Glory Greenery

Chapter 572 The Insane Schedule

It's good to get the best of the month, but if you can't get it, Yang Mo doesn't have much regret.

After all, he has won enough awards, and there is no novelty at all.

And his performance, even if he doesn't get the best of the month, no one will think that he is not the best one.

Another point is that I don’t know who designed the trophy for the best of the month. It’s so big that it takes up a lot of space.

Half of the honor cabinet he had just ordered was occupied by the best of the thirteenth month.

I heard that the Premier League is planning to change the best sponsor of the month and redesign the trophy by the way. Yang Mo will definitely give the Premier League a suggestion to make the trophy smaller.

Don't make it look like a globe, hold it heavy, and put it big.

After Yang Mo "lost" the player of the month award, the time has entered December.

On December 12, Yang Mo continued to sit at home with Manchester City and ushered in the No. 2 opponent in the league, Swansea.

And it is from this game that Manchester City will usher in a terrifying schedule of six days and three games.

On December 12th, the 5th round of the Premier League, an away game against West Bromwich Albion.

On December 12th, the 7th round of the Premier League, away game against Annampton.

The reason why all three league games should be compressed into six days is entirely to make room for the Club World Cup, which will start in late December.

Do you think three battles in six days is all there is to it?

No!Far more than that, this is just the appetizer for Manchester City's December schedule in the Premier League.

Throughout December, as the current face of the Premier League, Manchester City's game tasks can only be described as frenzied.

In addition to the three games in six days at the beginning of the month, before the Club World Cup, on November 11, Manchester City will rush to the away game for the last game of the Champions League group stage against Paris Saint-Germain.

On November 11th, in the 14th round of the Premier League, Manchester City ushered in the strongest opponent of the season at home, Arsenal, who is second in the standings, this is a veritable battle for the top of the list.

After that, Manchester City will go to Morocco to participate in this year's Club World Cup and fight for their ultimate honor of six crowns.

As the champion of the Champions League, Manchester City played directly from the semi-finals of the Club World Cup. Although it is not yet known who their opponents will be in the semi-finals, no one thinks that Manchester City will be eliminated in the semi-finals.

So counting the final, Manchester City will have to play at least two games in the Club World Cup.

After the end of the Club World Cup, Manchester City's nightmare schedule is not over. On the 25th, in the Christmas game, Manchester City will face Leicester City in the top 8 of the English League Cup.

而紧跟着，便是第12月27对阵利物浦的第18轮联赛，以及12月28日对阵升班马水晶宫的第19轮联赛。

You read that right, this is a frenzied period of five days and three games, plus back-to-back schedules.

Well, if you were to ask where the 17th round of the league went.

Due to the influence of the Club World Cup and the League of Legends Cup, it was really impossible to arrange it, and it was moved to January.

But even so, in the 12 days of December, Manchester City will play 31 league games, 6 Champions League game, 1 League Cup game, and 1 Club World Cup games, a total of 10 games.

31 games in 10 days, an average of 3 days a game, and the time of running back and forth, including the Champions League against Paris Saint-Germain, and the league against strong teams such as Arsenal and Liverpool.

When other leagues have entered the winter break one after another, the Premier League's December schedule will really exert its power.

It's no wonder that the top Premier League teams often collapse suddenly after the December battle. Such a schedule, without a certain depth of bench, is indeed difficult to persist.

Therefore, after entering December, Pellegrini must consider the rotation of players.

Especially at the beginning of the month, the physical fitness of the core players must be saved. After all, the real important games and hard bones in December are all in the middle and late December.

Once the core players waste too much physical energy in the early stage, the subsequent games will be dangerous.

Therefore, as an appetizer for six days and three games in early December, in the first match against Swansea in the No. 12 round, Manchester City came up with a semi-main lineup.

On the front line, apart from Yang Mo, Aguero sat on the bench, and Ibrahimovic did not even make the squad, so there was a complete truce.

As the front midfielder, David Silva, who has been in full attendance since the beginning of the league, also did not enter the squad for this game, and was replaced by Milner.

In the backcourt position, Rodwell replaced Fernandinho, who has also been starting since joining this season, and partnered with Yaya Toure in the midfielder position.

And Nastasic started again, but this time it was not Kompany who was replaced, but Thiago Silva.

After the rotation, Manchester City put on a fairly stable 451 formation, with Yang Mo as the starting center.

But even with a rotation lineup, with Yang Mo as the arrow, it is not something Swansea can resist. After 90 minutes of the game, Manchester City easily won 2-0.

Among them, Yang Mo contributed a goal and restrained Swansea's defensive center of gravity, winning the best of the game.

After the end of this home game, Manchester City will start a journey of three consecutive away games.

On December 12th, against West Bromwich Albion in the 5th round of the league, Manchester City came to West Brom City and won an away victory 14-2 at the Hawthorns.

The reason why it was difficult to win is that Pellegrini once again implemented rotation tactics in this game.

Aguero continued to sit on the bench. This time Aguero was accompanied by Yang Mo. Ibrahimovic made his debut after a game of rest. Manchester City continued to fight with a 451 formation.

Without Yang Mo, the lack of breadth in Manchester City's lineup has been fully revealed. Nasri, who replaced Yang Mo, obviously does not have Yang Mo's invincible ability on the wing.

The Manchester City players, who couldn't get used to the style of play for a while, were led by West Bromwich Albion by 1 goal at the end of the first half.

After entering the second half, although Pellegrini replaced Aguero in time, he assisted Ibrahimovic to equalize the score.

But immediately afterwards, West Bromwich Albion scored again and regained the lead in the score.

After taking the lead, West Bromwich Albion resolutely began to shrink the defense, put on the defenders and put on the bus, looking like they would win the victory if they defended at home.

Under the desperate defense of West Bromwich Albion, the score of 2-1 remained stalemate until 10 minutes into the second half.

Faced with this situation, although Pellegrini knew that Yang Mo must be rested, and there were more important games waiting for Yang Mo, he was unwilling to lose and replaced Yang Mo.

With Yang Mo, Manchester City's sharpest knife, West Bromwich Albion's desperate defense was completely vulnerable.

Only 5 minutes after Yang Mo came on the field, he made a breakthrough on the left to create a gap, and then crossed and assisted Ibrahimovic to score twice, tying the score to 2-2.

Immediately afterwards, when the game was about to enter stoppage time, Yang Mo received a pass from Silva in the upper right corner of West Bromwich Albion and kicked his left foot to shake the angle, and then scored a long-range shot successfully, helping Manchester City. Killed the game.

Yang Mo is the savior in danger and helps Manchester City keep their undefeated golden status.

But Yang Mo's appearance also made Pellegrini's rotation declared a failure. As the absolute core of Manchester City, it is absolutely not advisable to overdraw Yang Mo's physical fitness this month.

So after defeating West Bromwich Albion, after the 12th round of the league came to Annampton on December 7, Yang Mo did not appear on the St. Mary's Stadium.

Yang Mo didn't enter the squad at all for this game, and watched the whole game from the stands.

And without Yang Mo, Manchester City, which used rotation tactics, was inexplicably sluggish again.

Lacking Yang Mo's leadership, the starting combination of Aguero and Ibrahimovic was still unable to pose an effective threat. In the end, they were tied 1-1 by Annampton in the away game, ending Chelsea's five-game winning streak.

After the game, although Pellegrini told the media that the draw was the price Manchester City had to pay for the rotation.

But the media obviously didn't buy Pellegrini's explanation.

Whether it is Aguero or Ibrahimovic, they are the top strikers in today's football. There is no reason to leave Yang Mo and not even score.

Everyone agreed that Manchester City's previous tactics relied too much on Yang Mo, which had caused other players to leave Yang Mo and didn't even know how to play the ball.

The two games against West Bromwich Albion and Annampton are the best proof.

The cloud of Yang Mo's dependence shrouded Manchester City for a while.

(End of this chapter)