Chapter 970: Anger and Pain

Manchester City's half-time atmosphere was very relaxed, and everyone could see that Real Madrid had no fighting spirit.

This battle of life and death does not seem to have the meaning of a life-and-death battle for Real Mad......

Even Betters didn't keep his players on their toes at half-time.

Even if they lose this game in the end, Manchester City have nine points and can still qualify if they win one of the remaining two games.

It's just the group stage, so there's no need to push the players so hard.

Meanwhile, in Real Madrid's dressing room, the atmosphere is somewhat oppressive.

Although they were only one goal behind, many Real Madrid players saw their defeat inevitable.

When they travelled to Manchester, many were still hopeful about the future, believing that they could beat Manchester City away and rekindle their hopes of qualifying from the group.

But the result?

When the game started, they realized that it was much worse than they had imagined.

Throughout the first half, they didn't get any decent chances either.

Such a situation makes them desperate.

Everyone was silent.

As captain of the team, Raul tried to stand up and say something encouraging.

In any case, the current oppressive atmosphere is not suitable for the half-time break and not conducive to the second half of the game.

But just as he lifted his ass off the stool, he suddenly heard Pellegrini's voice.

"Well, I'm honoured that Real Madrid's most humiliating record in the history of the Champions League will be born in my hands."

Everyone looked up at him in surprise when they heard Pellegrini say this suddenly—has the manager gone crazy? How can such a thing be said?

When Pellegrini saw that everyone was looking up at him, he pouted and smiled: "Ha! It's good, I've been your head coach for so long, and it's not easy for all of you to finally be able to look at me in the right eye. When I was about to finish class, I finally enjoyed the treatment of Real Madrid manager. ”

By saying this, he was nakedly sarcastic about his players.

But it doesn't matter, Pellegrini has no intention of continuing to work at Real Madrid, so now he is not afraid of offending all the Real Madrid players.

He held these words in his heart and always wanted to say them, but because he was the head coach of Real Madrid, he didn't dare to say them, and he couldn't say them.

But now...... Go******!

"You think you're the best player in the world, you think you're at the pinnacle of your career when you come to Real Madrid, you don't care about anyone's criticism and advice, you have a lot of self-confidence, you are arrogant. You think you don't need me as a manager to talk in your ears, you can beat any team, as long as you work a little hard and sweat a little bit. But reality has given you a slap in the face! You can't win on your home turf, even teams like Bordeaux and Manchester City! Who else can you win? None of you can win! ”

Everyone looked at Pellegrini in surprise, wondering what had happened to the Chilean.

But Pellegrini ignored the complicated gaze of the players and continued to himself: "I will submit my resignation to the club board after this game. I used to think that coming to Real Madrid was the pinnacle of my coaching career, but now I realize that I couldn't be more wrong! Agreeing to coach you was the biggest mistake of my career! You don't need a manager like me, you're a bunch of megalomaniacals! ”

'Why did you lose to Manchester City? You've probably never thought about it, but on paper, you're supposed to be better than Manchester City, you should beat Manchester City. But in reality? Football is not a comparison of the combined strength of all players, football games are based on the actual performance on the field! Your actual play is a ****! ”

Manuel Pellegrini, the usually suave engineer, also turned into a hair dryer and roared at the Real Madrid players.

"You still want to play in the Champions League final at the Bernabeu? Dream on! Do you want to win your tenth Champions League? Don't even think about it when you're like this! ”

With that, Pellegrini turned and walked out of the dressing room, then slammed the door behind him.

A group of players in the locker room were left behind, all looking at each other.

Raul looked at everyone, then at the locker room door that had been slammed on, sighed, and lowered his head.

He felt like he was useless to say anything more.

This game is over......

Real Madrid really want to add a humiliating record to their Champions League history - they didn't make it out of the group!

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After the start of the second half, Pellegrini sat in the dugout, with his hands on his chest, crossed his legs, and looked coldly at the players on the pitch.

He didn't look worried about the team at all.

A decision had already been made in his mind.

He wasn't joking, and after the match, he would resign in front of Florentino in front of reporters.

The reason why I want to be in front of reporters is to not leave a little room for myself.

He wants everyone to see his determination.

Real Madrid is a team, Lao Tzu is not uncommon to coach!

The Real Madrid players on the pitch were suddenly scolded by their own manager at halftime and were penniless, and they were all in a trance and had not yet recovered their strength.

Although many of them didn't regard Pellegrini as their manager at all, they were still shocked after being scolded by Pellegrini......

So on the pitch, it is conceivable what the Real Madrid players can be.

Mistakes are frequent, many even amateur mistakes.

Such a table appeared on the body of the Real Madrid player, which made the commentators very strange.

“…… Ramos' passing ...... Light! Rong's insertion was very fast, and he grabbed the ball early! Pepe...... Foul! He can only foul! If you don't foul, Rong will burst into the box! Pepe received a yellow card for this...... But look at Ramos, that passing error he just made was so amateurish! He was like he was absent-minded! ”

Because of the foul, Manchester City were awarded a direct free-kick 24 metres from the Real Madrid fans, and it was in a very good position.

The free-kick threat is high in this place.

If it was a normal game, Pepe should not have chosen to foul in this place. But at that time, he had no other choice, if he did not foul, Rongguang would burst directly into the penalty area and face goalkeeper Casillas alone, which would be more dangerous.

After all, no one can do a free kick in the gray hair, and there are still people who grab the block, a player kicks ten free kicks, and half of them can be regarded as a top master.

And if it's a one-handed ball, it's too simple for a striker.

The lesser of two evils, Pepe decisively fouled.

Glory came to the spot of the free throw with the football in his arms.

Sneijder stood next to him, ready to cover for him.

The Manchester City fans in the stands were still booing Pepe for his foul just now, they thought that the referee gave Pepe a yellow card was really merciful, and in the case just now, it was not too much for him to go straight to the game with a red card.

But now that Glory came to take the free-kick, the boos immediately turned into cheers.

Everyone knows Glory's free-kick ability.

Maybe they'll be cheering for the goal again?

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The wall of people on Real Madrid's side is quite serious, and the wall of as many as six people is horizontal in front of Glory.

Casillas is also in front of goal, he has also studied Glory free-kicks, Pellegrini has shown them a video of Glory free-kicks, Glory has not scored many free-kicks so far, after all, he has only shown his quality from the last game of last season.

However, some rules can be summarized.

Glory's free-kicks were dominated by "fallen leaves", a bit like Casilla's team-mate Cristiano Ronaldo.

So Casillas is no stranger to the characteristics of this kind of free-kick.

If Glory still hits the goal with such a free-kick, Casillas is sure to win the ball.

He lowered his center of gravity and kept his eyes fixed on the football.

It's close and he has to make a split second decision or the football could go in.

But when the referee blew the whistle and Glory Run, Casillas realized that something was wrong - he was going to kick the ball with his left foot!

When I saw Rongguang's free kick highlights before, it was clear that Rongguang kicked the leaf ball with his right foot!

But now from the point of view of the glory run, this is not a fallen leaf ball kick!

Just when Casillas was surprised, Glory had already run to the football!

He leaned slightly to the right and hit the ball with the inside instep of his left foot!

The soccer ball took off into the air, drew a beautiful arc in the air, and went around the other side of the wall and went straight to the left side of the goal!

It's the exact opposite of the right side where Casillas is standing!

Casillas scrambled to that side, then took to the air to save the ball out.

But his movements were still slow in front of football.

The ball spun into the goal before he could reach it!

2:0!

Manchester City have a two-goal lead over Real Madrid at their home stadium!

Sure enough, the overall situation has been decided!

Manuel Pellegrini closed his eyes in pain after seeing the ball fly into the net from the sidelines.

Although he scolded his team at half-time, he still felt pain when he saw it happen.

I think when he came to Real Madrid, he was full of ambition and hope for the future. He thought he could break new ground at Real Madrid, he could become a sought-after coach in world football, and he would become the pride of his hometown people.

Today, he is tormented by the shattering of his dreams.