Chapter 184: The Ignorant

A draw is good news for Manchester City, as the two teams are level on league points, and United are only top of the league with two more goal differences, their first place is already in jeopardy, and then there is no longer any talk in the media about 'Manchester City is completely out of the league title with Manchester United'.

Wan Sheng only laughed at what happened to Manchester United.

Wan Sheng knows Ferguson's mood very well, because he has just experienced it, when Manchester City drew with Reading, the media was a lamentation, and now it is Manchester United's turn, and the criticism of the Manchester United manager and those players who have not performed well can be imagined.

But he won't say a word for Manchester United, because the two teams are the most direct rivals and rivals, and he wishes that Manchester United were in a worse situation.

After playing West Ham United, the whole Manchester City team began to prepare for the Champions League group stage against Bayern Munich.

The whole team, everyone is very serious about the game.

Wansheng doesn't need to boost morale or anything, everyone knows that this game will be the focus of the second game of the Champions League, Manchester City is the Premier League champion last season, Bayern Munich is the Bundesliga giant, English football and German football have always clashed, and how many fans will pay attention to the meeting of the two teams can be imagined, because of this, every player in the team wants to play in the game and will do their best to perform.

Everyone is working hard and it gives City's training ground an upward momentum.

However, in terms of the English media, they are not very optimistic about this game, and the famous commentator of "Sky Sports" Laren Smith used a special commentary to analyze the situation of the two teams, "The performance of last season and this season, Manchester City is no worse than Bayern Munich, but the key to playing the Champions League is experience." In the Champions League, experience is very important. Manchester City are still too young, their manager is young, and he has no experience in leading the team to play in the Champions League. They have a lot of young players in their squad, all new to the top flight. Although the performance is good, but the experience is pitiful, which will be magnified in the Champions League. Manchester City's style of play is very technical, and the overall tactics are somewhat biased towards the Spanish team, which is not an advantage, because Bayern Munich and Spanish teams have a very good record against each other, and they have just beaten Fabio Capello's Real Madrid 2-0. So in this game, it is not easy for Manchester City to take away the points at the Olympic Stadium. ”

There is also advice to Manchester City, "They should focus more on defense. Bayern Munich's firepower is good, but their ability to break through dense defence is not outstanding. To take a point away from the Olympic Stadium is tantamount to a victory, which is completely acceptable to Manchester City. ”

There was also the most pessimistic statement, "Wan Sheng should consider giving up this game, they don't have to fight Bayern Munich away from home, and if they want to qualify from the group, they should look for opportunities in Real Madrid and Sofia Levski." ”

The reports look discouraging, as if Manchester City were unlikely to win against Bayern Munich.

Wan Sheng was also annoyed by the media coverage.

Although there is not much media in England supporting Manchester City, it is now the Champions League. Regardless of the region, the media should support Manchester City as an English club, right?

But these media just say some frustrating things!

Before the game even started, they were all kinds of disdainful of Manchester City, when the players read the news. It will definitely have some psychological effects, which may make them feel that Bayern Munich is strong and there is a pressure to face challenges.

It's bad for the team's performance.

At the same time, Bayern Munich coach Felix Magath is also troubled. He met with the same thing as Wan Sheng.

Felix Magath played for a few lesser-known clubs in Germany as a player, more notably Hamburg, where he played for 10 years.

But. In the 1983 UEFA Champions League final, he defeated Serie A powerhouse Juventus 1-0 to win the UEFA Champions League for Hamburg, and he also played for the West German national team, winning the 1982 World Cup and the 1986 World Cup runner-up with the national team.

After retiring as a player, Magath began his coaching career in Hamburg, where he was crowned Bayern Munich in 2004 by leading Werder Bremen to victory over Bayern Munich in the German Cup final.

In the two years that Magath has been in charge, Bayern Munich has won the domestic league championship and cup championship in a row, and many media have exclaimed that the era of Bayern Munich re-dominating Germany is coming.

However, the German media is also very disappointed with the performance of the 'hegemon' Bayern, only 5 years ago, Bayern Munich, who defeated Valencia to lift the Champions League trophy, can still be proud of the crowd, and today, Ballack's departure seems to have taken away their last shred of confidence, when about to face Manchester City, which the European media said is 'unlikely to qualify from the group', the Bundesliga giants lost their determination to win before fighting.

As many European media say, "The decline of the Bundesliga can be seen from this." ”

In the first leg, Bayern Munich defeated Real Madrid 2:0, and the Bayern Munich team played quite eye-catching. Unfortunately, the victory brought three points to Bayern Munich, but it was not able to bring confidence.

In this round against Manchester City, there was a voice of concern in Germany.

Before the game, Germany's "Emperor of Football" Beckenbauer publicly criticised the team's current form, saying, "With our current performance in the league, it is difficult for us to win against Manchester City. Our team looks like a newly formed team, to put it mildly, like a hambled band. ”

As for the prospect of two games against Manchester City, he even predicted: "I hope we can win at home and get a point in Manchester, if that is the case I will be satisfied." ”

Although Bayern has just returned to the top of the league table, the poor performance of the 2-1 tough victory over the promoted Aachen team has made German public opinion full of doubts about the head coach Magath, and the German media unanimously believes that it will be difficult for Bayern to face Manchester City, which has performed very well in the league.

So before the war between Bayern Munich and Manchester City, there was a strange scene - the English media was not optimistic about Manchester City, and the German media was not optimistic about Bayern Munich. None of them are favored by their own media, but the other party's media keeps boasting.

In this case, Wan Sheng and Magath are not in the mood for any war of words.

The two teams collided like this

This is not the first time Wan Sheng has come to the Allianz Arena in Munich, the last time was in July, he and Anita watched the World Cup, and this time it has become a team to play Bayern Munich.

The two arrivals were in very different moods.

The last time it was relaxing, this time it was exciting, and here he will lead the team to the first challenge of the Champions League.

Manchester City is very serious about the game, and there is no need to say more. Everyone will take the warm-up seriously, needless to say about the warm-up before the game, Wan Sheng went to the press conference to be interviewed, and there were many media reporters who came to interview, most of them were unfamiliar faces, they were all media reporters from other countries and regions, and they all wanted to see the focus of the Group G battle.

Magath didn't say much before the game, Bayern Munich was under pressure in Germany, and the German media was not too optimistic that they could beat Manchester City. So Magath wanted to speak with his grades.

But Wansheng is different.

Despite being underdogs in England, he expressed confidence in the game at a press conference, "I'm standing here now. I just want to prove a fact! ”

Wan Sheng said and raised a finger to himself, "Many people think that the most promising ones in Group G are Bayern Munich and Real Madrid, and Manchester City has little hope of qualifying. But I'm going to prove in this game that I, and my Manchester City, should be the biggest focus in Group G! It is the team that will definitely qualify for Group G! ”

With Wan Sheng's speech. The press conference was in an uproar.

Media reporters who didn't know about Wansheng didn't understand why this young Chinese man would say such things before the war, while the English media who knew Wansheng looked at their peers around them with some schadenfreude.

See?

This is the young Chinese who have been 'rampant' in England for two seasons!

He's done enough of the scourge of England and now he's leading the team to the Champions League, so you can taste it too!

Reporters from other national media obviously don't know much about the situation, so all kinds of doubts broke out, anyone who faces so many doubts, will feel very pressure, they just want to use pressure to make this 'arrogant and a little too much' young man change his mouth and admit his mistakes, but unfortunately this is almost impossible to do, in the face of these many doubts, Wan Sheng simply ignored it, and responded one by one -

"Manchester City were Premier League champions last season!"

"The Premier League gets more attention, more impact and more UEFA points than the Bundesliga!"

"Manchester City is also a century-old giant!"

"Manchester City used to be coached by Houllier, now it's me! Historical results are completely meaningless, Manchester City is not in the past! ”

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This sentence of speech blocked the reporters who asked the question vomited blood, Wan Sheng still reasoned, and later some reporters analyzed from all angles to prove that 'Manchester City is not as good as Bayern Munich', Wan Sheng began to be unreasonable, "What? You say they're stronger? See how we beat them! ”

"What's the use of saying so much?"

"Was it remarkable that they won against Real Madrid?"

"I remember the last time Bayern won the title in 2001, right? That's not the same team as this Bayern team! ”

In the end, Wan Sheng yelled directly at the reporter who asked the question, "I just want to win, what do you want?" This sentence shocked the audience and let everyone know that the young Chinese coach of Manchester City is so difficult and unreasonable, and words such as 'arrogance' in the mouths of those big media are very appropriate to him, and even a little praised.

This is arrogance, and he thinks of himself as a god!

A young man who is only less than 30 years old, who has just become a head coach for four years, leads the team to get a little result, and does not know how old he is, and thinks that he can win all the games? It's just rampant in the Premier League, but it's still so arrogant in the Champions League?

"Ignorant!" Many large European media directly labeled Wansheng.

Wan Sheng didn't care about the evaluation of the media at all, and he happily responded to a group of questioning media reporters, insisting that his team must be the focus and must be the most promising to qualify.

In fact, he did it to decompress the team.

There is a lot of pressure on the team in the big big game, they are all playing in the Champions League for the first time, and in this kind of high-profile European competition, the players, especially the young players, will always feel the burden on their shoulders, so that the whole team feels the pressure on their faces.

This is also what young teams must face in the face of the competition, and it is another important reason why the European media is not optimistic about Manchester City - Manchester City is too young!

Even if the strength is not inferior to the opponent, the young team is definitely not as good as the opponent in many aspects such as mentality and experience. Individual young players, even if they are skilled, it is difficult to play in the game, and Manchester City has a lot of young players, they have to face pressure, so it is difficult for them to show their form, so the performance of the whole team will be affected.

So Wan Sheng's purpose in doing this is obvious, he just wants to 'attract' the pressure to himself.

When the whole team hears the manager say that in a press conference, they know that the manager has faith in the team, the trust in them, the manager is so determined about the game, what else do they have to fear? This will make them more motivated to compete and more positive to deal with all kinds of pressure.

It's a way to attack the heart.

But other people don't know Wan Sheng's thoughts, they still think that this young man is so arrogant, the irrelevant media in other countries, that is, to watch a lively and incidental release of attractive pre-match news, Wan Sheng's speech as a kind of gossip joke, but the media related to the two teams are different, the English media is a little 'worried' about Wan Sheng being so arrogant in the Champions League, "If you anger the Germans, Manchester City will definitely ......lose miserably", pessimistic statements point out this.

The German media felt very angry, even if they think that German football has declined in recent years, but an English team that has just entered the Champions League should not be arrogant like this when facing Bayern Munich, the representative of German football!

In any case, the Bundesliga is also one of the top five leagues!

And Bayern Munich coach Magath, who is the protagonist of the party, also feels very depressed, he is already a very successful head coach in Europe, leading the team is Bayern Munich, one of the European giants, and this is a game at the Allianz Arena, but in his low-key situation, this young man is arrogant?

Is this looking down on Bayern Munich and looking down on him Magath?

However, Magath is not a coach who is good at fighting with words, he still insists on seeing the real chapter on the field, as long as he wins Manchester City, it will be up to this young man to see what the time comes!

PS: Monday, February 1st, rushed together, so cheekily begged for all kinds of tickets ~~~ (to be continued.) )