Chapter 1251 The easiest away game
Chapter 1251 The easiest away game
Ibrahimovic's goal did remind the players of Zenit St. Petersburg, making them realize that although they have ended in glory, Manchester City still has Ibrahimovic!
This is also a superstar who can change the outcome of the game on his own!
Zenit St. Petersburg is completely desperate.
Although the glory has gone down, Ibrahimovic is still there. If they counterattack vigorously, I am afraid that Ibrahimovic will score more goals.
Everyone knows the relationship between Ibrahimovic and Rong Guang.
Rongguang scored a hat-trick in this game, Ibrahimovic is really upset, after all, he only scored one goal.
Now that he has scored two goals, he is only one goal away from tying Glory. Presumably this will definitely fill Zlatan Ibrahimovic with infinite fighting spirit. If Zenit St. Petersburg still aggressively attacks and wants to get back a goal or a few goals, I am afraid they will concede more balls instead...
Under such circumstances, it is really impossible to lose the ball again.
Now it is a quasi-tragedy, if you concede more goals and count 0:6, then it is not as simple as a tragedy, but a massacre...
So after Ibrahimovic scored, Zenit St. Petersburg quickly became honest.
And the development of the next game was as they expected. Ibrahimovic was unwilling to be reconciled and lost one goal to Rongguang. He desperately wanted to score in the next game.
Benitez also seemed to see that Ibrahimovic was thinking, so he used up all three substitutions, but never changed Ibrahimovic, allowing him to stay on the court.
He replaced Rongguang in advance, and Rongguang was not dissatisfied.But he knows very well that if he replaces Ibrahimovic in advance under such circumstances, Ibrahimovic will definitely dare to give him the whole big news after the game.
It's a pity that Ibrahimovic's own luck is really close.
He had a shot that was very, very close to the goal, but it slid out...
In the end until the end of the game, Ibrahimovic failed to score.
So in the competition between him and Rongguang in this game, he lost again, 2:3, scoring a hat-trick against Rongguang twice.
This also made his expression after the game not very good. The other Manchester City players around him were celebrating this unexpected victory, only their expressions were slightly serious.
But no one cares about Ibrahimovic's expression anymore, and reporters don't expect to dig Manchester City's grave by this now.
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After the game, some Russian media said that in this game, Zenit St. Petersburg did not lose to Manchester City, but lost to Manchester City's money.
"If Manchester City does not have superstars like Rong and Ibrahimovic, can they still win this game?" The media issued such a rhetorical question. "If we have such financial strength, we can also buy enough superstars..."
Since Manchester City started to participate in the Champions League, as long as they win the Champions League, they will always attract criticism like this. It seems that every victory of Manchester City is the result of their behind-the-scenes boss Abu Dhabi consortium secretly bribing referees and opponents.
This kind of criticism was quite fashionable at first, and many people agreed. It seems that the existence of Manchester City has really tarnished the sport of football and shamed European football.
But later, as more and more people said this, everyone began to feel that this was actually a very stupid statement, and some people began to refute this kind of brainless black-style criticism.
Next, there are far fewer people expressing such views publicly.
However, there are still some people who insist on their original intentions, but no one thought that the climax of this view was actually caused by Cruyff, and such a respected celebrity as Cruyff also jumped out to say that the harm of Manchester City’s gold dollar football shocked many people——I didn’t expect that Cruyff’s **** didn’t catch up with the hot ones...
As a result, Cruyff's face was swollen from being beaten by Rong Guang.
Since then, fewer and fewer people and media have publicly expressed views similar to Cruyff.
Many people still think that Manchester City can win the championship. Although they have money, if they want to win the championship, they still have to rely on the actual performance of the players on the court.Otherwise, the three clubs with the highest income in the football world are Real Madrid, Barcelona and Manchester United, but why haven't they won against Manchester City?Didn't City's victory over them just show that money isn't everything?
Now that the Russian media is re-emerging after losing the game, it has to make people feel that it is too low, and the low is simply bursting.
So some English media responded to the Russian media: "It is not the English team that pays Eto'o a weekly salary of 20 euros, but the Russian team Anzhi. In terms of wealth, I think Russia and the Middle East, which make their fortunes from selling resources and oil, are the same. Let alone the second brother. In addition, I can clearly answer the question of the Russians: Even if you are ten times richer than Manchester City, you will not be able to dig it!"
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After beating Zenit St. Petersburg 5:0 in the away game, Manchester City ranked first in the group with three wins, one draw and ten points. With two rounds left in the group stage, it can be said that Manchester City has won the right to qualify in advance.
Now the second place in the group is APOEL, which defeated Porto 2:1 at home. They have two wins, one draw and one loss, accumulating seven points.Zenit St. Petersburg, on the other hand, lost to Manchester City at home, with one win, one draw and two losses, accumulating four points and ranking third.
Porto, the Europa League champion last season, unexpectedly ranked last.They haven't won the four rounds of the group stage yet, with one draw and three losses, and only one point accumulated, they have already been eliminated in advance.
As a well-known black shop in Europe, relying on the European champions to increase the value of players and coaches, and then selling them to make a profit is their way of survival. After winning the championship, the team's performance decline due to the departure of meritorious players and coaches is also the price they must bear.
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Back in the league, Kaka finally made a comeback.
Kaka, who missed three games due to injury, started the weekend away game against Queens Park Rangers.
In the case that most of the other main Manchester City players are resting in rotation, he, Rong Guang and Ibrahimovic's trident did not miss the game.
In the end, although Kaka did not score, he contributed an assist to help Manchester City beat Queens Park Rangers 3:2 away.
Rongguang scored twice in the league, leading the league scorer list with [-] goals.
And the glory of this game has not yet played the whole game.This is the second consecutive game in which Rongguang has been replaced early since the last Champions League game.
Of course, being replaced early was not because of Rongguang's poor performance. He scored a total of five goals in the two games. This performance is very good.
Nor was it because he had any conflicts with Benitez.
After being replaced early in the last Champions League group match, Rong Guang said in an interview that he understood Benitez's idea of replacing him early, and he also supported the head coach to do so.
In this game against Queens Park Rangers, he was replaced early for another reason.
That's because Rongguang will return to the national team to participate in the top [-] Asian qualifiers for the World Cup.
Considering that Rongguang has been running around continuously during this period, and it is all high-intensity games.Benitez also didn't want Rong Guang to be injured when he returned to China to participate in the competition due to fatigue.
Since glory is so important, neither the club nor the national team can do without it, so no one can monopolize him. How to make good use of glory in a sustainable way is what the club and the national team should work together.
As the head coach of the Chinese national team, Gao Hongbo first expressed his goodwill and told the Manchester City club that as long as the victory of the national team game is determined, he will try his best to replace Rong Guang in advance so that Rong Guang can get more rest time.
The Manchester City club also made a similar promise, also letting Rong Guang leave the game early and rest more when the victory is already determined.
Regarding the agreement reached by the two teams, Rongguang naturally did not hide it from Rongguang, and Rongguang knew this very well.And he has no objection to this arrangement.
Although he actually feels that neither team needs to do this, his body can handle it completely.
But Deborah taught him to know how to accept other people's kindness, anyway, it doesn't hurt him, so let's just accept it.
In this way, after Rong Guang scored the second goal in No.606 minutes to help Manchester City lead Queens Park Rangers 2:0, he was replaced by Benitez.
But I didn't expect Queens Park Rangers to break out suddenly after the glorious end, scoring two goals in a row and equalizing the score.
Kaka, who was still on the court at this time, took advantage of a long pass in a counterattack, kicked a long oblique pass from the backcourt, and directly and accurately found Ibrahimovic.
Manchester City finally won the Queen's Park Rangers in the away game, and did not make Benitez regret that he replaced Glory too early...
Kaka's assist also announced his return.
And just after the game, good news came from Brazil. The coach of the Brazilian national team, Pereira, announced that Kaka would be recruited into the team to prepare for two friendly matches.
Since the World Cup in South Africa, Kaka has never been selected for the Brazilian national team. Now after more than two years, Kaka has put on the jersey of the Brazilian national team again.
Some media said that Kaka's return to the Brazilian national team means that Kaka's state has officially recovered.
Kaka himself welcomed Pereira's decision very much. On the second day after the game, he took the earliest flight to Libreville, the capital of Gabon, an African country, to prepare for the friendly match with Gabon and the subsequent friendly match with Egypt.
And just as Kaka's plane took off, Rong Guang also arrived at Manchester's airport. He will fly directly to Doha, the capital of Qatar, where he will meet with the Chinese national team and prepare for the away game against Iraq for the top [-] World Cup qualifiers.
While Kaka returned to the Brazilian national team, the glorious Chinese national team is also running on the road to Brazil.
The two of them have the same goal in mind - to meet in the 2014 World Cup in Brazil!
(End of this chapter)