Chapter 1279
Chapter 1279
In the last top [-] match against Jordan, Rongguang started. At the Tianhe Stadium in Guangzhou, Rongguang almost enjoyed the treatment of a national leader.
As long as he takes the ball every time, even if it is just a pass, it will cause a tsunami of cheers from the stands.
"Rongguang is a well-deserved number one star in China..." Even the commentator of CCTV said with emotion in the face of such a situation.
"No, or the number one sports star..."
Glory did not disappoint the fans of those towers.He showed that in the No.208 minute of the game, he assisted his teammates to score, and then he scored a goal by himself in the No.309 minute, helping the Chinese team lead Jordan 2:0 in the first half.
Then in the second half, the Chinese team won a direct free kick about 33 meters away from the goal.
Of course Rong Guang took the penalty.
Rong Guang kicked the elevator ball with his right foot.
The football flew high over the wall before plummeting into the goal between Jordan's goalkeeper Shafi and the crossbar.
3: 0!
In the stands of Guangzhou Tianhe Stadium, the crowd of red people surged, as if they were surging magma, and the atmosphere had reached a climax.
At No. 701 minutes, Rong Guang was replaced.
Deafening cheers and applause sounded again at Tianhe Stadium.
The TV broadcast showed a scene in the stands. In the shot, all the fans of the Chinese team stood up from their seats, and they were applauding and cheering for Rongguang.
Rong Guang also waved his hands to thank the fans of the Chinese team in the stands.
He came back from Manchester to participate in such a meaningless game, mainly for these fans.
He was happy to satisfy the fans with two goals in the game.
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After the glorious exit, the Chinese team conceded a goal.But everyone doesn't care much about the game itself anymore.
Glory is what they are most interested in.
Even the commentator of CCTV began to talk about the top ten games.
The name "Top Ten" used to be the most familiar name to Chinese fans, even more familiar than "World Cup". After all, it is impossible for us to participate in every World Cup, but before the Top Ten, the Chinese team played every time and never missed it.
But now, the "top ten matches" have become an unattainable threshold for Chinese football.
Being able to return to the "Top Ten Competition" makes every Chinese football player very excited, not only the fans, but also the commentators.
Because the teams participating in the top ten games have not been finalized, it is not known which opponents the Chinese team will encounter in the top ten games.However, there are always rules to follow, such as who will be the seed team, which team is the team in which grade, these can be guessed with a good degree of accuracy.Although the Chinese team won the Asian Cup championship, their previous performance in the World Cup Asian qualifiers was really bad, so their points will not be too high, and it is impossible to become a "seeded team".
"...But it doesn't matter. Manchester City is still not a seeded team in the Champions League group stage for half a season. They are a second-tier team, but they are the strongest second-tier team!" CCTV commentator used the comparison of Manchester City, where Glory is located.
But in fact, based on the results of the Chinese team in the previous World Cup qualifiers, they may not even be able to make it to the second-tier team.
But it doesn't matter, no matter what level of team it is, the commentator of CCTV is right.
That is - the Chinese team will become the team that all opponents are least willing to be in a group!
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After the game against Jordan, Rong Guang took a special plane to fly back to Manchester early the next morning.
He returned to his home in Manchester that day.
After resting for one night, the next day, that is, January 31, he appeared on the training ground of Manchester City's Carrington training base normally, and started to train himself before everyone came to the training base.
On the night of March [-], Manchester City played against Bolton at home.
This is the seventh round of League No.20.
Rong Guang appeared in Manchester City's starting lineup for this game.
And not only started the game, but also performed very well.
In 1 minute, he rewritten the score on the field to 2:0 with a long shot from outside the penalty area, and Manchester City led by two goals.
John Mortensen said with emotion: "I think even every cell of Rong is made of unknown metals from outer space, otherwise it would be difficult to explain why he can still be in such a state after running back and forth..."
In the end, Manchester City defeated Bolton 2:0 at home.
Although one game less, they still lead Manchester United by four points.
The middle of the week is the Champions League match day.
In the second round of the UEFA Champions League quarter-finals, Manchester City played against Lyon at home.
But because Manchester City defeated Lyon 3-0 away in the first round of the match between the two teams, the second round of the game has basically lost suspense, so that when the game really comes, no one pays attention.
The English media is more concerned with the domestic league than with the Champions League.
Such things are rare enough.
Lyon must have felt all kinds of contempt and malice from England.
So when he came, Lyon's head coach accepted an interview with the French media, and he talked about the contempt of the game by the English media.
"We're going to try to prove ourselves, we haven't given up on the game yet. I know it's going to be hard to come back, but if you don't try, you'll never really win the game."
This is beautifully said.
However, in the football world, it is useless to say nice words.
After all, football is not politics, and many people can be tricked into voting for him by speaking nice words.Football still has to fall into the real game in the end.
Beautiful words cannot weaken the opponent's strength.
When the game started, Manchester City, which only used half of the main force to face Lyon, broke the deadlock in No. 401 minutes.
The one who scored the goal was Berbatov, and the one who assisted him was glory.
The Lyon team did not try to win the game away from home as their coach said.
In fact, Lyon's players have no fighting spirit at all. They are not active enough to run on the court and make many active mistakes.
This kind of performance makes it impossible to see that they are the team that wants to comeback in the away game.
Maybe their head coach is really just saying nice words.
Anyway, it was not until 15 minutes left in the game that Lyon seemed to wake up like a dream, began to get anxious, and launched a fierce offensive towards Manchester City's goal.
But that's completely pointless.
Because there are only 15 minutes left, they have to score four goals in a row to be able to eliminate Manchester City by virtue of the advantage of away goals.
But how is this possible?
You know, Rong Guang has not been replaced on the court!
Sure enough, in the 5th minute of their aggressive attack, that is, the No.80 minute of the game, Rong Guang dribbled the ball for more than 50 meters in a counterattack, passed the attacking Lyon goalkeeper Lloris in front of the goal, pushed the football into the empty goal, and completely ended Lyon's counterattack.
"The game ended early again! Rong once again killed the suspense! The total score is 5:0! Manchester City has advanced to the quarter-finals of the Champions League! I think Manchester City fans may not care about the result of this game at all? All they think about is who Manchester City will meet in the quarter-finals. And this suspense will be revealed in the UEFA draw ceremony..."
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In the weekend league, Benitez continued to adopt the rotation policy. Many players who participated in the Champions League in the middle of the week got a chance to rest. Naturally, it is impossible for Rongguang to be on the rotation list.
He started.
However, it can still be seen that the state of the Manchester City team is unstable.
After all, Manchester City's games during this period are too many and too intensive.
December last year, January and February this year were all one-week matches.
The fatigue that City have built up over the past three months is beginning to show, and in a magnified form.
In the away game against Swansea, Matuidi was injured in the opening just 6 minutes.
Matuidi did not play in the last quarter-final of the Champions League and rested.But I didn't expect to be injured just after the start of this game, and it was not a minor injury-he was carried down on a stretcher, which shows that this kind of injury will not be too light.
"Matuidi's injury to Manchester City has a great impact..." Alan Hansen analyzed. "Manchester City's midfield offensive configuration is very gorgeous, but the only one they can defend is Matuidi. Everyone thinks that Rong is an indispensable figure for Manchester City. Indeed, Rong's current playing time in this team is ranked first, followed by goalkeeper Joe Hart. But the third is Matuidi. These three people can be said to be the central axis of Manchester City and are indispensable. The key... In short, Matuidi's injury at this time may bring immeasurable and disastrous consequences to Manchester City!"
What Alan Hansen said was scary. Although it was a bit exaggerated, what he said was not wrong.
Matuidi is indeed very important to Manchester City, which can be seen from the frown of Benitez.
He can only use Gareth Barry to replace Matuidi in his hand and let Barry specialize in defense.
Matuidi's injury affected the performance and morale of the Manchester City players. After Matuidi was injured and left the field, everyone's performance declined.
They didn't score in the first half and of course Swansea didn't score either.
So the score is still 0:0.
During the intermission, someone analyzed that if Manchester City faced Manchester United instead of Swansea in this game, they would definitely lose this game with their performance in the first half.
During the half-time break, Benitez got the bad news that Matuidi tore the cruciate ligament in his knee, he must undergo surgery, and he will not be able to play all the remaining games of this season...
(End of this chapter)