Glory Greenery

Chapter 392 Championship Battle: Lord Ferguson's Resentment
Just after Manchester City defeated Real Madrid, another UEFA Champions League semi-final, at the Camp Nou, the game between Barcelona and Bayern at home also ended.

If the match between Manchester City and Real Madrid was a bit boring to watch under Mancini's tactics, then the match between Barcelona and Bayern can be called wonderful.

On Barcelona's side, because Real Madrid won the league championship two rounds ahead of schedule, the Champions League has become the only important championship that Barcelona can compete for.

On Bayern's side, the good situation in the second half of the league suddenly collapsed, and Dortmund once again came from behind. Coupled with the German Cup exit, the Champions League has become the only championship they can fight for this season.

In addition, the venue for the Champions League final this season is the Allianz Arena in Munich, so Bayern is very eager to win the Champions League trophy at their home court and end the two-year downturn.

Because of this, at the Nou Camp, two teams eager to win played a confrontational battle.

Finally, when the referee blew the whistle to end the game, the score was fixed at an exaggerated 4-4.

Although the first round was the same, the game ended in a draw, but Bayern relied on the advantage of four away goals to eliminate Barcelona and successfully meet Manchester City in the final.

After the Champions League semi-finals were all over, when the two final teams were announced, many people's eyes once again focused on one person, and that was Yang Mo.

Bayern, Yang Mo's old club, two years ago, Yang Mo led this team to record the second six championships in Europe.

That brilliant season also allowed Yang Mo to become a top star in the world from a fledgling star in the Eredivisie.

After that, in just one year, due to the team's injuries, the contradiction between Yang Mo and Bayern's top management, the speed of the decline of the six-time champion Bayern was jaw-dropping.

In the end, Yang Mo turned against Bayern's top management and left at his own liquidated damages, detonating last year's transfer market.

This season, with the highest net worth in the world, Yang Mo came to Manchester City and quickly led Manchester City to rise.

In the Premier League, they swept the league and created the best start in the league. The rivals in the same city, the defending champion Red Devils Manchester United, were rubbed on the ground by seven balls.

In the UEFA Champions League, Manchester City, which made it out of the group stage for the first time, made it all the way to the final.

The "origin" of these two teams because of Yang Mo's involvement, was originally known by fans all over the world because they happened to be grouped together in the Champions League group stage.

At that time, the news that Yang Mo met his former owner in the Champions League was hyped by the media for a while, detonating the ratings record of that game.

But no one could have imagined that these two teams would meet in the final after the group stage.

Manchester City, led by Yang Mo, will face Bayern again, and it will also be at Bayern's home court, the Allianz Arena.

It was Bayern who defeated Yang Mo and made Yang Mo regret leaving.

It was still Yang Mo who defeated and won the Champions League trophy at Bayern's home court, making Bayern pay the price of falling out with him.

Is there any other promotional point of this Champions League that is more attractive than these?
And UEFA is obviously aware of this, and Yang Mo immediately became the focus of publicity in the UEFA Champions League final on May 5.

After all, Manchester City really doesn't have much honor in the European war. If you want to talk about the conflict with Bayern, you can't find it. What kind of publicity is it without Yang Mo?
However, although the outside world is very excited about this Champions League final, countless fans around the world have begun to buy tickets in advance, preparing to go to Germany to witness the grand event.

But for Manchester City, the most important thing now is not this Champions League game.

The Champions League final is still more than 20 days away from them, but only four days later, an important game this season no less than the Champions League will come.

11/12 Premier League No.30 six league rounds, Manchester derby, championship battle.

As long as Manchester City can win this game, they will beat Newcastle United in the next round, and they will win the Premier League champion Barclays Cup one round ahead of schedule.

Even if it's just a tie, Manchester City can continue to maintain their advantage and hold the initiative to win in their hands.

But once this game is lost, I'm sorry, with two games left, Manchester United will never give Manchester City any chance.

This game is almost equal to this season's Premier League title battle.

Therefore, the impact of the outcome of this game also made this Manchester derby extremely important and eye-catching.

On May 5th, in Manchester, excited Manchester City fans poured into the Etihad Airline Stadium with their desire for the championship.

In the stands, fans waved flags, held up scarves, and sang the team song "blue moon" loudly.

Among them, many fans have anxiously made a model of the Barclay Cup out of cardboard, shaking it as if celebrating the championship in advance.

Looking at the excitement of the Manchester City fans, the Manchester United fans, who are fans of the visiting team, looked at these "noisy neighbors" with disdain.

"A group of upstarts, they haven't won the championship yet, why are they so happy!"

This kind of slightly mocking speech was mentioned from time to time on the deck where Manchester United fans gathered.

But no matter how much these Manchester United fans look down on Manchester City fans, they can only yell in private.

After all, today is Manchester City's home stadium. Although they are also in Manchester, there are only more than 2000 fans of the away team who may buy tickets for this match.

If there is a conflict, the thin layer of security around them will not stop the Manchester City fans who are eager for the championship.

Compared with Manchester United, which has a well-off family, the Manchester City people have been waiting for this championship for almost half a century.

Manchester City, which is poor and white, is too eager for a championship.

As the game time draws near, players from both sides who have completed pre-match preparations have already begun to enter the player channel.

Yang Mo, who was at the front of the team, first greeted Rooney, Ryan Giggs, Park Ji-sung and others next to him, and then took the hand of the little caddy and prepared to enter the field.

Yang Mo felt the little caddy's hand trembling.

"Are you nervous?" Yang Mo said and looked at the little caddy.

At this time, he found that the little caddy he was holding was looking at him with bright eyes, and his face was flushed.

This is not nervous, but excited.

In the Premier League, many teams have to spend money to serve as caddies. For example, Everton, which charges the most expensive ball boy, has to pay more than 700 pounds to be a caddie.

In the past, Manchester City used to charge money to be a caddy, but since Manchester City was acquired by a rich boss, this fee has been cancelled.

For Mansour, earning tens of thousands of pounds in a game is better than using it to win the hearts of fans.

Today's Manchester City caddies are all drawn from the team's fans. Of course, the premise is that you are a VIP fan or a season ticket fan.

So now those who can be ball boys at the opening are basically Manchester City fans, or at least the sons of Manchester City fan families.

In the UK, the football culture in the community is very strong, and basically every child has a favorite football star since childhood.

Among the small fans of Manchester City, if you ask who is your favorite star, nine out of ten will answer Yang Mo.

After coming to Manchester City for a season, Yang Mo has completely conquered all Manchester City fans with his excellent performance.

So it's not surprising that young fans will behave like this when they see Yang Mo.

"Can you give me an autograph?"

The little boy asked with a trembling voice, and the freckled skin on both sides of the nose wrinkled nervously.

"Of course, but not now, I will ask the staff to give it to you after the game is over."

To be able to be a caddy, the team must have contact information. Yang Mo is not worried that he will not be able to find this little caddy.

After Yang Mo finished speaking, the little caddy was so excited that he couldn't speak on the spot.

However, following the arrangement of the staff, the players from both sides had to formally enter the court, and Yang Mo didn't have the time to appease the little caddy, so he just dragged the little guy out of the court.

The moment Yang Mo's figure appeared on the court, thunderous applause erupted from the stands.

For Manchester City fans, Yang Mo is Manchester City's anchor, as long as they see Yang Mo, they feel that the game will definitely win.

Waving around the stands, this is Yang Mo's feedback to the fans.

But when he waved his hand, the cheers in the stands immediately rose to a higher level, shaking the entire stadium and making people's ears roar.

"Players from both sides started to play, and the fans at the scene responded enthusiastically."

"Yang Mo waved to the fans, and the cheers of the fans became louder. This is enough to prove that Yang Mo now has a status in the hearts of Manchester City fans."

"The game will start soon, let me introduce the starting lineups of both sides."

"For the home team Manchester City, Mancini still uses the most commonly used 4231, but Dzeko did not start this game. Mancini continued the formation of the last Champions League game against Real Madrid, and Yang Mo continued to play the center position."

"Nasri serves as the left midfielder, the midfielder Silva, the right midfielder is Aguero who has returned from injury, and the double midfielders are Barry and Yaya Toure."

"At the back, Clichy on the left, Lescott on the left, Kompany on the right, Sabaletta on the right."

"In this game, Manchester City came up with the strongest main lineup to start. Mancini obviously has to do his best to win this round of the game."

After Zhan Jun hurriedly finished talking about Manchester City's starting lineup, he changed his words and began to introduce Manchester United's players.

"Ferguson arranged a 433 formation for Manchester United in this game. Forward Giggs, left winger Rooney, right winger Nani, the three midfielders are Scholes, Carrick, Park Ji-sung, and the four defenders are respectively. It was Evra, Ferdinand, Smalling and Phil Jones."

"Compared to Manchester City, which has a more conservative formation, Manchester United's 433 in this game probably made everyone unexpected."

"I just don't know whether this formation can work in such a critical game, it depends on the actual situation of the game."

Following Zhan Jun's commentary, the players on both sides of the field have already lined up on both sides, ready to kick off, and the game will start at any time.

After Manchester City chose to choose sides in this game, Manchester United initiated the first attack.

Accompanied by the referee's whistle, Rooney passed the ball to Giggs in the middle circle, and Giggs immediately passed the ball to the front right and sent it to Nani's feet.

After Nani received the ball, he began to dribble forward from the right. At the same time, Rooney and Giggs started together and pierced towards Manchester City like a dagger.

In this championship battle, Manchester United had no intention of admitting defeat from the beginning, and attacked at the beginning.

Nani dribbled the ball on the right, and Nasri was the first to harass him. Nani didn't bother with Nasri, turned around and passed the ball back to Park Ji-sung.

The moment the South Korean player caught the ball, the Korean fans who were watching the game in South Korea, thousands of miles away, immediately became excited.

They yelled and cheered for Park Ji-sung, hoping that Park Ji-sung could help Manchester United defeat Manchester City and rub the arrogance of the Chinese Yang Mo.

But it's a pity that the moment Park Ji-sung caught the ball, a blue figure rushed over, leaned on his body, and took the ball with a flick of his feet.

At this time, those Korean fans who yelled saw that the one who stole the ball was not someone else, it was Yang Mo they hoped to beat.

As the center of this game, Yang Mo doesn't actually need to participate in the defense.

But whoever let the game start, before he had time to advance, Manchester United's offense came over.

Although his defensive skills are mediocre, his advantage lies in his abnormal physical fitness. It is not so much a steal of Park Ji-sung's ball as he knocks Park Ji-sung away first, and then controls the ball.

After stealing the ball, Yang Mo was about to rush forward with the ball, but he heard the referee beep and blow his whistle.

"I fouled?"

With doubts, Yang Mo turned his head to look, only to find that Pu Zhixing, who had just been knocked away by him, was lying on the ground, being pulled up by his teammates.

Yang Mo touched his head, showing a helpless expression, he really didn't expect that Park Ji-sung would be so casual.

"I'm afraid this guy is pretending?"

Just when Yang Mo was secretly slandering, the referee stepped forward to give him a verbal warning and awarded Manchester United a free kick.

Although Yang Mo's interception fouled this time, it has to be said that when Manchester United organized a free kick, Manchester City's formation had already been re-established. Manchester United wanted to start the game with a surprise idea, but Yang Mo's interception completely It's yellowed.

As the saying goes, there is no good game in the big game. This game is related to the ownership of the Premier League champions. After Manchester United failed to attack in the opening game, they immediately started to play steadily.

As for Manchester City, being able to throw Yang Mo to the center forward position proves that Mancini has paid attention to the same thing as the previous Champions League game, that is, victory is paramount and the defense will be carried out to the end.

Except for Aguero and Yang Mo, other Manchester City players easily didn't even play halftime, and the formation was as stable as a rock.

Watching this situation, Ferguson frowned on the sidelines.

For a moment, Ferguson understood Mourinho's mood in the last game very well, and couldn't help but look at Mancini with resentful eyes.

Not far away, Mancini, who was sitting on the bench, didn't notice Ferguson's gaze.

Mancini has heard rumors that Mubarak is already looking for a new manager for Manchester City because of the mid-season winless streak.

He now wants to win the trust of Manchester City and keep his handsome position. The best way to prove it is to win the championship.

Leaving aside the Champions League, the league is the goal set by Manchester City this season, and now it is only one game away, and he must win it.

Don't say he played conservatively, even if he was said to play ugly, he will win this game.

Therefore, in this game, Mancini let Yang Mo continue to start as a center forward, and Dzeko, who was not in a reliable state, sat on the bench.

In fact, if Mancini was not worried about the lack of deterrence in the frontcourt, he would have wanted Aguero to also sit on the bench and directly put on a 451 formation.

(End of this chapter)