Football: start copying peak Messi attributes

Chapter 328 International Champions Cup, Manchester City slaughtered AC Milan 72!

The fact that Manchester City spent 1000 million euros to take away a young defender from the Soviet Super League did not attract much attention from the outside world.

After all, Manchester City used to buy people for tens of millions of euros, and it only cost 1000 million euros to buy Van Dijk. In the opinion of reporters, this amount is too small.

How much strength can a defender at this price have?

Compared with Van Dijk, they are still more concerned about the transfer of those big-name stars in the Manchester City team.

However, as Lin Quan, Kroos and De Bruyne and others appeared on Manchester City's training ground one after another, the transfer rumors rumored by the outside world suddenly collapsed.

If these stars really want to transfer, they will not return to Manchester City for pre-season training.

After a short training camp, Manchester City set off non-stop to the United States to participate in the International Champions Cup.

The International Champions Cup is a commercial event held in 2009. Although the name is very loud, it is a warm-up game.

However, because most of the invited teams are wealthy teams, and the participating teams can get a lot of money.

Therefore, most of the teams that are invited will not refuse. After all, they can make money and take the opportunity to complete the pre-season warm-up training. Why not do this kind of thing that kills two birds with one stone?

After being held for five consecutive times, the International Champions Cup has become more and more influential, and more and more TV stations are willing to buy broadcasting rights.

In particular, almost all of the eight teams participating this year are European giants, and there is no situation where regional leagues participate in making up the numbers as before.

The eight participating teams are: Manchester City, Liverpool, Manchester United, AC Milan, Inter Milan, Roma, Real Madrid and Olympiacos.

Except for Olympiacos, the other teams are almost all giants.

Maybe Manchester City and Rome are slightly worse, but they are also quasi-rich.

This made this year's game attract a large number of fans to watch the game. The organizer has just started to open the pre-sale of tickets, and the tickets for each game were immediately snapped up by enthusiastic fans.

Among them, the match between Real Madrid and Manchester City has attracted the most attention.

After all, only these two teams have superstars.

The organizer also understands the market very well, and specially scheduled the finals to be held at the stadium of the University of Michigan.

The stadium is huge and can accommodate more than 10 people.

If it is the final match between Real Madrid and Manchester City, then the organizer will be able to make a fortune just by selling tickets!

According to the competition system, the 8 participating teams are first divided into two groups, the top two teams in the group enter the semi-finals, and the winners of the semi-finals advance to the final.

As the two most popular teams in this competition, Real Madrid and Manchester City were divided into two different groups.

In the group where Manchester City is located, in addition to Manchester City, the remaining three teams are: Liverpool, Olympiacos and AC Milan.

The four teams in Real Madrid's group are Real Madrid, Manchester United, Inter Milan and Roma.

In comparison, the team strength of the Real Madrid group is more average.

Especially in the summer, Manchester United, which has been frantically signing in, has every chance to overturn Real Madrid and grab the first place in the group.

As for the two Serie A teams, Inter Milan and Roma, due to the decline of Serie A, the outside world is not very optimistic about them.

As for the qualifying result of Manchester City's group, Manchester City will definitely qualify, and the weakest Olympiacos will be eliminated with a high probability.

As for who can advance between Liverpool and AC Milan, it depends on their results against each other.

As the new Premier League and Champions League champions, Manchester City was scheduled for the opening game.

Their opponent is Serie A giants AC Milan.

Because it was a warm-up match, both sides arranged a lot of substitutes.

The main players of the two teams sat on the bench, talking and laughing happily as they watched the substitutes work hard on the field.

In a warm-up match of this nature, there is no need to start with all the main players.

Because there is no limit to the number of substitutions on both sides, there is no limit to the number of substitutes.

As long as you are willing, you can replace all 11 people on the field in one go.

But even with the substitute lineup, there is still a gap in strength between the two teams' substitutes.

After the opening, Manchester City played very proactively.

Only 11 minutes into the game, Jovetic took the lead in scoring.

Two minutes later, Sinclair scored another goal, Manchester City 2:2 AC Milan.

Although it was only a warm-up match, the team fell behind by two goals in the opening 13 minutes, which made AC Milan's head coach Inzaghi feel a little uncomfortable.

Inzaghi began to stand up and shouted at the players on the field, asking them to play more proactively and positively.

However, not only did his shouting not work, but it made the players a little bit at a loss.

In the 23rd minute, Navas scored another goal, and Manchester City extended their lead to 3 goals.

After 4 minutes, Manchester City once again expanded the score, and the score on the field has become 4:0.

That's not counting, in the 32nd minute, Jovetic scored another goal, Manchester City 5:0 AC Milan.

Seeing that the team was about to be beaten into a tragedy, Inzaghi couldn't sit still.

He replaced four main players in one breath, trying to reverse the situation.

But the effect of this substitution was not good. Central defender Van Dijk and goalkeeper Keylor Navas, who represented Manchester City for the first time, performed well in this game and resolved AC Milan's offense many times.

Especially Navas, his god-level saves made AC Milan players almost doubt their lives.

Fortunately, Muntari successfully pulled back a goal in the 42nd minute, allowing AC Milan to save a little bit of face.

But after the opening of the second half, Manchester City also began to make substitutions.

The main players such as David Silva, Kroos, Aguero and De Bruyne began to appear one after another.

After these people came on the field, the situation on the field immediately changed drastically. From the previous AC Milan besieging Manchester City, it became Manchester City besieging AC Milan.

AC Milan also made personnel adjustments immediately, and Inzaghi replaced 4 main players again. At this time, AC Milan on the field is almost the full main lineup.

On Manchester City's side, at least half of the main players are sitting on the bench and not moving!
The fans who came to the scene saw more and more stars appearing on the field, and the game became more and more exciting.

Everyone's emotions were mobilized, and the voice of cheering and shouting began to become enthusiastic.

However, the atmosphere on the scene has not yet reached its peak, because more than 5 fans are looking forward to the appearance of that man!

"Change Lin Huang!"

"Let Emperor Lin play!"

"We want to see Emperor Lin!"

Seeing that the game is almost 70 minutes away, Manchester City has been slow to let Lin Quan appear on the field, and the fans at the scene are not happy.

They began to shout Lin Quan's name at the top of their voices to put pressure on the tournament organizers and the Manchester City coaching staff.

The team led by a big score and completely suppressed AC Milan on the scene.

This made Manchester City coach Pellegrini very happy. After hearing the voices of the fans, he turned his head to the side with a smile and asked:
"Lin, do you want to go out and warm up?"

Lin Quan nodded. Although the overall situation of the game has been decided, as a fanatic, he has always taken good care of his fans.

So, in the 75th minute, Lin Quan was replaced.

Seeing that Lin Quan finally made his debut, the fans cheered enthusiastically.

"Forest!"

"Forest!"

More than 5 fans in the audience chanted Lin Quan's name in unison. This movement felt like they were welcoming their football emperor!
The fans were so cheering, Lin Quan couldn't help but express it.

After he came on the field, he scored directly with a free kick, helping the team further expand the score.

At the last moment of the game, after Lin Quan received the ball from the side, he avoided the interceptions of many AC Milan defenders one after another.

Almost inspected the entire back line of AC Milan, then broke into the penalty area, and calmly completed the goal!

This goal completely detonated the audience, and the fans were all impressed by Lin Quan's wonderful performance!
In the end, Manchester City bloodbathed AC Milan with a score of 7:2 in the opening game.

Although it is a warm-up match, the point difference is still too outrageous.

In the handshake session after the game, AC Milan's new coach Inzaghi looked very ugly when he shook hands with Pellegrini.

His predecessor, Seedorf, was fired by AC Milan because of his poor performance in leading the team. He had just taken office, and such a tragedy happened.

This makes Inzaghi feel a little pessimistic about his coaching prospects in AC Milan!
This Milan team is far from the Milan team when I played football!
The unlucky Milan duo are all unlucky together!
Manchester City has just bloodbathed AC Milan, and on the other side, Inter Milan has also fallen at the feet of Real Madrid.

However, compared to AC Milan's brittle defeat, Inter Milan fought to the last moment, but unfortunately they were unlucky and fell in the penalty shootout.

There is no tie in the World Cup, and after a tie, it will go to a penalty shootout.

In other games, Manchester United beat Roma 3:2 and Liverpool beat Olympiacos 1:0.

The Premier League team has won all three games and remains unbeaten.

The Serie A teams lost all three games, showing their decline.

This makes the Serie A fans who watch the game, especially those old fans who have experienced the most glorious era of Serie A, extremely sad:

Alas, it seems that Serie A is really in decline!

The grand occasion of the Little World Cup no longer exists!
After three days of rest, the second round of the competition began soon.

This round of Manchester City ushered in a Premier League civil war, their opponent is the Red Army Liverpool.

There are many grievances between the two teams, so this game was full of gunpowder from the very beginning.

In order to be able to win this game, Pellegrini arranged a half-main lineup.

Van Dijk and Navas continued to start, Milner, Fernandinho, Kolarov, Jovetic, Aguero and other players also played.

The situation with Liverpool is similar, neither side wants to lose.

The game was very tense, neither side scored a goal in the first half.

In the 53rd minute of the second half, Jovetic scored first and finally broke the deadlock.

However, Manchester City's lead could not be maintained for long. In the 57th minute, Henderson's goal helped Liverpool equalize the score.

Subsequently, the two teams began to make substitutions.

In less than 10 minutes, all the players on the field were replaced by the main lineup of both sides.

But for Manchester City, Van Dijk was still left on the field by Pellegrini.

The Chilean engineer seemed to have high hopes for the young man and was willing to accelerate his growth with such pressurized exercises.

"Is this really good? If he makes a mistake in the game and causes us to lose, it may greatly damage his confidence!"

The assistant coach said with some concern that he felt that Van Dijk should not be put under such pressure so early.

"It doesn't matter, it's just a warm-up match. If you can't stand the pressure of this kind of game, will you be able to stand it in the league and the Champions League?"

While explaining, Pellegrini stared at Van Dijk, wanting to see what kind of surprise he could bring to himself.

Unlike goalkeeper Navas, Van Dijk has not played in the five major leagues before.

And the intensity of this game has undoubtedly reached or even exceeded the intensity of the five major leagues.

And all the teammates around him are the main players, only he is a substitute, and he is still a rookie who has just joined the team.

This made Van Dijk feel a lot of pressure and was quite nervous.

But he is not the kind of person who is timid!

In the face of tremendous pressure, not only did Van Dijk's performance not decline, but he played better and better.

In several defenses, he not only froze Sturridge, but also froze Balotelli.

Although Balotelli's head is abnormal, everything below the head is world-class.

His strong physical fitness may not be able to withstand the average defender.

But in front of Van Dijk, Balotelli didn't take advantage of anything, and was guarded to death!
Seeing Van Dijk's steady performance, Manchester City's coaching staff breathed a sigh of relief.

On the other side, Liverpool coach Rodgers was at a loss.

Where did Manchester City's big defender come from?
How come he has no impression?
After inquiring about it from the assistant, I realized that this was bought by Manchester City from the Celtics not long ago.

And it only cost 1000 million euros!
Can 1000 million euros buy a defender of this level?
There are ten thousand grass mud horses galloping past in Rogers' heart!

Such a good thing, why can't it be our turn for Liverpool?
If he had known that the Celtics had such an excellent guard seed, let alone 1000 million euros, even if it was 1500 million or even 2000 million euros, he would have snatched it!
There are really fewer and fewer good defenders now, and they are getting more and more expensive!

It's all because of that fool in Paris Saint-Germain, who bought three defenders more expensive than the other, which directly raised the value of defenders in the transfer market!

After the defense withstood the opponent's offensive pressure, Manchester City's powerful midfield began to show off!

Under the repeated attacks of Lin Quan, Aguero, De Bruyne and others, Liverpool's defense collapsed instead.

In the 67th minute, Lin Quan scored and helped the team regain the lead.

Eight minutes later, Aguero scored another goal after receiving a through ball from De Bruyne, and Manchester City sealed the victory.

At the last moment of the game, Liverpool tried to launch a counterattack, but was quickly counterattacked by Manchester City. Lin Quan assisted David Silva and scored another goal, fixing the score at 4:1.

In two consecutive games, Manchester City has achieved big victories, allowing them to qualify for the group stage one round ahead of schedule.

And scoring 11 goals in two games, this terrifying offensive firepower also made other participating teams feel terrified!

The strength of Manchester City has not declined at all, but has become stronger!
(End of this chapter)