From the man behind the football king to the football king.

Chapter 979: Gratitude and hatred

When Bruno fell to the ground, Pogba waved his hands with a mocking smile, looking down on Bruno's diving. But when he looked up and saw the yellow card raised in Oliver's hand, he was stunned.

Immediately afterwards, Oliver replaced the yellow card with a red card, and Pogba panicked. He quickly explained to Oliver that it was not a foul, but a reasonable collision.

However, Oliver Graffi still knew the difference between a reasonable collision and a deliberate push, so he insisted on his decision, red card!

Pogba was sent off!

Other Manchester City players also gathered around, wanting to ask Oliver for an explanation and to stand up for their teammate, and their reason was naturally that Bruno had dived.

"He faked a fall!"

"He didn't play football properly in this game, he was just wrestling!"

"Yes, you see, he is still lying on the ground pretending after he fell down. He is just waiting for you to make a move, Mr. Referee!"

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However, Oliver was unmoved by their arguments. The bald referee dispersed the Manchester City players who gathered around to ask for an explanation and signaled Pogba to leave the field.

In fact, Pogba knew in his heart that he had indeed committed a foul, but he was just hoping for the best when he committed the foul. He thought that even if he was called for a foul this time, he would not be given a card, right?
But Oliver gave it to him, so he had to leave.

This result directly broke Pogba's defense.

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Pogba has a lot of opinions about Manchester United and Bruno.

This French midfielder joined Manchester United's youth training camp at the age of 16. He can be regarded as a product of the Red Devils' youth training camp and a true Manchester United member.

However, around 2010, Manchester United was in its heyday and the team was full of talent. Although Pogba showed good talent, it was still difficult for him to get stable playing time at Manchester United. This made Pogba have some thoughts about the team.

At the same time, although Ferguson recognized Pogba's talent, he also saw Pogba's fatal weakness, which was poor self-discipline and frequent violations of team discipline. This made Ferguson doubt about letting Pogba take on more important responsibilities at Manchester United.

Under such circumstances, Ferguson naturally could not trust Pogba. He would rather persuade the retired Scholes to come back than reuse Pogba.

Ferguson originally wanted to put some pressure on Pogba and teach him a lesson, but the arrogant Pogba thought that Ferguson was deliberately targeting him, and he became even more dissatisfied with Ferguson and Manchester United.

At this time, Pogba's agent Mino Raiola came out to fan the flames again, threatening to renew the contract and demanding a high salary from Manchester United. But Ferguson was too tough to compromise and directly let Pogba leave Manchester United as a free agent.

This also created a rift between Pogba and Manchester United.

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As for the conflict with Bruno, it came from years of competition between the two.

Pogba joined Juventus in the summer of 2012, and Bruno followed suit by moving from Portugal to Italy, but at the time he joined Novara in Serie B.

When Bruno led Novara to dominate Serie B, Pogba also emerged in Juventus and became the most dazzling new star in Italian and even European football at that time.

However, just when Pogba wanted to win the European Golden Boy Award, Bruno, who started playing in Serie A, became his biggest rival and snatched the 2013 European Golden Boy Award directly from him.

Afterwards, Bruno led Udinese to break Juventus' monopoly on Serie A. This certainly made Udinese briefly the overlord of Europe, and also made Bruno rise to become a superstar comparable to Messi and Ronaldo. However, for Pogba and Juventus, it was undoubtedly a disaster.

Although Juventus quickly regained the Serie A title after Bruno left Udinese in 2016, and Pogba also won the Serie A Player of the Season, many people believe that Pogba just took advantage of the opportunity when Bruno, the king, left and there was no new king in Serie A. It is like a monkey becomes the king when there is no tiger in the mountain.

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Of course, what really aroused Pogba's anger towards Manchester United and Bruno was in the summer of 2017. At that time, Pogba wanted to join Manchester United very much, but when he expressed this intention to Manchester United, Manchester United turned a deaf ear and did not respond.

In Pogba's view, Manchester United was completely humiliating him, so he turned around and joined Manchester City, Manchester United's arch-rival.

However, Pogba felt deeply frustrated after joining Manchester City, because he and the team he played for were suppressed by Bruno and Manchester United in all aspects and had not won any championship honors in five years.

It can be said that the past six years have been the most glorious years in Manchester United's history, but also the darkest and most reluctant years for other Premier League teams and even European teams. Almost everyone and all teams have been suppressed by Bruno and Manchester United and cannot raise their heads.

Today, Pogba and Manchester City had the best chance to defeat Bruno and Manchester United, and even to break Manchester United's monopoly on the Premier League. With De Bruyne's two goals, Manchester City twice led Manchester United in the score. He even made Bruno lose his temper and almost crushed him, which gave Pogba a great sense of accomplishment.

But at the critical moment, Bruno scored twice to help Manchester United reverse the score, making all of Manchester City's efforts come to naught. What made Pogba even more unacceptable was that he received a second yellow card from Bruno and was about to be sent off.

At this moment, Pogba was completely defeated. As he walked off the court, he turned back to look at Oliver, pointed at Bruno and yelled, "He dived! He dived!"

Seeing that Oliver remained unmoved, he finally walked off the court reluctantly.

This makes it seem like he was framed, giving people the impression that Bruno was faking the fall.

However, he didn't care much about the fact that this delayed him a little, leaving Manchester City with little time to equalize the score.

Firstly, under the current circumstances, the possibility of Manchester City reversing Manchester United is very small. Secondly, Pogba is not on the court, so it’s none of his business whether we win or not!

It would be really embarrassing for him if Manchester City really achieved a reversal when he left the field and was one man down.

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Jin Xiangkai is relatively conservative. He has to be conservative. After all, Chinese sports commentators still have to emphasize objectivity and cannot be too strongly biased towards one side during the game.

Because the game being broadcast live now is the European League, both teams in the European League may have a large number of fans in China, and it would be bad to offend either side.

Any casual remark made by the commentator may be regarded by Chinese fans as an insult to their favorite team and stars, and then he may be scolded, so he must be careful in what he says and does.

But the actual situation in the game was much more optimistic than Jin Xiangkai thought.

Being one goal behind in the score did not bring a devastating blow to Manchester City, but Pogba's sending off shook the psychological foundation of Manchester City players, because many of them had received a yellow card.

Moreover, among these people, several of them received yellow cards from Bruno, and most of them were concentrated in the second half.

In the first half, Bruno fell frequently, and Oliver could ignore it. But in the second half, Bruno continued to fall, and the actions of Manchester City players became more and more exaggerated, even to the point of being outrageous, and Oliver could hardly ignore it, so yellow cards began to appear frequently.

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There is a reason why Manchester City fans don't like Bruno. In their opinion, Bruno is just a diving expert who can only dive.

Of course, they would not think that there was anything wrong with the fouls committed by their own players. They would only think that it was a normal confrontation and that the opponent's confrontation was simply due to their physical weakness, not a foul committed by their own players.

Now that Pogba has been sent off with a red card, it is a wake-up call to all Manchester City players, telling them that if they don't pay attention, they will be sent off with a red card like Pogba.

You know, Pogba received both of his yellow cards from Bruno.

When they looked at Bruno again, they were filled with hatred and fear, thinking that Bruno was willing to do anything to win.

Of course, they don't think there is anything wrong with their almost brutal and violent behavior; they all think it is normal physical confrontation.

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After Pogba was sent off, Bruno's pressure was also relieved. Because other Manchester City players would think twice when facing him, thinking about what Pogba said after being sent off.

"Fall! He's diving!"

Think about what they said when they gave Bruno a penalty in the box.

"He's faking!"

Yes, no one wants to receive the same treatment from the despicable Bruno as Pogba...

With less defensive pressure on Bruno, he can move more easily in the midfield and the situation is completely under Manchester United's control.

This went on and on until the third minute of injury time, when Oliver finally blew the whistle to end the game.

"The game is over!" Martin Taylor shouted, "Manchester United beat Manchester City 3:2 away from home! This is a game that will determine the direction of this season's Premier League championship. After losing today's game, Manchester City's chances of winning this season are very small!"

"This game was full of twists and turns, with beautiful goals, penalties, red cards, countless yellow cards, collisions, and falls... It really perfectly met all the standards of a high-level derby!"

"Manchester United won the Manchester derby! They got the crucial three points! In this game, the reason why Manchester United was able to finally defeat their opponent can be said to be due to the performance of Manchester United captain Bruno! He scored two goals and made one assist, and it can be said that he single-handedly helped Manchester United win this crucial victory!"

(End of this chapter)