Manchester City's match against Aston Villa ended 4-2 and Manchester City made it to the next leg of the Carabao Cup.

Before the cup and league games, Manchester City, under the leadership of Wan Sheng, showed a state of great progress.

For Manchester City fans, there is no happier thing, when they first heard that Wan Sheng was in charge of the team, in fact, most of them were wait-and-see, and some were very skeptical of this poor Chinese with little coaching experience - even the experienced Keegan has left the team, what about a young Chinese? There are only a handful of people who are looking forward to the new season.

This may be because Wan Sheng is too easy to be a newcomer - he is too young and has too little experience.

The first is Wan Sheng's age, he is only twenty-eight and a half years old, most of the football coaches at this age are still professional players, and some are not engaged in the football industry, but Wan Sheng is already a top league coach.

Top league coaches are often very old, because this position is very demanding, and it requires experience and experience, and these are often accumulated by age, such as those football coaches in their 30s, who can become a head coach in the lower leagues, they are already very successful, and this standard does not apply to Wan Sheng at all, he is already a top league coach, and because of this, it is easy to be suspicious.

Actually, it's still a matter of age.

Many of the team's veterans are older than him, so how do he manage the dressing room after he takes charge of the team, and how can these players trust him? When Keegan was in charge, Manchester City's biggest problem was the dressing room, which was a very critical issue, and fans were not optimistic that Wan Sheng could balance Manchester City's dressing room.

In the end, Wan Sheng is a Chinese.

European football has a very severe fight against racial discrimination, but discrimination in football is still everywhere, at the same time. There is also some truth in this, many Europeans look down on Asian players, especially East Asian players, because there are no outstanding players in several East Asian countries.

There is no difference between China, even worse than Japan and South Korea, because China does not have many good players at all, and at this point, fortunately Manchester City has a Sun Jihai, and Manchester City fans can choose to ignore it.

Right now. These doubting voices, even ideas, are all gone!

Because Manchester City's results are so good!

Ten wins and one draw in the league, the League Cup entered the semi-finals, and the league and cup competitions moved forward together, this kind of good result Manchester City has not experienced for decades, and it also makes Manchester City fans feel quite happy.

They feel like the team is about to reach its peak!

At the same time, what makes them even happier is that the results of their sworn rival Manchester United are pressed down by them, and it is very difficult to catch up. It allowed them to look up proudly in front of those United fans.

City fans know very well who brought all of this, the youngsters who came to the team that summer, who picked up the whip left by Keegan and gave City a new look inside and out.

Now all Manchester City fans are starting to sing the praises of Wan Sheng!

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November 6. The twelfth round of the league started, and Manchester City went to London to challenge Fulham away.

The old farmers are a little pitiful now, and their lineup has been weakened in the summer, first of all. Their leading striker Andy Cole has left for Manchester City, and new signing from Watford Helgusen may not be able to fill the vacancy he has left.

In addition, the most important is the departure of the main goalkeeper Van der Sar. Van der Sar's move to Manchester United has resulted in Fulham having to use a second goalkeeper.

In addition, the departure of Bonissell, Clarke and others has greatly weakened the thickness of Fulham's midfield, and the media's comment on Fulham is, "They are likely to pay the price for excessive blood loss in the summer." ”

Fulham's results are not much different from the media commentary, and after 11 rounds of league games, they sit fourth from bottom and have fallen into the relegation zone.

If they continue like this, relegation will be a problem at the end of the season.

Manchester City and Fulham are in the opposite position, with Manchester City currently sitting second in the league, but with the same points and the same goal difference as Chelsea, only with two fewer goals, and the difference between the two teams is also reflected in the game, or directly the form of the players on both sides.

Manchester City's 11 players played very hard and it was clear that everyone was in good form, but Fulham were different, their players did not seem to be in good form at home stadium, and a few mistakes in the early stages of the game left them on the back foot.

By the end of the first half, City were already 2-0 up.

But no one expected that Fulham played alive in the second half, they used a tough defense to resist Manchester City's attack, and at the same time used a counterattack to quickly pull a goal back, and then the game between the two sides became tense, because 2:1 is not safe, Fulham only need one goal to tie the score.

The Fulham players must have thought the same way, so they've been working on it.

This situation made the second half of the game very intense, the two sides fought very fiercely, Manchester City, Dunn, Sinclair, Joey Barton, plus substitute Distin all received yellow cards, Fulham also had three yellow cards, simply no red cards.

In this way, the game passed little by little, and in the end Manchester City withstood the pressure, and Fulham also held on until the end, and neither team scored again.

The score was fixed at 1:2.

Manchester City claimed an away win, but only those who watched the game will know how tough it was.

After the game, Wan Sheng also admitted, "I didn't expect the game to be so difficult, we didn't play hard enough, but they were very tenacious. This is where we need to improve. ”

He then praised his players, saying, "Ferreira and Silva are good, they need more games. ”

'Fulham have a solid defense in the middle and that's their strength. They found their form in the second half and if they had been like that, they wouldn't have been bothered by relegation......" Wan Sheng quipped at the end.

Regardless, it's easy to win.

However, not many people in England are interested in this game, because there is another big game going on at the same time that is more attractive, which is the big battle between Manchester United and Chelsea.

The big game between Manchester United and Chelsea is an eternal topic.

When Chelsea died suddenly at the feet of Real Betis, when United were once again teased by Lille, and two 0-1s deprived Manchester United vs Chelsea of their heavy sense of history, it is now more like a simple, bloody brawl - two powerful trapped beasts. All need to snatch the three points like a mad dog at Old Trafford - to survive!

Both Ferguson and Mourinho have a blueprint for a "dynasty" in their hearts.

Ferguson didn't think it had expired, so after the heavy defeat at Myburgh he said "I want to get Chelsea"; Mourinho thinks it's delivered.

If it weren't for the Champions League defeat, before stepping into Old Trafford this weekend, both of them would have thought of the autumn night in 1996, when United beat Blackburn Rovers 5-0 and began to dominate - Ferguson saw the crackdown on the nouveau riche, Mourinho saw the old order upended.

But after a miserable night in the Champions League, their ** suddenly became so simple - victory, a victory that made the whole team happy.

Mourinho needs a win, 1-0. Don't go 4 to 3 of that.

Chelsea are just experiencing the pain in Spain!

"What's wrong with our defense?" Galla made a mistake, Carvalho made a mistake and even the always solid Czech goalkeeper Petr Cech made a mistake.

The Portuguese madman watched the 90 minutes with a grim face before throwing off the words: "This is my worst performance since I arrived at Chelsea, unbelievably bad." My players thought it was a knockout game and they were already 4-0 up. ”

Chelsea have conceded seven goals in their last seven games.

Champions League and cup competitions aside, just the league, Chelsea still have Manchester City, a stubborn opponent, so Chelsea needs to win. Otherwise, their situation will be even more cruel - they will be squeezed out of the top spot in the league.

However, the reality is indeed cruel, because victory is also what Ferguson needs most right now.

On the night of the defeat to Lille, he was left with one last ounce of faith, "Beat Chelsea." Get back into the habit of winning and everything will be fine. ”

Veteran captain Roy Keane's curse still reverberates, "The newcomers are all unqualified." ”

Ferguson's personality dictated that he could not have been at the start of the season. He admitted that his "plan to rebuild Manchester United" fell apart, so he cut Keane's voice out and said to the players: "We have to save ourselves." ”

Don't mention the countless classic turnarounds of Manchester United in history. There is no comparison between this time and then, and on the night of the defeat to Lille, Ferguson was extremely sober, "No one will help us, we have to get out of the trough on our own." ”

Therefore, in this big battle, Manchester United and Chelsea will use the most "blue-collar" way to fight for survival.

Despite the brutal situation, Mourinho expressed confidence before the game, believing that the game will not be a big problem because his team will be well mobilized against top competitions, "They are a good club, with great coaches and great players, they can do better than they are now, that's why I said this game is dangerous for us".

'We haven't lost many games in either team, we've just lost one before, so it's going to be a difficult encounter, so I think it's going to be a very high level contest.

Commenting on the outlook for the competition, Mourinho said: "I hope Manchester United lose the game, but in the end they can win the league runners-up and qualify for the Champions League".

Manchester United are more underrated than Chelsea, and Keane's bombardment of his team-mates adds fuel to the fire.

"What the hell can Smith do? He only knew how to run up and down, as if he was lost, and he didn't know what he was doing! This is Keane's assessment of Alan Smith, and he doesn't understand how this hairy kid has been positioned as his successor.

But Ferguson chose to support the newcomer, so Roy Keane can only be suppressed, the news about Manchester United, as long as you flip through it casually, you can't know this point, because many people think that after Ferguson chose to support the newcomer, his and Roy Keane's concern has completely entered the freezing point, that is, Roy Keane's departure from Old Trafford has entered the countdown.

So, in this game, Roy Keane could only sit in the stands.

Then he was taken aback.

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Although Keane was unhappy with the newcomers and Ferguson, he still supported Manchester United, but what he didn't expect was that the biggest win in the game was what he called the newcomer - Smith held up his waist, he was deservedly the best of the game, and the only goal came from the teenager Fletcher.

Chelsea lost, they just lost to these two youngsters.

A trick is eaten all over the world, Beckham became Manchester United's signature star with a curve ball back then, Smith is not as good as Xiaobei in terms of strength, status and influence, but he also relies on his best trick - tackle, and has become an alternative protagonist today.

Speaking of which, Ferguson asked him to switch to midfield, which was also inspired by a tackle, and in the away game against Fulham last season, Smith as a striker scored after a tackle in the opposition penalty area, which amazed Ferguson, and since then the idea of developing Smith into another Keane.

United made 25 tackles and Smith alone accounted for 11!

You can imagine how much trouble this Manchester United man is in the eyes of Frank Lampard and others, just 10 minutes into the game, Smith told Frank Lampard with a back-tackle, today I am "company" with you, in his personal 11 tackles and 5 fouls, a considerable proportion of them were given to the Chelsea midfield manager, in a sense, Smith became a tactical offset card for Ferguson, and he was instructed to destroy the opponent's organizational center in midfield.

In the second half, Manchester United was in turmoil, and Smith and his teammates fought hard to withstand it. In the 50th minute, he kept out Frank Lampard's volley in front of goal, in the 64th minute he deflected off Del Orno's powerful shot in front of the empty net, and in the 69th minute, Joe Cole volleyed the ball towards the goal in the chaos of a corner, only to be the United tough guy who flew forward to block the shot. After the game, Sky Sports gave Smith a game-high nine points, saying he "made Keane go his own way" with his performance.

After the game, when he received the best champagne of the game, Smith was very emotional, and he was grateful for Keane's scolding.

'I think everybody knows where the motivation comes from,' said Smith, 'and as a player you don't just enjoy the accolades and you have to accept the criticism, and I think the best place for you to defend yourself is on the pitch and everybody at Manchester United should do that. Smith also revealed that Keane's rhetoric was not as heated as the media revealed, and the United boss had communicated with them privately.

'Keane told us what he thought, the manager trusted us and we never doubted our quality.

At the same time, Fletcher also became the protagonist after the game, because he scored the only goal of the game, that was in the 31st minute, Scholes split the ball on the left, C-Ronaldo crossed from the left, Fletcher penalty area near the bottom line of the right rib header at a small angle to the middle, the seemingly ferrying ball but hoisted past the goalkeeper Cech who came out close and Terry in front of the retreating goal line, and finally strangely hoisted into the gate from the top of the far corner post.

As eerie as the goal is, it makes the difference between winning and losing.

So Fletcher also got unanimous praise after the game, both newcomers performed well, and decided the outcome of the game, which made the old jazz smile from ear to ear, he praised the two of them a lot, "There's nothing wrong with Smith for the best of the game, but there are three or four people who are all worthy, so many people play so well that it's hard to choose one." Fletcher is also in good form, otherwise it would have been difficult for him to score that goal. ”

What the old knight didn't realize was that in the training base of the sworn enemy in the same city, a young Chinese, this face that always made him grit his teeth, was also smiling.

Because Manchester United won...... What's more, Chelsea lost!

So Manchester City relied on the opponent's loss, jumped three points ahead, and climbed to the top of the league for the first time! (To be continued......)