After the game, Rongguang's goal in the game became the focus of everyone's discussion, and Rongguang himself talked about this goal in an interview.

"It was the result of a flash of inspiration." He said.

In fact, this is a nice saying, in layman's terms, it translates as "Meng".

But it doesn't matter how you get in, you just need to get in.

With this win, Manchester City are still seventh, three points behind sixth-placed Everton.

Chelsea, on the other hand, were overtaken by Liverpool because of the loss of this game.

After the game, Hiddink was criticised by the media and Chelsea fans for playing too conservatively, and the media mocked Hiddink, who really made people suspect that it was not Chelsea's home stadium, but Manchester City's home stadium.

Hiddink was criticized by the media as a bit of a wolf, and Benitez was not happy.

Despite back-to-back wins, Chelsea are back on a winning streak after being held to a draw by West Ham United.

At the same time, Manchester City have not lost in the league since losing 1-2 away to West Bromwich Albion in the 18th round of the league.

But Benitez didn't have a smile on his face.

Before the start of training on Monday, he said to the players who were in love with the winning streak: "Don't be too happy, know that we are still seventh in the league and we are aiming for the top four in the league!" We're seven points clear of fourth-placed Arsenal with less than 10 games left in the league – I don't know what's there to be happy about. ”

His words made the Manchester City players feel a little unhappy - why don't people be happy when they have won the game? We were so happy off the pitch and it didn't delay us from winning. You're really disappointed to break the cold water at this time!

Glory is perhaps the only person on the team who doesn't find anything wrong with what Benitez said. Because he thinks the same as Benitez. Don't look at the team so far all the games have been winning and unbeaten. But what is the purpose of our winning streak?

Don't you just want to qualify for the Champions League?

What's the point of winning if we keep winning and we can't qualify for the Champions League? So, as long as you don't get the top four in one day, you can't relax for a day.

Although Benitez speaks badly, he is exactly what Glory agrees with.

So, for the first time, he also had a different opinion on the manager.

It's very silent, but it's real - and this is no doubt after the team's back-to-back wins.

Now he finds that Benitez is in a sense the same kind as himself.

Both are very concerned about winning and both are obsessed with getting stronger.

They never let go of their demands on themselves and they don't let go of their demands on others.

In a way, Benitez is very similar to Magath, the kind of coach who is not good in the minds of most players, because he is strict, like a "devil".

But in Rongguang's view, both of these are good coaches because of their strict requirements, because of their ambitions.

Rongguang likes to cooperate with such a coach, two people have the same goal, ambition and fighting spirit, then they can work hard in one place, think in one place, and finally form a huge joint force to push the team forward.

The coach Rong Guang doesn't want to meet is the kind of coach who doesn't have much fighting spirit and ambition himself.

In that case, it would be a disaster......

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In the team's locker room, everyone was changing clothes and chatting at the same time, ready to start the day's training.

And Rongguang pushed the door in, not because he came late, he had just come down from the training ground, still wearing training clothes, and he was sweating.

Everybody is used to this kind of glory - every day, everyone comes to the training ground, he has just finished a training session.

Rong Guang first said hello to Sun Hai, and then walked through the locker room and walked to his cabinet, but he stopped halfway through, stood in the middle of the locker room, and suddenly said to everyone: "I have a few words to say." ”

When the players in the locker room saw Rong Guang like this, they all stopped what they were doing and turned their heads to look at him suspiciously.

I wonder because Rongguang is generally very quiet in the locker room, he is not as lively as Robinho, he always makes the locker room with a group of Brazilians like the Brazilian carnival scene, and he is not like those local players, who get together to discuss a lot of parents' shortcomings.

He's quiet in the locker room, apart from the necessary socialising, and he rarely gets the chance to spend long periods of time in the locker room with his team-mates – most of the time, he's training. It also prevented him from communicating with his teammates in depth.

And the feelings of his teammates for Rongguang are also very complicated, on the one hand, he really has to admit his strength, on the other hand, he is always keen on all kinds of training, and he can't play with them......

This is a person you admire, but not easy to get close to......

However, you will still listen to what he says, because he is so important.

It's just that Rongguang rarely says anything in front of everyone, he is not the captain, so he does not exercise the function of the captain in the locker room.

Everyone was surprised that he suddenly had something to say today.

"Although I know that people are not very happy with what the boss says, I also don't like the way he speaks." Rongguang didn't have any polite greetings, nor did he talk about anything, he went straight to the point as soon as he came up, straight to the point. "But I still think the boss is right. We're still seventh in the league and haven't even qualified for the UEFA Cup, so there's nothing to be happy about. You know, our goal this season is to qualify for next season's Champions League. So until you achieve that goal, don't let up and think that there is something great about winning in a row, or being undefeated in a row......"

Everyone didn't expect Glory to say this.

Sun Hai also looked at Rong Guang in surprise

"There are nine rounds left until the end of the league and our shape is actually very tough, and if our competitors keep winning, we don't have a chance at all. So in fact, fate is not entirely in our own hands. But if we don't keep the ball up and put some pressure on the teams above us in the table, then we'll never get where we want to be. So please work together until this goal is achieved! ”

His speech was short, nothing nonsense, and he was finished quickly. With that, he walked back to his cabinet and began to change into a second training suit.

Everyone stared blankly at his back.

Dunn glanced at Vice Captain Sun Hai, and he also saw surprise in the eyes of this glorious fellow.

Rongguang has never made any demands on the team, even if the whole team played like that in the first half of the season, he did not ask everyone in the dressing room to strive for victory and strive for Champions League qualification next season.

He just silently carried the whole team on his shoulders alone. When the team loses, the more he trains.

That's why the other players have the psychology of relying on Rong - Rong works so hard anyway, we just need to watch him perform......

But this time, he actually asked the whole team to work hard......

Since Benitez took office, Rong really seems to have changed a bit......

He seems to have suddenly had a self-consciousness that he should not drag the team forward, but to lead the team forward.

Although they are both taking the lead, the meaning of these two sentences is completely different.

Dragging the team, and leading the team, the focus is on where to put the team, whether to carry the team on your own shoulders, or to pull the team to run together?

Dunn saw certain qualities of a leader in today's glory as a captain.

He felt he should go to Benitez to talk to the captain's armband......

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Dunn went to Benitez after the day's training and told Benitez about it, including what Glory said in the locker room today.

Benitez smiled when he heard this.

He was so glad to hear such a thing, Glory had the consciousness of being a leader, and his original words seemed to have really worked and touched his heart.

But he doesn't plan to give glory to the captain's armband right now.

"Richard, you're still wearing the captain's armband." He said to Dunn. "Rong is not yet old enough to wear an armband, he still needs to exercise. At least until the end of the season, I don't plan to make him captain of the team, not even the third captain. ”

Dunn didn't quite understand why Benitez didn't wear the captain's armband on Glory, as he saw that Glory was ready.

But he accepted Benitez's decision anyway and left.

Benitez looked at Dunn's back as he left, this is a good man, but as a captain he is indeed a little less capable. In the first half of the season, when the team played so poorly, Dunn, as the captain, did not play any role as a captain, he could not lead the team out of the situation, he could only be in the locker room and mud.

Such a person is really not suitable to be a captain, and looking at the whole team, there is indeed no one more suitable to be the captain than Rongguang.

But not now.

There are nine league games left in the season, and whether they can finish in the top four of the league depends on the results of these last nine league rounds. In the meantime, Benitez needs to focus on the game, and suddenly making him captain could be a distraction and a bit of a surprise to him.

The slightest distraction from Glory is something that Benitez doesn't want to see.

But he was glad to hear Glory say that.

The glorious table really filled Benitez with confidence.

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Three days later, City beat Sunderland 2-0 at home to make it three wins in a row.

Sixth-placed Everton lost 2-1 away to Portsmouth, leaving Manchester City and Everton equal. Both teams have 48 points, but Manchester City has more goals scored and goal difference than Everton, so with this advantage, they squeezed out Everton and became sixth in the league!