Soccer Card System

Chapter 692 Welcome to Hell

Chapter 692 Welcome to Hell

Chapter 7 Welcome to Hell

Manchester City's players took a chartered flight to Istanbul directly after the game against Southampton.

For the Manchester City club, the cost of this charter flight is only a drop in the bucket.

On the chartered flight, in addition to the team's coaching staff, logistics support team, and players, there is also a team of team management led by the team's CEO Soriano.

This is the first time in the history of the club to play in the knockout round of the Champions League, and the team attaches great importance to this performance.

Even the well-informed Soriano was a little nervous.

Looking at Soriano who was constantly rubbing his hands, Gao Bo said helplessly, "This is just a round of [-] match, Ferran!"

Soriano raised his head nervously and said: "I heard that Turkey's away game is not easy. The fans there are too crazy."

Speaking, Soriano said with some concern: "We won't lose in such an away game."

Gao Bo almost laughed out loud, his boss really has a sense of humor.

Lose?

Losing to Galatasaray, how is this possible.

"It's impossible to lose, Ferran!" Gao Bo spread his hands and said, "Galatasaray has a few good players, but they are just a Turkish team, and they won't pose much threat to us!"

"But this is at their home stadium. In the past, many giants from continental Europe lost in this stadium."

Soriano seemed a little lacking in confidence.

In any case, this is the team's first Champions League knockout match, so the club appears to be very cautious.

The best thing is of course a victory. If you lose in the first knockout match, even if you can advance in the end, it will not look too good.

And Soriano's concerns are not groundless.

Ahead of the match, Manchester City, and even the British Tourist Board and the Foreign Office issued travel advisories to Istanbul.

The Manchester City club hopes that the Manchester City fans had better not go to Turkey with the team.

Turkey's away games, especially Ali Samiyan Stadium, home of Manchester City's opponents Galatasaray in this game, are quite a scary place for away fans.

Before the UEFA Cup semi-final in 2000, two Leeds United fans were assassinated and killed when they challenged Galatasaray as a guest.

In the first round of the UEFA Champions League group stage in the 2009-10 season, Manchester United was a guest at the Inonu Stadium in Istanbul to challenge Besiktas, another Turkish Super League team.The fans of the two teams fought violently in the stadium, and the scene eventually got out of control. The fans of both teams used plastic stools as weapons to start a fiery group fight.

In 1993, before Manchester United's Champions League match with Galatasaray, more than 200 Manchester United fans were arrested and banned from entering the stadium to watch the match.It was also at that time that Galatasaray fans shouted the domineering and terrifying slogan: "Welcome to hell." When Cantona received a red card, he was even beaten by a local police officer.

Their fans were equally savage in Türkiye's domestic games. In May 2011, Galatasaray defeated Fenerbahce 5-2 to win the Istanbul Derby, and a Galatasaray fan was attacked and killed.

Such a series of casualties made Manchester City very worried about the safety of their fans.

Therefore, when talking about this away game, Gao Bo's face became serious, but he still shook his head.

"It is impossible to lose, at most it is a draw."

Gao Bo looked at the players in the back row of the plane, wondering if the players would be intimidated by this hellish stadium.

The moment the plane landed at Istanbul Airport, the team felt the madness of the Turks.

Being booed on the air bridge coming out of the airport is already pediatrics.

From the moment the Manchester City bus came out of the airport, every step of the way was already in shock.

The local police organized a large number of police forces to escort Manchester City. They also knew how crazy the local fans were, but there were always fans who "just happened" to break through the police blockade.

The middle finger is already very common.

The Turks with distorted faces spat wildly at the Manchester City bus, and even threw stones.

Some of the players even screamed when a Molotov cocktail was thrown at the bus.

Even Gao Bo stood up.

This city and the madness of the people here obviously made Gao Bo underestimate!

Fortunately, the bottle didn't hit the car directly, and the police cordon still played a little role.

Frightened by every step of the way, the team finally meandered into the hotel.

Before getting out of the car, Gao Bo announced the new discipline.

Everyone must not leave the hotel!

Unless it is a group ride out.

In fact, even if Gao Bo didn't say anything, the players wouldn't go out alone.

This city is just too dangerous.

After two days of adaptive training in the local area, the game will be held at ten o'clock in the evening local time on February 2th.

This time point is already very late in the local area, but because Turkey is already on the Asian side, the country of Turkey already spans two continents, Asia and Europe, and since the UEFA Champions League matches need to start at the same time, the away game in Turkey is already very late.

However, the atmosphere at the scene made Gao Bo startled.

When he came out of the player tunnel, he was taken aback by the stands of this stadium.

The stands are practically on fire!

Yes, it is burning.

It's not something pediatric like smoke or fireworks.

Instead, the entire stand was on fire.

The sky was dyed red.

"Oh, God"

Beside Gao Bo, Mo Yanan said in a low voice.

Although Moya has been in the football circle for more than [-] years, this is the first time he has seen such a scene.

Gao Bo squinted his eyes and looked at the burning stands.

It turned out that every fan was holding a torch. From a distance, it seemed that the whole stand was on fire.

Gao Bo heaved a sigh of relief, if the stands were really on fire, the game would be impossible to play.

In addition to torches, there are fireworks.

Burning fireworks were continuously thrown down the stands, and the surrounding area of ​​the stadium was also burned.

The players started out in this atmosphere.

Kompany, who was the first to play, was also taken aback by this scene. He paused subconsciously, causing the Galatasaray players beside him to show contemptuous smiles.

Have you ever seen such a formation?

Many Galatasaray players thought with a sense of superiority in their hearts.

"Oh, God"

The Manchester City players sighed.

And at this time.On the stand opposite them, a huge poster slowly rose.

With a dark red background, blood waves can still be seen vaguely.

The black font is set off by the surrounding fiery fire.

What was even more frightening was that, around the poster, it was only discovered when the Galatasaray fans extinguished the torches.

The fans gathered in this stand were uniformly dressed in black robes and black masks.

Everyone is like death from hell.

Breathtaking and chilling!

"Oh, God!!!"

"Galatasaray fans made such a big fight!!!"

"terrible"

In the commentary seat, the commentators Nan Nan said.

As the poster was fully unfolded, people finally saw the black text on the poster.

Under the turbulent blood and the smog, the words clearly appeared on the TV screen.

"Welcome to hell!!"

(End of this chapter)