Glory Greenery

Chapter 382 Goal Shortage?does not exist at all

After the end of the league with Swansea on March 3, the Champions League returned.

On March 3, Manchester City will usher in the second round against Basel at home.

However, before that, with the announcement of the Premier League's player of the month in February, this award returned to Yang Mo after Yang Mo's comeback.

Throughout February, Yang Mo's contribution helped Manchester City win all the victories. In March, their wins in the league have accumulated to seven games.

And if you count the Champions League, their winning streak has reached eight games.

Yang Mo returned from injury, and Manchester City seemed to be reborn from the ashes. There was no suspense at all in the selection of the best player.

But maybe it is precisely because of Yang Mo's excellence and Manchester City's excellent results that the Premier League did not award the best head coach to Mancini.

Perhaps from the perspective of the Premier League, Manchester City won so many victories precisely because of Yang Mo, and Mancini's role in it is not that important.

For this result, Mancini did not show much concern.

After the losing streak some time ago, Mancini is not stupid. He naturally understands that although Yang Mo's return has made Manchester City's performance take off, it may not be a good thing for him.

Now he must be questioned by the management of Manchester City. The only thing that can be saved now is to win the championship and win more championships.

So what Mancini is most concerned about now is how to play the next game, rather than bothering to bicker with the media.

On March 3, at the Etihad Aviation Stadium, the second round of the UEFA Champions League quarter-final between Manchester City and Basel kicked off.

In the first leg, Manchester City beat Basel and scored four away goals that were enough to decide the victory.

In this game, as long as Manchester City will not be kicked out by Basel for more than five slaughters at home, they will be able to advance to the quarterfinals.

Can Basel beat Manchester City 5-0 at the Etihad Airways Stadium?Of course not.

As soon as this game with a sure chance of winning starts, and seeing Manchester City's starting formation, it can be found that Mancini is completely prepared to regard the game as training.

The 433 formation is the first time Manchester City has used it in the starting lineup this season.

The three strikers Yang Mo, Dzeko and Aguero started together for the first time. Yang Mo was on the left, Aguero was on the right, and Dzeko was in the middle.

Perhaps it was because the three of them didn't have a tacit understanding when they partnered for the first time. Although Manchester City won this game, the score was not an exaggeration.

2-0 is the score at the end of the game. Although Basel fought desperately, it did not change any results in the end.

And in this game, because of the "intense" defense of the opponent, Yang Mo played a supporting role in most cases.

In the two goals, although he did not directly score or directly assist, his role in the goal was crucial.

At the end of the game, Manchester City defeated Basel 6-0 on aggregate and advanced to the quarterfinals of the Champions League.

This result also created Manchester City's best result in the Champions League.

After Mansour's large investment in management, after two seasons of hard work, and with the help of Yang Mo after joining, Manchester City's results in this league finally ushered in an explosion.

Ranked at the forefront in the league, and also making great strides in the Champions League, the happiness in the hearts of Blue Moon fans is almost bursting.

After Manchester City and Basel's Pisa ended, the quarter-finals of the Champions League this season also ended one after another. This season's Champions League quarter-finals are all released.

In the match between Bayern and APOEL, no surprise, Bayern won the two rounds 4-1.

In the Lyon-Chelsea game, Lyon once caused Chelsea trouble, but was eventually won by Chelsea.

In the match between AC Milan and Arsenal, AC Milan beat Arsenal 3-0 in the first round at the San Siro Stadium. Although Arsenal showed all their strength and beat AC Milan [-]-[-] after returning to the home court, the first round was irreversible. A fiasco in the bout and was eventually eliminated.

Leverkusen played against Barcelona. It doesn't matter at all. Barcelona swept Leverkusen with ten goals and advanced to the quarterfinals. In the second round of the game, Messi scored a terrifying five goals.

It is also these five goals that allowed Messi to surpass Yang Mo's 12 goals with 9 goals in the Champions League shooter bar.

After talking about Barcelona, ​​I have to talk about another La Liga giant, Real Madrid. In the two rounds against CSKA Moscow, Real Madrid drew 1-1 in the first round, returned to the home court and beat the opponent 4-1 in the second round, and advanced to the eighth round. powerful.

Inter Milan played against Marseille. Inter Milan lost 0-1 away to Marseille in the first away game. Although they defeated Marseille 2-1 in the second round, they were helplessly eliminated because of away goals.

In the end, there was a duel between Zenit St. Petersburg and Benfica, which ended with Benfica winning.

So far, the quarter-finals of the Champions League this season have all been produced, including Bayern, Chelsea, AC Milan, Barcelona, ​​Real Madrid, Marseille, Benfica, and Manchester City.

After the end of the group stage, on March 3, UEFA conducted a draw for the quarter-finals.

After the whole Manchester City team watched the results of the draw collectively, the staff of Manchester City couldn't help cheering collectively, because Manchester City once again drew a good lottery.

In this draw, the four teams in the upper half will play against each other, Bayern VS Marseille, AC Milan VS Barcelona.

The four teams in the lower half are Chelsea VS Real Madrid, Benfica VS Manchester City.

Drawing Benfica among the eight teams is definitely the top pick. After all, compared to other teams, Benfica is definitely the best to deal with on the bright side.

However, although Manchester City's opponent in the quarter-finals is Benfica, after defeating Benfica, if Chelsea can beat Real Madrid in another game in the lower half, then Manchester City will have a battle with Chelsea in the semi-finals.

This season, Chelsea is definitely the sufferer of Manchester City.

In the first half of the game, although Manchester City defeated Chelsea, it also caused Yang Mo to miss [-] days of injury.

This injury directly brought Manchester City seven consecutive victories, causing Manchester City to surrender their position in the standings to Manchester United.

Although now that Yang Mo has returned from injury, they have returned to the top of the standings, but they are only ahead of Manchester United by goal difference.

If there was a choice in that game at that time, I am afraid that Mancini would rather lose the game than want Yang Mo to be injured.

Interestingly, just after the UEFA Champions League draw ended, in the Premier League, Manchester City just ushered in a match against Chelsea in the 29th round.

On March 3, Manchester City sat at home and ushered in the second match against Manchester City this season.

In the last game, Yang Mo tried his best to turn the tide and helped Manchester City beat their opponents through injuries.

How this game will develop, the outside world can be said to be very concerned.

At the beginning of the game, Mancini unexpectedly used the 433 formation that he had experimented in the Champions League for the first time in the league.

In the last game, Manchester City did not perform well with this formation.

In such a critical game against Chelsea, Mancini dared to line up like this. It seems that Mancini really intends to mainly use this formation.

However, when the game ended, the reality proved to Mancini deeply that it was too early for him to use this formation in the league.

The immaturity of the formation made Manchester City's attack very chaotic, and the appearance of three forwards undoubtedly weakened the midfield's defensive strength.

In the end, Manchester City only scored a long shot from Silva in the whole game, but they were also scored by Chelsea. In the end, they had no choice but to get a 1-1 draw.

This draw is the first time Manchester City has achieved an average after Yang Mo returned to gain nine victories.

Although it is normal to be tied by a strong team like Chelsea, Mancini's change of tactics led to the end of the nine-game winning streak, which still caused Manchester City to suffer.

In this round of the league, Manchester United swept the Wolves with five goals and won a victory.

After Manchester City finally surpassed Manchester United to top the standings with a goal difference, this draw made Manchester City fall to second place again with a difference of 2 points.

A draw led to falling behind in the standings. Mancini's tactical adjustment was bombarded by expert media immediately after the game.

However, in the face of media bombardment, whether it is Mancini or Manchester City Club, there is no time to explain at this time.

The time is entering the end of March, whether it is the league or the Champions League, will enter the most intensive sprint stage of the game.

Falling behind has become a fait accompli, what you say at this time is useless, what you have to do now is to play well in every game after that.

After the 29th round of the league with Chelsea, only three days later, Manchester City rushed to the away game again, ushering in the No.30 league round with Stoke City.

On March 3th, in the BET25 stadium in Stoke City, the sky was drizzling and the game started under such circumstances.

In this game, Mancini did not come up with the 433 starting lineup because of public opinion and pressure from Manchester City's top management.

However, although this game did not have the running-in brought by the new formation, another thing made Manchester City's playing in the game extremely painful.

The quality of the turf at Stoke City's home court was very mediocre. Only at the end of the first half, players from both sides were already playing in the mud.

The poor venue has caused Manchester City, which is more dependent on technology, to be the most restricted.

Especially Yang Mo, who played very hard. He was especially targeted by his opponents. He was knocked down in the mud many times, and then got up again and again from the mud.

His jersey has been completely soaked in mud, which is definitely not a good feeling.

Facing Manchester City, Stoke City played very hard, and once kept the 0-0 score until 10 minutes of the second half.

But to achieve such a level, Stoke City has indeed tried its best and consumed too much physical strength, and finally failed to resist Manchester City's attack.

At 72 minutes, when Yang Mo couldn't see the direction at all in the mud, he passed the ball completely by feeling, helping Dzeko to score successfully and scored the only goal of the game.

So far, this very difficult game has finally ended with Manchester City's victory, and has not been opened up by the winning Manchester United in the standings.

But the team won, and the media seems to have found another point that can be discussed.

That is, from the previous round of [-] finals against Basel to the current game against Stoke City, Yang Mo did not score a goal and only contributed one assist.

If the scoring drought in three consecutive games appeared on other players, it might not be a big deal.

But if it appeared on Yang Mo, that would be news.

After all, Yang Mo leads the scorer list with 41 goals, which is the record of scoring 14 consecutive games in the Premier League. Now there is only one assist in three games, how could the media not discuss it.

By the way, some media also brought the reason why Yang Mo didn't score a goal to Mancini's recent tactical adjustments.

In a word, there are many people who are popular, Manchester City created the best start, and Yang Mo broke a series of records, all of which will unconsciously let the outside world magnify their problems.

To enjoy the attention and benefits that others cannot get, you have to bear the criticism and demands far beyond others.

Yang Mo also answered in an interview about the scoring shortage and recent comments from the outside world.

Reporter: "May I ask Yang Mo, what would you like to say about your recent scoring drought?"

Yang Mo: "Scoring shortage? I don't care about this. What I care most about now is not my own statistics, but the team's subsequent games. As long as the team can win, it doesn't matter whether I can score or not. important."

Reporter: "Everyone is saying that your recent scoring shortage is due to Mancini's tactical adjustments. What do you think about this?"

Yang Mo: "Coach Mancini dares to try new tactics. I think it is the right thing. We can't use one tactic forever to play games. It will only make our games more and more difficult, and changes will appear. Labor pain, but I believe this labor pain will pass quickly."

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In fact, Yang Mo's interview this time is indeed Yang Mo's heartfelt words.

After the game against Stoke City, only three days later, he called the plane and rushed to Lisbon, Portugal, to start the first leg of the Champions League quarter-final against Benfica.

The tense rhythm left him with no time to worry about what outsiders said.

Besides, with his current grades, he doesn't need to worry about what outsiders say.

If 41 goals in a single season in the Premier League can't prove his strength, what's the use of one or two more goals.

On March 3th, the whole Manchester City team played against Lisbon. After getting familiar with the field at night, they had a simple adaptive training the next day, and the game started in the afternoon.

In Portugal's top league, Benfica belongs to the top giants, but looking at today's Europe, Benfica is reluctant to say a strong team.

If it weren't for Manchester United's upset exit in the group stage, and Zenit St. Petersburg in the top [-], it would be impossible for Benfica to enter the quarterfinals.

So when this game started, when Benfica met Manchester City led by Yang Mo, they immediately showed their true colors.

Although the game hadn't started yet, Benfica knew that if they wanted to beat Manchester City, they had to stop Yang Mo.

But when the game started, Benfica found helplessly that wanting to and being able to do it were completely different things.

It seems that in response to the outside world's doubts about his scoring shortage, Yang Mo went all out in this game.

Twelve minutes into the first half, Yang Mo received a diagonal pass from Yaya Toure in front of the penalty area and volleyed to help Manchester City open the scoring.

And just 5 minutes after the first goal was scored, Manchester City relied on a counterattack to expand the score again.

This time, Benfica No. 7 forward Cardoso received the ball in the frontcourt and was directly intercepted by Manchester City defender Lescott. Lescott sent the ball to the midfielder Yang Mo with a long pass from the backcourt.

After Yang Mo received the ball, he started a long-distance attack from the midfield.

The Benfica defender was unable to stop Yang Mo's advance, and finally saw Yang Mo dribbled the ball into the penalty area to form a single goal and scored twice.

After 0-2, Manchester City's offense in the first half did not end.

When entering the intermission, Yang Mo had already completed a hat-trick, helping Manchester City seal the victory 3-0.

In the second half, Mancini saw that the victory was decided, so he replaced Aguero again and continued to experiment with his 433 formation.

This time, Mancini's tactical conversion finally did not go wrong, and Benfica was unable to stop Manchester City's trident in the frontcourt.

When the game ended, the score on the court came to a shocking 0-8.

Unceremoniously, Manchester City slaughtered Benfica at the Luz Stadium, Benfica's home stadium.

This game is also the most disparate score in this Champions League after Barcelona's 7-goal massacre of Leverkusen.

And Yang Mo, also used the performance of four shots and two passes in the audience to thoroughly prove to the outside world, what is a scoring shortage?It doesn't exist at all.

And the seven away goals are the same as the previous four-goal victory over Basel. In just one round, Manchester City has confirmed their qualifications for the semi-finals!

(End of this chapter)