Glory Greenery

Chapter 582

After rushing back to the UK from Africa, the outside world's hot discussion about Manchester City's six-time champion is at its peak.

But Manchester City, as the protagonist of the incident, is actually not as comfortable as the outside world imagined.

12月22日世俱杯决赛，12月25就是对阵莱斯特城的英联杯8强战，他们将要远赴客场比赛。

Therefore, Manchester City did not even have time to return to Manchester to receive the cheers of the fans. The trophy was brought back to Manchester by the staff, while the players went directly to Leicester City to prepare for the game.

After getting off the plane, all the players of Manchester City had a rest in Leicester City for one night, and they had to go to the game the next day.

For this game, Manchester City was basically unprepared.

And in order to ensure the state of back-to-back games with Liverpool and in the league, Pellegrini must also rotate players.

Otherwise, after two games in the Club World Cup, the physical fitness of some players may really collapse.

Fortunately, they had a warm-up match with Leicester City before, so they are not ignorant.

On December 12th, when the game started, Leicester City, which was firmly at the top of the British Championship, faced Manchester City, the new six-time champion, with 25% emphasis.

Even in this game, Manchester City's most intimidating Yang Mo was sitting on the bench, but Leicester City still placed a bus at the goal from the beginning, without any carelessness.

Defensive counterattack is the best tactic for a weak team to face a strong team. Of course Leicester City will not forget it.

Leicester City is serious here, and Manchester City is somewhat out of shape due to the exhaustion of travel.

As soon as the two sides increase and decrease, the game will be stalemate from the beginning.

At the end of the first half, the score was still 0-0.

After entering the second half, Pellegrini did not make major adjustments. After all, it was just a League Cup game. In Pellegrini's view, it doesn't matter if he loses.

In fact, compared to a draw, Pellegrini felt that it would be better to lose and be eliminated, and the province would enter the semi-finals and have to play two rounds.

So far this season, the most terrible problem facing Manchester City is the intensive schedule and the physical fitness of the players.

Every cup match will make Pellegrini upset about how to allocate players' appearances.

The two-leg semi-finals of the English League Cup has been complained by those giants in the Premier League for countless times, but the English Football League has no intention of changing it at all.

Not to mention the tasteless honor, the schedule is quite rough, and it is no wonder that the Premier League teams will voluntarily give up the Carabao Cup once the schedule is too busy these years.

After entering the second half of the League Cup quarter-finals, the situation remained deadlocked.

Although Leicester City had several opportunities, they failed to grasp them.

Vardy, who performed brilliantly in the warm-up match before, was targeted in this game.

Although this little man is of some level, after all, he lacks Yang Mo's ability to rampage through thousands of troops, and he has not been able to help Leicester City create goals.

As for Manchester City, at the beginning of the second half, Ibrahimovic voluntarily applied to end the game because he felt uncomfortable in his thigh.

Aguero is the only one left on the front line, and he really can't crack the tortoise shell of Leicester City.

In the end, when the nine 10-minute game ended, the two teams even played to a 0-0 tie.

The English League Cup is not like the FA Cup. If you draw in the knockout rounds, you will have to fight again.

If there is a tie in the English League Cup, it will go to overtime normally, and if there is still a tie, it will go directly to a penalty shootout.

Faced with this result, Pellegrini was a little dissatisfied. After all, overtime means that the players' physical energy will be consumed again.

But there is no way, as the coach of the newly promoted six-time champion, of course he cannot directly admit defeat to a British Championship team.

So the game still has to go on.

The number of substitutions was exhausted, and after a short break, the two teams reappeared with their original lineups and continued the game.

The terrible thing is that even in overtime, Leicester City did not intend to attack at all and continued to defend.

Obviously, Leicester City felt that the frontal attack could not be Manchester City's opponent, and decided to drag Manchester City into the most uncertain penalty shootout.

And things are also moving towards Leicester City.

When the 15-minute extra time ended, the score was still 0-0.

The game went into overtime as Leicester City wished.

Leicester City succeeded, but Manchester City's players were exhausted by Leicester City's tactics.

After all, Manchester City has played seven games this month, how can they not be tired.

After some preparations, the penalty shootout officially began.

The home team Leicester City took the penalty first, and the first player to play was their goalkeeper Kasper Schmeichel.

It is not uncommon for the goalkeeper to play in a penalty shootout, but the goalkeeper is the first to take the penalty, which is rare in a penalty shootout.

But it seems that the goalkeeper knows the goalkeeper better. In the face of Navas who was shaking his body, Schmeichel remained unmoved and completed the goal with a shot from an angle that was not considered tricky.

For Manchester City, Kompany was the first to play.

The veteran also made no mistakes in his first goal, helping Manchester City tie the score.

Next, players from both sides played one after another, and none of the first four rounds missed a shot.

Yang Mo came on stage in the fourth round and scored the ball without any surprises.

In the last round, Leicester City took the main forward Vardy to take the penalty, and Vardy pushed a shot to hit the bottom right corner.

However, the ball was predicted by Navas, and he threw the ball sideways and pressed the ball directly under him.

Seeing that his penalty was saved, Vardy lay on his back on the lawn annoyed on the spot, seemingly unable to accept his mistake.

At the same time, on Penguin Sports' live channel, Huang Jianxiang shouted excitedly!

"Catch it! Navas has done a great job!"

"In the last round of penalty kicks, Navas saved Leicester City's penalty kick, and he helped Manchester City get a chance to win!"

"Manchester City's last penalty kick was Aguero. As long as Aguero can score the ball, the game will be over."

……

Accompanied by Huang Jianxiang's excited voice, Aguero walked to the penalty spot.

Looking at Leicester City goalkeeper Peter Schmeichel, who was straddling his body, Aguero took a deep breath and started to run up.

He didn't choose any angle, just a powerful volley with a burst of kick.

Schmeichel judged the right direction, but he couldn't keep up with the flying speed of the football, and watched the football fly into the goal.

"It's over, Aguero hit the penalty and the Carabao Cup ended with City winning."

"For Manchester City, winning this game with more than [-] points is definitely a miserable victory."

"This game consumed too much energy from the Manchester City players, and one day later, Manchester City will usher in a league match against Liverpool at home..."

Although the League Cup was won, Huang Jianxiang, who was the commentator, saw the hidden worries that this game might bring to Manchester City.

(End of this chapter)