i want to be king

Chapter 979

Today's Manchester City confirms a sentence: Standing on the wind, pigs can fly.

As the team passed through the devil's schedule during Christmas and the winter break smoothly, and as the team beat AC Milan [-]-[-] at home, Manchester City was full of energy. Everyone was full of expectations for the future and full of confidence in the next game.

This good mental outlook is not only reflected in the team's daily training, but also in the game.

For example, the FA Cup quarter-final knockout match, the home game against Leicester City.

Manchester City played with a full bench lineup, and all the main players took turns. As a result, the substitute players broke out.

David Luiz opened the scoring, followed by a goal from Eden Hazard, a brace from Dzeko and a brace from Gareth Barry as City thrashed Leicester City [-]-[-] at home.

The collective explosion of the substitute players not only made people see the strong strength of Manchester City, but also the excellent state of the players.

Standing on the tuyere, pigs can fly.

This is certainly reasonable, but there is another saying in the future, that is: when the wind blows past, all those who fall to death are flying pigs.

However, Manchester City did not fall to death, but flew higher and higher.

All this comes from the strong overall strength of the team and the unity of the locker room.

According to the analysis of the British Times, Manchester City now has the most powerful lineup configuration in European football. What's more frightening is that they are still working hard to strengthen the team's strength. For example, they will introduce Paul Pogba this summer and recall De Bruyne from Belgium this summer.

These two young talents will greatly enhance Manchester City's overall strength.

In addition, Manchester City is the Premier League team that has invested the most in youth training in the past few years. At present, Manchester City's youth team can be described as full of talents, which will provide Manchester City's first team with an endless supply of talents.

And Manchester City's dressing room is closely united around Su Dong, unreservedly supporting the head coach Guardiola, which allowed Guardiola's tactics to be thoroughly implemented in Manchester City, and then became a unique landscape in the European arena.

Today's Manchester City is not only the Premier League, but even the entire European football. The style of passing and controlling the ball is unique and amazing.

Especially when Barcelona's doubts about Mourinho are getting louder, Manchester City's passing and possession of the ball is even more pleasing to the eye, winning more and more praise from the media and fans.

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Due to the FA Cup, part of the Premier League's No.20 nine rounds were postponed to mid-week.

Manchester City hosts Chelsea.

Coach Di Matteo chose to start Torres instead of Drogba, obviously wanting to increase the speed of the counterattack, but in the actual game, the effect was not satisfactory. Torres continued the downturn since joining Chelsea.

Manchester City took advantage of the home court, firmly controlled the ball and rhythm from the beginning, and passed the ball slowly.

Only 9 minutes into the game, Toni Kroos made a long pass from the backcourt and sent it precisely behind the defense line. Su Dong quickly jumped in and got rid of Gary Cahill's defense when he caught the ball.

After taking the lead, Manchester City continued to strengthen their offensive.

No. In the 209th minute, Lampard made a mistake in a cross pass near the center line. Su Dong suddenly grabbed the ball. After successfully stealing the ball, he dribbled the ball all the way and approached Chelsea's defense.
A brace!

Before the end of the first half, Su Dong had another chance.

It was a cross from the right from Zabaleta. Su Dong volleyed sideways near the penalty spot without stopping the ball and hit a powerful world wave. As a result, the ball hit the crossbar and bounced off.

Su Dong regretted not being able to perform a hat-trick.

Not long after the start of the second half, David Silva sent a kick pass.

Sudong was at the front of the penalty area, with his back to Gary Cahill, facing a pass from David Silva, and after a light pick pass, he turned around and rushed into the penalty area. When he was about to catch up with the ball, Cech decisively abandoned the goal and took the ball off with both hands before Sudong, resolving another crisis for Chelsea.

Facing the alert Czech goalkeeper, Su Dong shrugged helplessly, and when he passed Cech, he gave a thumbs up.

If it weren't for Cech's decisive attack, the ball would have been scored again.

Being continuously pressed by Manchester City, Chelsea finally had to choose defense.

Not long after, Guardiola replaced Sudong with Dzeko and let him take a good rest.

Until the end of the game, both sides failed to score again.

In the end, Manchester City defeated Chelsea [-]-[-] with Su Dong's brace.

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After the coaching change, under the leadership of Di Matteo, Chelsea won consecutive victories and performed well, especially the reversal of Naples in the Champions League knockout round to advance, which won a lot of applause.

But this time losing to Manchester City made Di Matteo quite frustrated.

In his post-match press conference, Di Matteo said the onus for the defeat lay with him.

"The game was tough. Our players worked very hard, but our opponents were indeed stronger. As the head coach of the team, I lacked a clear understanding of this. I am willing to take responsibility for this loss."

Di Matteo also explained why he arranged for Torres to start, he thought it was because Drogba needed to rest.

"Against Manchester City, I think we need flexibility as a team, Torres has been in a good form, so I made a decision."

"I don't have any problems with Drogba. We have a good relationship. He is still one of the most important players in the team. I believe that he can continue to contribute to the team in the next games."

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Three days later, in the No.30 round of the Premier League, Manchester City challenged Stoke City away.

Stoke City, which played at home, was extremely tenacious. Even at their own home court, they formed a four-five-one formation to deal with Manchester City with a tight defense, and the players moved quite a lot.

The front center left a Crouch, and the central defenders were led by Shawcross and Robert Huth. The goalkeeper Begovic performed well. This central axis brought huge troubles to Manchester City.

Throughout the first half, the two sides played a [-]-[-] draw, and Manchester City failed to break through Stoke City's goal.

But not long after the start of the second half, an attack from Manchester City entered the penalty area of ​​the Stoke City team and was saved by goalkeeper Begovic.

Just when Manchester City was about to press in the frontcourt, Begovic suddenly made a long pass and hit the frontcourt directly.

Crouch got the first spot and gave it to Pennant, who grabbed the second spot from the right and headed back behind the Manchester City defense.

The ball flew into Manchester City's goal at a very fast speed, one to zero!

With eyes full of resignation, Joe Hart turned to look at the football in the goal line, and conceded the ball again!

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After conceding the goal, Manchester City launched a fierce attack on Stoke City, threatening Stoke City's goal continuously, but they still failed to score, which made Guardiola on the sidelines very anxious.

Before he could do nothing, he could only resort to the last weapon again.

Change Sudong!
No.70 minutes, Su Dong replaced Gareth Barry.

At this time, both Dzeko and Aguero were still on the court, and Manchester City pushed all the forwards up at once.

Obviously, Guardiola does not want to reap the first defeat of the season here.

After playing, Su Dong still moved freely and retreated actively, which looked more like a delay, while Aguero and Dzeko were still at the forefront, suppressing Stoke City's defense.

Only 4 minutes into the game, Leighton Bynes made a cross from the left. Su Dong stopped the ball and turned around. After getting rid of the entanglement of the defensive midfielder, before Shawcross came up, he volleyed vigorously with his right foot and kicked a long shot 32 meters away from the goal.

The long-range shot with an obvious arc made the goalkeeper Begovic only slightly touch the ball with his fingertips when he flew to save it, but it still couldn't prevent the ball from entering the net.

One to one!

World wave! ! ! !

But Su Dong didn't have time to celebrate at all, he ran straight back to his own half, and signaled his teammates to quickly take their positions, hurry up and let the game restart quickly.

Su Dong's momentum greatly boosted the morale of the Manchester City players.

Subsequently, Dzeko, Aguero, Hazard and other players continuously threatened Stoke City's goal. Manchester City pressed almost all the lines and formed a half-court suppression against Stoke City, but they still failed to break through Stoke City's defense.

Manchester City has not been able to break the deadlock on the field. Stoke City has been guarding the goal, never leaving the slightest chance for Manchester City, which makes the Manchester City players on the field more and more anxious.

Even, many people are already mentally prepared for a draw.

Especially after entering overtime, seeing that the deadlock could not be broken, Guardiola shook his head helplessly on the sidelines, apparently beginning to accept the result of the draw.

After all, Manchester City's unbeaten season is still maintained.

But at this time, in the 3rd minute of stoppage time, after Hazard got the ball from the left, he suddenly threw off the defender, made a low pass before the bottom line on the left, and sent the ball to the left corner of the small penalty area.

Aguero was more alert, ran over, and shot with his left foot without stopping the ball, but he didn't hit it hard, and the ball was saved by the goalkeeper Begovic who reacted quickly.

Because the shot came very quickly, Begovic was unable to hold the ball very suddenly, but let it go.

Dzeko and Robert Huth chased after them at the same time. As a result, the German central defender kicked the ball first, but failed to kick it far, and landed at the top of the penalty area.

Just when everyone in Stoke City breathed a sigh of relief, thinking that the ball had been cleared, they saw a majestic figure appearing at the top of the arc and stopped Robert Huth's clearing ball with his foot.

Only a bang was heard at the scene, and the ball flew out like a cannonball, passed through the cracks in the penalty area, and got into the right side of Stoke City's goal.

Goalkeeper Begovic just stood up from the ground at this time, how could he have time to save it?

At the last moment of stoppage time, the referee's whistle sounded for the goal to be valid.

Two to one, Manchester City reversed!
(End of this chapter)