Manchester City Stadium is a new stadium that has just been completed, originally built for the 2002 Commonwealth Games at a cost of £90 million, also known as Eastlands and SportCity.

After the Games, Manchester City Council handed over the Manchester City Stadium to Manchester City in exchange for the Maine Road Stadium, which was designed for the big games and took a year to renovate it for football purposes, before it was officially completed at the end of the 2002-2003 season to become City's new home stadium.

Unlike other Premier League teams' home stadiums, Manchester City Stadium is completely modern and equipped with modern facilities, both externally and internally, and it can be said that in the stadium of a Premier League team, this is also very comprehensive.

However, under such modern facilities and venues, the stadium only lacks the deep heritage of the old team, even if they hang the picture book of the team's history and the photos of the stars around the aisle of the stadium, but this is only a performance phenomenon, and it cannot hide the atmosphere full of copper and iron.

Perhaps, Manchester City's move away from Maine Road will be good in the long run, but at least in the short term, it will not do any good other than the novelty of the stadium.

After the Chelsea bus drove into Manchester City Stadium, Wang Li followed head coach Jose Wang. Jose Mourinho went to the usual pre-match press conference.

Numerous reporters have been waiting there, and the home team Manchester City coach Kevin Brown. Keegan began by speaking: "The squad has been more solid this season, and the performance in the game has become more and more consistent, and we are confident that we can play a good game at home. He turned to look at Jose Mourinho, who had just walked into the stadium, and continued: "Chelsea are a strong team, they have had great results in the first few rounds of this season, but our players are not going to be intimidated by this, these great lads will definitely play to their strengths, make the game more exciting and try to get a win at home. ”

After listening to Keegan's chatter, the reporters in the audience immediately handed the microphone to Mourinho's mouth, and they knew that the Portuguese talent was more endearing than Keegan's words, because he always said something shocking and inexplicable, which made the reporters' jobs much easier.

This time, of course, it was no exception, Mourinho took Keegan's words and said directly: "Chelsea will play to the best of our ability, we will not be taken lightly because of the results of the opponent, I will send all the main squad in this game, and treat Manchester City in this form, which is also a kind of respect." However, I believe that the winner will be Chelsea, this - no doubt about it!! ”

Reading between the lines, the reporters can understand the strong self-confidence of the Portuguese at this time, which not only comes from the results of the league, but also from the players under him, such as the dance master sitting next to him, his attacking ability can almost guarantee Chelsea's goal efficiency, this is the confidence of a strong team.

At this time, a Chinese reporter from Sports Weekly couldn't help but ask: "Mr. Keegan, can you reveal that in this game, Chinese player Sun Jihai will get the chance to start?" ”

Hearing this question, Keegan turned his head to look at the black-haired reporter, a sly smile flashed in the corner of his eye, and said: "Sun is an indispensable part of Manchester City's tactical system, and he has performed very well in the team, as long as he can meet my tactical requirements, I will definitely give him the opportunity to express himself." ”

This sentence is purely official language, and what Keegan said is equivalent to not saying it at all, so all the reporters immediately lost interest in this old man, and they turned their attention to Wang Li, who was the real focus of the interview compared to the two coaches.

A Manchester Morning Post reporter immediately asked: "Mr Allen, do you think you can still score in this game?" ”

"Of course." Hearing someone ask about him, Wang Li replied confidently with a smile: "I said a long time ago that no one can stop my goal, and of course the Manchester City team is the same." ”

"So, how many goals do you think you're going to score in the game?"

Wang Li thought for a while and said, "This depends on the state, if the state is good, I may be able to enter more than 3." ”

"What if it's not in good shape?"

"At least one can be entered, this is the minimum guarantee."

At this point, a Fulham journalist who had travelled to Manchester with Chelsea asked: 'So Mr Allen, can you tell us what you do best at scoring goals?' ”

This question stumped Wang Li, he never thought about this problem, "I don't know, I think I am very good at what way to score, what kind of goal to use to score, this must depend on the situation of the game." ”

"Mr. Allen, are you confident that you can pass Sun Jihai's defense?"

"Has your girlfriend, Princess Angela, come to see the ball?"

"When did you and Angela get married?"

…… With more and more problems, it has deviated more and more from the track of football, compared to Wang Li's views on the game, perhaps reporters are more concerned about his private life, saying that beauties are worthy of heroes, Wang Li's love life is definitely a gossip that the English media are concerned about.

……… On October 3rd, at 3:30 p.m., the fan stands at Manchester City Stadium were already crowded, in addition to more than 5,000 Chelsea fans who had followed the team to Manchester, more than 30,000 local Manchester City fans, and some neutral fans, some of whom were Manchester United fans, or simply non-fan groups who were just watching the excitement.

In the past, Manchester City's home games are generally not full, and the purpose of these neutral fans today is obviously to see what is brilliant about the Chelsea team that has been winning since the beginning of the league, and the purpose of Manchester United fans here is obviously to 'spy on the military situation', you must know that in the 10th round of the league, Manchester United is going to visit Old Trafford and Chelsea to have a strong confrontation.

In addition to the stadium east stand, which is completely composed of Manchester City fans, the cheering in other directions in the stadium is very chaotic, the Manchester United fans who arrived are of course cheering for Chelsea, they can't Manchester City lose as much as possible, and finally this season will be relegated, and many of those neutral fans are facing the atmosphere of the home stadium, shouting casually, and some even shouting - "Come on Manchester City, come on Chelsea, come on!" ”

This kind of foolish slogan has attracted a wave of contempt from the fans next to them, and people who do not have a firm belief in football in England definitely belong to the discriminated group.

……… At this time, the on-site commentator has already started to introduce according to the starting list in his hand:

"Chelsea lined up a 4321 formation, with goalkeeper Peter. Petr Cech and Drogba are at the forefront, followed by dance masters Allen and Damien. Duff, midfielders Frank Lampard, Claude Makelele and Joe. Kerr, the guard from left to right is Paul. Ferreira, captain Terry, Williams. Garas, Wayne. Bridget. ”

"Today Mr. Keegan used a standard 442, goalkeeper James, defenders Mills, Thatcher, Dunn, Distin, midfielders Sun, Phillips, Reina, Sinclair, forwards Anelka and Fowler ......"

"Oh my God, Barton didn't play today, and he was replaced by Sun from China!! It seems that Mr Keegan is still worried about Chelsea's attacking ability on the right flank, so he has replaced us with our all-round boy, hoping that Sun, who is also of Chinese descent, will cause some problems for Allen. ”

………… After the players from both sides came on, Manchester City won the kick-off and the referee blew the whistle and the game finally began.

After a few days of research, Kevin. Keegan didn't come up with any effective defensive methods against Wang Li, whether it was Aston Villa, Liverpool or other teams, all the experiments in this area failed, Keegan is very self-aware, he doesn't think his ability is better than Liverpool's Benitez, and Manchester City's strength is also different from Liverpool's.

So before the game, he decided to respond to all changes with the same, except for letting Mills, who is a full-time defender, pay attention to Wang Li, he didn't tell the other players at all, just told them that this game played their own strength, as long as they played the momentum of Manchester City, even if Manchester City lost the game, the media would take it for granted.

Therefore, on the field, the Manchester City team did not make a surprise attack or discharge any strange arrangements as predicted by the media, except for Sun Jihai on the right side to replace Barton on the field, the formation and style of play have almost not changed, which makes the reporters present puzzled, how easy is it to expect this ordinary style of play to win Chelsea!?

However, in the head coach Kevin. In the first 20 minutes of the game, in the steady attack, but there was no lack of tight defense, Chelsea failed to find a little chance, or this is also related to Wang Li not being too brilliant on the right side, but even if it is an ordinary performance, it is enough to show that Manchester City played well!

It is worth mentioning that in the 7th minute of the game, the Chinese media finally saw their long-awaited scene, Wang Li received Lampard's oblique pass on the field, and suddenly made two large-angle changes, just when the fans were pinching a cold sweat for his small waist, he also shook Mills from the southeast and northwest, and then Wang Li passed easily with the ball, and the next one to face was Sun Jihai from China.

Of course, Wang Li has heard about the so-called 'heterogeneous Chinese derby' from the Chinese media, and he also has a good impression of this compatriot from the ancient Chinese country, but now that he is on the field, Wang Li will not show mercy because of his compatriots. At this time, almost all the Chinese media focused on this scene - the first PK of Chinese overseas Chinese and turtle representatives in the Premier League!!

(To be continued)