Nine Hundred and Eighty-One I Crippled Real Madrid!

On the evening of March 27, Manchester Etihad Stadium.

As night fell, the stadium was already brightly lit.

After the renovation, the outer walls of the stadium have been painted with a layer of sky blue paint. Under the contrast of the lights, the whole stadium looks like a bright sapphire, which is very beautiful.

The only regret is that after the first round of expansion, the stadium capacity still failed to exceed 50,000.

But it doesn't matter, Manchester City's plan to further expand the Etihad Stadium has been put on the agenda. This time, it is ready to directly increase the capacity of the stadium by more than 14,000, and the total capacity will reach 62,000, which will exceed other football players. It has become the second largest stadium in the Premier League after Manchester United's Old Trafford.

At present, Manchester City's stadium expansion plan has been submitted to Manchester Council for approval, and it is very likely to pass, because this project will bring hundreds of temporary jobs, more than 100 staff will be added in the long-term, and many more jobs. Post, which is good for Manchester, too.

One of the important reasons why Manchester City dared to expand so drastically is that Manchester City's current football market is very hot.

As the team's performance has improved by leaps and bounds in the past two seasons, more and more fans have entered the Etihad Stadium, which has made it difficult for Manchester City to find a ticket, and even season tickets have become in short supply.

This is actually related to Manchester City's business strategy.

After the Abu Dhabi consortium took over, Manchester City's tickets have always maintained the top tier of the Premier League. The lowest price of 344 euros is the lowest in the Premier League, which is lower than the second-ranked Aston Villa. Thirty euros less.

After the renovation of the stadium, the price of Manchester City's highest-grade season tickets reached 900 euros, ranking ninth in the Premier League. In fact, it is relatively good, because these are VIP seats. In comparison, Arsenal is 2,000. Three hundred euros is more than twice that of Manchester City, while Manchester United in the same city is one hundred and one hundred euros, which is also much higher than Manchester City.

The team's performance is good, the style of play is good, it is offensive football, and there are not a few stars, especially with a superstar like Su Dong sitting in the town. The average ticket price is at the bottom of the Premier League. How can such a team's attendance rate be possible? will be low?

In fact, on the whole, the price of tickets in the Premier League is still very high.

Even the lowest Manchester City is much higher than the lowest ticket price of all teams in the four major leagues. This also shows that the consumption power of the UK is indeed better than that of other countries, coupled with the advantage of owning the stadium. , which makes the Premier League team's game-day operating income have a very obvious advantage over other league teams.

Manchester City is also based on this,

Therefore, it was determined to further expand the stadium, and then to further increase the team's game day income while keeping the ticket price unchanged.

Everyone is convinced that even if it expands to more than 60,000, Manchester City's home attendance will still be full.

If nothing else, just look at the top match between Manchester City and Real Madrid.

As early as the second round of the knockout round of the round of 16 had just been decided, when Manchester City officially opened the sales of home tickets for the first round of the knockout round of the quarter-finals, all the tickets were sold out in a very short time, and it became difficult to find a ticket.

On the night of the game, fans from all over the world began to pour into the Etihad Stadium one after another.

At this time, there were still many fans around the stadium holding cards high and asking scalpers for a ticket at a high price.

Outside, the worst-placed ticket is said to have been fired for £2,000, showing how popular the game is.

In terms of the media, the influence of this game is not lost to the Champions League final.

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When Manchester City arrived at the stadium by bus, the Manchester City fans outside the stadium who were preparing to enter the stadium chased after them, shouting the names of Manchester City players from a distance across the fence.

Su Dong is the most shouted player, and many fans are encouraging him to score goals in the game.

There was a live broadcast of the game, and the grand occasion of the team arriving at the stadium was specially filmed before the game. As a result, they were frightened by the crazy and enthusiastic fans at the scene. They did not expect that the fans of Manchester City would be so fanatical.

"It's not difficult to understand, because this is the first time Manchester City has participated in the Champions League, and they reached the quarter-finals of the Champions League. It can be regarded as the pinnacle of history, so the fans' pursuit is understandable."

"We saw that Manchester City coach Pep Guardiola got off the bus first, and he received warm applause from the fans at the scene."

"Since coaching Manchester City, Guardiola has gradually become the hottest top coach in Europe. Now he has even been poached by Barcelona, ​​but he chose to renew his contract with Manchester City and continue to coach in the Premier League."

"Captain Su Dong also led the players to get off the bus one after another. It seems that the Manchester City players are in good spirits tonight, and they should be in good shape, while the Manchester City fans are shouting Su Dong's name frantically. He is the most popular in Manchester City. The players we welcome are not only the captain of Manchester City, but also the team's top scorer and spiritual leader."

Amid the uproar of fans at the scene, Manchester City players, led by Guardiola and Sudong, walked into the player tunnel.

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When the Real Madrid players walked out of the tunnel and entered the Etihad Stadium, the Manchester City players were already warming up on the pitch.

While walking with the team, Cristiano Ronaldo was paying attention to the movements of Manchester City, looking for the familiar figure among the players running around.

At this time, many Manchester City fans were already sitting in the stands, and they all booed Real Madrid.

Just as Ronnie walked into the turf of the Etihad Stadium, a football suddenly flew in the distance, the ball was very fast, and went straight to him, which surprised the fans at the scene, and the Real Madrid players were also quite Surprised.

Only Ronnie greeted him cheerfully, stopped the ball in his chest, and kicked the ball back with a volley.

Everyone noticed that the ball fell back to the half of Manchester City's warm-up training. Su Dong stopped the ball lightly, stepped on it, pointed his right hand at Ronnie, and Pepe David Silvamu. Acquaintances such as Tinho Marcelo also happily waved their hands towards the Portuguese around Su Dong.

"Hey, brother."

Su Dong walked straight over and hugged Ronnie hard.

"I almost fell to the ground just now, and I'll see how you end up then." Ronnie laughed and said, with that arrogant expression as if to say, why don't you hurry up and thank me?

"That will definitely confirm your reputation as diving Luo." Su Dong sarcastically said.

In fact, he controlled the strength of the ball. Generally speaking, he has no strength when it reaches the range of Ronnie. Even if he does not catch it, or is kicked, it will basically not hurt, let alone injured.

Of course, if Ronnie fell directly to the ground, it would be another matter.

After meeting Ronnie, Su Dong shook hands and hugged with Kaka Harvey Alonso, Casillas, Ramos and others. They were all old acquaintances, and they were no strangers to each other, especially Kaka.

Sometimes Su Dong really wants to ask Kaka, will he regret not choosing Manchester City and going to Real Madrid?

You know, if you come to Manchester City, Kaka may face a different career.

But frankly speaking, except for Su Dong, it is estimated that if any other superstar is replaced, Real Madrid will be chosen instead of Manchester City.

Xavi Alonso also came close to joining Manchester City, but eventually he also went to Real Madrid, while Guardiola brought in Busquets, and both players were successful after the transfer.

The players of the two teams are no strangers to each other. After meeting, they exchanged friendly greetings before returning to half-court training.

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When the players of the two teams exchanged friendly greetings on the court, the two coaches also talked on the sidelines.

When Pellegrini coached Real Madrid, he was hailed as Florentino's spare tire. As a result, on the one hand, Real Madrid never contacted a better coach, on the other hand, Pellegrini's The coaching performance is also really good. He has been chasing Barcelona closely, and even almost defeated Barcelona, ​​so he has stayed until now.

The players are also quite supportive of him, which allows Real Madrid to break out of the Champions League round of 16 this season.

Pellegrini is now ambitious and wants to lead Real Madrid to continue to rush forward and achieve better results.

Guardiola is also participating in the Champions League as a manager for the first time, so he is also looking forward to the team to achieve something.

The two coaches are very personable and very polite to each other. Guardiola is the host, but he is not good at dealing with people on weekdays, so he just made a routine with Pellegrini, and the two went their separate ways. gone back.

But their attention is rotated between themselves and the opponent on the court, and the focus is to observe the state of the opponent's players.

In the pre-match training, no one did their best, and it was difficult to see what happened, and the specific information was collected by special scouts and submitted to the coaching staff early, so there were not too many secrets from each other.

"They should be on the defensive."

As soon as Guardiola walked back to the coaching bench, Estiat greeted him and gave his own analysis.

He is Guardiola's brain trust.

Two midfielders, four backs, it's normal to say that Real Madrid want to play defensively.

Of course, defense doesn't have to be defensive.

The most typical is Benitez's Valencia, who was also a double midfielder back then, and his tactics were conservative, but whether it was Valencia or Liverpool, Benitez's team adopted high-level pressure and pressing tactics.

Real Madrid should also adopt similar tactics, but relatively speaking, the attitude will be more conservative.

"That said, we can be more proactive in the game." Guardiola nodded.

He agrees with Estiat's judgment. He does not think Real Madrid will compete with Manchester City for possession of the ball on the road, because Real Madrid lack such a midfielder.

To rely on midfielders like Kakahedira and Xavi Alonso to compete with Manchester City for possession is a fool's errand.

Among the three players, the only one who has the ability to play and control the ball is only Xavi Alonso.

"But they might grab a scramble at the opening," Estiyat reminded.

Guardiola squinted his eyes and said fiercely: "Then I will crippled them!"