Previously, Manchester City had four more league points than Chelsea, which was a two-game difference, and now it is six, which seems to be a two-game difference, but it is very different.

Four points, it's not difficult to catch up with two games, for example, Manchester City drew two games and Chelsea won two, so you can catch up.

What about 6 points?

Manchester City have to lose two games to be successful!

So far in the league, Manchester City is still unbeaten, and you know how difficult it is for Manchester City to lose, so the gap of 6 points is very large, and if you want to catch up with this point, you need more than just two theoretical games.

He defined the game as a 'very important victory', which is higher than the game with Liverpool and Arsenal, of course, he cannot say that he has a direct confrontation with Chelsea, because it means a big meeting that way, and the gap between winning is also greater, in addition, the game with Manchester United cannot be compared, because Manchester City and Manchester United are sworn enemies in the same city, he wants to say that it is more important than playing with Manchester United, whether it is the media, fans, or even himself.

In short, Liverpool and Arsenal are inexplicably lying on the gun, but fortunately, this gun does not matter at all.

There are those who are happy, and there are naturally those who are unhappy.

Chelsea boss Jose Mourinho was unhappy with the result, summing up his team's poor performance before lashing out at referee Sdales' decision.

'I'm not happy with our performance, Villa made us play hard,' Mourinho said, 'sometimes you can't win because you don't play well, sometimes it's because the opponent is too good, and that was the case today. ”

Jose Mourinho then began to express his frustration with the referee after a first-half penalty in Chelsea's favour, Terry escaped punishment for handball in the box, but Mourinho believes it was the mistake that caused referee Sdales to start to find balance in the second half, and the decision was clearly biased in favour of the Villa team.

"I'm not happy with the referee. I knew it was a penalty but I'd rather the referee had awarded it and we deserved one late in the second half. I would like to see a normal referee in the second half. ”

'Our players were pushed down in the box but they didn't give a foul, Crespo kept getting fouled when he was fighting for the top but he didn't give a foul, and in the midfield scramble, we were always fouled. Somebody has to teach the referee that football can't be 'balanced'. If you make a mistake, you have to avoid it again, but the referee is enforcing his rule of balance, 'I made a mistake in the first half, so I'm going to make a lot of mistakes in the second half to find the balance,' and that's the game. ”

'I don't think he's a low-level referee but when he blows for Chelsea, his performance is shocking. Last year, Drogba was fouled on this pitch but no penalty was awarded. After being fouled on Highbury Roba and not awarded a penalty, Robben was in the same situation today. ”

Jose Mourinho kept talking about refereeing and it was clear that he was very unhappy with referee Sdales's enforcement. But whatever he says, Chelsea's poor form was definitely a big reason for the draw.

In fact, both Manchester City and Chelsea have had some form issues in recent times. This may be the rise and fall of one team, and both teams were in great form around Christmas. All kinds of games were easily won by big wins, and now during this period of time, the form has declined, and the game has been much more difficult.

Of course, there must be a reason for the poor form, and both teams have their own reasons.

The reason for Manchester City boils down to two things - injuries and pressure, and needless to say, the pressure comes from the top of the league and the intensive schedule.

Most of Manchester City's players have not experienced the road to winning the championship, and even to put it bluntly, the original Manchester City did not have the ability to win the championship at all, and they can try to qualify for European competitions are already very good, in this case, the team suddenly became the first in the league, some players have not completed the mentality of adaptation, plus several players are just young, the state is very unstable, will rise and fall with the team and the environment, this series has led to the team's overall poor condition.

Wansheng is trying to get the team back to form through the 'Football Masters System' in terms of individual training and psychological therapy for the players.

This has also been the focus of recent training efforts.

The reason for Chelsea's poor form is difficult to find, they have no squad problems, because they still have more than 10 million pounds of stars sitting on the bench, and their players are all top stars, so naturally there is no pressure to fight for the title, and with enough tactical rotation space, the dense schedule is not particularly stressful for them.

In short, Chelsea's situation is much better than Manchester City's, and it is because of this that the media has been more optimistic about Chelsea before.

The current situation is that Manchester City is doing better, so the media has to find the reason, which is like a scientist who is obsessed with exploration sees something that cannot be understood, and must explore, understand, and understand things clearly.

Then Chelsea's game performance, squad, internal problems, and so on, many aspects were dissected physically, and the media quickly found two reasons - one was that the players were not playing well, and the other was that the players were injured and affected the whole team.

It was Ricardo Carvalho who did not play well, with the Portuguese centre-back carrying the cauldron on his back.

On 24 September 2005, Luke Moore scored to mark Chelsea's first six league games without conceding a goal, for which the Villa striker was also rewarded with a bounty by The Sun. Now the two teams met again, and it was Moore who breached Petr Cech's goal, turning Chelsea's almost 3 points into 1.

Moore's goal came from a mistake in Chelsea's defence, in the 78th minute, Villa broke the ball and counter-attacked, Chelsea centre-back Carvalho pounced on the front but did not block the ball, he lost his position and suddenly the back line was open, and when Villa's Ridgewell broke through with the ball, three team-mates were already in place, and Chelsea looked lonely in front of goal, and the goal was inevitable.

Carvalho's swoop was a big reason for the defence to collapse, and if it weren't for this, the Portuguese's performance could have been described as "outstanding".

Sky Sports gave him a seven, "He's like a rock, outperforming Terry who is in mediocre form overall, but the rock comes loose at crucial moments. ”

Carvalho's ferocious style can sometimes intimidate opponents, and when he plays well, he can be extremely damaging to opponents. But sometimes it's easy to show his own flaws, and being out of position and needless fouls in dangerous areas are his most prone mistakes.

Carvalho had his eye on Aston Villa's starting striker in the game, but in the end he was so hot-headed that he would have stayed in position rather than pounced before conceding the goal, at least John Terry would not have been left alone in the middle. Carvalho's small gestures are also a cause for concern, as he brought down Ballack to a penalty in last season's Champions League and has been sentenced to death for two reckless fouls this season. Compared to Terry, Carvalho appears more impetuous. His own traits have been a source of instability in Chelsea's defence.

Mourinho was also unhappy with Carvalho's performance, believing the Portuguese compatriot could have done better, "Carvalho was suspended for Saturday's FA Cup tie against Everton, but even if he wasn't suspended, I wouldn't use him, he didn't play well against Charlton Athletic last time. ”

Another reason highlighted by the media was Frank Lampard, but the reason for his lack of performance in attack was due to Essien's injury.

In the last game, Frank Lampard had just one shot on goal. It was on 87 minutes when he fired a powerful shot down the left but was denied by an Aston Villa defender, the last of Chelsea's 11 attempts on target.

Chelsea's iron man 'Frank Lampard' was the man with the most shots on goal in the squad. His attack is also an important scoring tool, and Frank Lampard still leads the Chelsea team with 13 league goals. However, Frank Lampard's attacking firepower appears to have waned since his goal against West Ham a month ago, having netted Everton in the FA Cup in midweek. But this round of the league became quiet again, and only one shot on goal in the whole game was a bit "abnormal" for him.

The anomaly began after the game with West Ham, and a related detail was. Essien was injured in that game, and Gudjanssen replaced the Ghana man in midfield, and since the change of partner, Lampard's style of play has also changed, with fewer runs into the opposition box, more shots around his own box, and fine-tuning his position and responsibilities.

Frank Lampard's characteristics dictate that he is the type of player who has to rely on the whole and his team-mates, and Essien's presence has completely liberated him, and the climax of Lampard's goal this season has come during a period when Essien has gradually integrated into the team, with the Ghanaian taking on most of the defensive responsibilities as a key factor.

At Chelsea today, Gudjanssen is more of a standard-bearer in attack, while Frank Lampard has become 'Essien', a seemingly subtle change in role, but it has a big impact.

Another example is Christian Eriksen's England side, where the midfield combination of Frank Lampard and Steven Gerrard was poorly divided and rarely played, with Eriksen's use of midfielder Ledley King actually motivated by the desire to liberate the 'double Germans'.

At Euro 2004, Paul Scholes' habitual leaning into the middle of the pitch objectively allowed Frank Lampard to push forward more boldly, and it was one of the best performances for the Chelsea Ironman in England

The media has analysed a lot of Manchester City and Chelsea, and all aspects of analysis have filled the entire sports page, but they don't care about these Wan Sheng, maybe some of their claims are correct, but it's just two games, no matter what the team's state is, it's just two games, and there are too many surprises.

Even if Chelsea draw two in a row, it wouldn't be surprising if we were lucky, it would be two wins in a row.

Speaking of Manchester City, one win and one draw, it is not surprising that it has become two consecutive losses, the key is just to play, of course, Wan Sheng is quite satisfied with the current situation, but he also has a relationship with the past games, if the team is unlucky, with the current state, he is really not too sure not to lose.

The most important thing now is to make the team as good as possible and play better.

Two days later, Manchester City travelled to Everton, where they played a bit harder at White Hart Lane, but ultimately won by one goal.

After the game, Wan Sheng felt lucky, he talked about the only scorer Lescott, "This is not the first goal, his long-range shot has become an important means of scoring for us!" ”

'He's a pretty good full-back and when I see him, I always think of Robert Carlos, but to get to the level of Carlos, he should keep going!'

This is, of course, a compliment.

Roberto Carlos is one of the world's top full-backs and one of the 'Big Six' of Real Madrid's Galaxy Battleship, while Lescott is too young in comparison, but today his long-range strike secured the win for Manchester City. With that, he deserves praise.

However, City did not have time to look back at past games and soon they were back against Charlton Athletic.

The two teams met in the first half of the schedule, Charlton Athletic lost 2-6 to Manchester City, so Manchester City didn't pay much attention to it, they both felt that this game would be easy, especially since it was a game played at Manchester Stadium.

Charlton had just drawn with Chelsea to give Manchester City a two-point advantage, and Wan Sheng was still a little worried about it, Charlton could draw against Chelsea. The form is excellent, and a big win in the first half of the schedule does not mean that you can win now, even at the Manchester stadium, you are not 100% sure, so he reminded the players before the game to deal with it seriously.

But in the game, the team's performance still went wrong, and the key was to be too careless!

Even Wan Sheng didn't expect Charlton to fight so fiercely and attack so fiercely. City were caught off guard in the opening stages of the game and scored in the 11th minute. Charlton opened the scoring.

City then improved their form and their performance was much more consistent, but the equaliser was only seen in the 78th minute. It came from Lee Morris, a superb lob that left Charlton goalkeeper Keeley to watch as the ball flew into the back of the net.

1:1。

This is also the final score.

In the end, both Manchester City and Wan Sheng could only regret accepting this result in another high-profile game. Chelsea beat Liverpool 2-0.

In this way, the difference between the two teams has become 4 points again.

Boss Jose Mourinho looked delighted after Chelsea's win and praised the performance of the whole team, especially Crespo, who scored the goal, "He can top three Liverpool alone", he said.

Mourinho praised his players while not forgetting to mock league and Champions League rivals Liverpool, believing Crespo to perform better than Liverpool's trio of Cisse, Crouch and Morientes.

'He can score a lot of goals as long as he has a chance and they [Liverpool's strikers] have to waste chances in front of goal.'

"Joining them to exchange all the strikers for Crespo, I wouldn't even think about it"

Benitez or his players are quite annoyed, just lose, only to have the opposing coach praise his players and say something sarcastic, is there anything more annoying than that?

So a new round of Liverpool and Chelsea war of words began.

Soon Arsenal and Manchester United were also involved, and of course, Manchester City was inevitably mentioned, who let them beat Chelsea and occupy the first place in the league?

But when all this happened, Wan Sheng was very low-key, he ignored the rivals' verbal battles, and devoted himself to the team's training and preparation.

He has already started preparing for the Carabao Cup clash with Manchester United.

There are still 12 days to go, but in reality, there is not much time left for the team to prepare, with five days of international break to go and the FA Cup tie against Aston Villa, leaving only a few days to prepare.

The team's training focuses on individual condition training, and half a month is enough time for the whole team to adjust their condition.

Another important thing is the training of small routines, Wansheng has studied many offensive routines to make the team adapt, these routines are complex, some are simple, but even the simplest want to adapt to it takes a while, because tactical routines are not static, what situation how to do, more rely on the players on the spot.

City have adapted to a few tricks before, but that's in the general '' mode, where City's focus is on attack, and in a game as important as the Carabao Cup final, consistency is obviously more important than attack.

Against Manchester United, Manchester City are not sure to win, so consistency is still quite important.

Therefore, there is no doubt that the team will choose the 'defensive' 'kill' tactic, control the situation by controlling the means, and make the game more favorable to the team, so as to maximize the possible victory.

In defensive mode, some of the normal offensive routines can also become rhythmic offenses, because the pace is different, and players need to adapt to this rhythm change in order to play a role in the game.

If you don't get used to it, it's clear that there will be no threat to attack.

In fact, it takes a long time to adapt to this kind of changing tactical routine, and the same routine needs to be practiced back and forth, which cannot be completed in a short time.

But Wansheng insisted on doing so.

The two opposed to ineffectiveness, and they could only continue to lead the team to train, but what they didn't expect was that the players' adaptation speed was far faster than imagined, and it would have taken half a month to adapt to something, and the team was able to play very well in just a few days.

It was so amazing that they all looked at Wan Sheng differently.

Wan Sheng could only smile bitterly at this.

He asked the team to adapt before the big game, all of which came from the confidence of his coaching skills, and it is not a matter of 'cooperation' to increase the training speed by 200%, not to mention, these tactical routines were originally designed on the basis of 'killing them', and the adaptation speed will naturally be fast and fast.

Leaving aside the essence, it's actually nothing, but Wansheng can't explain it clearly to others.

So he could only smile confidently, as if everything was under control, and the others felt even more unfathomable. (To be continued......)