Chapter 461

Before the draw of this year's Champions League knockout, if someone asks Gao shunyao which team he thinks is the most humiliating team in the Champions League, the first answer that Gao shunyao thinks of in his mind is definitely the name of Manchester City. For a long time, in Gao shunyao's view, Manchester City's performance in the Champions League can be described as a joke. Looking at their performance in the Champions League, Gao shunyao feels that his team is not very good, but at least it is worth being proud of.

His idea, of course, is that Manchester City's performance makes him look down on. That's not to say that Manchester City's performance is unbelievable. It's just that their performance is quite different from people's expectations.

This expensive team has always been regarded as one of the strongest teams in the Premier League. Their players are excellent, their funds are abundant, and their terrible salary level and star list can't be easily forgotten after anyone has seen them.

This team used to be a little brother of Manchester United for a long time. When Ferguson took Manchester United to kill all sides, they always lived in the shadow of Manchester United. And now, with enough money, they are constantly recruiting, changing blood, determined to become the new Premier League giants, which also makes them attract enough attention.

Although this team from the beginning of the rise, because of the way of spending money, has been accompanied by a lot of controversy, but in all kinds of disputes, people have to admit that they spend a lot of money so that they do have a very good lineup, relying on this lineup, they have made a lot of achievements in the Premier League, now they have basically There's a Champions League to play every year.

However, this set of enviable lineup, the strength shown in the Champions League, it is not satisfactory. Although has the most top star, but they actually let the human they feel greatly disappointed.

In fact, although people are optimistic about Manchester City's success in the Champions League, their expectation is not that they will achieve great success immediately from the beginning. In their trip to the Champions League, as long as they can show some courage and determination, they can also win the expectation and appreciation of the fans. The process of a team from scratch is not as easy, even if there is financial support, it has to be done step by step. People still understand this truth.

But the problem is, people are waiting for Manchester City to become stronger step by step, but the pace of Manchester City always seems to be in place. For two consecutive years in the Champions League, they can't play as well as they are in the league. They can't even play against the top giants. They can't even play against the weak teams in the Champions League. They even have the experience of playing at the bottom of the group and not even in the European League. It's just like that for one year, but they have been playing the same for two years in a row, spending the most money in football, but their results in Europe are not even the best in the group stage, which makes people despise them.

Of course, Manchester City fans always say that they play like this because of their bad luck, because the team has poor points, so they always encounter strong teams. However, in this case, Wolfsburg can be said, but Manchester City can not say: they spend a lot of money, originally they are running to become a rich team, as a team aspiring to become a rich team, they dare not compete with other rich teams, which is a shame in itself.

Dortmund also started to rise from the weak teams, playing countless times better than them, while Paris Saint Germain also played better than them in the Champions League. Manchester City's current situation can find a lot of excuses, but no matter what the excuses are, it's an indisputable fact that they didn't play well in the Champions League.

If you don't play well, you will always be despised. There is no way.

This year, it seems that city have made some progress. Although they are still in the group match, but at least abuse some other weak teams, is not too big a problem. After the Champions League group match, Manchester City finally realized one of their long cherished dreams: to enter the last 16 of the Champions League.

This time, they finally entered the last 16 of the Champions League with the second part of the group. And this success, let them very happy. Especially when they see that after the last 16, they are facing Wolfsburg, the weakest team in the first team, Manchester City's confidence is also unprecedented, and they are even ready to make another breakthrough and enter the last eight of the Champions League.

They dare to think that, in addition to their own progress, a very important reason is that they are not facing any other strong team, but Wolfsburg. Such a result makes Manchester City ecstatic. Compared with media propaganda like Dzeko's coming home, in their opinion, it is the most important thing for Manchester City to be promoted.

Although Manchester City have always had poor results in the face of strong rivals, they naturally feel that they can still try in the face of weak teams. For Manchester City, the draw is a good result and they are very satisfied with it.

It seems that the three-year European Championship has come to an end. This time, they seem to see a bright future.

The opposite of them is Wolfsburg's view of the draw. After the draw, looking at his encounter with Manchester City, Gao shunyao suddenly felt that he might have despised Manchester City too much before.Last year, Wolfsburg saw Manchester City so famous that they were eliminated early. Gao shunyao laughed at them at that time and even regretted that he had not met this opponent. And this year, they really met Manchester City, and Gao shunyao was a bit worried.

When this opponent looks at it from a distance, he always thinks that they are just a joke. It's the most ridiculous thing that so many stars are playing in a mess in the Champions League. But when they do meet, their list is still frightening: no matter how bad they have played in the Champions League, they are still a group of stars.

Turan, Silva, kompani, Aguero Look at those names, it's enough to make people laugh. Apart from other things, Dzeko, who was the core player at Wolfsburg, was not even able to ensure his absolute main identity at Manchester City. There are lots of stars and fierce competition. It's a totally different environment from Wolfsburg.

City have a lot of money, even those who hate them the most have to admit it. And if you have money, you can have good players, which is also the iron law of the football world.

These players who enjoy a great reputation all over the world, even if they have played a game that people can't bear to look directly at, but as long as they still have the ability to play and win games for their team, they are not the object to be underestimated. Maybe they have played badly in the Champions League, but who dares to say they will go on like this? And their strength, even if it is just exciting, Wolfsburg will encounter a great crisis.

Of course, some people always think that the teams piled up by money are not as powerful as the giants. Some people think that the players of such teams only play for money and will not do their best for the team, so they are always inferior to the rich and powerful teams. No matter how many stars there are, there is a gap in their strength.

However, if seriously speaking, in modern football, even the top teams have to rely on money to play well. If the team has no money, it can't save the present decline in the glorious past. Even a manager like Arsene Wenger, who is hardworking and thrifty, has gone through many years of no crown period because he is not willing to spend money. Even a famous Real Madrid, if he wants to bring in players, he can't get less transfer fee and salary. In this football world, most people play for money. There is nothing wrong with that. In addition to individual stars in individual teams, who can say that they are not playing for money?

It's true that these local teams can't buy hard-working players with money, but as long as their players are good enough and can absolutely crush them in terms of quality, what does it matter if they are unwilling to work hard for the team? Looking at their lineup, we can see that it is extremely difficult for Wolfsburg to cope with these players even if they don't work hard.

Manchester city such a team, perhaps facing Real Madrid Barcelona when people will be kicked very miserably, but facing Wolfsburg, they are still suffering. From a distance, it's interesting to see these rich people break their heads in the Champions League, but it's not a good thing to really let them touch them. It can only be said that Wolfsburg is out of luck to draw such an opponent.

This season, Wolfsburg have made up their mind, no longer want to fight for anything in the league, but to fight hard in the Champions League. However, the result of the draw soon made Wolfsburg realize that even if they really want to play in the Champions League and win the final victory, it's not easy.

This road of challenge is still extremely hard.

Why can't our team draw Galatasaray or Olympiakos? Watching Chelsea and Real Madrid take the two teams home one by one, Gao shunyao can only sigh about the good luck of these strong teams. Their luck is much worse than those teams. Even their luck is not as good as Barcelona and Atletico Madrid. Although Arsenal and Juve are not weak and famous, they are better than Manchester City in Gao shunyao's opinion.

Maybe it's just Porto, just as bad luck as Wolfsburg. They met Paris, which is a more difficult team to play. And in addition to them, Wolfsburg may be the most depressed team.

February 19, Wolfsburg is about to usher in and the Champions League rivals encounter. And before that day comes, they have little time to prepare.