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On March 12, Manchester City went to Portugal for the second time this season. This time, their opponents became stronger, and Portuguese Super League leader Benfica Athletics.

Although the center of Porto in the Portuguese Super League has been completely overshadowed by Portugal in the past two decades, Benfica is still the most popular club in Portugal, thanks to their brilliant achievements in the past century. In 2006, Benfica also set a world record for intentional Guinness. With more than 160,000 paid members, they became the club with the largest number of paid members in the world.

To this day, they are still the club with the most championships in the Portuguese Super League, with a total of 31 wins. Of course, what made Benfica establish his position in the minds of Portuguese fans was their excellent performance in the European arena. In history, they reached the Champions League final seven times, second only to Real Madrid, AC Milan and Bayern. As long as you compare them with these three clubs, it is not difficult to imagine Benfica's status back then. Of course, Benfica won only twice in the final seven times, and the first two times. This requires mentioning the most famous curse in the world football world today: the Goodman Curse.

The so-called Goodman curse was that after the then head coach of Benfica in 1962, Goodman, who was the head coach of Benfica, led Real Madrid, led by superstars such as Distefano and Puskas, asked Benfica's board of directors for a salary increase, but was rejected. In anger, the Hungarians said something when he left the team: From now on, Benfica will not be able to win the European championship within a hundred years.

No one took it seriously at that time, but the fact is that Goodman's words came true. Benfica then entered the Champions League final five times and had no wins. The most recent time, Benfica's legendary superstar Eusebio even went to Goodman's tomb before the game to pray, because Goodman had passed away at that time, but he still could not crack the curse.

Of course Lin Sen didn't believe in any curse, but Benfica's luck was so bad, which was unprecedented. This season Benfica challenged Goodman again, but for Lin Sen, he obviously didn't mind continuing the curse. Since the two teams were about to die, Lin Sen did not have any language communication with Falcao and Di Maria before the game. Of course, there are some exchanges with eyes, and you can see them when you look up and see them.

In fact, Benfica is not only familiar with Falcao and Di Maria in Linson's eyes, such as Xavi Garcia who later transferred to Manchester City, such as the left gate of the Portuguese national team in the future. For example, Brazilian midfielder Ramirez who transferred to Chelsea in the future, not to mention the "rabbit" Saviola and "clown" Aimal who has not completely disappeared from the sight of European fans at this time...

Even Benfica's tactics Linsen is not "unfamiliar". At least in terms of personnel configuration, Benfica's head coach Jesus' arrangement is surprisingly similar to Redknapp who had just met Linsen, with a configuration of 442. Double striker Falco Gas Saviola, two wingers Di Maria and Aimal, midfielders Xavi Garcia and Ramirez attack and defense...

Everything is similar. So even the final score is similar: 3-2. Manchester City won.

Linson was very satisfied with the scores of the game and the process of the game, because as he joked at the press conference before coming to Portugal: it would be better if Falcao and Di Maria performed well, but Manchester City eventually won the game.

Falcao scored a goal. Di Maria assisted a goal, but two geniuses could not win a group of geniuses. The game belonged to Suarez because the Uruguayan staged his first hat-trick since coming to Manchester City. He assisted him was David Silva, Robben and Vidal.

After the game, David Luis reminisced with his former teammates, while Linsen hugged Falcao. As for Di Maria, he and Linsen had never met before, but this did not prevent him from shaking hands with Linsen for the first time. Of course, this scene was obviously not good in the eyes of Benfica's head coach Jesus. The two best performers in his team are now both opponents. Falcao is fine, after all, he was loaned from the other side, but Di Maria...

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Returning to Manchester from Lisbon, three days later, Manchester City went to northeast England to challenge Sunderland. With the goals of Bellamy and Xavi Martinez, Manchester City beat their opponents 2-0 away. Although it was a light draw, in fact, Manchester City has been looking for opportunities to score goals throughout the game because they have not many goals difference against Chelsea, only two.

In this round, Chelsea defeated West Ham United four-one at home, narrowing their goal difference with Manchester City to one.

On March 19th, it was also away games, but this time Manchester City won it less easily. The final score was 2-1, which could only be considered a narrow victory. However, this narrow victory made Manchester City surpass Chelsea in points for the first time this season, because in another game, Blackburn, who played at home, helped Manchester City a big favor, and they tied Ancelotti's team 1-1.

After 31 rounds of the league, Manchester City, who played one round less, led Chelsea by 69 points and two points, followed closely by Chelsea, who also played one round less, with 67 points and 66 points, and Manchester United, who played one round more, also had 66 points... The Premier League championship drama has entered a fierce heat. Interestingly, the four teams are currently fighting on both sides.

Although Chelsea was eliminated by Mourinho's Inter Milan in the Champions League, they still successfully entered the semi-finals in the FA Cup. Although Manchester United and Arsenal both were eliminated from domestic cup matches, they both defeated their respective opponents in the Champions League schedule. Manchester United beat the former miserable AC Milan with a total score of 7-2, while Arsenal eliminated Porto of the Portuguese Super League six-2.

On March 22, Manchester City Stadium, the second leg of the UEFA Cup quarterfinals.

When the stadium broadcast introduced the names of Falcao and Di Maria, Manchester City fans in the stands welcomed the two "visiting teams" players with applause, and the applause also caused the two players to have a happy trouble. Next season, this will be their territory, but now, they have to have a life-and-death showdown with their future teammates.

Jesus could only choose to ignore all this. For him, Benfica had no way out in this game. The loss of 2-3 at home means that Benfica would either win more than three goals in a game, or score two more goals on the opponent. Considering that Manchester City's last UEFA Europa League opponent Twente attempted to win with a three-to-one advantage and finally lost completely by relying on defense, Benfica actually had only one offense.

However, if it was so easy to be captured, the city stadium this season would not be called the home court of the devil by the English media. Although Manchester City has occasionally lost battles this season, they have never lost at the city stadium.

Jesus' suicide attack strategy worked for a while. In the 21st minute of the game, relying on a corner kick from Di Maria, Xavi Garcia once gave Benfica a little hope of advancing away. However, their enthusiasm lasted only two minutes and was poured in cold water. Suarez made the ball and Vidal shot from a long time. Benfica's goalkeeper Cesar had no choice. Ten minutes later, Manchester City made a comeback. Robben on the right counterattacked at high speed and passed the ball to the goal. Suarez, who had a hat-trick in the last game, easily scored.

Two to one, now Benfica needs to score two more goals to get the game back to the same starting line, but Benfica has not given up.

In the 51st minute, Di Maria staged a gorgeous solo show. He first passed Vidal in the midfield, and then passed Richards without hesitation on the wing. Unfortunately, his last pass was not passed to Falcao's feet, but to the head of another striker, Cardoso. Under the control of former teammate David Luis, Cardoso's hastily headed weakly.

Five minutes later, a solo show from another genius ended the suspense of the game. Bale used a 60-meter long-distance raid to tell Manchester City fans who were still immersed in Di Maria's performance show that he would not give up his position easily even next season.

Two super-person shows have instantly caused Manchester City fans to be in a happy trouble. Yes, next season, who is Manchester City's left side? Bale or Di Maria? Don't forget that at this time, there are Reus and Petrov sitting on the bench in Manchester City... and even, Robinho, who was loaned back to Santos Club in Brazil, must be included.

The live footage of the game was given to Lin Sen on the sidelines. Obviously, the director in charge of the live broadcast also thought of the Manchester City fans. Faced with so many choices, can Lin Sen really handle the issue of playing?

Lin Sen in the camera has a calm expression. He has long thought about this problem. The solution is very simple. He can even let the first three play at the same time. Reus can go to the middle lane. Bale and Di Maria in their memory have never been a player who holds the left lane.

After Bale scored the third goal, Jesus lowered his head on the sidelines, falling behind with three goals in the total score. The game still has time, but the game has ended.

Goodman cursed and would continue to linger with Benfica.

Two days later, UEFA headquarters Nyon.

Under the auspices of UEFA event manager Marchetti, Ambassador Schiller from Germany's Hamburg host, Germany, served as a guest. One hour after the Champions League quarterfinals draw, the UEFA Cup also held a quarterfinals draw.

Half an hour later, the lottery was completed and the civil war was born.

Four matches in the quarterfinals, three civil wars, the only exception is Belgium's Standard Liège vs. France's Marseille. The other three civil wars: German Civil War Wolfsburg vs. Hamburg, Spanish Civil War Atletico Madrid vs. Valencia, and England Civil War: Liverpool, who eliminated Ligue 1 Lille with a total score of 3-1, collided with Manchester City. (To be continued)
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