At the end of the Community Shield, Manchester United defeated double champions Chelsea 3-0 to win the title, which also marked the beginning of a new season in English football.

Although Double-winning Chelsea owner Abou Abou is known for "burning money", coach Carlo Ancelotti has been quite cautious in his moves, and there has been little movement in the summer transfer market that is nearing the end, buying Israeli Benayoun and leaving Ballack and Joe Cole, but after the return of midfielder Essien from injury, Chelsea's midfield is still the Premier League, and they are still the favourites for the title in the new season.

The only rivals to Chelsea are the Red Devils Manchester United.

At a time when Manchester United fans were in a revolt, few could have foreseen that by mid-August, the Glazer family would be tied with Sheikh Mansour bin Zayed Al Nahyan, a high-end tycoon with one-tenth of the world's oil reserves, in terms of transfer spending.

Manchester City's transfer expenditure is more than 100 million euros, but Manchester United bought Inter Milan's core Gao Xiaodong for 80 million, Hernandez for 10 million euros, and raised his salary to leave Rooney, who intends to transfer to Manchester City, is not much inferior to Manchester City in the transfer market.

Although Arsenal, one of the "four giants of the Premier League", retains the core Cesc Fabregas, Wenger, who only relies on a bunch of dolls to win the world, may still only accompany the prince to study.

Liverpool's surprise drop out of the top four last season changed the Premier League's six-year landscape of the top four for the first time. Now, although Gerrard, Torres and other big players have announced their continued allegiance, but the new manager Hodgson's coaching level is difficult to compare with the famous coach, it is very difficult for Liverpool to make a difference, and their most realistic goal is to return to the top four, not to win the league title.

The Premier League may not be the most technical league, but it is definitely the most competitive, commercially valuable and watched league in world football.

For so many years, the Premier League championship and the Champions League seat have been dominated by the four giants, fans are a little tired of aesthetics, although Tottenham Hotspur rushed to fourth place last season, but the title competition is still Manchester United and Chelsea, the pattern has not changed fundamentally, but this season may become different,

After buying Italian genius Balotelli, Spanish midfielder Silva, and Ivory Coast midfielder Toure, Manchester City's strength has skyrocketed, and it is expected to change the Premier League title pattern with Tottenham this season.

In the Bundesliga, the southern king Bayern is the dominant family, and the trophy is soft; in La Liga, it will always be Real Madrid and Barcelona two people; in Serie A, there are only three teams competing for the championship, just Milan and Juventus; only the Premier League, at least four teams are competing for the championship, and this season it is even more likely that six teams will compete for the league championship.

In the Premier League, teams that aim to win the championship must tense their nerves from the beginning, play every game well, and once there is an undeserved loss of points, they will definitely regret such a loss of points in the end.

Chelsea and Manchester United, winners and runners-up in the first round of the league, are promoted opponents, while Liverpool and Arsenal, Manchester City and Tottenham are head-to-head, which is a good opportunity for both United and Chelsea, and once the Reds and Gunners draw with Manchester City and Tottenham, they can take the opportunity to lead the table and gain a psychological advantage.

Manchester United have an excellent record against promoted Newcastle, and they have not lost to Newcastle in 38 years at home, and the suspense of victory is not great, and for Manchester United fans, the performance of Gao Xiaodong, the standard king who joined for 80 million euros, is what they are most concerned about.

Although in the previous warm-up matches and Community Shield games, Gao Xiaodong started two games and scored 6 goals, and the muzzle of the gun was hot, but the warm-up games and the Community Shield could not be compared with the league at all.

The Premier League is the league with the highest commercial promotion, even if it is the worst relegation team, the annual broadcast fee is as high as 50 million pounds, for small teams, staying in the Premier League means a huge amount of income, so the league must fight for every game, the intensity is extremely high, and there are often tragedies of broken tendons and legs.

In such a game, it is still a question mark whether Gao Xiaodong, who transferred from the slow-paced Serie A, can adapt to the fast-paced and high-level confrontation of the Premier League.

Ferguson has rich experience, obviously also took this problem into account, when arranging the troops, he neither lined Gao Xiaodong in the position of right midfielder, nor did he let Gao Xiaodong serve as the core of the midfield, but let Gao Xiaodong and Scholes partner in the midfield, Gao Xiaodong dragged back to defend, and Scholes dispatched and organized.

Newcastle's attack power is limited, and Gao Xiaodong will not be under too much pressure, even if there is no outstanding performance, it will not be too ugly.

On the evening of August 16, the first round of Premier League matches between Manchester United and Newcastle finally kicked off.

This is the final game of the first round of the Premier League, after Liverpool and Arsenal, Manchester City and Tottenham Hotspur drew in the previous game, but Manchester United's biggest rivals Chelsea showed excellent form, they thrashed promoted Masy Brom 6-0 to temporarily lead the table.

In this game, Newcastle played the main team: goalkeeper: No. 1 Harper, four defenders: No. 14 Perci, No. 2 Coloccini, No. 6 Williamson, No. 3 Enrique lined up, four forwards: No. 18 Gutiérrez, No. 17 Alan Smith, No. 7 Barton, No. 10 Routledge diamond position, double forward: No. 4, No. 9 Carroll forward.

Sky Sports' famous commentator Martin explained: "Against a strong Manchester United, Newcastle don't have to pull Manchester United down at Old Trafford, they mainly want to show their spirit, play their own level and win the support of the fans.

Manchester United's starting line-up is more targeted: goalkeeper: No. 1 Van der Sar, four defenders: No. 21 Rafael, No. 15 Vidic, five Rio Ferdinand, No. 3 Evra, forwards: No. 25 Valencia, No. 10 Gao Xiaodong, No. 18 Scholes, No. 17 Nani, and forwards: No. 9 Berbatov, No. 14 Hernandez

Commentator Martin said: "From the perspective of the lineup, Sir Alex Ferguson's lineup is relatively young, the opponent is relatively weak, Ferguson obviously hopes to use the fast whirlwind to break the opponent, like a game of promotion horses, just can't grind with them, to score quickly to break their self-confidence, so that the back is easy to play, Ancelotti's Chelsea did this, Sir Ferguson is probably ready to do this." ”

Then Martin specifically said Gao Xiaodong, "No one would have thought that Manchester United could buy Gao Xiaodong, Jazz's courage is really not something that ordinary people can catch up, Wenger's coaching ability is no worse than Sir Alex Ferguson, but this courage is not a little bit worse."

The highlight of today's game is Gao Xiaodong's body, don't look at Gao Xiaodong's Community Shield scored two goals, but it is more like a warm-up game, and the double champion Chelsea does not attach much importance to it, if the league can't score, with Gao Xiaodong's value and annual salary, it will be questioned immediately, 80 million at the age of 20, this is glory and pressure. If you want to wear a crown, you have to bear its weight, and this is the price of a star. ”