Even if Manchester City are the last hope in the Premier League, it doesn't mean they will be given preferential treatment in the league.

After the away campaign, Manchester City rushed to another away game to challenge Newcastle United.

In this game, Manchester City's main players were affected by the long journey and the fatigue of traveling, and their form was relatively average.

However, several of their substitutes stepped up in due time, and in the fifth minute of the first half, Sane latched on to Kevin De Bruyne's pass to score his first goal for Manchester City.

Although the opponents stubbornly equalised with a header in the 31st minute, it did not stop the madness of the City substitutes.

In the 52nd minute of the second half, Jesus ran smartly, and after the successful anti-offside position, he scored a single goal to rewrite the score to 2:1.

The performances of Leroy Sane and Gabriel Jesus have dazzled Manchester City fans.

The strength of these players brought in by the team during the winter break is good!

Sane is a strong individual player, with outstanding dribbling, breakaways and shots.

Gabriel Jesus, on the other hand, played as a team, working hard up front, desperately running to find space to shoot when attacking.

When defending, he is very active in participating in the return defense, and can even harass the opponent's ball carrier on the spot, delaying the opponent's offensive rhythm.

Of course, this is not to say that these two are completely without shortcomings.

Sane's shortcomings are obvious, he plays alone, sometimes his teammates are in a better position, and passing the ball is a more reasonable choice, but he still chooses to go it alone, without the intention of handing over the ball.

As for Gabriel Jesus, he is not very tall and has a relatively weak ability to stand on the pile, so he cannot fully play the effect that a positive Indian center forward should have.

Fortunately, City don't need that kind of traditional centre-forward, which makes Gabriel Jesus' shortcomings in this area be masked.

Guardiola has watched the two for so long and knows their quality and style of play very well.

Therefore, he plans to adjust the two in the next step, get rid of Sane's 'alone' habit, and make him more team.

As for Gabriel Jesus, it's good to improve his scoring ability and defend aggressively, but as a striker, you still have to do your job well.

Of course, it may not be the best fit to put Jesus in the forward position, and we will need to continue to explore in the future to see where to put him to make the most of his talents.

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After winning the game against Newcastle, Manchester City still can't stop to rest.

They rushed to London for the Carabao Cup final at Wembley Stadium.

This match in the League Cup is much more difficult than the league because they are against Liverpool, who are refreshed, prepared for a long time and ready to work.

Liverpool fans are very concerned about this championship, and manager Klopp has even stated that he will go all out to win this championship.

Liverpool have not been able to go further in the league this season for one reason or another, so cup competitions such as the League Cup have become their last resort.

The game was close to the league game that had just ended, and it was quite a disadvantage for Manchester City.

Liverpool are clearly aware of this, so they tried to speed up the pace of the game from the start of the game in an attempt to drain the fitness of the City players.

After more than half a year in charge, Jurgen Klopp has already imprinted his style on Liverpool.

This team has been revamped by him, and the style of play and tactics are completely different from Liverpool in the Brendan Rodgers era.

Under his tutelage, Liverpool is like a young Praetorian Guard, playing with enthusiasm and impact, which is difficult to resist.

In the first half, Manchester City were suppressed by their opponents for a while, and they were rarely inferior in possession.

However, after fifteen minutes, Manchester City adapted to the rhythm of the opponent, and after adjusting, they began to gradually grasp the initiative of the game!

"It felt the same as the game between Liverpool and Manchester City in the league, where Liverpool started the game and pressed Manchester City every time and waited for City to get used to it before finding the initiative.

Then Manchester City will gradually develop and establish a score advantage! ”

On the commentary bench, Martin Taylor's words had just finished when Manchester City scored.

Surprisingly, it was neither Lin Quan, nor Son Xingmin, Jesus and other strikers who broke the goal, but the defensive gate of Manchester City's midfield - Kante!

Kante originally just saw that the opponent's defense was very tight, and felt that there was no good chance, so he thought about taking a kick, but he didn't expect this kick to hit a world wave, the quality was very high, and the opponent's goalkeeper had no choice but to watch the ball go into the net.

It was a crucial goal, the first half was about to end, and the whole Manchester City team was consumed by the opponent's tactics, and when the second half started, as their fitness declined, they would sooner or later fall into passivity.

But if City had taken the lead before the start of the second half, it would have been a different story.

Once they have the initiative, they have more tactics to choose from, and they can even take the initiative to retreat and counterattack defensively, as they did before.

No matter how bad the League Cup championship is, it is still a championship, and in order to get this championship trophy, it is no problem to play a half-time defensive counterattack.

Klopp had clearly thought of that too, so his brow furrowed immediately after seeing N'Golo Kante score.

It doesn't seem like a lot to be one goal behind, but since ancient times, there has been no name in the final, and it is very difficult to score on a stage like the final.

However, Liverpool are not completely without chances, they are not tied to European competitions, and they do not have to travel as hard as Manchester City.

Therefore, in terms of the physical reserves of players, Liverpool has an absolute advantage.

In the last league game, they were reversed by Manchester City, the main reason was that the players' physical consumption was too great, and they couldn't run in the second half, and they were chased back by Manchester City.

But this time, Manchester City will definitely not be in such a good state in the second half, and Liverpool is likely to always have the initiative in the second half!

Therefore, he let the team press up, press and impact Manchester City more frantically, give full play to his physical advantages, and play more actively and resolutely.

I don't know how Liverpool's players understood the manager's intentions, but after the start of the second half, their pressing and running did become more aggressive.

But the action in offense and defense has also become bigger!

As a result, the number of fouls skyrocketed, with two yellow cards in quick succession within minutes of the opening minutes of the second half.

The corners of Klopp's mouth twitched as he watched from the sidelines, these guys, did I let you play like this?

There was no way, the two positions of the foul were critical, so he had to use the substitution slots, replace these people, and continue to strengthen the offense.

Jurgen Klopp's move was supposed to be aimed at avoiding attrition, fearing that the players who had been beaten up for the cards would be irrational and behave irrationally and receive a second yellow card.

However, he made an early substitution before the 60th minute of the game, which further strengthened Liverpool's attacking threat and amplified the pressure on Manchester City's defence.

After these two new forces came on the field, they were extremely active on the field, and the Manchester City players, who were already lacking in physical fitness, were very uncomfortable by them, and even made several mistakes, almost causing a big disaster.

Seeing this, Guardiola immediately played the substitution card and replaced two new forces to replace Zabaleta and Kroos, who were close to the physical bottleneck.

The introduction of Sagna and Fernandinho temporarily cemented City's back line, and the opponent's attack could not threaten their goal for a short time.

However, the counter-attacking effect that Manchester City wanted to play was not achieved.

The opponent's pressing was too crazy, and after most of the attrition, Son Heung-min and Jesus couldn't run anymore.

The only person with full physical fitness in the front court is Lin Quan himself!

Thanks to Lin Quan's involvement in the front, the opponent did not dare to devote all his strength to the attack, otherwise, Manchester City may be crushed in the second half of Liverpool's wave after wave of attack.

In the first half, the two sides had similar possession, with City taking a slight lead.

But after the second half, and especially after 55 minutes, there was a very noticeable change in possession.

Manchester City's possession rate has plummeted, while Liverpool's possession has risen rapidly.

Manchester City's attack can't be played, and they don't dare to pass too much in their own backfield under the opponent's crazy pressing, and such a pass will cause a big disaster if they are not careful.

So it's only natural that they're behind in possession!

It's just that this result is still shocking, you know, Guardiola has always paid attention to possession since the Barcelona period.

His team has lost a lot of games, but they have lost very few times in terms of possession.

It can be seen from this game that Liverpool played so suppressively.

The Reds fans were thrilled to see their team completely overwhelm their opponents on the pitch, singing the team song "Never Walk Alone" while looking forward to the arrival of Liverpool's goal.

To bring back the Carabao Cup trophy, Liverpool need two more goals.

With about 30 minutes left in the second half, it could be a bit difficult to score two goals.

But it didn't matter, they just needed to score a goal first, tie the score, and then let the game go to extra time.

Manchester City's players' fitness has visibly declined seriously, and they can't support it in regular time, if they are really dragged to extra time, then it is not up to Liverpool to handle?

Liverpool's players obviously know this, so even if they are behind, their morale is still very high, and those who don't know think they are ahead of the score!

However, unexpectedly, in the face of Liverpool's frantic attack, Manchester City's defence was very tenacious and did not completely crush the opponent.

In the 70th minute of the game, the score on the field was still 1:0, and Liverpool still failed to score.

In the 80th minute, the score remained the same, even if Liverpool formed a siege on the Manchester City goal during this time, but it still failed again and again.

Although they held off the opponent's onslaught, Manchester City's side was obviously very uncomfortable.

Their players began to suffer from cramps and captain Vincent Kompany was injured in a scramble.

Pep Guardiola was forced to use up his last substitution, replacing Kompany with veteran Demichelis.

When Kompany left the field, he handed the captain's armband to Lin Quan:

"Lin, you must win this championship, please!"

"Don't worry, Captain, I won't let anyone else snatch it!"

Lin Quan nodded heavily to Kompany, and then put the captain's armband on his arm.

In this game, he was frantically targeted by Liverpool, as soon as he got the ball, the opponent immediately sent many people to cover him, and once he failed to form a bag, the opponent would be very decisive and would never give Lin Quan a chance to speed up.

Klein, Moreno, Emre, Lallana and even Coutinho have all been carded for tactical fouls on him.

In other words, in this game, Lin Quan alone made 5 yellow cards!

This is just a foul with a card, and there are countless fouls without a card!

In order to stop him, Liverpool did not hesitate to adopt this lethal foul tactic, fighting the whole team to eat cards, but also to stop him, Klopp or the whole Liverpool, the fear of Lin Quan can be seen!

However, under the crazy targeting of the opponent, Lin Quan was like an unbeatable Xiaoqiang, he was put down again and again, but he stood up again and again, and he didn't dwell on it much, and immediately threw himself into the game!

This kind of unbeatable spirit makes even Liverpool fans have to feel admiration!

"Why can't this guy be defeated?"

"It's so tenacious, and to be honest, I have some admiration for him!"

"This guy, why isn't it from us in Liverpool, and if he can come to Anfield, how good would it be?"

Liverpool fans appreciate and even admire Lin Quan's unbeatable spirit, and this temperament is very much in line with Liverpool's style.

It's a pity that it may be difficult for the other party to put on Liverpool's red shirt and fight for the Red Army!

Although only Lin Quan can pose a threat to Liverpool in the frontcourt of Manchester City, even if there is only Lin Quan, Liverpool is still struggling to sleep.

And this is one of the reasons why they have been unable to score for a long time.

By this time, the game had passed 80 minutes, and the team still failed to score as time passed by little bit.

Liverpool fans, who were eating hot pot and singing songs, couldn't help but panic at this time.

It's a good idea, but only if they score goals!

So far, they haven't scored a goal, let alone any champion, what overtime, and if they drag on, they will lose the final!

"Get one!"

"Get one!"

Liverpool fans, who can't help but feel anxious, have begun to chant in unison, calling for a hero to stand up and help the team come out of a desperate situation.

Coutinho heard the call of the fans and was eager to step up and be the hero!

He dribbled past the exhausted Kevin De Bruyne and then played a very good match with his team-mates to get the ball on the edge of the penalty area.

However, just as he was about to shoot, a foot suddenly flew from the side, and a sliding tackle shoveled the ball away from his feet!

Coutinho was taken aback, and subconsciously went to see the person who tackled, but saw that the shirt number behind the opponent was the same as himself, which was No. 10!

It's Lin Quan!

Coutinho's heart was shocked, isn't this guy in the frontcourt?

How did you get back to the big penalty area?

Is this what a striker should do?

Coutinho's thoughts were interrupted by the exclamations of the fans at the stadium, and he saw that the blue figure was rushing in the opposite direction with the ball.

And that direction is exactly where the Liverpool goal is!

(End of chapter)