Chapter 191 The 10-Game Winning Streak Was Ended

Starting from the 21st of 2017 after Josep Guardiola took office at Manchester City, he played a total of 14 games in two months until the 4:1 win over Swansea in the away game. Except for the first 4 friendly warm-up matches with 2 draws and 2 losses without a win, the following official games won 10 consecutive games, becoming one of the most prosperous and best-in-form teams in Europe.

Even Premier League legend Henry praised Pep Guardiola's Manchester City as the most competitive team in England and Europe this season, and even hopes to win the Grand Slam.

Henry announced his retirement from Major League Baseball in the United States at the end of 2014 and became a regular guest and ambassador for British Sky TV.

Henry milked Manchester City enthusiastically, but it was probably a mouthful of poisonous milk.

Manchester City's strong winning streak came to an end. In the second round of the Champions League group stage, Manchester City was tied 3:3 by Celtic at the Celtic People's Park in Glasgow.

In the last round, Celtic lost 0:7 to Barcelona at Camp Nou.

In fact, if you want to say how much better Celtic can be than Swansea, it is really limited. Swansea will not let Barcelona play like this. But in this game, Manchester City's weaknesses in the midfield, wing and goalkeeper were all clearly exposed.

The Manchester City team is 13 and 300 kilometers away from each other, both in the UK. This is actually the first official match between the two teams in history.

The Celtics coach is former Liverpool coach Rodgers. He went to Scotland this summer to take over the coaching position of the Celtics from Norwegian coach Ronny Delia.

Only 3 minutes after Italian famous whistler Rizzoli blew the opening whistle, Celtic took advantage of a free kick in the frontcourt and passed the ball to the left side of Manchester City's empty backcourt. Forrest inserted the volley and easily passed the ball to the goal. , Danish defender Sviachenko leaped to the top, and the football hit the 20-year-old French forward Moussa Dembélé and bounced into the net.

In this game, Guardiola put Stones on the bench and arranged for Kolarov and Otamendi to partner as central defenders. The left back was played by French veteran Clichy. The key to this conceding goal was that Clichy lost his position when defending the set piece, allowing Forrest to make a leisurely pass in the defensive zone where he should have been.

But the biggest shortcoming of Manchester City in this game is not the absence of Clichy or dead substitute Zhuo Yang due to injury, but the absence of Tintin De Bruyne.

In the game against Swansea, Zhuo Yang injured his Achilles tendon, and Ding Ding, who was replaced by him, was also diagnosed with a knee sprain after the game. After careful consideration, Guardiola let him rest against Celtic.

Ding Ding is not that great, and the world will not move without him, but he is the best midfielder in Manchester City now, the kind of good who can win once and lose ten times.

Moreover, the midfield partnership of Gundogan, Silva, and Feiniao is excellent individually, but together they can only win, and cannot give Ding Ding the powerful deterrent power he exerts on his opponents in counterattacks.

In other words, the Manchester City midfielder without Ding Ding can beat people but cannot scare them.

In the 12th minute, under a strong attack by Manchester City, Celtic's 35-year-old center back Kolo Toure made a mistake in a clearance and kicked the ball to Gundogan in front of the penalty area.

It's the big Toure of Arsenal in the past, his brother Yaya Toure of Manchester City. In the three seasons from 10 to 13, the two brothers played for Manchester City together, which is a good story in football. However, my brother was not as good as his younger brother, and he did not do as well as his younger brother at that time. Moreover, the two brothers were not as close as outsiders thought.

During their time at Manchester City, their relationship with each other was no different than that of ordinary teammates.

But now Toure is obviously doing better than Toure. At least he can play the main role in Celtic, but Yaya Toure has not been included in the squad for any game of Manchester City in the new season.

Gundogan took the ball and passed it across to Kolarov. The Serbian passed the ball straight at the first time. Feiniao, who was at the front and had no time to retreat, immediately turned around and completed the anti-offside, and then pushed the ball to equalize the score, 1:1.

At this point, everyone at Manchester City thought they would still have good luck in the new season.

In the 20th minute, the empty space became Manchester City's right wing. The Celtics counterattacked, and captain Scott Brown advanced in the middle to separate the wings. At this time, Manchester City's right back Zabaleta didn't know where he died, and chased the opponent's Kieran Ti at high speed. Ernie's man is Sterling.

Tierney made a cross from the waistline of the penalty area, and Bravo quickly stepped out to intercept the cross, but nothing could stop Sterling's bravery.

I saw Happy Forest, who was chasing closely, making a cool sliding tackle. The football that had just left Tierney's feet hit his toes. With a small change of direction, it swooped through the gap between Bravo and the front goal post. Into the net, Celtics 2:1.

Although it was an own goal, even Zhuo Yang, who was watching the live broadcast in Manchester, praised Sterling's diligence in his heart. In addition to bad luck, the left wing where Zabaleta should be guarding is as empty as the Atlantic Ocean.

Zabaleta and Clichy guarded both sides of Manchester City today. It's not that they are not good, nor that they are lazy and do not return to defense. It is actually that Guardiola requires too many tricks from the full-backs in attack.

In the 28th minute, Happy Forest made up for it and took revenge.

The Celtics' footwork was a bit rough, and they made another mistake in the cross pass, which was intercepted by David Silva in the frontcourt. A direct pass was passed behind the Celtic defense. Sterling, who was striding diagonally to counter the offside, suddenly stopped in the penalty area and pulled the ball. Tierney, who had been chasing after him, was knocked off his back, and then he did the same. Pier scored with a shovel shot.

After finishing the shot, Sterling almost rode in the face of Celtic goalkeeper Craig Gordon, 2:2.

That was it in the first half, and then Aguero hit the goal post which was quite thrilling. In the last game against Swansea, the penalty opportunity created by Zhuoyang was wasted, and it seemed that it also took away Akun's shooting boots.

The second half was the opening 3 minutes again. This time Kolarov did not lose his position, but he made a mistake in stopping the ball in the penalty area and missed Tierney's cross from the wing directly under his feet. It was a very amateur mistake.

Behind Kolarov was Dembélé. The 20-year-old French striker stopped the ball and made an overhead hook on the spot. Although his movements were not impressive, they were very efficient. Bravo made no mistakes at all. 3:2, the Celtics took the lead for the third time.

Although Moussa Dembele is not as good as the Ousmane Dembele of Dortmund and Barcelona in the future, he is still quite agile at the moment.

After this game, Manchester City's next opponent is Tottenham in the seventh round of the Premier League. There is also Moussa Dembele in the Tottenham team, who is nine years older than the Celtic one. He plays in the midfield and is known as the "Big Dembele".

In the summer of 2013, Dembele left Fulham to join Tottenham, and Dembele joined Fulham. Fortunately, otherwise having the same name and surname in the same team would drive the Premier League live broadcast commentators crazy.

This summer, Dembele Jr. almost joined Tottenham. Alan Shearer, Henry, Gary Neville and other celebrities were very nervous. Fortunately, there was a false alarm, and Dembele Jr. went to Celtic at the buzzer.

There are currently five famous 'Dembeles' in football, but they are not related to each other by blood and no one knows each other.

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In the 55th minute, the Celtics made another pass error in the backcourt. After Sterling intercepted the ball on the sideline, Manchester City launched a fast break. Silva's shot in the penalty area was blocked by Gordon falling to the ground, and the football just bounced to the feet of Nolito who followed up in the middle.

The Spanish winger met the ball and pushed the ball, and it was done, 3:3.

Subsequently, the two sides in the game had offense and defense, but most of them fought in the midfield and did not actually threaten the opponent's goal. Manchester City has a significant advantage in terms of statistics, especially shooting 21:8. Among them, Celtic only shot three times within the goal frame and scored three goals.

Perhaps Bravo’s title of ‘Regent’ started from this scene.

Manchester City lamented their bad luck. In fact, the three equalizing goals today came from the backcourt pass errors of the opponent Celtic, and they all had a lot of luck. Will the following opponents, Tottenham and Barcelona, ​​make such a mistake?

Manchester City had no choice but to get a draw, and the team's 10-game winning streak in team history was ended. The record for winning streak in the beginning of England's top league is Tottenham's 11-game winning streak, and Manchester City is only one step away.

A draw seemed like nothing, but it was the prelude to Manchester City 201.

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