Six Hundred and Twentieth Four Pick the Ball

In the professional league, nobody likes to lose.

But sometimes, losing is not necessarily a bad thing.

In fact, losing can expose more problems.

Gao Shen was born as a problem solver in a small town, and his ability to solve problems has always been very good.

More importantly, when many problems are exposed once, he will draw attention to them, and they will not reappear in the future.

The same is true for Manchester City this time.

After entering the Christmas and winter break, Manchester City has ushered in a period of high incidence of injuries.

This was unacceptable to Gao Shen, so he went to find the problem.

Dr. Marcos Sala, who was brought in from the Milan laboratory with a lot of money, and Buenaventura Pintus, the coaching staff, are the first responsible persons, and they all have to give Gao Shen a reasonable explanation for the injury wave.

For this, the reasons they gave are relatively consistent, that is, Christmas and winter break.

From a purely physical point of view, Manchester City's players are actually quite good.

The coaching staff pays enough attention to the physical condition of the players at this stage, and there is a set of early warning mechanisms. The analysis teams of Buenaventura, Pintus, Sarah and Lucas have been closely tracking the players.

But many problems cannot be prevented.

Press down here, it will always come out from some unexpected places.

In the end, they all agreed that the problem was on the psychological level of the players.

The cold weather after winter, coupled with the intensive schedule, is very easy to get injured, coupled with psychological problems, it directly led to Manchester City's successive injuries.

But the funny thing is, it's not really serious.

The longest is one month of injury and retirement.

This can further support the analysis and judgment of the coaching staff.

In the words of Dr. Sara: The human body is very miraculous and sensitive, and even the slightest change may cause serious feedback on it.

He gave Gao Shen an example.

In professional football, there have been many cases, that is, when a player is injured for a long time or repeatedly, it is easy to have problems on the psychological level, not only making them afraid to fight physically, afraid to move, etc. , it is more likely to cause him to have psychological hints.

"Not long ago, there was an interesting incident in Liverpool. Benitez's team doctor thought that Torres' body had fully recovered and was very healthy without any problems, but Torres found Benitez and told his head coach. My body is still very bad and I can't compete for the game."

"The final conclusion is that neither side is lying, because the team doctor is talking about the body, but Torres is talking about psychological factors. From this point, we can also draw a conclusion that Torres has a big problem."

Gao Shen was very surprised when he heard it, because he knew that Torres had really started to go downhill, and even moved to Chelsea, AC Milan and Atletico Madrid later, but he failed to regain his previous amazing state.

It can be said that this season is the last afterglow of Torres.

Dr. Sala said that psychological problems are also problems, which are more difficult to deal with than physical problems. Even in the past, when they were not as professional as they are now, many head coaches and teams would suspect that players were cheating.

Of course, Manchester City's players are not suffering from any psychological disease, but because they are too nervous, resulting in injuries.

"There are too many victories in a row. The players play in shackles every game. The psychological pressure is increasing. Coupled with the devil's schedule during Christmas and winter break, as well as the new arrival of the players and other factors, in the end It led to a continuous wave of injuries on the team."

This is the profound answer given by Dr. Sarah's team medical team and the coaching staff.

During this period, Gao Shen also communicated with each player, trying to figure out their mental state during this period, which was basically as analyzed by Dr. Sara.

Psychologist Ferrucci also believes that a long winning streak is not good for players' psychology.

"Does that mean that in the future, if I want to win a few games, I will deliberately lose one game to relieve the pressure on the players?" Gao Shen asked jokingly.

But in fact, this is purely a joke.

In a highly competitive league, after winning several games in a row, the psychological pressure of the players reaches a certain threshold, and the performance will naturally decline, so draws and losses are natural things.

Therefore, to a certain extent, this wave of troughs and injuries in Manchester City is the fall after the peak.

If you study Manchester City's schedule carefully, it is not difficult to find that Manchester City's performance is not bad, but it is not like Manchester United. What a big deal.

As for the league, Manchester City is still the best.

And it's not just Manchester City.

No, in the 26th round, after a 1-1 draw with Aston Villa, in the 27th round, Manchester United lost 1-3 away to Everton. The Red Devils performed very well throughout the game. downturn.

Ferguson said that it was because Manchester United fought on two fronts and the game was under a lot of pressure.

But come on, Everton is also fighting on two fronts, and the two main players, Fellaini and Cahill, are both absent.

Obviously, after a wave of consecutive victories, Manchester United is now beginning to usher in a decline.

On the other hand, Manchester City performed extremely vigorously in the home game against Liverpool.

After the opening, Robben was extremely active on the right side, putting on outstanding performances in a row, suppressing Liverpool quite embarrassingly. Reina made many key saves in a row and almost conceded the ball several times.

It's a pity that Liverpool finally defended the first half steadily.

After changing sides to fight again in the second half, Manchester City once again launched a wave of onslaught.

In the first fifteen minutes, Manchester City won eight corner kicks, which is enough to see how fierce Manchester City's two wings are attacking Liverpool, and it can also see the pressure and embarrassment of Liverpool's defense.

Benitez has made a very obvious improvement in this game, and that is the set-piece defense.

Manchester City got double-digit corner kick opportunities, but they just couldn't create a goal. Benitez's team obviously worked hard in corner kick defense and didn't leave many opportunities for Manchester City.

In the sixty-fifth and seventy-fifth minutes, Gao Shen made a substitution each, all aimed at strengthening the offense.

Liverpool also made a second substitution in the 75th minute, replacing Maxi Rodriguez with Benayoun.

Neither side gave an inch.

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Gao Shen was still wearing his black coat, standing in front of the coach of the home team.

The game will be 80 minutes soon, but the score is still zero to zero.

So far, except for the goal, Gao Shen is satisfied with Manchester City's performance.

It can be said that the overall state of the team has recovered significantly.

This is a good thing.

After a wave of troughs, Manchester City will become more mature.

All teams mature through setbacks, especially a newly reorganized team like Manchester City.

But now, the more critical the moment, the more it is necessary to play the team's confidence.

"Let Gareth warm up." Gao Shen turned around and shouted.

Carlo immediately received the order and hurried to the bench to arrange for Gareth Bale to go out to warm up.

This will be the last substitution for Manchester City, and they still need to strengthen their offense.

Liverpool also saw the movement on Manchester City's side and responded immediately.

Brazilian midfielder Lucas Leiva also went to warm up, apparently ready to play.

Just now, when Mascherano was defending David Silva, he had a very obvious foul, but the referee did not give a card, because Mascherano already had a yellow card tonight, if he gives another card, then It's a red card.

But it's not fair to Manchester City.

Benitez may want to replace Mascherano with Lucas Leiva.

On the sidelines, both teams were still preparing for the substitution, but something happened suddenly on the court.

Robinho, who had just replaced Robben, sent a diagonal pass from the right to find Suarez in the penalty area.

The Uruguayan striker quickly slashed into the right side of the penalty area and stopped the ball with his chest, but was squeezed by Skrtel and lost his balance. The ball was also kicked out of the penalty area by Insua, who returned to the defense in time.

Gerrard was at the front of the 30-meter zone. As soon as he was about to hold the ball, Zabaleta pressed up and directly tackled the ball to Rakitic in the middle.

At this time, in Liverpool's penalty area, Suarez was depressed about the attack just now. He walked to the outside of the penalty area. When he saw Rakitic get the ball, he immediately glanced left and right, stretched out his left finger and pointed behind him.

Rakitic noticed Suarez's gesture, went straight to the top of the long pass, and sent the ball accurately into the penalty area.

On the way back, Suarez suddenly stopped and turned around, and quickly started to move forward, but Skrtel's attention was very concentrated. He had already noticed Suarez's movements, and immediately followed up, trying to block Suarez and the goal.

But no one thought that Suarez had just rushed up, and before Rakitic's mid-length pass landed, he swung his right foot and picked the ball lightly in mid-air, picking past Si who rushed in front of him. Cottle, fell to his left.

After picking the ball, Suarez adjusted quickly. After his right foot stood firm, his left foot faced the ball that bounced back after falling, and it was an angry shot.

The ball quickly flew to the left of the goal.

Goalkeeper Reina stood on the right side, powerless to do anything but watch as the ball mounted inside the left post and bounced into Liverpool's goal.

"GOALLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLL!!!!!!"

"A wonderful dribble!"

"Uruguayan striker Luis Suarez from Manchester City."

"After dribbling the ball, he finished with a wonderful left-footed shot to open the scoring for Manchester City!"

"One to zero!"

"Eighty-one minutes, the game was deadlocked for eighty-one minutes, Suarez's wonderful shot opened the door to victory for Manchester City!"

Gao Shen was on the sidelines, and after seeing Suarez score, he jumped up excitedly.

Although he is very satisfied with the process of the game, he still wants to win.

Now, Suarez's goal made him see the goddess of victory beckoning ahead.

Liverpool's defense is very good, but if they press out and play, then Manchester City will not be afraid.

Besides, Gao Shen didn't think that Benitez dared to press out to attack Manchester City.