Chapter 763

On the evening of August 19, 2009, Manchester City stadium.

In order to make way for next year's World Cup in South Africa, the major leagues in Europe have compressed the schedule. The Premier League in the new season has entered the double match of a week directly from the moment it opened fire, which has brought heavy competition pressure to all participating teams.

Three days after the first round, Manchester City had their first home game of the new season.

The city stadium, which can hold more than 47000 fans, is full. Countless Manchester City fans have already reserved their first home game, hoping to enjoy the first home game coached by Gao Han.

Before the match, Manchester City held a brief home opening ceremony of the new season and held a special event.

That is, before the game, on the big screen of the scene, we played a clip of the wonderful scenes of several other top teams, except for Chelsea, and the outstanding performance of many superstar players in the team that Gao Han has coached in the past nine years.

The short film is not long, but the clip is very good-looking, coupled with the bloody music, so that the atmosphere of the scene is very warm.

After playing the video, city's players walked out of the players' channel one by one to receive the cheers of the fans, while Cristiano Ronaldo, the biggest player, was arranged to the final stage.

All the fans gave each player the most enthusiastic applause and cheers, and even many fans did not forget Kaka, who was unable to play. The live video was specially given to the Brazilian superstar in the chairman's stand, so that he also enjoyed the welcome of all the fans.

The atmosphere in the stadium was very strong, especially when the cold came into the stadium from the players' passageway, more than 40000 fans in the stadium called his name in unison, and countless fans held up cards one after another, forming a huge picture of the cold in the huge grandstand to express their support for the world famous coach.

Alpine full face with a smile, raised his right hand to the fans, which let him usher in a more enthusiastic voice.

Although the first round of the new season is not ideal, but also a steady 2-0 away defeat of the opponent, and all Manchester City fans are convinced that the team's downturn is only temporary, give a little more time, alpine will be able to adjust the team to the best state, play the strength.

Because in the past decade, the cold has never let people down.

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In the second round, city's opponent is Everton.

Moyes' team just lost 6-1 at home to Arsenal and went to the city stadium in the second round, which made Moyes complain about the devil's schedule before the game, but he was obviously well prepared for the game.

At the beginning of the game, Manchester City still took the initiative to attack, but the difference from the away game against Blackburn is that this time, the cold did not rush to score, but to stabilize the team's pass control play, control the rhythm of the game for the purpose of attacking slowly.

Moyes also seems to be worried about repeating the mistakes of Allardyce. After the opening, he did not organize a close fight, but retreated.

After the test of the first round of the game, coupled with the problems exposed in the first round of the targeted adjustment in the past three days, the players have a further understanding of the technical and tactical play of the cold, and the pass control organization is more skillful.

Everton is not a fuel-efficient light, defensive organization is very tight, it is difficult for Manchester City to break into the 30 meter area.

However, Manchester City showed a great progress in this game, that is, the high intensity of pressure in the middle and front court made it difficult for Everton to hold the ball, while Manchester City had absolute control of the ball.

A few players in the middle and back of the field in the ball and control is also significantly more confident, become more leisurely.

However, Moyes this game out of 45 formation, midfield gathered Phil Neville, Alta, Pinar, Cahill and other Premier League players, the overall strength is not to be underestimated.

Gao Han kept walking to the sidelines and repeatedly reminded the players to keep calm and patience. Even the first half was a zero to zero draw. The scene was very dull. During the half-time, Gao Han still reminded the players to continue to stick to the first half playing style and firmly grasp the ball control and the rhythm of the game.

Because he knows that everything can't be done overnight, it needs to be done step by step.

At least in the current situation of Manchester City, if you grasp the ball control right and the rhythm of the game first, you can base yourself on the unbeaten situation, or it is not so easy to be defeated. As long as you do this, the front court offensive players will seize the opportunity sooner or later.

As for attack, we have to wait for the team to gain a firm foothold.

After Yi Bian fought again in the second half, Everton once tried to disrupt the pass control and rhythm of Manchester City, but Moyes' team soon revealed a flaw and was calmly seized by Manchester City.

David Silva's back was a straight pass from kompani in the backcourt and a cross to Modric who came to meet him.

The Croatian midfield saw that Everton's defence was too tight. He crossed the top and sent the ball to the back of Everton's defence. Cristiano Ronaldo put in an offside attack. In the case of no one defending, he made a single shot and hit the big restricted area with the ball. He hit the goal with a cool push and made a one-to-zero goal!

After Everton began to fight back, Manchester City consciously retreated, stabilized their position, and made two quite threatening counterattacks, which scared Everton back again soon.

In the end, city beat Everton 1-0 with Cristiano Ronaldo's goal in the 58th minute.

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A week double match, the Premier League pattern has had certain change.

Liverpool, who capsized in the ditch in the first round, returned to Anfield in this round, killing Stoke City 4-0 and playing the most wonderful game in this round.

Chelsea beat Sunderland 2-1 away and Tottenham Hotspur beat Birmingham 5-1 away. Arsenal, who won the first round, continued to win in a row and won Bolton 4-2 at home.

Only Ferguson's Manchester United lost 1-0 away to Burnley.

But even if Manchester United lost, it was Manchester City, who won the game, who was scolded the most by the British media after the game.

Many media are very dissatisfied with Manchester City's 1-0 home win over Everton, because in addition to Cristiano Ronaldo's flash of inspiration, Manchester City did not create many scoring opportunities in the whole game, and even in some offensive data, it is not as good as Everton.

"The cold team is always chasing possession. In this game, against Everton, Manchester City's possession rate is as high as 62%, which is the highest in 20 Premier League games this season."

"But with 62% possession, Cristiano Ronaldo, Benzema, Sanchez, David Silva, Modric and other European players, they only shot 12 times and five times, while Everton shot 11 times and seven times

"You know, as like as two peas, the lowest player in Manchester City is worth the total amount of attack players in the front yard, but the data are exactly the same," he said.

But Gao Han said with a smile that he was satisfied with the performance of his team at the press conference after the game.

"I'm happy because I see progress, I see all the players are getting into the team, you need to give us more time and everything will be OK

For the fans on the scene, Gao Han said he was very excited.

"I feel great today, the fans here are amazing, even when the team is in a bad situation, they are still supporting us. I want to say to all the Manchester City fans here, believe me, the team will gradually get on the right track."

However, the external media obviously did not trust this remark.

Three days later, on Saturday, in the third round of the Premier League, Manchester City still welcomed wolves at home.

It was a good start for city, with Cristiano Ronaldo scoring in the 17th minute to give the team a 1-0 lead.

But after the goal lead, Manchester City in the face of wolves tenacious sniper, once again become a little helpless, especially in the second half, wolves replaced a striker, replaced a defender, after playing 54 formation, Manchester City's attack became more difficult.

In the end, Manchester City scored 1-0 at home again.

At the end of the game, all the players once again focused on City, which was weak in attack. Especially when Manchester United beat Wigan 5-0 away, Arsenal beat Portsmouth 4-1 at home and Chelsea beat Fulham 2-0 away, city's one goal victory was somewhat dwarfed.

In this round, Liverpool lost 3-1 at home to Aston Villa, gaining another defeat.

But relative to the outside doubt, Gao gave a high evaluation to the team in the third round, especially in the dressing room after the game, he affirmed the team's performance.

Because in this game, the team created a total of 21 shots, of which 14 were on the right goal and seven were off target. No matter from the perspective of creating scoring opportunities or efficiency, they are quite good.

As for why only get a goal, alpine coach for so many years, of course, than everyone knows, sometimes the goal of this kind of thing is a little bit worse feeling.

But the outside media obviously don't think so, because from the first three games of this season, Manchester City's performance has been very low.

After the third round of the Premier League, the Carling Cup is in the middle of the week.

Alpine team has carried on the appropriate rotation, including sturrich, Petrov and Ruo players have been given the opportunity to play, the team also returned to the 433 formation, the result was no surprise, no danger away 3-0 beat Crystal Palace team, smoothly promoted.

All of a sudden, the media once again speculated that the high cold should not hold the "three four three" formation, but should fight "four three three".

At the very least, Manchester City players are obviously more adapted to the four back play.

At the end of the week, in the fourth round of the Premier League, Manchester City challenged Portsmouth away from home, but Gao Leng once again took on three defenders.

Portsmouth got 22 fouls and six yellow cards in this game. This data is the best proof of the game process. While Manchester City has a 60% advantage in possession, they only rely on Cristiano Ronaldo's goal in the 30th minute, Win again, 1-0.

Four consecutive rounds were won by one goal, which made several British tabloids ridicule Gao Han and Manchester City, ridicule Gao Han's belief in the conservative one-to-zero principle, and dare not invest troops in the attack.

In this round of focus, Arsenal went to Old Trafford to challenge Manchester United. As a result, with van Persie's first goal, they were leveled by Rooney. After that, the midfield player Diaby's own goal made Manchester United reverse 2-1.

It was also Arsenal's first defeat of the season.

After four rounds, there are three teams that have won all four games in the Premier League, with Chelsea at the top, Tottenham Hotspur at the second, Manchester City at the third, followed by Arsenal and Manchester United, and Liverpool at the eighth, behind West Ham United and Stoke City.

Cristiano Ronaldo scored four goals, tied with Wayne Rooney of Manchester United and Defoe of Tottenham Hotspur for the top spot in the scorer list, and he was the only scorer to score all four rounds.

That's why many media have taken advantage of it to ridicule Gao Han, because Manchester City only scored five goals in total.