19 August 2009, Evening, Manchester City Stadium.

In order to make way for next year's World Cup in South Africa, major European leagues have compressed their schedules, and the new season of the Premier League has directly entered a week of double matches from the start, which has brought heavy competition pressure to all participating teams.

Three days after the opening round, Manchester City played their first home game of the new season.

With a capacity of more than 47,000 fans, the City Stadium was packed, and countless Manchester City fans booked their first home game early in the hope of being able to enjoy the first home game in charge of Gao Han.

The match was preceded by a brief home opening ceremony for the new season and a special event.

That is, before the game, on the big screen at the scene, a clip of the highlights of several other big teams that Gao Han has coached in the past nine years, except for Chelsea, and the outstanding performances of many superstar players in the team.

The short film is not long, but it is very well edited, and the blood-pumping music makes the atmosphere extremely enthusiastic.

After the video, Manchester City's players walked out of the tunnel one by one to the cheers of the fans in the stadium to the sound of the stadium radio, while the biggest name, Cristiano Ronaldo, was arranged for the final finale.

The fans in the stadium gave each player the most enthusiastic applause and cheers, and even many fans did not forget Kaka, who could not play, and the live broadcast camera was specially given to the Brazilian superstar in the chairman's stand, so that he also enjoyed the welcome of the fans.

The atmosphere in the stadium was extremely strong, especially when Gao Han walked into the stadium from the players' tunnel, more than 40,000 fans chanted his name in unison, and countless fans held up their cards and formed a huge portrait of Gao Han in the huge stands to express their support for the world famous coach.

Gao Han smiled all the time, raised his right hand, and greeted the fans in the stadium, which made him usher in a more enthusiastic voice.

Although the first round of the new season was not ideal, it was also a solid 2-0 away defeat, and all Manchester City fans are convinced that the team's slump is only temporary, and given a little more time, Gao Han will be able to adjust the team to the best state and play as it should be.

Because in the past ten years, the alpine has never disappointed.

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In the second round, Manchester City's opponent is Everton.

David Moyes's side had just suffered a six-1 defeat at home to Arsenal and a second-round trip to the City Stadium, which made Moyes complain about the devil's schedule before the game, but the game was clearly prepared.

At the beginning of the game, Manchester City still took the initiative, but unlike the away game against Blackburn, this time Gao Han did not rush to score, but slowly attacked for the purpose of stabilizing the team's passing and controlling style of play and controlling the rhythm of the game.

Moyes also seemed to be worried about a repeat of Sam Allardyce's mistake and did not press after the opening kick-off, but retreated.

After the test of the first round of games, coupled with the problems exposed by Gao Han's targeted adjustment of the first round in the past three days, the players have a further understanding of Gao Han's technical and tactical play, and the transmission and control organization is more skillful.

Everton weren't fuel-efficient either, and the defence was well organised, making it difficult for City to hit the 30-metre zone.

However, Manchester City showed a big improvement in this game, that is, the high-intensity pressing in the midfield made it difficult for Everton to hold the ball, and Manchester City had absolute possession.

Several players in the midfield and backfield are also obviously a little more confident in taking the ball and controlling the ball, and they have become more calm.

However, Moyes lined up four or five in this game, and the midfield gathered Phil Neville, Arteta, Pinaar, Cahill and other Premier League stars, and the overall strength should not be underestimated.

Gao Han kept walking to the sidelines, repeatedly reminding the players to stay calm and patient, and even the two sides played a 0-0 draw in the first half, the scene seemed very dull, and at halftime, Gao Han still reminded the players to continue to stick to the first half of the game, firmly grasp the possession and the rhythm of the game.

Because he knows that everything cannot be done overnight, it needs to be done step by step.

At least as City stand, possession and pace of play can put themselves on an unbeaten or unbeatable footing, and as long as they do that, the attacking players up front will sooner or later take their chances.

As for the attack, we have to wait for the team to gain a foothold first.

After the restart-up in the second half, Everton tried to disrupt City's passing and rhythm, but David Moyes's side soon exposed a flaw of their own, which City calmly seized the opportunity.

David Silva received a through pass from Kompany at the back and crossed to Luka Modric, who ran to pick it up.

The Croatian midfielder peeked at the Everton defense line too pressed, and a kick over the top picked up the pass, sending the ball behind the Everton defense, Cristiano Ronaldo inserted it in an offside position, and in the case of no defense, formed a single knife, dribbled the ball into the big penalty area, and calmly pushed and hit, 1-0!

After that, Everton began to fight back, and Manchester City consciously retreated, stabilized their position, and played two rather threatening counter-attacks, which scared Everton into retreating again.

In the end, Manchester City won 1-0 against Everton thanks to Cristiano Ronaldo's goal in the 58th minute.

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Two games a week, the Premier League landscape has changed somewhat.

Liverpool, who overturned in the gutter in the first round, returned to Anfield Stadium in this round, slaughtering Stoke City 4-0 and playing the most exciting game of the round.

Chelsea beat Sunderland 2-1 away, Tottenham Hotspur also beat Birmingham 5-1, and Arsenal, who won the first round, continued their winning streak this round, winning 4-2 at home to Bolton.

Only Alex Ferguson's Manchester United lost 1-0 away to Burnley.

But even if Manchester United loses, the British media scolded the most after the game, but it was Manchester City who won.

A number of media outlets were unhappy with Manchester City's narrow 1-0 home win over Everton, because apart from Cristiano Ronaldo's flash of inspiration, City did not create many scoring chances throughout the game, and even inferior to Everton in some offensive statistics.

'Alpine's side were chasing possession as always, and against Everton, City had 62 per cent possession, the highest in 20 Premier League games this season. ”

'But with 62 per cent possession and European greats such as Cristiano Ronaldo, Karim Benzema, Alexis Sanchez, David Silva and Luka Modric, they managed just 12 shots on goal with five on target, while opposite them, Everton had 11 shots on goal with seven on target. ”

"You know, Manchester City's lowest value player in the front field is enough to equal the value of Everton's entire front line attacking players combined, but the statistics played by both sides are exactly the same, which is completely unacceptable. ”

But Gao Han smiled at the post-match press conference and said that he was satisfied with his team's performance.

'I'm happy because I see the improvement, I see that all the players are gradually integrating into the team and you need to give us more time and everything will be fine. ”

For the fans at the scene, Gao Han said that he was very excited.

'I felt great today, the fans here are amazing, even when the team is in a bad situation, they are still supporting us and I want to say to all the City fans, believe me, the team will gradually get back on track. ”

But the outside media obviously did not trust Gao Han's words very much.

Three days later, on Saturday, in the third round of the Premier League, Manchester City still welcomed Wolves at home.

Manchester City started the game quite well, scoring a goal in the 17th minute through Cristiano Ronaldo to give his team a 1-0 lead.

But after scoring the lead, Manchester City became a little helpless again in the face of Wolves' stubborn sniping, especially in the second half, when Wolves replaced a striker and replaced a defender, and changed to a 54 formation, Manchester City's attack became more difficult.

In the end, Manchester City won again 1-0 at home.

After the game, everyone once again focused on Manchester City, who were lackluster in attack, especially when Manchester United beat Wigan Athletic 5-0 away, Arsenal beat Portsmouth 4-1 at home, and Chelsea beat Fulham 2-0 away.

In this round, Liverpool lost 3-1 at home to Aston Villa, and reaped another defeat.

But in contrast to the doubts of the outside world, Gao Han gave a high evaluation of the team's third round game, especially in the locker room after the game, he affirmed the team's performance.

Because in this game, the team created a total of 21 shots on goal, of which 14 were on target, and seven shots were off target, both in terms of creating chances and efficiency, which is quite good.

As for why he only scored one goal, Gao Han has been coaching for so many years, of course, he knows better than anyone that sometimes scoring goals is a little bit less than that feeling.

But the media outside clearly don't see it that way, because from the first three games of the season, Manchester City's performance has been sluggish.

After the third round of the Premier League, the Carabao Cup was played in midweek.

Gao Han rotated the squad appropriately, including Sturridge, Petrov and Ruo, and the team also returned to a four-three-three formation, and the result was a thrilling 3-0 away win over Crystal Palace.

This suddenly made the media hype again, thinking that Gao Han should not hold on to the three, four, and three formations, but should play four, three, and three instead.

At the very least, City's players are clearly more comfortable with playing in a back four.

At the weekend, in the fourth round of the Premier League, Manchester City challenged Portsmouth away, but Gao Han once again adopted a back three.

This time, it was a very tenacious sniper from the home team, Portsmouth received a total of 22 fouls and six yellow cards in this game, which is the best proof of the game process, and Manchester City, with a 60% advantage in possession, only won 1-0 thanks to Cristiano Ronaldo's goal in the 30th minute.

The four-game winning streak has led to several British tabloids publishing reports mocking Gao Han and Manchester City, mocking Gao Han for believing in conservative one-to-zero doctrine and not daring to invest troops in the attack.

In the focus of this round, Arsenal visited Old Trafford to challenge Manchester United, but Van Persie scored a goal first, and was equalized by Wayne Rooney, and then midfielder Diaby's own goal made Manchester United finally 2-1 reversal.

It was also Arsenal's first defeat of the season.

Three teams have won all four Premier League games after four games, with Chelsea at the top of the table, Tottenham Hotspur in second, Manchester City in third, Arsenal and Manchester United, and Liverpool in eighth, behind West Ham United and Stoke City.

Cristiano Ronaldo, on the other hand, has scored four goals, joint-top scorer with Manchester United's Wayne Rooney and Tottenham Hotspur's Defoe, and he is the only scorer to score all four games.

So much so that many media have used this to ridicule Gao Han, because Manchester City has only scored five goals in total.

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