The first tumor in football

Chapter 174: Goals are worthless in the face of happiness.

Time flies and it is December.

On the first day of December, there is almost one thing that all fans are talking about.

That is the match between Ipswich and Manchester City which will be held in the evening.

Nearly two-thirds of the first half of the English Premier League 17/18 season has passed.

Currently in the Premier League standings, except for the first and second place, the points of the remaining teams are very close.

Arsenal are currently ranked fifth in the standings, only three points away from fourth-placed Chelsea, and it seems they can secure fourth place at any time.

Ranked third is the Red Army Liverpool.

The points gap between them and Chelsea is only two points.

But the points between the first and second place formed a cliff-like gap with Liverpool!
Currently in the Premier League standings, Ipswich Town and Manchester City have the same points, both ten points higher than Liverpool!
In fact, the main reason for this is that Liverpool, which had a great start, suffered a huge blow to the players' confidence after the match with Ipswich Town, so that they went without winning in the following games until recently.

Ipswich is currently ranked first with a huge goal difference advantage, ahead of Manchester City.

This season's Premier League has left many fans exclaiming in disbelief.

After all, they have never seen a team that has just been promoted from the Championship directly occupy the top spot in the Premier League standings for nearly four-fifths of the time, and even now still occupies the top spot.

Even Leicester City, which created the Foxes miracle, did not perform as amazingly as Ipswich.

Not to mention the Premier League, even looking at the entire world of football, no team can achieve Ipswich's current results.

If Ipswich is the biggest dark horse in football history, then Manchester City can be said to be the strongest and most stable top club in the Premier League.

In their previous games, like Ipswich, they also defeated five other Premier League big six.

As the last card of the Premier League's top clubs and the dark horse Ipswich Town, which is inexplicably endowed with the spirit of "rebellion" by the fans, the confrontation between the two teams naturally aroused heated discussions among the fans.

[Rational analysis, what time does the game start tonight? ]

[I don't know exactly, I just heard that the gambling company has sent someone to assassinate Song Wen.]

【Manchester City is good at passing and controlling the ball, so it was really hard to play against Song Wen today.】

[If you are not my friend, how dare you address our Lord by his name? 】

[This game is very important for Song Zema. I heard that La Pang has already started to contact various clubs frequently. ]

[In a few weeks, the winter transfer window will open. I wonder where Song will go. ]

[Does Song Wen have to leave? Can't he just stay as Tractor Boy? I finally see his feelings.]

[I guess with Song Wen's current worth, even if he doesn't want to leave, Ipswich will make him leave.]

[Indeed, for a club like Ipswich, selling one Song Wen is enough to buy another team of players. With Song Wen's current worth, the country bumpkins can't afford it.]

[By the way, is there any gossip? Will Song Wen stay in the Premier League? 】

[I’m not sure, but if he stays in the Premier League, where will Song Wen go? It seems like he has offended all the big clubs in the Premier League, hahaha.]

[Go to Manchester City! If Song Zema and De Bruyne join forces, this midfield will be world-class, better than the best midfield combination in history! ]

[If Song Zema really went to Manchester City, Aguero would wake up laughing in his dreams at night. With Song Wen and Ding Ding feeding him, I can't imagine how happy this striker is. ]

[I think Song Wen is likely to go to Manchester City. You see, before the game started, he started to provoke on Twitter, but now there is no movement at all.]

[This is already ambiguous. ]

[As we all know, there is a grudge between Magic Bird and Guardiola, Magic Bird and Pogba, Pogba's agent is Lafayette, so it is reasonable for Song Wen to go to Manchester City. ]

[Village Network? Pogba fired Lapang long ago after knowing that Song Wen and Lapang were together. ]

[Hahaha, this is indeed something a walnut kernel would do.]

[I just want to know if Pogba got fatter after asking the wizard to curse him. ]

While the fans were talking about it, they rushed into Fan Zhiyi's Douyin live broadcast room when the time came.

There are still two hours until the game starts.

But generally, Fan Zhiyi's live broadcast room will start broadcasting two hours in advance. After interacting with the fans for a while, he will start discussing the starting lineups of both sides.

The fans had already known Fan Zhiyi's live broadcast time and had come early to wait.

"Hello, everyone watching the live broadcast. I am Fan Zhiyi."

"I'm Zhan Jun."

"Today we are going to broadcast the match between Ipswich Town and Manchester City. I believe the fans should be looking forward to this match today. After all, this match has a lot of meaning behind it."

As soon as the live broadcast started, Zhan Jun entered into the professional commentary mode and began to explain.

"Just now, we also got the starting lineups of both teams."

"We can see that today Ipswich played in a 4-4-2 formation that they often use. It seems that they did not make any special changes because their opponent today is Manchester City."

When seeing Ipswich's formation, Zhan Jun was actually quite surprised.

Although Ipswich is currently in first place in the Premier League, everyone knows that Ipswich's overall strength is still relatively weak. Compared with the so-called strong teams, there is still a certain gap.

Since joining the Premier League, the most common formation Ipswich has used, apart from the 4-4-2 that allows Song Wen to change positions, is the bus formation.

As a team promoted from the English Championship in its first year, Ipswich did not need to consider the so-called face issue, and they did just that.

Whenever Ipswich encounter a strong team, they will often choose to park the bus.

Ipswich is not a top club, and parking the bus is not shameful, so no fans will criticize it.

Originally, in Zhan Jun's opinion, Ipswich would most likely choose to set up a bus formation again against Manchester City, which is in hot form today.

Everyone was responsible for defense, and then the task of attack was left to Song Wen alone.

Facts have proved that Song Wen does have this ability, and Ipswich's tactic has always been effective.

But Ipswich chose not to do that today.

This also made Fan Zhiyi feel a little strange.

For a team like Manchester City that likes to play passing and controlling the ball, many people believe that the best way is to park the bus and play defensive counterattacks.

Since Guardiola came to Manchester City, the passing and controlling football that was rarely seen in the Premier League has quickly become popular, causing traditional Premier League teams to retreat step by step. How to curb this tactic? Most teams choose to "park the bus" and invest heavily in the defense line, but the actual effect is that it is of no avail.

How to restrain the passing and controlling flow? This is undoubtedly a global topic.

At this stage, most people think there are only two ways to solve the problem. The first is to park a bus.

The second is to be more sharp than the opponent's passing and control, and defeat the opponent in the same way. However, judging from Manchester City's passing and control strength, it is not easy to achieve this goal.

Unless Ipswich are promoted directly to Barcelona now.

But Song Wen knew that there was a way to more effectively target Manchester City's passing and controlling style of play!

Song Wen learned this method from the Red Army Liverpool!

That is high pressing!

Although Liverpool lost to Manchester City this season, a big part of the reason was that after the Anfield tragedy, Liverpool immediately faced Manchester City.

The Red Army players are far from recovering from the tragedy, which led to their very poor performance.

Even so, the game between the Red Army Liverpool and Manchester City was very tense, and in the end the Red Army only lost by one goal at Manchester City's home ground with a score of 2:3.

What Song Wen is sure of is that if it were not for the impact of the Anfield tragedy, then Guardiola's Manchester City would have a high probability of losing when facing the hot Liverpool.

This is not just Song Wen's wishful thinking.

This is because in Song Wen’s memory of his previous life, even during the peak years of Manchester City, their record against Liverpool was not very good, and they always lost more than they won.

This is because Klopp’s high-pressure tactics greatly restrain Manchester City’s passing and control!

But Song Wen also knew that it was not easy to imitate the Red Army's high-pressure defense.

Uncle Zha dares to let Liverpool play like this because Liverpool has such player conditions.

If the team is not strong enough to grab the ball, then the back line will be wide open. Even if the team grabs the ball, if there is no invincible front line like Salah, Mane, Firmino and Chamberlain, it will be futile to grab the ball but fail to form a quick counterattack.

Judging from the configuration of the midfield and frontcourt, Song Wen is not very worried.

Although McGoldrick is not a top striker, he is in tune with me and can always run to the most comfortable place and eat my feed.

Although Grealish lacks shooting ability, his ability to protect the ball can buy Song Wen enough time to run without the ball.

The only area where there is a big gap is in Ipswich's midfield and backcourt.

Therefore, in today's game, Song Wen still has a certain element of risk-taking in it.

Whoever scores the first goal actually has a huge impact on the final result.

On the other hand, although Fan Zhiyi and Zhan Jun could not understand why Ipswich adopted such a formation today, as Song Wen’s biggest fans, they naturally had no reason to doubt it.

After all, Song Wen has never disappointed anyone.

This alone is enough for the fans to have absolute trust in him.

Zhan Jun has already started analyzing Manchester City's starting lineup, and Song Wen is also in the locker room looking at the lineup that Manchester City has just released.

There is no doubt that Manchester City will field their entire main lineup today.

Even several main players chose to rest during the last game, apparently in order to conserve their energy and fully prepare for today's game.

Song Wen looked at Manchester City's forward combination.

Like Liverpool, Manchester City's forward line can also be said to be very sharp.

Their center forward Aguero is the leader of the Argentine wives, Messi's exclusive mount, the first fan to lift the World Cup trophy, Manchester City's top scorer in history, and the best drummer in the World Cup.

Aguero has a nickname, KUN.

I don’t know if this guy named A Kun is good at playing basketball, but his football skills are obvious to all.

He is also good at singing, dancing, rap and shoulder dancing.

Aguero likes to live broadcast when he has nothing to do. In his live broadcast room, all day long, it’s either Rio Rio or Messi Messi.

Messi even downloaded software to watch A Kun's live broadcast and became A Kun's top brother.

Then A Kun lived in the same room with this top brother, and they ate and drank together.

If Aguero disappears one day, there is no doubt that there will be a row of Uruguayan teeth marks left in front of the goal.

In 2013, the fifteen-year-old Akun made his debut in the Argentine Primera Division, breaking the record of his father-in-law Maradona.

He almost surpassed Asia's top player Wu Lei's record of appearances in the China League Two at the age of 14.

You know, although the Argentine Primera Division cannot be compared with the Chinese Second Division, it is also known as the small Chinese Third Division in South America.

In 2018, Aguero got his wish and took a photo with Wu Lei. At such a young age, he was able to sit between the two football kings, Wu Lei and Messi. It can be said that he reached the peak as soon as he debuted.

Messi and Aguero, one inherited Maradona's football skills and the other inherited Maradona's daughter. They can be said to be Argentina's peerless duo and should not be underestimated.

Manchester City's left forward is Song Wen's teammate in the national team and the founder of happy football, Sterling.

Sterling, an embarrassing striker, is the initiator of Guardiola's cerebral hemorrhage.

In world football, there are three top strikers: Morata who was offside, Lingard who was exiled, and Sterling who didn't shoot.

Sterling was extremely fast. When he ran, he held his head high and chest out, his front and back were protruding, his head looked left and right, and his arms were flailing around, like a group of red palms paddling in the water.

From time to time, you can turn on the ground-hugging mode and stumble towards happiness.

But many people misunderstood Sterling.

Although Sterling plays football in a funny way, he is actually very useful.

When Sterling lifted his little feet and ran like a duckling, he was easily tripped by the grass.

This way, when the referee can't see, a penalty kick will be awarded.

As the saying goes, a boy who runs with his butt sticking up will never have bad luck, but the saying still deceived him.

Sterling's positioning is excellent. He can easily dribble past the goalkeeper and deliberately hit the ball wide.

This shows that he has the ability to score, but he just doesn't bother to score.

Because we in Stirling don't accept charity.

When he missed the empty goal at the beginning, Sterling was upset and blamed himself, but later he had an epiphany.

Goals are worthless in the face of happiness.

(End of this chapter)