v5 Chapter 406： Tragic German team

Of course, we still have to face our first opponent-Portsmouth.

In the summer, Portsmouth invested a lot of pounds and operated two heavyweight transfers.

The first is the former Ghana midfielder Montari of Udinese, when the Portsmouth official website declared, "This will be the most expensive signing in club history." The previous record was summer 2006, 440 Ten thousand pounds signed Benjani from Auxerre.

Although the official website of Portsmouth did not disclose the specific amount of the transfer fee, the Manchester Sports News reported that Montari ’s transfer fee was around 7 million pounds.

Just half a month later, Portsmouth once again announced the operation of the most expensive signing in the club ’s history, this time England forward Nugent.

The 22-year-old Nugent's name has not changed, in fact, he has been playing in the lower league.

Last year, with his outstanding performance in the British championship team Preston, Nugent was selected to the England national team and became the fourth forward outside Michael Owen, Rooney and Darren Bent.

With such excellence, Nugent was clearly unable to stay in the British crown, so the rich Portsmouth immediately decided to take him.

In fact, Roy Keane ’s Sunderland and Harry Redknapp ’s Portsmouth are willing to pay £ 6 million for Nugent, but in the end Portsmouth raised the transfer fee to 800 Ten thousand pounds, thus finalizing the transfer with Preston.

Nugent is a top scorer in the British crown, but in the Premier League, he is just a newcomer.

What few people know is that he has an idol or goal in his heart, that is Darren Bent who plays for Manchester City.

Nugent and Darren Bent have very similar experiences-they are not geniuses from the youth team of the big team, and their careers can only start from the lower leagues.

Darren Bent played for Ipswich for four seasons, and Nugent started lower. He made his debut in the British second team (the third-tier league) Bailey, and then relegated to the fourth-tier league with Bailey.

After four seasons with Bailey, he joined Preston. Play in the English Champions League.

In three seasons in Preston, Nugent has nearly 15 goals in a single season. Fame gradually grew.

He has always regarded Darren Bent as his target, although Bent is only one year older than him.

After being selected for the England national team and even helping the England team to score goals, and then joining Portsmouth, Nugent ’s thoughts have not changed, because Darren Bent has become Manchester City ’s positive striker in the position of the England national team , Has become very stable. And he is just getting started in Portsmouth.

In this match against Manchester City, Nugent was very happy to get the opportunity. He hopes to see the gap between him and Darren Bent in the game.

Nugent is still very confident.

He knows that his current fame and ability can't keep up with Darren Bent, but he will not pretentiously think that he will be much worse than Darren Bent.

But in the game, he found it was not easy to show it.

When the match between Portsmouth and Manchester City started, he found that Darren Bent quickly became the protagonist of the game, because in the 11th minute, Bent helped Manchester City score a goal.

"The goal is scored!"

"The game only started ten minutes. Manchester City took the lead!"

"Darren Bent!"

"He broke the door of Park David James's foot in the penalty area, this is his seventh goal in the Premier League!"

Looking at Darren Bent's performance, Nugent was not reconciled. Because Portsmouth has been suppressed, he has no chance of performance.

But perhaps his teammate, David James, who guards the goal, feels the most complicated.

Because of the competition in the team, David James knew that it was difficult for him to continue as the main goalkeeper. He chose to leave Manchester City to join Portsmouth, but he did not think about the feeling of being in Portsmouth.

After more than ten rounds of league games, James finally knows why many players would rather serve as substitutes in big clubs. Not willing to come to the small club as the main force.

In the small club, the face is a field loss. In the big club, it was like Manchester City last season. Almost every game is a victory.

This is the performance gap.

There is a group of good teammates and a head coach with excellent ability to lead the team. The team's performance is guaranteed. As a substitute player, even if he does not play, he can enjoy the joy of victory with the team.

It's different in Portsmouth.

Portsmouth's performance is not bad, but it is much worse than Manchester City, so after many games, he will feel the depression of losing.

That feeling is not bad.

Just like now, in the face of the joy of scoring his former teammates, he can only stand in a distance and watch, while annoyed that the rescue has just slowed down.

Nugent did not know James ’depression, but his mood was not very good. When facing Manchester City, he hoped that he could show his performance, and he could show it. Watching Darren Bent perform.

The game proved that this was just the beginning.

Then Manchester City continued its offensive against Portsmouth. What Portsmouth can do is occasionally hit counterattacks. Nugent also showed performance. That was in a counterattack. That's all, then at the front of the penalty area, he was laid down by Dunne.

Nugent feels annoyed, but knows in his heart that this is the real top league.

In the top league, technology is important, and experience is also very important. He broke through Dunn with his technical ability, but Dunn has rich experience and decisively put him down.

Portsmouth received a good free kick, but it didn't make much sense to them. They didn't have players who were very good at free kicks.

In the following time, Manchester City continued to suppress Portsmouth, and scored a goal in the 37th minute and 71st minute of the audience.

Darren Bent scored in the 71st minute. Taking advantage of a quick counterattack, he broke through Portsmouth's defense and used fake moves to make room. The front of the penalty area directly kicked the door.

This unexpected shot even left Portsmouth defensive players with no time to commit tactical fouls. James did not expect that Bent's shot would be so decisive. He could barely watch football flying past the goal rushing behind him.

"3: 0, Darren Bent scored his second goal!" The media praised Darren Bent.

Nugent does not know these sounds, but also knows that Bent will definitely become the focus player of the game, and he himself can only be reduced to a neglected dragon.

In the whole game, he showed little performance.

His only chance was to be knocked down by Dunne. Compared with Darren Bent's last goal, he knew the gap between him and Bent-experience and ... team.

Nugent has just entered the Premier League, and his experience is certainly not as good as Darren Bent, who has played for Manchester City for three seasons.

The second point is the team.

Nugent believes that the latter is the most important. Darren Bent has an excellent coach in Manchester City-Wan Sheng, that is the head coach that young players in England all yearn for. Everyone knows that this young Chinese is very good at training players. There is likely to be a bright future.

In addition, there is a gap in team strength.

Darren Bent is a Manchester City player. He has a lot of good teammates. Manchester City has always suppressed Portsmouth throughout the game. He has many opportunities ahead.

In comparison. Nugent spent most of his time standing alone in the frontcourt, and he had little chance.

Think of these. Nugent is very envious of Darren Bent.

If ... if you are also fancy by the young Chinese, you can also enter Manchester City to play, then maybe one or two years later, you will not be worse than Darren Bent! ?

Nugent's ideas actually represent the ideas of many young players in England.

In a few years, one talented player appeared under Wan Sheng.

Bolton-Reit, Alfred, Morris, Ivan Kru, Darren Bent, Lescott, Ziegler, Ozil, Silva ...

A few years ago, these players did not change their names in Europe, but now they are the lowest number of stars, Morris, Darren Bent, Silva have also become the world's top stars.

The fame of each of these players. All of them are real examples, and become real examples of propaganda that Wansheng is good at training players. So Wansheng's ability to train players is also popular.

Many young players want to be able to join Wansheng's team, which is regarded as a shortcut to become a big star.

Unfortunately. Wan Sheng is the head coach of Manchester City. Manchester City is just a team that cannot accommodate these many players, so they are destined to be disappointed.

After playing against Portsmouth, it is the fifth round of the UEFA Champions League group stage. Manchester City are going to face Stuttgart at Manchester Stadium.

The defending champions of the Bundesliga haven't been very good lately. After losing to Lyon on the road, Stuttgart lost all four games. They lost to the bottom of the group stage and completely lost the group qualifying right.

Stuttgart's Champions League results have shocked the German football team, but Stuttgart is not the only team in the Bundesliga to perform poorly, they are not the special one.

The other two German teams participating in the Champions League-Schalke 04 and Werder Bremen, the group situation is also very crisis.

Many German footballers are concerned about the sluggish performance of the Bundesliga team in the European War. The German national team coach Loew said, "I have been alert to find that the Bundesliga team only got 12 matches in the Champions League 7 points. "

In an interview with the German "Sports News Agency", Loew said, "The performance of the German team in this international competition is really very disappointing."

Lough still has to worry about it, because the promotion situation of Werder Bremen and Schalke 04 is also very optimistic.

"I can't be happy about this phenomenon. For Mario Gomez or Hitzlsperger, as well as Tasi and Cadillac, not getting enough international matches will not help them grow." .

Loew ’s concerns have also been endorsed by other famous places in Germany. Matteus told German Premier TV, "This result is a warning that you need to devote yourself to the club ’s football game and be passionate. I can't see these on my body. "

Kahn believes, "Maybe the Bundesliga looks like the highest level event, but it is under the exquisite packaging, but this embellishment is not valuable, we need to prove that our inner league level is also excellent.

Currently in the UEFA European Football League ranking, the Bundesliga is now ranked after Spain, England, Italy, France and Romania, and fell out of the `` Five Leagues '', ranking sixth in the European League.

The Bundesliga rankings also represent the competitiveness of German teams in the Champions League, but in Stuttgart itself, they value the club ’s performance and ‘face’ more.

In fact, Stuttgart did not perform well in the Bundesliga. They became the worst defending champion in the Bundesliga in 41 years.

"We have too many injuries."

This is the reason why Stuttgart coach Amin Fei remains unchanged after losing.

In the first 10 rounds of the Bundesliga, Stuttgart only achieved 3 wins, 1 draw and 6 losses. The last defending champion with such a bleak result can only be traced back to Munich 1860 41 years ago.

Now Stuttgart is not only defending hopelessly, but also only one point away from the relegation zone.

Injury is indeed the biggest problem in Stuttgart, they have a lot of main players can not play, so that in the league and the Champions League, there are many young teenagers participating.

This seriously affected Stuttgart's performance.

The league is weak and the Champions League has lost all four games. Stuttgart's situation can be imagined.

However, in the face of this game at Manchester Stadium, head coach Amin Fei still hopes that the team will play better ~ www.novelhall.com ~ Even if we have been eliminated, a score can improve the morale of the downturn. , So we will not give up the game! "

Amin Fei's statement is somewhat sympathetic, but considering Stuttgart's results, they can not give up the game directly, it is already quite good.

In this game, Wan Sheng still attaches great importance to it. Although theoretically 10 points for Manchester City and the win-loss relationship with the Glasgow Rangers, they can already guarantee the team to get a qualifying place, but in the case of an advantage, they compete for the first team. It is also very helpful to create a better 16-round elimination environment for the team, so in the two days before the start of the game, Wansheng still let the team do some targeted preparation training.

But in this game, Wansheng chose to rotate.

With the current situation in Stuttgart, plus home advantage, Manchester City up and down believe that there is no need to send all the main lineup.

Many of Manchester City's regular-selected players also need to rest to recover their fitness.

Wan Sheng only sent a few including Ozil and Torres. All other positions played with substitutes. Even the goalkeeper position, he gave the second goalkeeper Joe Hart a chance. (To be continued.)