LRAB Chapter 453
Chapter 453
"Champions League Express! Manchester City 3:0 Bordeaux wins three consecutive victories, the magic Su scored twice with a header! "
Manchester City returned to Manchester from France with a proud record of 3 wins in 3 games in the Champions League.
However, the intensive schedule did not give Manchester City players a chance to breathe.
On October 21, the 9th round of the Premier League arrived, and Manchester City played against Middlesbrough at home.
This summer.
The most significant event that Middlesbrough experienced was that head coach McLaren chose to coach the England men's football team and chose to resign.
The management did not find a suitable candidate to coach the team.
So.
Gareth Southgate, a meritorious player of the team who retired this summer, directly transformed himself after retirement.
Became the new head coach of Middlesbrough.
Such examples of being elected as the head coach of the team after retirement are not uncommon in the football world.
In addition to Stewart, the most famous one is Guardiola, who became the head coach of Barcelona B team directly after retiring.
However, at present.
Josep Guardiola is still on the team list of Dorados Club in the Mexican League, and has not started his legendary coaching career.
Against a weak team like Middlesbrough.
Manchester City must rotate.
Su Fei was forced to sit on the bench by the old man again.
There is still the most important Champions League knockout match of this season, and Stewart is really afraid that Su Fei will have a little problem.
Even every week, the staff of Manchester City Medical Center are specially arranged to give Su Fei a full body examination.
The process of the game is a bit boring.
The Manchester City players who just experienced the Bordeaux battle are in poor overall condition and can't get up the fighting spirit against Middlesbrough.
Middlesbrough has just experienced the coaching change storm in the summer, and the new coach is a rookie who has just transformed from a player.
Both teams played very dull.
In the end, Manchester City secured the victory with Bale's cut-in shot in the second half, ending the game 1:0.
Manchester City won 7 games and drew 2 in 9 games, continuing to top the list.
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On October 25, the third round of the League Cup came.
The League Cup, the English Football League Cup, the EFL Cup, is a cup competition composed of 72 clubs from the Premier League, the Championship and the English League.
The League Cup has a very low status in the English championship, ranking after the league and the FA Cup, plus the Champions League and Europa League that the Premier League strong teams have to play every season.
So.
The Premier League's top teams have always paid little attention to the League Cup, and basically play it as a training lineup and tactics.
If it were before.
Stewart would definitely seize this rare opportunity, and when the Premier League giants don't pay attention to it, all the main players would compete for this honor.
But now, Manchester City is a giant.
So in the match against League One team Weston Football Club that day, they also boldly tried it.
Except for goalkeeper James.
All the players were replaced and rotated, and a few players from Manchester City Youth Team were also added to the big list.
Then.
Manchester City lost.
Yes.
Stewart played big, sitting at home, as the defending champion last season.
Manchester City lost 2:3 to League One team Weston.
When the whistle sounded at the end of the game, the Blue Moon fans booed at the Etihad Stadium.
And Weston's players and coaching staff members excitedly ran and celebrated on the green field of Etihad.
Some players even cried with excitement.
Manchester City!
We actually defeated Manchester City, which can be said to be the best in England to some extent!
At the post-match press conference.
Stewart was like a skewer on the grill, being roasted back and forth by the English football media.
"Mr. Stewart, what do you think of today's game result?"
"Well... I take full responsibility for the team's loss this time. I admit that I was not well prepared before the game."
Stewart regretted it.
If he hadn't played so many tricks this time and had a few starters, he wouldn't have ended up fighting with Weston and losing the game.
Fortunately.
The Premier League media are also well aware of the embarrassing position of the League Cup in the English Championship.
They didn't continue to hold Stewart accountable.
Instead, they shifted the topic to the next Premier League 10th round, when Manchester City will face the strong opponent Liverpool.
"Mr. Stewart!"
"For the first match against Liverpool this season!"
"Are you confident?"As soon as he talked about this, the old man's face regained its rosy color. After all, Liverpool was defeated by Manchester City three times last season.
Twice in the league and once in the FA Cup final.
Stuart was full of confidence.
"I have 100% confidence that I can lead the team to defeat Liverpool and continue to give them four consecutive defeats!"
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Post-match interview between Manchester City and Weston in the English League Cup.
It was soon published by the English Premier League media after some exaggeration.
In the early morning of October 26.
At the Liverpool training base, Master Benitez, who was eating breakfast and applying hair spray to himself for maintenance, saw the "arrogant" remarks from Stewart.
This made Benitez so angry that his hands trembled, and he applied hair spray to his Mediterranean, which was shiny.
"Damn it!"
Benitez simply didn't eat breakfast, and directly opened the tactical report on Manchester City's new lineup this season.
"Win once! Must win once!"
Revenge against Manchester City has become Benítez's obsession now.
If Manchester City hadn't emerged as a dark horse last season and occupied a place in the top four, Liverpool would not have fallen to the point of not having the Champions League to play this season, but competing for the Europa League.
The resentment of the Red Army fans is part of it.
The dissatisfaction from Liverpool management is the source of Benítez's pressure.
I still remember that year when I first took charge of the Red Army, Istanbul, Milan was wiped out in a chat.
The result was a high start and a low end.
Last season, the league ranked fifth and the Champions League ranked sixteenth.
At the high-level board meeting a few days ago, the new boss implicitly expressed his dissatisfaction with Benítez.
Liverpool is not like before, it has no money.
Since the change of American boss, this summer has also spent a lot of money on player recruitment.
Since there is money to recruit players, the head coach can naturally be changed.
Benítez doesn't want to be a coach who helps the team win the Champions League but is fired in the third season of coaching.
Only by defeating Manchester City.
can he reverse his voice in the top management.
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Time flies.
On October 28, the 10th round of the Premier League arrived.
The Manchester City bus slowly drove into Anfield Stadium, and the Red Army fans gathered in the square outside the stadium, and the crowd surged.
Passionately singing the Liverpool team song "You'll Never Walk Alone".
"Walk on, walk on, with hope in your heart~"
"And you'll never walk alone~"
"You'll never walk alone~"
The red and blue battle of the new season is about to start!
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