Football: start copying peak Messi attributes

Chapter 240 18th Birthday, Guardiola's Suggestion [Transition Chapter]

"Happy birthday!"

As soon as he returned to his home in Munich, Lin Quan received a surprise the moment he opened the door.

It was past midnight in Germany, but Guardiola, Serra and others were waiting for him at the door.

It turned out that he specially asked himself to come here to celebrate his birthday!

Lin Quan scratched his head, he was so busy with work that he forgot about his birthday.

"Lin, stop standing at the door, come in quickly!"

Seeing that Lin Quan was still standing stupidly at the door, Sera quickly pulled him in.

"Brother, put this on!"

12-year-old Maria tiptoed to put her hat on his head, and the hat was still warm.

"Thank you, Maria!"

Lin Quan was very moved. The moment he stepped into the house, he seemed to have relieved all the pressure on his body, and felt relaxed as if he had returned to a safe haven.

"You're welcome, are you here alone?"

Maria stood on tiptoe and looked outside, as if she was looking for someone.

"Don't look, it's just me!"

Lin Quan closed the door smoothly, the cold wind howling outside suddenly stopped, and the indoor heating spread across the surface, creating an indescribably comfortable feeling.

"Brother, come and make a wish, the candles are already lit!"

Marius took the things in Lin Quan's hands sensiblely, put them aside, and pulled him to the table.

There was a cake on the table, and the candles were already lit. After a quick glance, there were exactly 18 cakes.

"Ok!"

Lin Quan sat down, closed his eyes, and silently made a wish in his heart.

"Brother, I want to eat cake, the one with the most cream!"

Seeing him open his eyes, five-year-old Valentina climbed onto his lap and yelled.

"Okay, okay, here you are, be careful not to get the cream on your body!"

Lin Quan pampered and cut a large piece of cake for her, the little guy cheered, quickly sucked a mouthful on Lin Quan's face, took the cake and couldn't wait to eat it.

By this point, the little girl might be really hungry.

"Go to rest after eating the cake, it's getting late!"

Sera quickly cut the cake, and stuffed it into the hands of several children one by one, not forgetting to tell them to brush their teeth after eating.

"Hehe, I originally planned to celebrate your birthday tomorrow, but your brothers and sisters insisted on waiting for you. Before you came, Valentina was as sleepy as a chicken pecking at rice, and she couldn't carry it. Living!"

Guardiola sat across from Lin Quan with a smile, looking at his children softly.

No matter what happened at work, every time he came home and saw these little angels, he felt the pressure all over his body disappear.

Guardiola has a harmonious family that many people envy. Serra is a good wife and mother, and he himself has not had any scandals outside.

The sons and daughters are not only smart, but also well-behaved and sensible. The oldest one is very promising. Whenever he is mentioned, Guardiola can't help but raise his head proudly:

Have you seen the boy who plays like Messi?
That's my son!
"Let me guess, you are in such a good mood, probably because you beat Chelsea at home?"

Lin Quan came back in a hurry and went to the airport as soon as the game was over. He hadn't had time to learn about the other matches of the Champions League.

"Is the expression on my face that obvious?"

Guardiola stroked his chin and couldn't help being surprised.

"Of course, only defeating Mourinho can make you so happy!"

Just like Messi and Ronaldo, in football, people always compare Mourinho and Guardiola together.

Both of them are the best coaches in the Mesozoic era, and they were at their peak when they debuted. One led Barcelona to create the dream three dynasties.

A team leading a non-five major leagues performed a miracle and won the Champions League!

Coupled with the grievances and grievances between the two, the media always like to hype them together.

This reached its peak after Mourinho joined Real Madrid.

Speaking of which, Guardiola left Barcelona, ​​in addition to the relationship between Rosell, there is another big reason, and that is Mourinho.

In the 2011-2012 season, Mourinho's Real Madrid has reversed the previous decline in the league and slowly began to form an advantage over Barcelona.

No matter how the outside world criticizes Mourinho's football is full of utilitarianism, but for Guardiola, the pass control tactics he has painstakingly studied were seen through and restricted by the opponent, which made him feel very frustrated.

Therefore, after leaving Barcelona, ​​Guardiola has been studying how to improve his pass control tactics to deal with Mourinho's defensive counterattack.

After nearly a year of the European Super Cup and this time in the Champions League, Guardiola's team has achieved a complete victory.

Guardiola was delighted to win over Mourinho, especially with Bayern not at their best.

"What's the score?"

Curiously, Lin Quan took out his mobile phone, asked and searched for results online.

"3:0!"

While hearing Guardiola's answer, he also saw the score on the Internet.

This score surprised Lin Quan, Chelsea is not a weak team, and has always been known for its strong defensive ability.

How could such a team that is good at defense be beaten 3:0 by Bayern?
Lin Quan curiously found the highlights of the game and looked at it. In this game, Bayern's formation was very strange, and Guardiola put on a 3331 formation.

He switched Harvey Martinez from a defensive midfielder to a central defender, and a central defender to a full-back.

In this way, when Martinez leaves the defense, teammates on the wing can fill in and keep the defense intact at any time.

On the offensive, Hama's investment made Bayern have more people in the offensive, more ball options, and more difficult defense.

The most important thing is that Hama's position is too far back, and it is difficult for the opponent's press to threaten him.

When Hama advanced with the ball, Bayern's formation was two inverted triangles, which magnified the offensive threat from the wing.

After gaining a lot of support, Ribery and Robben frequently launched attacks from the wing. In the first half, they took advantage of two quick counterattacks and scored two goals.

However, Chelsea's counterattack had four more interceptions due to the existence of Bayern's two diamonds. They were often resolved by Bayern's defense before they advanced to the front of the penalty area.

And because of the two extra midfielders on the wing, Chelsea's offense couldn't get through at all.

After replacing Mandzukic in the second half, Guardiola's side scored another goal in a positional battle, scoring against Chelsea in two different ways.

The score of 3:0 basically determined that Bayern will advance to the quarterfinals.

Chelsea are notoriously weak forward, and it is too difficult for them to score three goals at home.

What's more, they didn't score a goal in the away game, and they had to prevent the opponent from scoring when they returned home.

Once Bayern score a goal at Stamford Bridge, Chelsea can go straight away.

Guardiola not only defeated Mourinho, but also ended the suspense of the game in the first leg.

"Bayern's tactics, you can actually use them. I saw that Kroos moved a little back during the game. This is a good choice. In fact, the best result is to let Fernandinho start. With Yaya Toure removed, after Bayern have Kroos and De Bruyne, they don't need an all-around midfielder like Yaya Toure."

Guardiola pointedly pointed out the problems of Manchester City and gave his own opinions.

Lin Quan nodded. Mourinho also mentioned this issue. Both top coaches think that Fernandinho is very important to Manchester City, but I have a team situation for Manchester City. Fernandinho's relationship is so bad, it is impossible to expect him to use Fernandinho in a short time.

"It's not a bad thing for you to lose to Chelsea. If a team remains unbeaten, it will cause a lot of psychological pressure on the players."

Guardiola is speaking from experience. Bayern has created 45 unbeaten games across the season.

This result is the current unbeaten record of the fourth game in the five major leagues. It is very close to the 49 unbeaten games of Arsenal and Juventus, and not far from the 58 unbeaten games of AC Milan.

With their current momentum in the Bundesliga, the outside world is very optimistic about their impact on AC Milan's record created 21 years ago.

But as Bayern's head coach, Guardiola knows better than anyone how difficult it is to stay unbeaten.

Every time an undefeated game continues, the team feels like there is another layer of shackles. The players will pay special attention to the undefeated results and records.

Because it is too difficult to create these records, they hope to engrave their names in the history of the five major leagues.

But the more you care about these, the more you will be affected on the court, and the more unstable your performance will be.

Fortunately, this is Guardiola's team. Because of the tactical play, his team's record in the league is very stable.

Bayern, the dominant team in the Bundesliga, played so hard when facing an unbeaten record. In a highly competitive league like the Premier League, it will only be more difficult for Manchester City, which has no background, to continue their unbeaten record. .

Therefore, in Guardiola's view, it is definitely a good thing that Manchester City's undefeated golden stature has been broken.

Lin Quan basically agrees with this statement. In fact, before the winter break, Manchester City showed signs of what Guardiola said, and they continued their undefeated several times by virtue of his lore fluke.

Now that the team has lost the burden of being undefeated, they can play more relaxedly.

……

Because Manchester City still has a game to play two days later, Lin Quan did not stay in Munich for too long.

After resting overnight, he returned to Manchester on the next day's flight.

The results of the first round of the Champions League quarter-finals have all been released at this time.

Except for Manchester City who defeated their opponents by a big score, the other three teams in this round of the Premier League semi-finals all failed to win.

Arsenal lost to Barcelona 1:4 at home, basically lost hope of promotion, Wenger's team once again fell to the last sixteen.

Mourinho's Chelsea lost 0:3 to Bayern and were eliminated almost like Arsenal.

Manchester United, ranked 7th in the league, was tied by Galatasaray in the away game, but they scored an away goal, and the promotion situation was better than Chelsea and Arsenal.

Compared with the miserable record of the four strong teams in the Premier League, the record of La Liga is very outstanding.

巴萨4：1阿森纳，皇马6：1奥林匹亚科斯，马竞1:0AC米兰。

The three teams that advanced have all won, and all away victories.

The bleakness of the Premier League and the brilliance of La Liga have caused the debate about who is the number one league to start arguing again.

If you simply look at the Champions League record in recent years, La Liga is the well-deserved No. [-] league in the world.

None of the Premier League teams made it to the quarter-finals last year, and there are at most two quarter-finals this year. Manchester United may not be able to make it.

And with the current state of the Manchester duo, the outside world is not optimistic about them winning the Champions League.

However, the winning odds of these three teams in La Liga are all in the top five. Real Madrid and Barcelona rank first and third respectively, and Atletico Madrid ranks fifth.

This made the British media start to wail: Who can stand up and defend the glory of the Premier League?

……

Lin Quan has no interest in defending the glory of the Premier League. He only cares about his team's record.

On February 2, Manchester City played against Stoke City at home.

Before the game, Lin Quan showed Pellegrini the video of the match between Bayern and Chelsea, and Pellegrini thought about it after watching it.

In this game, he absorbed Guardiola's tactical advantages in Bayern and made some adjustments to Manchester City's midfield.

The effect of the adjustment was excellent. Manchester City played a hearty offensive at home and beat their opponents with a score of 3:0, sweeping away the haze of the previous three rounds of invincibility.

Compared with Manchester City, which is gradually coming out of the haze, Chelsea, which was completely defeated by Bayern in the away game, has begun to slump.

The most unacceptable loss for Mourinho is Guardiola's team, but they were defeated by Guardiola in the away game.

This greatly affected the mentality of the madman, and the tactical arrangement of this game was also very abstract.

Until the 90th minute of the game, the score was still 0:0.
If the game ends with this score, Manchester City's advantage will be re-extended to 10 points.

But it is a pity that in stoppage time, Chelsea captain Terry stepped forward. He broke Everton's goal with a header and helped the team complete the lore!

After beating the Toffees, Chelsea also struggled to get 3 points. The difference between them and Manchester City is still 8 points.

But at this time, Mourinho didn't have the time to compete with Manchester City. He was compared with Guardiola by the reporters, which annoyed him a lot.

"The Champions League game is not over yet, our team will win at home and advance!"

Mourinho will definitely not admit defeat easily. He is still stubborn, thinking that Chelsea can complete a shocking comeback.

However, the reporters are not optimistic about them. In the history of the Champions League, there is only one team that has reversed after three goals, and that is Super Deportivo-Deportivo. Of course, the half-time champagne in Milan does not count , as Liverpool reversed them in just half-time...

Therefore, the outside world generally believes that Mourinho is trying to die!
Chelsea boss Abramovich is also very angry about the fact that the team is about to stop at the top 16.

Before inviting Mourinho back, his first contact was actually Guardiola.

It was after Guardiola turned him down that he had to find Mourinho.

Now Mourinho has once again lost in the hands of Guardiola, which deepens the impression that Mourinho is not as good as Guardiola in Abu's heart.

In addition, Mourinho has always wanted to be Chelsea's football manager, in charge of all the powers of Chelsea.

This made Abramovich dissatisfied with him. At this time, he will not like Mourinho no matter how he looks at it!
Fortunately, Mourinho still has some opportunities. The next Manchester City and Manchester United will usher in the Manchester City Derby.

In such a strong matchup, as long as Manchester United can stop Manchester City at home, Chelsea will have the opportunity to narrow the score between the two teams.

As long as the point difference is reduced to 5 points, Chelsea's chances of winning the championship will be greatly improved!
Chelsea has not won the championship for four years. If they can win the Premier League championship, then even if they are eliminated in the Champions League, Mourinho feels that he has completed his task.

Not only Chelsea people are very concerned about the Manchester City derby, but the entire Premier League is paying attention to this game.

For Manchester United, if they lose this game, their points will further drop to No.8, and the point gap with the European theater will also widen to more than 11 points.

There are 10 games left in the league, and it is too difficult to recover 11 points.

Once the hope of qualifying for the Champions League is lost, Manchester United will face the embarrassing situation of missing the Champions League for the first time in 18 years.

After losing the exposure of the Champions League, their commercial income and game bonuses will drop, and Manchester United will have to lower the wages of the players.

The reduction of players' wages, coupled with the absence of the Champions League, will greatly weaken Manchester United's attractiveness to those outstanding players, and may even cause existing players in the team to leave dissatisfied.

This will undoubtedly seriously damage Manchester United's strength and send them into a death spiral!

It can be said that Manchester United is already standing on the edge of a cliff, and there is no end to redemption behind it.

And all of this is due to Moyes' poor leadership.

Sir Ferguson handed over his family property, and he was defeated by him in just one season.

This made the Red Devils fans disappointed with Moyes, and the calls for a coach change became louder and louder.

Manchester United has performed very poorly in the league's strong duels this season. Except for winning a game against Arsenal, they have no wins against other teams.

If they lose to Manchester City, they will be double-killed by their opponents at home and away, and create the worst Manchester derby record since 1970.

It is said that Manchester United's owners, the Grayson family, have reached the limit of their patience with Moyes.

They will come to the scene to supervise the game in person, if Moyes cannot defend the dignity of the Red Devils at Old Trafford and lose to Manchester City again.

Then Moyer will most likely be fired!

Therefore, for Moyes and his Manchester United, they cannot afford to lose this Manchester derby!

At 3 o'clock in the evening on March 1st, the much-anticipated Manchester Derby started at Old Trafford.

(End of this chapter)