Chapter 577: For Fun
Although the league has only been played for two rounds, Dick has already begun to show his magic...... A team of more than 10 players in the summer, only 10 players from last season, eight players in the main squad are teams that joined this season, and in the first two rounds of the Premier League, they won two consecutive victories, scored five goals, and did not concede a single goal, which puts them in second place in the table, they have as many goals as Liverpool, but they have scored one less goal than Liverpool and are in second place, Everton with three goal difference are third, and Chelsea with two goal difference are fourth. These are the four teams that have been able to maintain a winning streak since the start of the season! Arsenal and Manchester United are not particularly good, Arsenal is okay, they are now in seventh place with one win and one draw, while Manchester United has suffered some trouble, in the first two rounds, they were forced to draw by Reading and Portsmouth in a row, and only scored one goal in two rounds, and in the last round of the league their Cristiano Ronaldo received a yellow card, and the main striker Wayne Rooney was absent due to injury, which is also a reason for their poor performance in the first two rounds, facing the menacing Manchester City, Manchester United will face an unprecedented challenge! ”
I have to say that the media in England just don't have any discipline, and it is not uncommon for Manchester United to start slowly, including when they dominated the Premier League before, they often started slowly, but it will not affect their continuous championships...... This, indeed, was eaten......
"The league has just started, what is there to say, if we beat Manchester United and win three in a row, then we still have some confidence." Dick said in an interview.
"A lot of people think Dick is an arrogant guy, but it's clear that he's not. Now that the league has really just started, we also need to run in and get the fighting spirit out there. It's going to be a difficult game, but United are never going to be knocked down by a defeat. Ferguson said with a smile in an interview.
The journalists were disappointed, very disappointed.
You're Dick! That Dick who always likes to cause trouble! Facing the big devil who has ruled the Premier League for the past ten years, how can you not provoke! How can you not quarrel! Ferguson is also a very eloquent lord, you guys quarrel! It's noisy! That's how we can write a report!
But they didn't quarrel, Dick maintained enough respect for Ferguson like an ordinary junior, and Ferguson was also praising Dick like a kind elder, the two sides were simply a ball of harmony to the extreme - this made Manchester United and Manchester City fans also a little overwhelmed, before the Manchester derby before, how to scold, how to quarrel, how to quarrel, now it's good, the two managers are so harmonious, we still quarrel?
But soon, they made up their minds - they should be scolded or scolded! If nothing else, we have to boost the morale of our team!
As fans on both sides began to warm up for the game, Dick also mobilized the morale of the players in the team.
"Since it's a derby, let's beat up the group of guys who are grabbing resources with us!" Dick shouted with a fist waving.
"Oh!" The Manchester City players shouted with their fists.
Ferguson's low-key is also reasonable, now Manchester United's situation is indeed not too good, Rooney's new twin stars will not be able to attend the Manchester derby, and Neville, who has been a strong right side of Manchester United for more than ten years, is also unable to play because of injury, which makes Ferguson's lineup quite stretched, although it is not impossible to get a starting lineup, but now, the first team of the top team is not only the difference between the main force and the substitute, what kind of lineup to make the opponent miscalculate, This is also a very important factor.
Ferguson knows what kind of lineup he will send in the midweek derby after the absence of these three main players, Dick can already guess about it, but what kind of main lineup Manchester City will send, but he is not too sure in his heart, after all, Manchester City has changed a lot of people now, although their main force in the first two rounds is relatively stable, but who knows if Dick has left a hand - this young manager is very cunning, although he will not leave a player until the end of the season, but now the season has only begun, It's also normal to have a little bit of a backhand, such as the young Chilean midfielder, such as Ashley Young, which could be the starting point of this game, the change of this game, and Ferguson is not sure.
Manchester City is a new team, and it is because of the new team that there can be endless changes, everything is in Dick's head, and it has not been exposed to anyone else, but what about Manchester United? Although mature, some of their previous changes have been almost analyzed, and it is not realistic for new players to form new changes now, that is to say, now Manchester United is in the open, and Manchester City is in the dark, plus Manchester United personnel are seriously damaged, Ferguson is not too optimistic about his team now.
It's just that Ferguson doesn't particularly care about the outcome of this game, thirty-eight games in a season, one or two games will not have much impact, so Ferguson chose to keep a low profile before the game, which is also what he is good at.
And Dick also chose to keep a low profile, which made Ferguson a little curious, not that he felt that Dick should take the initiative to provoke, but that Dick didn't seem to need to do this, why is this?
For Dick, a young man, Ferguson has also been concerned for a long time, and his evaluation of Dick is that this is a manager with almost no shortcomings, he does not make mistakes, but he does not make big mistakes, has an accurate vision for forming a team, has almost no mistakes in buying people, often has a stroke of genius in directing the game, can resist pressure when it is critical, and the most important thing is that this guy has been so lucky from beginning to end, and can always get the full support of the club - Ferguson knows how important this is to a manager.
Now, he's in the Premier League, in the league he didn't conquer in the end, and he's a city rival for Ferguson – and it's starting to feel like he needs to be a real opponent.
August 19, City Stadium.
From this morning, Manchester United and Manchester City fans began to start their own confrontation, although the game was played at Manchester City's home stadium, but as the head snake of Manchester, Manchester United fans still poured into the city stadium five or six thousand, which is a number of people who can only accommodate more than 40,000 fans in the city stadium.
As the players from both sides got ready to play, the atmosphere at the City Stadium began to reach a peak.
There was no doubt about Ferguson's starting line-up, with Edwin van der Sar, who had joined two years earlier, and Academy defender Wes Brown replacing Neville at right-back, who had always been the target of everyone's favorites with great physicality and skill, but who was never able to make a difference......
The left-back is France's Patrice Evra, the centre-back partners are Rio Ferdinand and Nemanja Vidic, the midfield duo is the partner of Hargreaves and Carrick, who is making his first appearance for Manchester United, Nani appears on the right wing, Ryan Giggs is the left winger, Paul Scholes is up front, and the Argentine Tevez replaces Rooney as the lone striker.
It was a normal start, with Brown, Nani and Carlos Tevez taking the place of Neville, Cristiano Ronaldo and Wayne Rooney, and only those three could take their place - United's current predicament can be seen from the bench, there is nothing to be used as a difference between victory and defeat, and Ferguson even brought two players from the youth team to the bench, Eagles and Campbell, plus an O'Shea and Anderson - this is Manchester United's sixteen-man squad.
In addition to Wayne Rooney and Neville recovering from injuries, Manchester United's Park Ji-sung, Saha, Ole Gunnar Solskjaer, and Fletcher are all on the injury list, so it's no wonder that Ferguson has a headache.
Compared with Manchester United, Dick's personnel selection is much more generous, Dick did not buy players with injuries, and now he can use all 24 players, and this game in the starter, Dick also gave Ferguson a surprise.
After a solid performance in the last game, Ixasson also failed to get a starting place in this game, Joe Hart came on to guard the door for Manchester City, and in the backline, Richards sat on the bench, and it was not Sun Jihai who replaced him, but the young Croatian defender Jorluka - playing full-back with a tall defender of 1.91m, Dick is also ingenious.
The central defender and left-back have not changed, Samuel and Kompany partner in the middle, Barnes as left-back, in the midfield, Dick is still Barton, Parker and Yaya Toure, and the forward partner continues to be Ribery, Torres and Di Natale, this will not change much, Ribery and Torres are famous enough, and Di Natale has two goals in the first two rounds of the league, such a goal rate will not be ignored by anyone, even if Vassell is an England international, he can't compete with these three.
Looking at Manchester City's lineup, Ferguson couldn't help muttering in his heart, changing three goalkeepers in three games, indicating that Manchester City's current goalkeeper position is not stable, Ferguson doesn't care about this, after Schmeichel retired, he often changed goalkeepers like this, Dick only became the owner, and he didn't buy a goalkeeper to come in, and it is normal to observe who is more suitable for the three goalkeepers through the game.
Instead, Joel Luca was used at right-back...... Ferguson didn't understand this, Richards didn't play badly in the first two rounds of the league, and he did a good job in attack and defense, but at this time, he replaced him and used this Croatian central defender to make a cameo on this side, what is the reason for this? Or is Richards injured? Or is it what the young centre-back has done well at right-back?
With such doubts in mind, Ferguson came to the visiting dugout, and he decided to take a good look at the game.
Dick came on to the cheers of the Manchester City fans, he raised his hands to the stands, and the Manchester City fans cheered accordingly, and in this moment, his light was unmatched.
Mansour, who came to watch the game again, laughed, he began to think that this Dick was really interesting, and it had only been a few days since so many fans began to cheer for him - but he didn't mind that, the entry into the Premier League was actually just a product of the gamble between the UAE royal family and the Saudi royal family, and football was only one aspect of the Abu Dhabi Group's efforts to expand its popularity.
If Dick can bring Manchester City well, then the purpose of the Abu Dhabi Group has been achieved, and the purpose of Mansour has been achieved.
This is the biggest difference between him and Abu, Abu is there to increase exposure and security, while he ...... Just for fun.