Green Field Eunuch

Chapter 397 Damn it, is he coming to La Liga?
Mid-September marks the start of the new Champions League season.

Manchester City will travel to the Santiago Bernabéu Stadium in Madrid to face Real Madrid away from home.

Manchester City are the reigning Premier League champions and Champions League champions. As the defending champions, their goal for this season's Champions League is to reach the semi-finals.

This goal is not easy, and it will be a test for Guardiola. Even if he can't reach the semi-finals, he must at least reach the quarter-finals.

This is the bottom line Mubarak set for Guardiola.

However, achieving this goal is not an easy task.

Real Madrid and Borussia Dortmund, who are in the same group, are not easy opponents.

Moreover, although Manchester City eliminated Real Madrid in the round of 16 last season, the outcome of their encounter this season is still very unpredictable.

Real Madrid sacked Mourinho in the summer and brought in Mancini.

According to Spanish media, Mancini has been with Manchester City for so long that he knows the city well enough, which is Real Madrid's advantage over Manchester City.

Guardiola, on the other hand, is actually quite familiar with Real Madrid.

Guardiola watched Real Madrid's matches this season and found that Real Madrid's tactical approach had not changed much; it was still the same fast counter-attacking style that Mourinho used last season.

However, Real Madrid has placed even greater emphasis on ball control this season.

Guardiola also launched a tactical lesson targeting Real Madrid's strengths.

For several days in a row, Manchester City prepared specifically for Real Madrid's strengths and weaknesses, with Guardiola diligently preparing tactical training sessions.

Guardiola detailed Real Madrid's style of play and the tactics he knew, as well as the changes Mancini brought, and told the players how to deal with them.

As a result, Guardiola noticed that everyone wasn't taking it very seriously.

Because of Mancini...

Everyone is too familiar with them.

After watching just a few Real Madrid matches this season, most players can clearly see that the current Real Madrid team bears some of Mancini's imprint.

That's the attacking midfielder tactic.

Mancini brought his attacking midfielder tactical approach to Real Madrid, with Cristiano Ronaldo and Di Maria becoming the main implementers of this tactic.

Moreover, these two players actually fit this tactic perfectly and performed exceptionally well.

However, Manchester City's players didn't seem too concerned. To counter such tactics, they simply needed to suppress the midfield, which is exactly what Guardiola excels at.

Dan Yongzhuo was not serious in the tactics class, not for any other reason than that he would be the one who was closely guarded no matter what, especially since his opponent was his mentor Mancini, who knew him so well. It goes without saying that he would be targeted.

Two days later, the entire Manchester City team flew to Madrid, the capital of Spain, and checked into a hotel near the Bernabéu.

Manchester City's away match against Real Madrid is the most anticipated Champions League game of this round. The clash between the Premier League champions and the La Liga champions naturally attracts a lot of attention and becomes the focus of this round of matches.

High-profile battles naturally attract a lot of news coverage.

As the new head coach of Real Madrid, Mancini, who has always maintained a refined and elegant image, was also very low-key before the match.

He never liked engaging in verbal battles, and of course, he wasn't good at them either.

The pre-match press conference was unusually harmonious and friendly. Mancini praised Manchester City and Shan Yongzhuo, then praised Guardiola, and expressed his determination to fight for victory.

In fact, Mancini's time at Real Madrid was not very good.

Even though he is a champion coach, it is difficult to change his fate of having to be Florentino's tool. Many times, he has to listen to Florentino.

Furthermore, he found it difficult to influence the Spanish contingent led by Casillas in the locker room. Therefore, he had no choice but to rely heavily on Cristiano Ronaldo, making him one of his core players. While Ronaldo is a very arrogant player, he is also a very professional one, never placing himself above the coach throughout his career.

Even when Mourinho's relationship with the players was so tense last season, Ronaldo did not get involved in the competition and continued to obey Mourinho's instructions.

Mancini even felt that coaching Cristiano Ronaldo was less stressful than coaching Shan Yongzhuo.

……

The Bernabéu Stadium was packed with people on the day of the match.

Since the start of the new season, Real Madrid has achieved four consecutive victories, often by a large margin, which has led to very high support from Real Madrid fans for new coach Mancini.

In this match against Manchester City, Real Madrid fans have no doubt about the reports from the La Liga media.

In their view, Mancini knows Manchester City very well, and if anyone can lead the team to stop Shan Yongzhuo's performance, that person is very likely to be Mancini.

Therefore, proud Real Madrid fans flocked to the stadium, hoping to see Real Madrid avenge their loss to Manchester City.

A large number of Manchester City fans also came to the scene. They had no confidence in Guardiola, but they had confidence in Shan Yongzhuo.

Besides Manchester City fans, Chinese students in Spain also formed another large group supporting Shan Yongzhuo at the event, and their numbers were considerable.

While the players were warming up, Shan Yongzhuo went to the sidelines and found Mancini, and the two hugged.

"Robert, congratulations!"

Shan Yongzhuo sincerely wished Mancini well. They had spent two seasons together and got along very well, so they could be considered good friends. Shan Yongzhuo felt that he should wish Mancini well in his current situation.

Mancini was also deeply moved.

He believes he is very good at discovering young players.

Shan Yongzhuo was a player he truly discovered, brought to Al-Ittihad, and nurtured into the world's number one star.

More importantly, this guy has always been quite respectful of me, which is what Mancini is most proud of.

He couldn't help but look at Casillas, Ramos, and the others.

"See? Even the world's number one basketball star, Shan Yongzhuo, respects me this much. Who are you guys?"

"If you're unhappy at Manchester City, you're welcome to come to Real Madrid anytime."

Finally, Mancini whispered something in Shan Yongzhuo's ear.

Mancini is absolutely convinced that Shan Yongzhuo is unhappy at Manchester City, because in his view, apart from himself, few top coaches can tolerate a completely free-roaming forward like Shan Yongzhuo, even if he is very good at scoring goals.

Even top coaches have dignity.

In particular, Shan Yongzhuo knew that Guardiola was a very stubborn and arrogant person.

"Forehead……"

Dan Yongzhuo was a little embarrassed: "If I leave Manchester City, I will go to Granada."

"..."

Upon hearing this, Mancini was immediately speechless.

"Damn it, is he coming to La Liga...?"

(End of this chapter)