Array football

Chapter 88 Warm-up Match 1
On August 8rd, sit at home against the newly promoted Wimbledon Athletic in England C!The reason why Duncan chose Wimbledon Athletic as his opponent in the warm-up match was mainly to bully this team as an underdog!
However, the warm-up match is not considered a formal game, and the array system does not recognize the warm-up match, so Duncan simply does not use the array, but only relies on the players' own abilities.

In Duncan's view, the formation system should be an accelerator, not an engine.

The three warm-up matches were weak at first and then strong and weak again.The first game gives the players a feeling; the second game tests the quality of the team; the last game keeps the team in shape.This is Duncan's strategy for three games.

However, God seems to have made a joke with Duncan!
Because, Wimbledon Athletic does not seem to be a weak team.

Less than 3 minutes after the start of the game, Wimbledon Athletic, the visiting team, scored a goal.In the new England C team, a black-haired and yellow-skinned midfielder made an imaginative through pass. The Wimbledon Athletic striker rushed to the far corner of the goal before the young Manchester City centre-back Cole Luca turned around...

1: 0!

Duncan raised his eyebrows, a little surprised!

In this game, Duncan sent all newly joined players——

Trabelsi played at right back, Richards and Kohluka at center back, left back Heinze, midfield from left to right Martin Petrov, Hargreaves, Ella Nuo and Ljungberg are lined up, and the striker is Shevchenko and Bianchi's partner!

Isaacson was injured at the goalkeeper position, and the second goalkeeper Weaver took over.

Except for the right back and one center back, newcomers have been replaced at other positions.

Originally, Duncan thought that although the newly joined players accounted for more than half of the lineup, and there were indeed many unfavorable factors such as lack of coordination... However, the individual strength of the players on the field was much higher than that of the new English team. A team like Wimbledon Athletic should be a piece of cake, right?

The weekly salary of Shevchenko alone is twice the combined weekly salary of the entire Wimbledon team!
Unexpectedly, after the opening, not only was the opponent's first goal, but also faced with Wimbledon, which was united as one, Manchester City couldn't find any chances!
Wimbledon's playing style made Duncan's eyes shine. If there is a one-on-one gap, but Wimbledon can organize offense and defense around the black-haired and yellow-skinned player. This player runs tenaciously in the backcourt , is an important reason why Manchester City's offense returned without success.

From the perspective of ability, this player has even reached the Premier League level.

"This yellow-skinned, black-haired player named Chu Zhongtian is a Chinese player who belongs to Chelsea and is currently on loan at Wimbledon Athletic. Interestingly, he represented Wimbledon Athletic last season and played in the football team. They defeated Chelsea in the Total Cup. In that game, Chu Zhongtian scored twice alone." Assistant coach Jim Cassell got the information of this player from nowhere and whispered beside Duncan.

Duncan nodded, noncommittal.

Although it was a warm-up match, more than 2 fanatical Manchester City fans turned the city stadium into a terrifying hell for the visiting team. As long as the Wimbledon players got the ball, the boos like waves never stopped, but such a formation Obviously it can't scare the opponent out of his wits!

In the 34th minute of the game, Wimbledon scored again!

After only a few days of cooperation, Richards and Cole Luca still lacked a tacit understanding. The two "handed over" each other once, allowing the opposing Chinese player to seize the opportunity keenly and knocked on Weaver's door again.

2: 0!

As Manchester City fans stunned, the Wimbledon Athletic players rushed to the sidelines to embrace their manager Eames...

Being able to score goals against a strong Premier League team like Manchester City, even in a warm-up match, is precious...

Since you can score goals, why can't you win?
In the 44th minute of the game, Wimbledon relied on Chu Zhongtian's header to hit the goal to expand the score to 3:0. In the second half, Manchester City, which replaced the main lineup of last season, played more and more smoothly. Samaras scored 63rd in the game. Min received a Trabelsi cross and scored the first goal...

In the 89th minute, Mido contributed a beautiful assist...

Then there is nothing.

Nine and 10 minutes later, Manchester City, who was at home, finally lost the game 2:3.

This is a score that no one expected before the game, even the media in England did not expect that a laughing team that had just been promoted to the third division could beat the ambitious Manchester City in an away game!

"...To be honest, this ending surprised me, because before the game, the players and I were all aiming at a 10-0 or higher victory, but Wimbledon Athletic played with their own strength. Earned my respect...I bet signing that Chinese player was the best decision Mourinho ever made!"

This is Duncan's "failure speech" at the post-match press conference!
But no one has seriously thought about the meaning of Duncan's words, and no one has seriously examined the true strength of Wimbledon, which took away an unexpected victory at the City Stadium, whether it is the media or the fans. , all focused more attention on Duncan's loss!
Johnny jumped out without wasting time—

"Consecutive big-name signings, unsystematic training, and inexperienced head coach... I can almost predict the arrival of a season like Waterloo. Mr. Duncan has proved by practice that he is not suitable for coaching Manchester City. I really can't Imagine that this lineup with a price of more than 8000 million pounds actually lost to a little-known small club..."

Some reporters even took this news and went to interview Thaksin.As a result, it was naturally shut down, and it was only a warm-up match. Thaksin is not an impatient person.

More people turned their attention to the next game. In that game, Manchester City's opponent was Manchester United.

This summer, the strength of Manchester United, which has successively eaten Anderson, Carlos Tevez and Nani, has not declined but increased.After losing to Manchester City in the case of acquiring Hargreaves, Ferguson could only settle for the next best thing and introduce Aston Villa core and captain Gareth Barry. This transfer cost Ferguson 1300 million pounds.

In fact, Barry's worth is only about 1000 million pounds, but Villa coach Martin O'Neill grasped Ferguson's psychology that he must buy a midfielder, and he was sure that Ferguson would definitely buy Barry, which made Ferguson spend an extra 300 million pounds .

Ferguson, who has always been a winner in the transfer market, is rarely deflated.

The lost field will naturally be found on Manchester City!
Coupled with the deadly rivalry in the derby in the same city, the new and old grudges between Manchester City and Manchester United have occupied the pages of major newspapers.

The new aristocrat and the old overlord, who is the winner?
This will be a game destined to attract the attention of the world!

8 month 7 day.

At 16:00 in the afternoon, half of the city stadium is in the shadow and the other half is in the sun. The stadium is divided into two distinct parts.The noise in the stadium was loud. This was just a warm-up match, but it was rare that it was basically full of spectators.

"Beep..." The referee blew his whistle, and the game started.

Compared with the previous game, Duncan sent a mixed lineup of old and new, goalkeeper Isaacson was still injured, and Weaver went into battle.

Trabelsi, Joel Luka, Richards, and Heinze lined up in defense.

The midfield lined up from left to right with Martin Petrov, Barton, Hargreaves, and Sinclair. The striker was a combination of Samaras and Bianchi, a new one and an old one.

For Manchester United, only Carlos Tevez started the four major new aids, and the rest of the players stayed in last season's championship lineup.

Manchester United put on an aggressive posture from the very beginning, and the midfield team headed by Ronaldo cooperated tacitly, and quickly suppressed the Manchester City rookies who were still in the running-in period...

The game has just started less than 1 minutes.

C Ronaldo broke in from the left, swayed Hargreaves away with a dexterous feint, and shot a long shot in the penalty area, which almost made the Manchester City fans in the stands spit out their hearts. Goalkeeper Weaver did not respond, but the goal post Turned down C Ronaldo...

corner kick!

Scholes' corner kick went straight to the near post. Under the interference of Richards, Manchester United defender Ferdinand pushed the ball over the baseline...

The exclamation of the fans sounded in the stands!
On the bench, Ferguson smiled triumphantly.He intentionally arranged for Ronaldo to embarrass Hargreaves, in order to explain to the world: Man City who robbed me was actually just robbing a parallel import...

Sometimes the old man is a little bit small-minded like a child...

(End of this chapter)