Glory Greenery

Chapter 592 Two Battles Against Chelsea

After finishing the game in January and entering February, Manchester City ushered in two interesting games at the beginning.

First, on February 2th, the 4th round of the Premier League, against Chelsea at home.

Immediately after two days, on February 2th, it was still at home, in the FA Cup round of sixteen, Manchester City ushered in a match against Chelsea again.

In three days, there were two games against Chelsea at home. This was the first time since Yang Mo joined Manchester City.

If you want to count all the games, Manchester City has played against Chelsea at least four times this season. Even in the same league, such a number of games is rare.

In the previous European Super Cup and the first round of the league, Manchester City and Chelsea have a record of one win and one draw, and they have an advantage.

Although Manchester City won Chelsea in the first round of the league, the duel between the two teams still attracted everyone's attention.

Without him, it is only because after the adaptation in the first half of the league, under the control of Mourinho, Chelsea's recent performance has improved rapidly.

In the standings, Chelsea officially surpassed Liverpool in the last round of the game and achieved the third position in the standings.

Of course, it can also be said that after Liverpool suffered the massacre of Manchester City, their results collapsed halfway. The entire game in January fell into a state of confusion and lost many games that should not be lost in a row.

For what happened to Liverpool, Yang Mo didn't have the slightest sympathy. Instead, he took the opportunity to make things worse and mocked Klopp a few words.

Of course, he didn't want to target Liverpool. If Liverpool can change their past and sweep Klopp out, then he must also reform and apologize to Liverpool.

Obviously, Liverpool doesn't want to give in to him as an outsider, so this beam will only get deeper and deeper.

On February 2, Chelsea's chartered flight landed at Manchester Airport.

The prelude to the two battles in three days officially began.

After a few days of rest in their own territory, on February 2th, in the 5th round of the Premier League, Manchester City ushered in a challenge from Chelsea at Old Trafford.

In this high-profile Premier League focus battle, Chelsea, who are on the road, took out Mourinho's housekeeping tactics and defended and counterattacked.

After the whole game, facing Chelsea's "atom bomb"-level defense, Manchester City played extremely painfully.

In the end, despite Manchester City's desperate offense, they still failed to gnaw on Chelsea, the hard bone that plated themselves with iron.

The boring game ended 0-0, which disappointed many fans who were waiting to watch.

"How to say Chelsea's tactics in this game, it is too conservative, Mourinho's utilitarian football, this game has lost its original charm."

In the post-match summary, Zhan Jun was disappointed.

After all, it is not easy to explain such a boring game.

"Conservative, I think Mourinho just doesn't want to make progress. How many years have others made progress, and he is still playing this game?"

"Chelsea's game is fine if they rely on tactics, but how many times they have used small tricks and small moves when defending. This kind of play is dirty!"

"If the next FA Cup is still played like this, I don't care if I watch Chelsea's game..."

Compared with Zhan Jun, who is still polite, Director Zhang is much more straightforward.

But as soon as Director Zhang uttered the last sentence, Zhan Jun's expression changed, and he hurriedly interrupted.

"We still have to watch the game. After all, the FA Cup is a cup game. It is different from the league. Maybe Chelsea will change their tactics. Fans and friends will still lock in our Penguin Sports to watch the FA Cup match between Manchester City and Chelsea in two days."

No matter how the game is played, as director Zhang who is eating Penguin sports meals, he should not say that he does not watch the game.

After all, Penguin Sports relies on the number of viewers to make money. Director Zhang said this, doesn't it mean that he is destroying his own boss's job?
So, Zhan Jun hurriedly helped round things up.

However, Zhan Jun's words unexpectedly came true three days later.

Once the FA Cup knockout round is tied, instead of extra time and penalty shootouts like the English League Cup, there will be another round of play-offs on another day.

The game has been played so far, not only Manchester City has to fight on multiple fronts, Chelsea also has the Champions League to play.

If Chelsea really continues the point-keeping tactics in the league, then if there is another play-off, Chelsea will be stupid first.

Therefore, in this game, Chelsea changed their previous defensive and counterattack tactics, and played a vigorous confrontation with Manchester City at the beginning of the game.

But it is a pity that Chelsea and Manchester City are far behind the offense.

In the first round of the match on the field, Chelsea was taught by Yang Mo to be a man. After an unstoppable breakthrough and a long shot, Yang Mo helped Manchester City take the lead in the opening 11 minutes.

In the rest of the game, although Chelsea also scored two goals, Manchester City poured Chelsea three more goals.

In the end, the game ended 4-2 and Manchester City advanced to the next round of the FA Cup.

After a boring defensive battle that made people drowsy, Chelsea sent a hearty offensive battle to the fans. The difference between the two games really made the fans a little confused.

Of course, if there are fans who listened to Zhang's guidance and didn't watch the game, it would be their loss.

Anyway, Director Zhang had a lot of fun watching this game, and he and his partner Huang Jianxiang yelled at the audience, having a great time.

After two games against Chelsea and once again achieved one win and one draw, Manchester City temporarily bid farewell to the league and the FA Cup and ushered in the semi-finals of the Carabao Cup.

Manchester City's opponent in the semi-finals of the English League Cup is the Hammers to help West Ham United,

The semi-finals of the English League Cup will be divided into two rounds. In the busy schedule of the four-line battle, this kind of game arrangement makes Pellegrini jump and curse.

After the successful upgrade last season, although the Hammers managed to stay in the Premier League, under the transformation of the new head coach, there is not much left of their tough guy temperament.

The current West Ham United is more like a team that is eager to play technology, but fails to do so, and "swings" between old styles and new technologies.

The dilemma of tactics has made West Ham United's performance this season quite poor, and they have successfully fallen into the relegation zone at this time.

Nowadays, the main goal of West Ham United must be placed on top of league relegation.

After all, although West Ham United are greedy for the honor of the English League Cup, it is not enough compared to the benefits of staying in the Premier League.

If they fight against Manchester City for two games to advance to the League Cup, which will affect the state of the league, it will be too much for West Ham.

Of course, direct surrender is definitely not West Ham United's style.

The game still has to be played. At the beginning of the first leg of the Carabao Cup, West Ham's defense was at least decent, and they obviously didn't want to surrender as soon as they came up.

However, Chelsea can defend Manchester City's mad attack because the opponent is Chelsea.

Although Abramovich standing behind Chelsea is not as rich as the Abu Dhabi consortium, he is also the richest man on the planet. The team he built will naturally not be weak.

As for West Ham United, a team that struggles to relegation, it is completely impossible to rely on defense alone to force Manchester City back.

Persisting until 37 minutes into the first half, West Ham United's defense was smashed by Manchester City.

Yang Mo's unscrupulous attraction on the left caused frequent loopholes in West Ham's central defense, and finally allowed Ibrahimovic to find a chance to make a cold shot.

And when City scored the first goal, the second was much easier.

Knowing that there is no hope for victory, West Ham United let go of their last illusions, and after replacing the main players in the second half, they surrendered.

In the end, in the first leg of the Carabao Cup semi-final, Manchester City won the game 3-0.

Although there is still an away second leg in the semi-finals, Manchester City, which has already led by 3 goals, is already a certainty to advance to the final.

(End of this chapter)