Football: start copying peak Messi attributes

Chapter 337 The Wind Has Changed
"Diego Costa's scoring efficiency feels like he's about to win the Premier League Golden Boot!"

"Be optimistic, maybe you will win the European Golden Boot!"

"It's really unbelievable that someone can surpass Lin Quan in the number of goals!"

"So, the Spanish striker is really strong!"

"Indeed, whoever uses it will know!"

"Torres gave a thumbs up!"

After Chelsea's four consecutive victories, the Blues fans are going crazy.

When they heard that the team bought another Spanish striker and spent 5000 million pounds, they all drummed in their hearts.

I am afraid that a situation like Torres will appear!

Torres is very strong, but he is not suitable for Chelsea. After joining Chelsea, he only scored 46 goals in three years. There is no Premier League scoring double in any season!

Chelsea fans have been very polite to him by not putting the word "parallel imports" on his forehead.

"Well, if we had Diego Costa last season, we wouldn't have missed so many chances!"

Thinking of their failures in the league and the Champions League last season, the Blues fans are a little bit uneasy.

"What are you talking about so much, it makes us look like bitter wives, wouldn't it be enough to get back what we lost last year?"

"That's right, believe in Mourinho, believe in the soldiers of the Blue Army, we will definitely get back our championship trophy this year!"

The fans of the Blues are full of confidence and firmly believe that they can beat Manchester City and regain their own championship trophy.

After seeing Chelsea's four-game winning streak, the outside world also began to build momentum.

BBC Sport published a column listing Mourinho's record in the second year of coaching a team so far.

Whether in Porto, Chelsea or Inter Milan and Real Madrid, after Mourinho came to the team, the record in the second year was very good.

His team's rising momentum in the second year is very obvious. In the first year, he helped Porto stabilize the situation. In the second year, he swept all domestic honors. In the third year, he even stabilized the top of Europe!
This is the only Champions League champion not in the five major leagues for decades!
In Chelsea, Mourinho helped Chelsea win the championship when he first arrived, and led the team to successfully defend the title in the second year, breaking Manchester United's monopoly on the Premier League trophy.

In Inter Milan, Mourinho won two Serie A titles. In the second year, he also eliminated the mighty Cosmos team Barcelona in the European war. After 45 years, he helped Inter Milan win the second Champions League trophy in team history!

Even in Real Madrid, when they were humiliated by Barcelona 5:0 in the first year, they also succeeded in revenge in the second year, leading Real Madrid to break the La Liga record with 100 points and snatch the league championship from Barcelona!

Mourinho seems to have some kind of magical power. The team he coached, recharged in the first year, broke out in the second year, and won various honors!

However, in the third year, he began to slump, various conflicts broke out in the team, and then he was kicked out...

Of course, it is not yet the third year, and it is still the second year of the heyday of Mu's second period, so the BBC is very optimistic about Chelsea's results this year in the column.

In British football, there are still many people who agree with the BBC's point of view.

Everyone agrees that Chelsea this season is likely to be the best and most effective year for Chelsea since the second period of Mu.

So they will definitely become the main obstacle for Manchester City to defend their title in the league!
It just so happened that in the fifth round of the Premier League, the two teams are about to have a strong showdown.

In the end, it was Manchester City who defeated Chelsea and established their own Premier League dynasty.

It was still Chelsea who defeated Manchester City strongly and regained their own glory.

After this game, everything will be revealed.

However, before the start of the fifth round of the Premier League, both teams will participate in a Champions League group stage.

The outside world can evaluate the status of both teams based on the performance of the two teams in the Champions League group stage.

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September 9, 17:05 pm, Etihad Stadium.

Manchester City ushered in the challenge of Zenit St. Petersburg, their first opponent in the Champions League group stage.

Zenit was the champion of the Russian Super League last season, while Manchester City was the champion of the Premier League last season.

So before the game, many Russian media hyped this game as a championship battle!
In the past few seasons, the gold dollar football of the Russian Super League has been playing well, and the annual investment is very large, often becoming the king of the European transfer period.

Affected by this, the competitiveness of the Russian Super League teams in the Champions League has improved a lot.

The Zenit team also had its own glorious moments.

In the 2007-2008 season, they eliminated all powerful teams in the Europa League and won the Europa League championship.

In that Europa League, Zenit's 4-0 bloodbath against Bayern at home was regarded as a standard by their fans and regarded as a great shame by Bayern.

What made them even more proud was that in the ensuing European Super Cup, they defeated the Champions League champion Red Devils Manchester United 2:1 and reached the top of Europe!
But that's all in the past. Zenit's record in recent years is far less crazy than before.

Even if they bought Brazil's main striker Hulk at a high price, they failed to make further breakthroughs.

Therefore, the British media did not buy the hype of the Russians!
In their view, the Russians are shameless touching porcelain.

At the level of the Russian Super League, dare to compare with our world's No. [-] league?

Manchester City is not only the champion of the Premier League, but also the champion of the Champions League.

You, Zenit, were lucky last season. You made it to the knockout round with 6 points. Do you really think of yourself as a green onion?
Before the game, British fans were very much looking forward to seeing Manchester City teach the arrogant Russians a lesson in their home court, and let them know that the sky is high and the earth is strong!
Pellegrini has not been affected by the outside world, he is still preparing for the game according to the normal rhythm.

Considering that they will face the challenge of league champion Chelsea at home in a few days, and Zenit's strength in this game is not too strong.

Therefore, Pellegrini used a large number of substitutes to play, and Van Dijk was also reused by him, replacing Demichelis who took a break.

This is not the first time Van Dijk has played in the Champions League as a starter. When he was with the Celtics last season, he was the team's main central defender.

And played all 6 group games on behalf of the Celtics. Unfortunately, the Celtics did not have a good record and were finally out of the group with 1 win and 5 losses.

This season, in the stronger defending champion team, Van Dijk is full of expectations for the Champions League results in the new season.

Lin Quan thought that the other party would feel nervous in such an occasion, but after observing for a while, he found that Van Dyke was not only not nervous, but was eager to try.

The Manchester City fans who came to the scene saw Van Dijk, the lore hero, appearing on the field, and they also enthusiastically encouraged him.

The header lore at Arsenal's home court in the last game made many Manchester City fans remember this tall man.

If Van Dijk can perform as well in this game as in the previous game, then his status in the hearts of Manchester City fans will definitely be further improved.

In Zenit's lineup, there is a player who is very familiar to Manchester City fans-Javi Garcia.

He was still a member of Manchester City last season. This season, in order to seek more playing time, he chose to transfer and leave.

And the team he joined was Zenit St. Petersburg.

Fate was such a coincidence that his first Champions League game after joining Zenit was to return to the stadium where he had fought.

While waiting to enter the player tunnel, Xavi Garcia seemed to want to explain something when he walked up to Lin Quan with some trepidation:
"Lin, I..."

"Come on, play well, and strive to qualify together!"

Lin Quan roughly guessed what he was going to say, so he took the initiative to give him a warm hug, patted his back, and encouraged him.

"Well, I will!"

Encouraged by Lin Quan, Harvey Garcia felt a big stone in his heart fall to the ground.

When the players entered the field, the Manchester City fans who came to the scene unfurled a banner with the slogan welcoming Xavi Garcia back to the Etihad Stadium.

This scene moved Xavi Garcia very much. He played very actively in the midfield after the game started.

In the 4th minute, Harvey Garcia sent a deadly pass in the middle.

Hulk seized the opportunity of Manchester City defender Mangala's defensive error, dribbled the ball into the penalty area, and sent the ball into the Manchester City goal with a blast.

There was an uproar!
The fans of Blue Moon are a little unbelievable. Only 4 minutes into the game, Manchester City fell behind?
After assisting his teammates to score, Harvey Garcia restrained himself from celebrating.

But Hulk rushed to the cameras in the corner, growling and beating his chest like the real Hulk.

Pellegrini was very dissatisfied with Mangala's mistake. The opponent was Manchester City's biggest signing this summer.

But judging from the opponent's performance in the past few games, it is difficult for Pellegrini to have enough trust in him.

To be honest, his performance is not even as good as Van Dijk, whose transfer fee is only a quarter of his transfer fee.

But it is less than 5 minutes now, it would be too radical to replace him so soon.

Substitution before the end of the first half represents the head coach's extreme dissatisfaction with the player. This kind of behavior often leads to conflicts between players and coaches.

So Pellegrini decided to take another look!
If his performance hasn't improved, it won't be too late to replace him at halftime.

However, Mangala quickly proved with his actions that Pellegrini's decision was wrong!

In the 22nd minute of the game, Mangala once again made a fatal mistake. He went over the top of the penalty area and missed the ball to the opponent's midfielder Witsel.

The latter seized the opportunity and swept the ball into the goal with a strafing shot.

Navas had nothing to do with the ball, the opponent was too close to the goal when he shot.

If the first goal was lost, Manchester City fans just felt that the team's state was not right, and they didn't feel much worry or panic.

Then as they conceded the second goal in the first half, Manchester City fans really started to panic.

The team's defense line is like tofu. The guy wearing the No. 15 jersey feels like an undercover agent sent by the opponent.

How can you win with such a tofu dregs line of defense?

The goal was lost at a very bad time. Before the goal was lost, Manchester City launched a siege on Zenit's goal in succession, almost equalizing the score.

But after losing the second goal, Manchester City's offensive stagnated and the team's morale was severely damaged.

On the other hand, Zenit, after they scored the second goal, the whole team fell into madness.

We actually scored 2 goals at home to the defending champions!

We're going to beat the defending champions!

On the sidelines, Pellegrini's face was livid.

He called Demichelis up, and after admonishing him, he was about to replace him.

In the 25th minute, Manchester City made personnel adjustments.

Demichelis came on to replace Mangala who was in poor form.

The latter was obviously in a very bad mood when he left the field, ignoring Pellegrini who was standing on the long side.

This scene was caught by the reporters at the scene!

The reporters' eyes lit up, and they all made up short essays of hundreds of words in their hearts, trying to analyze the disagreement between Manchester City's generals and the huge conflict in the dressing room.

After Demichelis came on the field, Manchester City's defense stabilized.

Zenit's offense has not achieved as good results as before!
In this game, although Mangala's performance was terrible, Van Dijk's performance was remarkable.

Without his steady performance on the defensive line, Manchester City might concede more than 2 goals!

After the defense line was stabilized, Manchester City's offense finally improved.

In the 38th minute of the first half, Lin Quanlian took the lead, seized the loopholes in the opponent's defense, and hit the upper left corner of the goal with a long shot from outside the penalty area, helping Manchester City recover a goal.

At halftime, Pellegrini stormed back to the dressing room.

I planned to have a good communication with Mangala, but found that the other party was not in the locker room at all.

This made his anger soar in a flash, and his blood pressure suddenly rose!
This guy, it seems impossible not to deal with it!

In the second half, they changed sides and fought again, and Manchester City continued to make substitutions.

David Silva comes on, replacing Milner.

This substitution had an immediate effect. Taking advantage of David Silva this time, Manchester City successively launched strong attacks from the left.

In the 58th minute, David Silva sent a cross from the left. Aguero, who outflanked the goal, missed the first point. The opponent's goalkeeper also made a misjudgment and failed to touch the ball after the attack.

Lin Quan, who made the late point, picked up a leak, stretched out his foot easily, and put the ball into the goal.

The score became 2:2 and Manchester City equalized the score.

After the score was equalized, Lin Quan didn't waste time to celebrate, but immediately stood up, rushed into the goal, fished out the ball, and returned to the center circle with the football in his arms to prepare for the kick-off again.

The Zenit players watched their victory fly away, all of them looked very frustrated.

Xavi Garcia couldn't help sighing, with Lin here, Manchester City is still so difficult to beat!

Seeing that the situation was not good, Zenit's head coach immediately gestured for the team to retreat across the board and stick to a draw.

3 points is impossible to get, this 1 point must not be lost!

However, it will not be so easy to keep the tie after Manchester City's thorough momentum.

After Zenit shrunk back to defend with full force, City's attack became more violent.

In the 78th minute of the second half, Cross made a long shot to help the team reverse the score.

Five minutes later, De Bruyne scored directly with a free kick, fixing the score at 5:4.

Manchester City finally won the new season's Champions League at home.

But this victory is not the same as many people in the outside world expected, especially when Chelsea next door beat Schalke 4 0:04.

This difficult victory of Manchester City has been completely compared!

So, before the battle between Manchester City and Chelsea came, the wind direction of the outside world changed.

Optimistic about Chelsea's voice, there are more!

(End of this chapter)