Returning to England from Germany, Liverpool has to start preparing for the final decisive battle with Manchester City.

As long as they can beat Manchester City away, they can win the championship four rounds in advance, freeing up ten days to prepare for the Champions League semi-finals.

So Martin O'Neal attached great importance to this game against Manchester City.

He did not relax and careless just because Manchester City is no longer as good as before.

His usual caution is not domineering enough, but domineering is accumulated by the champion, not the arrogant maniac.

Liverpool Reserves once played against Manchester City in the FA Cup quarterfinals.

Manchester City basically had no power to fight back that time.

But that game cannot be used as a reference.

Because that was a game that Manchester City had planned to give up from the beginning. They sent all the reserve teams. If Liverpool thought this was Manchester City's real strength, then there must be something wrong with their brains.

Martin O'Neal is very clear about Boas' goal, and there is no hope of winning the championship. Boas now hopes that the team can enter the top four and qualify for the Champions League - he is a little disliked at the Europa League now. After adjusting his strategy and cleaning the locker room, Manchester City's combat effectiveness is indeed much stronger than before, and his performance has also improved - this is also the reason why the senior management of Manchester City clubs will choose to stand on the side of coach Boas. After all, the results are real and anyone can see it there.

They are now only one point away from Newcastle, which is fifth in the league. Newcastle, which is fifth in the league, and Arsenal, which is fourth in the league, are only two points away.

That is to say, if Manchester City can beat Liverpool and Newcastle loses, Manchester City can reach fifth and compete for fourth in the league. At that time, there are still four rounds before the end of the league, and everything is possible.

This is also why Boas gave up on the FA Cup.

Neither he nor Manchester City look down on the UEFA Cup. Manchester City Club believes that only the Champions League is in line with Manchester City's identity.

Therefore, Manchester City will never give up this league game.

Besides, this is still at their home court, so they are more confident.

Boas is bound to win this game. Liverpool must end their unbeaten season here.

The opponent's victory is so strong that Martin O'Neal has to be more cautious.

What he is most worried about now is that Liverpool players are proud and underestimating the opponent.

After all, the team is in high spirits now and in good condition, there are almost no external factors that can affect them.

Then the only person who may threaten the team is themselves.

After winning for a long time, I have never lost a single game in a season, whether it is the league, the Champions League, or the domestic competition. Such a brilliant result has never been encountered in the process of coaching by Martin O'Neal.

But this does not mean that he has no experience in dealing with it at all.

Because he is a player from Nottingham Forest.

Before Arsenal, who was the holder of the consecutive unbeaten record in England's top football league?

It's Nottingham Forest.

From November 26, 1977 to November 25, 1978, in one year, Nottingham Forest set a record of 42 unbeaten league games that shocked Britain at that time. This record was not broken by Wenger's Arsenal in 49 games until twenty-six years later.

At that time, Martin O'Neal was the main player of the team. He personally experienced all forty-two unbeaten games.

Although he has not participated in such a grand event as a head coach, he knows what a head coach should do in this situation because he knows how his mentor Brian Clive does it.

He just needs to do that.

The most important thing is not to be proud of the enemy. Pride can make a team that has always been full of combat effectiveness ignore many things, and these things may become things that kill them in the game.

When Nottingham Forest set a record of unbeaten forty-two rounds, "taking every opponent seriously" was the most important requirement that Brian Clauve emphasized. Although Nottingham Forest has just been promoted back to the Premier League, the Forest team at that time was a strong team. They were not even afraid of Liverpool, the double overlords of Britain and Europe at that time, let alone other teams. It would be good not to underestimate the enemy... So it is most important not to be proud and underestimate the enemy.

In addition, Brian Clauve continues to instill the belief in winning in the players.

You should know that every game may encounter many unexpected problems. On the road to continuous unbeaten, the second important thing is to always have a heart of winning no matter what problems you encounter. Only in this way can you break through many extreme environments and finally win.

Every game is actually a final for those who want to break through the limit. Therefore, every game must be taken seriously and treated with the mentality of playing the finals.

Claufe's teachings benefited Martin O'Neal a lot from the beginning. They can still play a crucial role.

This is a valuable experience he has before he became a head coach.

Now he has passed on these experiences to his disciples, and he hopes that his disciples can benefit a lot. When he recalls them several years later, just like when he recalls Clauve now.

"...Manchester City is actually very powerful. This can be seen from their players. So I don't allow you to give birth to the slightest carry. Even if you have beaten them once, twice, five, ten, or even a thousand times before! It has nothing to do with this game! I tell you, boys, any single game is illogical, don't try to analyze any reasonable results from previous games. What you have to do is simple, take the most serious attitude, play to your highest level, and then beat them away like other games you have participated in!"

Perhaps every Liverpool player heard calluses in his ears, but Martin O'Neal was still tirelessly instilling in his players.

He doesn't even expect every player to value him from the bottom of his heart, as long as they can form a physical instinct. In intense football games, the physical instincts are often faster than the brain's reaction speed.

As long as their bodies remember their own words, that's enough.

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Under the insistence of Martin O'Neal, Liverpool's preparations for Manchester City were carried out in an atmosphere of very serious and cautiousness.

Even Martin O'Neal has specially conducted a closed training to avoid excessive contact between the outside world and the team.

At the same time, it also made some players who were carried away from their composure.

The league champion is right in front of you, and it is inevitable that some people will feel that "the end is right in front of you, I can take a breath".

Once this awareness appears, they will relax - without exception, this is human nature. Many people have this experience. When a task is about to be completed, if there is no effective means of supervision, they will have the idea of ​​"just a little bit of progress, we will complete it casually. Now let's take a break and relax first." Then the work that could have been done in one day will be delayed for a month...

In the fierce competition, this kind of slackness is even more fatal, because during the competition, it is too late to get loose again. Such examples are common in football.

Liverpool's cautious and even over-the-top attitude made the outside world very strange.

This season, Liverpool has swept the entire Europe. Although the season has not ended yet, everyone knows that Liverpool is invincible.

Such a team meets Manchester City again. Since Chen Yingxiong joined Liverpool, Manchester City has been in trouble for eight lifetimes, and has been a new force that is growing and developing rapidly, being a hard-working mid-range team that is struggling for a Champions League qualification.

It can be said that Liverpool has an absolute psychological advantage when facing Manchester City.

In the eyes of outsiders, Manchester City has long been beaten to death by Liverpool.

When I see Liverpool, I am afraid I will walk around.

Just like Boas gave up the FA Cup, this is a typical performance of walking around. They believe that Boas gave up the FA Cup not only because the FA Cup will cause the team to fight on two fronts, which consumes energy. Another very important reason is that Boas knows that even if his first team meets Liverpool's reserve team, as long as Chen Yingxiong is still there, he will pay a high price to win the game.

It would be so difficult to meet a reserve team and a Chen Yingxiong. What if it were a Liverpool first team?

There is no chance of winning at all!

The media analyzed that as long as Manchester City can keep the tie, it will be considered a victory. Even if it keeps the tie, the probability is actually very low...

The media can't figure out why Liverpool had to prepare for the game so carefully.

Liverpool hasn't done such a thing before...

And even if something unexpected happened in this game and failed to win the championship in four rounds ahead of schedule, it will be a matter of time before Liverpool has a huge advantage.

Can Liverpool still lose all of these five league rounds and let Manchester United surpass it?

They couldn't understand Martin O'Neal's caution.

This incomprehension is translated into a ridicule of Martin O'Neal in the media.

The Sun also published a comic that mocked Martin O'Neal for being cautious. In the comic, there was a piece of shit in front of O'Neal, while O'Neal held a magnifying glass in one hand and the other reached into his mouth. Then he said, "Well, that's right, sure, this is indeed shit!"

Such ridicule is really vicious.

Martin O'Neal turned a deaf ear.

These false names have long been no influence on him. Even if they are scolded as a turtle, so what? As long as they can win the championship, they will see who laughs at whom in the end! (To be continued)


Chapter completed!