Chapter 1292: Injuries Strike
In the last top 20 match with Jordan, Rongguang started the game, and at the Tianhe Stadium in Guangzhou, Rongguang almost enjoyed the treatment of a national leader.
Every time he gets the ball, even if it's just a pass, it will cause a tsunami of cheers from the stands.
"Rongguang is a well-deserved number one star in China......" Even the CCTV commentator sighed in the face of such a situation.
"No, or maybe it's the number one sports star......"
The glory did not disappoint the fans of those towers either. He showed that in the 28th minute of the game, he assisted his teammates to score, and then he scored in the 39th minute, helping the Chinese team to lead Jordan 2:0 in the first half.
Then, in the second half, the Chinese team won a direct free kick about 33 meters from the goal.
Of course, the ball was taken by Glory.
Glory kicked a lift ball with his right foot.
The ball flew high over the wall and then plunged into the back of the net between Jordanian goalkeeper Shafi and the crossbar.
3:0!
In the stands of Guangzhou Tianhe Stadium, the red crowd is surging, as if it is churning magma, and the atmosphere has reached a climax.
In the 71st minute, Glory was substituted.
The Tianhe Stadium once again resounded with deafening cheers and applause.
The television broadcast showed a camera from the stands, in which all the Chinese fans stood up from their seats, applauding and applauding the glory.
And Rongguang also waved his hand to thank the fans of the Chinese team in the stands.
He came back from Manchester specifically to participate in such a meaningless game, mainly for the sake of these fans.
He was delighted to be able to satisfy the fans with two goals in the game.
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After Rong Guang went off the field, the Chinese team conceded a goal. But people don't care much about the game anymore.
Glory is what interests them most.
Even the CCTV commentators began to talk about the top 10 competition.
The name "Top 10" used to be the most familiar to Chinese fans, and even more familiar than the "World Cup", after all, we can't participate in every World Cup, but before the top 10, the Chinese team played every time and never missed.
But now, the "top ten" has become an unattainable threshold for Chinese football.
Being able to return to the "Top 10 Match" makes every Chinese football person very excited, not only the fans, but also the commentators.
Because the teams participating in the top 10 have not yet been finalized, it is not yet known which opponents the Chinese team will face in the top 10. However, there are always rules to follow, such as who will seed the team, which team is the team of the highest level, and these can be guessed as far as ten. Although the Chinese team won the Asian Cup, their previous performance in the Asian qualifiers for the World Cup was too poor, so their points would not be too high, and it would be impossible for them to become a "seeded team".
“…… But it doesn't matter, Manchester City is still not a seeded team in the Champions League group stage for half a season, they are the second tier team, but they are the strongest second tier team! The CCTV commentator used Manchester City, where the glory is located, as an analogy, "I believe that if the Chinese team is a second-tier team, it will also be the strongest second-tier team." Like Manchester City, it is the strongest team in Pot 2 that makes all seeded teams reluctant to play with us in the group! ”
But in fact, with the results of the Chinese team in the previous World Cup qualifiers, they may not even be able to do it as a second-tier team.
But it doesn't matter, no matter what level of team it is, the CCTV commentator has a sentence that is very right.
That is - the Chinese team will be the team that all opponents are least willing to be in a group!
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After finishing the match with Jordan, Rongguang took a special plane early the next morning and flew back to Manchester.
He returned to his home in Manchester that day.
After a night's rest, the next day, January 31, he showed up at the training ground at Manchester City's Carrington training base as normal, and began to train himself before everyone was there.
On the evening of March 3, Manchester City host Bolton.
This is the twenty-seventh round of the league.
Glory was in Manchester City's starting line-up for this game.
And not only did he start, but he also showed that he was very good.
In the 51st minute, he rewrote the score to 2-0 with a long-range shot from outside the penalty area, and Manchester City led by two goals.
John Mortenson sighed: "I think that even every cell of Rong is made of unknown metal from outer space, otherwise it is difficult to explain why he can still be in such a state after running back and forth......"
In the end, Manchester City beat Bolton Wanderers 2-0 at home.
Despite having a game in hand, they are still four points ahead of Manchester United.
Midweek is Champions League matchday.
In the second leg of the Champions League quarterfinals, Manchester City hosted Lyon.
But because Manchester City beat Lyon 3-0 away in the first leg of the meeting, the suspense of this second leg has basically been lost, so that when the game does come, no one pays attention.
The English media is more concerned with the domestic league than the Champions League.
It's rare to see something like that.
Leon must have felt all sorts of contempt and malice from England.
So on his arrival, the Lyon manager gave an interview to the French press, in which he spoke about the disdain for the match in the English media.
'We're going to try to prove ourselves and we're not giving up yet. I know it's hard to come back, but if you don't try, you're never going to actually win the game. ”
That's a beautiful thing to say.
However, in the world of football, it is most useless to say beautiful things.
After all, football is not politics, and many people who can be deceived by saying beautiful words vote for him. Football has to end up in a real game.
Pretty words don't weaken the other party's strength.
When the game began, Manchester City, who had only used half of their main force to face Lyon, broke the deadlock in the 41st minute.
It was Berbatov who scored the goal, and the one who assisted him was glory.
The Lyon team didn't try to win on the road, as their manager put it.
In fact, Lyon's players have no fighting spirit at all, they are not active enough to run on the pitch, and there are many active mistakes.
Such a table makes it impossible to see that they are a team that wants to turn the tables away from home.
Maybe their manager was just talking pretty things.
Anyway, it wasn't until fifteen minutes left in the game that Lyon seemed to wake up from a dream and began to rush into the Manchester City goal.
But it doesn't make any sense at all.
With only fifteen minutes left, they had to score four goals in a row before they could rely on the advantage of away goals to knock Manchester City out.
But how is this possible?
You know, the glory is still on the court and hasn't been replaced!
Sure enough, in the fifth minute of their big attack, that is, in the 80th minute of the game, Rong Guang ran more than 50 meters with the ball in the counterattack, and passed the Lyon goalkeeper Lloris who had fallen out in front of the goal, and pushed the football into the empty goal, completely ending Lyon's counterattack.
"The race ended early again! Rong kills the suspense once again! The aggregate score is 5:0! Manchester City advance to the quarter-finals of the Champions League! I guess Manchester City fans don't care about the result of this game at all, right? All they have to think about is who Manchester City will face in the quarter-finals. And this suspense will be revealed at the UEFA draw ceremony......"
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In the weekend league game, Benitez continued to adopt a rotation policy, and many players who participated in the Champions League in midweek were given a chance to rest, so it is naturally impossible for Rongguang to be on the rotation list.
He started the game.
However, it can still be seen that the state of Manchester City's whole team is unstable.
After all, there are too many games in Manchester City during this time.
Last December, January and February were all weekly races.
The fatigue that City have accumulated over the past three months is starting to show itself, and it is magnified in its form.
In the away game against Swansea, Matuidi was injured just six minutes into the game.
Matuidi didn't play in the last Champions League quarter-final and was rested. But I didn't expect to be injured at the start of this game, and it was not a minor injury - he was carried down on a stretcher, which shows that this injury will not be light.
'Matuidi has had a big impact on City's injury...... 'Alan Hansen analysed. Manchester City's attacking midfield is very flashy, but the only one they can really defend is Matuidi. Everyone feels that Wing is an indispensable figure for Manchester City, and indeed, Wing is currently the first player in this team, followed by goalkeeper Joe Hart. But in third place is Matuidi. These three people can be said to be the central axis of Manchester City and are indispensable. Matuidi's injury will inevitably affect Manchester City's defence, which is the key to City's ability to win the next three titles...... In short, Matuidi's injury at this time may have immeasurable and catastrophic consequences for Manchester City! ”
Alan Hansen said this frighteningly, and although it was an exaggeration, he was not wrong.
Matuidi is really important to Manchester City, as can be seen from Benitez's frowning brow.
He had to replace Matuidi with Gareth Barry and let Barry defend specifically.
Matuidi's injury has affected the morale of Manchester City's players, and after Matuidi's injury, everyone's performance has declined.
They didn't score in the first half and certainly didn't score at Swansea either.
So the score is still 0:0.
At halftime, someone analyzed that if Manchester City met not Swansea in this game, but Manchester United, they would rush to the first half, and Manchester City would definitely lose this game.
At half-time, Benitez got the bad news that Matuidi had to undergo surgery for a torn cruciate ligament in his knee and will not play for the rest of the season......