Chapter 616: Sweep and First Defeat
Before the Community Shield, Manchester United and Manchester City have a certain loss of personnel, Manchester City's personnel loss comes from the ongoing Olympic Games, their defensive core Kompany and midfielder Yaya Toure will miss the Community Shield because of the participation in the national team of Belgium and Ivory Coast, and at the same time, a few games in the early season may not have the opportunity to participate, which will have a certain impact on the strength of Manchester City, but Dick is not very worried, after all, Manchester City's substitutes also have a lot of good playersFor example, Richards can replace Kompany, Yaya Toure can also play Deco, and Vidal and Barton are all pretty good players.
After returning to Manchester, City soon welcomed the Community Shield.
Manchester United did not have a lot of transfers this summer, after last season's extravagant spending, Manchester United this summer was relatively calm, they have been pursuing Tottenham striker Berbatov, but they have not been able to get it yet, and in terms of transfers, they sold young central defender Pique to Barcelona for five million pounds, while several young players have left, for Ferguson, after winning the Champions Cup last season, Manchester United's squad has been very solid, except for the need to strengthen the central striker position, other locations don't need much to add.
In this Community Shield game, whether it is Manchester United or Manchester City, it is more about training players, Manchester United has hidden Rooney and Ronaldo in this game, the relationship between Ronaldo and Manchester United is not very good, because he hopes to transfer to Real Madrid, but Ferguson has forcefully let him stay, and now Ferguson is also appeasing Ronaldo, hoping that he can stay for two more years, at least not easily.
And Dick did not send all his main forces, except for the three new signings, many of the main forces were absent, the goalkeeper sent Schmeichel Jr., the main force in the back line was sent, Alves on the right, Barnes on the left, the central defender is the partner of Richards and Samuel, the midfielder sent Barton behind, Vidal and Deco formed a midfield combination, and on the front line Torres and Ribery, Bale, Benzema and Di Natale formed a forward partner.
In this interesting game, the process was not particularly good, in the end the two sides played 0-0, in the game both players did not show too good form, under the opponent's defense did not be able to get any good scoring opportunities, the most eye-catching performance is Manchester United striker Carlos Tevez and Manchester City's wide attacker Bale, and finally in the penalty shootout, Manchester City's four penalty takers all performed well, Benzema, Alves, Deco and Bale all scored penalties, while Manchester United's Carrick and O'Shea failed to score penaltiesManchester United eventually lost 2-4 and Manchester City won the Community Shield this season!
"It's a title that I haven't won before, and I'm very happy to have won such a title. Our players withstood United's attack and won the final penalty shoot-out despite the absence of many of our key players, which shows that our overall quality is already very good...... Richards? I've been very good with him, he's a top defensive player, both at full-back and centre-back, and I think he and Kompany can complement each other because we have five great centre-backs so we don't have to worry about defending in any situation. The new season is just around the corner and Manchester City will be in good form to get a little better in the Champions League. ”
After winning this game, Dick didn't care too much about this victory, after all, this game was originally intended to let the players find a sense of the game, in the second half he replaced Cahill, Ashley Young and Sun Jihai in succession, and the final penalty shoot-out victory can be said to be a little luckier, such a victory, not enough to make people feel happy.
However, shortly after the end of this game, a certain idle reporter came to a conclusion after some statistics......
"Serie A, La Liga, Premier League, Bundesliga, Dick was the first manager to win all four leagues, but that wasn't enough, after leading Manchester City to beat Manchester United to win the Community Shield last night, he became the first manager to lead his team to win all the top honours in all four leagues! La Liga, Copa del Rey, Spanish Super Cup; Bundesliga winners, German Cup winners, German League Cup winners; Serie A, Coppa Italia, Italian Super Cup; Premier League winners, League Cup winners, FA Cup winners, Community Shield winners...... Add to that the UEFA Cup and Champions Cup and the UEFA Super Cup, and Dick has all the trophies a coach can win, including any league he coaches! It's unprecedented, and I don't think it's likely that a manager will be able to win so many trophies in the future, with the exception of the European Cup Winners' Cup, which disappeared when he started coaching, to win all the trophies at club level, including all the top trophies in the four major leagues! This is something that no one has ever achieved before! Even in the Toyota Cup and the World Club Cup, he has won the championship, no manager has ever won so many titles like him, will he want to go to the national team in the future and win so many honors? ”
After such a report came out, it immediately caused an uproar, after all, Dick's current achievements are indeed a bit outrageous, at the club level he has won all the championships, no one has noticed it before, and now when it is counted, Dick is simply a desperate net, and he has caught all the championships that can be fished, and he has not let go of any of them!
"Is that so? That's good news. ”
When Dick was asked about this situation, he happily replied that he had not counted it before, but as a result, he really won all the championships he could win, if he made a small exhibition hall in his own home, it is estimated that at the level of the four major leagues and European clubs, you can think of it, Dick has led the team to participate in and can strive to participate in the competitions, Dick has won all the championships, and the famous coaches planted under him are all over the level, to say that he is invincible all over the world, it is not an exaggeration.
In China's media circle, he even gave Dick the nickname of "a generation of grandmasters", thinking that if the world football is martial arts and rivers and lakes, Dick is not only a great master who founded a sect, but also a standard, invincible in the world during this time period, and no one can compete with him!
"It's a bit of an exaggeration to say that grandmasters or something, at least I haven't left any systematic tactics that people talk about, and I haven't left any genres that people can learn...... But there is no way, the top managers are always difficult to replicate, I only left one championship after another, and cultivated one player after another. Maybe someone will be jealous of me, but it's just because I can't get them to plagiarize, I can't get them to imitate...... It will be my glory that they hate me like this. ”
This is what Dick said in an interview a few years later, because at that time, there were many people who wanted to study Dick's tactical arrangement, trying to learn Dick's coaching rules and succeeded, but they all failed, at this time there was a voice, that although Dick ruled football for a long time, it made no progress in the tactics of the entire football world, because everyone was suppressed by him, so that the whole European football stagnated......
Dick was quick to hit back at the voice: "I don't have any tricks, I don't have any rules, my tactical setup is based on my in-depth study of the opponent and my knowledge of my players. No one can do this better than me, and if they want to learn from me, I suggest they learn from me, rather than looking for shortcuts, let alone saying, 'I didn't win the title, but I left a lot to learn from football'...... Wake up, kid, no one cares about that. ”
Of course, at this time, people are only envious of Dick's achievements and what he will achieve this season.
After winning the Community Shield, Dick began to prepare for the next league games, with the Premier League starting on 17 August, but the first few rounds were played once a week, so the pressure was not too great, and it also gave Dick more time to train his team.
In the absence of the main force in the first few rounds, such a game can be regarded as a test and warm-up.
Dick's goal this season is to win the Champions Cup, even if he stops his record of leading the team to win the league championship every year, Dick will not hesitate, after all, the league champion will get a bonus of 20 million pounds, and if the Champions Cup is won, it will be 200 million, ten times the benefit! Not just because of the money, but because of such a huge amount of money, I was able to realize my dreams to a great extent.
Of course, this does not mean that Dick will give up the league title, but in the case of a trade-off, Dick will value the Champions Cup more than the league title.
Under this premise, whether it is the league title, or the League Cup and FA Cup, all of them have to make way for the Champions Cup.
On August 17, the new season of the Premier League kicked off.
Manchester City's opponents in the first round are mid-table Aston Villa, who successfully doubled last season, and although this round is an away game, they also have a good chance of winning the game for Manchester City.
However, when the game was over, all the Manchester City fans were taken aback, and those who were not used to seeing Dick were running to tell each other......
In the absence of two main players, although Manchester City relied on the striker partners Torres and Di Natale to score two goals, but Manchester City lost 2-4 away to Aston Villa, Aston Villa's homegrown youngster Abonlaho was radiant in the second half of the game, he used lightning speed to tear apart Manchester City's defense with counterattacks, and completed a hat-trick in the second half of the game through a single knife, plus a goal from Norwegian center Kalou, Aston Villa broke out in the first round, Defeated defending champion Manchester City 4-2!
"Fresh off a personal honour sweep, Dick's Manchester City suffered a heavy defeat in the first round of the league...... This is the first time in Dick's tenure that he has suffered a defeat in the first league game of a single season, and he has a high win rate before, and there are few draws, let alone defeats, but this time, Dick suffered a defeat in the first round, could this be the beginning of his myth? ”