Lin Sen eventually took Bridge with him, although Ariel could give Bridge a small vacation.

Since Bridge's question was handed over to Ariel, Lin Sen would respect Ariel's opinion, but he also noticed that Ariel's wording was only a suggestion, so Lin Sen still decided to follow Bridge's opinion, and Bridge chose to go to the Netherlands with the team.

On the plane to the Netherlands, Linsen had been pondering a question, the question of the schedule.

In the next half month, Manchester City will play five games.

Two league games, an FA Cup, a Europa League and a Carabao Cup final.

Some things are confusing to the bystanders, and some things are not in the realm and do not know what to do. Linsen now finally understands why Ferguson ridiculed the FA's schedule, playing five games in fifteen days, it seems that there is only one game in three days, and it is almost two games a week, however, when this happens, you know how tight the time is, and the three-day interval is actually only two days, because you have to deduct five match days. And even if it's two days, if it's a home game, it's fine, but if it's an away game, you have to deduct a lot of time to run around, like this trip to the Netherlands.

And how many of Manchester City's five games are home games? A.

This season, Linson's appetite is huge. It's not that he's greedy, it's just that he's not big. Spent nearly 200 million on the club, you always have to give some results after the season, and these results must not be too shabby, 200 million to win a League Cup? Not to mention that the outside world can't look at it, Lin Sen himself can't look at it. It's just that now, Lin Sen still has to face a realistic question: do you need to selectively give up a cup competition?

If this multiple-choice question is at the beginning of the season, then the League Cup must be the first choice. But now, Manchester City, who have entered the final, is impossible to give up. The league doesn't need to be said, it's a top priority. Then, what remains is the Europa League and the FA Cup, the Europa League is more uncertain, because in this competition, there is no shortage of strong teams, and the pain of running around is also what Manchester City must face now, on the contrary, the FA Cup will be a little more certain than the Europa League Manchester City will strive for, because Manchester United and Arsenal have been out of this competition, and there are not many strong teams left. And even if it is rushing, it is only in England, such a comparison, it seems that the Europa League should be given up the most, but the FA Cup and the Europa League, the influence is obviously that the latter is better.

Therefore, the current period is actually a threshold. As long as you can get through this month, in fact, no matter which front you give up. Manchester City's four-line battle will become a two-line battle, whether it is the FA Cup or the Europa League, with Manchester City's current lineup. It's more than enough to deal with.

Thinking of this, Lin Sen shook his head in his heart, he was still inexperienced after all, thinking that Manchester City had money and people. I have a big appetite, but I didn't expect that the cards under the hands of Ferguson Wenger are not necessarily much worse than Manchester City. It's not necessarily that people are as hungry as they are. It's just that now, it's useless to talk too much, and it's useless to think too much.

On 16 February, Manchester City visited the De Cherorsch Stadium.

In the Netherlands, FC Twente is a new team, founded in 1965 by the merger of the then FC Twente and FC Twente Boys, but since the formation of the team, most of the events have been hovering around the ranks of the lower teams in the Netherlands, and their closest to the league title was in 1974, when they were level on points with Feyenoord and finally decided the title in the form of a play-off, which Twente lost. In recent years, FC Twente have begun to recover with the arrival of former England national team manager McClaren, finishing second in the league last season, but unfortunately failed to qualify for the Champions League and had to show off in the Europa League.

Unfortunately, the Europa League is not a good mix, and although they are unbeaten in the league, they almost failed to qualify for the group stage of the Europa League, and for this reason, they have to face Manchester City, a team that is recognized as a strong team in the Europa League. After all, Twente was lucky, as Manchester City will face Liverpool in the league in three days' time, Linsen hid a number of key players in this game, and Robben, De Jong and other players familiar with Dutch football did not start this game.

There are two rounds in the knockout round, but McLaren knows this round will be key if Twente want to advance. Familiar with the Premier League, he understands how difficult it is to play away from home in the Premier League, if Twente can't get enough advantage or even lose this round, then it can be a fool's dream to qualify away from home, not to mention that Manchester City at that time has gone through the most difficult moment.

The united Twente, let Manchester City encounter the biggest predicament this season, Suarez's goal in the final stage of the game, although it finally did not let Manchester City have nothing on the road, but in this game, it was only a face-saving goal, the score was 1-3. McClaren, a former assistant coach at Alex Ferguson, also changed his low profile on the prospect of promotion after the game, and declared that he was confident of qualifying on the road.

Lin Sen, who lost the game, clasped his hands to his chest and watched McLaren communicate with the media enthusiastically from the sidelines, and did not say a word from beginning to end, only when he had to speak at the end, he said: We are not good at this game, I have nothing to say, we will see you in Manchester-

Returning to Manchester with a poor scoreline, City didn't have much time to frustrate the result. On 19 February, Manchester City hosted Rafael Benitez's Liverpool.

The last time the two teams met was 2-2, and at the post-match press conference, Linson also had a big verbal fight with Benitez, plus the feud between Liverpool and Manchester, the relationship between Linsen and Benitez, although it can't reach the level of enemies, but the decision is not good.

Speaking of which, Linson has played with all the managers of the Premier League this season, Ferguson has always been unforgiving, but he was absent from the press conference last time, and the relationship between the two is limited to the team level, Wenger's impression of Linsen is the same as that of most people, suave, Linsen did not provoke him, he did not provoke Linsen, and Ancelotti is the most open-minded one, because he is the only one of the several major coaches he has played so far who praised the manager of Manchester City after the game, except Benitez, There seems to be a natural hostility.

This hostility is not the result of the hostility of the two teams, but a more simple hostility that does not conspire with each other. Lin Sen was a little puzzled at first, but then he understood that he was afraid that this matter would depend on Mourinho to some extent.

Everyone knows that although Benitez is popular in the Premier League, it is not Wenger, nor Ferguson, but Mourinho, and other managers, Benitez can at least maintain opponents on the field and respect each other off the field, but with Mourinho, basically he is an enemy off the field. This is why after Mourinho left Chelsea, not to mention Ferguson, who had a good relationship with Mourinho in private, and even Wenger, who was once ridiculed by Mourinho as a voyeur, expressed regret, but only Benitez was indifferent, and even, in memory, when Benitez replaced Mourinho as the coach of Inter Milan, it was also rumored that he was asked to remove the photo of Mourinho in the dressing room, and the bad relationship between the two can be seen.

It stands to reason that this is the relationship between him and Mourinho, and he can't blame Linsen, but who made Linsen obviously have a good relationship with Mourinho at the coaching meeting at the beginning of this year, and it is really difficult not to remind people of Chelsea in the Mourinho era, plus Liverpool's record this season is really bad, Benitez sees Linsen, and it is strange that he can be in a good mood.

Of course, the mood can't be eaten.

In this game, Linsen, who stayed in the match against Twente, sent the strongest lineup and launched a fierce offensive from the beginning of the game with the cheers of the home fans. Lin Sen played a good game, trying to establish a lead in the first half, and then stubbornly counterattack in the second half, after all, there are still a few more important games to come. But the Phoenix landing may not really be as good as the chicken, no matter how bad Liverpool is, it is still Liverpool. After fending off City's opening onslaught, the game fell into Liverpool's rhythm, with quick defensive counter-attacks to play well.

Realizing that Lin Sen is also interested, he will soon adjust his strategy and begin to play Tai Chi with Liverpool, although he can't live with the fans at home, but there is no way, Manchester City can not consume too much physical energy in this game, the game officially entered a tug-of-war, the tug-of-war was broken in the first three minutes of the second half, Manchester City scored, David Silva knocked on the door of Reina's guard with a free kick, and the overjoyed Lin Sen strengthened his determination to defend the counter.

However, in football games, there is another situation called an accident, and there is also a player called Mr. Big Scene.

Manchester City's lead remained until the last minute of the game, and seeing that the referee had already begun to look at his watch, at this time, Liverpool captain Steven Gerrard stood up and blasted Manchester City's goal open with a world wave 30 meters away, pulling Liverpool back from the edge of the cliff. And by the time Liverpool celebrated, the game was over.

Three points turned into one in the blink of an eye.

After the game, Lin Sen, who walked into the stadium to comfort his players, was so abrupt at this time, this draw is destined to be the best motivation for Chelsea to win tomorrow, if Chelsea wins this round, then they will extend their lead to six points, which is already a gap of two goals, which will undoubtedly make Manchester City's battle at the top of the next round more severe, because if there is another miss in that game, the gap may become nine points! At that time, with only ten rounds left in the league, such a gap is tantamount to announcing Manchester City's withdrawal from the title race.

Leeway? Nope. (To be continued......)

PS: In the previous chapter, it was a mistake to write about going to Amsterdam, alas, as soon as I wrote to the Netherlands, I subconsciously thought of Ajax, and Twente was in Enschede, which has been changed, sorry.