Chapter 27 Already evenly matched
Regardless of whether Alan Hansen is optimistic about Rongguang's prospect of being the captain, the game begins, and things about Rongguang's captain must be temporarily put aside, and everyone's eyes will fall into the game.
The game is about the score, not who is the captain.
This summer, Manchester United is relatively low-key in the transfer market, mainly selling people.
They have lost two offensive players, Cristiano Ronaldo and Tevez, in the transfer market.
And Manchester United didn't have any exciting news about transfer introduction. Although they sold Cristiano Ronaldo and Tevez, Ferguson couldn't find a suitable candidate for a while with the 100 million euros they received from these two people.
On the offense, he added Valencia, which was from the Wigan Athletics transfer, costing Manchester United £17 million, which is the highest transfer that Manchester United spent this summer.
In addition, Michael Irving joined Manchester United from Newcastle United for free, which was somewhat beyond everyone's expectations.
After all, Michael Irving is a Liverpool player. With the bad relationship between Liverpool and Manchester United, it is hard to imagine that the Golden Boy Irving, who is deeply loved by Liverpool fans, will choose to join Manchester United...
In addition, Manchester United has invested very little in the transfer market.
They introduced French player Obertane from Bordeaux for 3 million pounds, and also introduced young French midfielder Pogba from French team Lov Al free.
This is really slim compared to Manchester City's signings.
Manchester City is Lucio, David Silva, and Gareth Barry and Sneider.
No wonder now everyone feels that Manchester United's advantage over Manchester City has disappeared...
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After the game started, it was indeed the case in terms of the scene.
Manchester United is not able to suppress Manchester City as before, and the two sides fought fiercely in the midfield.
They are entangled with each other, and they are difficult to solve.
Because of David Silva's injury and Sneijder just came to the team, Manchester City is not very advantageous in the midfield, but Rongguang and Robinho will often withdraw from the forward line to the midfield to help them, so Manchester City can play evenly with Manchester United in the midfield.
Ten minutes into the game, football is mostly in the midfield area, and there are few opportunities to play in the penalty area.
It took ten minutes to shoot two shots in total, with Manchester United and Manchester City playing one by one, which shows that neither of the two teams could gain the upper hand.
Manchester United learned lessons from Manchester City last season 丨 Strengthened defense against Glory.
At the same time, the defense line shrinks very far behind, and does not give Glory room to sprint.
It is to let Manchester City have to fight with them in position, and Benitez is good at defensive counterattacks that he is good at can't play at all.
Under such circumstances, Rong Guangyu Qian hit the front midfielder, leaving Berbatov alone to the front, and Robinho and he and Robinho were behind him. Don’t they look like two front midfielders?
The retreating position is still full of Manchester United players. No matter where he goes, there will always be Manchester United players surrounding him, but in different positions, the people surrounding him are also different.
Not to mention breaking through with the ball, it was difficult for him to connect the ball.
As long as other Manchester United players pass the football to Glory, a Manchester United player will be posted next to Glory immediately.
It took ten minutes, Rong Guang didn't even shoot a shot.
"It can be seen that Manchester United is still very afraid of Glory..."
"Of course, I played Manchester United twice last season, and Rong scored five goals by himself. If Ferguson didn't take Rong seriously, he would not deserve to sit in this position..."
In the commentator's commentator, Rongguang is actively running on the court, looking for opportunities that belong to him.
The situation is that he can hardly stop and catch the ball. Since that's the case, don't catch the ball.
Glory has already come up with a countermeasure.
While running, he raised his arms again and again, signaling his teammates to pass the ball to him.
However, teammates have passed the football more to others during this period. After all, Glory has attracted more attention from Manchester United's defensiveness, and it is normal for them to pass the football to other players who are not under Manchester United's focus on guard.
But Manchester City will still encounter a problem in its offense. That is, when they hit the front of Manchester United's penalty area, they will encounter a wall of iron formed by all Manchester United players.
Regardless of whether there are Manchester United players around them to defend, it is difficult for them to hit this wall.
If they cannot penetrate this wall, no matter how much ball possession and pass success rate they have outside, it will be meaningless and cannot be converted into goals.
With Sneijder sitting in the stands watching this game and David Silva was absent due to injury, the core of this Manchester City team is still Errano.
However, when Ellano faces Manchester United's iron wall, he has no good idea. After all, he is not a real organizer. His role in the Brazilian national team is more reflected in the attack in the back. He and Kaka are actually the same type of people, not an offensive organizer, but an offensive central advanceer, relying on his scoring ability.
Last season, Manchester City relied on Glory alone, and there were also reasons for this, because in terms of midfield organization, Manchester City was too weak, just relying on a half-bad Ellano.
This is why Benitez stepped into three midfielders in one go in the transfer signing this summer. Gareth Barry is Xavi Alonso when Benitez coached Liverpool. He has both offense and defense and can control the rhythm. His long pass is very good. David Silva is an organizer and an estimator. He is a versatile player who can provide the team with more offensive ideas, and Sneider is a typical organizer.
This is to completely replace the original Manchester City midfielder.
After Sneijder adapted to the team and gradually developed a tacit understanding with his new teammates, Elano would lose his current main position.
His strength and performance can no longer keep up with the team's requirements.
Ellano looked at Manchester United's dense defense line, and there was no way, and he was unwilling to take the risk of passing the football directly into the penalty area. The possibility of conceiving the ball was too great.
So he passed the football back to Gareth Barry.
Gareth Barry received the ball, and he was in the back, and there were no Manchester United players coming up to press him. He could control the ball more calmly and observe the situation.
In fact, for Barry, it was quite embarrassing to transfer to Manchester City. He was a little unwilling to do so at first, but he still wanted to go to Liverpool.
But after Liverpool didn't buy him last season, he completely lost interest in him. This summer, Daglish clearly told Barry's agent that Liverpool would not introduce him. Barry suddenly became nowhere to go, so he naturally was unwilling to stay in Aston Villa. He had agreed with Martin O'Neal to stay for another year last season. After the end of last season, Martin O'Neal must agree to him leave.
Now that Martin O'Neal has agreed to leave, he has nowhere to go?
The personal contract that Manchester City has issued for Barry is quite satisfying, so Barry finally agreed to come to Manchester City.
After coming to Manchester City, he was a little embarrassed after seeing the glory.
Because last season I was the first to jump out to provoke Rongguang and shouted that I wanted Rongguang to look good. As a result, Rongguang slapped in the face with a hat trick.
After that, he was always ridiculed by people. As long as he praised the glory, his name would appear as a green leaf.
Now he actually has the same team as Rongguang.
However, the first meeting with Rongguang reduced his embarrassment a lot, because Rongguang did not mention the old things again, but it was like nothing had happened, and there was no difference between treating him and other teammates.
Barry thought to himself that it was okay, but he didn't know that Rong Guang didn't remember this at all...
Now Barry has regarded himself as a Manchester City player, so Liverpool just go with the wind anyway. Anyway, his head coach is also the former Liverpool coach Benitez. When he was at Liverpool, Benitez was interested in Barrie.
So he went around and was still playing football under Benitez.
Because Barry had had such an experience with Rongguang, he was very worried that Manchester City fans would look at him with strange eyes. Rongguang is a large number of people and does not care about that. This does not mean that other Manchester City fans don’t care about it. Since he came to Manchester City, he has deeply felt the fanatical worship of Rongguang by Manchester City fans. They really regard Rongguang as God, and it is reasonable to let them do this. Looking at Rongguang’s performance last season, it will really make people think that he is possessed by God.
Therefore, they cannot tolerate any person who dares to provoke glory.
In order to avoid being excluded by Manchester City fans, Barry had to show himself desperately in the team, striving to show wonderful performances so that Manchester City fans can accept him too.
How to do it?
Just as he was thinking about what to do, he saw Glory running from the side to the middle, while raising his hand. Although he was following a Manchester United player, Barry decided to pass the football to Glory.
This is an active show of goodwill...
Thinking of this, Gareth Barry didn't hesitate and passed the football directly.
Instead of passing the football directly to Rongguang's feet, he passed a forward meter, which Rongguang needed to run two steps to receive the ball.
This is what Glory wants
He accelerated and rushed forward. Park Ji-sung, who followed him, could not compare with Rongguang in speed, and was immediately thrown away by Rongguang.
However, Park Ji-sung was not too panicked, but continued to follow Rongguang because he knew that at this distance, as long as Rongguang stopped the ball, he could catch up and hold on to him again.
But he didn't expect that when the football rolled over, Rongguang did not stop the ball, but directly swung his right foot and shot a long shot.
"Rong--Shot"
Before the commentator finished speaking, the football had already flown in front of the goal. All Manchester United fans stared at the scene with wide eyes and some horror.
At this moment, a big hand appeared in front of the football. The football hit the injured hard, then bounced upwards and flew out of the crossbar...
Corner ball
Manchester United fans vented their anger.
Chapter completed!