Chapter 704 Welcome to Hell

Chapter 704 Welcome to Hell

Manchester City's players were on a chartered flight to Stamboul directly after the game against Southampton.

For Manchester City, the cost of this charter flight is just a drop in the bucket.

On the chartered plane, in addition to the team's coaching staff, logistics support team, and players, there was also a team of management team led by the team's CEO Soriano.

This is the first time in the club's history to play the Champions League knockout game, and the team attaches great importance to this performance.

Even the well-informed Soriano was a little nervous.

Looking at Soriano who kept rubbing his hands, Gao Bo said helplessly: "This is just a round of sixteen, Ferran!"

Soriano raised his head nervously and said, "I heard that Turkey's away games are not easy to play. The fans are crazy."

Having said that, Soriano said with some concern: "We won't lose in such an away game, right?"

Gao Bo almost laughed, his boss really has a sense of humor.

Lose?

Losing to Galatasaray, how is this possible.

"It's impossible to lose, Phelan!" Gao Bo said, spreading his hands, "Galatasaray has a few good players, but they are just a Turkish team, and they won't have much impact on us. threaten!"

"But this is in their home stadium. Many giant teams in continental Europe have lost games in this stadium before."

Soriano seemed a little less confident.

In any case, this is the team's first Champions League knockout game, so the club is very cautious.

The best of course is a victory. If you lose the first knockout round, even if you can advance in the end, it will not be very good-looking in face.

And Soriano's concerns are not groundless.

Ahead of the game, Manchester City clubs, and even VisitBritain and the Foreign Office had issued travel advisories to Istanbul.

The Manchester City club hopes that the fans of Manchester City are best not to go to Turkey with the team.

Turkey's away game, especially the Ali Samiyan Stadium, the home of Manchester City's opponent Galatasaray, is a rather scary place for away fans.

Before the 2000 UEFA Cup semi-final, Leeds United were a guest to challenge Galatasaray, and two Leeds United fans were assassinated.

In the first round of the 2009-10 UEFA Champions League group stage, Manchester United visited the Istanbul Inonu Stadium to challenge Besiktas, another Turkish Super League team. The fans of the two teams fought in the stadium, and the scene eventually got out of control. The fans of both sides used plastic stools as weapons to start a hot group fight.

In 1993, before Manchester United's Champions League match with Galatasaray, more than 200 Manchester United fans were arrested and banned from the stadium. It was also at that time that Galatasaray fans shouted the domineering and frightening slogan: "Welcome to hell." And when Cantona received a red card, he was even beaten by a local Police officer beat up.

Their fans are equally savage at domestic games in Turkey. In May 2011, Galatasaray beat Fenerbahce 2-1 to win the Istanbul derby, and a Galatasaray fan was attacked and killed.

Such a series of casualties has made Manchester City very worried about the safety of its fans.

Therefore, when talking about this away game, Gao Bo's face became solemn, but he still shook his head.

"It's impossible to lose, at most a draw."

Gao Bo looked at the players in the back row of the plane and wondered if the players would be intimidated by this hell stadium

When the plane landed at Istanbul Airport, the team felt the madness of the Turks.

Being booed at the air bridge coming out of the airport is already a pediatrician.

From the moment the Manchester City bus came out of the airport, it was already frightening every step of the way.

The local police organized a large number of police forces to escort Manchester City. They also knew how crazy the local fans were, but there were always fans who "just happened" to break through the police blockade.

The middle finger is already very common.

The Turks with contorted faces spat wildly at the Manchester City bus, and even threw stones.

Some of the players even screamed when a Molotov cocktail was thrown at the bus.

Even Gao Bo stood up.

This city, the madness of the people here, obviously made Gao Bo underestimate!

Fortunately, the bottle did not hit the car directly, and the police cordoned off somewhat.

Under such a startling step by step, the team finally meandered into the hotel.

Before getting off the bus, Gao Bo announced the new discipline.

No one is allowed to leave the hotel!

Unless it is a group ride out.

In fact, even if Gao Bo didn't say it, the players wouldn't go out alone.

This city is too dangerous

After two days of local adaptive training, the game was held on February 13 at ten o'clock in the evening local time.

This time is already very late locally, but since Turkey is already on the Asian side, Turkey is already a country that spans two continents, Asia and Europe, and since the Champions League matches need to start at a unified time, so The away game in Turkey was already very late.

However, the atmosphere of the scene made Gao Bo feel shocked.

When he came out of the player tunnel, he was taken aback by the stands of this stadium.

The stands are almost burning!

Yes, it is burning.

Not some kind of pediatrics like smoke and fireworks.

But the whole stand was on fire.

The sky is dyed red.

"Oh, God"

Beside Gao Bo, Mo Yanannan said.

Although Moya has been in the football circle for more than 20 years, this is the first time he has seen such a scene.

Gao Bo squinted at the burning stands.

It turned out that every fan was holding a torch, and from a distance, it seemed that the entire stand was on fire.

Gao Bo breathed a sigh of relief, if the stand really burns, the game will not be played.

In addition to torches, there are fireworks.

Burning fireworks were continuously thrown from the stands, and the surrounding area of ​​the stadium was also burned.

It is in this atmosphere that the players started to play.

Kompany, who was standing first to play, was also taken aback by such a scene. He paused subconsciously, causing the Galatasaray players beside him to show contemptuous smiles.

Haven't seen such a formation?

Many Galatasaray players thought with a sense of superiority in their hearts.

"Oh, God"

The Manchester City players sighed.

And right now. On the stand opposite them, a huge poster slowly rose.

With a dark red background, you can vaguely see the waves of blood churning.

The black font is reflected by the surrounding fiery red light.

What's even more terrifying is that around the poster, people only found out when Galatasaray fans put out the torches.

The fans gathered in this stand were uniformly dressed in black robes and black face masks.

Everyone is like death from hell.

Breathtaking and chilling!

"Oh, God!!!"

"The Galatasaray fans made such a big fight!!!"

"terrible"

On the commentary table, the commentators Nan Nan said.

With the poster fully unfolded, people finally saw the black text on this poster.

Under the turbulent blood and smoke, the words clearly appeared on the TV screen.

"Welcome to hell!!"