green waist king

Chapter 356

On April 4th, the eve of the second leg of the Champions League quarter-finals, the Premier League No.8 three rounds ushered in a highly anticipated battle.

Manchester Derby, Manchester City VS Manchester United.

The game will start at 4pm local time in England.

In order to watch this game, Klopp ended the afternoon training session ahead of schedule, called the players to watch together, and waited for the judgment of fate together.

After washing up, Mo Yang walked slowly to the entertainment room, only to realize that he was the last one. At this time, almost all Liverpool players were present.

But what was strange was that the huge entertainment room seemed a little quiet at the moment.

Mo Yang observed silently, and found that Salah and Alisson, the usually troublesome guys, all had stern faces, sitting silently on the chairs, and everyone seemed a little nervous.

This strange atmosphere made Mo Yang's heart, which was a little indifferent, lifted up.

Everyone in Liverpool from top to bottom knows what this game means to the team.

Manchester United can be said to be the last and strongest threshold for Manchester City to win the championship this season.

If Manchester City can step over the corpse of Manchester United, then Manchester City's championship will become a high probability event, and Liverpool's hope of defending the Premier League title will fall to the bottom.

But if Manchester City's game is reversed by Manchester United, the league points difference between Liverpool and Manchester City will return to two points again.

At that time, the ownership of the Premier League champion will continue to retain a certain amount of suspense.

Until the end of the final round, it is uncertain who will win the Barclays Cup.

Klopp was also a little nervous.

He roughly analyzed it before the game. Although Manchester United played away in this game, they still have a great advantage.

Because of this game Guardiola made a choice in favor of the Champions League.

He adopted a rotation game strategy, and the position of the players on the field has also been adjusted.

The absolute main players of the three teams, De Bruyne, Walker and Aguero, were put on the bench by Guardiola and were rotated.

Moreover, Manchester City just experienced a Champions League fiasco in the middle of the week, which dealt a very serious psychological and physical blow to the players.

On Manchester United's side, Mourinho drew the only one in the Europa League quarter-finals.

A few days ago, the game ended early. Manchester United beat the Salzburg Red Bull in the Austrian League 5-0 in the first round. It can be said that morale is at its peak.

Therefore, compared with Manchester City, Manchester United, which ended the game early and got a full rest, can almost be said to be waiting for work at leisure, and has an advantage in both physical fitness and mentality.

From the analysis of paper strength, Klopp does not think Manchester United is weaker than Manchester City.

The only thing that makes Klopp a little worried is Mourinho's record against Guardiola.

The two guys have played a total of 20 times over the years, but Mourinho has lost nine times to Guardiola and won only four times.

At this moment, countless Red Army fans with ambivalence are also paying attention to this strong dialogue.

This kind of psychology is very contradictory. They not only hope that the rival Manchester United will be defeated by Manchester City, but also expect Manchester United to defeat Manchester City.

In this way, Liverpool will have a chance to defend their title.

But soon these Red Army fans were disappointed.

After the start of the game, Manchester United was very active in the away game. They played very aggressively and their formation was very high. They thoroughly implemented Mourinho's tactical intention of this game, which is to suppress Manchester City.

Use offense as defense!

On the other hand, Manchester City slowed down the pace of the game, which has always been slow, focusing on pass control and penetration.

When Klopp saw Mourinho's tactics, he immediately grinned dumbfounded.

He could see that Mourinho had figured out something from the match between them and Manchester City, and wanted to imitate their use of high pressure to destroy the organization of Manchester City's midfield.

"Mourinho has seen from Klopp that Guardiola is not invincible."

"So he also learned from Klopp in this game, and used this unreasonable way to rob you and destroy your organizational functions in the midfield!"

"Let me make an analogy, Manchester City is like a high-handed swordsman with the demeanor of a master, while Liverpool at that time was a reckless man with two hammers, and as a result, Manchester City was directly strangled to death by Klopp's two hammers, haha ..."

In the LeTV live broadcast room, seeing Manchester United use Klopp's moves to deal with Manchester City, Zhang Lu was amused and laughed, which is really interesting.

Manchester City was indeed a bit embarrassed on the field, and Manchester United also got several opportunities to attack in the frontcourt through pressing.

But as time passed, Manchester City gradually adapted.

Many players feel that Manchester United's high pressure is not as strong as that of Liverpool's lunatics.

Gradually, Manchester City's offensive gradually picked up through patient pass control.

In the 23rd minute of the game, Manchester City and Manchester United fought consecutively in the midfield.

First, Pogba, Sanchez, and Herrera surrounded Sterling and got the ball.

As a result, as soon as Sanchez took the ball and turned around, Fernandinho went straight up, overturning the ball even when he was dribbling, and regained the ball.

Then Manchester City quickly launched an attack from the left.

Sane cut into the penalty area and forced a cross, but there were too many people in the penalty area of ​​Manchester United, and Valencia cleared the bottom line in the chaos.

Soon, Sane took a left corner kick and went directly to Kompany who was inserted in the middle.

Smalling next to him couldn't hold it back, he couldn't pull it, he just let Kompany jump up and head the ball and blast the hammer, directly breaking through De Gea's ten fingers.

However, Manchester United's tragedy is not over yet.

In the 30th minute, Manchester City once again launched an attack from the left, blasting directly at Manchester United's left rib.

Sterling faced a joint defense in the left penalty area, but he still poked the ball to Gundogan who came forward from the ribs.

Matic saw the danger, he seized the position ahead of time, and got stuck in front of Gundogan.

In the end, I didn't expect Gundogan to pull back the moment he caught the ball, then turned around, and pushed his right foot directly to the far post.

In front of the goal, De Gea's ten-finger pass was breached again.

Seeing this scene, many Red Army fans at the Etihad Stadium left early.

Many players at the Melwood training base also left early.

Only seven or eight people including Klopp, Mo Yang, Salah and Van Dijk were left.

Mo Yang was very disappointed by Manchester United's performance.

In the second half of the game, Manchester United couldn't press up, but they didn't fully retreat. As a result, they stood there stupidly and let Manchester City keep hitting behind.

It's really speechless.

Mo Yang was very disappointed, he knew that his second Premier League champion had flown away, and the others were also frustrated.

"Grandpa is right, relying on others is never as good as relying on yourself!" Mo Yang muttered with a wry smile.

In a blink of an eye, the second half begins.

Mourinho decisively changed his style of play.

His method is very simple and rude, since I can't beat you on the ground, then I will play long and high with you.

Manchester United is a strong attack, divide the ball to the side, then play a high ball, and attack from a high point.

It looks very simple, but the effect is surprisingly good, which shocked countless people's jaws.

In the 51st minute of the game, Manchester United continued to attack Manchester City's left rib, and finally received the effect.

Lingard, Sanchez, and Herrera's consecutive triangular passes in the ribs penetrated Manchester City's defense.

But Manchester City reacted very quickly, and Otamendi rushed directly from the goal, blocking Sanchez on the wing and preventing him from turning.

As a result, Sanchez turned around in a circle and directly stuck Otamendi behind him.

Then without waiting for the encirclement of Manchester City to close, he kicked his right foot directly to Matic in the middle.

The unguarded Matic faced the incoming ball and directly stopped Pogba with his chest.

Pogba got the ball on the six-yard line and pulled it back with a poke before Ederson pounced on him.

Less than 1 minute later, Manchester United changed the offensive line to the left this time.

Sanchez broke through to Manchester City's right flank by dribbling. Facing the marking of the B seat in front of him, he swung horizontally and kicked directly.

In the penalty area, Pogba grabbed Otamendi in front of him by relying on his dexterous running position, headshot the hammer at close range on the small penalty area line, and directly equalized.

Listening to the huge cheers from the TV, Klopp, Mo Yang, Henderson and others in the Melwood entertainment room looked at each other.

Nima!What kind of fairy attack is Manchester United, two goals in 2 minutes!
This is a script written by God!
In the 69th minute of the game, Manchester United got a set kick outside the penalty area on the left side of the front field.

Sanchez sent the ball with his right foot, as if a locator was installed, and directly found Smalling in the middle.

Facing the incoming ball, Smalling jumped up and stretched his feet and pushed, directly rewriting the score to 3-2.

Seeing the birth of this goal, Mo Yang and the others stared wide-eyed.

shocked!People are numb!
"Oh my god, there's another pie in the sky!" Mo Yang muttered to himself.

Then Klopp and others jumped up from their chairs and hugged each other to celebrate.

At the same time, countless Red Army fans also discovered the magical turning point of this game, and they were all crazy.

Some fans started to set off fireworks directly in front of their homes in excitement.

For a time, the whole Liverpool was filled with a festive atmosphere.

They have been hostile to Manchester United for a century, and for the first time they are happy to win for their arch-enemy.

In the end, the game was miraculously reversed by Manchester United.

Even if Guardiola replaced De Bruyne and Aguero, he failed to regain the score.

Ironically, Liverpool, Manchester United's arch-enemy, seems to be the biggest beneficiary.

Make countless fans dumbfounded!
"Surprise is not surprise, intention is not accident, stimulation is not exciting!"

Zhan Jun and Zhang Lu in the live broadcast room were also greatly stimulated by this magical turning point.

"This is the Premier League! Until the last moment! You never know what will happen!"

"This is football! How can you not love it!"

(End of this chapter)