Football: My AI System Provides Max-Level Predictions-Chapter 705 - 497: Mancini and Chiwo Meet Again, Can the Former Mentor Resolve Their Grudges?

-[Oh my! Agüero actually scored an own goal!]

-[He finally scored twice!]

-[How come Agüero is so playful now? I remember he wasn't like this!]

-[Not surprising, his Argentine compatriot Icardi is known for these antics, he also scored an own goal, maybe he caught it from him, hahaha!]

Manchester City players quickly consoled Agüero, then threw themselves into the tense match.

Guardiola remained unperturbed.

No matter how much Conte shouted and jumped on the sidelines, Guardiola's only gesture was pressing both hands down, indicating to keep the ball under control.

Regarding this goal, Guardiola was very clear it happened because of Agüero's reckless attempt to break through, which led to Hazard's shot.

Breaking through recklessly at this time, who do you think you are, Tang Long?

However, considering the own goal resulted from Agüero's effort to chase back after losing the ball, Guardiola wasn't too angry, instead, he felt that Agüero had a strong sense of responsibility. This might not be a bad thing.

You want to defend, huh? Fine, I will let you go back to defend!

Guardiola moved Agüero back to the midfield, joining Gundogan, Ranocchia, and others to bolster central defense.

Chiwo was continuously organizing the defense from the sidelines, reminding players not to leave opponents unmarked.

With the joint coordination of the head coach and assistant coach, Manchester City weathered a few minutes of Chelsea's furious attacks, leaving the Blue Army's four forwards fruitless.

Finally, Manchester City narrowly won 3-2 at home against Chelsea!

The whistle blew, and Guardiola finally raised his arms in celebration!

He was so overjoyed that he almost forgot to shake hands with Conte.

Conte glared sinisterly at Guardiola, stood there waiting, and when Guardiola embarrassedly extended his hands, Conte slapped his palm heavily, turned around, and left without saying a word.

Chiwo scolded Conte and wanted to reason with him, but Guardiola held him back.

"Forget it, Christian, let's go back."

Inside the locker room.

With 1 goal and 1 assist, Tang Long was selected as the best player of the match, but the main character was only one, the player who scored his career's first own goal, Agüero!

"Sergio, let me see! Did Hazard destroy your little brother?"

Under the teammates' instigation, veteran Sabaleta stepped up to pull down Agüero's pants.

In the Manchester City team, only he dared to joke physically with Agüero like this.

Agüero blushed, held onto his pants and refused to let go, shouting that it was nothing, provoking a burst of laughter from teammates with his anxious appearance.

Tang Long laughed, "Agüero said he would score twice, and he really did it!"

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"Christian!"

Chiwo was walking in the player tunnel when he heard someone calling him from behind.

The voice was so familiar that Chiwo knew who it was even without turning around.

He hesitated for a moment but eventually stopped in his tracks.

Mancini was looking at him, his eyes full of friendliness.

"Mr. Mancini, how did you get in here?" Chiwo asked.

Mancini shrugged and smiled, "This is Itihad, I spent three and a half years here, I know all the staff here, I can go wherever I want, no one stops me."

The two found a corner step, sat down, and started chatting.

"Are you still adjusting to your work here?" Mancini lit a cigarette.

Chiwo replied self-deprecatingly, "What is there to adjust, anyway I'm always the assistant coach. Whether at Inter, in the England national team, or Manchester City, I'm used to collaborating with the head coach to complete the work."

Mancini nodded, took a few puffs from his cigarette, crossed his legs on the step, and said:

"You are 36 now, right? At your age, I was already a head coach at Florence, but being a head coach is not easy. They have to oversee the entire coaching team, negotiate money with the boss to buy players, communicate ideas with the stars in the team, and ambitious coaches even want to control the dressing room. It's not something ordinary people can do."

Chiwo thought Mancini was mocking him for not having the ability to be a head coach, frowned, and remained silent for a long time without responding.

At this time, a few staff passed by, saw Mancini and Chiwo sitting together and didn't know what they were discussing, all cast curious glances at them.

Mancini greeted them generously, "Say hello to Guardiola for me!"

"Robert, welcome back to Itihad!" said an elderly staff member who seemed quite familiar with Mancini.

Mancini made a hat-tipping gesture of thanks, smiling happily.

"Don't do that gesture, you won't even give me a cigarette?" the staff laughed.

"Take it, Brook," Mancini threw over a pack of cigarettes directly, "When I left here, you said you would quit smoking, seems you failed."

Chiwo got up at this moment, taking leave from Mancini, who grabbed him, asking him to sit down for a little longer, Chiwo reluctantly sat back down.

Mancini's words during a meeting, publicly humiliating Chiwo, deeply hurt Chiwo, who wasn't willing to stay with him.

From the time at Inter Milan, Mancini highly valued Chiwo.

At first, Chiwo's role was as the youth team's assistant coach, Mancini promoted him to the first team coaching staff as a technical analyst.

The Romanian worked diligently, was a star, and had excellent professional skills.

His video analysis was a must-watch for Mancini at the first morning meeting following each match day.

In the later stages at Inter, Chiwo essentially became Mancini's assistant coach.

Mancini even privately told his teacher, Eriksson, "Teacher, you know, I'm a striker at heart, so my thinking is sometimes overly simple and blunt, just wanting to score one more goal than the opponent. Chiwo, being a defender, sees the game differently than I do, so some of his perspectives always inspire me, I'm very grateful to him!"

Mancini remembered, at that time in Harbor City, the Swedish coach said to him:

"Robert, a striker coach needs a defender assistant to occasionally knock some sense into him, otherwise you'll become more and more inflated."

Mancini was indeed inflated!

After winning his career's first European War title with Inter, Mancini thought he fully understood how to play cup tournaments;

But unexpectedly, upon joining the England national team, he flopped in the European Cup, losing to Iceland with only a 200,000 population, causing an uproar in the England Peninsula, getting called an Italian old fraud, insults as nasty as they come.

"If I had listened to Chiwo then and relied on Stones, would the outcome have been entirely different?"

After angrily dismissing Chiwo, Mancini calmed down and felt regret.

The new assistant coach was an old hand from England's U19 coaching staff, whose work enthusiasm and professional skills were vastly inferior to Chiwo's.

But what can be done about it?

Mancini could not have Chiwo back. His heart was filled with guilt towards the Romanian, but due to pride, he didn't want to apologize to Chiwo.

"Christian, I know you've wanted to be a head coach for a long time. Palermo's chairman Zamparini has been a good friend of mine for many years. I've known him since I was fifteen. He mentioned over coffee a few days ago that he's changing coaches. Would you want to go? I can recommend you."