Four games, thirteen goals, an average of more than three per game, that's not a problem, playing a tailwind, Ferguson thinks his United can do it even in two games.

The problem is that Manchester City still has a number of games, and that is four games, with zero goals conceded.

Whether a strong team should be based on offense or defense seems to be a matter of opinion, just as the beauty of football should be based on process theory or result theory. But in fact, there has been a public opinion in football in recent years about this problem, that is, defense is better than offense. Of course, each team does this defense in a different way, and the typical example is that no one dares to say that they play defensive football Barcelona, and their defensive system comes from their offensive and defensive midfield passing.

So, defense is about the way. However, not all teams are Barcelona, and not all teams can choose a beautiful way of defending. For most teams, the defense is still simple and rough, and that is dense defense.

Ferguson has always believed that the construction of a defensive system can better reflect the ability of a manager than attack. Because a superstar can take care of a team's offense, but it's absolutely impossible to cover a team's defense. The so-called offense is the best defense, and the victory theory of scoring one more goal than the opponent sounds heroic and dry, and it has the heroic spirit of smiling at the sky, but such a team is generally really heroic.

From this point of view, Lin Sen, who has been wielding hundreds of millions of pounds in the transfer market just now, has not done much to use at the back. To Ferguson's surprise, Cahill is eight million, Azpilicueta is seven million, and David Luiz is twelve million. The fact that three people together is not worth David Silva alone is very easy to misunderstand that Linson is more focused on attacking, but in Ferguson's view, this matter can also be understood from another aspect, that is, maybe Linson does not think that one or two superstars can change a team's defense.

Superstars can certainly improve a team's defense, but it's definitely not a change. In this regard, the overall tacit understanding. It must always be stronger than one's own ability.

As it turned out, there were no problems with Linson's selection, four games. A backline that is exactly the same as last season, and in his hands, the flute is leaky. In particular, Kompany, who was often pulled into the midfield last season, played as a back, and the table for these games in the new season. Even Ferguson felt a little red-eyed.

Whether it's the success rate of one-on-one interceptions, key tackles, or even the timing of passes when launching a counter-attack. The Belgians have done their best, and this is already the prototype of a world-class centre-back. As long as Vincent Kompany can sustain one season, nay, half a season, then he will be enough to squeeze into the Premier League's top defenders.

And what made Manchester City's defense instantly sublimated was not only because of Kompany's huge improvement, but because Linson set up two barriers in front of Manchester City's defense.

The soft barrier is Javi Martinez or Vidal. Their role is somewhat similar to that of an all-round midfielder, with the attack and defense automatically adjusting according to the needs of the field. In other words, they do everything. The hard barrier is Frenkie de Jong, and the Dutchman, who was also involved in the attack a lot last season, has seen a significant reduction in the amount of time he has been in the front court this season, but at the same time, his tackles and interceptions have risen sharply.

With Manchester United's game only two and a half hours behind Manchester City's game, Ferguson has not yet had time to watch Manchester City's match against Arsenal, but Ferguson believes this game can give him more information.

Of course, as for now, the road still has to be taken step by step.

Linson needs to think about the Europa League in midweek, Ferguson also needs to think about the Champions League in midweek, and, unlike Manchester City, United will travel to Turkey's club Besquetas away

Manchester City take on the Portuguese national team at the City Stadium on September 17.

Compared with Porto, Benfica, which often appear in the Champions League, the popularity of the national team is obviously much lower, this team was founded in 1910, and has never won the Portuguese Super League championship in history, and even most of the team's history is not in the Portuguese Super League, until entering this century, this team has only emerged in Europe, the fourth place in the league in the 0304 season is their best season, and in the following seasons, this team has become a regular in the Europa League, But they basically play the role of accompanying the prince to study.

Machado, the head coach of the Nationals, is an experienced coach, and the Nationals are the seventh team he has coached, which is beyond Linson's expectations. Compared to a player who can have a long career life of 20 years, the professional life of a coach is undoubtedly much longer, such as Alex Ferguson, who is still old and strong at the age of 67. But Linson feels that his coaching career is absolutely impossible to be more than sixty years old, although he does not rule out staying in Manchester City for a longer time, but it is really unlikely to become the godfather of Manchester City like Ferguson, because it has nothing to do with wishes, not even with the championship, just like a marriage, no matter how happy they are at the beginning, and then how respectful and even like paint, you can't guarantee that they will be able to grow old together, this is a good wish, but there are too many factors that can cause an impact, there are too many, Especially today, football, like reality, is becoming more and more eager for quick success.

Therefore, after Manchester City, Linsen may coach two or three more teams, maybe clubs, or national teams, the direction is uncertain, who knows, but it is certain that Linsen does not have any grand goals to conquer the five major leagues, everyone is destined to see you in Europe.

In his first appearance in Europe, Linsen naturally wanted to get off to a good start, but because the weekend's game was more important, Linsen still adopted a rotation system for this game, and only two players who started at Arsenal continued to appear in the starting line-up, one was Xavi Garcia and the other was Robinho.

In the last game, Robinho's unhappiness seemed to be washed away by the team's victory, and when the "bicycle boy" faced the media's questioning, he also attributed the reason why he did not shake hands with Lin Sen when he got off the field to his dissatisfaction with his own expression, but in fact it was not the case, the media was skeptical, and Lin Sen did not believe it at all, because his eyes would not deceive him.

However, as with the first meeting with Robinho, there was no reason why Linson would not welcome his reconciliation.

In this game, Linson sent three forwards, Robinho, Adriano and Bellamy, but it was not a four-three-three, but still a four-two-three-one position, Adriano rushed forward, Bellamila to the right side, Robinho appeared behind Adriano, playing a nine-and-a-half-role The away team showed their courage, they did not shrink back in the away defense, but boldly let go of their hands and feet, and wanted to have a showdown with Manchester City, but as Ferguson said before, I smiled at myself and went to sleep. Because even Manchester City's current rotation lineup is not a lineup that the Nationals can attack whenever they want.

The Nationals opened the scoring and in the thirteenth minute, their midfielder Alberto scored from distance from the edge of the box, City's first goal in four games since the Gamble Cup, but after that goal, the game was no longer theirs, and just five minutes later, David Luiz, who also played for the grapes last season, equalised with a powerful header. Then, just before half-time, Ireland replicated the Nationals' first goal, also with a long-range strike from the edge of the box to put the score in the lead.

In the second half, Manchester City scored two more goals to finally lock the score at 4-1 and ushered in a good start to Europe.

Machado's face was full of frustration after the game, but there was not much reluctance, as he said: Manchester City are the strongest team in this group, it is not unacceptable to lose to Manchester City away, and I am basically satisfied with the players' expression. Linson, on the other hand, was pleased with the team's performance, and in addition to that, he praised David Luiz, who scored twice as a defender, and "believed" that he has the potential to become a top defender.

The score of 4 to 1 also allowed Manchester City to temporarily occupy the top spot in Group L, because in the other game, although Athletic Bilbao beat Athletic Vienna 3-0 at home, due to the number of goals less than Manchester City, it could only be relegated to second place in the group for the time being. Linsen knows that the president of Athletic Bilbao may have to regret why the team can't score another goal, even if it means to put Manchester City in second place temporarily, but he doesn't actually need to wait too long.

Half a month later, in the second round of the Europa League, Athletic Bilbao played Manchester City at home. That will be Linson's second visit to the San Mais Stadium as head coach.

Last season, he made a provocative move here that shocked La Liga, and then got one of the heaviest fines in La Liga last season. This season's Malaga is still good, under the leadership of Tapia, Malaga won two and drew one in the first three league games, it seems that Malaga can forget about Jì Linsen, but if it weren't for that fine, maybe Linsen and Malaga would have successfully renewed their contract, then, there will be no subsequent story, and history will be changed because of this.

But now, it's all ifs.

After getting the ticket, Linsen has always been silent about Athletic Bilbao, even if their chairman repeatedly provoked, everyone thought that he was a big man, but half a month later, Linsen would naturally go to the St. Mais Stadium in person, take his Manchester City, and ask for justice for him. By the way, an old Chinese saying to everyone.

It's not that you don't report it, the hour has not yet come. (To be continued......)