Super Marshal

While Manchester City is sweeping the entire Premier League this season, Benitez's Liverpool are in a difficult situation.

Especially as the season progresses, the Red Army not only exposed the team's long-standing problems on the offensive end, but also made it clear that they were disorderly in midfield organization.

The Italian midfielder Aquilani, whom Liverpool had high hopes for, performed disappointingly and failed to effectively take on the organizational responsibility of the midfield. Mascherano's departure further deprived Liverpool of their midfield defense. Lost the original stability.

For this reason, Spanish coach Benitez has accused the management of inaction more than once. Many people in the coaching circle have also expressed sympathy for Benitez's situation, because many fans now simply do not understand his accusations. Inside story.

Especially the cold.

As one of Benitez's few friends, Gao Han does not deny that Benitez is indeed very stubborn and does not know how to communicate smoothly, but it is simply unreasonable to doubt his coaching ability.

From the first day Gao Han met him, Benitez's pursuit was very clear, which was to press forward from the midfield to bring his offensive players closer to the opponent's goal. This tactic was used in Tenerife and Valencia. West Asia and Liverpool have both been successful.

So why is the performance sluggish this season?

There is only one reason, the players are not strong enough.

When Manchester City poached Mascherano, a very important reason why Benitez chose to release him was that Liverpool could not afford a penny in transfer fees, so the management agreed to Benitez. Let Mascherano go, all funds will be used for transfer operations.

Benitez is very optimistic about Brazilian midfielder Lucas, and Lucas's performance is indeed good, so he chose to let Mascherano go, hoping to use the money to introduce Gareth Barry and Jovi Teach.

Unexpectedly, the management eventually broke their promise and only brought in Aquilani, but not on the front line.

What's even more unfortunate is that Aquilani's performance was sluggish, far from the level he played at Roma.

And even during the winter break, there were rumors outside that Benitez wanted to get Falcao, but as the owner of Chinatown, Gao Han knew very well that Liverpool had never had any contact with Chinatown from the beginning to the end.

Throughout the whole process, Aquilani made a mistake. Benitez did have the responsibility, but what he wanted from the beginning was Gareth Barry, hoping to use the performance of Barry and Gerrard as a partner in the national team. Liverpool's midfield is powerful, but the club management's broken promises are undoubtedly the most serious crux of Liverpool's current situation.

Now it is not only Gao Han, I am afraid that everyone inside and outside Liverpool already knows clearly that after the end of this season, Benitez will either be fired or resign. With his character, it will be difficult to stay at Liverpool.

This is why Gao Han never considered coaching Liverpool from beginning to end.

Not only because he is good friends with Benitez, but also because of Liverpool's management.

To put it bluntly, with the chaos of the Red Army management, even if Gao Han went to coach, he would most likely be trapped in the bathroom, because it is difficult for a clever woman to make a meal without rice.

Although I sympathize with Benitez psychologically, on the court, the game must be played how it should be played.

What's more, Benitez's team is not a soft persimmon that can be manipulated.

February 20, 2010, the twenty-seventh round of the Premier League.

Manchester City sits at the City Stadium and welcomes the Red Army Liverpool.

Benitez knew that he was not as strong as Manchester City, and the game focused on safety. From the beginning, he launched a fierce press and pressure against Manchester City's ball control style. Gao Han was preparing for the League Cup final a week later. They didn't make proper rotations, but as soon as the game started, they were rushed by Liverpool and couldn't hold the ball.

In the first ten minutes of the game, both sides played in a chaotic manner. It was not until twenty minutes later that, as the game progressed, Manchester City gradually took control of the ball and pressed the entire formation, but Liverpool still stuck to their own half and Actively seize opportunities and fight back.

Both sides were unable to organize an effective offensive in the first half, and no one scored a goal.

But in the second half, Manchester City gradually took control of the situation on the field after changing sides. Especially with Liverpool's physical consumption, the high-intensity pressing tactics could not be maintained, allowing Manchester City to gradually create a threat. Gao Han spotted the opportunity and used his skills Get stuck and launch an attack.

In the 60th minute, Mascherano pressed forward to Liverpool's 30-meter area to steal the ball, and then transferred the ball to Xabi Alonso. The Spanish midfielder passed the ball straight to the front of the penalty area. Card passed the ball diagonally to the left. Benzema stepped in to receive the ball and passed it back to the center. Sturridge pushed the ball in front of the goal and made it one to zero in one fell swoop.

After opening the scoring, Manchester City played more calmly.

Soon, both sides made substitution adjustments at the same time. Benitez replaced Babel with the intention of strengthening the offense. Gao Han replaced Kaka and replaced Adam Johnson on the left wing. Petrov returned. Go to the middle.

After continuous substitutions, the situation fell into a stalemate again.

It wasn't until the 87th minute of the game that Sturridge scored twice, helping Manchester City defeat Liverpool 2-0 at home.

In the whole game, the Red Army Liverpool only got nine shooting opportunities, and they shot twice on target, but they failed to create a threat.

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February 23, 2010, the 28th round of the Premier League, Stamford Bridge Stadium.

After a fifteen-minute break, the two opponents returned to the playing field. After exchanging venues, they were ready to fight again at any time.

The scoreboard showed the score of the first half between the two sides, one to one.

But this score did not well show the strength gap between the two teams on the court.

Throughout the first half, Chelsea was bombarded by Manchester City in the half. The performance of the two teams truly reflected the strength gap between the two sides. Scolari even only arranged for Falcao. One person was cruising in front to harass, while the others all retreated to defend.

This undoubtedly played into Manchester City's plan. Blue Moon had an astonishing ball possession rate, and in the 42nd minute, they took advantage of a defensive mistake by Chelsea to finally pry open the Blues' goal.

But soon, Falcao also took advantage of Manchester City's impatience and impatience to score a sneak goal and equalize the score.

The two sides shook hands and made peace, changing sides and fighting again in the second half.

Although it was a draw, Gao Han still looked calm, but Scolari looked very worried.

Just three days ago, Chelsea had just lost 0-2 to Prandelli's Inter Milan in an away game. It was almost difficult to make a breakthrough in the Champions League. This put Scolari under tremendous pressure.

In this game, he faced Manchester City, who only played half of the main team. It was also a home game, and he didn't want to lose.

But when the second half started, it was Manchester City who took the lead.

Only three minutes into the game, Adam Johnson once dribbled the ball from the wing towards the penalty area, but was brought down by Terry at the front of the penalty area. The referee showed Terry a yellow card, but Cristiano Ronaldo's free kick was missed. On the human wall.

The ball fell to Chelsea and the Blues launched a counterattack.

Scolari's team is obviously unwilling to sit still and hope to seize the opportunity to draw or even defeat Manchester City at home.

Chelsea Lampard passed the ball to the left and handed it to Robinho, but Mascherano pulled to the right to defend. In a one-on-one situation, Robinho tried to pass, but was beaten by Ma After Scherano stole the ball, he passed it to the frontcourt.

After Sanchez grabbed the ball, he ran for thirty meters with the ball. In Chelsea's penalty area, he got rid of Mikel who was back on defense and hit the goal from a small angle. The ball went straight into the lower right corner of the goal, two to one.

Falling behind, Chelsea began to lose morale, and Manchester City took this opportunity to increase their offensive.

In this game, Gao Han arranged for Zabaleta to start as the team's deep midfielder instead of Xabi Alonso. The front partners were Elano and Modric, and Sanchez was in the attacking midfielder position.

Because Chelsea did not arrange an attacking midfielder, Zabaleta's area of ​​activity was relatively large, and Gao Han allowed him to attack with confidence, so the Argentine midfielder was more active.

Especially in the 67th minute, after Chelsea intercepted the ball at the front of the penalty area, right back Belletti launched a counterattack. As a result, Zabaleta suddenly made a move and even dribbled Belletti to the ground.

But just when everyone thought Zabaleta was going to get the card, Belletti, who was driven mad by the atmosphere in the field, jumped up from the ground and pushed Zabaleta hard from behind. All this happened under the nose of the referee.

The referee, who was about to take a card from Zabaleta, immediately stopped Belletti. After giving Zabaleta a yellow card, he put his hand in his chest pocket and pointed at Belletti. A red card was taken out.

This completely blew up the entire Stamford Bridge stadium.

But Gao Han decisively launched an attack, using all his skill cards, trying to kill Chelsea in one go.

Sure enough, two minutes later, Manchester City scored a goal from Brazilian striker Ruo, expanding the score to 3-1.

In the 74th minute, another goal from Cristiano Ronaldo helped Manchester City rewrite the score to 4-1. The Portuguese also scored twice in this game.

After consecutive goals, Gao Han made another substitution to prepare for the League Cup final three days later.

As a result, when the game lasted for 81 minutes, controversy arose again. Ballack, who replaced Mikel, knocked down Manchester City forward Jo and received two consecutive yellow cards in less than 20 minutes. , was sent off the field with a red card.

After losing two players in one breath and facing with nine men, Manchester City completely controlled the situation on the field.

In the 88th minute, Adam Johnson forced a breakthrough from the wing and passed in. Sturridge outflanked the goal and easily scored, 5-1. This was also the last goal of the game.

In the end, Manchester City defeated nine-man Chelsea 5-1 away from home.

Abramovich supervised this game on the spot, but sat helplessly in the stands and witnessed his team being slaughtered by Manchester City again at home, and was scored five goals by the opponent. This has to be said. A disgrace.

Especially when he saw the Manchester City players rushing onto the field to celebrate, he was extremely depressed.

After this game, Chelsea's ranking was reversed by Manchester United, which defeated Everton 3-0, and fell to third in the league.

Not only that, but no team can threaten Manchester City anymore.

Gao Han's team has won 28 games in a row and is far ahead in the standings. The championship is just around the corner.

Chelsea spent 90 million euros to bring in Falcao and Ramires. Although they both performed at a very good level, especially Falcao, who scored a lot of goals, they still could not make up for the gap between Chelsea and Manchester City. The strength gap.

Even if Abramovich is unwilling to admit it, he cannot change this fact.

Sitting in the stands at Stamford Bridge, watching Gao Han win, he even hoped that Manchester United's Ferguson could defeat Gao Han three days later.

No matter who it is, he will be happy as long as he can defeat Gao Han.