"Ashley expressed his confidence in the interview, as well as his disrespect for Manchester City, he believes that Manchester City is a nouveau riche with gold dollar football, and Newcastle's business model is the healthiest ......" In the evening show of Manchester local TV, Ashley basically appeared as a villain, and his disrespect for Manchester City was amplified and amplified by the media.

A reporter asked him Yang, this is a very sensitive issue, because Yang Fan's transfer departure, this is where Ashley has been criticized, Ashley stressed that football is a collective sport, he expressed confidence in Newcastle to win, as for where his confidence comes from, only he knows. ”

"In this game, Ben Arfa, Demba Ba and Cisse, Newcastle's trident will be the key to Newcastle's victory, especially Ben Arfa's performance after coming to Newcastle deserves praise......

Ben Alpha was introduced on the TV news.

Obviously, this is the media who believes that Ben Arfa is the most dangerous figure in the Newcastle squad in this game.

Now 25 years old, Ben Arfa was once one of the future stars of French football, once known as the "Four Little Swans" of French football, along with Menez, Nasri and Benzema.

In 2004, as the front four of the French U17 youth team, Nasri, Ben Arfa, Menez and Benzema helped the French national youth team win the U17 European Youth Championship for the first time, winning all five games easily, including a 3-1 defeat to Portugal in the semi-finals, and two wins in the group stage and the final, with Pique, Cesc Fabregas, Capel, Granero and other Spanish teams. Nasri, Ben Arfa, Menes and Benzema, due to their excellent skills and all born in 1987, are known as the "87 Four Little Swans".

Since the UEFA Youth Championship in '04, the 17-year-old Benzema has started to improve in Lyon, scoring 31 goals and goals in the 07/08 and 08/09 seasons respectively, winning the league Golden Boot and Silver Boot. In the summer of 2009, this was probably Benzema's most important leap, landing 35 million on Real Madrid. At present, Benzema is already the main striker of Real Madrid and is highly used.

Nasri currently occupies a regular position in midfield for Premier League giants Manchester City, and he and Ben Arfa will meet as opponents in this game.

With the title of "Ligue 1 Breakthrough King", Ben Arfa is now having a better time at Newcastle, the French international who is known as a crazy man and is currently the darling of St James' Park.

The next day was matchday, and reporters were wandering around the hotel where the Manchester City players were staying, trying to catch some news.

But in fact, they went to interview Yang Fan.

After Ashley said that yesterday, they hadn't asked Yang Fan what he thought about it.

This kind of thing is naturally to pick this side and that side.

Ashley has already commented on Yang Fan, but Yang Fan has not responded to him......

The reporters' wish did not come true until the two teams arrived at the stadium, and when Yang Fan jumped off the bus, he was blocked by reporters surrounding the passageway, and everyone asked him the same question.

What's the reaction to Ashley's words?

Yang Fan quietly listened to Ashley's words relayed by reporters, but he was not angry. To be honest, his feelings for Newcastle are more of the feelings of the old chairman Shepard, and Yang Fan has almost no impression of Ashley who sold him, in fact, in a sense, he also has to thank Ashley for agreeing to his transfer to Wolfsburg, otherwise, the future of staying in Newcastle is not good.

'Newcastle have been fantastic this season, it's a tough opponent to play against, but I believe the win was ours. Yang Fan said.

After saying that, he waved his hand and refused the interview requests of other reporters, and followed the big team to the players' locker room.

Everything that needs to be said has been said, and if you continue to talk about it, you will really tear your face.

Just because he has feelings for Newcastle doesn't mean he has feelings for Ashley. If Shepard is now the chairman of Newcastle, Yang Fan will speak a lot more respectfully, Ashley? Although Newcastle is doing well now, this chairman is very unpopular, and can even be described as making people angry.

Head back to the locker room, change into your training clothes, and go out to warm up.

After warming up, head back to the locker room.

It's not long before you play.

Roberto Mancini was the last man to come back from the pitch and he closed the door and watched his players.

In this game, except for Gareth Barry, who was suspended due to the accumulation of yellow cards, Mancini's squad was relatively neat, and everyone else was the best candidate in their respective positions.

When the media talks about Manchester City's journey to defending their title in the league, a common opinion is that City are too young and the team lacks the experience to defend their title in the league.

However, Yang Fan scoffed at this, what experience of defending the title, at this time, there is no need to think about it so much, Manchester City only needs to win the game, just win, and at this time, to put it more directly, Manchester City wants to win this game, they will be able to win the championship one round in advance, and they can successfully defend the title!

It's all in one battle!

"Remember what we've practiced in training and then play it in the game, and if you do that, I'm sure you're going to win. So, I don't think it's a memorable game, it's just a very normal league game. Of course, the result of this game is obvious, we will win the title one round earlier, we will successfully defend the Premier League title and let's say that if there is anything different about this game, it is that after the game, we can have a really good celebration party and that's it. ”

Mancini doesn't talk much, he doesn't want to say too much, that would put pressure on the players, and at this point, the Manchester City players no longer need to be mobilised before the game, or even need to decompress the Manchester City players now.

So, Mancini didn't say much, he went out and left the time for the players themselves.

After he left, Yang Fan stood up as the captain, of course he wanted to say a few words.

But in fact, he only said one sentence.

After standing up, Yang Fan looked around at his teammates, his gaze lingering on the faces of each teammate, whether he was a player or a substitute.

"Last year we won the league and some people say it was accidental, so now we're going to do it again and shut the mouths of some red-eyed people!"

While the players on both sides were still making final preparations in their respective locker rooms, the fans of both sides in the stands couldn't wait to sing in the stands at this moment.

This game is of great significance for both sides, and Manchester City will win this replay to win the Premier League title one round earlier.

A win for Newcastle would see them leapfrog Arsenal in the table and finish fourth in the league, giving them an edge in the final round of the league.

This game is so important for both sides, so fans on both sides appeared in the stands with excitement and anticipation, and the game has not yet started, and it has begun to sing excitedly.

The atmosphere at home continued to heat up, and when the list of players from both sides was broadcast on the live broadcast, it reached the first high.

When the names of the rest of City's players were played, the Newcastle fans were a little quieter.

When Yang Fan's name was read, cheers and applause erupted in the stands at St James' Park.

As the captain of the visiting team, it is unusual to be treated with such courtesy, which is the courtesy of Newcastle fans to the Rigberton star, and they are proud of Yang Fan, because, as long as Yang Fan is mentioned, the label Yang Fan is a Newcastle Academy product will always be mentioned.

After the away players, the names of the home team players began to be played, and when the names of the home team players began to be read, the cheers of the audience rose wave after wave.

Every Manchester City player has received rabid boos here, and Newcastle is the most fanatical soil in English football, and it is not for nothing.

While the fans were building momentum for the game, players from both sides were already in the hallway, waiting to be led out by the referee.

Manchester City and Newcastle players were supposed to be enemies, but before the game, the Manchester City captain was greeting some Newcastle players in a friendly manner, and there was no sign that this was a heavyweight game that involved a season of hard work on both sides.

Yang Fan and Clooney, Coloccini, and Gutierrez all said hello, and they all looked very happy to see Yang Fan take the initiative to come up and greet them.

Although the two sides are opponents, they are very familiar with each other many times in the Premier League, coupled with the Newcastle brand on Yang Fan, the relationship between the two sides has always been quite good, not to mention that Yang Fan and Clooney are teammates in the youth team.

At the entrance of the players' Yongdao, there were staff members of the Newcastle club watching this scene, with mixed feelings in their hearts, looking at Yang Fan, the young man of the Newcastle youth team back then, and now he has walked out of a path that others dare not think of, and now, Yang Fan is a well-deserved number one star in the world, but unfortunately, he is not wearing a Newcastle jersey.

At the same time, Yang Fan noticed a gaze, he turned his head to follow the gaze, and found Ben Alpha.

The French four Little Swan stars in the Newcastle team were greeting Nasri, one of the four Little Swan players in the Manchester City team, but when he spoke to Nasri, his eyes were not looking at his former teammates, but at Yang Fan's.

After discovering that Yang Fan was looking over, he did not look away, but chose to continue to look at Yang Fan.

Yang Fan found that he was looking at him, although he didn't know why Ben Alpha was staring at him, but Yang Fan still nodded politely, said hello, and then walked back to his place.

Soon Nasri also said goodbye to Ben Arfa and returned to his team.

Ben Alpha turned his gaze back to Yang Fan, and he was very impressed by Yang Fan's smile just now.

He could see that it was not an arrogant smile, nor a provocative smile, it was an ordinary smile.

This surprised Ben Alfa, under his previous understanding, Yang Fan is a rebellious personality and a player with a lot of character, why does it feel so quiet now?

Whatever, in this game, he has to exert all his energy to win this duel with Yang Fan.

No one mentioned the topic of the duel between Ben Alpha and Yang Fan, because Ben Alpha did become famous at a young age, and he and Yang Fan can be said to have become famous at the same time, but now the gap between the strength of the two people and their status in football is quite large, and no one has said anything about the duel between Yang Fan and Ben Alpha.

However, in Ben Alpha's heart, he gave himself a task, which was to win this matchup.

That's right, he himself defined this match as a showdown between himself and Yang Fan.

Yang Fan is the captain of Manchester City, while Newcastle's current captain is Argentine defender Coloccini.

After shaking hands, exchanging flags and picking edges, Yang Fan returned to his team, where he lost the pick but got the right to kick off.

In his mind, this is much more important than picking sides.

Players from both sides then took their positions and the game was about to begin.

St James' Park, which had always been noisy, suddenly fell silent, and this quiet suddenly came, and it was a little uncomfortable......

Everyone held their breath and waited for the referee's whistle to blow.

For Newcastle fans, it was their biggest game since returning to the Premier League from the Championship.

For Manchester City fans, the thought of winning the game and being able to defend the Premier League title ahead of schedule also had to suppress their excitement.

But when Yang Fan stepped on the football, his eyes were very calm.

The TV broadcast specially gave him a close-up at this time, wanting to see if Yang Fan's expression would be more colorful in such an important game where he won the championship.

Let them down.

Yang Fan's expression was calm, as if it was just an ordinary Premier League game for him.

In this silence, the referee blew the whistle for the start of the game.

Yang Fan gently rubbed the football under his feet forward, and then he ran diagonally to the right side, which was the place he was most familiar with.

Sergio Aguero followed the ball he kicked and passed it back, and after that, he also ran diagonally to the left wing.

The football fell to Nasri.

Nasri continued to pass the ball back.

And so the game begins!

"Audience friends! Audience friends! In the 2011-2012 Premier League 37th round, a match that will decide the championship, Manchester City's away match with Newcastle has officially kicked off!

Newcastle's St James' Park, which had been quiet before, erupted in loud cheers and flashing lights, turning the stands almost into a galaxy of lights.

Manchester City fans began to cheer loudly for their team.

After the start of the game, Ben Arfa appeared to be very active, Manchester City kicked off and passed the ball back, and Ben Alfa went up to press it, and he chased it all the way.

He crossed straight through the centre circle and chased Nasri, who had the ball.

Nasri turned and passed the ball to centre-back Vincent Kompany, and Ben Arfa didn't pause at all to keep catching up.

His pressing is particularly prominent at the beginning of the game, generally speaking, when the game just starts, both sides will start to probe, especially when the opponent does not know each other very well, and will not exert force at the beginning of the game.

It's also rare for a player to chase a football all the way to the hinterland of the opponent.

As soon as Ben Alpha did this, he caught everyone's attention.

The Newcastle fans in the stands also cheered loudly and cheered Ben Alpha on.

As soon as Kompany received the ball, he saw that Ben Arfa had already killed, and he quickly passed the football to the side and passed it to another central defender, Colo Toure, who was playing in the game.

Ben Arfa didn't give up either, he turned a corner in the middle of a high-speed run, continued to chase the football, and rushed to Colo Toure!

Seeing this, the Newcastle fans in the stands were even more excited, and they happened to be on the side of Manchester City's half, so their cheers were closer to Ben Arfa and could be heard by both Ben Arfa and the Manchester City players.

"Ben Arfa is pressing in front!"

"He's scrappy!"

"Pressing Toure, Ben Alfa is in hot pursuit......"

"Toure should kick the ball out!" said Mortenson, "and in the face of such a press, it is better to solve it in the most crisp way!"

City fans are also a little nervous and want Toure to handle the ball smarter, kicking the ball straight forward, kicking it forward or kicking it out of bounds. As long as you don't let Ben Arfa break the ball on the edge of the box, it's okay to say anything.

Everyone's eyes were on Toure, including Yang Fan, who had already run to the front.

Manchester City has just kicked off, and if they are forced to scramble by the other side, I am afraid it will be a blow to the morale of the whole team......

Yang Fan also hopes that Toure can kick the football out, he is ready to grab the landing point, if Toure kicks the football forward, the football must not fall to the feet of the Newcastle players.

Under everyone's gaze, Toure picked up his left foot and made a gesture to kick the football forward.

Ben Alpha leaped towards Toure and the football, stretching out his legs while turning his body to block the ball with his back.

But Toure didn't really kick the ball forward, he didn't kick the ball to the right with his left foot!

It's as simple as that, and the imposing Ben Alpha is directly deducted!

Ben Alpha pounced!

Toure then calmly passed the ball to Ginaire de Jong, who had withdrawn to pick him up.

There was a cheer from the stands as he dunked Ben Arfa, all from the City fans, who were desperately cheering Toure on. The cheers were quickly drowned out by boos from the Newcastle fans.

"Well done!" Yang Fan couldn't help but applaud.

In the face of the menacing Ben Alpha, Toure's calm and light buckle is really relieving!

"Oh, Toure, nice smash, he shook off Ben Arfa!" and even the commentators praised Toure's performance.

Toure showed his composure and composure at the start of the match, which will undoubtedly reassure a lot of people in this match!"

'It's remarkable, he didn't choose to kick off blindly, but calmly handled it and passed the football to Frenkie de Jong, so that Manchester City still controlled the football......

The TV close-up fell on Toure's face, but Toure, who had just completed such a beautiful blow, had a very calm expression on his face.

Roberto Mancini was also applauding Toure from the sidelines, and in fact, Mancini had been considering selling Toure for a more reliable centre-back, and now it seems that Toure is doing well.

Mancini touched his chin and thought about it, but he finally decided to bring in a new reliable centre-back, and of course, Toure didn't have to move away if he could accept a rotation position. At this time, in Mancini's mind, Lescott has become the defender who may be pushed into the transfer market.

Roberto Mancini has his eye on AC Milan's Brazilian centre-back Thiago Silva.

Thiago Silva trained in Fluminense as a teenager but was not recognized in the end. At the age of 17, he signed a professional contract with Rio in southern Brazil. By 2002, Thiago Silva moved to Juventud, where he scored three goals in 27 appearances and enjoyed a very successful season. He was then spotted by FC Porto in Portugal and began to explore Europe in 2004. However, Thiago Silva's experience in Europe can only be described as an ordeal, with injuries at Porto in 2004 and Dynamo Moscow in 2005, and he had to return to Brazil in 2006 to join Fluminense. In his two seasons at Fluminense, Thiago Silva was an eye-catcher. Despite a poor first season and 15th place in the league, in 2007-08 the team soared to fourth place in the league, winning the Brazilian League Cup, making it all the way to the final in the Copa Libertadores before losing 3-1 to Ecuador's Universidad de Quito on penalties (5-5 over two legs). In 2008, Thiago Silva was voted Defender of the Year by Brazilian fans.

Thiago Silva's real fame came when he played for AC Milan. In December 2008, Serie A giants AC Milan bought Thiago Silva for 10 million euros before a number of European giants, and signed a contract until the summer of 2013. However, with two non-EU player registrations for AC Milan in 2008/09 already given to Ukrainian star Shepchenko and Uruguayan teenager Tabare Biudes, Thiago Silva had to wait until 1 July 2009 to officially register with the Italian Football League to qualify for Milan. On 21 January 2009, he made his debut for the Rossoneri in a friendly against Hannover 96 in Milan, wearing the number 33 shirt.

After the 2008-09 season, Maldini retired and the aging of the AC Milan defence became more and more serious. Against this backdrop, Thiago Silva was finally unfrozen from the transfer blacklist and moved to the San Siro for 10 million euros. Despite the hype of several Italian media outlets, including Sport, Milan fans were initially not optimistic about the "poor resume" Brazilian centre-back, and they even thought he was inferior to American Oneu.

But in just one season, Thiago Silva became the darling of the Rossoneri. After training with the team for half a year, Thiago Silva quickly became a stalwart of AC Milan's defence in 2009/10, replacing retired Paulo Maldini and a generation of defender Alessandro Nesta to form one of the best centre-back pairings in Serie A and European football. Not only is he solid defensively and has a strong ability to steal, but he can also frequently insert at high speed in attack and threaten the opponent's goal by surprise. On 8 November 2009, Silva scored his first competitive goal in Milan against Lazio in Serie A, a 2-1 victory. On 6 January 2010, Silva scored a game-winning goal in Serie A against ****** Milan to help his side win 5-2. As of 18 April 2010, Thiago Silva had made 36 appearances for AC Milan, playing 3,120 minutes, scoring two goals and providing one assist. With Nesta, Bonella, Onneu and others injured one after another, Thiago Silva has become the only reliance on the AC Milan defence. On 8 May 2011, AC Milan drew 0-0 away at Roma to win the title two rounds ahead of schedule, and Thiago Silva also won his first league title since arriving in Serie A.

On 12 September 2011, when Silva faced defending champions Barcelona in the Champions League group stage, he headed in the 92nd minute to make it 2-2 and leave AC Milan undefeated. On 28 November of the same year, Thiago Silva wore the captain's armband for AC Milan for the first time and opened the scoring with a high-quality long-range shot. On 3 March 2012, Silva scored with a header away to Palermo in Serie A. In his three seasons with Milan, he won the league championship, second runner-up and third place once.

In the early hours of May 18, 2011, AC Milan officially announced the renewal of Thiago Silva's contract. Milan have signed a new contract with Brazilian international Thiago Silva until 2016, with the Rossoneri locking in a five-year contract for the powerful Milan defence.

At 183 metres tall, Thiago Silva is an all-rounder on the pitch. Until 2004, he was able to play as a right winger, central midfielder and full-back. At Juventud, then-manager Watman made a name for himself in the position by switching Thiago Silva to centre-back. Silva is already a shining star in Brazilian football and a regular in Dunga's national team. The Brazilian with his speed and fitness has played for Portugal's Porto and had a brief stop at Dynamo Moscow. In 2006, Silva officially joined Fluminense and has been the main centre-back ever since. In the 2008 season, he was also named in the best 11-man team of the Brazilian league. He then joined Serie A giants AC Milan and renewed his contract until 2016.

Thiago Silva is referred to as the "new Maldini" because although the player also has a strong body, he relies more on his cool head, good positioning awareness and excellent sense of complementing in defence, just like Maldini when he was younger.

Thiago Silva is not outstanding at 1.83m, but he has an amazing bounce and can rest assured that he will be entrusted with the task of air defense in the penalty area. Unlike the Brazilian defender, who generally likes assists, Thiago Silva is a player who can "stand up" at the back, and he doesn't have the number of assists he has matched Nestador at AC Milan.

The Brazilian defender's composure has shaped him, and his experience in Serie A has given him more maturity, and Thiago Silva has a better chance of becoming Brazil's main centre-back at the World Cup than his compatriot Juan.

Mancini, who was born in Serie A, is very fond of defenders in Serie A, which is one of the reasons why he has a crush on Thiago Silva, and of course, the most important thing is that the Brazilian central defender is indeed extraordinary.

Back to the game.

Ben Arfa was a little depressed, he thought that his aggressive scramble up front should give Newcastle a chance.

Who thought that the seemingly bulky and tall central defender was so bold and careful, and he chose to deduct himself!

In this way, he has become a green leaf that sets off him......

Damn it!

I lost my personal ...... at the beginning of the game

De Jong got the football, then turned and passed it to Nasri.

At the same time, Manchester City also started to attack, and other players pressed forward.

In this game, the morale of the whole Manchester City team is high, they want to win the game, they want to achieve the great achievement of defending the league title! They want to shut up the guys who are blind on the sidelines, Manchester City is a strong team now! What is a team that defends the title in the Premier League and is not a strong team?!!!

Nasri passed the football to Yang Fan.

Seeing that Yang Fan was about to catch the ball, the Newcastle defenders were like big enemies, and Newcastle's defenders Tiot and Cabaye all moved closer to this side.

The man who is specifically responsible for defending Nasri is Gutiérrez.

And the one who is specifically responsible for defending Yang Fan is Tiot, a midfielder with a brave style.

After Yang Fan received Nasri's pass, he knocked the ball back to Silva and ran forward.

After drawing the attention of the Newcastle players with the ball, Silva opted to pass the ball to Yaya Toure.

Yaya Toure picked a pass, and after Yang Fan stopped the ball, he pretended to pass the ball to David Silva, who reached out for the ball, but suddenly passed the football in the opposite direction.

There, there was no one around Aguero!

"Sergio Aguero!

"Beautiful pass!"

Aguero received a pass from Yang Fan, and he dribbled into the penalty area!

There was a lot of cheering in the stands, and many Manchester City fans stood up, ready to cheer for Sergio Aguero's goal!

Newcastle goalkeeper Clooney has struck!

Sergio Aguero also shoots at the same time!

Sergio Aguero shoots, but after being saved by Clooney, it hits the post and bounces back again!

"Got pounced!"

In fact, at this time, as long as Aguero starts again, he can rush in front of Clooney to complete the follow-up shot, but after Aguero was saved by his own one-on-one ball, he himself seemed to have been hit hard. He just stood there dumbfounded. Didn't rush up to get ready for a follow-up shot. Just holding his head in his hands, he couldn't believe that his single knife ball was actually saved.

By the time he reacted to rush up to make a follow-up shot, Clooney was already rolling and clutching the ball.

When Yang Fan passed the ball to Aguero, he knew that this was a one-on-one opportunity!

He thought he had it!

However, I didn't expect Aguero's shot to be saved, and it was not impossible for the single ball to be saved, but what Yang Fan was most angry about was that Aguero's performance after the shot was saved, the Argentine did not rush up to make up the shot for the first time, but stood there in a daze, wasting the opportunity to make up for the first time in vain!

Yang Fan was very dissatisfied with Aguero's performance, and in his opinion, Aguero's performance was killing the team's chance of victory!

He yelled at Sergio Aguero, who was looking at Newcastle's goal with a look of regret: "What were you doing?

Aguero was frustrated at this time, and he also realized what a good opportunity he had missed! At this time, when he heard Yang Fan yelling at him, although he knew that he was wrong, he was still a little unhappy. He turned his head to look at Yang Fan, and muttered two sentences in his mouth.

Although he couldn't hear what Aguero said again, Yang Fan could guess the general meaning, and he was even more angry, "Are you still reasonable?"

Fortunately, at this time, Yaya Toure came running, he pulled Yang Fan away, and David Silva went up to comfort Aguero.

"Dude, don't take it personally. Yang is also too eager to win. ”

"Does he want to win?" said Aguero, with a bad face.

David Silva stopped talking, just patted Aguero on the shoulder. In his opinion, whether it is Yang Fan or Aguero, no one is wrong, Yang Fan's mood is understandable, and Aguero wasted this opportunity, and he must feel uncomfortable.

Both of them, both hungry to score and win. This is their common goal, and the current small disagreement is not a big deal, at most a small episode in the process of working towards the goal.

At this time, Yang Fan also realized that his attitude was not very good, he walked over, found Aguero, and patted his partner on the shoulder, "My attitude is not good, I apologize to you, man." But it was a good chance to score. ”

Aguero saw Yang Fan take the initiative to apologize, his anger also disappeared, he was not an unreasonable person, besides, it was indeed his own hesitation, so that he missed a goal.

"I'm also responsible. Aguero said, "Don't worry, I'm going to score." ”

"Haha, of course I believe in your abilities. Yang Fan laughed.

This is Yang Fan's personal charm, he is right about things and not people, and it is not surprising that he has relied on his strong ability and personal charisma to become an excellent personal leader for Manchester City.

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