Chapter 42 The Monster from the Stars(1/2)
Manchester City's away challenge to Portsmouth is the fourth round of the league. After this game, the league will be temporarily suspended for two weeks, because the next two national teams will be matched, and national teams around the world will play. In Europe, next year's World Cup qualifiers are not over yet, and they will have to fight for the right to qualify for the World Cup.
So in the next two weeks, the national team competition will be the focus of everyone's attention, which is related to who can qualify and who cannot.
And in the league before these two national team games, the attention was not that high.
However, in this case, Manchester City scored a big away score on the road
They beat Portsmouth 60 away
Rong Guang scored twice in the game, while Berbatov completed a hat-trick. In addition, central defender Lucio scored his first official goal in joining Manchester City with his head.
The commentator and reporters both noticed that during the game, Manchester City players were in very good shape, full of fighting spirit, and were merciless.
He didn't slow down because he had already led Portsmouth twice in the first half.
They scored four goals in the second half and completely killed the game.
Poor Portsmouth never expected them to be treated like this at their home court.
What made Manchester City perform so well in this game?
When interviewing with reporters after the game, every Manchester City player said that this result was normal and there was nothing to make a fuss about.
“Because we are strong.”
They said so.
It seems that there is nothing strange about a team that ranks first in the league, defeating the second-last team in the league with a big score...
No one knows that Manchester City players are expressing their dissatisfaction with previous public opinion in this way and their ambitions for the Champions League.
You said we are not strong enough?
Then we will prove it to you
If 60 is not enough, there is something next
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During the national team competition, Manchester City's Carrington training base was obviously much deserted than usual, and many international players left Manchester and returned to their respective national teams.
This can actually reflect from another aspect that Manchester City's strength has been really enhanced.
How could Manchester City have so many international players in the past?
Manchester City now has Dutch international Sneijder, Brazil international Robinho, Elano and Lucio, Bulgarian international Berbatov and Martin Petrov, Argentina international Zabaleta, England international Gareth Barry, Belgian international Kompani, Swiss international Deldion, Spanish international David Silva, Irish international Dunn, Chinese international Sun Hai...
Moreover, most of these international players are the main players of their respective national teams.
After they left, half of the team was almost empty.
The training base suddenly became much quieter.
The glory of the national team's mission is still as usual, and as usual, he came to the training base in advance and then trained alone on the training ground.
Whether there are people or not, whether there is normal training, he is like this. It seems that nothing in the world can stop him from training.
However, the situation today is a little different. When he was sweating profusely on the training ground, he suddenly found that there were more people on the sidelines where there were usually no one.
He stopped his training and looked over, and was surprised to find that it was David Silva
He was stunned at first because he knew that David Silva was a Spanish international, so he should be in the Spanish national team at this time...
But soon Rongguang remembered that David Silva was injured and was only recovering from injury. He was undergoing restorative training in the team.
Of course I didn't go to the national team...
David Silva had been training alone before, and he didn't appear in front of everyone many times, so Rongguang almost forgot this...
After seeing David Silva, Rong Guang stopped training and walked over.
"Good morning, David."
As the captain, he was very natural, but David Silva was a little unnatural after seeing the glory.
"Uh, good morning, good morning..." he paused, and then said. "Captain."
David Silva, who appeared in front of Glory, was a little embarrassed.
He was originally curious and wanted to see if Rongguang would stick to his training when the team was not normal.
Unexpectedly, after he came to the training ground, he saw Rongguang training.
He originally wanted to take a few glances and leave, but he didn't expect that when he saw the content of Rongguang training, he was completely frightened and stood there blankly, forgetting not to be seen by Rongguang.
What did he see?
He saw Glory kicking the football towards the goal one by one.
At first he thought it was ordinary long-range shooting training and nothing was good at.
When he saw the football flying in the air during class, he widened his eyes - the football in the air was almost motionless and flew into the goal.
Isn't this the "fallen leaf" free kick he scored in the Champions League qualifier against the Celtics?
After Rong Guang scored a goal, European media at that time said that Rong Guang scored an incredible "leaf-falling ball".
Although Jose Alemani named such a free kick "Elevator Ball", in Europe, people still think it is a fallen leaf ball.
The entire noun "elevator ball" does not appear.
Logically speaking, it should be not until the 22nd European Cup that it will be named by the "Milan Sports" because of an elevator ball in Pirlo...
David Silva was still in recovery during the game against the Celtics. He did not go to Scotland with the team, but watched the live TV broadcast in his apartment.
When he saw this shocking goal, his initial reaction was also shocked - how could Rong play such a goal?
Then he thought that it was something that was lucky to get involved.
The media's comments after the game also indirectly confirmed his views.
Many people think that this goal of Glory is very likely.
Of course, the media said that this kind of football made two consecutive changes in the air is luck, but David Silva understood that this kind of leaf-falling ball of glory is all lucky.
He knew Glory would play free kicks, but he should have a left-footed banana ball.
This has been proven in the FA Cup final last season. He didn't even have any other banana balls with his left foot, and he didn't even have the right foot banana balls. All free kicks were kicked with his left foot.
There is only one exception, which is the long-range free kick called "High-strength"...
But that kick is a fixed-point long shot, and it cannot be considered a free kick at all...
So David Silva naturally believed that Glory could not learn to fallen leaves in such a short time. This ball must have been tricked out by him wanting to copy the ball from last season's FA Cup final.
But today, when David Silva stood on the sidelines, he saw Glory kicking the ball again and again in the air without spinning.
His previous conclusion that he had vowed was instantly overturned.
Could it be that ball...wasn't it a good thing to get in by luck?
"Are you practicing long shots or..." David Silva asked in order to figure out this question.
"Oh, practice free kicks." Rongguang said.
"But why didn't I see the props on the wall..."
"No need, I'm mainly practicing the accuracy of exerting force and touching the ball, so I don't need a human wall." Rongguang introduced.
"The accuracy of practicing force and touching the ball?" David Silva linked what he saw just now with the ball in the game against the Celtics. This ball has special force skills and contact parts requirements... It seems that Rong Guang is really practicing falling leaves.
But...how is it possible?
How could it be learned in such a short time?
"I remember your previous free kick wasn't... a curve ball?" asked David Silva.
Rongguang smiled: "Ah, this is what I have learned."
really
David Silva thought to himself that it was really a new study but...
"Newly learned? Have you learned it?" he asked in surprise.
Rongguang scratched his head embarrassedly: "It's not a question of learning, it's just a first step... I've only practiced for three months... To be exact, it's two and a half months, and I'm not quite proficient."
But David Silva's mouth was about to collapse.
After only two and a half months of practice, I can play a ball of this quality?
"You're practicing like this?" David Silva became more and more curious.
"Just practice like this, kick the ball towards the goal..."
"Just practice like this?"
"Of course, just repeat it all. Aren't the exercises all repeated?"
"Then how many times have you repeated it?"
"I don't know this anymore." Rong Guang shook his head. "I knew that in June, I repeated it 21,600 times in half a month..."
David Silva coughed in fear.
To be continued...