Park Rangers to suddenly explode after the glory went off the field, scoring two goals in a row to equalize the score.
Kaka, who was still on the pitch at this time, took advantage of a long pass in a counterattack to kick a long diagonal pass from the backfield that was close to the ground, and found Ibrahimovic directly and accurately, Ibrahimovic pushed the ball directly without stopping, and the football flew into the goal.
Manchester City finally won Queens Park Rangers away from home, and Benitez did not regret his premature substitution......
Kaka's assist also announced his return.
And just after the game, there was good news from Brazil, the head coach of the Brazilian national team, Pereira, announced that Kaka had been recruited into the team to prepare for two friendly matches.
Kaka has not been selected for the Brazilian national team since the World Cup in South Africa, and now, after more than two years, Kaka is back in the jersey of the Brazilian national team, which quickly became the headline news throughout Brazil and caused great repercussions in Europe.
Some media said that Kaka's return to the Brazilian national team means that Kaka's form has officially recovered.
Kaka himself naturally welcomed Pereira's decision, and the day after the match, he took the first flight to Libreville, the capital of the African country of Gabon, to prepare for a friendly match with Gabon and then a friendly match with Egypt.
Just as Kaka's plane took off, Rongguang also arrived at the airport in Manchester, and he will fly directly to Doha, the capital of Qatar, where he will meet with the Chinese national team to prepare for the World Cup qualifiers round of 20 away against Iraq.
At the same time as Kaka returned to the Brazilian national team, the glorious Chinese national team is also running forward on the road to Brazil.
The two of them have the same goal in mind – to meet at the 2014 World Cup in Brazil!