As soon as the winter break ended, Chinatown fought hard.

The first game was the first leg of the King's Cup 16 knockout match, and he was a visit to the Bernabeu Stadium.

Mourinho obviously did not take Chinatown seriously. In the first game of the winter break, he did not send all the main players, hiding many main players, including Diego Costa and Ozil, and played as a semi-substitute.

But facing the powerful Galaxy battleship, Pochettino's team took the initiative and performed very bravely. In the tenth minute of the first half, Carvajal scored a goal, and in the 29th minute, Miranda took advantage of the corner kick and won another goal.

With the advantage of 2-0 leading, Chinatown seemed to see the dawn of victory.

But Mourinho remorseed during the break, replaced three main players in one breath, launched a fierce attack on Chinatown, and scored three consecutive goals in the 68th, 70th and 78th minutes, and finally narrowly defeated Chinatown 3-2 at the Bernabeu Stadium.

After a hard fight against Real Madrid, Chinatown drew at Atletico Madrid 0-0 in the weekend's league. In this game, players such as De Gea, Miranda and Godin performed very bravely.

Pochettino preserved his strength in the league, made great efforts in the second leg of the Cup of del Rey, and staged an offensive and defensive showdown with Mourinho. In the whole game, neither side was able to break through the opponent's goal.

Until the end of the game, Hazard received Alba's pass from the left and forcibly broke into the penalty area and was pulled down by Aveloa from behind. Real Madrid's right back received the second yellow card of the game and was sent off by the referee's red card. Hazard took the penalty kick and scored a goal for Chinatown.

The total score was three to three, but Chinatown eliminated Real Madrid with a away goal.

Mourinho was furious after the game about Aveloa's second yellow card, angrily scolding the referee for favoritism, believing that Hazard was pretending to fall, but whether it was the media or the TV station, it can be clearly seen through the video that Aveloa did pull Hazard down from behind, otherwise the Belgian would have a one-on-one attack.

The elimination of the star-studded Real Madrid has once again brought Chinatown into the sight of fans around the world, especially the tenacious momentum shown by Real Madrid in the two battles is even more impressive.

But in the 19th round of La Liga on the weekend, although Pelle scored a goal in the 88th minute and tied the score, he finally conceded the ball in stoppage time and lost to Sporting Gijon away one-two.

With one draw and one loss in two rounds, Chinatown's league ranking dropped rapidly to tenth in La Liga, and the excitement brought by advancing to the Cup of Kings quickly disappeared.

In the middle of the week, the first leg of the King's Cup quarterfinals knockout match was ushered in. Chinatown drew Emery's Valencia 1-1 away with Aubameyang's goal, and a week later, he defeated the Bats 2-0 at home, with Rakitic and Herrera both scoring.

In an interview with the media after the game, Emery said with regret that Chinatown's performance in these two games was better than Valencia, and it was natural to advance.

However, in the middle of the two cup matches, Chinatown lost to Barcelona one-to-four at the Camp Nou Stadium.

Barcelona led the lead with Puyol's goal in the thirteenth minute, but Aubameyang of Chinatown quickly equalized the score, but in the second half, Messi completely cheated in just ten minutes of the 54th, 60th and 63rd, and staged a hat-trick, surpassing the score again.

In the end, Chinatown lost 1-4 away.

He was defeated by Barcelona. The morale of Chinatown was sluggish, and the league ranking fell to 11th again.

As a result, the media and fans began to attack Pochettino again, believing that Chinatown should not insist on fighting on two fronts, and should concentrate on playing the league well, and should not be distracted by cup games, especially in a useless way like the Copa del Rey.

But the club's general manager Armando Marcos and technical director Cantalero came forward again to publicly support Pochettino's decision, saying that the club will not change its confidence in Pochettino due to the temporary ups and downs of its performance.

After eliminating Valencia in the Cup of del Rey, Chinatown quickly defeated Sevilla 2-1 at home in the weekend's league, with Rakitic and Aubameyang scoring one after another.

A victory made Chinatown's league ranking jump to eighth place.

But what made the fans even more excited was that three days after defeating Sevilla, Pochettino's team welcomed Bielsa's Athletic Bilbao at home, which was the first leg of the Copa del Rey semi-finals.

Both sides are known for their high-level pressing and oppression, and the game was very fierce. Chinatown took advantage of its home court advantage to firmly suppress Athletic Bilbao, and Hazard assisted Rakitic to score a goal in the first half.

After the second half of the game, Bielsa replaced two players in one breath and intended to counterattack, but with Pelle's assist, Aubameyang won another game, and finally secured the victory at home 2-0 and entered the finals of the Copa del Rey with one foot.

But the price of a tough battle against Athletic Bilbao is that the team had to rotate on the weekend and lost to Granada 1-2 away. Fortunately, the ranking remains unchanged, but most media and fans still can't understand Pochettino's strategy of playing the cup. Shouldn't we do our best to keep the league first?

In the second leg of the semi-finals, Chinatown drew 2-2 away from Athletic Bilbao, eliminating Bielsa's team with a total score of 4-3, and successfully advanced to the King's Cup final.

This is also the first time in Chinatown's history that it has advanced to the King's Cup final.

And this time the opponent is Guardiola's Barcelona.

After advancing to the finals of the Cup of del Rey, the team's morale was greatly boosted. In the subsequent match against Real Mallorca, Caparos's team sneaked into the goal in the fourth minute, but Pochettino sat at home and quickly adjusted the situation. Pelle assisted Aubameyang to tie the score.

In the 55th minute of the second half, Ilia La Mendi scored a long shot, overtaking Chinatown, and then forward Pelle scored a goal, eventually reversing Real Mallorca three-to-one, but the league rankings remained unchanged.

A week later, Pochettino rotated for the mid-week Champions League. Chinatown lost to Athletic Bilbao away 0-1. Bielsa's team avenged the revenge of being eliminated by the King's Cup at home and stepped on Chinatown's league ranking to ninth.

But unexpectedly, at the Olympic Park Stadium in Lyon on Wednesday, Chinatown lost the ball in just eight minutes of the opening game. Young player Lacazette scored the first record for Lyon, and the Ligue 1 powerhouse scored the first goal.

Afterwards, Chinatown was completely trapped in the iron walls of Lyon.

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Pochettino stood in front of the visiting coach's seat at the Olympic Park Stadium, with his suit open and his hands stuck around his waist, revealing a white shirt, but the stubble on his face made him look very rough.

He hasn't taken care of his image well for more than a month, and his chaotic hair is like a bird's nest.

Since the winter break, the team has been playing on a row, fighting on three fronts of the King's Cup, the league and the Champions League. Every game is a tough battle. Chinatown has a very difficult game, and the players are also very hard and under great pressure.

As the team's head coach, Pochettino is very popular.

The opponent of this game, Lyon, is a regular visitor in the Champions League knockout stage and is very strong. Although young coach Garder has just taken office this season, he has served as a youth training coach and first-team assistant coach in Lyon for many years, assisting former Lyon coaches such as Regon, Hollier and Puel. His appointment is also deeply trusted by the management and intends to rejuvenate the team.

Lacazette, who scored in this game, was promoted from the youth team.

The 433 formation is currently the mainstream in Europe. Gard also adopts this style of play. The goalkeeper is Loris, the defense line is Sissoko, Chris, Lovren and Revier, the midfield is Fifana, Karlstrom and Gurkuf, and the frontcourt is Bastos, Lacazette and Bryant.

Gard obviously made a lot of effort in this game, studied Chinatown's playing style in depth, and Hazard, who performed the most active in the frontcourt and had the strongest personal ability, adopted a regional defensive strategy to prevent the team from falling into a one-on-one defensive state as much as possible, which made the Belgian not get much good opportunities in the whole game.

Aubameyang is the team's number one scorer, fast speed and strong impact, so Garder lets Sissoko stick to him without hesitation. The left-back performed well in this game and did not give Aubameyang too good a chance.

After 75 minutes of the game, Chinatown's ball possession rate reached 60%, and the number of shots reached three times that of Lyon, but he never broke through Lyon's goal, and his shooting efficiency was very poor.

The home team had a substitution, but the visiting team had not yet. Pochettino knew that everyone was waiting for their decision.

Zero to one away game is actually an acceptable result.

After returning to home court, Chinatown can play more targetedly based on the layout of this game.

This thought came to Pochettino's mind, but soon he tried hard to press the seductive thought, because another voice appeared in his mind.

"Fearless and always move forward, this is the purpose of our Chinatown competition!"

"We will never be afraid of any opponent, nor will we bow our heads to any difficulties. No matter who the opponent we face is, we must dare to swing our sword."

This is Gao Han’s resounding remarks to Pochettino, which are deafening.

At this moment, it sounded in Pochettino's mind, but it made the Argentinians feel a little ashamed.

With about twenty minutes left, the team fell behind zero and he was actually satisfied!

If Mr. Gao Han was there, he would definitely be fierce in searching for his opponent's weaknesses at this moment, find a wuqi who restrains his opponent and turns defeat into victory, but he would never give up.

Not to mention losing, a draw cannot appear in Gao Han's options. He has always only one goal, that is, win.

Pochettino slapped his face with both hands, let out a heavy sigh, turned around, and shouted at the assistant coach Jesus Perez behind him, "Show me a detailed analysis of this game."

Jesus Perez was stunned for a moment, and soon realized it. He immediately found the data analyst, and soon walked to Pochettino with a tablet computer. Inside was the data analysis carefully created by Gao Han and Sergio Garcia, and began to study it carefully.

Through the club's data analysis, everything in the game was clearly presented to Pochettino. At this moment, I calmed down and many details I had overlooked before appeared again in his sight. After organizing it a little, the outline immediately appeared in his mind.
Chapter completed!