When Manchester City swept the entire Premier League with a breakout momentum this season, Benitez's Liverpool fell into a dilemma.

Especially as the season deepens, the Reds not only expose the team's long-standing ills on the offensive end, but also makes people clearly see their disorder in midfield organization.

The Italian midfielder Aquilani, who was highly expected to introduce with high expectations, performed disappointingly and failed to effectively assume the responsibility of organizing the midfield. Mascherano's departure made Liverpool's midfield defense lose its original stability.

For this reason, Spanish coach Benitez has accused the management of inaction more than once, and many people in the coaching circle have sympathized with Benitez's situation, because many fans now do not understand the inside story when they accused him.

Especially high and cold.

As one of Benitez's few friends, Gao Han does not deny that Benitez is indeed very stubborn and does not know how to communicate smoothly, but to doubt his coaching ability is simply unreasonable.

From the first day Gao Han met him, Benitez's pursuit was very clear, that is, to push his offensive players closer to the opponent's goal through front-end midfield pressure. This set of tactics has been successful in Tenerife, Valencia and Liverpool.

Then why did it perform poorly this season?

There is only one reason, the players are not strong.

When Manchester City poached Mascherano, one of the important reasons why Benitez chose to let go was that Liverpool could not afford a penny of transfer fee, so the management agreed that Benitez would let Mascherano go, and all the funds would be used for transfer operations.

Benitez is very optimistic about Brazilian midfielder Lucas, and Lucas' performance is indeed good, so he chose to let Mascherano go, hoping to use this amount of money to introduce Gareth Barrie and Jovitic.

But unexpectedly, the management finally broke its promise and only introduced Aquilani, and did not sign up on the front line.

What's even more unlucky is that Aquilani actually performed poorly and was far from his level in Rome.

Even when the winter break is coming, there is a lot of rumor outside that Benitez wants to get Falcao, but as the boss of Chinatown, Gao Han knows very well that Liverpool has never had any contact with Chinatown from beginning to end.

Looking at the whole process, Aquilani misunderstood. Benitez is indeed responsible, but from the beginning he wanted Gareth Barry, hoping to use Barry and Gerrard's performance in the national team to strengthen Liverpool's midfield. However, the club management broke its promise and was fat, which is undoubtedly the most serious crux of Liverpool now.

Now it's not only Gao Han, but Liverpool is probably well aware that after the end of this season, Benitez will either be fired or resign himself. With his personality, it will be difficult for him to stay at Liverpool again.

This is also the reason why Gao Han never considered coaching Liverpool from beginning to end.

Not only because he is a friend of Benitez, but also because of Liverpool's management.

To be honest, given the chaos of the Red Army management, even if Gao Han goes to coach, he will probably be killed in the bathroom because a good wife cannot cook without rice.

Although I feel very sympathetic to Benitez psychologically, I have to play on the court and play the game.

What's more, Benitez's team is not a soft persimmon that can be kneaded.

February 20, 2010, the 27th round of the Premier League.

Manchester City is sitting at the city stadium and welcomes the Reds Liverpool.

Benitez knew that his strength was not as good as Manchester City, and the game was mainly stable. From the beginning, he pressed and pressed fiercely against Manchester City's ball-control style. Gao Han made appropriate rotations in preparation for the League Cup final a week later. As a result, Liverpool was rushed to the ball at the beginning of the game.

In the first ten minutes of the game, both sides played in a bit chaotic. It was not until twenty minutes later that Manchester City gradually controlled the ball and pushed the overall formation up, but Liverpool still held on to the half-time team and actively seized the opportunity to counterattack.

Neither side could organize an effective offensive in the first half, and neither of them could score.

However, after the second half of the change of sides, Manchester City gradually controlled the situation on the field, especially as Liverpool's physical energy was consumed, the high-intensity pressing and compression tactics were unable to maintain, which gradually created a threat. Gao Han saw the right opportunity, used the skill card, and launched a snatch attack.

In the 60th minute, Mascherano pressed forward to Liverpool and intercepted the ball after intercepting the ball in the 30-meter area, and transferred the ball to Xavi Alonso. The Spanish midfielder passed it straight and passed the ball to the front of the penalty area. Kaka passed it diagonally on the left, Benzema inserted the ball and passed it back to the middle, Sturic pushed the ball in front of the goal, and scored one-to-zero.

After the first record, Manchester City played more calmly.

Soon, both sides made substitution adjustments at the same time. Benitez replaced Babel with an intention to strengthen the attack. Gao Han replaced Kaka and replaced Adam Johnson to go to the left, and Petrov returned to the middle.

After consecutive substitutions, the scene fell into a stalemate again.

Until the 87th minute of the game, Sturrius won another goal and scored twice, helping Manchester City beat Liverpool 2-0 at home.

In the whole game, the Reds Liverpool only got nine shots and shot twice on the goal, but neither of them was able to create a threat.

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On February 23, 2010, the 28th round of the Premier League, Stamford Bridge Stadium.

After fifteen minutes of rest, the two sides returned to the field and were ready to fight again after exchanging the field.

The scoreboard shows the scores of both sides in the first half, one to one.

But this score did not show the strength gap between the two teams on the court.

Throughout the first half, Chelsea was bombarded by Manchester City in the half. The performances of the two teams on the court were very realistically reflecting the strength gap between the two sides. Scolari even arranged for Falcao to roam and harass him alone in front, and the others all shrank and defended.

This undoubtedly hit Manchester City's thoughts, and the Blue Moon showed an amazing ball possession rate, and in the 42nd minute, he finally pried open the Blues' goal with a mistake in Chelsea's defense.

But soon, Falcao also took advantage of Manchester City's long-term unsuccessful mood and was restless to sneak attack the goal and equalize the score.

The two sides shook hands and made peace, and the second half of the fight changed sides.

Although it was a draw, Gao Han still looked calm, but Scolari seemed very worried.

Just three days ago, Chelsea just lost 0-2 to Plandelli to Inter Milan, which almost made it difficult to make a breakthrough in the Champions League, which put Scolari under tremendous pressure.

In this game, he faced Manchester City, which was only half the main players, and he played at home, so he didn't want to lose.

But after the start of the second half, Manchester City was the first to attack.

Just three minutes into the opening game, Adam Johnson once dribbled the ball from the wing and rushed to the penalty area, but Terry was knocked down at the front of the penalty area. The referee showed Terry a yellow card, but Cristiano Ronaldo's free kick hit the wall.

The ball landed at Chelsea's feet and the Blues launched a counterattack.

Scolari's team is obviously unwilling to sit and wait for death, hoping to seize the opportunity, draw at home, and even defeat Manchester City.

Chelsea Lampard passed the ball to the left and handed it to Robinho, but Mascherano pulled to the right to defend. In a one-on-one situation, Robinho tried it, but was intercepted by Mascherano and passed it to the frontcourt with a big foot.

After Sanchez grabbed the ball, he drove the ball for 30 meters. In Chelsea's penalty area, he threw away Mikel who was in defense and shot at the goal at a small angle. The ball went straight into the lower right corner of the goal, two to one.

With the score behind, Chelsea began to have some morale fluctuations, while Manchester City took this opportunity to increase the offensive.

In this game, Gao Han arranged for Zabaleta to replace Xavi Alonso and serve as the team's back-drag midfielder. The front partner was Ellano and Modric, and Sanchez was in the midfield.

Because Chelsea did not arrange a midfielder, Zabaleta's activity area is relatively large, and Gao Han allowed him to grab the game if he was sure, so the Argentine midfielder performed more actively.

Especially in the 67th minute, after Chelsea intercepted the ball from the front of the penalty area, right back Beletti launched a counterattack. As a result, Zabaleta suddenly robbed and dribbled Beletti to the ground with one player.

But just when everyone thought Sabaleta was going to win the cards, Beletti, who was despicable by the atmosphere in the field, jumped up from the ground and overthrew Sabaleta from behind with force, and all this happened under the referee's nose.

The referee who was originally planning to take out the cards to Sabaleta immediately stopped Beletti. He first gave Sabaleta a yellow card, then reached into his chest pocket and took out a red card at Beletti.

This completely blew up the entire Stamford Bridge Stadium.

But Gao Han decisively launched an attack, used all skill cards, and tried to kill Chelsea in one go.

Sure enough, two minutes later, if the Brazilian striker scored a goal, the score was expanded to three-to-one.

In the 74th minute, it was another goal from Cristiano Ronaldo, which helped Manchester City rewrite the score to four-one, and the Portuguese also scored twice in this game.

After scoring consecutive goals, Gao Han made another substitution to retain his strength for the League Cup final three days later.

As a result, when the game was 81 minutes into the end, controversy broke out again on the court. Barack, who replaced Mikel, tackled Manchester City striker Ruo, received two yellow cards in less than twenty minutes and was sent off the court with a red card.

With two players missing in one breath and facing nine, Manchester City completely controlled the situation on the court.

In the 88th minute, Adam Johnson forced a cross from the wing, Sturridge crossed in front of the goal, easily scored, five-to-one, which was also the last goal of the game.

In the end, Manchester City defeated Chelsea, who was facing nine players, 5-1 away.

In this game, Abramovich supervised the game on the spot, but sat in the stands and witnessed his team being smashed by Manchester City again at home, and his opponent scored five goals. This has to be said to be a shame.

Especially when he saw Manchester City players rushing into the court to celebrate, he was even more depressed.

After the game, Chelsea's ranking was reversed by Manchester United who beat Everton three-to-zero, falling to third in the league.

Not only that, no team can threaten Manchester City now.

Gao Han's team has won 28 consecutive games, leading the league in the standings, and winning the championship is close to the moment.

Chelsea spent 90 million euros to bring in Falcao and Ramirez, although both of them had good standards, especially Falcao, who scored a lot of goals, but still could not make up for the gap in strength between Chelsea and Manchester City.

Even if Abramovich is unwilling to admit it, he cannot change this fact.

Sitting in the stands at Stamford Bridge Stadium and watching Gao Han win, he even hoped that Manchester United's Ferguson would defeat Gao Han in three days.
Chapter completed!