Football: Copy the peak Messi attributes at the beginning

Chapter 262: We are the champions at home!

Author: Snow Bird

Chapter 262: We are the champions at home!

After defeating Arsenal, Manchester City finally breathed a sigh of relief.

If you play three games in four days, it would be a lie to say that you are not tired.

Fortunately, they finally took it!

The FA Cup final will start on May 17, one month away, which means that within a month, they will no longer have to be distracted by the FA Cup.

So next, Manchester City just need to do their best to deal with the league and Champions League games!

On April 19, after six days of rest, Manchester City faced a challenge from West Bromwich at home.

This game is likely to determine the ownership of the Premier League champion this season, so the FA specially brought the Premier League championship trophy to the Etihad Stadium.

Before the game, countless Manchester City fans flocked to the Etihad Stadium, and the stadium was full, and even outside the stadium there were tens of thousands of fans who had not bought tickets.

For Manchester City fans, today is their festival.

They are very likely to win the second Premier League championship trophy in their team history at home!

In order to ensure fairness of the game, it also creates a tense atmosphere for winning the championship in the final stage of the league.

The FA specially arranged three games of Manchester City, Liverpool and Chelsea at the same time.

Manchester City is currently leading Chelsea by 9 points and Liverpool by 10 points.

If Manchester City defeats their opponents in this game, they will basically lock in the championship, and Chelsea's winning of the championship is only theoretically possible.

If Chelsea wants to win the championship, they need to meet extremely demanding conditions:

1. We won all the games and the last three games, and Manchester City lost all the next three games.

2. In these four games, they will tie the gap between 38 goals and Manchester City.

No matter which of these two conditions, the probability of occurring alone is close to zero, let alone happening together.

In the locker room speech before the game, Pellegrini emphasized to the players that it was just an ordinary game and that it should not have too much psychological burden.

The opponent's strength in this game is not strong, as long as Manchester City is not arrogant or impatient to show their due level.

At 18:30, three games started at the same time.

West Bromvic obviously did not want to be the background board for Manchester City to win the championship, so they chose to retract their own penalty area and set up a bus to defend the game.

Manchester City has seen this move a lot in the league and has long known how to deal with it.

After the opening, Lin Quan frequently used his breakthrough ability to attack West Bromvic's goal.

In order to prevent Lin Quan, the other party had to use multiple double-teams or even fouls to deal with him.

And this naturally gave Manchester City a lot of set pieces opportunities.

In the 15th minute of the first half, De Bruyne scored directly with an excellent free kick, rewriting the score to 1:0!

This goal made Manchester City fans at the scene excited!

They are close to the championship trophy!

"Hurry, see what the score between Chelsea and Liverpool are!"

Fans took out their phones and started searching the results of the other two games online.

"Chelsea 0:0 Sunderland at home, Liverpool temporarily leads Norwich 2:0 away!"

"Damn, why is Norwich so trash? He scored two goals in just fifteen minutes?"

"That's right, do these bastards want to relegate? If they lose this game, they will be caught up by Sunderland!"

Manchester City, Liverpool and Chelsea all have relegation teams in this round.

West Bromwich currently has 33 points, only 4 points away from the relegation zone.

Norwich scored 32 points, which was worse than West Bromwich.

The worst is Black Cat Sunderland. Their current points are 29 points, ranking third from the bottom, and they are in the relegation zone!

So in this round of game, all six teams wanted to win, and no one wanted to lose.

Liverpool leads with two goals, and they should have won this game.

It depends on Chelsea now. If they draw or lose to Sunderland, Manchester City can win the championship four rounds in advance as long as they win this game!

However, at this moment, bad news came from the other side:

"Damn, Chelsea is ahead!"

"Really, who scored the goal?"

"Etoo, Chelsea's quick counterattack, Etoo used his speed to throw away the defensive players and then went to the meeting alone, completing the goal."

"Oh, this guy Etoo is 33 years old, right? Why are you still so strong?"

"After all, he is the only player to defend the triple crown. If he doesn't have some strength, he will not achieve such excellent results!"

"Sunderland holds it up, score one goal, just one goal!"

Manchester City fans began to pray for Sunderland. For your relegation, take the courage to come out and go side by side. As long as you support Chelsea, you will be able to leave the relegation zone!

It seemed that when he heard the shouts from Manchester City fans, Sunderland quickly equalized the score.

In the 18th minute, Sunderland drove the corner kick to the perimeter. Alonso volleyed half a 25-yard yard to let the goalkeeper save it. Wickham pushed the ball before Terry scored.

The Black Cats stubbornly tied the score away!

"Good, Sunderland!"

"Good job, Wickham!!"

"Stay like this and don't let Chelsea score again!"

The sudden cheers in Etihad's stadium made the players on both teams a little confused. The score was still 1:0, and it didn't change?

What are the fans celebrating?

Shaking his head, Manchester City players ignored these things and turned their attention back to the game.

The most difficult thing to break the intensive defense is the first goal. Once you take the lead, the opponent will not be able to continue to shrink and defend, and you have to take the initiative to attack!

After West Bromwich fell behind, he had to attack in order to relegation.

In the 22nd minute, after defending West Bromvic's offensive, Manchester City immediately launched a counterattack towards the opponent's penalty area.

During the counterattack, De Bruyne looked up at Lin Quan's position and the position of the opponent's defender, and then gave a fatal straight pass.

The ball broke through the opponent's defense line, Lin Quan easily entered the penalty area when he received the ball, and calmly scored the ball in the face of the goalkeeper who was attacking.

2:0!

Manchester City secured the victory!

When the Blue Moon fans at the scene saw their team score another goal, they all cheered happily to celebrate.

Now that we are going to be better, their own game is stable after leading by two goals. Now we can focus on the results of the other two games.

Unfortunately, until the end of the first half, the results of the other two games did not change at all.

After the second half of the game, West Bromwich wanted to start the attack, but was directly pressed to the ground and exploded.

The game quickly turned into a half-court offensive and defensive drill for the two teams!

In the 50th minute, Lin Quan assisted Aguero and scored another goal, rewriting the score to 3:0.

Now, Westbromvic has no hope.

Manchester City fans at home have already started to celebrate their victory.

As long as the black cat Sunderland persists for another forty minutes and another game ends in a draw, Manchester City will win the championship four rounds ahead of schedule!

So, although everyone was sitting on their own stadium, their minds drifted towards Chelsea's Stamford Bridge.

Stamford Bridge, the score on the field is still 1:1, which is very unfavorable for Chelsea.

Mourinho's face turned pale and he stood on the sidelines.

Since the break, Mourinho has been unable to sit still after learning that Manchester City led West Bromvic 2-0 in another game.

Manchester City's lead means that Chelsea must win this game to continue to retain the last glimmer of theoretical hope.

But if they lose, they can only sit back and watch their competitors win the championship!

On the coach's seat, several assistant coaches were whispering something.

"How is the game over Manchester City?"

"No need to watch it, Aguero scored another goal, and the score is now 3:0!"

"Oh, West Bromwich is also a relegation team after all. Didn't it mean that the relegation team is very strong at the end of the season? Why were they slaughtered by Manchester City so easily?"

"There is no way, the strength gap between the two teams is too big. West Bromvic wants to defend but fails to defend. After falling behind, he is completely passive. The game actually ended when De Bruyne scored the first goal!"

When talking about De Bruyne, several assistant coaches couldn't help but feel a little sad.

When this player was at Chelsea, he was abandoned by Mourinho and could not even enter the bench.

However, when he arrived at Manchester City, Pellegrini was entrusted with an important task and became the offensive engine of Manchester City's frontcourt.

He used his scalpel-like pass to help Manchester City open up the situation many times and made great contributions to Manchester City's victory.

The key is that De Bruyne's performance at Chelsea was seen by many people, but he really couldn't meet the team's requirements.

But why did it become so eye-catching after arriving at Manchester City?

In the box at Stamford Bridge, Chelsea's boss Abu also came to watch the game on site.

When he learned that Manchester City was leading the opponent 3:0, his face became very ugly.

Although he had known that Chelsea would basically be impossible to win the championship, he still felt a little lucky in his heart. After all, Mourinho once led Chelsea to create great success at Stamford Bridge.

Abu still has a little expectation for him!

However, now all expectations have turned into disappointment, and he once again developed disgust for Mourinho, just as he fired Mourinho back then.

However, this time Abu was not impulsive. It was easy to fire Mourinho, but it was difficult to find a suitable replacement.

The person he wants the most is unlikely to come to Chelsea in a short period of time.

So, before there is no better choice, he can only pinch his nose and tolerate Mourinho.

Give him another year. If Chelsea loses its strait next year, Abram will probably really run out of patience.

...

After taking the lead 3:0, Manchester City began to withdraw the troops.

Pellegrini replaced Lin Quan in 67 minutes and replaced De Bruyne in the 72nd minute.

This substitution is obviously preparing for the weekend's Champions League semi-finals. Facing the powerful Real Madrid, Manchester City must seize the advantage of home games in the first leg and see the opponent defeat it.

If they cannot defeat the opponent at home, their Champions League trip this year will basically come to an end!

In this game, Real Madrid still sent scouts to watch the game on the spot. Seeing Manchester City's powerful offensive firepower, his expression was also very serious.

Manchester City is indeed difficult to deal with!

Shortly after Manchester City completed the substitution, news came from another game again.

Norwich scored two goals in the 67th and 72nd minutes, miraculously equalizing the score!

"Ah, is Liverpool swelling?"

Manchester City fans were a little surprised when they learned the news.

Can you fail if you lead 2:0?

"Don't underestimate the determination of a relegation team!"

Thinking of this, Manchester City fans are inevitably a little worried.

Will his own team be turned over?

Just as he had such an idea, West Bromwich scored a goal.

In the 76th minute, West Bromwich took advantage of a corner kick opportunity to recover a goal.

This made Manchester City fans feel uneasy when they think of the result of another game.

However, Manchester City did not give him a chance to play. They began to control the rhythm of the game, limit the opponent's attack, and curb West Bromwich's counterattack.

The game fell back into Manchester City's control, which made Manchester City fans feel relieved.

In the 81st minute, news came from Liverpool again.

Sterling exploded and scored another goal, completing a hat-trick while helping Liverpool take the lead again.

After Suarez was suspended, Sterling's outbreak prevented Liverpool's offensive firepower in the frontcourt from being greatly affected.

Sterling himself has also won the attention of many wealthy families with his outstanding performance in these games.

Just when Manchester City fans lamented that Liverpool was lucky and could lead again, the latest news came from Chelsea - Chelsea was behind!

In the 82nd minute, Altidore, who came on the bench, broke into the right side of the penalty area and fell under the defense of Azpilicueta. The referee Mike Dean decisively awarded a penalty kick, but the slow-motion replay of the large screen on the scene showed that

, The penalty for this ball is controversial.

Tens of thousands of Blues fans at Stamford Bridge booed the referee, and the sound of black whistles came one after another.

Mourinho on the sidelines was so excited that he wanted to find the referee to argue. At this time, he gave his opponent a penalty kick, which almost killed the game!

This is true. Borini, who was responsible for taking the penalty, achieved it overnight and rewritten the score to 2:1!

This penalty kick hit Chelsea players' mentality very much, causing them to be unbalanced in the final stage. Torres almost fought with the opponent when he grabbed the ball in the frontcourt, which was also given a yellow card.

In the end, Chelsea, who played at home, was defeated by their opponents when they took the lead at the beginning.

Losing this game, Chelsea not only lost hope of winning the championship, but also was overtaken by Liverpool in the standings and fell to third place.

When the news reached the Etihad Stadium, Manchester City fans suddenly burst into loud cheers!

"We won!"

“We are the champions!”

At this time, the game on the court was not over yet. The referee looked at it for a while and there were only a few more seconds left in the injury stoppage time.

Seeing West Bromwich's appearance without fighting spirit, the referee blew the whistle to the end of the game in advance.

The moment the whistle sounded, tens of thousands of fans in the audience fell into madness.

On the sidelines, the coaching staff members, including the players sitting on the bench, rushed to the court and hugged and celebrated with their teammates excitedly.

Lin Quan and De Bruyne looked at each other, and a happy smile appeared on their faces.

This is his first league championship trophy in his life. The regret of not winning the championship at Werder Bremen last season was finally completed here at Manchester City.

When the players saw Pellegrini coming up, they immediately rushed to him. Without saying a word, they lifted him up and threw him high into the air!

As the biggest contributor to Manchester City's championship this season, Pellegrini deserves such treatment.

The Chilean's first season in Etihad was very successful, winning the league and league cup, reaching the finals of the FA Cup, and winning the championship is about to reach the semi-finals of the Champions League...

All of these records have reached the peak of Manchester City's history, and they have won all the results that were unattainable in the past this season.

"Okay, OK, OK, kids, let me down quickly, I'm almost dizzy!"

After all, Pellegrini is in his sixties and was thrown by the players a few times. He felt a little unbearable and had to beg for mercy.

"Ha ha!"

When the players heard the coach's begging for mercy, they immediately burst into laughter and finally put him down.

Then, they set their sights on Lin Quan again!

When Lin Quan saw his teammates looking at him, he felt something was wrong.

However, before he could start running, his teammates rushed up and lifted him up regardless of the situation.

As the core of Manchester City, he has stood up at critical moments to help the team overcome difficulties. Lin Quan is undoubtedly the second most powerful contributor in the team. Even on a certain level, he is more important than Pellegrini

.

When he came to Manchester City with the highest salary in history, many players on the team were suspicious or even dissatisfied with him.

But after a season, no one will question Lin Quan's strength anymore.

He conquered all his teammates with his outstanding performance for a consecutive season and convinced Lin Quanxin.

Without him joining, Manchester City would never have gone so far on multiple fronts this season!

"Okay, okay, that's about it. We have to go to the locker room to change our clothes and prepare to take the award on stage!"

Seeing that the team members were almost playing, Pellegrini quickly spoke and reminded.

Everyone left Lin Quan and scattered, and Lin Quan fell on the lawn with a slap.

These guys with no conscience are so scammed!

Lin Quan touched his butt and was about to get up from the ground when he saw a hand handed to him.

He looked up and found it was De Bruyne.

"You guys are still good enough!"

Lin Quan reached out his hand without any precaution, and De Bruyne pulled hard with a bad smile on his face. Just as Lin Quan was about to stand up, he suddenly let go.

So, Lin Quan fell down again with a bang!

Lin Quan: "???"

OK, De Bruyne has also learned bad things!

Back in the locker room, the players changed into the club's traits of the championship celebration jersey.

When they appeared in the player channel, the staff on the scene had already set up the awards ceremony stage.

At this time, the FA officials also appeared at the Etihad Stadium with a trophy symbolizing the Premier League championship!

There was warm applause from the scene, and Manchester City players appeared one after another, walked past the erected blue arches and walked into the stadium.

Amid cheers from fans at the scene, Premier League CEO Richard Scudmore presented medals to Manchester City players.

When presenting Lin Quan with the award, Skudmore patted Lin Quan on the shoulder and said to him:

"Lin, congratulations, your performance is impressive, you deserve this medal!"

Lin Quan lowered his head slightly, asked the other party to wear the medal around his neck, and shook hands with the other party: "Thank you for your congratulations, Mr. Richard, I hope to see you again next year!"

Skudmore smiled. Lin Quan's implication was to defend the league championship?

This is not easy. The competition in the Premier League has always been very fierce. If Manchester City wins the championship this season, it will inevitably become the target of public criticism next season.

When Lin Quan arrived at the podium, the team members pushed him to the C position one after another. Lin Quan refused a few times. Seeing that everyone was very determined, he had to stand in the middle.

Just so happened that captain Kompany was the last to appear at this time and walked under the podium with the trophy in his arms.

Manchester City players opened their hands towards the trophy one after another. Kompany held the trophy and turned his back to the player, shouted three, two, and raised the trophy with a squeak!

“We are the champions!”

(End of this chapter)