I started with Torres, to revive German football

Chapter 137 Free kick lore!

"Oh God! I'm already questioning my previous decisions.

Did you watch today's game?Begiristan, the facts tell me that John and Nicholas must never be sent together unless the situation is desperate. "

Guardiola called Begiristan. The Manchester City sports director on the other end of the phone did not reply immediately after listening to Guardiola's words. After a while, he slowly said:
"Pep, we have no money. To be precise, our financial situation is close to the red line. At least this winter, we really can't afford to buy the central defender you want."

Of course Guardiola is also aware of the team's recent difficulties. UEFA investigators just came to Manchester a few days ago.
But Gua Shuai was really frightened by the unstable performance of the central defender. He continued to ask in a discussing tone:

"Can you find a way to squeeze out a little?"

"No, there is really no drop. And what's the use of squeezing out 2000 or [-] million?

Over there in Bilbao, how could we take away Laporte without spending 4000 million euros?

The team's finances have reached the warning line, and they must never hit UEFA's muzzle.

You can't buy people. You can only train them by yourself to make them stable.Pep, it's up to you in the future, we can't do more. "

"Okay, I get it, Begiristan, I've caused you a lot of trouble during this period, come to my house for dinner later! I still have a bottle of red wine you like at home."

"If I have time, I will go. You must keep the red wine well. I have been greedy for a long time!"

Guardiola hung up the phone and the team was out of money, which means he will now have to spend a lot of time training his two central defenders.

Otamendi likes to gamble and grab, sometimes he seems very irrational, and his height defect is also fatal.

Stones' body is still a little thin, and he can barely fight against a striker of Zhao Jinge's size.

But in the face of a striker like Lukaku, he seems vulnerable,
This is also the reason why he likes to rely on his flexibility and excellent footwork skills to attack. His frontal defense is still much worse than that of top central defenders.

After considering the weaknesses of the two, in the follow-up time, Guardiola began to continuously train the back line.

Both Otamendi and Stones have also suffered from the constant baptism of their top forwards, and they have changed their shortcomings step by step.

Time passed quickly in successive training sessions. After Manchester City's special training lasted for two days, on the last day of January, they ushered in their opponents Aston Villa in the fourth round of the FA Cup.

There was no suspense in the game, and Manchester City easily took away the opponent [-]-[-].

In the first game in February, the Premier League's No.20 four rounds, it was the third time this season that they faced the black cat Sunderland, and Manchester City beat their opponents by one goal.

After the victory over Sunderland, Manchester City's opponents in February will not be as easy as they were in January.

On February 20th, the No.[-] fifth round of the Premier League, Manchester City played against Leicester City at home.

Compared with the match a month ago, Leicester City no longer has the spirit it had before.

After losing the core of the wing attack and the hub of the defensive system, it suffered a double blow in terms of team strength and player morale.

Leicester City scored two wins and two losses in four Premier League games in January. They have been surpassed by Arsenal and dropped to No.3 in the standings.

Ranked fourth is Manchester United, which is still in chaos, but they can rank fourth entirely because Southampton's strength has been affected to a certain extent after selling Mane, and they suffered two consecutive losses in January. , currently ranked fifth in the Premier League.

Behind them are Tottenham ranked sixth and Liverpool ranked seventh. Chelsea has fallen to No. 11 in the continuous turmoil. Playing with the Blues' lineup to the current position, it can only be said that the players and the coach No more thinking about playing football.

In this game against Fox City, Manchester City did not win the opponent as smoothly as expected, although the top management of the two teams got along well.

But the fans and players of Fox City don't have a good look at Manchester City, which has abducted their two core players and decimated them.

Several abandoned players from Manchester City who were sent over as extra heads also played very hard in this game, as if to prove themselves, the game was full of gunpowder from the beginning.

In the first half of the game, Fox City relied on the defense of all soldiers and unswerving foul tactics, which caused a lot of obstacles to Manchester City's offensive group.

When the first half ended, Manchester City's frontcourt players were covered in mud, and their jerseys were almost unrecognizable in the green grass juice.

Crude fouls, Italian chain defense, Leicester City struggled to defend their goal with six yellow cards.

In particular, Mahrez and Zhao Jinge are the focus of the care of Leicester City players today, which allows them to directly taste the feeling of Neymar playing football.

This is playing football?This is obviously being kicked when the ball is being kicked!

After coming and going, Manchester City will naturally not be used to each other. The fouls of both sides made the whole game fragmented. In an ordinary Premier League, the two sides actually played the feeling of a championship battle.

Fierce confrontation and frenzied scrambling became the main theme of the whole game. When both sides lost their minds, Manchester City's pass control system began to gradually deform. This is of course not good for Manchester City.

Like an elegant swordsman, he dropped the long sword in his hand and started a hand-to-hand combat with the monks of Shaolin Temple.

Although relying on their stronger strength, they didn't suffer any losses, and instead hit the opponent with a bruised nose and a swollen face. However, Manchester City, which lost the killer weapon, has not found a chance to kill the opponent for a long time.

In a chaotic situation, without a perfect midfield organization, Manchester City could not get an excellent shooting opportunity.

During the intermission, Guardiola repeatedly emphasized the importance of reason, hoping that his players could calm down and deal with the game calmly.

However, the situation on the field really prevented the players from calming down. Until the end of the game, neither side scored a goal in the game.

The Manchester City fans at the scene became anxious. They never expected that the reinforced Manchester City would play against the semi-disabled Fox City in such a tragic way.

Manchester City, which has been unable to attack for a long time, has already broken the string called reason. They played extremely anxiously in the offense, and Mahrez, who had already kicked out his anger, became a black hole in the possession of the ball.

As long as the ball is given to him on the left, whether it is being intercepted during a breakthrough, or continuous volleys outside the penalty area, he will not pass the ball anyway!

Mahrez has lost his sense of normalcy in the game.

Seeing this situation, in the No.80 minute of the game, Guardiola decisively replaced the polo king who was out of balance, and Aguero went into battle.

Manchester City's frontcourt trio immediately reorganized, with Aguero in the middle, Mane and Zhao Jinge on the left and right.

In the 807th minute of the game, Zhao Jinge voluntarily withdrew to the midfield to respond. At this point in the game, Manchester City can only rely on the superstar's personal performance to turn the tide!

When Zhao Jinge responded to Gundogan's pass, he immediately advanced quickly along the right side, keeping the ball at high speed while also observing the line of changing inwards at any time.

Drinkwater was ready to retreat at any time during the defense. When Zhao Jinge rushed to the outside line quickly, Brother Drinkwater subconsciously turned around and chased after him, but he looked stunned after taking a step.

Where's the ball?

Zhao Jinge was running, but he didn't control the ball and walked together!

When Brother Drinking Water realized that he was only chasing people and not watching the ball, the instigator, Zhao Jinge, of course changed from in front of him to cross-cutting one step faster,

The football that was rolling slowly was just hit by him with an accelerated waving, and turned to cut inward.

Brother Drinking Water, who hurried back to the defense, turned around and chased after him, but he couldn't stabilize his body center of gravity for a while, and fell to the ground with his buttocks.

The eyes of the fans of Blue Moon brightened instantly, and it was time for Zhao Jinge to turn the tide!

Zhao Jinge cut inside and faced the opponent's central defender Morgan who came to intercept him, and directly dribbled the ball again to change direction and cut hard to the middle!

Morgan just stretched his legs to press, but Zhao Jinge made a sudden stop and pulled the ball with his right foot to the front of his left foot, then knocked the ball, turned around and broke through from the left!

It was too late for Morgan to turn around again.

Zhao Jinge's continuous personal breakthroughs made all the Blue Moon fans excited. Seeing this unstoppable posture, he was about to rush into the Fox City's restricted area.

Just when the fans of Manchester City were looking forward to it, Huth shoveled Zhao Jinge directly outside the penalty area and knocked Zhao Jinge to the ground!
This is Huth's second tactical foul. He was sent off on the spot by the referee who had already had a yellow card. Manchester City also won a free kick in an excellent position.

Just when David Silva was about to take the free kick, Zhao Jinge, who was rubbing his calf, walked up and whispered in front of Silva:

"David, how about giving me a free kick this time? This position is within my shooting range. I want to try to hit the goal directly. It looks like a good chance."

David Silva looked at Zhao Jinge with firm eyes in front of him. Although he really wanted to give this opportunity to Zhao Jinge, he still hesitated:

"Zhao, you seem to have never kicked a free kick on the court! This may be our last chance in this game. Do you really want to take the penalty?"

"Of course, I want to give it a try!"

Zhao Jinge's resolute attitude made Silva surrender his right to take the penalty. After exchanging a few words, the two prepared a small free throw routine.

"The free-kick was probably the last great chance Manchester City had in the game, De Bruyne wasn't on the pitch and David Silva was going to take the free-kick.

However, Zhao came up suddenly. Does he also want to take this free kick?
Although Zhao's shooting skills should be the best among Manchester City players, but before that, he had no experience of taking free kicks on the court.

To be honest, he is not a good free throw candidate.

There was still communication between the two Manchester City players, and Zhao stood next to the football.

David Silva walked directly behind the football, measuring the distance of the sprint, and it seemed that Silva took the free kick here.

Silva's run-up, when he ran in front of the football, he made a fake shot and passed the football to Zhao next to him! "

On the court, Zhao Jinge met Silva's pass and shot a volley close to the ground!

The Leicester City players lined up in the wall were all deceived by Silva's fake action. They took off early and could only watch helplessly as the football passed under their feet and rushed towards the goal of Leicester City. Bottom right corner!

Schmeichel has been preparing to deal with David Silva's curve ball. He never thought that Zhao Jinge, who never took free kicks, would take a shot, let alone that he would hit a low kick shoot.

The football rubbed against the right post and got into the net, and the Blue Moon fans in the audience burst into cheers instantly.

On the big screen of the Etihad Stadium, a short celebration video filmed by Zhao Jinge in advance was played, and the DJ at the scene led the fans shouting Zhao Jinge's name loudly.

"GOAL!!!! It was Zhao who scored the goal for us"

"Today's song!"

"With an exquisite free kick, Zhao Jinge scored the first free kick in his career! Helped Manchester City beat Leicester City at home!"

"This is also Zhao Jinge's No.30 three Premier League goals scored this season! It is only one goal away from the record of 34 goals scored by the legendary striker Alan Shearer in a single season in the Premier League!"

"Maybe the next Manchester City Premier League match will be the day when Zhao Jinge breaks the Premier League scoring record in a single season! And now the No.20 five rounds of the entire Premier League have just been played!
Not only that, Zhao Jinge has only played 21 rounds of the Premier League so far. It can be said that if Guardiola hadn't given him a rest, perhaps the Premier League scoring record would have been broken by this monster Manchester City forward. "

"Manchester City's new No. 9 is moving towards the ranks of the best striker in the history of the Premier League, and he will become a new record smasher!"

After scoring the lore goal, Zhao Jinge took off his jersey excitedly, ran along the field while waving his jersey, and was finally thrown down by Manchester City players swarming in front of his own bench. Everyone laughed Get out together!
Although it was inevitable to receive a yellow card, Zhao Jinge and the Manchester City players were relieved in the unbridled celebration after scoring the goal.

In the end, relying on Zhao Jinge's free kick lore, Manchester City beat Leicester City [-]-[-] at home and achieved a home and away double against Fox City this season!

The follow-up schedule in February is far from ideal for Manchester City.

After playing Leicester City, their remaining three games in February are:

The second match between the league and Tottenham, the fifth round of the FA Cup against Chelsea, and then the away game against Bayern Munich in the first round of the Champions League quarter-finals!
Although there are not many games, the opponents in each game are not easy. Manchester City's series of strong opponents in February is about to begin.

(End of this chapter)