Chapter 646: Captain Red and Blue!

Italy is very good at producing this kind of extremely talented, but the bad boy star with a perverse personality, in front of Balotelli, the name of the predecessor is Cassano. β–½ β—‡ tomato β˜†β˜† net -''.''f-q-

Since arriving at Manchester City on a winter transfer, Balotelli has become the darling of the British media, with at least a dozen journalists waiting on his doorstep every day.

Balotelli is a talented footballer, but his temperament and eccentric way of thinking are love-hate, as evidenced by the comments of Manchester City manager Roberto Mancini and current Real Madrid manager Jose Mourinho, who has worked with him.

"Balotelli only has one brain cell. Jose Mourinho, the manager who has worked with Balotelli at Inter, said of Balotelli.

Between 2oo8 and 2o1o, Mourinho and Balotelli created a brief "Inter era" at Inter Milan.

"About the two years I've been with Balotelli, I could have written a 2oo page book, and it's going to be a comedy, because this kid is so hilarious. ”

"I remember an away game at Inter and my two main strikers, Diego Milito and Samuel Eto'o, couldn't get off, so I sent Bashen. He got a yellow card in the first half, so I spent 14 of the 15 minutes in the first half telling him how to be restrained in the second half. Then in the first minute of the second half, he was sent off. Mourinho said of the young Italian star.

"He's still a kid, so he can make some mistakes. Tomato β—‹β˜†β–³ Net β˜† -'-.'f'q-x-s'-.-com Some people think he's a crazy guy - but I like him very much, because he's really a nice guy," this is what Mancini said when Balotelli first joined Manchester City, and Mancini used Yang Fan as a reference at that time, he said that Yang Fan is also a star with a very personality, and there was a lot of criticism before, but, look at the present, Yang Fan is the captain and leader of Manchester City, and he is the best player on the planet, how great.

"Maybe one day, you will see Yang Fan's shadow in Balotelli's body. Mancini said.

Ahead of the game, Roberto Mancini had told the media that he would consider bringing on Balotelli as City enter a tough multi-front campaign and the Italian striker will need to step up and help the team.

And the day after Mancini said this, Manchester City's official website confirmed that Balotelli will miss this important game against Liverpool because Balotelli has a toothache.

And the "Sun" even broke the news that Balotelli was stuffed because he ate barbecue, and he used a toothpick to open the gap between his teeth, which led to inflammation and infection......

This immediately became a matter of frenzied hype in the British media......

When a player misses a game because of something like this, it's no wonder that the commentator will also make fun of Balotelli.

Back to the game.

After the start of the game, Liverpool took advantage of the home field and attacked the heart of the Manchester City team at the beginning. Fanβ–½β–‘ eggplant small β˜† said net '''.-f-q'x-They were planning to put pressure on Manchester City as soon as they started, using home advantage to suppress the Manchester City team. At Anfield, Liverpool will always be the most passionate team, and they like to tear their opponents apart with their relentless momentum.

Liverpool manager Dalglish's eyes narrowed on the sidelines, and he was very satisfied with the momentum of the team's opening game.

In January, after Hodgson was sacked, Liverpool brought in the beloved King Dalglish.

Born on March 4, 1951 in Glasgow, Scotland, Dalglish played for Celtic (7o) and Liverpool (7o and 8o) as a striker, and was the first player to score 1oo league goals in England and Scotland.

Particularly unattainable is the fact that Dalglish was equally successful in becoming a coach after retiring from football, and was one of three teams to win the English top flight title with two different teams, following the 1985 Heysel Stadium tragedy, Liverpool manager Joe Fagan resigned, and Dalglish took over as manager and player, and he immediately led the team back to the 85/86 league title, and won the FA Cup that year, becoming the fourth Liverpool coach to win the title after Shankly, Paisley and Fagan.

In the 1987/88 and 89/9O seasons, Dalglish led Liverpool to win the league title twice, that is, Liverpool's last three league titles were won under Dalglish, but due to the Hillsborough tragedy, Dalglish finally chose to resign, but then he took charge of Blackburn Rovers and won the English championship that season in 1995. β˜† Tomato β—‹β–³ Novel Network -.

For this reason, when Benitez is fired and Hodgson is facing collapse, Dalglish will always be the first person to think of senior Liverpool fans, but people are always worried that Dalglish's last success has been 15 years since now, and whether the king is still the king of the year? Maybe Liverpool's new owner Henry is just asking Dalglish for help with the mentality of giving it a try, but Dalglish vows not to disappoint Liverpool fans.

No matter how great Shankly and Paisley are, their contribution to Liverpool as a player is almost zero, and no matter how magical Rush and Fowler are, they basically do not see the potential to become a top coach after retiring or semi-retiring, and this happens to be the rare thing about Dalglish being respected as the king of Liverpool, because whether it is a player or a manager, Dalglish is a leader of Liverpool's glory.

Dalglish's most important job before the game was to rack his brains to find a way to limit Yang Fan, for Yang Fan, he finally adopted a double bag that many teams use but the effect is average, as for the effect, it is difficult to say.

Dalglish stressed the need for the team to be more aggressive, and Liverpool need to find City's defensive weaknesses and open the way for the team to score!

Dalglish noticed Manchester City's current weakness, that is, in the back link, De Jong's recent form has not been good, and in the previous league game against Fulham, Fulham's goal was caused by De Jong's mistake. It's not just De Jong, Yaya Toure's recent form has been up and down, and Yaya Toure seems to be more involved in attack now, and when defending, once De Jong doesn't defend well, then City's midfield can easily become disjointed. β˜† Tomato β—‹β–³ Novel Network -.

"Carroll, he shot – it was a pity, it was missed, and Lucas had a good pass. ”

"Beautiful! Merreles broke the ball from De Jong's feet - De Jong counter-attacked!Merreres fell to the ground, the referee didn't say anything, Liverpool were furious, they thought the Dutchman had committed a foul. ”

The Liverpudlian protested, thinking that De Jong fouled, but the Manchester City people ignored it, they counterattacked, and Yang Fan was about to rush forward with the ball after taking the ball, but Gerrard was put to the ground with the ball, which was really a big move.

The players of both sides immediately became entangled on the pitch, with the City people unhappy with Gerrard's foul and the Liverpudlians having reason to be angry, believing that De Jong's foul was not blown, and that was the root of all the problems.

Liverpool captain Steven Gerrard stepped up for his team-mates and brought down Manchester City captain Yang Fan. Manchester City's players were in turmoil, and De Jong rushed up to go head-to-head with Gerrard.

Yang Fan pulled the emotional De Jong away, and he himself put pressure on the referee on behalf of the team, and Gerrard also came up, he yelled at Yang Fan, "Your people fouled first, don't avoid it!"

"All I know is that I was just put to the ground by a bastard. Yang Fan did not show weakness.

"Are you blind?" Meireles rushed over and yelled at Yang Fan.

Yaya Toure came at once, he wanted to teach Mereles a lesson.

Yang Fan pulled Yaya Toure away, then pointed at Mereles, and then pointed at Gerard with angry eyes, "Mr. Gerald, wait and see." ”

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"Was Yang Fan threatening Gerrard just now?" Lineker was concerned about this, Yang Fan pointed his finger at Gerrard, as if to say something, while the Liverpool captain looked angry.

"Ha, wait and see, there's a good show. ”

Under the strict suppression of the referee, the quarrel and conflict were stopped, and he also called Yang Fan and Gerrard aside and gave them a stern verbal warning.

Subsequently, Manchester City's free kick was driven into the penalty area, Yang Fan's header hit the goal, and the football was slightly above the crossbar, which shocked the Liverpudlians into a cold sweat.

And Liverpool, they are also very quick to return the color.

"Stephen Gerrard!

Joe Hart struggled to lift the powerful long-range shot over the crossbar. After getting up from the ground, he shouted at his teammates to pay attention to the defense in the middle.

"Don't give them easy shots. ”

De Jong waved his hand, indicating that this time it was his own problem, Liverpool's attack just now, Suarez knocked the ball back beautifully, De Jong seemed to be a little distracted, they were not able to keep up at the first time, and the other players of the Manchester City team were not able to come up to fill in the position at the first time! This gave Gerrard the opportunity to shoot from a distance.

Manchester City defender Colo Toure frowned, he asked Zabaleta to pay attention to help De Jong, the Dutchman's physical fitness and interception ability are really good, but sometimes a little reckless. What's more, De Jong has been almost full duty so far this season, and he has taken on almost half of the defensive tasks in Manchester City's midfield, which is quite exhausting indeed.

Zabaleta nodded to indicate that he knew, and he could see that Liverpool seemed to be looking for a breakthrough from Frenkie de Jong today, and the Dutch team-mates were a little tired and needed someone to come and help.

Liverpool's corner, Lucas passed the football into the penalty area, Suarez grabbed the point, he did not choose to attack, but rubbed the football header back, which was playing the ball for Gerrard.

Outside the box, Gerrard fired a long-range shot into the bottom left corner of the goal, and Manchester City goalkeeper Joe Hart was powerless to do anything, but Kompany stretched his leg on the goalline to keep the ball out of the line.

The Liverpudlians haven't had time to regret before they have a lot of noise in front of their goal.

Kompany blocked the ball and Yaya Toure rushed up and kicked the ball out of the box, which was supposed to be cleared, but he hit a counter-attack by mistake.

After Yang Fan got the ball, he took a distance and suddenly noticed that Liverpool goalkeeper Reina was standing forward and hanging the door directly, and the latter barely lifted the ball off the crossbar almost in embarrassment.

"It was a really exciting game and the captains of both teams were undoubtedly the most eye-catching from the start of the game. Lineker said with emotion.