Chapter 014: Four Consecutive Wins
The summer 2011 transfer market officially closed.
Manchester City brought in England midfielder Hargreaves from Manchester United in the final moments of the transfer, and the former England international came on a free transfer, a transfer that did not cost City a penny, and Mancini hopes the arrival of Hargreaves will strengthen City's bench depth.
Manchester City have been in and out of the transfer market this summer.
Signings: Nasri (Arsenal, £24 million), Sergio Aguero (Atletico Madrid, £38 million), Klich (Arsenal, £7 million), Stefan Savage (Partizan Belgrade, £6 million), Kostel Pantrimon (Polytimisoara), Hargreaves (Manchester United free transfer)
Departs: Jerome Boateng (Bayern Munich, £10m), Givens (Aston Villa, £3.5 million), Filip Caicedo (Levante, £880,000), Jo (Interbrazil), Logan (Brentford, free transfer), Vidal (termination), Vieira (retired), Michael Johnson (Leicester, loan), Ben Mee (Burnley, loan), Raheem Mike Givens (Crystal Palace, loan), Adebayor (Tottenham, loan), Boyata (Bolton, loan), Santa Cruz (Real Betis, loan), Weiss (Espanyol loan) , Guidetti (Feyenoord loan), Kieran Trippier (Burnley loan), Ibrasim (NEC loan)
In the eyes of the media, Manchester City's biggest move is at the offensive end, sending away Joo and Adebayo and Santa Cruz, and Manchester City has brought in Nasri and Aguero, and the strength of the offensive side has steadily improved.
After nearly two weeks of suspension of national team matches, the Premier League is back in flames.
In the upcoming fourth round of the 2011/2012 Premier League season, Manchester City's opponent is Wigan Athletic.
Now, Manchester City are definitely the team that is in the most eye, they have replaced Chelsea as the richest team and are the representative of the Premier League's golden dollar football.
Before Manchester City, Chelsea was the real epitome of football, and when Chelsea's owner, Russian super-oil oligarch Roman Abramovich, first entered the Premier League, the conservative British media once cried out 'wolf!'. Indeed, the arrival of Roman Abramovich has upset many of the so-called balances in the traditional sense, whether it is the best players in England or Europe and the United States, there is another choice when choosing a club, an alternative choice. During that time, when Abramovich singled out the G14, there were a number of big clubs who were disgusted by his disabling of the rules of the game. And now it is Manchester City who are messing up the situation even more, and they are playing even more excessively. No club in history has ever applied for at least six top players at the same time in the final hour of the transfer window, without Roman Moratti, without Berlusconi, but it all happened to Fahim's Manchester City. This refers to the summer of 2008, when the Arabs first took charge of Manchester City.
According to the "All Market" In the last moments of the transfer window that summer, it can even be said that in the last hours, Manchester City, in addition to completing the signing of Robinho to join Manchester City, also launched a final attack on stars such as Buffon Lampard, TriAlonso Torres, trying to persuade them to join Manchester City, however, they were rejected by these players one by one, on the one hand, it was the last moment of the transfer window, unless there was a reason to transfer and leave, players generally did not make a hasty decision at that time, in addition, the current Manchester City does lack influence and attractiveness。 Frank Lampard and John Terry are Chelsea's second and first captains, and the media have joked that it may be their success at Chelsea that has intrigued Manchester City, who intend to follow the same path as Chelsea.
Manchester City welcomed Atletico Wigan at home.
In this game, the entire Etihad Stadium in Manchester was full, and the 55 pound ticket request was fried on the Internet to nearly 200 pounds, which is still priceless.
It was just an ordinary Premier League game, and the opponents were not very strong, but the Manchester City fans were still enthusiastic.
In the stands, nearly 10,000 Manchester City fans wore Manchester City's number 10 shirt, and the momentum was spectacular. The owner of the No. 10 jersey is Yang Fan!
The Chinese reporters in the media table were also attracted to all the attention of such a scene. Everyone is full of emotion, Yang Fan is in Manchester City, at the Etihad Stadium, he is the prince here!
It didn't look like a league game, it was more like a feast, with cheers from the stands. They shouted Yang Fan's name. In the face of such an enthusiastic Manchester City fan. Yang Fan, who was warming up, could not interrupt the warm-up and walked under the stands where Manchester City fans were most concentrated. Wave to them. Then he received even more cheers and applause.
Manchester City put pressure on Wigan Athletic from the beginning, and in the face of this pressure, Wigan Athletic was unusually passive from the start, even if they got the opportunity to attack, however, their attack appeared to be a little disorganized.
Yaya Toure and David Silva in the midfield are more and more tacit. Yaya Toure and David Silva combined to organise the attack, Nasri attacked the opposition on the flanks, and up front, Yang Fan and Sergio Aguero were a threat.
Yang Fan can be said to be ravaging the defense of Wigan Athletic unscrupulously in this game.
At the beginning of the game, Yang Fan broke through in a beautiful dribble at a beautiful height in the front court, and after passing Figueroa, he shot coldly, forcing Wigan Athletic goalkeeper Habusi to make a difficult pounce.
Compared with Aguero, who is also on the front line and is also very fast, Yang Fan's breakthrough feels sharper, more resolute, and bolder, he knows that he has a speed advantage, and rushes to the opponent without slowing down, and uses the constant change of direction and the change in speed and rhythm to throw off the defenders, which is Yang Breakthrough's forte. "What's even more rare is that Yang Fan's foot skills are also excellent, and he is synonymous with the most perfect attacker." ”
"Sergio Aguero is also very strong and I am looking forward to seeing how he and Yang Fan will perform in the future. Lineker said.
City's frantic attack, with thirteen minutes played, paid off.
Yang Fan received a pass from Zabaleta and scored with a header. To be exact, it was a difficult header to shoot, and Yang Fan noticed that Wigan Athletic's goalkeeper Habsi was in a higher position, and his deliberate header was hoisted into the top left corner of the goal.
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Look at Habsi's eyes, he has no choice about this header, at this moment he seems to see a visitor from outside! Manchester City has taken the lead! Manchester City has always dominated the field, and it is natural to take the lead!"
"This is Yang Fan's 10th goal in the Premier League this season! ”
Atletico Wigan's head coach Roberto Martinez looked furious on the sidelines, believing that the team's centre-back Cardwell had not been able to successfully stick to Yang Fan and give him a chance.
Martinez is the meritorious coach of Wigan Athletic, who brought the Latin school of pass-and-control football to the team, Martinez's Wigan Athletic team is known as the "relegation maniac" because they have been crazy to grab points in the final rounds of the league for many seasons to achieve relegation, even so, Martinez is still praised for insisting on leading Wigan Athletic to the ground passing route.
If Martinez is still angry at this time. Then at the end of the first half, they conceded another goal, and at that time, he was already helpless.
The man who scored the goal this time was Sergio Aguero.
Sergio Aguero's incisive breakthrough tore apart the Wigan defence, and this time it was Aracanese who was deceived by his continuous shaking and lost his center of gravity, only to watch Aguero dribble past him.
In front of goal, Vigan Athletic's goalkeeper Habsi is like a big enemy.
Just when Habsi thought that the in-cut Sergio Aguero would shoot straight at goal, he crossed the ball to Nasri, who was inserted. What happened next turned Manchester Etihad Stadium into a sea of joy.
Nasri, he scored in two games in a row!"
"Manchester City's signings this summer, from now on, have been quite successful. ”
"2:0! Martinez was so dead-faced, he obviously didn't expect his team to face such a desperate situation at half-time!"
After falling behind by two goals away from home, the opponent's morale is like a rainbow, and there is a great intention to continue to hurt the killer, in the second half of the game, can Wigan Athletic do anything?
Looking at the end of the first half, the Vigan Athletic players walked towards the players' tunnel in frustration, everyone knew that this game, for them, could almost be declared to be over early.
On the other hand, the morale of the Manchester City players is high, and the players are talking and laughing towards the players.
The atmosphere at the Etihad Stadium in Manchester is not to be true.
The morale of the two sides is high and low, and the state is also very different, and Manchester City's overall strength is also stronger than that of Wigan Athletic, so the second half of the game was a bit of a tumultuous meaning, to be exact, everyone Manchester City team as expected, set off a storm on Wigan Athletic's goal, and beat them all over the ground.
Atletico Wigan coach Martinez repeatedly stressed at halftime that the team must not concede any more goals and must not lose by a large margin.
However, it backfired.
In the 55th minute, Nasri launched an attack with a long pass, Yang Fan had the upper hand again in the scramble with Cardwell, he gave the ball to Yaya Toure with a header, Yaya Toure at the front of the penalty area, **** stopped the ball, and directly picked up his right foot to hit the goal, 3-0.
City's goal didn't mean it ended there.
In the 67th minute, David Silva went straight to Aguero, Aguero's shot in front of the goal was blocked by Habusi, Yang Fan knocked the football into the net with a beautiful heel with his back to the goal!
Four to zero!
"This is Yang Fan's 11th league goal of the season!" Mortensen loudly announced that goal statistic!
At this time, more than 1,000 Atletico Wigan fans from afar in the stands were completely dumbfounded, and they watched their beloved team being beaten to the ground by their opponents, although they were angry in their hearts, they could only watch.
In the 77th minute, Yang Fan dribbled past the defender and crossed from the right, Aguero chose to knock back, and the follow-up central defender Kompany scored the team's fifth goal with a beautiful cushion shot, 5-0.
At this time, the camera gave Vigan Athletic coach Martinest to write, the Spanish coach's face was extremely ugly, the team was slaughtered by the opponent, this is not counting, even the opponent's central defender came up to score such a beautiful goal, what a shame.
In the 82nd minute, Yang Fan received a pass from the right side of Ballack, who came on as substitute for Saya Toure, he did not stop the ball, but directly cushioned the football into the penalty area, and Aguero volleyed the goal.
Six to zero!
The last goal of the game came in injury time, substitute Aguero Balotelli received a pass from Yaya Toure and hit the body of Athletic Wigan player Stam with a shot, and before Stam reacted, Balotelli followed up and scored the goal!
Seven to zero!
This was also the final score of this game.
After the game, the front page headline of the Manchester Guardian was: Manchester City massacre!
Next to the title, it is a 7:0 score in huge red lettering!
At the Etihad Stadium in Manchester, Yang Fan led Manchester City to seven goals for Wigan Athletic, which was also the most disparity since the start of the Premier League this season. It was Arsenal who had often caused such tragedies before, but this time it was Manchester City. While the 7-0 thrashing of Wigan Athletic, they also continued to lead the table with 12 points from four wins! Although it is too early to say that this Manchester City team will win the league title, Manchester City has shown everyone that they are strong and hungry for the title. ”
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