Chapter 98: Klopp's Liverpool's Terrifying Strength!

Ronaldo has always been strong, and it is normal to refuse to accept old age.

After all, so far, he is too far behind Messi and even Lin Quan in the honor book, and he still needs to work hard to fill the gap in this regard.

Some attentive fans have compared the data of these three supergiants in today's football in terms of national team, club and individual accolades.

The results were not favourable to Ronaldo.

In terms of the national team, Ronaldo has not won any awards so far, and Messi has an Olympic champion.

Lin Quan has the most honors in this regard, holding the Confederations Cup and the World Cup, he is one position ahead of the peerless double.

In terms of club and Champions League honors, Ronaldo has won 3 league titles in the Premier League and 1 Champions League title.

After joining Real Madrid, he also won a league title for Real Madrid, although no Champions League trophy was recorded.

As for Messi, he is undoubtedly the one with the most club honours of the three.

He won a total of seven league titles and three Champions League titles at Barcelona.

Lin Quan debuted relatively late, so the number of champions is less than that of these two.

But he was very efficient, winning two league titles and two Champions League titles in two seasons after joining Manchester City.

If this efficiency continues, it is not too far for Lin Quan to catch up with or even surpass Messi in terms of club honors.

In terms of personal honors, Messi won 4 Golden Ball trophies, Ronaldo two, and Lin Quan one.

Overall, Ronaldo has a great disadvantage compared to Messi.

However, compared with the rising star Lin Quan, he still has a slight advantage in terms of club results and personal honors.

But with Lin Quan's current stone, I'm afraid this advantage will be wiped out soon.

Especially in terms of personal honors, although he has one more Golden Globe Award than Lin Quan.

But this year's Golden Globe Awards are just around the corner, and this year's Golden Globe winners have long lost their suspense.

Last season, Manchester City, under the leadership of Lin Quan, not only achieved two consecutive league titles, but also successfully defended the Champions League.

Combined, these two accolades can only be offset by the World Cup winners.

But there were no international competitions last year, so the club's results are the most important criterion.

Compared with Lin Quan, Ronaldo did not earn anything in the club last year, and he did not catch any of the league and the Champions League.

Messi's situation is similar to him, and Messi is more affected by injuries, and the attendance rate is not very high, even if the judges have fan filters, they can't match Lin Quan's huge performance advantage.

Therefore, the outside world generally believes that Lin Quan's victory in this year's Golden Globe Award is already a certainty, and the controversy will be very small.

Once Lin Quan wins this year's Ballon d'Or, then at the Ballon d'Or, he will equal Ronaldo in the number of awards.

This made Ronaldo's only remaining advantage come to naught!

Therefore, Ronaldo is now full of a sense of crisis in his heart, he is so desperate in the league and the Champions League, just to avoid being caught up by Lin Quan, and at the same time to close the gap with Messi.

Cristiano Ronaldo is desperate, but Real Madrid's squad is flawed.

After the fourth round of the Champions League group stage, they returned to La Liga and were immediately taught to behave by the resentful Sevilla.

At the Estadio Pizjuán, Sevilla put on a stance, facing off against the top of the table, the Galacticos.

Real Madrid, which has always been proud of La Liga with its strong attacking power, actually lost to the king of the Europa League in this offensive battle.

This defeat has left La Liga fans in an uproar!

The seemingly unstoppable Galaxy Battleship was forcibly stopped by Seville like this?

Although everyone likes to watch the drama of defeating the strong with the weak, Real Madrid represents the face of La Liga!

He lost to Sevilla, and Sevilla was beaten by Manchester City, or the kind that was beaten without any defense!

In this way, isn't the difference in strength between Real Madrid and Manchester City very large?

As soon as they thought of this, La Liga fans immediately became worried.

Not only are they worried, but Cristiano Ronaldo, who is doing nothing in this game, and the whole Real Madrid club are also worried.

In this game, Real Madrid has a problem in the midfield, and it can even be said that the midfield is blown up!

With Xavi Alonso gone, they lacked a commander in midfield.

Although there is a Modric in the team, Modric's position is more similar to that of the midfielder, and the team's brain and metronome in the midfield position are always vacant.

Originally, Real Madrid wanted to buy Kroos, but Manchester City took the lead and let their plans go up in vain, but fortunately, Casemiro's return has strengthened Real Madrid's midfield a lot.

Casemiro is a polygon warrior with both offense and defense.

However, in terms of command and management and organizational ability, he obviously has a big gap with the top midfielders.

In this game, Sevilla FC led them in two key statistics, the number of passes and the success rate of the ball, when the possession rate was 10% less than Real Madrid.

If you can't restrict the opponent's passing, you naturally can't stop the opponent's attack.

This is just Sevilla, if they meet Manchester City, who are better at this, Real Madrid will take the lead?

However, as soon as Real Madrid finished worrying, there was good news from the Premier League, Manchester City was forced to draw by Aston Villa away from home!

This match not only made Real Madrid feel extremely excited, but also relieved fans in the major leagues of the Premier League and the entire European football world.

Manchester City have won 11 in a row, and if they continue to win like this, they will really become invincible, and then the other teams will not even have the courage to face them.

Now Aston Villa's draw came at the right time, not only ending City's winning streak but also deflating their vaunted attacking firepower.

The final score of this match is 0:0!

This kind of scoreline is very rare for Manchester City, who have the most luxurious attacking group in football today, and have not kept a clean sheet in a long time.

As a result, this game attracted a lot of attention from the entire football world after the game.

Countless pundits and coaches have begun to look into what exactly Aston Villa relied on to sustain Manchester City's attack.

Aston Villa may not be a strong team, but they are not a big team either.

In the past few seasons, there are not many giants who have lost under them.

In recent seasons, they have been characterized by a strong body, aggressive scrambling, great at physical confrontation and a penchant for fouls when necessary.

Because of the rough technique at his feet, sometimes you don't even know if he is going towards people or the ball, so in previous seasons, Aston Villa's card rate was very terrible, five or six yellow cards in a game is simply standard, and seven or eight yellow cards have even appeared, typical of the game with Chelsea last season!

Although they have restrained themselves in fouling in the past two seasons, their ability to fight physically and like to scramble has been retained.

Their tactics for this game were very simple, putting a fast striker up front and allowing him to pin down City's backline from the outside.

The other players all retracted to their own half of the field to swing the bus, and if Manchester City attacked, they would play hand-to-hand combat with Manchester City, using physical confrontation or even fouls to stop Manchester City's passing cooperation.

Once you get the ball, kick it forward, don't overdo any midfield organization, and the long pass is over!

It's a retro tactic, but it works!

The players who have just finished their away journey in the Champions League are not very physically fit.

This tactic of the opponent greatly increases the distance they can run passively, and the physical scramble of the opponent increases their physical consumption rate even further.

As a result, before the first half was played, some of Manchester City's players suffered from leg cramps.

Pep Guardiola saw that something was wrong, so he made a decisive substitution in the second half, bringing on a group of young substitutes.

However, there are only 3 substitutions, and in the case of problems with the physical condition of the whole team, this substitution method can have a rather limited effect.

Coupled with the ability and experience of the young players compared to the main team, they were a little at a loss in the face of Aston Villa's dense defense, and finally unfortunately won a draw.

In fact, after research, Aston Villa's tactics are not complicated.

But if other teams want to replicate it, it's still a bit difficult.

However, Liverpool, next door to Manchester City, said, I can give it a try!

22 November, Etihad Stadium.

Jurgen Klopp taught the world a good lesson with the rejuvenated Liverpool and told them how to play Manchester City!

At the Etihad Stadium, Liverpool got off to a fantastic start.

Only 2 minutes into the opening game, the Manchester City defender made a mistake in clearing the ball and kicked the ball into his own goal, giving the opponent a big gift!

The early establishment of the lead made the Liverpool players excited one by one.

In this game, they ran exceptionally actively, obviously the number of people in the midfield was the same, but they ran with one more person.

In addition to his aggressive running, Liverpool have also put Jurgen Klopp's high pressing tactics into practice.

They have learned from the successful experience of Aston Villa, according to the penalty scale of the Premier League referee, when they are in physical confrontation, they should increase the intensity appropriately, but not to eat cards, and sometimes even fouls!

This kind of rampage style of play made Manchester City very uncomfortable.

It's been a long time since they've played against a team of this style, and it's like they're taking a storm of youth on the pitch.

In the 23rd minute of the first half, Liverpool played a delicate combination up front, and Firmino assisted Coutinho to score a goal.

Seven minutes later, Coutinho returned the favor by providing another assist for Firmino.

In the 30th minute of the game, the score on the field was already 0:3.

The Manchester City fans who came to the scene were in an uproar!

When was the last time they saw their team fall so far behind at home?

It feels like it's too far away to remember!

But now, the bright red 0:3 score is in front of them, so that even if they want to be ostriches, they can't bury their heads in the sand and pretend not to see.

They were furious!

The Reds fans who accompanied the team on the expedition saw their team pouring the other three at Manchester City's home stadium, and they were all overjoyed, hugging each other and celebrating excitedly.

At the same time, in the bars of Liverpool, in front of the televisions of thousands of households, on the Internet.

The news that Liverpool led Manchester City 3:0 at the beginning was like thunder, spreading rapidly!

"Liverpool is going against the rhythm of the sky?"

"It's so strong, it can beat Manchester City so embarrassed, it's worthy of my big Liverpool!"

"It has to be the Reds, who from the other teams can play such a heart-wrenching attack?"

"Calm and calm, don't be six!"

"Jurgen Klopp does have something, it's only been less than half a year, he has brought Liverpool to this height, and given him a few more years, hehe, I feel like we have a chance to win the league title!"

Liverpool have won the Champions League, but not in more than 20 years.

Legendary captain Steven Gerrard, who left the club in the summer, had one of the biggest regrets at Liverpool was not being able to lift the trophy, the highest honour in the English Football League, with his team-mates.

And now, after many years of sinking, seeing the new Red Army under Jurgen Klopp, the fans of the Red Army are all excited, and some even shed tears of joy.

It's not easy, it's not easy, after so many years, is Liverpool finally going to get out?

"Don't rejoice too soon, but don't forget the Istanbul miracle!"

Just when there was a feeling on the Internet that Liverpool was going to punch Manchester City, kick Manchester United, and return the king, someone stood up in time and poured a basin of cold water.

"That's right, it's not the time to open the champagne at half-time, with the strength of Manchester City, they will definitely not admit defeat so easily, and there is still a long time in the next game, enough for them to launch a counterattack and even equalize the score!"

Liverpool once staged a shocking comeback after falling behind by three goals, and their opponents Manchester City were actually stronger than the Liverpool team back then.

In addition, the opponent's lineup also has superstars like Lin Quan, and the elusive ghost coach Pep Guardiola.

No one can guarantee that they will win this game.

If they rejoice too soon, but end up being overturned by Manchester City, then the boomerang they mocked AC Milan back then will fall on their own heads.

Manchester City's fans and players were a bit confused at first, mainly because they hadn't experienced this situation for too long.

Whether in the league or in the Champions League this year, Manchester City has played a tailwind, and even falling behind is rare, let alone falling behind by three goals in the first 30 minutes, which is really completely unseen.

But they are a team that has won the Champions League twice, how can they be defeated so easily?

Not to mention that this is the Etihad Stadium, how can you tolerate a group of Liverpudlians going wild on their turf?

So, from the 30th minute, Manchester City launched a vigorous counterattack!

(End of chapter)