Chapter 004: Good Start!
At this time, there was an accident on the field, Manchester City goalkeeper Joe Hart's goal kick was a little flawed.
The ball he kicked was headed back by Govel and Norwegian striker Kalou jumped up just outside the box, and the big man headed it in from just outside the box. City goalkeeper Joe Hart couldn't do anything about the shot, but Kalou's header was slightly more powerful and the ball flew over the crossbar.
"Hart, what are you doing?!" City's stalwart and vice-president Kompany yelled at goalkeeper Joe Hart, expressing his displeasure at his somewhat careless goal kick.
Joe Hart also knew that this time it was his own problem, and raised his hand to apologize to his teammates.
For the next ten minutes, the game seemed to be silent, with City having few good chances and Swansea attacking for even less.
Rodgers is worthy of being an excellent coach, after conceding a goal, he did not immediately ask the team to press out to attack, but at this time, adjusted the tactics again, the team retreated, Rangel strengthened the marking of Yang Fan, Gowell also sacrificed the offense to mark Yang Fan during this time, after all, it is a goal, not to give Yang Fan any chance at all, would rather sacrifice the offense, and it can even be said that he would rather enter the halftime break with a ball disadvantage, and can not concede the ball again.
I have to say that Rodgers's tactics are correct, at that time, if Swansea is desperate to press out and attack, then Swansea's back line will have more holes, and Yang Fan has every chance to score again.
'Brendan Rodgers adjusted the team's tactics and he looked cautious. β
"Yang Fan's threat is a headache for Rogers. Lineker added, "And it's obviously not just Brendan Rodgers' problem, the other Premier League managers, including Sir Alex Ferguson and Mr Arsene Wenger, have been struggling with this problem.
How to defend Yang Fan, how to balance the team's defense and offense. β
"Ferguson must have been the most annoyed, he shouldn't have faced this problem in the first place. Mortensen joked that he knew, because of Yang Fan's transfer, the relationship between Ferguson and Manchester United's top management is still tense until now.
"Hah-" Lineker laughed.
"Swansea's defence is starting to retreat, and Yang Fan has no good opportunities for the time being. Mortenson said.
Before the commentator could speak, Sergio Aguero won a free-kick on the right side of Swansea's half.
'Rutlegui fouls Sergio Aguero, City's free-kick. β
"The distance of this free-kick is relatively long, 40 meters away from the goal, and it is basically impossible to score with a straight shot. β
David Silva walked to the penalty spot, looked at the goal, picked up the football and placed it at the penalty spot.
Everyone thought David Silva would hoist the ball straight into the box.
However, it was only after David Silva ran and kicked the ball that they saw Manchester City's attacking routine this time.
David Silva's footwork was not to hoist the ball into the box, but to push it with the arch of his foot, and the ball rolled quickly to the side, where Milner had already started to run, and he was very fast, and with an acceleration, he passed Rutlegui who came up in a hurry to intercept, and then looked at the situation in the box and passed the ball into the box.
Yang Fan was in the penalty area and was entangled by Rangel.
Although Langel's reaction was not as fast as Yang Fan's, he still came up close to him as soon as possible, and at the same time, his hands were not clean, and he pulled Yang Fan's jersey.
Yang Fan leaned on Rrangel, the football fell, he reached out to pat Rangel's hand that pulled his jersey, and at the same time padded the ball with his knee, and the football jumped up again, but Rangel was like a kraft candy, and the other hand almost stopped Yang Fan.
At this time, if Yang Fan falls to the ground, maybe Manchester City can get a penalty.
Of course, it's just maybe, maybe the referee Webber may also give Yang Fan a yellow card and punish him for faking a fall, after all, Rrangel's actions are not enough to make Yang Fan fall to the ground.
Yang Fan has never had the habit of taking points.
Rangel was also worried that Yang Fan would fake a fall at this time, you know, and many players like to dive, at this time, it is possible to fall directly to the ground and take a penalty.
Somewhat worried in his heart, Rangel hugged Yang Fan's hand, loosened it slightly, and broke away from Yang Fan's body.
At this time, the football fell again, and Yang Fan's body suddenly leaned back.
"This kid is going to cheat a penalty?!" Rangel was startled, if Yang Fan really fell to the ground, it was hard to say whether the referee would award a penalty.
What about the actual situation?!
Under Rrangel's shocked gaze, Yang Fan leaned back, and the whole person took off, and at the same time, with the inside of his left foot, he gently rubbed the falling football, and the football was gently rubbed up beautifully and flew to the back of the goal!
Barb shot!
The soccer ball crosses a wonderful little arc into the corner!
Yang Fan's second goal in the new Premier League came at the end of the 36th minute.
After the goal, City's number 10 got up from the ground and roared to the sky. Beside him is the Swansea defender Wrangel, who is still stunned!
His teammates poured in on him.
In the stands of the visiting fans at the Liberty Stadium, the Manchester City fans jumped all at once, and they erupted in frantic cheers for the captain's goal. The first half is not over yet, the captain has already scored two goals, which is really good. They thought excitedly.
In the face of this goal, the well-informed Lineker also stood up excitedly, and he shouted, "A beautiful, very beautiful barb shot! This is Yang Fan's goal! He scored twice in the game! 2-0! Yang Fan leads Manchester City forward!"
"Yang Fan had a barb shot blocked by the post before, and this time, we finally saw an even more exciting barb goal! It was a beautiful goal, and his two goals in the first half of the game today were so beautiful!" Mortensen shouted, telling his partner in the first half of the day, "Gary, I think we've been busy this season, and it's really not an easy job to pick the goal of the week." β
Manchester City fans in the away stands at the Liberty Stadium cheered again, with less than 3,000 Manchester City fans making a noise that even surpassed tens of thousands of home fans. Because, at this time, the Swansea fans were temporarily silent, and they had nothing to say in the face of such a wonderful goal.
"Beautiful!"
"Well done!"
"Great Yang!"
"Awesome!"
On the sidelines, Manchester City manager Roberto Mancini stood up excitedly and walked to the sidelines to applaud. It's 2-0, he didn't expect that Manchester City would be able to take a 2-0 lead in the first half of this game!
Yang Fan's performance also made Robert Mancini very happy, seeing the current performance of the team's number one star, Robert Mancini began to have greater confidence in Manchester City's goals this season.
This season, Manchester City have big ambitions.
There was a lot of joy on Manchester City's side, and a gloom cloud on Swansea's side.
In the hearts of Swansea fans and players, there is still a lot of anticipation for this game, this is the team's first time in many years to reach the top flight, for this game, it can be said that the whole town is empty, they hope that the team can play a good game, despite facing a strong Manchester City team, but the fans still have a certain hope.
However, no one expected that in just half a game, Manchester City would lead Swansea 2-0 away.
Rodgers was obviously enraged by this conceded goal, he angrily slammed the mineral water bottle in his hand to the ground, splashing everywhere, just like the sparkling anger in Rogers' heart, conceding two goals in a row, almost declaring the fate of Swansea's defeat in the first round of the new season, and it is likely to be a heavy defeat! This is a great blow to the promoted polo team.
However, Rogers didn't know who to fire at him!
For this conceded goal, Rodgers couldn't even blame the defenders, couldn't blame Rrangel who defended Yang Fan, he had tried his best to defend, almost pulling and pulling. In this way, Yang Fan actually scored this wonderful barb shot.
It's not that Langle isn't good enough, it's that Yang Fan's scoring ability is too strong.
Two minutes later, Swansea head coach Brendan Rodgers was in an even worse mood.
Swansea goalkeeper Fulm drove the ball in goal, which he played to centre-back Rrangel. Yang Fan immediately went up to force the scramble, and Ranger quickly passed the ball to Williams on the wing.
Manchester City midfielder James Milner saw Williams receiving the ball and immediately rushed up.
Williams could have played a long ball straight up front. But he saw that his teammates hadn't pressed yet, and there were only two people in the frontcourt, Karui and Rutlegui, so he raised his leg and lowered it, intending to control the ball and hold it steady.
He was going to control the ball, but Milner naturally wouldn't give him a chance, and at this point, Milner was already pressing.
Williams turned to protect the ball and saw that Milner was fierce in the grab, and in order to avoid being cut off, he did not choose to pass the ball to his team-mate at the far end, but directly passed it back.
Williams got on his shoulders and then passed back to the goalkeeper, and the ball rolled against the turf towards goalkeeper Fulm.
When Fulm saw Williams, he stood in front of the goal, waiting to catch the ball.
At this moment, Yang Fan suddenly bypassed Rangel like a leopard and rushed towards the ball.
Langle is short board is slow to turn around, and when he turned around, he saw Yang Fan rushing to the door, knowing that it was too late to catch up, he quickly shouted loudly, "Be careful!" to remind his goalkeeper.
However, Rangel obviously underestimated Yang Fan's speed, and in the blink of an eye, Yang Fan was very close to football.
Swansea goalkeeper Fulm was also taken aback, knowing that he could not hesitate at this time.
Fulm took a step forward, picked up his big foot, and prepared to clear the football big foot, he knew very well that because it was a ball back to the ball, if he attacked by himself, he could not hold the ball with his hands, and blindly attacked, which would make his pace chaotic, so he simply stood in place and kicked the football out with a big foot. He could see clearly that he had a distance of seven or eight meters from the football and a distance of ten meters from Yang Fan, and he was able to touch the ball before Yang Fan.
The cameras are all focused on Swansea's goalkeeper and that's when a sudden encounter takes place!
Fulm struck a gap-open stance, ready to clear.
Yang Fan's speed is getting faster and closer, and he and Swansea goalkeeper Fulm can almost see the clear and rich expressions on each other's faces.
Fulm was shocked, and hurriedly faced the ball rolling over, and wheeled his right leg out!
At this time, a situation that was enough to keep many fans talking about it for a long time appeared.
Fulm had the advantage of long legs and big steps, and kicked the football first, but the football kicked by him, after flying, just smashed on Yang Fan's body who rushed over, and then the football popped back.
Fulm was completely dumbfounded.
Yang Fan was also stunned, but there was no ambiguity at his feet, he ran towards the goal, he wanted to make sure that the ball went into the net, and then Yang Fan almost 'escorted' the football into the net.
The ball is in!
Three to zero!
Hat-trick!
"Yang Fan!"
"Yang Fan!"
"Yang Fan!"
Amid the cheers of the Manchester City fans, the Swansea fans erupted in huge boos after a brief silence.
At this time, everyone knew that this boo was no longer directed at Yang Fan, or even at Manchester City, it was directed at the Swansea players of the home team.
Half time was not played, 0-3 down, Swansea's new season started unusually badly. The mood of their fans was also made terrible by Yang Fan's third goal.
At the end of the first half, Manchester City were at the Liberty Stadium and led Swansea 3-0 away.
And before half-time was over, Swansea manager Brendan Rodgers was the first to leave the dugout and walk back into the dressing room. He couldn't stand it anymore.
The away team's locker room at the Liberty Stadium, Manchester City's dressing room was noisy, people were in a state of excitement all the time, and Yang Fan's hat-trick made the whole team in a state of excitement.
Fifteen minutes passed quickly after the break, and after the start of the second half, Swansea's performance improved, Scott Sinclair and Ruttlegui took turns to attack the two wings of the Manchester City team, and the high point of Carew and Graham, a fast striker, formed a certain pressure on the Manchester City back line in front.
David Silva and Yaya Toure didn't dare to step forward to assist easily. The two sides have each other's offense and defense, and neither can help the other for the time being.
Manchester City have three goals in their hands and are not in a hurry, even if it is the end of the game, they are very satisfied, and they can take away the score of 3-0 from the Stade de LibertΓ©, which is indeed a complete victory.
But Swansea had to hurry, it was the first game of the new season, and on their own home turf, with tens of thousands of fans cheering them on, they were down 3-0 at half-time, and the team could even lose more, and the promoted polo team must try to avoid that. This game has a great impact on the team's trend in the new season.
Although they knew that the Manchester City team with Yang Fan was very capable of counter-attacking, however, Swansea also had to step up their attack and they wanted to score. If you keep retrenching in defense, this will have a huge impact on the morale of a promoted team.
Swansea's entire back line was forward, and the midfielders began to press forward in order to burn the flames of the battle into the Manchester City half. They can't keep conceding goals, and if they do, it's a complete defeat!
Now, the weaker side is forcing their way on, and there are two ways to do this, one is that Swansea City has taken the plunge and the other is that they have more space left behind them, and this one is more likely to be caught by their opponents.
With 55 minutes to go, City played a fast attack.
Zabaleta plays the ball quickly from the wing.
Yaya Toure gave the ball to David Silva, who immediately passed the ball.
At the same time, Yang Fan began to start.
Almost as soon as Yang Fan started, Gowell immediately stepped forward to intercept him.
However, Yang Fan did not dribble in a straight line, but dribbled horizontally, and in the face of Yang Fan's high-speed change of direction, Gowell obviously had no good way.
Yang Fan directly shook off Gowell with a high-speed change of direction, and then changed direction again, and the spearhead of the attack was directed at the Swansea team's penalty area.
Gowell was not willing to be thrown away by Yang Fan like this, he turned around and pounced on Yang Fan.
Yang Fan could feel Gowell's perseverance behind him, he and Gowell had already played each other a few times in today's game, and the two sides were not strangers to each other.
It was at this time that Wrangel also came up. He and Gowell went one after the other, wanting to close Yang Fan.
The camera follows several players in this attack.
At this time, Rangel was already in front of Yang Fan, and he forced Yang Fan to slow down.
And behind, Gowell followed closely.
It seems that Yang Fan has no other way than to pass the football to the right side and have his teammates organize the attack again. If he hesitates, the ball will be broken.
Yang Fan also made a pass to the right flank, and there, Milner came up.
Yang Fan's feints were very realistic, and even deceived the TV broadcast camera for a time, the camera moved to the right with Yang Fan's swinging left leg, but he didn't see the football fly out with it, and it was not until this time that the TV director realized that he was also fooled.
At this point, the camera 'catches up', and almost when he turns, he stabs the ball forward with a slight stab of his left foot.
Almost at the same time, Aguero quickly plugged in at high speed from the side of Yang Fan, Wrangell, and Govir, who were still entangled.
"Sergio Aguero!
"-Pretty pass! Yang Fan's pass!"
"It's a wonderful pass. β
"This is Yang Fan's performance!"
At this time, the audience realized Yang Fan's true intentions, and the Manchester City fans in the stands of the visiting team broke out into crazy cheers, and the Manchester City fans in front of the TV, as well as the neutral fans, let out a burst of exclamations.
Aguero plugs in!
"Single-handed!" the narrator screamed.
In the face of the swansea goalkeeper Fulm, Aguero cleverly chose to shoot, the ball went over Fulm's hands, and then continued to fly, and finally fell into the empty goal!
At the same time, all the Manchester City fans in the stands of the Liberty Stadium in blue Manchester City jerseys jumped from their seats with their hands raised.
They shouted loudly, "Four to zero!"
That's right!
Four to zero!
In the 53rd minute of the game, Manchester City played a quick counterattack, Yang Fan passed a stunning pass, and assisted Aguero to score the fourth goal of the day for Manchester City!
The commentary bench was also boiling because of this goal.
Roberto Mancini was already smiling from the sidelines, 4-0, the win was decided, and it was a big win, and it was a wonderful start to the new season.
Swansea's manager, Brendan Rodgers, was a little pale with anger and was ashamed that his team had played such a score on his home turf in the first game of the 2011/2012 Premier League season. And, looking at this posture, it seems that the team will continue to concede goals!
After Manchester City scored their fourth goal, Manchester City manager Roberto Mancini made his team's first change of the day.
Yang Fan was replaced, and Dzeko came on as a substitute.
When Yang Fan was replaced, the stands of the entire Liberty Stadium resounded with warm applause, this applause is not only from the Manchester City fans in the stands of the away team, but also from the home Swansea fans, there is no hatred between Swansea and Manchester City, when Yang Fan was on the field, the Swansea fans booed Yang Fan, this is because of the fear of this opponent, now, Yang Fan was replaced, and the Swansea fans also congratulated the superstar with applause. This is a pure appreciation of football, and at this moment, Swansea fans also know that there is nothing to be ashamed of losing to Manchester City and Yang Fan.
The final score of the game was 4-2, with Manchester City winning 4-2 away at Swansea.
That's right, after Yang Fan was replaced, Swansea felt like a different team, and in the remaining half hour, they scored two goals while Manchester City did not score.
With 71 minutes played, Gowill, who didn't have to devote all his energy to defence, showed his attacking talent as he tucked in with his right foot on the left side of midfield, and Scott Sinclair received the ball on the flank and delivered a penetrating pass.
Carew received the ball in front of the penalty area, leaned on Colo Toure behind him, and knocked the ball sideways.
Graham followed up, burst into the penalty area with the ball and fired a low left-footed shot, the ball rolled past Manchester City goalkeeper Joe Hart at a fast speed, and the ball went in!
Swansea pulled a goal back.
In stoppage time, the tall Norwegian striker Kalou took advantage of a free kick opportunity to receive a pass from Britten and scored with a header to make it 2-4.
Manchester City's away game against Swansea City was the latest match to be played in the first round of the 2011/2012 Premier League season, and the game ended with all 10 matches between the 20 teams in the first round.
One of the most watched is Manchester City's match with Swansea City.
Yang Fan's performance in the game was extremely dazzling, among Manchester City's four goals, Yang Fan scored three goals himself, scored a hat-trick, and Aguero's goal also came from Yang Fan's wonderful pass.
Manchester City, under the leadership of their captain, have made a good start to the new season.
After the game, as the players celebrated the 'unexpected' victory, new Manchester City signing Sergio Aguero spoke to The Times to discuss his thoughts on his first game in the Premier League and Manchester City.
'How does it feel to score on your debut at Manchester City and get a big win?' the Times reporter asked.
Aguero wiped the sweat from his shirt with an excited smile on his face and said: "Whether it's the coach or the whole team, we are well prepared for the first game. My goal? Thanks to Yang Fan's assist, his pass was really beautiful. β
"How does it feel to partner with Yang Fan?" the reporter asked.
'It's a great feeling! he's a super player and it's a wonderful feeling to play next to him. Aguero said happily.
'It's your first Premier League game, Swansea are your first Premier League opponent, how does it feel to play?' the reporter continued.
Sergio Aguero smiled and said: "This is my first Premier League game, the pace of the Premier League is faster than La Liga, the competition is more intense, and I need time to adapt to the new league. β
On the other side, Manchester City captain Yang Fan was also being interviewed.
"You scored a hat-trick at the Stade Liberty today, you were a big part of the start to the new season, can I say that?"
"For me, the most important thing about this game is that we won and got the season off to a good start, and that's the result of the whole team! Yang Fan said.
Manchester City manager Roberto Mancini was waiting for a long time in the press room at the Stade Liberty for a long time while the players were frantically celebrating, but Swansea head coach Brendan Rodgers never arrived.
Roberto Mancini waited around ten minutes before Swansea manager Brendan Rodgers arrived late.
After Rodgers and Mancini shook hands, he did not sit down, but looked at the many reporters at the scene, and threw down a sentence: "Today's game, the team's performance, everyone has seen it, it's just terrible, () I am shameless to apologize to the fans who came to watch the game today, I would like to apologize to them, in the next round of the league, everyone will see a different Swansea." β
After saying that, Rogers nodded to his colleague Mancini, and then left in a hurry, leaving only the stunned Mancini and more than 30 reporters on the scene, they really didn't expect Mancini to have such a big reaction and left the scene directly. It seems that the head coach was indeed quite angry at Swansea's defeat.
Mancini was a little embarrassed to see Rogers leave the table, but Rogers, as the losing party, could leave the table angrily, he Mancini was the winning side, so naturally there was no reason to leave like this, so he had to sing a one-man show alone. Of course, for such a 'one-man show', Mancini is certainly not disgusted, and can even be said to like it very much.
On the second day, the front page of The Times was headlined: "Blue Moon is off to a good start to the new season".
In this high-profile game, Yang Fan used the data sheet of three goals and one assist to tell us that the ambition of him and his teammates this season, the changes in the Manchester City team in the transfer period began to work slowly, sending away Boateng and Phillips at the same time, and bringing in Aguero and Klich Nasri, the team's strength has not decreased but risen, this team is now playing more and more mature, and it tends to be stable, this season will be an opportunity for Manchester City to show its ambitions. β